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Steady rain canceled three ceremonies for the Class of 2021 May 16, but graduates and their families, including future Jayhawks, celebrated at the Memorial Campanile throughout the day.

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“We just want to give back to the community as students, faculty and staff, because the community gives to KU all year long. They support a college campus STUDENT LIFE ing that nearly all Big Event funds raised during the and it’s definitely first few years purchased tools, which were supplied a big thank you The Big Event by area retailers at a discount. “We’ve got rakes, to them.” shovels, loppers, clippers, basically anything other KU’s dedicated day of community service returns after COVID cancellation than power tools.” —Jacob Hammil Despite COVID-19 restrictions, the atmosphere at the Burge Union courtyard was lively the morn- By 10:30 on a crisp, overcast Saturday morning about 15 student organizers who worked diligently ing of the event, as masked volunteers arrived as in April, four students are hard at work rebuilding throughout the academic year to prepare for the early as 9 a.m. to check in, mingle with friends and a retaining wall in Suzi Cammon’s backyard. Before occasion, coordinating campus and community grab some Big Event swag and a breakfast burrito most college students would even think about outreach and fundraising. before gathering supplies and heading to their desig- getting out of bed, these volunteers have already “We just want to give back to the community as nated job sites for the four-hour work shift. moved bags of mulch, assembled three birdbaths students, faculty and staff, because the community Natalia Gonzalez, a sophomore pre-nursing and relocated a piece of antique garden décor for gives to KU all year long,” Hammil says. “They sup- major and member of the coed pre-health fraternity the Lawrence homeowner. port a college campus and it’s definitely a big thank Delta Epsilon Mu, was among the volunteers eager “They’ve been here since 9:30,” says Cammon, you to them.” to see the event return. “I was really sad that we g’70, a retired high school counselor. “They’ve just The Big Event took shape in 2010 as a part- weren’t able to do it last year,” she says, “so I wanted worked their tails off, and we’re not quite an hour nership between KU’s Center for Community to do everything I could to get out there and help into it.” Outreach, Student Union Activities and Student the community.” The students were participating in The Big Event, Senate, but as the effort gained traction, it branched Gonzalez teamed up with three friends to haul KU’s annual day of community service, which off as a separate, student-led organization. In recent landscaping rocks into flower beds with Michelle brings together thousands of Jayhawks to help local years, as many as 3,000 students, faculty and staff residents with home projects such as raking leaves, have served more than 400 job sites in the com- painting fences and washing windows. This year munity; this year, because of lingering COVID-19 marked the 11th anniversary of the event, which concerns, organizers limited the event to just over More than 400 students, faculty and staff volunteered was canceled last spring because of COVID-19. 400 volunteers, who worked at nearly 90 locations April 17 at The Big Event, KU’s dedicated day of service Though the April 17 event was scaled down com- across town. All work was performed outdoors. in the Lawrence community. “I am super proud of our pared to previous seasons, no less effort went into The No. 1 job request from Lawrence residents? team for putting on a safe event during a pandemic,” ensuring its success. Wichita senior Jacob Hammil, Raking, Hammil says with a laugh. “We have over says Wichita senior Jacob Hammil (above), executive executive director of The Big Event, led a team of 6,000 rakes, which is a lot of rakes,” he says, explain- director of The Big Event.

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STUDENT LIFE “It wouldn’t have occurred to me, but they shared ences, and a lot of those experiences, at least for this that,” Paceley says. “I knew that reducing isolation is past year, have been traumatic. [Isolation] is hard Steve Puppe Steve Further isolation important, but how that happens, for me, would be for all of us, but even harder for teenagers, and then coming from an adult lens, so talking to them about even harder for teenagers who don’t have others Research identifies pandemic stresses what they need and want is important.” around them who share similar identities. Even early in the pandemic, LGBTQ youth “I do know they’re super resilient, but that doesn’t endured by LGBTQ youth “Recognizing reported depression and suicidal thoughts brought mean it’s not going to be hard.” The 2020 spring semester began on an on by issues such as not being able to present as au- —Chris Lazzarino the trauma that encouraging note for Assistant Professor Megan thentic while living at home or stress-related weight comes from Paceley, thanks to creation of a leadership group of gain. Young people who might have only recently isolation, that LGBTQ youth who had pledged to help Paceley come out—“Even if just to themselves,” Paceley comes from the and KU’s Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & notes—were forced to endure a full year without Belonging create community-based programs to face-to-face access to peers, counselors and other pandemic, while address their specific needs. support systems. also living in a The young people chose to coalesce under the While their research confirmed the need for Paceley Megan Courtesy society that banner “Pride Alliance,” and gathered for in-person supportive and affirming queer resources accessible marginalizes meetings in January and February. As with every- to the teens, Paceley and her colleagues also learned thing else at the onset of COVID-19 restrictions, that the young people also hope sincerely caring you and your Watch video of the meetings moved online in March, and by April, adults reach out with an approach that validates identity is this year’s Big just a month into the pandemic’s forced isolation, their concerns rather than serving up one-size-fits- important.” Event and take Compton-Muñoz, program coordinator for KU’s Paceley, coordinator of diversity, equity and inclu- all platitudes. a look at the history Self Graduate Programs. “It’s a huge help,” says sion for the School of Social Welfare, already could “Recognizing the trauma that comes from iso- —Megan Paceley behind the day of Compton-Muñoz, g’15, who has worked with Big see the unique challenges the 15- to 19-year-olds lation, that comes from the pandemic, while also service at Event volunteers for the past five years. “We never were facing. living in a society that marginalizes you and your kansasalumni would have been able to accomplish this without “For youth versus adults, there’s already a dif- identity is important. They’re not just students here magazine.org. them. My husband and I have already been working ference with isolation and anxiety, those sorts of to learn; they’re people, human beings with experi- for months getting this all ready for them, and mov- things,” says Paceley. “But then when you add in ing this rock would have taken us days more.” having a gender or sexuality that is stigmatizing, Paceley Bailee Myers, who served as executive director that your parents may not be accepting of, and when she was a senior at KU, coordinates marketing suddenly you can’t leave your house and can only and events for KU Memorial Union and advises Big be in a space that might be hostile, that’s pretty Event organizers. She knows firsthand how much difficult, right?” In March, the Kansas Association of Broadcasters confirmed what work goes into the communitywide effort and Working with colleagues and co-authors from commends the students for persevering in the face KU, the University of Minnesota-St. Paul, the Jayhawks have known for years: KU’s student-run radio station, of the pandemic. “That’s been tough,” says Myers, University of Maryland and Ohio State University, KJHK 90.7 FM, totally rocks. Competing against dozens of college b’17, who explained that students raised just shy Paceley summarized a rapid round of research with radio and television stations across the state, our student DJs and of $10,000 for the 2021 event, compared to nearly an essay published in the journal Qualitative Social $20,000 in previous years. “But I think it’s really Work. The paper intends to alert social workers, staff tallied 15 awards, including seven first-place honors and best been finding the positive in everything. If a sponsor educators and others about challenges LGBTQ website—an incredible feat, considering the challenges says, ‘No, we can’t do anything,’ we’re just excited youth faced in the past year and how they might that they actually responded. We get that the com- best emerge from social isolation. they faced this year. munity is hurting just as much as everyone else, and “We have a whole year of potential identity devel- we appreciate their support for us.” opment,” Paceley says, “that has maybe been stalled “I couldn’t be more proud of our staff at KJHK,” Hammil has kept his focus on the positive, too. for a lot of young people.” boasted Mike MacFarland, f’97, general manager “Getting to have an opportunity for students Paceley, who soon will be promoted to associate to serve the Lawrence community is always an professor, notes that when she began interviewing and adviser at KJHK. “Their hard work, enthusiasm awesome thing to do,” he says. “I know that some- the Pride Alliance’s young leaders in April 2020, and creativity throughout the pandemic have been times students kind of get siloed within college, they reported challenges such as parents eavesdrop- and showing them that Lawrence is a vibrant and ping on their phone calls and video chats. When a constant inspiration for me. I’m thrilled to see their amazing community and being able to create those researchers suggested text-based messaging to efforts acknowledged and recognized by connections is priceless.” protect privacy, some of the youths reported that industry professionals as well.” —Heather Biele parents were checking their phones, too.

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STUDENT LIFE Andrew Wymore of Barney Graham, m’79, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Dan Storey Dan Commencement Center, who received an honorary Doctor of Severe weather cancels May 16 events, Science for notable contributions to the fields PROUD MEMBER. of immunology, virology and vaccinology. but Jayhawks still celebrate Graham is the chief architect of the first autho- rized COVID-19 vaccines, which were developed As waves of severe weather moved through based on his coronavirus spike protein research. Realtor. Lawrence, the University was forced to forgo all As Graham described the relief and pride in three May 16 Commencement ceremonies for the knowing that his 13-year-old grandson recently For the fourth- Class of 2021. To minimize crowds and maintain received a COVID-19 vaccine that his research consecutive year, social distancing, KU had scheduled events at made possible, he reminded graduates, “The lesson KU received Military 10:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. for graduates here is that everything important at some level Friendly Schools and a limited number of guests, but persistent becomes personal.” designation, securing a storms prevailed. Shortly after the cancellations, —Heather Biele No. 5 ranking among Chancellor Doug Girod invited the Class of 2021 Tier 1 research institu- to join the Class of 2020 in a combined ceremony tions across the country, at 10:30 a.m. May 23. up one spot from last

Despite the rain and lightning, hundreds of MarCommKU year. KU also was one In cooperation with the KU students converged on the Hill for impromptu of 162 schools nation- celebrations with their friends and families, wide to earn Gold snapping photos, popping bottles of champagne Alumni Association, I am Award status, an honor and taking the much-anticipated walk through reserved for institutions the Campanile. with outstanding In a virtual celebration posted on KU’s website excited to participate in the practices, outcomes late Sunday evening, Girod said, “Let’s start with and programs for the obvious: This is not how any of us wanted to military-affiliated celebrate this Commencement, here online, with a Give Back Initiative. students. The University video, something we’re all very tired of doing after In a May 16 Commencement video celebration, Robert has been a Gold Award this past year.” Simari, m’86, executive vice chancellor of KU Medical recipient since 2017. The digital tribute continued with the presenta- Center, and Chancellor Doug Girod bestowed on Barney More than 1,200 schools tion of student awards for both the Lawrence Graham an honorary Doctor of Science. Graham’s participated in the and Kansas City campuses, as well as the hooding research laid the foundation for the COVID vaccines. As your Realtor I will give back Serving all of your real estate needs: Military Friendly Schools 2021-’22 survey, which 10% of my commission in your buying, selling, and property management. assesses services and support for military- real estate transaction directly . Licensed in Kansas and Missouri. affiliated students and includes data on core Buzbee to Post: The Washington Post on to the KU Alumni Association. . Specializing in the Greater Kansas City standards, such as retention, graduation May 11 introduced Sally Streff Buzbee as its metro area. and job placement for new executive editor. Buzbee, j’88, joined the The Give Back Initiative student veterans. . Nationwide referral network of trusted applies nationwide through Associated Press after her KU graduation Realtors. and since 2017 led the global news machine my network of referral

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understanding of fundamental mechanisms of Cosner says. “Even if you don’t make it, you’ll still OPPOSITE: Anton Barybin disease,” he says, “but I think the questions we want be proud of yourself for trying, and you’ll still have (l-r), Emma Cosner and Steve Puppe Steve to ask as researchers should be driven by the patient, made it to a spot that’s good.” Jonah Stiel are all proud to so that all of our research can eventually be actual- Stiel, like Cosner, conducts research in Blake- represent their academic ized and make a difference in people’s lives, which is more’s lab, focused on environmentally beneficial home on the Chemistry ultimately what every researcher wants.” catalysis. Professor Barybin notes that one KU Club’s executive board. Cosner, a chemistry major with a minor in phys- research group had as many Goldwater chemistry “Not to brag,” Cosner ics, hopes her research in Associate Professor James honorees as did Cal-Tech, and more than Harvard, says, “but we have a great University Distin- Blakemore’s lab, on harnessing renewable energy MIT, Stanford and Berkeley. department. The professors guished Professor Jorge using electrocatalysis, will help her one day realize “I think this is unheard of nationally,” Barybin are great and there’s a lot of her dream of becoming an astronaut. Also pro- says. “It tells you the quality of our students is on research going on. It’s not Soberon (“A Long View,” moting her cause is research she’s conducting with par, and obviously might be better, than many of surprising to me.” issue No. 1, 2019), a Christopher Rogan, assistant professor of physics those institutions.” renowned scholar of and astronomy, on the strength of sensors that one Says Chancellor Doug Girod, “I never won a biodiversity modeling, day will be subjected to extreme conditions in the Goldwater, but as a chemistry major myself, I’m CERN Large Hadron Collider. certainly proud. These folks are going to go out and has been named “My key thing is, always set the bar really high, change the world.” director of the KU as you can see from my goal of being an astronaut,” —Chris Lazzarino Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum, following the retirement of longtime leader Sweet guys of Sigma Chi Leonard Krishtalka. Since joining the Phil Hammons was that one special sort SCHOLARS undergraduate research in our department is what Biodiversity Institute sets us apart.” of college pal we all had, or wish we had. and the department of Barybin recused himself from the nomination Always laughing, quick to poke fun, more (2) CArey Parks Courtesy ecology & evolution- Three of a kind process this year because his son, Anton, was among often than not at himself. His family and the KU students being considered for nomina- fraternity brothers alike treasured his ary biology in 2005, Goldwater Scholar trio vaults KU tion—and later announced as one of the winners. happy demeanor, so when Hammons in Soberon has helped to nation’s top rank Once the committee finalized its choices, Barybin February faced the darkest days of his life establish KU as a world rejoined the process, working closely, as always, during lung and liver cancer treatments, leader in the rapidly Chemistry professor Mikhail Barybin was with Anne Wallen, c’03, director of KU’s Office of still in an online consultation with his doctor when Fellowships. praying he might fall asleep and never and Phil, the men of Sigma Chi on March On May 2, an impromptu “friendship expanding field of his phone began lighting up with incoming text Along with Anton Barybin, this year’s honorees, again awaken, their concern was very real. 10 assembled on a tiny strip of lawn and parade” 100 strong marched outside Ham- biodiversity informatics. messages. It was 11:01 a.m. on March 26, and, who bring KU’s Goldwater total to 71 since the Hammons, c’66, only recently retired sang three of their favorite tunes from back mons’ bedroom window, where he greeted knowing that Goldwater Scholarships are an- scholarships—worth up to $7,500 annually for “He is well known,” said from the family real estate firm in Fort when Hammons held down harmony, each of his well-wishers by name. Two days Simon Atkinson, vice nounced midday on the last Friday of March, school and housing expenses—were first awarded Scott, was recuperating at an Olathe Barybin safely assumed good news awaited him in 1989, are Emma Cosner, of Overland Park, and wrapping up with perhaps the most famous later, Phil Hammons passed away. chancellor for research, after his telemedicine appointment. Jonah Stiel, of Topeka. rehab center when one of his Sigma Chi fraternity song of ’em all, “The Sweetheart Recalling in his obituary their patri- “for both his scholarship Happy news, indeed, as KU was once again shin- Anton Barybin became fascinated with brain brothers, Chuck Warner, b’67, l’70, of Sigma Chi.” arch’s “quick wit, his roaring laugher, and and his collegiality.” ing in the Goldwater glow, but three Jayhawks, all research while attending the Duke Talent Iden- reached out to Carey Parks and asked “That’s when I lost it,” Hammons said his irrepressible personality”—along with Kansans, all juniors, all members of the University tification Program camp in middle school, and whether her father might be up for a with a chuckle from his Fort Scott home, his abiding dedication to family, friends, Honors Program, all chemistry majors and all mem- he began conducting research in the lab of Susan visit, of sorts: 1960s-era Sigma Chis from where he was under the care of home church, community, KU, Sigma Chi, The bers of the KU Chemistry Club’s executive board, Lunte, Ralph N. Adams Distinguished Professor of across the area who in recent years had honored with the country’s premier undergraduate Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, the sum- health specialists, along with nurses and Wheel and golf—his family summed up award encouraging excellence in science, engineer- mer after his graduation from Lawrence’s Free State reconnected over monthly gab sessions in a surgeon who lived nearby and Roxy, his the memory of the man with this: ing and mathematics? High School. His research is in neurodegenerative Kansas City barbecue joints decided it was beloved rescue dachshund. “It’s a feel-good “He was his own laugh track.” “This is really amazing,” says Barybin, who has and neurotransmitter diseases, including multiple time to serenade the serenader. story, isn’t it? And I think people need chaired KU’s Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship sclerosis, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. And so, with blessings from both Carey more of those.” nomination committee since 2014. “The culture of “Of course we need to broaden and deepen our

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BOOKS This realization came early, when, at the braided, iconoclastic worldview of analysis of his crucial insights about man- 16, Jackson worked for the summer on a a man who grew up with a hoe in hand, kind and the natural world. Writing about South Dakota grassland ranch owned by trained as a botanist and geneticist, and a key moment after Jackson left a plum job Jacksonia relations. The introduction to the prairie deeply engaged with books and people in academia to return to Kansas, for in- ecosystem that would become the focus of who, each in their own way, have some- stance, Jensen describes the breakthrough Books by and about Wes Jackson Jackson Wes Courtesy trace personal and philosophical journey his life’s work suggested two ways to expe- thing to teach a curious mind. Jackson is a insight of how his home state’s wheat fields KU Debate finished a rience land. “One, which became known gifted storyteller, and his tales feel at times might mimic the self-sustaining prairie strong season with of an American original later to me as the Jeffersonian agrarian like simple recollections and at others like as “the simple but revolutionary idea of three students winning ideal, was where culture dictated that environmental parables—elliptical stories pulling agriculture back toward nature’s national honors. Wes Jackson recalls the Topeka farm where ground be plowed, worked, and planted,” that often begin and end with questions, circle.” That description sums up perfectly Azja Butler, Lansing he was born, in 1936, as “an agricultural paradise, he writes. “The other, rangeland life, was and whose frequent digressions aren’t the balance of boldness and humility in sophomore, in March with an abundance of plants for food, for flower where the plow had no place and was even beside the point but usually are the point. Wes Jackson’s work. became the first Black gardens, for beauty.” In that way it’s typical of the anathema. I preferred the grassland.” Alongside this survey of the people and “For longtime readers of Jackson, many woman to win the Ross Depression and familiar to advocates of today’s For more than 40 years, Jackson led the places that shaped Jackson’s intellectual of the phrases will be familiar but may Smith Top Speaker local food ethic: Strawberries, blackberries, aspar- Land Institute’s quest to develop a new journey, The Restless and Relentless Mind of be organized in a new way that can spark award at the National agus, rhubarb, radishes, tomatoes, peas, carrots, agricultural model based on perennial Wes Jackson, by Robert Jensen, University new thinking,” Jensen writes. “For those Debate Tournament, onions and forage like sweet clover and alfalfa for grains that combine the biodiversity of of Texas professor emeritus of journalism, unfamiliar with his work, the book can where she and team- horses, mules, milk cows, hogs and chickens were prairie systems with the high yields of stands as an up-to-date primer on the serve as an introduction to the worldview mate Ross Fitzpatrick, tended by men, women and children who provided annual crops, all delivered by deep-rooted ideas themselves, synthesizing Jackson’s that Jackson has built from a lifetime of Leawood senior, the hard work needed to keep crops growing and plants that eliminate tillage and contribute philosophy in one compact package. “It’s experience, drawing on a range of dis- reached the Final Four. weeds at bay. “It was local and largely, but not com- to building, rather than eroding, precious the book I wanted you to write, but you ciplines.” Read together, the two texts Nate Martin, Lansing pletely organic,” he writes in Hogs Are Up: Stories The Land Institute in Salina, isn’t waxing nostal- soil. He envisions a biodiverse plant were busy with other things,” Jensen told crackle with the spark of an original mind senior, won the second of the Land, with Digressions. “People ate what was gic for a lost golden age of farming. His frame of community that’s the opposite of the corn- Jackson during an online conversation always pushing (restlessly, relentlessly, but speaker award. In April, in season,” and got through the cold months on reference is far too broad for that, taking in deep and-beans monoculture that dominates hosted in April by Lawrence’s Raven Book also playfully) against assumption and Butler was named produce canned in summer and meat butchered in geologic time and man’s own brief run of days great swaths of the heartland. It’s an ap- Store, “so I wrote it.” Jackson has explored accepted wisdom. Here gambols man’s National Debater of the fall and winter. through the eons, all the way back to our Paleolithic proach that, to borrow Jackson’s typically these ideas extensively in a generous cleverness, to be sure, but in service of the Year, and assistant Much of that plant, animal and human diversity origins as hunter-gatherers. Seen through this wide pithy phrasing, relies more on the clever- handful of books, but Jensen deftly hits the seriously radical idea that perhaps Mother coach Jyleesa Hamp- has disappeared from rural America. But Jackson, viewfinder, farming (even farming in the Edenic ness of nature than the cleverness of man. highlights, combining a journalist’s ear for Nature knows best after all. ton, c’15, g’18, ’21, was g’60, MacArthur Fellowship-winning founder of agrarian mode envisioned by Thomas Jefferson on While doing this important work to Jackson’s memorable phrases with a clear —Steven Hill named the Graduate his Virginia mountaintop) becomes what Jackson improve agriculture, the well-known Student Coach of the calls “the problem of agriculture.” Agriculture, in sustainability advocate (whom KU Year by the Cross other words, isn’t the answer to our many ecologi- awarded an honorary doctorate of science Examination Debate cal, cultural and social ills; it’s the root of them. in 2013 for notable contributions to the Association. Butler environment) also began questioning the is KU’s third Debater assumptions on which modern life is built: Marty Baron, retired editor of The of the Year, joining consumerism, growth economics, reliance Boston Globe and The Washington Post, Hampton (2015) and on technology and fossil fuels, and an received the William Allen White National Kenny Delph, ’21 industrial farming model that separates Citation during a virtual event hosted by (2020). KU Debate ecology and agriculture into warring has won six national Hogs Are Up: Stories of camps that work least well for farmers the School of Journalism April 21. In his championships and the Land, with Digressions and consumers and best for corporate speech, Baron—whose newsrooms won competed in 18 Final By Wes Jackson middlemen. His conclusion: As a species 17 Pulitzers under his leadership— Fours. University Press of we need to curb consumption, need to noted the resonance White’s own 1922 Kansas, $26.95 “power down” and wean ourselves off the easy energy of dwindling fossil fuels “while Pulitzer-winning editorial, “To An Anxious The Restless and Relentless we still have slack”—in farming, yes, but Friend,” holds now. “Today it could be Mind of Wes Jackson: also in nearly every facet of our lifestyle. called, ‘To An Anxious Nation,’” Baron said, decrying the political Searching for Sustainability “We’ve lived with the assumption that polarization, “coarsening public discourse” and erosion of press By Robert Jensen there’s always more,” Jackson writes. “But University Press of Kansas, $26.95 I believe the future is going to be defined freedoms that White championed. A complete list of National by living within limits, with learning to Citation recipients is at journalism.ku.edu. adapt to less.’ Hogs Are Up sketches the backstory to

