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28 24 34 COVER STORY Street Fighter Art in the Parks By the Book As chairman of the FDIC, Wolf Trap director Terre Jones Sheila Bair was at the forefront marks his retirement with a e new “Common Book” of the U.S. government’s book and an ambitious program challenges freshmen response to the global nancial performance series that pays to ponder their place in the meltdown. Her new book homage to America’s national University community—inside details what went wrong and parks. and outside the classroom. how to stop it from happening again. By Jennifer Jackson Sanner By Chris Lazzarino By Steven Hill
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ISSUE 6, 2012 | 3 Lift the Chorus wife, who used a wheelchair, pick out a pair of shoes. I did not know until that day that she was struggling with multiple sclerosis. a er serving three-and-a-half Professor Wolfe introduced years in the Air Force. We me to his wife in a gentle way, married Aug. 17, 1947, and and it was obvious that he spent our senior year together. loved her very much, just as he I believe Ed Wolfe was one loved his students. reason we were chosen to sing e moment was deeply the leads in “ e Mikado.” e moving. I’ll never forget his performance took place in old compassionate commitment to Fraser (the stairs and stage teaching and writing, but he were creaky even then) and the balanced that out with the We look out for newspaper wrote up the fact loving way he cared for her. that we shared a dressing at chance meeting stayed Ed Wolfe, too room, but it was legal. with me forever. I’m only sorry Ah, memories! KU is such a I failed to tell him how much “I L O E beautiful place in my heart. his kindness, gentle encourage- Mitchell W ” by Robert Day [issue Jane Byers, f’48 ment and personal inspiration No. 5] brought back happy Boulder, Colo. meant to me. He was a real memories. Freshman honors mensch. Self portrait English under Professor Wolfe A , So thanks to Robert Day for was one of the highlights of I had so many wonderful, his stellar piece on Wolfe and I that year. brilliant, inspiring, witty his impact on other writers. Ed when I came upon a picture of I had many outstanding professors on Mount Oread Wolfe is greatly missed. myself in Kansas Alumni, in an professors throughout my four that it’s hard to pick a favorite. Carol McMillen-Benson, c’62 ad celebrating Kansas Public years on the Hill, but Professor But I can say I loved one: Modesto, Calif. Radio’s 60th anniversary. Wolfe topped the list. Edgar Wolfe. My rst job a er graduation A er I graduated, I wrote to He was so upbeat and O N . , was continuity editor for the thank him and received a most encouraging with his students, Robert Day refers to Ten station. It wasn’t quite 60 years gracious letter in return. but above all, he was gentle Sleeps, Wyoming. ago, but close. I was there anks to Mr. Day for remind- and humble. As he did with so Although this may be the when Dick Wright was music ing me of that classroom in old many others (Robert Day correct form as far as grammar librarian. Monte Moore did Fraser and of the very special included), he made me feel I is concerned, the name of the play-by-play for the Jayhawks Ed Wolfe. might one day be a published town is actually Ten Sleep. and had an oce there. I loved Coralyn Stayton Bugg, author. I enjoyed the article, but Ed it, but was there only from c’57, Clinton, Ky. Ed Wolfe cared—about good Wolfe would have no doubt 1956 to 1958, when I married writing and about his students. docked Mr. Day a few points and moved from Lawrence. M , C One day I went looking for a for sloppy spelling. anks for the memories. B, and I met in Alice new pair of shoes in downtown Stephen L. Skinner, c’70 Shirley Jones Mitchell, j’56 Moncrief’s studio. He was Lawrence and was stunned to Boulder, Colo. Kansas City, Mo. taking his rst voice lesson see Professor Wolfe helping his Cancer hope
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by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word
s a KU senior, Apryl Tillman
PUPPE “College is all about