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With the script-in-hand format decided, KU Theatre embraced the chance to rethink its approach. Steve Puppe (4) Steve “We said, ‘Well, instead of focusing on what we The fourth-annual can’t do, what does moving to an audio format make One Day. One KU. possible that we couldn’t do otherwise?’” Bial says. fund drive on Feb. 18 Because actors read directly from scripts, re- generated more than hearsal time is greatly reduced, which can draw 5,400 gifts totaling students—and, on occasion, alumni—who could nearly $3.4 million, not commit to five-nights-a-week rehearsals because including a surprise $1 of class or work schedules. The digital broadcast million gift to benefit the expands the potential audience for a performance KU Alzheimer’s Disease and allows playwrights to participate in talkbacks Center and a $10,000 with actors and audience members. The absence of gift through Facebook, sets and costumes lowers the financial investment the largest gift received for the theatre department, which “allows us to take via social media since a chance on newer, less recognizable work, because the 24-hour fundraising we don’t have to think about box office in quite whirlwind began in “We said, ‘Well, the same way,” Bial says. “Lower risk economically 2018. “I grew up in instead of focus- allows us to take a bigger risk creatively.” Santanta, Kansas,” said ing on what we The second production in the Jayhawk Theatre Mary Haddican, c’73, can’t do, what on the Air series, “March Madness,” a work-in- l’76, of St. John, who progress by Darren Canady, associate professor made the $10,000 gift does moving to in the graduate creative writing program, allowed to benefit the KU School an audio format students to collaborate not only with a local play- of Medicine-Salina. “I make possible wright, but also with an experienced alumni actor, know the importance of ACADEMICS that we couldn’t Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre company, Jack Wright, g’67, PhD’69, professor emeritus of rural health care.” This Jayhawk Theatre on the Air set out to present live, theatre. “It’s a nice treat for our students to work year’s drive saw 2,000 do otherwise?’” Air play script-in-hand readings of contemporary plays, with people they might not have had a chance to more gifts than in 2019 —Henry Bial including works by KU playwrights, for broadcast work with if we were putting on a full-blown pro- and a boost in donations In pandemic pivot, KU Theatre adapts to remote audiences. duction,” Bial says. by more than $2 million. radio drama to modern age In the process, they discovered that a pandemic The scramble to salvage classroom and extra- “Donors stepped up at pivot could be about more than just making the curricular activities for students is just part of the record levels to support The theatre industry has been hit hard by best of a bad situation; it could also open up new survival strategy faced by colleges and universities KU in these times of COVID-19: In New York City alone, where all opportunities. across the country in the past year. The same is true great need,” said KU 41 Broadway theatres shut down in March 2020, “For me the inspiration was not so much the for KU, where in addition to Jayhawk Theatre on Endowment president ticket sales from the pandemic-shortened season ‘War of the Worlds’ scary part of it,” Bial says of the the Air, the department of theatre and dance also Dale Seuferling, j’77. amounted to only about $300 million, compared Mercury Theatre model, “but the idea that during has hosted virtual dance recitals and hired estab- “We couldn’t be more with $1.8 billion the season before. the Depression they made theatre available via lished playwrights to write new monologues for thankful for every At KU, where University Theatre mounts a radio to people who otherwise wouldn’t be able KU students to perform. meaningful gift that half-dozen full productions in a typical academic to access it.” It’s all part of an effort not merely to get totaled such a tremen- year, faculty had to rethink plans for the 2020-’21 For audiences today, the biggest hurdle to access through the logistical challenge posed by a global dous result.” season. is often the high price of tickets, and that hurdle is pandemic, but to use that challenge to find new “With COVID we can’t have an audience in our even greater with so many people losing jobs in the ways of approaching age-old arts. space, and we can’t really even have actors in each past year. But there are also access problems on the “We’re constantly trying to put an emphasis other’s personal space safely, so how do you keep production side. on, what does this give us a chance to do that we doing what we do?” says Henry Bial, professor and “If it costs $50,000 to put on a show, producers couldn’t have done before?” Bial says. “It doesn’t chairman of the department of theatre and dance. are going to be more risk-averse,” Bial explains. “If make up for the fact that they have to wear a mask While many theatre companies have embraced it’s Broadway and it costs $5 million to put on a For safety, performers spread out onstage and in tap class; it doesn’t make up for the fact that we the latest technology to ensure that the shows go on, show, producers are going more for the broadest used clear plastic face shields during their rehearsal can’t have a traditional cast party or some of the Bial was inspired by a more historic media format: common denominator” in deciding which plays of “Goodnight, Tyler.” The April performance was other accoutrements of college life. But we’re doing the radio drama. to produce. “And that’s not always where the best beamed by video link to viewers. what we can.” In the spirit of the 1930s radio plays created by stories are.” —Steven Hill

KANSAS ALUMNI 22 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 23 RESEARCH Book briefs At-home test progresses The inspiring true story Production is underway on an at-home of baseball legend Buck O’Neil is COVID-19 test developed in spring 2020 by KU revealed for younger audiences in researchers. Led by Steven Soper, Foundation The Greatest Thing: A Story About Distinguished Professor of chemistry and me- Buck O’Neil, by Kristy Nerstheimer, chanical engineering, a team of graduate students d’89, g’94, with illustrations by New has worked throughout the year to repurpose a York artist Christian Paniagua. Told chip-based blood test that KU launched in 2018 to in O’Neil’s enthusiastic and loving detect a variety of cancers and other diseases. The voice, The Greatest Thing shares his COVID-19 test uses the same technology to isolate passion for baseball, education and a virus particles from a saliva sample and delivers an fair and just society, and brings to life accurate result in about 15 minutes. the many legends he played alongside, Although testing for COVID-19 has decreased include Satchell Paige and “Cool Papa” in recent months, thanks in large part to the Bell. Published in connection with widespread availability of vaccines, Soper insists it the 100th anniversary of the Negro The Greatest Thing remains an important component in combating National Leagues, The Greatest Thing By Kristy Nerstheimer, with the virus, especially as new variants emerge. “This is benefits both the O’Neil family’s First illustrations by Christian Paniagua such a dynamic event,” he says. “Who knows what’s Base Enterprises and Kansas City’s The Little Fig, $21.95 going to happen in the next few months. Are new Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. variants, in addition to the ones that are already out there, going to be generated that might require more rigorous testing?” After a few seasons of mixed If so, says Soper, PhD’90, this chip technolo- success in her first forays in Southern gy could easily be reprogrammed—in just a few gardening, Roxann Hargrave Ward weeks—to detect new COVID-19 variants or other moved with her family to England, SARS-related diseases. In addition, the test will be where for two years she “was living helpful in determining if and how affected persons every American gardener’s dream.” should be quarantined during a pandemic. Ward, j’81, spent her final summer Both the chip and the cell-phone-sized handheld overseas studying garden design device in which it’s housed are in the end stages of at a local agricultural college and development, and Soper’s team will work with two returned home to Georgia energized large-scale commercial manufacturers to produce to become a master gardener with the the quantities needed for distribution. As with skills and creative artistry worthy of KU’s other blood-based chip tests, the COVID-19 the South’s flowering palettes, as seen test will be marketed through BioFluidica, a San in “botanical jewels” of Charleston’s Francisco-based company that has an advanced famous window boxes and Victorian- research lab in Lawrence. Soper hopes the tests will Color-Rich Gardening for the South era flowering shrubs. Now her be available by the end of 2021. By Roxann Ward Color-Rich Gardening for the South, Though it will take more than a year to get the The University of North Carolina a delicious new paperback and test from laboratory conception to commercial Press, $24 e-book from The University of North readiness, Soper points out that a project of this Carolina Press, delivers that expertise scale usually takes two to three years to complete— and eye for design with a spirited flair both inspirational and technically and his graduate students have done it in about detailed. Ward notes that while plant materials discussed in her book are one-third the time. “The way we were able to get geared toward regions of mild winters, her garden designs can be adapted that done is just mobilizing a lot of students to work to any area of the country. on this and work as a team,” he says. “And we didn’t have millions and billions of dollars to do this. We had a very tight budget, and we were still able to pull this off.”

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Mass Street & more CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS Steve Puppe Steve Steve Puppe Steve Shot and a show Here are a few virtual offerings this summer. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go For full listings of events, down, but an injection calls for something stronger: visit the links below. show tunes. Since February, Sigler Pharmacy, run by Jeff Dole Institute Sigler, p’84, PharmD’12, teamed with Theatre of Politics Lawrence director Mary Doveton, g’79, and staff In issue 3, Kansas June 10 A conversation to host about 30 clinics administering more than Alumni will with Juan Manuel Santos 10,000 COVID-19 vaccinations and a healthy feature a story dose of song and dance. doleinstitute.org on Jeff DeWitt, Vaccine-seekers check in at Will Call, receive Lied Center KU’s new CFO, their jabs in the lobby, then take seats onstage to wait out the observation period with a video sere- July 8 Allégresse: The who arrived in nade from past productions. Joy of Musical Outreach, Lawrence in early The collaboration was a chance to utilize shut- virtual talk and April. DeWitt most tered space, highlight the “heavy hit” borne by the- performance recently was CFO atres in the pandemic, and help the needle-phobic July 20 FlamenKcmo tune out their terror. of Washington, Kansas City—Sevilla: Taussig “There’s a lot of anxiety about getting a shot— Building Bridges, virtual D.C., where lead- UPDATE especially this shot—so maybe it made them a little talk and performance ers credit him BUDGET education system to partially comply with the U.S. more comfortable,” Sigler says of the Broadway lied.ku.edu for directing a Department of Education’s stipulation that states From script to screen backdrop. “I think it worked well.” show “maintenance of efforts” in funding education Indubitably. In a most delightful way. Spencer Museum of Art dramatic financial Financial reckoning to receive another round of COVID relief funds. Almost a year after the publication of her recovery. DeWitt Legislature partially restores funding; “Healing, Knowing, Kelly signed the bill May 21, but at press time, widely praised memoir, Sitting Pretty: The View Seeing the Body” also earned praise KU plans to correct structural deficits KU’s portion of the $53 million had not been from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body, Rebekah spencerart.ku.edu from leaders in determined. Taussig has another reason to celebrate: ABC The Kansas Legislature reduced base- According to federal calculations, Kansas needs Signature is developing her book for television. Puppe (2) Steve Phoenix, where Natural History budget funding for the state’s six public universities to add $105 million for higher education in each of Taussig, PhD’17, a disability advocate who has Museum he led the city’s by 2.5% for fiscal year 2022. Gov. Laura Kelly, who the next two years, but legislators hope to receive a been paralyzed from the waist down since she was recovery from the had proposed a 5.5% cut in January, signed the waiver by showing “good faith” in restoring half the 14 months old, will co-write the TV adaptation and ”The New Grotesques” Great Recession. legislation. funds. The U.S. Department of Education on May work with executive producers from Mandeville biodiversity.ku.edu The Kansas Board of Regents had asked the 11 released $36 billion in emergency funding under Films, as well as director-producer Randall Alumni events governor and the Legislature to maintain stable the American Rescue Plan’s Higher Education Einhorn, who’s known for several hit television base-budget funding at last year’s level for all univer- Emergency Relief Fund. KU’s total allocation is shows, including “The Office,” “Parks and June 3 "Digital Body sities, but appropriations fell short of that goal. $41.12 million, including: Recreation” and “Modern Family.” Language: Collaborate KU, Kansas State and Wichita State universities —$20.63 million (minimum for student aid) Sitting Pretty is Taussig’s first book (“In Her Faster and Further, heard encouraging news earlier in the session, when —$20.49 million (maximum for institution) Words,” issue No. 1) and was published in August Together," a webinar with the Legislature easily approved the Regents’ second In early May, KU announced cuts to academ- 2020 by HarperOne. The collection of essays is author Erica Dhawan priority: renewal of the Kansas Engineering Initia- ic and administrative units ranging from 1% to rooted in the mini-memoirs she began sharing five kualumni.org/ tive Act. Gov. Kelly added her signature to extend 12% beginning July 1 as part of an overall shift in years ago on her Instagram account, which detail kuconnection the program for another 10 years. The original 2011 financial management to correct a structural budget the challenges and complications she faced growing initiative aimed to double the number of annual deficit on the Lawrence campus caused by the state’s up in a wheelchair. The opportunity to expand her Academic Calendar engineering graduates for a combined total of 1,365 disinvestment, decreasing enrollment and other fac- book’s reach as a TV show and shine a spotlight on Aug. 23 First day of engineers by 2021. The state funded each of the tors. Jeff DeWitt, KU’s new chief financial officer, the disabled community is exciting, she says. fall classes three engineering schools $3.5 million annually to explained his plan to resolve the ongoing shortfall “It’s about time we had a show with a wheel- expand, which each school matched. In 2020, the in a video with Chancellor Doug Girod and Provost chair-using woman at the center,” Taussig says, “and Oct. 9-12 Fall Break three schools graduated nearly 1,700 new engineers. Barbara Bichelmeyer, j’82, c’86, g’88, PhD’92; to it means the world to me that I get to participate In the omnibus budget bill passed May 9, watch, visit rockcha.lk/FinancialUpdate. in making it.” lawmakers added $53 million to the public higher —Jennifer Jackson Sanner

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Mass Street & more and pandemic-related supply chain delays that are still ongoing, Weaver’s is poised to continue offering its loyal customers good selections at attractive prices, along with amenities that distinguish it from soulless big-box stores: “Weaver’s assortment of apparel and home goods satisfies the definition [of a department store], especially according to today’s standards—perhaps more accurately even than Nordstrom and Von Maur.” Kristin Bowman- James, University Distinguished New art brightens Professor of Chemistry, old corner has been elected to the American Academy “Paradoxical Synapse,” the gleaming new of Arts & Sciences. sculpture at Eighth and Vermont, is 10 feet of cold- Forbes hails cast aluminum poured and polished over a durable A KU faculty member Weaver’s tenacity frame of steel, wire mesh and fiberglass, perched since 1975, Bowman- seemingly weightlessly atop a 3-foot tall base. James directs the Weaver’s Department Store, for more than Sculptor Jacob Burmood, g’13, created the ele- Kansas National 160 years downtown’s stalwart anchor, recently gant, playful piece to hold its own on a downtown received well-deserved recognition on Forbes.com, corner dominated by heavy brick buildings without Science Foundation’s which hailed Lawrence’s traditional retail hub for drowning out historic elements of the structure EPSCoR and has helped its decidedly modern touches. “As an independent- whose renovation it celebrates, Fire Station No. 1 bring as much as $20 ly run department store in 2021,” wrote Michael and Douglas County Senior Services. Lawrence’s million over five years in Lisicky, a Forbes contributor who specializes in de- latest public art installation is a joy for all passersby, partment stores, “Weaver’s is a very rare breed. Fifty but its shiny skin and abstract forms are special NSF research grants to years ago, 22 such stores operated throughout the delights for schoolchildren. “The response I get the state. Her research state of Kansas. Today, barely a half dozen are still from kids is totally priceless,” Burmood says from focuses on the challenges open for business across the entire country.” Lisicky his Kansas City studio. “They see things in abstract of nuclear waste site noted that after weathering a two-month closure works that always surprise me.” cleanup and the depletion of the world’s phosphorus reserves. Steve Puppe (2) Steve

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leader, and is what the University of Even with her junior year mangled by Kansas and our fans deserve.” COVID’s schedule disruptions, Peters Two weeks after accepting a six-year recorded six shutouts to bring her Kansas Athletics Athletics Kansas Kansas Athletics Athletics Kansas contract at KU, Leipold announced that three-season total to 26, along with a he would retain Emmett Jones as wide career goals-against average of 0.88, com- receivers coach, after Jones proved to be pared with Miller’s 0.98. a popular leader as interim head coach “I think the girls are confident in me, during spring practice. Among the assis- and that shows on the field, how strong we tants Leipold will import from Buffalo are are defensively,” Peters says. “That’s been a offensive coordinator Andy Kotelnicki and great comfort, knowing a team has defensive coordinator Brian Borland. your back.” “Every single coach is ready to dig in,” Peters finds herself in Miller’s rare com- Leipold said, “and get this team ready to pany for two primary reasons: She’s that compete at the highest level.” good, and she’s been the starter since her Also of significant note: Retired NFL first game as a freshman—which happened star and former team captain Darrell to be a shutout—and both 22nd-year head Stuckey II, c’09, a member of KU foot- coach Mark Francis and associate head ball’s Ring of Honor, returned to Mount coach Kelly Miller, who has coached KU “This is my Oread as director of football relations. goalkeepers during the entirety of Francis’ destination job. A month after celebrating his first day on the “If we’re all on the same page,” long tenure, are loath to start freshmen This is where job (above), Travis Goff and Chancellor Doug Stuckey wrote in an open letter to in goal. Girod (opposite) flanked football coach Lance Jayhawks everywhere, “this team is going “We’ve only had that happen one other I received an Leipold at his own KU debut. to grow fast—very, very fast.” time, and that was Meghan Miller,” Francis incredible says. “Freshmen make mistakes, and as a goalkeeper, when you make a mistake, education, usually it means the other team scores.” where I started KANSAS ATHLETICS accepted voluntary pay cuts from its top earners a man of integrity, and his demonstrated She’s a keeper Peters, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, won my career, and put out a rare call for its supporters to step up ability to connect with faculty, staff, alum- Peters takes aim at rare and kept the job as a freshman, helping New leaders bring in a time of great financial need. Football failed to ni and donors.” the defense to nine shutouts and four and where I win a game and men’s basketball exited the NCAA Goff ’s first task would also be his most soccer records 200-minute shutout streaks—most of fell in love renewed hope Tournament’s first weekend. crucial: hiring the next football coach. But Nobody around the KU soccer pro- which was attributable, her coaches say, to Bad became worse with unseemly allegations that first Goff allowed himself a few moments gram breezily throws around comparisons her natural ability. with college Tumultuous year salved with hiring cost Les Miles the football job, shortly followed to bask in his return, pausing to snap a with the program’s best players, so it’s no Kelly Miller explains that he prefers to athletics.” of new athletics director, football coach by Chancellor Doug Girod accepting Jeff Long’s photo when he saw Allen Field House’s small matter that goalkeeper Sarah Peters spend time coaching incoming goalkeepers resignation as athletics director. scoreboard announcing his arrival. is mentioned alongside All-American on intricacies of the position, including —Director of Athletics The stated purpose of the May 3 press con- “I know the past week has been challenging for “This is my destination job,” Goff said. Meghan Miller, who from 2001 to 2004 both technique and tactical decision-mak- Travis Goff ference inside KU football’s indoor practice facility those of us who love Kansas Athletics,” Girod wrote “This is where I received an incredible recorded 28 shutouts. ing. He adds that when Peters won the job was to introduce Lance Leipold as the Jayhawks’ in a campus email announcing Long’s departure, education, where I started my career, and new football coach. As the event got underway, “but I am heartened by the passion of our universi- where I fell in love with college athletics.” however, the realization could hardly have been ty community.” Before the month was out, Goff missed that KU was doing far more than introduc- With KU stalwart Kurt Watson, d’75, called announced he’d hired the well-respected Shrugging off ing a coach. upon to assume interim command of the depart- Leipold, a six-time national champion and personal accolades Kansas Athletics Athletics Kansas When Leipold, a rising star with successful runs ment—and with the assistance of an alumni search five-time conference coach of the year. and individual records, at Wisconsin-Whitewater and Buffalo, took his team of Linda Ellis Sims, e’79; Ray Evans, b’82, After three rebuilding years at Buffalo, Sarah Peters (center) place at the dais with Travis Goff, the newly minted g’84; John Ballard, b’73; and Wayne Simien, c’05— Leipold’s teams won 24 games over the cites team camarade- director of athletics, the moment seemed to finally Girod on April 5 announced that Dodge City next three seasons; in his eight years at rie and chemistry as right the ship after one of the most frenzied years in native Travis Goff, c’03, j’03, had agreed to leave his Wisconsin-Whitewater, Leipold’s teams defining aspects of KU the history of Kansas Athletics. post as Northwestern University’s deputy director went an astounding 109-6. soccer. “It’s awesome,” Rocked hard by COVID, which gutted atten- of athletics to take over at KU, where he began his “He is a man of integrity, a developer she says, “to have dance revenue and thrust unrelenting health-and- career as a part-time student employee in the of young men, a program builder and a lifetime friends that safety burdens across every aspect of every sport— Williams Education Fund. winner,” Goff said of Leipold. “His track I’ve made here.” training, competition, travel, academics, housing, “Travis stood out,” Girod wrote in his campus record of sustained excellence is exactly meals—the department furloughed employees, newsletter, “due to his experience, his reputation as what we were looking for in our next

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as a freshman, he decided that rather than “She’s really committed to her fitness,” says. “Having people to guide the group, bogging her down with changes to her Francis says, “which has made a massive players like Sarah, was really important.” game that would dampen her instincts and difference in terms of her ability to train at Consistently honored as Academic slow her reactions, he opted to step back a high level, consistently.” All-Big 12 First Team as an exercise science and allow her to rely on what he describes Her maturation as the team’s on-field major—“I always put my head in the as “explosive” athletic ability. leader this year reached beyond the pitch, books and work hard”—Peters says she is At the conclusion of the season, Miller as coaches scrambled to adjust team-build- aiming for graduate school to become a says, he told Peters that she was “probably ing concepts that had to be put aside for physical therapist. That could be put on one of the worst goalkeepers I’ve ever put COVID restrictions. Freshmen could not hold if she decides to test her fortunes at on the field as a starter,” but he quickly be matched with upperclassmen for room the professional level, but she adds that adds that was only because she was so assignments on the road, for instance, enduring academic and athletic disrup- inexperienced that asking her to start every because players had to keep the same tions over the past year has prepared her game of the season “was not fair to her.” roommates as at home, and even the sim- for whatever might be next. Peters took the frank conversation to ple notion of dispersing table assignments “I think it’s really taught us a lot of les- heart, honing the position’s demanding at team meals evaporated as players were sons,” Peters says. “We have to be account- skill set along with a dedication to fitness forced to eat in their rooms. able for all the work we have to do outside that has impressed even Francis, for whom “All those situations where your team of soccer. It’s a balancing act. It’s been a fitness is a constant talking point. is bonding, we didn’t have those,” Francis good challenge for us to have.” Kansas Athletics (2) (2) Athletics Kansas

UPDATE senior Hussain Al-Hizam Goalkeepers coach Kelly (18-8.25) and senior Christian Miller expects Sarah Peters fter winning both races in Champen and junior Kyle to be challenged in fall camp Athe weather-shortened Rogers (both 18-1.25). The Sunflower Showdown against May 1 Rock Chalk Classic by three worthy goal patrol- K-State May 1 at Wyandotte featured school records by lers. “That’s never really County Lake, rowing celebrated junior Alexandra Emilianov in happened during Sarah’s the careers of seniors London the discus (197.8 feet) and shot career here,” Miller says. Acree, Heidi Burns, Katie put (55-4.25 feet), and senior Donnellan, Lauren Fee, Gleb Dudarev won the “I’m excited for her because Hannah Roemer, Laurel hammer throw with the NCAA’s that’s going to push her.” Salisbury, Anna Van Driel, second-best mark of the season Emma Yowell and manager (242-6 feet). ... Senior Jenny While celebrating seniors at the May 1 Sunflower Showdown (left), KU Photograph by Megan Akers. ... In a Mizzou Mosser and freshman rowers also honored one of their sport’s time-honored traditions Steve Puppe meet forced indoors by weather, Caroline Crawford, both (above) by dunking freshman coxswain Sydney Johnston. sophomore Zach Bradford set outside hitters, earned First KU’s new indoor pole vault Team All-Big 12 volleyball record at 19-0.75 feet. KU honors, and Crawford was also and KU placed second in the Baylor with a 10-under 206, a moved into postseason named to the All-Rookie Team. team standings, at the 54-hole KU record. Junior Ben competition with the first team in ... Senior Manon Manning on conference meet at Texas. ... Sigel’s ace on No. 17 NCAA history boasting four Feb. 27 won KU’s first Big 12 Sophomore Lauren Heinlein highlighted his final-round 67 18-foot vaulters, including title in the 200-yard backstroke, took second April 12-13 at April 18 at Iowa.

KANSAS ALUMNI 32 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 33 A 2011 Kansas Alumni cover story, “The Gamble,” recounted how Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos’ skill at bluffing fraternity brothers during all-night poker games at KU’s Delta Upsilon house carried into a political career propelled by a willingness to take “audacious risks.” In 2016, Santos, b’73, saw his greatest ‘Forgiveness is Infinite’ gamble—negotiating peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), a rebel guerrilla army that had waged war on the country since 1964—pay off when his government signed (and the The years-long bid to forge peace between Colombian people ratified) a peace agreement with the FARC. Santos, the Colombian government and FARC rebels KU’s first head of state, was awarded reaches its most difficult but most essential the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. The Battle for Peace: The Long Road stage—delivering justice to the victims to Ending a War With the World’s Oldest Guerrilla Army, published in of a half-century of civil war April by University Press of Kansas, is Santos’ account of that process, begun by Juan Manuel Santos in earnest at the start of his two-term presidency but rooted in earlier stints n Havana, we had reached partial agreements on rural development, leading Colombia’s ministries of foreign trade, finance and national political participation, and the problem of illegal drugs. But the defense. This excerpt details a key debates ahead of us were not going to be easy. We still had to element—and a crucial negotiating Idiscuss the point on the agenda devoted to victims, and that included hurdle—in the president’s quest for peace: recognizing the rights of guarantees with regard to the victims’ right to know the truth, the victims. to see justice done, and to be assured of reparation and Santos visited KU in 2012 to nonrepetition. Another point to be dealt with was the accept the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award from the College end of the conflict, which included the thorny of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and in question of laying down arms and the 2017 to accept an honorary Doctor reincorporation of ex-combatants of Humane Letters for outstanding into civilian life. contributions to achieving peace in his country and the world. He is currently founder and chairman of the Compaz Center of Resources for Peace. Official Nobel portrait by —The Editors Mads Nissen/Politiken © Nobel Media

KANSAS ALUMNI 34 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 35 Bearing this in mind, my address on ao Tse Tung, before beginning constituted a moral and historical debt August 7, 2014, at the inauguration of my his famous Long March in that Colombian society had contracted. second presidential term, included the 1934, recalled an adage of Lao Paying it was going to take years, but we following: MTzu that I always like to bear in mind: had to begin as soon as possible. We had “I will use all the energy I have to “A journey of one thousand miles begins to take the first step. And that first step, comply with this mandate for peace. with the first step.” That’s how I under- even before we had begun peace talks However, rather than celebrate what we stood the difficult path I had embarked with the FARC, was the Law of Victims have achieved, I remind you that we are on when, back in 1996, I organized that and Restitution of Land, to which I have entering the final phase of talks. And like meeting at the Monserrat Abbey to seek already referred. all last efforts, this stage will be the most creative solutions that might lead to peace I kept constantly clear in my mind and difficult one, and the most demanding. in Colombia. Indeed even before that, in heart that the goal of peace is twofold: on It is going to demand sacrifices from us all. 1991, when I was in New York as minister the one hand, to respond to the rights of And above all, it is going to require deci- for foreign trade and listened to a busi- the victims that the war has been respon- sions. More than anything else, decisions nessman telling me that there would be no sible for, and on the other, to make sure about the victims. real investment in Colombia so long as an there will be no more victims. And this “Can there be any family in Colombia armed conflict subsisted, I began to dream conviction, which I transmitted to the that does not have a father or mother, a of peace. And that dream would become government’s negotiators, became the cen- brother or sister, a cousin or a friend, who a reality only if we could find an adequate tral axis of the process, an emphasis that has not been a victim of this conflict? solution to the problem of the victims. made it unique in the world because the With the Law of Victims, we took an im- Over half a century, the armed conflict Colombian process was the first to place portant step. But the crucial step is to put had produced more than eight million the victims at the center of the solution. an end to the conflict, to guarantee that victims, and to recognize them, make If we were seeking to end the conflict, it there will be no more victims and that the reparation to them, and accompany them was to have no more victims. And if a form victims’ rights will be respected in the best possible way. “We must see a genuine willingness to tell the truth, to clarify what happened and explain why, as well as to participate in the process of reparation and find a formula for justice that the victims and all Colombians will find acceptable.” Little did we know then that discussions on the victims were going to occupy us for a year and a half. They began on May 7, 2014, with a joint declaration by all delegates at the negotiating table on the principles that would serve as guidelines for debate on this issue. But discussions did not conclude until the end of 2015 of Kansas Press Univeristy Courtesy and at times had the process teetering on the brink of an abyss, especially because of the difficulty in reaching an agreement on the question of justice. “I met with the victims on countless occasions and in many parts of the country … and each time I was given proof of their courage, generosity, RIGHT: Santos signs the final peace agree- ment with the FARC, Teatro Colón de Bogotá, and solidarity. I was deeply moved by everything Nov. 24, 2016. they told me.” —Juan Manuel Santos

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ABOVE: “The Nobel Prize arrived at just the right moment, like a gift from heaven, and made us feel as if the whole world was giving us a pat on the back and urging us to go ahead and bring the peace process to a successful conclusion.” Maria Clemencia de Santos celebrates the news with President Santos and their daughter, Maria Antonia. RIGHT: “Among the crowd there were a lot of Colombian flags waving, and when I heard cries of ‘Viva Colombia!’ my soul was filled with joy.” Torchlight procession, Oslo, Norway, Dec. 10, 2016.

of justice was to be agreed upon, it would If they were able to keep fighting, if they And there was something even more Valencia was his name. “What happened My eyes filled with tears. What can you along with his mother on the roadside in have to be a system of justice that was did not lose hope in the possibility of noteworthy: the victims expressed their to your leg?” I asked him, in presence of say to someone who has survived such Caquetá on December 29, 2000. above all for them, and that would not be peace, if they were ready to forgive their solidarity with the peace process and did all those who were attending the act of pain? The murderers might be guerrillas, Constanza took her courage in her inspired by vengeance but by reparation. tormentors, what right did I have to fall by not place their personal pain ahead of the inauguration. paramilitaries, or even agents of the state, hands and traveled to Havana with one of At the very start of the process, I had the wayside? possibility of ending the conflict and thus “I lost it in the war, in the conflict. I’m a but the victim’s suffering is the same. the five delegations of victims that went a visit in Bogotá from Ronald Heifetz, What I discovered in all my conversa- ensuring that other Colombians would displaced person from Putumayo.” We had to put a stop to this torrent of there to tell their stories and to give their founder of the Center for Public Leader- tions with the victims was something won- not endure what they had suffered. What “Well, cheer up, Don José!” I said. “You violence. And we had to do so at once. The point of view. She actually sat down beside ship at Harvard’s Kennedy School, where I derful: while many people who had never a marvelous example they gave us, and now have a home of your own, where you conflict had become an implacable and members of that same guerrilla group that had studied. And he gave me some sound been personally scarred by the conflict continue to give us. For me, it has been an can be with your children.” José Plutarco efficient factory producing victims. had destroyed her life. Iván Márquez, head advice. “Whenever you feel disheartened, were insisting that the FARC be subjected important lesson for my life. looked at me with a sorrowful expression My memory is full of these stories. of the FARC’s negotiatiors, asked her tired, or pessimistic, talk to the victims. to the most implacable justice, that the I met with the victims on countless oc- in his eyes and replied very faintly: “I lost One particularly painful case was that of forgiveness in the name of his organization They, with their stories, their dramas, their ex-guerrillas should be locked up in prison casions and in many parts of the country, them too, Mr. President. Both my sons the Turbay Cote family, some of whose and acknowledged the great error they had courage, will give you the will and the for years—something that is simply not vi- in events where the government was pro- were killed in the war.” members were political leaders in the committed. And Fabián Ramirez, another strength to go on.” able in a peace process, since no subversive viding free homes or some other kind of On another occasion, a woman came department of Caquetá. Toward the end guerrilla commander who had been in His words were always with me. And organization is going to sign an agreement state assistance, and each time I was given up to me and said: “President, I need of the 1990s, the FARC exterminated Caquetá when the family was murdered, I put them into practice in the course of to go to prison—the victims were telling proof of their courage, generosity, and sol- your help.” almost the entire family. Constanza told the truth—the very painful but nec- those years when, very often, there were me that, for them, more important than idarity. I was deeply moved by everything “How can I help you?” I asked. Turbay, who survived, lost her mother and essary truth—about what had occurred. dark clouds on the horizon and there punishment for their persecutors was that they told me. “I am displaced from Urabá, and lost two brothers, all three assassinated by the There in Havana, fifteen years after the seemed to be no way out, or when con- they be told what had happened to their I especially remember one occasion my husband. The guerrillas killed him. guerrillas. Her older brother Rodrigo, who tragic loss of her family, Constanza forgave tinuous criticisms began to make inroads loved ones, many of whom had disap- when we were inaugurating the govern- And the paramilitaries took three of my was president of the Chamber of Repre- the guerrillas. “Forgiveness is infinite,” she on my resolve. To meet the victims, talk peared and whose mortal remains they had ment’s provision of free housing in Neiva, sons. One died, but I never found out sentatives in Congress, was kidnapped said. And before she left Cuba, she made with them, listen to their tales of personal never been able to recover. Above all else, the capital of the department of Huila, and what happened to the others. They were and then murdered in 1997. Her younger a statement in which she declared: “We pain, but also to witness their courage and even more than reparations or justice, the I handed the keys of a new apartment to a taken from me by force. Please help me brother Diego, who was president of the the victims are exchanging our pain for the resilience, always helped me to persevere. victims wanted to be told the truth. man who was missing a leg. José Plutarco to find them.” Chamber’s peace commission, was shot hope of peace.”

KANSAS ALUMNI 38 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 39 broke into a long and moving applause. There, in the solemn hall of the Norwegian Presidential homecoming capital—where people like Mikhail Gor- bachev, Nelson Mandela, Yitzhak Rabin, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Malala Yousafzai had been paid homage—stood the representatives of eight million victims celebrating the end of a conflict that had

robbed them of their loved ones or had MarComm (3) Courtesy stolen years from their lives and who, now that the war was over, once again could experience faith and hope. There in Oslo, I recounted the story of Leyner Palacios, a joyful man and a proud representative of our Afro-Colombian eth- nic group, who survived one of the war’s most atrocious acts, one that occurred on May 2, 2002, in a tiny village called Bojayá, in the department of Chocó. That day, FARC guerrillas in combat with a group of paramilitaries fired a mortar that landed in the middle of the town’s church where families had taken refuge. Some eighty people died, mostly children, and about one hundred were wounded. That day Leyner lost thirty-two members of his family, including his parents and three brothers. But he refused to give himself over to lamentations and a desire for hen I was asked who I would Liliana Pechené, a leader from the Misak ABOVE: “There, in the solemn hall of the revenge. He became a positive leader of his like to attend the ceremony in community in Cauca, who represented the Norwegian capital, stood the representatives community and had the courage—because which I was awarded the No- suffering of the indigenous people trapped of eight million victims celebrating the end of this requires courage—to pardon those belW Peace Prize in Oslo in December 2016, in the middle of the conflict; Fabiola Per- a conflict that had robbed them of their loved who had committed this crime when they, the first thing that came to my mind was domo, widow of one of the eleven deputies ones or had stolen years from their lives.” members of the FARC, returned to Bojayá that representatives of the victims should from the Valle del Cauca Assembly who in June 2015 to beg forgiveness from the be invited. It was for them that we had had been kidnapped and murdered by the people whose town they had destroyed. made such an effort, and they had given us FARC in 2007; Ingrid Betancur and Clara Forgiveness has a twofold liberating the moral support we needed to persevere. Rojas, held captive for years by that same effect: it liberates the one who is forgiven, This recognition belonged to them more guerrilla organization; and the renowned Cristo, whose father was killed by the but the one who forgives is also liberated than anyone else. writer Héctor Abad Faciolince, whose ELN; the journalist Maria Jimena Duzán, from the weight of rancor and the And so it was that part of the official father, a medical doctor and human rights whose sister was murdered by the para- darkness of hate. Santos received an honorary doctorate delegation that accompanied me con- defender, was murdered by paramilitaries, militaries, and the former senator Piedad from Chancellor Doug Girod and former sisted of victims of different actors in the a crime his son describes with a masterly Córdoba, who had been kidnapped by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little at the conflict, among whom were the following: pen in the most personal of his works, El paramilitaries. Lied Center in 2017. During a 2012 Pastora Mira, a courageous and generous olvido que seremos (published in the Unit- One of the most emotional moments campus visit, he spoke at the Dole Institute woman whose father and husband had ed States as Oblivion). during the Nobel Prize award ceremony To learn more about the for Politics, met with students and received both lost their lives in partisan violence But they were not the only ones. When was when I paused in my address and Colombian peace process, join a commemorative basketball jersey. and whose two sons were murdered by I looked around at the men and women asked the victims of the Colombian con- an online conversation with paramilitaries, a story that brought Pope who were on the flight with me to Oslo, flict to stand up and receive the homage President Juan Manuel Santos, Francis to tears when he heard it during several of them had been victims of the they deserved. And they did so, holding 7 p.m., June 10, at his visit to Villavicencio; Leyner Pala- violence that has affected most of us Co- hands, and the expression on their faces doleinstitute.org. cios, an extraordinary human being who lombians in one way or another. There was reflected the sentiments of so many years survived the Bojayá massacre in Chocó; my minister of the interior, Juan Fernando of repressed anguish. All those present

KANSAS ALUMNI 40 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 41 New Chapter By sharing stories of success, traditions and the global alumni network, the Jayhawk Welcome Center and renovated Adams Alumni Center aim to make prospective Jayhawks— and all generations—feel right at home

by Jennifer Jackson Sanner Renderings by Helix Architecture + Design

he room buzzed with energy new structure that could one day connect had come back,” says Foster, g’20. “We vision,” he recalls. “This is where you and animated conversations, to the Alumni Center and become the were seeing the future of KU and start, and this is you’re mentored, and fueled by anticipation and starting place for prospective students and the encompassing idea of past, present this is where you finish—this whole semester’s-end anxiety, as their families to tour KU. and future all in one building. As we 360-degree view of your life at the second-year architecture Gabrielle Foster, then a sophomore explained our ideas and walked them University all in one place. They were students met their clients— from Chicago, recalls those fateful conver- through our plans, their eyes were really trying to create that story.” Talumni whose graduation years spanned sations with her Jayhawk elders, members glowing.” After the presentations, when the board five decades—on April 28, 2017, in the of the Alumni Association’s national Former board member Jerry Skillett, members resumed their meeting, Skillett Adams Alumni Center. This was no time Board of Directors. b’81, marveled at the “brilliant” students, was among the first to speak. “We saw or place for small talk. With detailed “I remember the excitement in the who took the assignment to heart. “I actu- through the students’ eyes what would drawings and intricate 3D models, the room, both from the students who were ally had tears in my eyes because I couldn’t attract them to KU,” he said. students presented their big ideas for a ready to present and from the alumni who believe how committed they were to the

KANSAS ALUMNI 42 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 43 he notion of a new welcome center, atop Mount Oread at the entrance Interactive displays Tto historic Jayhawk Boulevard, had will highlight the global first surfaced two years earlier, in summer network of alumni mentors, 2015, in a casual “what if?” email between KU-led companies and KU colleagues. Matt Melvin, vice provost career resources available for enrollment management, posed the through the Jayhawk Career question. Heath Peterson, then interim Network. Visitors will scan president of the Alumni Association, individual QR codes to see suggested lunch. Weeks later, when they content tailored to their walked back from lunch at The Oread academic, geographic or hotel, they stopped in front of the parking professional interests. garage and gazed across the street at the Adams Alumni Center. “The more we talked, the more compelling this project became in terms of how we could really position the University to win the campus visit through a storytelling experience,” what Melvin calls “the arc of the Jayhawk ince the Adams Alumni Cen- contributions to fund the new Jayhawk says Peterson, d’04, g’09, who became the experience,” including campus life, stories ter opened in 1983, the alumni Welcome Center and renovated Adams Association’s president in November 2015. of Jayhawk career successes, research and Spopulation has grown by more Alumni Center. “We thought how great it would be if we innovation, history and traditions, and than 40% and the Alumni Association has Donors endorsed the project’s purpose could bring to life this symbolic idea of KU’s global reach. “One of the sustainable transformed its programs and services for and location, according to Dale Seuferling, marrying the past to the future.” competitive advantages of KU is the Jayhawks. j’77, KU Endowment president. “Donors Melvin, who arrived in Lawrence in alumni network,” he says, “We want to “If you really inventory the challenges understand that this is a critical time in 2010 to lead a transformation of student be very intentional and purposeful with facing higher ed today—the state’s general the life of the University and KU must be recruitment, worked with the KU Admis- communicating to students and their disinvestment, increasing tuition—you competitive in recruiting the next genera- sions team, campus leaders and alumni to families the value add—the power—of see families wanting to see a return on tion of Jayhawks. The time has arrived for revamp scholarships, recruiting strategies, that network.” the investment they make,” Peterson says. KU to up its game,” he says. “As alumni data analysis and other aspects of attract- In the six years since Melvin and “How are we helping students make career reflect on their first impressions of KU, ing new Jayhawks, especially in an era of Peterson first imagined a new place for connections? What kind of resources can they immediately embrace the concept of declining populations of high school grad- future and current Jayhawks, momentum we provide to enhance the student experi- a Welcome Center on Jayhawk Boulevard. uates. Next on his wish list was a better for what became known as the Jayhawk ence? The Alumni Association is uniquely That’s the right location.” launching point for campus visits, which Welcome Center has grown. Chancellor positioned to drive that value.” Thus far donors have committed $21 since 1999 have most often started at the Doug Girod, who in 2017 succeeded Ber- To expand its services and impact, the million for the 30,000-square-foot expan- KU Visitor Center, the remodeled first nadette Gray-Little as KU’s leader, added Association, in partnership with KU En- sion. The Association and KU Endowment floor of Templin Hall, near 15th Street. his strong endorsement of the project to dowment, invested in the Student Alumni continue to seek gifts to fund $8 million in “The campus visit will always be the the green light she had signaled. The need Network. Since 2017, the organization remaining renovation costs, including $3 most important strategy and factor in has only increased in an era of intense has grown from 1,200 members to 6,000, million to support new technology and $5 students’ decision process,” Melvin says. competition for new students, and recent becoming the largest student group on million to modernize the Adams Center “Our campus visit is good, but we want it enrollment results affirmed the pivotal campus and the largest of its kind in the and connect the existing structure to the to shine.” power of the campus visit. In 2019 and Big 12. The Jayhawk Career Network, new Welcome Center’s event spaces. The location, limited space and out- 2020, prospective students who visited launched in 2018 with gifts from alumni dated technology in the current Visitor KU enrolled at twice the rate of those who donors, connects students with successful Center prevent KU from showcasing did not visit. alumni worldwide for mentorship and s designs for the project began Girod calls the Jayhawk Welcome career resources; more than 8,000 alum- to take shape, KU architecture Center “a real game-changer” for KU’s ni and students currently participate in Astudents continued to offer their future: “Across the nation, we are seeing mentoring. ideas. Following the spring 2017 studio A two-story lobby display will feature person- fewer high school graduates, and that Encouraged by donor support for course, associate professors Marie Alice alized greetings, videos, slideshows and social trend will continue for the next decade. expanding both student and career L’Heureux and Kapila Silva each spring media feeds, and a digital exhibit will highlight That puts a lot of pressure on enrollment, programs—and mindful of the need to have challenged their second-year students KU research and innovation. Solar screens will which is why the Jayhawk Welcome boost student recruitment by creating an to explore designs for the project. filter the western sun while showcasing the Center is so important to our University unrivaled campus visit—KU Endowment Peterson says the ongoing student view of campus. and our mission.” and the Alumni Association began to seek involvement was critical to the design pro-

KANSAS ALUMNI 44 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 45 “When they say, ‘Meet me on campus,’ this will be the spot.”