Akeeps in touch with the friends VE she made as a freshman in Ellsworth STE getting out of your Hall. “We still have our basketball comfort zone—in a good group for camping out at Allen Field House,” she explains. way.” —Apryl Tillman Tillman also still lives on Daisy Hill. As a resident assistant in Templin Hall, she now helps members of the Class of 2016 feel at home. “I had a great in an essay called “Back to Buxton,” experience as a freshman, and I wanted Biss describes her tearful reaction to to give that back,” says Tillman, who a documentary about Buxton, an came to Lawrence from the Notre early-20th-century coal mining town Dame de Sion School in Kansas City, in Iowa that thrived as an all-black Mo. She took her chances on room- community. Former residents wistfully mates in the “pot luck” system, which recalled the long-gone town as “a she recommends for all freshmen. utopia.” As they recounted their “College is all about getting out of struggles in adjusting to new communi- your comfort zone—in a good way,” ties, Biss, who had moved several times she says. from her original home in New e University requires all RAs to England, felt kinship. move into their quarters two weeks e same was true for the Templin before the freshmen appear, lugging freshmen, Tillman says. ey identi ed Tillman clothes, bedding, co ee makers and, in with the story of Marjorie, who moved some cases, he y anxiety. To help new Jayhawks shoulder their from the comfort of Buxton to predominantly white Cedar loads, Tillman and her fellow welcoming warriors completed a Rapids at age 12. Tillman started one discussion by reading a thorough training regimen, including discussions and role quote from Marjorie: “And then all at once, with no warning, I no playing that are helpful not only in an RA’s role but also in longer existed. ... e shock of my life was to go to Cedar Rapids everyday life, says Tillman, whose warm smile and easy laughter and nd out that I didn’t exist. ... I had to unlearn that Marjorie no doubt coax conversation from timid freshmen. “I’ve learned to was an important part of a community.” listen and not talk over others,” she says. In an utterly di erent time and context, KU freshmen con- is year’s crash course for RAs added a new element: a book to nected with Marjorie, Tillman says. “It was the same for them. spur discussion on every residence-hall oor of freshmen across ey le people they had known their whole lives, and they were campus. Notes from No Man’s Land, an award-winning collection nobody.” Tillman, who remembers calling her mom during her of essays by Eula Biss, is this year’s KU Common Book. own lonely freshman moments, o ered counsel to younger As Chris Lazzarino describes in our cover story, KU Common students. “It’s all about creating a sense of belonging, of nding Book is part of a new rst-year experience program designed to your place,” she says. “We are all di erent but we can relate help freshmen succeed—and stay at the University. Improving the to others.” retention rate among freshmen is one of Chancellor Bernadette She cites a favorite example. is Gray-Little’s chief goals. Notes from No Man’s Land, in which Biss semester, when she was on front-desk writes powerfully about the concepts of race, family, neighbor- duty at Templin, a student from her hood and community in America, emerged as the choice of oor stopped by to give her a piece faculty, sta and students. Biss, who teaches non ction writing at of pie, topped with a touching Northwestern University, manages to startle, captivate, enrage and explanation. “His parents were from engage readers through her personal confessions and questions. India, and he said, ‘In my family, when As Tillman attests, “It is di cult; it’s not what you’re used to it’s our birthday, we give a gi to our elders, coming out of high school,” she says. “It’s not Jane Austen or a so I’m giving this to you as a sign of respect,” Tillman recalls, history text.” beaming. “It was awesome.” at, of course, is exactly the point. Midway through the book, A slice of home to savor.
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 7 On the Boulevard
KU’s 100th Homecoming parade on Friday evening, Oct. 26, began at the Chi Omega fountain and traveled eastward down Jayhawk Boulevard to the Adams Alumni Center. Among its many enthusiastic participants, the parade featured the KU colorguard, Big Jay and the 1912 Jayhawk. Olympic Gold medalist Diamond Dixon (below) served as Grand Marshal.