cess. “We spent an incredible amount of the Welcome Center, along with battery On the other side of campus, the company time on the design, and we engaged many storage and a display board to track energy also renovated a treasured symbol of the stakeholders—campus leaders, our nation- collection for the new structure. past: Corbin Hall, KU first residence hall, al board of directors, our team. We wanted Clint Robinson, e’85, g’91, Black & a stone’s throw from the site of Old to protect the past, the history and the Veatch associate vice president, says the North College. elegance of the Adams Center while also features will “stimulate kids and parents to Matt Glenn, McCown Gordon project positioning the project to resonate with thinking about the future” and symbolize executive, says the Jayhawk Welcome the next generation,” he says. “We felt like the firm’s collaboration with KU through Center’s modern exterior will honor the most effective way to do that was not the past century and into the next. Kansas tradition. “One of the iconic fea- for all of us to be sitting in a room talking Founded in 1915 by Jayhawks E.B. Black, tures of the building is going to be on the about what we think students want, but e1906, g’24, and N. T. Veatch Jr., e1909, west façade, these twisted, stainless-steel to actually engage students in the process. g’24, Black & Veatch has hired countless metal fins that go up the building,” Glenn Ultimately that led to a more contempo- Jayhawks in engineering and many other says. “They’re going to be replicating the rary design. What we heard loud and clear fields through the years. Both founders led waving wheat that is always going to make was that students want the views and the the Alumni Association as national chairs, the building memorable as your gateway beauty of the Hill, the natural light, more as did more recent CEOs of the firm, P.J. into the campus.” modern space that isn’t quite as closed off.” “Jim” Adam, e’56, and Jack Robinson, Stories of KU’s past and present, To create the final design, project leaders e’49, Clint Robinson’s father. including notable traditions and Jayhawk from the University, the Alumni Associa- In fact, the Robinson family traces successes, will greet visitors to the Jayhawk tion and KU Endowment turned to Helix its KU lineage back to Clint’s great- Welcome Center and renovated Adams including alumni mentors, will send a an impact on the decision-makers, Virtual exhibits will capture experiences Architecture + Design, a Kansas City firm grandfather, David H. Robinson, one Alumni Center in digital experiences and powerful message about the KU network. who saw that “this was an opportunity in classrooms, laboratories and Allen Field led by founders Reeves Wiedeman, a’79, of three professors (with Elial Rice and exhibits created by Dimensional Inno- “We can help people understand not to say something about KU, to be House as well as the walk down the Hill a’82, and Jay Tomlinson, a’82, a’82. Helix Francis Snow) who welcomed the first KU vations of Kansas City. For KU, the firm just how amazing this place is, but how forward-thinking, to be progressive,” he at Commencement. also designed the KU Medical Center’s students to Old North College on the has created exhibits in Allen Field House, amazing the alumni are,” Trotter says, “and says. “When the students presented their Health Education Building, which opened first day of classes, Sept. 12, 1866. the Booth Family Hall of Athletics and how supportive they are of each other and ideas to the Alumni Association board, I in 2017 on the Kansas City campus. “Nearly 156 years later, we’re still talking Capitol Federal Hall, home of the School of students and how much they are willing think it opened up a lot of eyes and people assoc., often mentors students, says, “This Wiedeman says the Helix team was about welcoming students to the Univer- of Business. to do things to help them get ahead. It’s a said, ‘Wow, this isn’t just another building. younger generation really does seek out invigorated by multiple challenges—to sity of Kansas,” Clint says. “I’m proud of Dimensional Innovations is known really unique characteristic of Jayhawks.” There is an excellent opportunity to do mentors and advice. There’s a lack of fear create a dynamic first impression, integrate that my family and the company that I for designing interactive experiences that something special, something that just res- of having those discussions. Maybe our the design with the traditional architec- represent, Black & Veatch, are part of that visitors can customize based on their own onates on so many levels.’ Those students generation was out to prove ourselves and ture of the Adams Alumni Center and welcoming process.” preferences. In the Jayhawk Welcome n spring 2020, just before she graduated, had a big impact on the confidence to go the last thing we wanted to do was talk to highlight the spectacular campus views. Center, prospective students’ information Gabrielle Foster and her architecture forward with a project like this.” someone older.” “We wanted people to feel like they were and interests will translate into individual Iclassmates met with that semester’s Former Association board member Jerry Leonor says the Jayhawk Welcome actually connected to the campus,” he says, o build the Jayhawk Welcome QR codes, which students can scan to second-year studio class to review their Skillett agrees. “They changed the way we Center as a student project “gave those “so you can actually feel and see the Hill, Center, renovate the Adams Alumni select relevant stories, explains Tucker designs, offer critiques and share ideas. The looked at the whole project, not just from students an opportunity to create a legacy, the Boulevard, the sunset.” TCenter and bridge the modern Trotter, f ’97, the firm’s CEO. “If we do future architects also met the professionals a visual basis but just how important it re- to have foresight into the future, and that’s But western sun pouring through walls and traditional structures, project leaders it right, which we will, you will want the from Helix, who presented their designs. ally was,” he says. “They brought to life the honorable. We normally don’t think about of glass presented another challenge, selected McCownGordon, another Kansas people to choose the stories that matter Foster laughs as she recalls comparing Alumni Center as something for everyone our legacy until we’re older. That experi- especially for a firm that prides itself on City company that includes many Jay- most to them. Everybody is different and her work for an assignment three years to participate in, not just when you’re 60 ence opened doors for them.” creating energy-efficient designs. Helix hawks. McCownGordon has constructed everybody has a different interest,” he says. earlier with the drawings that will guide years old. It was just amazing.” Wiedeman harks back to his years on found the solution in solar screens, which notable KU projects, including the Inte- “They have to be able to see themselves the real project. “Well, they definitely Foster says her discussions with alumni the Hill when he describes the project as provide “an attractive, artistic approach ... grated Science Building, focal point of the here ... then drill down if they’re interested designed it better, more realistically, than in April 2017 sparked her confidence, “the highlight of my career, no question but are also very functional,” Wiedeman Central District on the Lawrence campus, and learn more about what that might my second-year studio brain could have spurring her to become a student ambas- about it. Being an architecture student, explains. “They calm that warm sun down and the nearby Horejsi Family Volleyball look like.” done,” she says. sador for KU Admissions and a leader in you’re trained for a building like this. This and filter the light into the building, Arena, home of the KU volleyball team. The stories of individual Jayhawks, But she also noted the similarities: “I the Student Alumni Network. “Interacting is what we’re here for—important build- reducing heat gain and therefore reducing was just nodding my head during their pre- with alumni made me more comfortable in ings, legacy buildings, such as this one is energy costs.” sentation because there were key points we reaching out to them later in my career at going to be, a building that will become Sustainability and innovation also had touched on—incorporating the past, KU, to land an internship in Kansas City the spot for the University. ... I think this guided another project partner, Black For more information on the Jayhawk Welcome Center, present and future and KU traditions, and and put on events for students and alumni, will be the meeting place for future, for all & Veatch. The global engineering, con- the sight lines to campus that were the where we could ask their advice about Jayhawks. struction and consulting firm based in including construction progress, building features and defining feature.” their experiences.” “When they say, ‘Meet me on campus,’ Kansas City will provide solar panels atop donor support, visit jayhawkwelcomecenter.org. Wiedeman says the students’ ideas made Skillett, who with his wife, Leonor, this will be the spot.”

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hould that day arrive when he decided he wanted to become a doctor—“It was always something I felt like I wanted to do,” DeJong you find yourself horizontal explains—so he studied biology as a KU undergrad, in a hospital, Daniel DeJong taking up the photography hobby while working as a is a physician you should residential adviser on Daisy Hill, and continued on to the School of Medicine, first in Kansas City and then want at your bedside. Wichita, and remained in Wichita for his residency. S He and his future wife, Courtney Rooney DeJong, The Wichita hospitalist is, by all evidence, low-key, d’10, DPT’13, met in middle school, but did not attentive, kind. He cares about his patients, colleagues, become close until reconnecting at KU Medical co-workers and employer. He promotes productive Center, where Courtney, a sport science major, studied interaction and positive outcomes, for the illnesses he physical therapy. She joined him in Wichita during treats and the professional relationships that envelop his residency, both presuming they would return to his working day. Kansas City when Daniel finally became an attending He is a medical doctor and a photographer, a physician. They discovered instead that Wichita was physician-artist who humbly says that his journey the place to start their family. They liked the commu- includes “no real dramatic story.” nity, their church, their work, and saw no need to look DeJong, c’10, m’14, m’18, grew up in Overland Park, elsewhere. and, thanks to the blessings of a healthy childhood, his “It was kind of a long string of events,” DeJong says exposure to health care professionals was mostly limited dryly, happily, of his undramatic arc. to visits with his pediatrician. For some reason, though, Then came the drama.

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KANSAS ALUMNI 48 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 49 ast year, as the grind of COVID-19 wore on and on and on, and each 10-plus-hour shift blurred “He was able to really Linto the next, day after day, week after week, Daniel DeJong thought to bring his camera to work. bring out the spark in The hobby he’d first nurtured as an undergrad had long since taken hold, and he’d spent hours studying people’s eyes. This is online instructional videos while carefully exchanging and upgrading expensive camera bodies and lenses. about a whole team, Finally established with a family and career and an ac- tive life away from Ascension Via Christi St. Francis— and how a whole team the Wichita hospital where he works as a member of of hospital providers the Sound Physicians hospitalist group—DeJong never lacked for new and exciting opportunities to make came together to take images. A young son and daughter saw to that. Until, that is, the pandemic locked him into the cycle care of patients.” now so achingly familiar to caregivers the world over. It finally occurred to DeJong that if he wanted to make —­Sam Antonios, Ascension Via Christi’s some new photographs, his options were limited to chief clinical officer boundaries imposed by the pandemic. “I didn’t have a grand vision initially,” he says. “In fitting with the theme of my photography, it was much more of a process of finding my way there, rather than any big plans, like saying, ‘This is a project I want to do.’” Careful not to interrupt life-saving work or ever photograph any patients, DeJong began making images of his St. Francis colleagues wearing their personal protective equipment, “just to have a portrait, some- thing to remember, to kind of document it.” He shared the photographs with his subjects, and word began to spread on social media and online chat rooms for hospital employees. His hospitalist group asked DeJong whether he’d be willing to contribute images for a yearbook, of sorts, to Daniel DeJong document the remarkable time of COVID. For those photographs, DeJong occasionally brought in an inex- pensive backdrop, but as he again began roaming hospi- tal corridors, seeking nurses, pulmonologists, infectious “While you can’t recognize many of us behind our phy and wanted their own portraits to be memorable, disease specialists, respiratory therapists, pharmacists, PPE,” pulmonary disease physician Maggie Kennedy so some chose not to shower or shave beforehand, pre- housekeepers and cafeteria workers, he trimmed the Hagan, m’88, m’91, m’94, said in January, “his photos ferring instead to “look how it feels, being worn down process to its raw basics. allow the community to get a glimpse of what our and rugged and tired.” With limited visual distraction, Usually working with no tripod, backdrop or supple- world has been like the past 10 months.” and most subjects wearing heavy-duty masks, DeJong’s mental light, DeJong would come in on his days off to DeJong is too modest to claim a grand creative vision, images tell the story of COVID-19 through one partic- photograph exhausted caregivers during their breaks— but his decision to shoot in black and white reveals true ular portal. nurses leaning against a random wall or a doctor stand- artistic instinct. “He was able to really bring out the spark in people’s ing defiantly in the middle of a long hallway. Most wore “It simplifies a lot of what’s going on,” he says. “We eyes,” says Sam Antonios, m’09, Ascension Via Christi’s their full complement of PPE, although one young have these big blue gowns, different colors of hats and chief clinical officer. “This is about a whole team, and nurse chose to reveal the nose bandages and bruising gloves, there’s all these flashing lights and machines, how a whole team of hospital providers came together brought on by endless hours working in an N-95 mask. it’s all very chaotic, almost cartoonish. Black and white to take care of patients. They really, really stepped up, gets down to the emotional piece of it.” and he was able to capture that in ways that I would His co-workers came to admire DeJong’s photogra- have a hard time describing just using words.”

KANSAS ALUMNI 50 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 51 tark, black and white images of utter exhaustion, As COVID’s chaos stretched into a seemingly endless exhilaration, fear, pride and peril invariably call test of will, DeJong’s colleagues embraced his photog- Sto mind a certain style of combat photography raphy as a reminder of the delicate balance of focusing that focuses on individual combatants and medics on patients as people, not statistics, while also caring for rather than sweeping views of complex battlefields. their own well-being. DeJong hesitates to link his images, or even his work as “These photographs certainly feel, to some extent, a physician fighting through COVID, to actual combat like a time capsule,” Antonios says. “What I think it experienced by members of the military. will show, years from now, is that what really matters to “I have seen plenty of things in the news that make people are other people, and the sense of community. that connection,” he says, “but I cannot imagine. I’ve What mattered was not the news, not the numbers; never been in a combat scenario, so I don’t mean to what surfaces, at least to me, is that people care about belittle anything that people have gone through in people and care about being nice to each other and those situations.” capturing each other’s essence. And yet … “When we look back at this, what we’ll remember “When it was at its thickest, there were a lot of the most is how people cared for each other. The days when it was notably emotionally hard. Not just, humanity is what we’ll all remember.” ‘We have this sick person, what are we going to do for It is the only dramatic story that matters. them?’, but the weight of all of it. There’s just too much death or too much suffering, and it definitely has an emotional toll on all those involved.”

s the story of his remarkable images began to through the day, go home, rest, and come back and do spread outside the hospital’s insular walls, from a it again. And again. AVia Christi news release to a prominent feature “And so, for me, it was important to have a way to in the Wichita Eagle and beyond, DeJong fretted about thank everybody, and acknowledge what everyone was attention falling upon himself and his images rather doing. My hope and focus were on giving something than the daily achievements he chose to document to people who were going through this so they could and celebrate. remember.” Yes, the creative outlet was personally beneficial Rather than prompt particular poses, DeJong told his “as a way to help process through grief and loss,” but subjects, “Just do you want.” He required mere seconds the photographs themselves were always about, and to capture the moment in time, preferring documen- for, others, honoring their relentless dedication to the tary-style authenticity over stage-managed portraiture. grind, he says. “It was genuine,” he says. “The people who are smil- “OK, come in, put on all this gear, put your mask on, ing are just smiling on their own, the people who are put your hat on, put gloves on, put your gown on. You tired are genuinely tired, and everything in-between. can’t really talk to people very well, or you’re shout- There’s some cool moments that happened sponta- ing through your mask. Do what you have to do, get neously, whatever people felt at that time.”

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• Cynthia Esiaka, a junior from Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria, CAREER majoring in educational psychology and research, and community health • Roy Ricaldi, a Lima, Peru, senior majoring in management Virtual connection and business analytics Student lands job-shadowing • Paul Samberg, a Sandy Hook, Connecticut, senior majoring New Life Members opportunity 700 miles from home in journalism, Jewish studies and political science The program aimed to capitalize on the excitement of the basketball season and the NCAA Tournament by bringing in Courtesy Sophie Moore/Melissa Kurrle Sophie Moore/Melissa Courtesy When Sophie Moore returned to her new and returning members with a specific premise: help win The Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their hometown of Plano, Texas, for spring break on a scholarship for a student in your school of choice. March 6, 2020, she had no idea she would remain Each membership purchase, renewal or donation to the Life memberships Feb. 1 through April 30. For information, there for the rest of the academic year, let alone Association meant a point for one of KU’s 13 schools; the four visit kualumni.org/join or call 800-584-2957. the following one. But after KU shifted to online Texas senior Sophie Moore (left) used the KU Mentoring that amassed the largest point totals earned a scholarship for a instruction because of COVID-19, Moore, like platform to connect with Melissa Kurrle, a speech- student applicant. The four recipients are from the schools of Ana Ruiz Beck Zachary S. Juarez “When the the rest of the Jayhawk community, had to quickly language pathologist in Colorado, to learn more about Business, Education and Human Sciences, and Journalism and Sarah L. Bluvas Zachary M. Kerr pandemic adapt to remote learning. The speech-language- the profession. Mass Communications, and the College of Liberal Arts and Phyllis A. Bock Matthew J. & Jennifer L. Klopp started, the hearing major also had to find a way to continue Sciences. Winners were selected based on their career aspirations Shane T. Bouchard Russell D. & Tara Sweany the valuable, on-the-job training she needed to get and the impact of the pandemic on their college experiences. Richard W. Boyer Kroenke opportunity to into a master’s degree program. in-person shadowing experience. “She was good,” “This scholarship will help me continue my education to exploit R. Patrick & Paula B. Brooks Chandler J. Leonard shadow “When the pandemic started, the opportunity says Kurrle, g’17, of the senior student, “really my potential and take my career to the next level,” Ricaldi says. Pamela S. Calbeck Reid W. Leonard speech-language to shadow speech-language pathologists in various respectful of the situations and respectful to “I think education is the greatest investment one could make. I Stephen J. & Kelly Kuhlman Scott W. & Janelle White pathologists in settings, like a clinic or school, was not available,” patients. I thought she had great questions, given come from a family of educators that I look up to. The financial Carey Leonard she says. “So I started looking for virtual observa- her level of exposure and education.” barriers that come with continuing to higher education stop many Paul M. Castro Daphne Polatty Magnuson various settings, tion experiences, just to get to know the profession When Moore returns to Mount Oread this fall bright minds from taking that path. I am thankful for my family’s Michael A. Coats Michael & Kelli Lynn McClure like a clinic and learn what it’s like to be a speech-language for her final semester, she’s confident she’ll be support as well as the KU Alumni Association for making this Jamie Wilson Collins Jim & Donna Miller Moody or school, was pathologist.” better prepared to participate in an elective clinical award possible.” Troy D. & Susan Cook Paul C. Pierce II & Carolina not available.” Moore reached out to a handful of professionals practicum in speech-language pathology, thanks to “With the Member Madness campaign, we were able to engage Michael J. Eamigh Gutierrez Pierce through the Alumni Association’s KU Mentoring this virtual opportunity with Kurrle. “I had no our alumni as well as help support student success, two key goals Hannah M. Ehmcke Harrison J. Rasmussen –KU senior Sophie Moore platform and connected with Melissa Kurrle, a shadowing experience in a clinic or a hospital of the Alumni Association,” says Megan McGinnis, assistant Brian L. Faust Nancy J. Reinking speech-language pathologist at UCHealth in setting, so I learned a lot more about what that director of student programs. “Alumni were eager to engage and Mark L. Filerman & Robin C. John J. Russell Colorado Springs, Colorado. Using the video- looks like,” says Moore, who recommends KU contribute to this campaign because they could see the direct Beery J. Michael & Cathy L. Sanner conferencing site Microsoft Teams, Moore observed Mentoring to any student interested in learning benefit they were providing to students. Additionally, being able Travis C. & Nancy Goff Erin K. Scarano several of Kurrle’s sessions with patients, logging more about a particular profession. “I really think to help aid students in a year that has been fiscally challenging has Emma K. Greenwood Michael J. & Tuija K. Schmidt about eight hours of shadowing experience last that if anybody has the opportunity to log on and proven to be rewarding for our organization.” Jeffrey R. Guenther Meghan M. Smith October. participate, they should. It really helped me” Porter B. & Cynthia S. Guttery Jenny L. Unger “I would watch her go through documentation, Avery P. Hall Walter J. & Blanca Unruh evaluations, assessments or treatments with differ- Aaron Head & Sarah N. Lauren J. 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Jayhawk Profiles that the experience has been much more “A lot of things centered around the about learning than leading. “This is an pharmacy,” she recalls. “Coffee breaks and opportunity to sit back and see leadership meeting friends after school. It was just a JONATHON WESTBROOK in action, to take in as much as possible,” critical part of our community.” says Westbrook, who was assigned to the Over time McAdam-Marx, p’88, learned Police officer’s service Office of American Innovation and also precisely how critical was the pharmacy’s leads to fellowship has worked for the Domestic Policy role in Cimarron, population less than at White House Council, the Office of Public Engagement 1,500. and the Small Business Administration. The town lost its doctor and attempts to Courtesy Jonathon Westbrook Jonathon Courtesy “I’ve had the opportunity to sit in on recruit a replacement failed. “At that time, by Heather Biele top-level meetings with executives across it was just about impossible to get doctors Courtesy Kansas City, Kansas, Police Dept. (2) Dept. Police Kansas, City, Kansas Courtesy the federal government and be able to to move to small towns,” McAdam-Marx hite House Fellow Jonathon West- advise on certain policies from a law says. “We had a series of practitioners com- Wbrook thought he had his career enforcement perspective. D.C. is full of ing from Dodge City and Garden City to path all mapped out. The Kansas City, a lot of educated folks, but they haven’t help, but the pharmacist was the one really Kansas, native, who idolized his father actually had that on-the-street experience stable medical aspect for Cimarron. After growing up, planned to follow in his foot- as a police officer.” we lost the doctor, people really depended steps by joining the Air Force and dedicat- When his term ends in August, on the pharmacy. ing his life to serving in the military. But a Westbrook will return to the KCKPD, “We got by without a permanent health chance sighting of police officers, who were where he recently was promoted to care provider, but it was much more pos- simply patrolling Westbrook’s neighbor- sergeant. He resolves to bring a fresh sible and much better for the community hood, changed all that. perspective to his work and apply the that we had an independent pharmacist “I’d never thought about law enforce- critical problem-solving and resource- who was so committed to the patients ment, but I saw those police officers, and management skills he acquired during he served.” was like, man, that looks like kind of a cool his fellowship, an experience that Planning to become a doctor and return job,” says Westbrook, who at 20 had just will undoubtedly open doors for him home, McAdam-Marx entered KU on the earned his associate’s degree from Donnel- professionally. And whether he continues advice of another Clark pharmacist, who ly College and was stuck doing unfulfilling his career in law enforcement or pursues urged her to consider pharmacy school for work at a local bank. “They’re out in the “I’d encourage others to step outside the box, other opportunities, he’s confident that her pre-med training. Before the end of community; no day’s ever the same. I just step outside their comfort zones,” says community service will always remain a her first semester, she says, “I switched to didn’t want to sit behind a desk all day.” Jonathon Westbrook, a Kansas City, Kansas, top priority. pre-pharmacy and never looked back.” Westbrook joined the Kansas City, police officer currently serving a one-year “I don’t really have a select path right So began an academic marathon that Kansas, Police Department in 2007, when term as a White House Fellow. “Just take now, but my desire is to be used in the included a School of Pharmacy degree he was just 21 years old, and immediately that leap of faith and go for it.” community,” he says, “and to bring other from KU, a residency and master’s degree extended his services to the public, partici- people up and out and push them in hospital pharmacy from the University pating in the Black Police Officers Associa- forward, as was done for me.” of Minnesota, a PhD in health policy from tion, which hosted community fundraisers the University of the Sciences in Philadel- and donated backpacks and other neces- At KU, Westbrook met the late Reggie phia, and a master’s in clinical investiga- sities to area children, and volunteering Robinson, c’80, l’87, who at the time CARRIE MCADAM-MARX tion from the University of Utah. Along as a mentor at the Leavenworth federal directed the School of Public Affairs and the way she held jobs in managed care penitentiary through the Life Connections Administration. Decades earlier, Robinson Pharmacy holds pharmacy and the pharmaceutical industry program. He also served as a youth director Human Rights Commission and was at KU a year later to pursue a master’s had received a White House Fellowship that took her to England and Australia. at Bread of Life Outreach Ministries and invited to join the Kansas African Ameri- degree in public administration, a grueling and he encouraged Westbrook to apply for ‘key to the world’ She’s now professor and director of the led the local OK program, a mentoring ini- can Affairs Commission, a position he still three-year undertaking he managed while the prestigious program, which provides for small-town Kansan master’s program in pharmacy practice tiative that pairs at-risk Black youths with holds today. He also caught the attention juggling the midnight shift as a police offi- ambitious young men and women oppor- and science at the University of Nebraska area police officers, educators and other of the KCKPD police chief, who asked cer and a wife and newborn child at home. tunities to work for top-ranking officials by Steven Hill Medical Center in Omaha. members of the community to encourage Westbrook to serve on the department’s But it wasn’t just the pursuit of higher and senior government staff. In 2020, “I fell in love with pharmacy when I academic achievement and success in all Professional Standards Unit. education that drove Westbrook to suc- after a few attempts, Westbrook was one n high school Carrie McAdam-Marx discovered that a pharmacy degree can be a areas of life. Through the years, as his career flour- ceed: His father, who passed away in 2010, of 14 individuals selected from hundreds Ilanded her first job, as a soda jerk at her key to the world, not just a key to the phar- His contributions in his hometown ished, Westbrook aspired to further his also had earned a master’s degree. “He was of applicants to serve a one-year term as a hometown drugstore. Clark Pharmacy, macy,” she says of the nontraditional career didn’t go unnoticed. In 2017, he was education. He returned to Donnelly Col- my role model,’” Westbrook, g’18, says. “I White House Fellow. owned and operated by James Coast, p’72, path that took her far beyond a goal—still appointed by Gov. Sam Brownback, l’82, lege in 2013 to earn his bachelor’s degree didn’t join the Air Force, but I wanted to Though he joined an elite group of was “the hub” of the southwest Kansas firmly in place when she started her last to serve a two-year term on the Kansas in organizational leadership and enrolled get my master’s, just like he did.” proven leaders in the program, he explains county seat of Cimarron. year at KU—to return to southwest

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“I fell in love with pharmacy when I discovered The lessons of her first job endured, too. when she was her students’ of time teaching and helping kids how to “I’m happy with the way my path has age, mathematics and science, get along with each other, manage disputes that a pharmacy degree can be a key to the world, gone, but I wouldn’t have had the journey including human physiology, and coach each other, so we’re working not just a key to the pharmacy.” —Carrie McAdam-Marx I’ve had without knowing the value of a which enables musicians to on all of those social aspects while we’re pharmacist, and I was lucky enough to ex- summon intricate sounds from working on music, too.” perience that in a small-town setting where their instruments. As Antonetti explained in her applica-

our pharmacist was practicing in a way we Antonetti Jennifer Courtesy “We try to bring in a little bit tion for the Yamaha award, the beautiful Kansas and buy her own pharmacy. to support policy decisions about which strive to practice today,” McAdam-Marx of everything,” she says. “It’s all music of a band room, even a seemingly “As so often happens in life,” McAdam- drugs work better and are more cost- says. “I would like to see my research go encompassed in music.” mundane B-flat scale, is to be treasured. Marx says, “the world changed and my eyes effective across a broad patient population. back to supporting the role of a pharmacist If a daily workload of teach- “We still keep coming up with evidence opened to other opportunities.” One project examines the benefits of hav- as a respected, integrated member of the ing hundreds of students was that music is one of the ways that can That’s a message she stresses now to ing a pharmacist on staff in primary care patient’s care team, and not somebody not daunting enough, Antonetti really help students be successful—not pharmacy students who, for the first time clinics: In that scenario, currently more who’s so busy behind a counter and has added still more to her playlist only in school, but ultimately in life as in years, are facing “an equilibrium” common in academic medical centers, doc- so much pressure that they don’t have time when, after plowing through an well, through higher test scores or meet- between the supply and demand for tors delegate responsibility for prescribing to interface with patients like they did in inventory in her middle-school ing friends or being coachable or being pharmacists. medications to the pharmacist, who sees the past. band room one hot summer resilient, all those buzzwords in education “Our graduates used to be able to pick patients and counsels them on how to “That’s my ultimate goal—get the day—with the assistance of right now. and choose where they wanted to go,” manage their medications. Researchers are pharmacist back in front of the patient a her husband, Kris, ’11, himself “The most important thing is that any she says. “Now everybody is cutting back, still analyzing data, but the arrangement lot more.” a KU Band alumnus—the child has the capacity to learn.” there aren’t as many positions and students “definitely demonstrates better outcomes Antonettis were horrified to realize there’s competition for jobs. Most for the patients,” McAdam-Marx says. discover the next day that the start school thinking they’ll either work “When they have a pharmacist on their JENNIFER ANTONETTI school’s computer technicians BEN FREEMAN in a retail or a hospital pharmacy and that health care team to help their doctor, had come through and wiped all those are pretty much the options. What I patients tend to demonstrate better Busy band teacher touts the computers clean. Their work Scientist guards forests communicate is there’s so much more you responses to the drug therapy and better was lost. can do with a pharmacy career if you want. control of their disease state.” benefits far beyond The frustration lit their en- that sheltered family I got to do some super-cool stuff, and it’s Though her professional journey has beautiful music treprenurial spirit—There must in African civil war all because I had a pharmacy degree.” been wide-ranging, “with every move I be a better way!—and together In the workplace McAdam-Marx was tend to get a little closer to southwest Kan- by Chris Lazzarino they created a cloud-based by Michael Pearce drawn to the management aspect of sas, and to smaller and smaller communi- Antonetti asset-management app, called pharmacy; now her research focuses on ties,” she notes. “So I guess there’s still some ennifer Richard Antonetti, recently BatonSync, that helps band fter finishing his graduate work this big-picture analysis that generates data small-town girl in me.” Jhonored by Yamaha’s “40 Under 40” teachers track instruments, Aspring, Ben Freeman, PhD’21, left music education advocacy program, ago she considered an entirely different uniforms, sheet music and more, and even Lawrence for his native Liberia with a doc- teaches music every school day to about direction: Energized by attending one of documents repairs and instrument depre- torate in ecology and evolutionary biology 300 students in eight grade levels at three KU’s Women in Engineering days while a ciation, valuable data when band directors and a goal: to study and protect some of Topeka schools, and she continues to student at Topeka’s Seaman High School, are asked to justify their budget requests. the world’s most diverse rainforests and refine an organizational app now used by Antonetti initially envisioned herself The Antonettis are currently rewriting the their wildlife. colleagues in 12 states. studying mechanical engineering. app to include a music library and record- He remembers when his family ran into Her daily schedule is full, as is her spirit, Instead Antonetti began her undergrad- ing functions. those same forests, literally for their lives. especially the recent morning when her uate career on Mount Oread as a music Despite her hopes for success for the “I was only 5 or 6 years old, but I

Courtesy Carrie McAdam-Marx Courtesy top-level band students finally returned for therapy major, then switched to music family side gig, Antonetti does not foresee remember we ran into the forest to escape in-person instruction at Topeka High. education as a sophomore and went on to a future for herself that does not include the rebels,” Freeman says of his youth amid “Literally that first note, even though earn undergraduate and master’s degrees in teaching band, which allows her to encour- the Liberian Civil War. “The forest was our it wasn’t beautiful, it was beautiful. A the field. age her students’ creative, intellectual and source of refuge and sustenance. It was not B-flat scale never sounded so good,” says Within band rooms at Meadows Ele- social development. a good time.” Antonetti, f ’07, g’14. “Just to hear actual mentary and Robinson Middle School, and “The whole social aspect of being in Freeman was 6 when his father, Victor, music and instruments and to be around at Topeka High, where she is assistant band band is, in some ways, just as important as died during their time in the rainforest. kids again, that was brightening, and a director, music education is about more the musicality. It’s a massive part of the pro- The war prevented him from finding sense of relief, and a feeling that everything than reading notes on a page and mastering cess,” she says. “I always tell students, proper medical attention for his treatable was coming back to normal again.” an instrument. Antonetti uses music as a ‘If you don’t turn in your homework in malaria. Freeman’s mother, Lucy, was left to Exposing young people to the joys and passport to exploring the wider worlds of your math class, it only affects you; but if fend for her seven children. possibilities of music is Antonetti’s profes- history, geography, culture and, perhaps in you don’t play your part in band, it affects The horrific conflict killed more than McAdam-Marx sional passion, yet for a brief moment years a nod to the varied interests she embraced everyone around you.’ We also spend a lot 250,000 of Liberia’s 5 million people.

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and insisted Freeman pass a standardized test not offered there.) Peterson persisted and eventually convinced admissions staff of Freeman’s mastery of English. Then

Courtesy Ben Freeman Courtesy Freeman endured lockdowns in Liberia from Ebola and COVID during his Connect to the powerful worldwide KU community to doctoral studies. • mentor students or fellow alumni Though his studies were in Lawrence, • build your professional network Freeman’s focus remained 5,000 miles away in Africa, where he twice led • hire new staŒ members or interns Biodiversity Institute research expeditions. He also authored or co-authored a dozen articles pertaining to African wildlife or habitats published in scientific publica- tions. His dissertation used a variety of high-tech methods to chart how popula- tions of birds in Liberia will respond to climate change through 2050. Now a professional working in Liberia, “An alumna referred me to her contact Join us for livestreamed webinars with Freeman is helping the U.S. Forest Service person at a legal staˆ ng agency, who bestselling authors and industry leaders as it assists in building better forestry and biodiversity conservation in his nation. helped me connect with a large fi rm. to explore ideas and strategies to advance He’s also an adviser for a forestry training I had an interview the next day, and a few your career. institute. days later they hired me.” He’ll use what he learned at KU, along —Jessica Guardiola, c’20, who landed a job as a with his many professional contacts such paralegal in Washington, D.C. Wildlife such as the blue-breasted kingfisher of Liberia’s Sapo National Park could benefit from as Peterson, to find ways for a burgeoning, Digital Body Language: Collaborate Ben Freeman’s work to study and protect African rainforests. and often impoverished, human popula- Faster and Further, Together tion to co-exist with wildlife. June 3rd at 11:00 AM CDT Freeman knows educating his fellow Many were children, younger than 10, in conservation biology and ornithology. Liberians will be important. He’ll need conscripted into battle. Freeman’s family While researching places to continue their support to preserve the native wood- Radical Empathy: Finding a Path were among the 1 million Liberian refu- his education, Freeman contacted Town lands and so many species of threatened to Bridging Racial Divides gees. Eventually his family left the tower- Peterson, University Distinguished Profes- wildlife. “It’s been really helpful getting me prepared June 15th at 11:00 AM CDT ing woodlands and have since thrived. sor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology “Here, for so long, people thought and feeling more confi dent about applying for Now it’s Liberia’s forests that are in and senior curator at KU’s Biodiversity everything in the wild was meant to be jobs and internships.” For upcoming dates and event recordings, grave danger. As is the case across most of Institute. Peterson is well known for his eaten,” he says. “If you saw a bird, you western Africa, Liberia’s once vast forests work in Africa. He quickly saw Freeman’s killed it and ate it. We have to work to —Senior Emma Greenwood, on KU Mentoring and visit kualumni.org/webinars are being gnawed away by an expanding potential. change attitudes.” her mentor, Crystal Fong, c’15, j’15 human population and their need for “It was just so very clear Ben was a moti- Freeman sees more interest in wildlife croplands and grazing pastures for food. vated young scientist,” Peterson says. “He’s and habitat in his country. Educating the Palm oil plantations have claimed massive a very engaging guy, very intelligent and so nation’s youth, through schools, is in its areas as have legal and illegal mining. very motivated.” early stages but shows promise. continuing education — career networking — KU Mentoring As happens when there’s such habitat Freeman has had to be very patient “I’m very happy people in Liberia are industry engagement — professional development destruction, some of Liberia’s populations throughout an education that should help beginning to take an interest in nature of brilliantly colored birds are in serious him help the forest and its wildlife. but I know it takes time to teach people,” decline. Peterson and Freeman were repeatedly Freeman says. “We have a long way to go, kualumni.org/jayhawkcareernetwork Freeman’s educational process has told he couldn’t be admitted to KU be- compared to the U.S., but I think over always included those woodlands and cause of a language technicality. (English time things will be changing. It’s a good the wildlife within. He earned his is Liberia’s official language and Freeman start, so far.” undergraduate degree in forestry from speaks it perfectly, but due to a glitch in —Pearce, ’81, is a Lawrence freelance the University of Liberia. His master’s, its system, the University didn’t recognize writer and former outdoor columnist for from the University of Jos, in Nigeria, is Liberia as an English-speaking country the Wichita Eagle.

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1949 Albert, d’49, and a quality analyst at the U.S. John and his wife, Colleen, specializes in administrative Marjorie Garten Blakeslee, Department of Health and assoc., make their home in law and beverage alcohol d’49, in August celebrated Human Services. Leawood. licensing. their 70th wedding anniversa- William Underwood, c’67, Alice McMillan Lockridge, ry. The retired teachers make 1963 Lewis Wiens, b’63, is a research scientist at the d’73, makes her home in Rent- eat hings their home in Hutchinson is founder and owner of the University of Maryland in on, Washington, where she’s an Gr t and have a son, a daughter, True North Hotel Group in College Park. exercise physiologist. five grandchildren and six Overland Park. great-grandchildren. 1969 Paul Monty, l’69, 1974 Jane Rieke Lang, are n th h izon! 1965 Lester Langley, retired in January after nearly n’74, lives in Stilwell, where she 1959 Lynn Miller, c’59, PhD’65, in December received 15 years as a district magistrate retired as a post-anesthesia care o e or g’62, published a memoir, Post- the Albert Nelson Marquis judge in the 12th Judicial unit nurse at AdventHealth cards from Delphi, in 2020. He Lifetime Achievement Award District. He makes his home in Shawnee Mission. continues to make his home in from Marquis Who’s Who. Washington. James Maddock, e’74, is Philadelphia, where he’s profes- He lives in San Angelo, Texas, retired and lives in Whites- sor emeritus of political science where he retired as professor 1970 Z.J. Czupor, j’70, boro, Texas. at Temple University. emeritus of history at the Uni- wrote The Big Weird: Haikus Bruce Voran, d’59, lives in versity of Georgia. in Times of Pandemic and 1976 Pamela Honnold Strawberry, Arizona, where Chaos, which was published in Bacon, p’76, g’91, recently re- he wrote Trembling Before 1966 Marnie Hall, f ’66, is December. He’s the principal tired after 43 years in hospital God, which was published in a Medicare insurance broker in co-founder of the InterPro pharmacy and GPO consult- January. New York City. Group, a marketing consulting ing. She received Applied Jew- and public relations firm in elry Professional designation KU Mentoring is expanding to offer 1960 Jerry Alice Line- 1967 John Carter, f ’67, Denver. from the Gemological Institute additional opportunities to connect with back, c’60, g’61, is a retired c’73, in October received the of America and now works geologist in Paradise, Califor- Martin Dewey Memorial 1972 Mark Robinett, d’72, part time at Marks Jewelers in fellow Jayhawks! This updated platform is nia. Four years ago, at age 78, Award, the highest honor giv- g’77, is an attorney at Brim, Lawrence. the home of Jayhawk mentoring, career she came out as a transgender en by the Southwestern Society Robinett, Cantu & Brim in Kenna Giffin, c’76, j’76, woman. She remains happily of Orthodontists. He retired Austin, Texas. retired after teaching political connections and communities. Stay tuned married to her wife of 15 years, in 2000 as clinical associate Marcia Hunn Turner, e’72, science at South Texas College for more news this summer. Carol Jane Harlow. professor and director of pre- g’81, is an assistant contracts in McAllen. doctoral orthodontics at the engineer at the Kansas Michael Smyser, a’76, a’77, 1962 Kay Welty Gilles, University of Missouri-Kansas Department of Transportation retired as vice president at Join, renew, upgrade your membership or ’62, retired as a research scien- City School of Dentistry and is in Topeka. HDR design firm. He lives in tist at Hewlett Packard Labora- currently on faculty as clinical Jeffrey Van Sickle, a’72, Nellysford, Virginia. donate $25 by July 31, to ignite student tories. She lives in Capitola, associate professor of surgery lives in Wichita, where he and alumni success and career growth. California. at KU Medical Center, where retired as CEO of GLMV 1977 Douglas Griswold, William Griffiths, ’62, for more than 20 years he has Architecture. e’77, g’80, owns G2 Systems As a thank you, we’ll send you this limited- makes his home in Westmin- served as the orthodontic con- Design in Wichita, where he edition KU beach towel. It’s the perfect gift ster, South Carolina, with his sultant for the cleft palate and 1973 Tuck Duncan, j’73, lives with Peggy Hodson wife, Cheryl. He retired as craniofacial anomalies team. is an attorney in Topeka. He Griswold, d’75. to kick back and relax this summer! kualumni.org/join School Codes g Master’s Degree u School of Music PhD Doctor of Philosophy a School of Architecture and h School of Health AUD Doctor of Audiology SJD Doctor of Juridical Design Professions DE Doctor of Engineering Science b School of Business j School of Journalism DMA Doctor of Musical Arts (no letter) Former student c College of Liberal Arts l School of Law DNAP Doctor of Nursing assoc Associate member of the and Sciences m School of Medicine Anesthesia Practice Alumni Association d School of Education n School of Nursing DNP Doctor of Nursing Practice and Human Sciences p School of Pharmacy DPT Doctor of Physical Therapy e School of Engineering PharmD School of Pharmacy EdD Doctor of Education f School of Fine Arts s School of Social Welfare OTD Doctor of Occupational Therapy

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guished Athletic Trainer Award (Saudi Aramco), in December 1989 Sergio Abauat, e’89, 1991 Ashwin Gollerkeri, from the Mid-America Athletic was honored with the 2020 lives in Bogotá, Colombia, m’91, is senior vice president Trainers’ Association. He’s the Lifetime Achievement Award where he’s CEO of Las Quin- and head of development at District 5 representative for of S&P Global Platts. He was chas Resources Corp. Kymera Therapeutics in Wa- the National Athletic Trainers’ inducted in the KU School of Sean Davern, e’89, is a tertown, Massachusetts. Association ATs Care Com- Petroleum Engineering Hall of senior data scientist at Pacific Patrick Sullivan, d’91, mission, which provides critical Fame in 2010. Northwest National Labora- g’98, is an associate professor incident stress management Jeff Foster, c’88, ’00, is vice tory. of mathematics at Missouri services to trainers and students president of revenue devel- Daniel Pennington, j’89, State University. He and his nationwide. Mark works at Neu opment for the Kansas City lives in Edwards, Colorado, wife, Dawn, assoc., make their Physical Therapy Center in Law- Monarchs baseball club. He where he’s president of Vail home in Ozark, Missouri, and rence and at Olathe Health. lives in Parkville, Missouri. Health Foundation. have three daughters, Emma, Michael Dankwerth, b’84, William Mar, c’88, manages Viola Brauer Straley, b’89, Lily and Gwen. is a senior adviser at Humanity- software engineering at WePay is an accountant at Varney & Thomas Thompson, c’91, Corp in Radnor, Pennsylvania. in Redwood City, California. Associates in Manhattan. g’93, directs business analytics He and his husband, Kevin at Havas Edge in Irving, Texas. 1986 Pamela Prieb Reed, Eng, assoc., live in San Fran- 1990 Lisa Arzu-Zuniga, He and his wife, Paige, live in c’86, lives in Carmel, Indiana, cisco and have two children, e’90, lives in Houston, where Rockwall. where she’s director of claims at Chaya and Chance, who are 1. she’s a project control manager Travelers Insurance. Debora Early Price, c’88, is at Worley. 1992 Cathy Moore Mac- a substitute teacher at Morgan Rick Guess, c’90, g’19, is a farlane, j’92, owns Blue Eagle 1987 Doug Anderson, Hunter Education. She and user interface/user experience Investigations in Overland d’87, g’93, PhD’02, is executive her husband, Robert, live in designer at GEHA insurance Park. director at Keystone Learning De Soto and have two chil- company. He lives in Matt McColley, c’92, is Services in Ozawkie. dren, Garret and Elaine. Kansas City. vice president and chief claims Julia Riggle McKee, c’87, founded FineLine HR Consult- ing in Kansas City. Dennis Keller, g’77, m’81, Selected Writings of Robert a digital services and marketing He lives in Overland Park. John Selzer, g’87, is an IT PhD’81, is retired and lives in Clarence Lawson, which was company. Chris Biggs, l’83, an at- business analyst at Commerce Leawood. published in 2019 by Seymour MaryAnn Romski, PhD’81, torney at Knopp and Biggs in Bank in Kansas City. He and Gayle Miller Sims, c’77, Press. It’s a collection of essays is a speech-language patholo- Manhattan, in December was his wife, Suzanne, assoc., live in lives in Cedar Hill, Texas, about a Harlem civil rights gist and Regents professor of selected to serve on the Riley Leawood. with her husband, Alan, c’87, activist and preacher who communication, psychology County indigent defense panel. Ahmad Kawesa Sengen- c’88. She retired after a 30-year participated in the March on and communication disorders Carole Engelder, e’83, do, g’87, PhD’88, is assistant career in human resources and Washington in 1957. at Georgia State University in lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, secretary general in charge of serves as secretary on the board Timothy, d’79, PhD’05, and Atlanta. where she’s deputy area project economic affairs at the Organi- of trustees for the Cedar Hill Susan Wesche Todd, c’80, manager at Triad National zation of Islamic Cooperation. Independent School District. g’97, ’99, are retired and live in 1982 Christian Erzinger, Security. He previously served for 16 Alan is a Cedar Hill city Lenexa. c’82, owns Specialty Fulfill- Dawn Struthers Sigmen, years as rector of the Islamic council member. ment Services Corp. in Lake c’83, is vice president and University in Uganda. James Utt, p’77, is the 1980 J. Augustine, b’80, is Forest, Illinois. director of client strategy at Stephen Sullivan, PhD’87, medical science director at senior vice president of sales at Howard Fox, b’82, is a Angell Marketing in Phoenix. practices law in New York City. Helsinn Therapeutics. He lives Simbe Robotics in Naperville, real estate executive at Better Scott Spangler, c’83, lives Irvetta Williams, a’87, lives in in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Illinois. Homes & Gardens Real Estate in Laguna Niguel, California, St. Louis, where she’s a consul- Daniel Kellerman, e’80, and a consultant at Fox where he works at Vesper Ener- tant for municipal government 1979 Donna Fletcher, lives in Overland Park, where Consulting. He and Laura gy Development. at iJay Enterprise. h’79, lives in Lenexa, where he’s vice president at HNTB Sandborn Fox, d’83, make Sarah Owens Steele, b’83, she’s a data quality manager at Corp. their home in Kansas City. is a shareholder and director of 1988 Dawood Al-Dawood, Children’s Hospital Associa- Gilmore Bell’s Wichita office. e’88, vice president for tion. 1981 Bill Griffith, b’81, 1983 James Albertson, marketing, supply and joint Alexander Stewart, h’79, lives in McKinney, Texas, g’83, retired as CEO of Uni- 1984 Mark Cairns, c’84, venture coordination at the wrote Add Thou To It: The where he owns M2DS Media, versity of Kansas Physicians. received the 2021 Most Distin- Saudi Arabian Oil Company

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officer at KW Specialty Insur- Academy of Family Physicians. 1994 Christopher of Queer Mennonite Leaders,” ance in Scottsdale, Arizona. He Charles Branson, b’93, Bader, g’94, in December which was published in Feb- lives in Phoenix with his wife, l’96, is an attorney at Fisher, was honored with the Water ruary in the religious studies Rae, and has three children, Patterson, Sayler & Smith in Wheel Award by the North journal Nova Religio. Madison, Liam and Noah. Overland Park. Dakota Water Users Associa- Brian Phillips, e’94, is senior Amy Forker Mounts, j’92, Michelle Mahaffey, b’93, tion and North Dakota Water vice president, general counsel, is senior vice president of l’96, is executive vice president Resource Districts Association. chief compliance officer and technology at High Touch and chief human resources He works for the State Water corporate secretary at Inspire Technologies in Wichita. She officer at Community Health Commission. Medical Systems in Osseo, and her husband, Milt, assoc., Network in Indianapolis, Carla Rabb Bukalski, e’94, Minnesota. make their home in Andale. where she makes her home. is director of specification at Jamar Pickreign, g’94, Christine Lynn Norton, Bob Wiltfong, j’93, wrote GE Current. She lives in Oak PhD’97, is associate dean of c’92, is a professor of social The BS Dictionary: Uncovering Park, Illinois. assessment and accreditation work at Texas State Univer- the Origins and True Meanings Geoffrey Farley, a’94, is an in the School of Education, sity in San Marcos. She and of Business Speak, which was architect and project manager Health and Human Services her husband, Billy, have three published in April 2020. He for the U.S. Air Force. He and at the State University of New children, William, Wendell was a correspondent on “The Michelle Volk Farley, c’93, York in Plattsburgh, where he and Mahalia. Daily Show with Jon Stew- live in Chugiak, Alaska. lives with Kelley, g’00, an aca- art” and also was featured in Rachel Waltner Goossen, demic adviser at the university. 1993 Gregory Belshe, commercials for Nationwide PhD’94, professor of history Chad Tenpenny, c’94, l’97, c’93, j’93, lives in Overland Insurance as “The World’s at Washburn University in lives in Leawood, where he’s Park, where he’s division Greatest Spokesperson in the Topeka, wrote “Repent of the general counsel to U.S. Sen. director of IT at the American World.” Sins of Homophobia: The Rise Roger Marshall.

70 KANSAS ALUMNI 71 #20 Best Online MBA Program1 David Van Daff, c’94, lives Chris Ronan, j’96, g’11, Samuel Wendt, c’98, an husband, Matt, and their son, in Elmhurst, Illinois, where he was promoted to senior public attorney at Wendt Goss in Carter. directs health club relations at relations manager at Geocach- Kansas City, in January was Michael Hoelscher, a’00, the National Academy of Sports ing HQ in Seattle. named 2021 president of the lives in Fairway, where he’s a Medicine. Kansas City Metropolitan Bar senior architect at Populous. Corine Wegener, g’94, g’01, 1997 Jeffrey Blunt, g’97, Association. Jason Hohman, d’00, g’04, directs the Smithsonian Cultur- is chief financial officer at the is a project manager at Philips. al Rescue Initiative in Washing- Loeb Electric Company in 1999 Gwendolyn Gage He lives in Lawrence with ton, D.C. Columbus, Ohio. Clark, j’99, directs circulation Jenny Schierbaum Hohman, Fast-track John Bryant, b’97, l’01, and marketing at Linux New c’04, director of life marketing 1995 LaRisa Chambers, in February was appointed Media in Lawrence. at Advisors Excel. c’95, joined the board of di- by Gov. Laura Kelly as the John Gieler, ’99, is a senior Brian Holmes, e’00, rectors of the Mental Wellness 1st Judicial District judge in endpoint administrator at manages sales at OptaSense in your career Center, a nonprofit organization Atchison. Empower Retirement. He Centennial, Colorado, where in Santa Barbara, California. Stuart Canning, g’97, lives and Valerie Crow Gieler, he lives with his wife, Emily. She’s senior gift officer at Cot- in San Francisco, where he’s j’96, who directs publica- Cory Littlepage, b’00, is tage Health. co-founder and senior vice tions at KU Endowment, CEO and founder of Tribal advancement. Devon Coffey, c’95, is senior president of business develop- live in Olathe and have three Diagnostics, the first American manager of the Kansas City re- ment at CyberOne Security. children, Drake, Quentin and Indian owned and operated gional development team at the Matthew Meier, c’97, is an Sloane. reference laboratory, based in Get connected and get ahead. Opus Group. She lives in Prairie assistant clinical professor of Gary Hamilton, e’99, is a Oklahoma City. He’s a mem- Village. psychology at Arizona State senior electrical engineer at ber of Chickasaw Nation. “Our students learn to think analytically and Matthew Hydeman, j’95, University in Tempe. Intuitive Research and Tech- Leslie Potter, j’00, lives in g’97, coordinates matching gifts Chris Millspaugh, f ’97, is nology Corp. in Huntsville, Chicago, where she’s practice quantitatively, communicate business ideas at University of Arizona Foun- a freelance creative designer in Alabama, where he lives with manager at Balanced Awak- dation in Tucson. Lawrence, where he lives with Kimberly, ’05. ening. effectively, and integrate ideas from different Stephen Long, PhD’95, Lowen Sapp Millspaugh, Shino Kamizono, f ’99, Ryan Westhoff, e’00, ’02, wrote The 7 Deadly Sins of Youth c’05, an administrative asso- lives in Tokyo, where she’s is a senior software engineer at areas of business into decision-making. These Sport: How to Raise Happy, ciate at KU’s department of a senior designer at Yahoo! Intrepid Direct Insurance in Healthy and High Performing theatre & dance. Japan Corp. Overland Park. skills help students progress in their current Kids, which was published in Steven Brian Murray, William Perkins, g’99, October. He lives in Colorado g’97, is an investment adviser is director of engineering at 2001 Julie Anderson roles and careers and provide a platform for Springs, Colorado. at the ETF Store in Overland Trioptics. He and his wife, Banninger, n’01, is a regis- those exploring new career paths to make the Cathy O’Hara Weiss, a’95, Park. He lives in Olathe with Claudia, assoc., live in Hawai- tered nurse at Salina Surgical makes her home in Madison, his wife, Amy. ian Gardens, California. Hospital. She and her hus- transition confidently.” Wisconsin, where she’s a senior Amy Spencer Wade, band, Chris, live in Salina and architect and planner at the 1998 Carmen Chase, c’99, teaches kindergarten at have two children, Corbin and University of Wisconsin System m’98, is a psychiatrist and Northeast Schools in Arma. Brooke. Office of Capital Planning & directs the mental health She and her husband, Shane, Michael Coats, a’01, Jide Wintoki Budget. unit at Advocate BroMenn live in Pittsburg and have two is a senior architect and Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Studies Medical Center in Normal, children, Spencer and Allie. project manager at Burns & KU School of Business 1996 Shashi Jain, e’96, Illinois. McDonnell in Kansas City. manages strategic innovation at Travis Perret, d’98, owner 2000 Brian Allers, c’00, He was included in an online Intel Corp. He lives in Portland, of Exercise Therapy in Kansas is senior vice president of feature for the Kansas City Oregon. City, spoke with Concordia business development at the Chapter of the National 1. Retrieved on March 23, 2021 from usnews.com/education/online-education/university-of-kansas-155317 Scott Moore y Medina, High School students in Television Bureau of Advertis- Organization of Minority a’96, is founder and president of January as part of the school’s ing. He lives in Leawood. Architects, which highlighted Blue Star Integrative Studio, an career exploration program. Kerrie Crites- local designers during Black Indigenous American creative Kristin Farrar Tope, d’98, Greenfelder, e’00, was History Month. Capitalize on the KU dierence. firm in Tulsa, Oklahoma. ’99, is a STEM teacher at Mar- promoted to manager of Eliza Darmon, j’01, was Libby Swed Robertson, j’96, ion City Schools in Marion, engineering for the Kansas promoted to co-executive We’ll waive your application fee when you is a professional service veteri- Ohio. She and Daniel, c’97, a City water division at Burns director of development and apply using the code . narian at IDEXX Laboratories data analyst at US Bank, live & McDonnell. She makes operations at Van Go Alumni21 in Lenexa. in Dublin. her home in Olathe with her in Lawrence.

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Kelly Donnelly Davis, DMSi in Omaha, Nebraska. Minneapolis, was named to the promoted to partner at Duane c’01, g’03, makes her home Shanmuga “SV” Purush- Minnesota Lawyer Attorney of Morris in Chicago. He’s a in Kansas City, where she’s a othaman, e’02, g’02, is senior the Year list for 2020. litigation attorney. speech-language pathologist in partner enablement manager Emily Melnyk O’Neill, j’04, the Raymore-Peculiar School at VMware in Bellevue, Born to: is senior director of retail mar- District. Washington. Ian, c’03, and Elizabeth keting at Edelman Financial Scott Gillaspie, c’01, works Amy Smith, b’02, g’03, lives Kretzmeier Devlin, c’10, g’12, Engines in Overland Park. in information technology and in Overland Park, where she’s a son, Coyne Everest, Dec. 26 Jay Quickel, g’04, lives in operations at the Federal Re- vice president of finance at the in Conifer, Colorado, where Overland Park, where he’s serve Bank of Boston. He lives United Way of Greater Kansas he joins a sister, Ezlyn, who’s 2. CEO of Agway Farm & Home. in Rutland, Massachusetts. City. Ian is a Salesforce consultant at Peter Riggs, l’04, is an Laura Gosa, c’01, g’06, is Coastal Cloud and Elizabeth attorney and partner at Spencer chief financial officer and chief 2003 Beth Williams works in sales operations at Fane in Kansas City. operating officer at ReflectUS Brockway, b’03, is regional Degreed. in New York City. She and vice president of managed busi- 2005 Jon Amundson, g’05, Kevin, f ’02, g’04, founder of ness services at Protiviti. She 2004 Erin Rodvelt is interim city manager of Rich- OCTANT8 and Nonprofit lives in Waukee, Iowa. Aldridge, j’04, is executive land, Washington. He served as Velocity, live in Jersey City, Kelly Conner, f ’03, ’10, is a director of the Library Foun- the city’s assistant manager for New Jersey. jeweler at MeritMade in dation in Topeka, where she the past 13 years. Catherine Davis Krammer, Kansas City. makes her home with Bran- Matt Beat, j’05, is the d’01, g’02, PhD’07, is associ- Dan Cranshaw, l’03, a share- don, ’05, who owns Brandon co-host of “Jobsolete,” a new ate professor and director of holder at Polsinelli in Kansas Aldridge State Farm Insurance iHeartMedia podcast. special education at Lake Erie City, was appointed to the Agency. They have two chil- Allan Hemmy, c’05, ’07, is College in Painesville, Ohio. Missouri Development Finance dren, Kaitlyn, 12, and Reid, 5. a geologist at Kolibri Global She and her husband, Edmund, Board. Justin Bauman, d’04, g’06, Energy in Newbury Park, have two sons, Trey and Quinn. Aaron Hedrick, c’03, is a is executive chief operations California. lieutenant colonel and B-52 assistant at Children’s Mer- Danny Lewis, d’05, was 2002 Ryan Jacobsen, c’02, instructor pilot in the U.S. Air cy Hospital in Kansas City. promoted to director of sports m’06, associate professor of Force. He’s based in Louisiana. He and his wife, Stacy, live sales at Shield Lockers in emergency medicine at KU David Meall, b’03, makes his in Overland Park and have a Kansas City. He and his wife, Medical Center, in January home in New York City, where daughter, Tatum, who’s 8. Laura, assoc., live in Eudora received the President’s Award he’s a talent acquisition leader. Benjamin Burgen, c’04, with their children, Carter, 11, from the National Association Sarah Smarsh, c’03, j’03, lives in Pensacola, Florida, and Hadley, 7. of EMS Physicians. was selected by the National where he’s an adjunct professor Kate Schmidt McMahan, Jennifer Bacani McKen- Book Critics Circle as one of of anthropology at the Univer- c’05, lives in Seattle, where she’s ney, c’02, m’06, in March was five finalists in the nonfiction sity of West Florida. senior HR lead at Microsoft named 2021 Rural Health category for her latest book, Miguel Catano, g’04, Corp. Practitioner of the Year by the She Come by It Natural: Dolly DPT’06, is clinic director at National Rural Health Associa- Parton and the Women Who PT Solutions Physical Therapy 2006 Khalil Alleyne, m’06, tion. She’s a physician at Bacani Lived Her Songs, which was in Olathe. in February was promoted to & McKenney Family Medicine published in October by Simon Andrew Heinicke, c’04, chief of family medicine at and Surgery in Fredonia, where & Schuster. Her first book, coordinates special services in South Shore Medical Center in she practices with her father, Heartland: A Memoir of Work- the Olathe School District. Norwell, Massachusetts. He has O.C. Bacani. She also serves ing Hard and Being Broke in the He and Sara Flynn Heinicke, practiced at the hospital since Show your pride with a Jayhawk license plate. as the Wilson County health Richest Country in the World, c’04, g’12, ’19, who teaches 2014. officer. was a finalist in 2018 for the early childhood special educa- Jason Arribas, c’06, ’07, is a Jayhawk license plates are Your contributions help support Jason Nicolay, b’02, g’03, is National Book Awards. tion, live in Olathe and have physician at St. Luke’s Health managing director at Houlihan Michael Stern, j’03, is chief two daughters, Bryant, 6, and System in Overland Park. He currently available in Kansas, the Jayhawk Career Network Lokey. He makes his home in marketing officer at Crisp in Reed, 4. and Stephanie Kroemer Maryland and Texas. and academic excellence. Mission Hills with his wife, Northbrook, Illinois. Brian Kennalley, b’04, is a Arribas, b’05, live in Lee’s Sarah-Beth. Leita Schultes Walker, senior data privacy specialist at Summit, Missouri, and have Brian Powers, b’02, is a c’03, j’03, l’06, an attorney and Amazon. He lives in Seattle. two daughters, Elizabeth senior software engineer at partner at Ballard Spahr in Owen Newman, l’04, was and Lyla. kualumni.org/license 74 KANSAS ALUMNI CLASS NOTES

Mark Terry, g’08, is chief cer- director at University Hospital Erin Lewis Mannen, e’09, services at Weaver, an account- tification officer at the National and Maggie is co-director of PhD’15, is an assistant profes- ing firm in Dallas. Registry of Emergency Medical pediatric ophthalmology at sor of mechanical and biomed- Mara Ankerholz Winiarz, Technicians in Columbus, Ohio. the hospital. They have three ical engineering at Boise State b’09, c’09, is a human Anita Faulkner White, b’08, children, Caroline, 5, and University in Boise, Idaho. resources strategy and opera- directs accounting at Saint twins James and Eloise, who Mallory Gaunce Nacbar, tions lead at Google. She and Luke’s Health System in Kansas will be 1 this year. j’09, is director of human her husband, Chris, live in City. She and William, b’04, Patrick Housby, c’09, resources and operations at Chicago and have a son, Enzo g’08, l’08, a senior operations is an account manager at Grapevine Designs in Lenexa. Rian, who just turned 1. manager at Amazon, make their Worldwide Beverage Group in She and her husband, Jeffrey, home in Shawnee and have four Lenexa. assoc., live in Prairie Village. Married children, Charles, Cailin, Gwen- Elizabeth Gonzalez Reid Petty, ’09, is district Lacey Anderson, g’09, dolen and Winifred. James, g’09, wrote Mona at director for Rep. Tracey Mann to Timothy Blaufuss, Oct. 3 Annie Hundley Yungeberg, Sea, which will be published in Kansas’ 1st Congressional in Fargo, North Dakota, c’08, is a preschool teacher at in June by Santa Fe Writers District. He lives in Garden where they make their home. Washington County Schools. Project. It’s her first novel. City with his wife, Hannah, Lacey is a behavioral health She and her husband, James, live Diana Taylor Knight, c’09, and their son, Nicholas, therapist. in Washington. g’12, is an operations research who’s 1. analyst at the National Guard Allison Lohrenz Snyder, 2010 Tessa Fall Gutierrez, 2009 Brad, c’09, m’13, Bureau. She makes her home a’09, is assistant town manager s’10, is a licensed specialist and Maggie Fey Cardonell, in Colorado Springs, Colora- of Wake Forest, North Caroli- clinical social worker and m’13, make their home in Co- do, with her husband, Daniel, na. She lives in Durham. addictions counselor and lumbia, Missouri, where and their son, Olin, who’s Brian Teefey, b’09, g’09, owns New Leaf Counseling Brad is anesthesia medical almost 3. directs transaction advisory in Junction City. In February,

KU Alumni Ankur Dayal, g’06, lives in a science teacher, live in ment of Agriculture. He makes 2008 Tyler Buck, c’08, Richmond, Texas, where he’s a Norwalk, Iowa, and have two his home in Manhattan. g’11, lives in Thornton, ASSOCIATION manager at Codeup. children, Holly and Chase. Kenneth Simmons, g’07, Colorado, where he’s global Put KU in the palm of your hand! Samuel Deutch, c’06, lives in Arlington, Virginia, product manager at Hach g’08, is a neuropsychologist at Born to: where he’s chief of construc- Company. All Jayhawks can use the app to: Visit the App Store or Google Play to download, Associates in Neuropsychology Lindsey Kinkelaar Wyatt, tion at the U.S. Army Corps of Richard Fursetzer, b’08, is a • Join, renew or upgrade your membership or go to kualumni.org/app in Overland Park. He and his d’06, and her husband, Tate, Engineers. an email operations marketing • Receive breaking news notifi cations and wife, Charity, live in Leawood. daughter, Mallyn Elaine, Grant Snider, ’07, lives in analyst at Bluestem Brands in watch live-stream broadcasts Derek Emery, c’06, directs Sept. 18 in Overland Park, Derby, where he’s an ortho- Eden Prairie, Minnesota. • Read Kansas Alumni magazine online strategic business development where she joins a sister, dontist and illustrator who Cameron Manuel, b’08, • Refer a prospective student at SKF USA. He lives in Per- Ellery, who’s 2. calls himself “the incidental g’08, is president and general • Join the KU Mentoring community The KU Alumni Association app rysburg, Ohio, with his wife, comic.” He has published manager at Reliable Caps in is for all alumni, students, friends Ryan Hogan, Jessica, and has two children, 2007 e’07, is several books, including There Olathe. Plus these members-only features: and fans of KU. Rock Chalk! Tera and Kellan. a software engineering manager Is A Rainbow, which came out Beryl New, EdD’08, Muhammad Asif Iqbal, at Garmin in Olathe, where he in January. director of certified personnel • Network with Jayhawks g’06, lives in Cary, North Car- makes his home with Eliza- and equity for Topeka Public • Receive special discounts olina, where he’s vice president beth Olson Hogan, c’11, and Married Schools, in February was a • Receive Kansas Alumni magazine and head of project manage- their children, Lucas, 3, and Jacob Vander Velde, d’07, featured speaker for Black • Use your digital membership card ment and engineering for the Cara, 1. and Annie Clancey, c’09, Nov. History Month at Pittsburg Americas at Bayer. Nathan Ladd, b’07, lives in 14 in Rosemary Beach, Florida. State University. She is chair of Gregory Meitl, a’06, is a Kansas City, where he’s vice They make their home in the Kansas African American critical facility engineer at president of sales at Labconco Prairie Village, where Jake is a Affairs Commission. Jones Lang LaSalle real estate Corp. sales representative at PepsiCo Ryan Northup, c’08, is a The KU Alumni Association app is powered by company. He and Kathy Joshua Ridder, l’07, is farm and Annie works in sales at the physician at Children’s Mercy McVey Meitl, d’05, g’09, loan chief for the U.S. Depart- Clancey Company. Hospital in Kansas City.

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she spoke to students at Con- ect manager at Schlumberger at Notley Ventures in Austin, Dillon Davis, c’14, is a cordia High School as part of in Houston. Texas. communications strategist at YEAR TO SHINE! the school’s career exploration Jay Kramer, l’11, lives in Kassie Altergott Murphy, Terracon, a consulting and en- program. Leawood, where he’s president c’12, is a retail broker at New- gineering company in Olathe. Inga Schuchard Kingland, of OAS. mark Zimmer in Kansas City. James Ferguson, g’14, a’10, is an attorney at Larkin Jessica Nelson Palm, j’11, She lives in Overland Park is an analyst at Mitsubishi Hoffman in Minneapolis, Min- is vice president of marketing with her husband, Brice, and Electric Trane HVAC US in nesota. She has two stepdaugh- and public relations at the their daughter, Teagan, who’s Suwanee, Georgia. ters, Claire and Greta, and a Kansas City Area Develop- almost 3. Corrine Baliel Haukap, daughter, Evan, who will be 1 in ment Council. Noah Smutz, c’12, is a book g’14, teaches special education September. Lindsey Piper, h’11, lives in conservator and owns NS at Goddard Public Schools. Manjiri Namjoshi, g’10, lives Shawnee, where she’s a senior Conservation in St. Louis. His She and her husband, in Laguna Hills, California, process improvement profes- work recently was featured in Matthew, live in Cheney where she manages software sional at Humana. Design STL magazine. He and with their daughters, Layne, 4, engineering at Paciolan. Andrew Posch, j’11, is a his wife, Sophie, live in Affton, and Remi, 1. copywriter at Signal Theory. Missouri. Angela Hawkins, j’14, 2011 Sudha Yegyanaray He lives in Overland Park with Samantha Stultz, j’12, manages grants compliance at Anand, g’11, is a library systems his wife, Alexandra. directs social media at Zircon the Literacy Lab. She lives in administrator at DePauw Kyle Roberts, g’11, is Laboratory in Overland Park. Overland Park. University in Greencastle, principal and civil engineering Clay Westerlund, c’12, Christopher Hayden, Indiana, where she lives with department manager at Burns works in acquisitions at I-Deal c’14, is an attorney at Gimbel, Anand Srinivasan, g’12, a & McDonnell in Kansas City. Homes in San Diego. Reilly, Guerin & Brown in senior technical specialist at In January he was named to Milwaukee. Cummins. the 2021 class of Engineering 2013 Ashley Dillon, l’13, Caleb Hays, g’14, ’20, lives Erin DeKoster, g’11, l’11, is News-Record Midwest’s Top was promoted to partner at in Alexandria, Virginia, where senior manager of accreditation Young Professionals. Stinson law firm in Kansas he’s general counsel for the at the American College of City. U.S. House Committee on Surgeons in Chicago. 2012 James Gentile, b’12, Stephanie Johanning, House Administration. Michael Gray, c’11, is a g’19, manages application c’13, is the business operations Ashleigh Lee, j’14, ’21, is member of the cardiovascular development at BlueScope manager at A Budget Disposal a communication specialist at discovery group-interventional Buildings North America in in Nashville, Tennessee. Mississippi State University cardiology at the University of Kansas City. Katie Leech, b’13, lives Foundation. Sydney in Australia. Nic Langford, c’12, was in Denver, where she’s a tax Davina Litt, b’14, is a Matt Greeno, e’11, was promoted to director of accountant at CohnReznick. technical analyst at T-Mobile promoted to lead master redevelopment for the city Nicholas Shields, g’13, is a in Overland Park. She and her distiller at MGP Ingredients of Clarksville, Indiana. He nurse anesthetist at Cameron husband, Yevgeniy Khariton, in Atchison. He has been with previously served as the city’s Regional Medical Center in live in Kansas City. the company since 2011 and redevelopment associate. Cameron, Missouri. Nicole Nunes, j’14, manag- recently was a distillery process Mike Lavieri, j’12, manag- Elizabeth Vinyard, c’13, es marketing for Peacock TV engineering manager. es public relations at Husch is a wildlife biologist at the at NBCUniversal Media. She Scott, b’11, g’12, and Blackwell in Kansas City. He South Carolina Department of makes her home Jersey City, SHOP TODAY Danielle Larrabee Johnston, and his wife, Jaymee, live in Natural Resources. She lives in New Jersey. d’11, ’12, live in St. Louis with Overland Park. Charleston. Jennifer Ohler, d’14, lives diplomaframe.com/KUAA their son, Theodore, who just Erin Locke, g’12, m’13, is in Parkville, Missouri, where turned 1. Scott is an associate the Shawnee County health 2014 Thomas Chambers, she’s a senior product owner attorney at Greensfelder, officer. She makes her home g’14, is a 3D visualization at Cerner. Hemker & Gale, and Danielle in Topeka. specialist and managing Philip Ozorkiewicz, c’14, is is a teacher. Timothy Miller, l’12, lives member at ICT Visualization an associate at Matthews Real Stephanie Joseph, g’11, is in Austin, Texas, where he’s in Wichita. Estate Investment Services in a compliance officer at Indian an attorney at Allen Boone Edgar Damian, b’14, g’15, Austin, Texas.

TM Health Service. She lives in Humphries Robinson. lives in Lenexa, where he’s a Keams Canyon, Arizona. Brandon Monroe, b’12, financial analyst at Dickinson 2015 Megan Hazelwood, Corbin Kline, e’11, is a proj- directs digital marketing Financial Corp. j’15, lives in Lawrence, where

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INTRODUCING she’s an administrative associ- 2018 Alyssa Barratt, c’18, County Parks and Recreation Grumman Corp. in Mel- ate at KU’s department of film g’20, teaches mathematics in Topeka. bourne, Florida. & media studies. at Free State High School in Maya Minocha, j’20, lives Evan Rattenborg, j’15, is a Lawrence. Married in New York City, where she’s senior web content specialist Kenneth Beck, c’18, Alex Lierz, e’18, to Laura an account coordinator at the at the University of Northern a graduate of KU ROTC, Rush, Nov. 28 in Robinson. Brandman Agency. Colorado in Greeley. is a first lieutenant weapon They live in Holton, where Hadley Oehlert, j’20, coor- David Thomas, c’15, is a systems officer on the B-1 at Alex is a design engineer at dinates marketing at Payless in business analyst at Farmers Dyess Air Force Base. He lives Schenck Processes. Topeka. Insurance Group. He makes his in Abilene, Texas, with home in Gardner. Priscila Ruiz Beck, a’20, an 2019 Robert Adams, c’19, 2021 Alison Bryce, g’21, is architectural associate at lives in Indianapolis, where he’s a news editor at Banner-Press 2016 Kelly Huff, PhD’16, Jacob Martin. a communications consultant. in Brenham, Texas. lives in Topeka, where she’s Mackenzie Haun, c’18, is Stephen Dunlap, g’19, is Ceri Holland, d’21, a a lecturer in music history senior associate for measure- an IT infrastructure project professional soccer player for Your one-stop shop for KU’s best. and theory at Washburn ment at Hillel International. manager at Eurofins Clinical Liverpool FC Women, was University. She lives in Brooklyn, New Diagnostics in Lee’s Summit. named the FA Women’s U U Rebecca Levine, c’16, York . Allison Ellis, c’19, is an Championship Player of the directs youth and family Jackson Kurtz, j’18, lives in adviser at Warby Parker in Month for February. She was programming at Congregation Lenexa, where he’s a reporter at Houston. a three-time Big 12 Offensive Beth Shalom in Overland Park. KMBC/KCWE. Riley Jay, j’19, lives in Los Player of the Week at KU Megan Lowcock, b’18, is Angeles, where he’s an assistant and a member of the 2019 2017 Cora Burgoyne, c’17, associate manager of benefits programmatic trader at Media- Big 12 Championship g’19, is the clinical enterprise and human resources analytics hub Worldwide. All-Tournament Team. policy coordinator at Centura at Intouch Group. She lives in Shannon Baxter Jones, Ronnie Lozano, j’21, is a KU Connection VOLUNTEER Health in Denver. She also Overland Park. c’19, is a clinical trial specialist news producer at KCTV5 and SUBSCRIBE managed the health center’s Marysa Bradshaw at PRA Health Sciences in KSMO in Fairway. Virtual and in-person events, Plan an event for Jayhawks or COVID-19 emergency McCartney, b’18, g’19, teaches Lenexa. Catherine Pallesen, c’21, resources, Jayhawk stories Get KU Connection delivered share your specifi c expertise. response effort in 2020. business at Salina Central High Anna Perrone, j’19, is an is a combat engineer for the and news from the University straight to your inbox! Nikhila Gunda, g’17, g’21, School in Salina, where she account executive and services Kansas Army National Guard. of Kansas and our global We’ll work together to deliver is assistant transit researcher at lives with her husband, Justin, client partner at SAP in San She lives in Lansing. alumni network. Receive timely notifi cations so your content or event. KU’s Transportation Center. a first-year medical student Francisco. Malcolm Proudfit, g’21, you don’t miss out on the best She lives in Lawrence. at KU. Kailin Stinson, j’19, coor- was promoted to CEO of KU has to offer. Francesca Haynes, c’17, Nazanin Amiri Meers, g’18, dinates digital media at the Good Energy Solutions in lives in Lawrence, where she’s is a mixed-media artist and Greteman Group in Wichita. Lawrence. He previously the diversity coordinator at the textile designer. She recently served as chief financial officer Lawrence Public Library. moved from Lawrence to 2020 Hannah Bedford, and chief operating officer. Jaden Scott, j’17, l’20, is California. l’20, makes her home in associate legal counsel at Hill’s Elizabeth Peterson, e’18, Marshall, Missouri, where she’s ASSOCIATES Pet Nutrition in Topeka. makes her home in Omaha, assistant prosecuting attorney Dennis Forbes, assoc., is Joshua Smith, j’17, is senior Nebraska, where she’s a cost at the Saline County Prosecu- the new-sales manager at Bill or ore detail and oortunitie social marketing manager at engineer at the U.S. Army tor’s Office. Knight Lincoln-Volvo Cars to articiate iit Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Corps of Engineers. Jack Fowler, b’20, is a grad- of Tulsa. He lives in Owasso, Network. He lives in Shawnee. Harrison Quinn, b’18, is uate associate in supply chain Oklahoma. Caitlin Ungerer, j’17, man- founder and managing partner management at XPO Logistics Keith Rogers, assoc., lives kualumni.org/kuconnection ages influencer marketing at at HDQ Wealth in Leawood, in Ontario, California. He lives in Lee’s Summit with his wife, Octagon in Chicago. where he lives with Kyrie in Phoenix. Brenda, assoc. He retired as Ashley Williamson, s’17, Killen Quinn, j’17, who directs Haley Hannaman, g’20, project manager at Hallmark is chief replication officer at marketing at Quinn Real coordinates student organiza- Cards. the Giving Grove, a nonprofit Estate Company. tions and clubs at the Colorado Cheryl Wonnell, assoc., organization serving food- Alexis Ray, g’18, manages School of Mines in Golden. retired as president at Creative insecure communities in program events for the Great Kyle Herda, e’20, is an Advertising. She makes her Kansas City. Overland Station at Shawnee associate engineer at Northrop home in Lawrence.

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1940s Mary Lou Brewer neers and Architects in Salina. Ross Howard, b’48, 96, Oct. granddaughters; and eight husband, Lawrence, a daughter, children and two great-grand- He was the first Black public Richard Peters, a’54, 92, Akright, c’49, 92, Dec. 25 in A memorial has been estab- 26 in Mission. He was a CPA great-grandchildren. a son and five grandchildren. children survive. school teacher in Lawrence Dec. 30 in Lawrence. He was Overland Park. She was a long- lished with KU Endowment. and internal revenue agent at Wayne Gerstenberger, c’56, Martha Balding Jenkins, and was appointed in 2002 by president of Peters Kubota time volunteer at St. Joseph’s Surviving are two daughters, the U.S. Department of the 1950s Merilyn Richards 86, Dec. 9 in Antioch, Califor- d’56, 86, Jan. 10 in Wichita. President George W. Bush to and Glenn architecture firm, Medical Center in Kansas City. one of whom is Jann Crawford Trea sur y. Abel, a’53, 90, Jan. 25 in Estes nia. He was a retired U.S. Navy She lived for many years in To- the commission commemo- which designed several nota- She is survived by three sons, Rudkin, c’73; four grandchil- William Jenson, c’48, 97, Park, Colorado, where she captain and worked for nearly peka, where she taught piano rating the 50th anniversary of ble buildings in Lawrence, in- one of whom is Bruce, ’80; dren; and seven great-grand- Nov. 26 in Yarmouth, Maine. retired as a school psychol- 30 years in executive manage- and was a reading specialist. A Brown vs. Board of Education cluding the public library and 10 grandchildren; and seven children. He had a long career in internal ogist. She is survived by her ment at San Francisco Munici- memorial has been established of Topeka. He received the City Hall. Survivors include great-grandchildren. Leatha Sanford Davison, medicine and held administra- husband, Clifford, d’51, g’58; pal Transportation Agency. He with KU Endowment. She is KU Black Alumni Network’s his wife, Carol Freeman Owen Barbara Morrison Barnes, c’47, 94, Dec. 17 in Raleigh, tive, clinical and academic roles a daughter; two sons; a sister, is survived by three sons, one survived by a son, a sister and Mike and Joyce Shinn Leaders Peters, c’61; a daughter, Laura, b’49, 91, May 11, 2020, in North Carolina. She was active throughout the United States Virginia Richards King, n’60; of whom is Terry, d’83, g’89; a two grandchildren. and Innovators Award. Two ’83; two sons, one of whom is Chicago, where she retired as a in her community. Survivors and in Saudi Arabia. Surviving four grandchildren; and four daughter; eight grandchildren; John Kiefer, ’59, 88, Jan. sons, two daughters, a brother Chris, c’83, m’89; a stepson, supervisor at the U.S. General include two daughters, Teresa are his wife, Joan Weigand Sar- great-grandchildren. and two great-grandchildren. 26 in Lawrence, where for and two granddaughters Dan Owen, c’87, l’90; two Services Administration. Sur- Davison Daniels, b’79, and Di- gent-Jenson, ’52; three daugh- Theodore Bernard, e’50, Moulton Green, c’50, 92, nearly 55 years he owned survive. stepdaughters, one of whom vivors include a daughter and ane, c’80; three grandchildren; ters; a son; five stepchildren; 95, Dec. 24 in Topeka, where Jan. 7 in Kansas City, where Kief ’s Record and Stereo Sup- Robert Morey, j’54, 92, is Cisley Owen Thummel, a sister, Catherine Morrison and three great-grandchildren. and four grandchildren. he retired at General Dynam- he taught English as a second ply. Survivors include his wife, Oct. 17 in Doylestown, c’95; five grandchildren; six Newton, f ’57. Dorothea Thomas Dickey, William Johnson, c’47, 94, ics. Survivors include two language at Guadalupe Centers Helen, ’95; a son, Michael, Pennsylvania. His career in step-grandchildren; and a Shirley Carl Brothers, c’46, c’48, 93, Dec. 8 in Kansas City, June 20, 2020, in Medford, sons, one of whom is John, and Della Lamb Commu- ’88; a daughter, Alison, ’90; sales at the Hess Corporation great-grandson. 97, Dec. 13 in Waco, Texas, where for 25 years she volun- Oregon. He was a physician. c’80, m’85; two daughters; nity Services. Surviving are two stepdaughters, Heather spanned nearly 30 years. Ruth Abercrombie where she served on the boards teered at Children’s Mercy Survivors include two sons, a 11 grandchildren; and several his wife, Jean, ’92; two sons, Brown Wingate, c’89, l’93, William Oliver, c’57, 85, Pickrell, d’52, 90, Nov. 13 of several service organizations. Hospital. She is survived by a daughter, a sister, five grand- great-grandchildren. one of whom is Stuart, g’80; and Hilary Brown, h’94; and Dec. 5 in Walnut Creek, Cali- in Salina, where she was a Surviving are three sons, one son, Joe III, f ’81; a daughter, children and two great-grand- Ivan Carper, m’59, 92, Dec. two grandchildren; and a five grandchildren. fornia. He had a long career in teacher and volunteer in her of whom is Bob, g’76; sev- Sarah, ’81; a brother, Christo- children. 8 in Westminster, Colorado. great-grandson. Alexander McBurney, publishing and most recent- community. She is survived en grandchildren; and nine pher Thomas, m’48; a sister, Norma Falconer Keck, He was a general practitioner John Greer, a’59, 85, Dec. 17 c’54, m’58, 87, Oct. 26 in ly worked at Harcourt. A by a daughter, Tina Pickrell great-grandchildren. Elizabeth Thomas Shafer, b’52; c’41, 100, Aug. 31 in Lenexa, and surgeon for nearly 30 years in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Kingston, Rhode Island, memorial has been established Leiker, b’77; a son, Rob, ’81; Ellen Wagenfield Church, and a grandchild. where she was active in her in Halstead and Newton. He He co-founded Greer Stafford where he was a physician and with KU Endowment. He is three grandchildren; and eight d’45, g’49, 97, Jan. 26 in Ne- Lois Harkleroad Gooch, church and P.E.O. Sisterhood. also participated in several Architects and earned several founded Urology Associates. survived by his wife, Doreen, great-grandchildren. vada, Iowa, where she taught c’47, 95, Dec. 2 in Lee’s Two sons, three grandchildren international medical missions. awards for his design projects. In retirement he volunteered two daughters, four stepsons, Wallace Richardson, piano. Two sons, a daughter, Summit, Missouri. She was an and two great-grandchildren Surviving are two daughters, He is survived by his wife, at a local hospital. Surviving 16 grandchildren and two b’58, 84, Nov. 19 in Lincoln, five grandchildren and five accountant at Halls and later survive. Kristin Carper Trollinger, c’86, Judith Nelson Greer, f ’80; two are three sons, a daughter, a great-grandchildren. Nebraska, where he was an great-grandchildren survive. worked part time at H&R Marilynn Konantz Miller, and Robin Carper Kluge, l’87; sons, one of whom is Brandon, stepson, 11 grandchildren and Albert Park, p’53, 90, Dec. attorney and managing part- Beverly Balocca Clemens, Block. Surviving are a son; two d’41, 100, Dec. 7 in Hast- three sons, one of whom is e’84, g’91; a sister; six grand- two great-grandchildren. 4 in Overbrook. He owned ner at Knudsen, Berkheimer, ’45, 94, Dec. 3 in Kansas City. stepdaughters, one of whom is ings, Nebraska. She was a Mike, c’84; a brother, Owen, children; and four great-grand- William McGinty, c’57, Park Pharmacy in Osage Richardson and Endacott. She was a homemaker. Sur- Carolyn Smith, f ’67; a sister, music teacher. Surviving are m’64; a sister; eight grandchil- children. 89, Nov. 20 in Overland Park. City for more than 30 years. Survivors include his wife, viving are two daughters, one Joyce Harkleroad Smith, c’50; two daughters, Mary Miller dren; and eight great-grand- Albert Heckes, e’52, g’56, He was a dentist for nearly Survivors include his wife, Martha; two daughters, one of whom is Frances “Tibby” four grandchildren; and five Koepke, d’68, and Annie Miller children. 90, Oct. 17 in Albuquerque, 45 years. He is survived by Lois Edwards Park, d’57; two of whom is Carrie, c’92; a Clemens Fort, b’76; a son; great-grandchildren. Young, d’72; a son, Martin, James Detter, c’55, m’62, New Mexico, where he re- his wife, Lavonne Hartter daughters, Sarah Park Grang- brother, Jay, c’61, m’65; and a five grandchildren; and five Evelyn Hoffman Hamil- ’75; four grandchildren; two 87, Nov. 26 in Seattle, where tired as a chemical engineer. McGinty, ’58; a daughter, er, p’84, and Susan Park Pat- grandson. great-grandchildren. ton, f ’49, 93, Dec. 7 in East step-grandsons; and three he was professor emeritus of Two sons, two daughters, Suzanne, c’83; and two grand- ton, f ’86; two grandchildren; Barbara Nichols Rubin, Dorothy James Crawford, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. She great-grandchildren. laboratory medicine at the seven grandchildren and 14 children. and two great-grandsons. n’57, g’84, 85, Jan. 19 in Elgin, j’49, 92, Dec. 17 in Tope- was an artist. Survivors include Adrienne Hiscox Mitchell, University of Washington. He great-grandchildren survive. John Meyer, e’50, 94, Manouchehr “Manny” Illinois. She had a long career ka, where she was a retired two sons; two daughters; a c’48, 93, Aug. 12 in Hillsbor- is survived by his wife, Carol Richard Heiny, e’50, 90, Jan. 24 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Pedram, g’59, PhD’63, 94, as a nurse and was assistant preschool teacher and volun- brother, James Hoffman, ’56; ough, California, where she Rogers Detter, n’60; two sons; Nov. 19 in Midland, Michi- where he had a long career Dec. 8 in Kansas City. He professor of nursing at Arkan- teered in her community. She and five grandchildren. was active in several nonprofit a daughter; a sister, Rose Detter gan. He retired as director of at Cities Service Company. was a teacher for more than sas State University. Surviving is survived by a daughter; two Richard Hitt, b’49, 94, Dec. organizations and served on Alderson, s’86; a brother; and discovery development at Dow Surviving are his wife, Marge 35 years, and he founded the are two daughters, a son, a sons; a sister, Alberta James 6 in Lenexa. He worked in the Grand Council for Pi Beta five grandchildren. Chemical Company. Surviving “Sherry;” three daughters, nonprofit organization Global sister and three grandsons. Daw, c’52; two brothers, one of sales management. A daughter Phi sorority. Jeanne Gaston Fehren- are his wife, Suzanne; a daugh- two of whom are Jan Meyer and Multicultural Education Donald Schoeni, b’52, 90, whom is Don James, e’56, g’61; survives. Robert Sparling, d’48, g’51, baker, ’59, 82, Sept. 22 in ter, Katherine, c’89; two sons; Nicodemus, d’75, and Betsey Center in 1982. Surviving Dec. 18 in Grove, Oklahoma, six grandchildren; and two Reed Hoffman, b’46, 97, 98, Nov. 19 in Topeka. He Naples, Florida. She lived for and six grandchildren. Meyer Wieding, ’78; a son; are his wife, Sara; a daughter, where he was a retired U.S. Air great-granddaughters. July 24 in Manhattan. He was began his career as a teacher many years in Virginia, where Charlene Turner Houts, ’51, three stepdaughters; a stepson; Jaleh Pedram Ellis, n’84; a Force major and underwriter Robert Crawford, e’49, 94, president of Dickinson County and later worked for the CIA’s she and her husband founded 92, Dec. 13 in Rancho Santa six grandchildren; and seven son, Cyrus, ’99; a stepson; a at an insurance company. He Dec. 17 in Peoria, Arizona. He Bank. Surviving are a stepson, Office of Security. Surviving are a local chapter of the Juvenile Margarita, California, where great-grandchildren. brother; five grandchildren; is survived by his wife, Donna worked for more than 40 years three step-grandchildren and a daughter, Rebecca Sparling Diabetes and Research Foun- she was a homemaker. Three Jesse Milan, d’53, g’54, two step-grandchildren; and Summers Schoeni, ’55; a son, at Wilson and Company Engi- seven step-great-grandchildren. Hinton, c’75; two sons; four dation. 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Diane Schoeni McLennan, Alice Schoonover schools of law. A memorial He was an administrator at James McDaniel, b’62, 80, Surviving are a son, Jay, c’91, Laboratory. He also was active nia. He taught engineering c’84, and Deborah Schoeni Weltmer, c’50, 92, Nov. 21 in has been established with KU several colleges and universi- Nov. 20 in Henderson, Neva- l’96; two daughters, one of in his community. Survi- design for nearly 35 years at Barnes, ’88; a brother, Terry, Salina. She was a homemaker. Endowment. He is survived ties and served as president of da. He retired as regional vice whom is Sallie Ben Norton vors include his wife, Diane several universities, including d’62; and a grandson. Surviving are two daughters, by his wife, Anita Kopmanis the National Association of president at BrooksAmerica Attar, c’92; a sister; and eight Sandberg Sanders, c’58, c’59; California State. Survivors George Schrader, g’55, Patricia Weltmer Korb, c’74, Collister, c’63, h’82; three College Admission Counsel- Mortgage Company. He is sur- grandchildren. two sons, Karl, c’85, m’89, and include his wife, Linda, ’78; a 89, Dec. 31 in Dallas, where and Carrie Weltmer May- daughters, two of whom are ing. Surviving are a son; two vived by his wife, Mindy; three James Powell, d’69, 73, Curtis, c’88; and five grand- daughter, Lois Banta Eber- he had a long career in city hew, d’78; a son, John, j’78; Laurie Collister Hay, n’88, and sisters, one of whom is Patrice sons; a brother, Phil, c’65; and Jan. 12 in Andover, where he children. hardt, ’82; two sons; a sister; management and also served 10 grandchildren; and 17 Sherri Collister Wagner, c’90; a Simpson, assoc.; and five grand- three grandchildren. was teacher and also owned Rosalinda Mastricola and three grandchildren. on several boards in his com- great-grandchildren. brother, Richard, b’65; a sister, children. John McElhiney, e’61, g’63, Jim Powell Photography. His Strand, d’68, 74, Nov. 8 in Terry Billam, ’73, 69, Jan. 5 munity. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Bailey Yeokum, Christine, c’71, d’71, g’83; Robert Kroenert, b’61, 81, 81, Sept. 29 in La Jolla, Cali- wife, Barbara, two sons and North Liberty, Iowa. She was in Olathe, where he had a long Barbara; two stepchildren; a d’58, 84, Dec. 29 in Overland seven grandchildren; and two Dec. 12 in Centennial, Colo- fornia, where he was a chemical nine grandchildren survive. a kindergarten teacher and career in the auto industry. A brother, Gordon, g’64; and six Park, where she worked as an step-grandchildren. rado. He retired as a corporate engineer at Marathon. Survivors Ron Rardin, c’65, g’67, 80, homemaker. Surviving are a memorial has been established grandchildren. accountant and volunteered at Franklin Hamilton, EdD’61, defense attorney after nearly include his wife, Annette, two Nov. 9 in Liberty, Missou- son, two sisters, a brother and with KU Endowment. He is Richard Smith, c’54, 87, Shawnee Mission Medical Cen- 97, Feb. 3 in Flushing, Michi- 40 years at Morrison, Hecker, sons and three grandchildren. ri. He retired from a career three grandchildren. survived by his wife, Luan; Jan. 11 in Wichita. He was ter. She is survived by a son, gan. He taught English, Amer- Curtis, Kuder & Parish in Sharon Stalcup Mend- with the federal government Margaret Thrasher, c’61, two sons, one of whom is Ja- founder and president of Range Dan, b’84; a daughter, Sarah ican literature and creative Kansas City. He is survived by lick, d’66, g’70, 76, Jan. 25 in and later volunteered in his 80, April 29, 2020, in Bowie, son, l’00; his mother; a broth- Oil Company and president Yeokum Kelly, b’86; a brother; writing at Mott Community his wife, Susan Aldrich Kroen- Omaha, Nebraska, where she community. A memorial has Maryland. She had a long er, Tom, j’75, l’85; a sister; and of the Kansas Oil and Gas and two grandchildren. College in Flint, Michigan. ert, d’61; two daughters, Kath- was a paralegal in a family law been established with KU career in library systems and four grandchildren. Association. Surviving are his Surviving are two daughters, a leen Kroenert Bahr, d’86, and firm and also volunteered as a Endowment. Surviving are his retired as manager of the New Nancy Cook Farrar, d’75, wife, Sondra Hays Langel, d’63; 1960s Drew Anderson, son, six grandchildren and five Ann Kroenert Morris, c’88; a court-appointed special advo- wife, Nancy; a son; a daugh- Carrollton Branch Library. 68, Jan. 28 in Rock Island, a son, Pete, c’82; a daughter; a d’69, 73, Oct. 24 in Red Bank, great-grandchildren. son; and three grandchildren. cate for children. She is survived ter; a stepson; a stepdaughter; Cynthia Caignon Wood, Illinois. She was a homemaker. brother; and two stepchildren. New Jersey. He had a long Jack Hennington, g’66, 90, James Laidlaw, c’60, m’64, by her husband, Michael, c’66, a brother, Eugene, e’64, d’71; c’69, 73, Oct. 10 in Sonoma, Survivors include her hus- Richard Smith, m’57, 89, career in corporate travel and Oct. 8 in Rogers, Arkansas. 82, Dec. 13 in Kansas City. m’70; two daughters, one of 11 grandchildren; and two California, where she was a band, Ben; two daughters; Jan. 23 in Walnut Creek, Cali- event planning. His wife, Patri- He taught math at Lawrence He was an orthopedic surgeon whom is Marcia, ’03; a son; a great-grandchildren. real estate agent at Sotheby’s and three brothers, two of fornia, where he had a 50-year cia, survives. High School and later joined in Kansas City and Kalispell, sister; and a brother. Roy Rawlings, e’67, 76, International. Surviving are whom are Charles, c’76, and career in internal medicine and Charles Bowlus, c’60, g’70, the faculty at Johnson County Montana. Surviving are his Brenda Johnson Mitts, d’60, Jan. 19 in San Luis Obispo, her husband, Francis, two Richard, ’80. rheumatology. He also served 82, Dec. 23 in Oshkosh, Wis- Community College, where wife, Lilburne Quinn Laidlaw, 82, Nov. 30 in Topeka. She was California, where he retired as daughters, a son, a sister and David Fields, b’76, 66, Jan. as medical director of rehabil- consin. He was professor emer- he taught for nearly 25 years. n’63; a son; a daughter; and five a school counselor and later senior vice president for elec- four grandchildren. 1 in Sioux Falls, South Da- itation services at John Muir itus of history at the University Survivors include his wife, Ver- granddaughters. worked at St. Francis Hospital. tric and gas distribution oper- William Zagar, c’61, 81, kota, where he retired after a Hospital. He is survived by his of Arkansas in Little Rock. A nella White Hennington, ’64; a Sharon Kampmeier Mal- Survivors include her husband, ations at Southern California Jan. 23 in Overland Park. He 38-year career in management wife, Gretchen; two sons; and a memorial has been established sister; four grandsons; and five colm, d’67, 75, Jan. 31 in De Donald, b’60; a son; and five Gas Company and Sempra was a dentist and owned a at JC Penney. Surviving are his brother, Robert, m’56. with KU Endowment. Surviv- great-grandchildren. Soto. She lived for many years grandchildren. Energy. He is survived by his practice in Topeka. Survivors wife, Carol Yarnevich Fields, LaVannes Squires, b’54, 90, ing are his wife, Barbara Frey Patricia Roberts Hunt- in Kansas City, where she was Lawrence Monahan, m’68, wife, Linda Bahr Rawlings, include his wife, Sandra Lee j’76; a daughter, Kathryn Feb. 19 in Pasadena, California, Bowlus, ’61; a daughter, Cor- Volmer, n’62, 80, Nov. 3 in a teacher. Survivors include her 79, Nov. 23 in Roanoke, Vir- d’66; two sons; a daughter; a Zagar, c’62; three daughters, Fields Wilkinson, c’11; a son, where he retired after a long delia, c’90, g’01; a son; a sister, Lake Saint Louis, Missouri. She husband, Kenneth; two daugh- ginia, where he was an internist brother, Roger, d’68; and six Meya Zagar Kindred, c’87, Christopher, c’12; a brother, career in the banking industry. Judith Bowlus Cronin, c’62; worked as a nurse and retired as ters, one of whom is Marni and clinical professor of internal grandchildren. m’91, Kesa Zagar, c’91, ’96, Tom, ’79; three sisters, two of He was the first Black men’s and four grandchildren. a quality assurance manager at Malcom Mills, d’97, g’03; and medicine at the University of Byron Redding, j’62, 85, and Trina Zagar Brown, j’95; whom are Susie Fields Phalen, basketball player at KU and a Donna Reese Carlson, Medical Transportation Man- two grandchildren. Virginia School of Medicine. Oct. 16 in Mission. He was a and 10 grandchildren. ’81, and Jane Fields Gaunce, member of the 1952 NCAA d’68, 74, Dec. 23 in Longmont, agement. Her husband, Melvin, Larry Markel, b’60, c’60, He is survived by his wife, Dav- supervisor at Ketchum adver- j’82; and four grandchildren. National Championship team. Colorado, where she taught two sons, a stepdaughter, a m’64, 83, Jan. 19 in Olathe. He ida, a son, a daughter and three tising company. 1970s Jeff Allen, p’78, 65, Frederick Hesse, c’72, Oura Lee Swart, b’59, 84, for more than three decades at stepson and eight grandchil- was a urologist and practiced grandchildren. Judith Todd Roehrman, Nov. 19 in Hutchinson, where m’75, 69, July 23 in Lawrence. Jan. 17 in Fort Payne, Alabama, Longs Peak Middle School and dren survive. in Kansas City and Bartlesville, Elizabeth Simpson n’62, 81, Dec. 17 in Prescott, he worked at his family’s He was an internist at the where he retired as a major in retirement became an elder Jo Ann Johnson Klemmer, Oklahoma. He is survived by Munroe, d’67, g’74, 78, Dec. Arizona, where she was a business, Hutchinson Vending Dwight D. Eisenhower Veter- in the U.S. Army. Survivors caregiver. She is survived by her g’63, 94, Dec. 31 in Belleville. his wife, Kay Renfrow Markel, 18 in Olathe. She taught for 43 registered nurse. A memorial Company, and also was a ans Administration Hospital include a sister, Ethel Swart husband, Marc, d’68; a daugh- She lived for many years in ’58; a daughter, Lori Markel years at Gardner Elementary has been established with pharmacist. Surviving are his in Leavenworth. Surviving are Smoots, f ’49; and a brother. ter; a son; a sister, Janet Reese, Topeka, where she was an Elliott, b’86; a son; a brother; School. A memorial has been KU Endowment. A son, wife, Cynthia “Chi-Chi” Coe two brothers, one of whom is George Tappan, c’51, 95, f ’79; and seven grandchildren. administrative assistant at Men- and two granddaughters. established at KU Endowment. two daughters, a brother, a Allen, c’78; a daughter, Rachel Robert, c’65, m’69; and a sis- Nov. 7 in Kingwood, Texas, Edward Collister, c’61, ninger and also taught English Phyllis Wertzberger She is survived by her husband, sister and two grandchildren Allen Stone, d’10, g’15; a ter, Rosemary Hesse Cromer, where he was a consultant in l’64, 81, Dec. 1 in Lawrence, at local schools. Survivors McAdoo, p’63, 80, Dec. 22 in Richard, d’65; three daughters; survive. son, Danny, g’14; a brother, c’83. international petroleum explo- where he was an attorney and include a sister, a stepdaughter, Lawrence, where her career as a a sister; and four grandchildren. Jean Alan Sanders, m’60, David, b’67; a sister, Diane Stephany Brown Hughes, ration. He is survived by two served as the Kansas Assistant three step-grandchildren and pharmacist spanned nearly 50 Jane Bushfield Norton, 91, Jan. 7 in Lawrence, where Allen Hudson, d’71; and two g’72, PhD’03, 78, Dec. 16 in sons, Gray, c’78, g’81, and Jona- Attorney General from 1968 to six step-great-grandchildren. years. Surviving are a daughter, d’64, ’00, 72, Jan. 3 in Leawood. he was a pathologist at Law- grandchildren. Excelsior Springs, Missouri. than, ’81; a daughter; a brother; 1972. He also was a lecturer at Ron Koger, g’64, EdD’75, Lynne, c’93, j’93; and a brother, She was a teacher and vol- rence Memorial Hospital and Andrew Banta, g’79, 82, She taught in the Blue Valley and five grandchildren. KU and Washburn University 81, Jan. 3 in Marietta, Georgia. Ken Wertzberger, c’69, m’73. unteered in her community. founded Lawrence Clinical Dec. 2 in Fort Bragg, Califor- School District and later

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volunteered at an elementary Terri Hill Snyder, j’77, 65, ’04; two brothers; and six his wife, Angela Casey Shaw, ship development at KCUR and research. A memorial has of whom is Ian, c’05, g’08; Scott Kane, assoc., 58, school. In 2014 she received May 15, 2020, in Plano, Texas, grandchildren. c’92, m’05; two daughters; and KANU radio stations and been established with KU a brother, Troy, h’91; and a Jan. 10 in Liberal. He was an the Volunteer of the Year where she retired as chief Steven Replogle, c’84, 63, his parents; a sister, Jana Shaw was a graduate adviser in the Endowment. Surviving are his grandson. insurance agent. A memorial Award from the local chamber marketing officer and executive Dec. 11 in Southern Pines, Fevurly, j’88; and a brother. School of Business. Surviving wife, Norma Lee, g’92, ’99; Glenn Price, 96, Jan. 17 has been established with KU of commerce. A memorial vice president of Checker’s and North Carolina, where he was Kendell Warren, c’95, ’96, are two daughters, one of whom two sons, Robert Jr., c’93, and in Topeka. He was professor Endowment. Survivors include has been established with KU Rally’s drive-in restaurants. She director of sales for Legacy 49, Oct. 24 in Petersburg, Vir- is Jenifer, c’13, ’19; and two Keith, e’95; a brother; and two emeritus of speech and drama. his wife, Laura, g’09; a daugh- Endowment. Surviving are a is survived by her husband, Golf Management. Survivors ginia. He taught history and brothers, one of whom is Ernest grandchildren. Surviving are two daughters, ter; and seven sisters, one of son, Blake, c’90; a daughter; a Steve, b’76, g’78; a daughter; include his mother, Lois Lacy coached the girls’ soccer team Adelman, c’61, l’65. Frances Degen Horowitz, Mary Ann Price Johnson, d’79, whom is Salley Zirger, ’98. brother; and three grandchil- and a brother. Replogle, ’52; and three sisters, at Prince George High School. Shirley Gilham Domer, g’68, 88, March 15 in New York g’81, and Marsha Price Bales, Marion “Chris” Linton, dren. Thomas Vaughn, g’78, Jane Replogle Barber, c’78, He is survived by his wife, PhD’75, 85, Jan. 30 in Baldwin City. She was the founding ’80; two sons, Kenneth, f ’84, assoc., 96, Jan. 11 in Lawrence, James Iliff, e’71, 72, Oct. 7 l’78, 68, Nov. 26 in Chicago, Susan Replogle Debes, ’82, and Angelina; a son; a daughter; City. She was the founding chair of the department of hu- and Jeffrey, e’84; three sisters; where she was a homemaker. A in Olathe, where he was a civil where for more than 25 years Anne Replogle Kutina, ’85. his mother; a brother, Christo- director of KU Info and the man development and family 13 grandchildren; and three memorial has been established engineer at Black & Veatch and he was professor of accounting Daniel Winter, j’80, 62, pher, c’98; and two sisters. University’s first director of affir- life at KU and later served as great-grandchildren. with KU Endowment. She General Services Administra- and finance at Chicago State Feb. 3 in Portland. He lived for mative action. In 2018 she re- associate dean in the College Verlyne “Brownie” is survived by her husband, tion. His wife, Linda, a son University. He also chaired the many years in Kansas, where UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY ceived the Pioneer Award from of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Remund, 87, Jan. 23 in Bruce, assoc.; a son, Marc, and two granddaughters department from 1985 to ’93. he had a long career in banking Leonora Elkin Barker, ’43, the Emily Taylor Center for vice chancellor for research, Lenexa, where she retired d’74, g’81; a daughter, Wendy survive. He led the KU Black Alumni before becoming the execu- 96, Jan. 21 in Lawrence, where Women & Gender Equity. She graduate studies and public after a 20-year career as an Linton Blackwell, c’77, g’92; Doug Kelley, b’76, g’77, 66, Network as president from tive director of the ACLU of she retired after nearly 30 years is survived by her husband, Den- service. She led the Graduate operating room nurse at KU four grandchildren; and two Jan. 20 in Missouri City, Texas, 2010 to ’11 and received the Kansas and Western Missouri. as an administrative assistant nis, g’69, PhD’80; a son, James Center at the City University Medical Center. A daughter, great-grandchildren. where he retired as executive Mike and Joyce Shinn Lead- Surviving are his husband, at the School of Education. “Oz” Wille, ’80; two daughters, of New York from 1991 to three grandchildren and seven Joan Rice, assoc., 93, Oct. vice president at Colt Inter- ers and Innovators Award. In John Forsgren; three sons; A memorial has been estab- Nancy Masterson Reinking, 2005. Survivors include two great-grandchildren survive. 9 in Walnut Creek, Cali- national. He is survived by his 2011 he was honored with the his mother, Nancy Morsbach lished with KU Endowment. j’83, and Carol Masterson Fras- sons, Benjamin Levi, ’79, and Mark Richter, 69, Dec. fornia, where she managed wife, Jana Dye Kelley, j’76; Association’s Dick Wintermo- Winter, ’54; two brothers, Surviving are a son, Bruce, er, f ’85; a brother; six grandchil- Jason Horowitz, ’87. 26 in Lecompton. He was John Burton Machine Corp. a daughter; his parents; four te Volunteer of the Year Award Winton, c’75, l’78, and Adam, j’70; a daughter, Bonnie Barker dren; and a great-grandson. Virginia “Ginny” John- professor of molecular bio- Survivors include her husband, brothers, one of whom is Mark, for outstanding service in his b’86; and two sisters, Mary Meeder, c’72; four grandsons; Patricia Friedman, 82, Dec. ston, 91, Dec. 5 in Deer River, sciences and twice served as Harold Burton Rice, e’49; and d’85, c’90; four sisters; and two network. A memorial has been Winter-Stingley, d’77, and and five great-grandchildren. 2 in Lawrence, where she was Minnesota. She was the first department chair. A memo- a daughter, Lynn Rice Knize, granddaughters. established with KU Endow- Anne “CeCe,” ’86. Howard Boyajian, 94, Dec. a records clerk at KU Endow- chair of the department of rial has been established with ’73. Sue Brown Lollis, g’76, 80, ment. Survivors include his 4 in Lawrence, where he was ment. Survivors include her clinical laboratory science KU Endowment. Survivors Roger Sevedge, assoc., Nov. 4 in Norman, Oklahoma. wife, Corliss, assoc.; two sons; 1990s Amy Asher, f ’98, professor emeritus of music husband, Phillip, c’59; two sons, at KU Medical Center. Two include his wife, Kimber 84, Oct. 27 in Shawnee. He She taught English literature, and a daughter. 43, Dec. 9 in Kansas City. She and chaired the strings section. one of whom is Shawn, ’87; a sis- daughters, a son, eight grand- Paschall Richter, g’94, g’96, was president of Artco Casket composition and humanities was an artist and landscape He is survived by a daughter, ter, Elizabeth Hiss Brower, c’65; children and 11 great-grand- PhD’98; three sons, two of Company. Surviving are a son, for nearly 25 years at Rose 1980s Marion Palmer designer. A memorial has Julie Boyajian Lind, c’82; a son, and a brother. children survive. whom are Nicholas, ’13, and Keith, j’80, l’83; a daughter, State College in Midwest City, Jewell, c’80, 98, Dec. 16 in been established with KU Mark, c’89; and six grandchil- Goodwin “Goody” Garfield, Lynne Hinkel Lipsey, g’02, Loren, ’16; a daughter; a Amy Sevedge Ogden, assoc.; a Oklahoma. Surviving are her Lawrence, where she was a Endowment. Surviving are her dren. PhD’80, 95, March 11 in Law- 73, Jan. 10 in Lawrence, where sister; three grandchildren; sister; five grandchildren; and husband, David, two sons and longtime volunteer at KU’s husband, Arian Gimbutas; a John “Jack” Bushman, rence. He was professor emeritus she worked in continuing four step-grandchildren; six seven great-grandchildren. eight grandchildren. Audio-Reader. A memorial daughter; her parents, Bob and g’66, 80, Dec. 8 in Ottawa. of social welfare and served as education. She is survived by great-grandchildren; and eight Vincent Vermooten, assoc., Nancy Snow Hale has been established with KU Marie Hutcheson Asher, d’69; He was professor emeritus of director of field practicum from her husband, Dick, g’88, g’96; step-great-grandchildren. 82, Jan. 3 in Lawrence. He was Martinko, EdD’79, 74, Jan. 7 Endowment. She is survived and a brother, Bob Jr., a’97. teaching and leadership. A 1984 to ’99, and also served as two daughters, Kelly Lipsey an attorney and volunteered in Lawrence, where she retired by two daughters, Kathy Karen Mitchell Finkbiner, memorial has been established faculty adviser to KU Hillel in Yates, d’99, and Kerry Lipsey ASSOCIATES at KU’s Audio-Reader. A as assistant superintendent Jewell Schilmoeller, c’69, PharmD’92, 52, Jan. 10 in with KU Endowment. Surviv- the ’80s and ’90s. A memorial Smalley, d’99; a brother; and Hans Fischer, assoc., 87, memorial has been established of Ottawa Public Schools. A g’73, PhD’78, and Glee Jewell Lawrence, where she managed ing are two sons, one of whom has been established with KU a sister. Aug. 27 in Lawrence. He was with KU Endowment. He is memorial has been established Garlie, d’81; three sons, Jim, the oncology pharmacy at is Eric, ’07; a brother; and two Endowment. Surviving are his Rhetta Jo Noever, ’59, 84, an architect and worked on survived by his wife, Virginia with KU Endowment. She j’77, Glenn, c’85, and Bill, ’15; Lawrence Memorial Hospital. grandchildren. wife, Shirley Smith Garfield, Jan. 5 in Lawrence, where for more than 50 library projects “Ginger” Koger Vermooten, is survived by her husband, eight grandchildren; and four Survivors include her husband, Robert Carlson, 82, Nov. 26 ’80; two sons, one of whom is more than 40 years she was an in Kansas. Surviving are his c’68; a son, David, e’00, l’06; Edward, and a brother. great-grandchildren. Eric, p’91; two sons, one of in Lawrence, where he was pro- David, c’88; a daughter; and a administrator at the School of wife, Iris, assoc.; four sons; a a daughter; a sister; and two Harold Wayne Powers, Marianne McGarry Lafex, whom is Ian, d’18; her father; fessor emeritus of chemistry. A grandson. Business. A memorial has been sister; and four grandchildren. granddaughters. j’70, 72, Jan. 3 in Leawood, d’83, g’99, 73, Jan. 31 in and a sister, Suzanne Mitchell memorial has been established Samuel Gunther, 71, Jan. 14 established with KU Endow- Mark Hill, assoc., 68, Dec. Gene Wuellner, assoc., 86, where he was an attorney and Olathe, where she retired after Broddle, d’84. with KU Endowment. He is in Lawrence, where he retired as ment. A brother, Kenneth 30 in Hoxie, where he ran the Dec. 7 in Leawood, where he partner at Wallace Saunders. teaching for 25 years. Surviving Greg Shaw, ’96, 51, Dec. survived by his wife, Nancy; a senior plumber at facilities ser- Noever, b’72, survives. family farm. He is survived by was a builder and developer. A memorial has been estab- are her husband, Arthur, g’13; 12 in Pittsburg, where he was daughter, Christina, ’88; a son; vices. Two daughters, a son and Kirby Ostrander, d’81, his wife, Sueanne, assoc.; three Surviving are his wife, Cindy lished with KU Endowment. three daughters, Suzanne Lafex a teacher and theatre director and a granddaughter. five grandchildren survive. 62, Dec. 27 in Hiawatha. He daughters, one of whom is Henley Frewen Wuellner, a’77, He is survived by his wife, Jerre Ciotti, c’91, m’95, Elizabeth at Pittsburg High School. He Marcia Adelman Cooper, Robert Hohn, 79, Dec. 25 in was a custodial supervisor at Kelsey Hill Galle, c’12; a son; PhD’09; a son; a daughter; and Dunaway Powers, ’71; a daugh- Lafex Czamanske, c’94, g’20, earned many awards for his ’02, 73, Dec. 20 in Kansas Lawrence, where he was profes- KU Memorial Unions. He two sisters; a brother; and six a brother. ter; and three grandchildren. and Sarah Lafex McDonald, productions. Surviving are City. She worked in member- sor of educational psychology is survived by two sons, one grandchildren.

KANSAS ALUMNI 86 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 87 PHOTO FINISH

Across from Twente Hall, spade work by campus caretakers—not “The Pioneer”—in one of Mount Oread’s more hidden nooks led to a bounty of blossoms, harbingers of spring and of better days to come.

Photograph by Steve Puppe

KANSAS ALUMNI 86 ISSUE 2 | SPRING 2021 87 HAIL TO OLD KU

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2021! KU Archives (2) Archives KU ROCK CHALK The University of Kansas Libraries are honored FOREVER A to walk with Jayhawks every step of the way throughout their journey on the Hill. We wish you JAYHAWK the best of luck as you leave the nest and look to learning. Basketball will never again be forward to your continued played there, thankfully, but gone, too, friendship. are the performances and public lectures that made for memorable Mount Oread evenings. Ella Fitzgerald. Coleman Hawkins. Benny Goodman. Sen. John F. Kennedy. Walter Cronkite. Edward Albee. Truman Capote. George Carlin. Louis Arm- strong. Will Durant. André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra (four MOUNT OREAD performers fainted during that September 1974 concert, Clark noted; when Previn Gone, but not forgotten returned with the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1981, his musicians, upon being told Anniversary of Hoch Auditorium’s fiery finale they’d have to change into their formal

rekindles memories, fond and otherwise attire down the Hill in Murphy Hall, retal- KU Libraries are proud to support every iated by performing in jeans). class and each generation of Jayhawk June 15 marks the 30th anniversary of room was a janitor’s closet, and performers Philip Glass. Leontyne Price. Itzhak Per- scholars. KU University Archives, 1990. Hoch Auditorium’s destruction by light- had to cross through the basement to get lman. Isaac Stern. Tom Wolfe. Allen Gins- ning strike and raging fire. The “academic to the other side of the stage.” berg. Kurt Vonnegut. The Bill T. Jones and and cultural matriarch of the University And don’t forget the basketball games. Alvin Ailey dance companies. Bob Marley, family,” as then described in these pages by Nearly 30 years of basketball games. Yes, Louis Farrakhan, Steve Martin. Lynyrd Bill Woodard, j’00, Hoch has been gone the stage was designed in the 1920s to Skynyrd. Molly Hatchet. The Beach Boys. Your gift to KU nearly half as long as it existed. accommodate a court, but only barely, and And let us not—now nor ever—forget Libraries supports Nostalgia for old Hoch comes easily it was supposed to be a temporary measure Vespers’ candlelight processions down every Jayhawk: now, thanks to the distance of decades. until the state came up with funds for KU Hoch’s long aisles. Even Hoch looked lib.ku.edu/friend But at the time of its demise, the 1927 to open an indoor sports arena—which, good when so illuminated. Yes, Vespers structure, designed to serve too many surprise surprise, didn’t happen until 1955. and Rock Chalk Revue have a stunning purposes (all adequately, none elegantly), Hoch’s most notable feature, the new home at the Lied Center, but might was remembered—at least in part—for its Collegiate Gothic façade that lent an air those of us of a certain classic vintage be notable blemishes. of majesty to Jayhawk Boulevard, was, of allowed to retain our special fondness for “Hoch Auditorium wasn’t easy to love,” course, saved. Thanks to tireless work by Hoch’s hallmark events? observed Jerri Niebaum Clark, j’88, in the Chancellor Gene Budig and other deter- We shall not forget, but neither shall July/August 1991 issue of Kansas Alumni. mined Jayhawks, the structure was rebuilt we be maudlin. At the time of its dramatic Ugly water stains from a leaky roof. Un- with three high-tech (for the time) audi- finale, Hoch Auditorium was a dangerous even—to be kind—acoustics, lighting and toria, prep areas for chemistry and biology dinosaur, long past its due date. We mourn sight lines. A dangerous chandelier hover- lectures and much-needed computer labs its loss, but mostly remain thankful that ing high above like a sword of Damocles, in the basement. its rapid demise came on a stormy summer reminding all of the perilousness of their It’s safe to say that Budig Hall is a busier Saturday afternoon, empty and alone, perches. “Backstage,” Clark wrote, “was as daily hub than Hoch Auditorium ever injuring none with its funeral pyre. accommodating as an alley. The dressing was, and it is clean and safe and conducive —Chris Lazzarino

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