Exhibitions 6 KU Jazz Vespers concert 30 KU Percussion Ensem- Lectures 6 Instrumental Collegium ble concert, Swarthout “Politics as Symbol/Symbol Recital Hall as Politics,” Spencer Museum Musicum, Bales Organ NOVEMBER Recital Hall of Art, through Jan. 27 DECEMBER 26 “Women’s Access to 12 Disney’s “Beauty and Credit in Africa,” Elizabeth “ e Drop-In/Pop-Up 1 KU Horn Ensemble Waiting Room Project,” the Beast” Asiedu, Hall Center for the Holiday concert, Swarthout Humanities Spencer Museum of Art, Recital Hall through Jan. 27 27 “ ink Social Equity,” Murphy Hall 4 Rock Chalk Singers, “KU Common Work of Art,” H. George Frederickson, Swarthout Recital Hall Kansas Union Spencer Museum of Art, NOVEMBER through 2013 16 Community Music 28 “Keats in America,” Ann 10-11, 15-18 “Into the School Recital, Swarthout Rowland, Hall Center for Woods,” by James Lapine, Recital Hall the Humanities Lied Center Cra on-Preyer eatre 17-19 KU Opera, “Trouble DECEMBER NOVEMBER in Tahiti & Arias and 7 “International Ocers 27 Symphonic and Barcarolles,” Robert Baustian Experience American University Bands eatre Military Education,” John 28 KU Trombone Choir, Clune, Hall Center for the DECEMBER Swarthout Recital Hall Humanities 2 KU Pre-Vespers concerts, 29, 30, Dec. 1-5 “If the Bales Organ Recital Hall Whole Body Dies,” by Robert 2 KU Holiday Vespers Skloot, William Inge eatre concerts
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DECEMBER 30 Southwest Jayhawk 17 KU Night with the Academic Calendar Tumble, Liberal Phoenix Suns, Suns vs. 6 Post-Election Conference, 30 Sacramento Kings NOVEMBER Dole Institute of Politics TGIF, Adams Alumni Center 21 TGIF, Adams Alumni 21-25 anksgiving break 11 “Sam Stryke’s Holiday Center Concert,” piano, Regnier DECEMBER DECEMBER Hall, KU Edwards Campus JANUARY 1 Washington, D.C., Bus 10-14 Finals week Trip, KU vs. West Virginia 18 TGIF, Adams Alumni 15-Jan. 22 Winter break Association events 8 KU eatre, New York Center City NOVEMBER Special Events 8 Great Plains Chapter bus For details about Association 16 Journalism alumni trip, Garden City, KU vs. events, call 800-584-2957 or Colorado NOVEMBER reception, Washington, D.C. visit www.kualumni.org. 17 8 KU Night with Portland 17 Annual USO-style Gala, Game Day at the Adams, Trailblazers, Trailblazers vs. Dole Institute of Politics KU vs. Iowa State, Adams Alumni Center Sacramento Kings Directory
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ISSUE 6, 2012 | 9 Jayhawk Walk didn’t do that, I heard about it.” When Lund’s route ended, he couldn’t collect the last $7.50 from the Trumans and the money came from his own pocket. He o en saw Truman
PUPPE on his famous constitutionals VE (and even shook his hand a STE time or two) a er the president retired, but never mentioned the debt to him. “I was afraid to,” he says with a laugh. “I just let it ride.” It rode all the way to 2011, when Lund shared the story at a KU Osher Lifelong Learning Institute course at Tallgrass Creek, the Overland Park retirement community where he lives. When Tallgrass Creek organized a “We’re Just Wild About Harry” celebration this May, the Truman Library and Museum sent a Truman impersonator with a surprise for Lund: $56.63, his long-lost Four wheelin’ fun says. “I hadn’t thought about it that way payment, plus 65 years of before, but he’s right.” interest. kateboarder Garrett Rathbone is Rathbone is hardly just skatin’ by, “He paid out one dollar at a content to celebrate his national however. He’s a film major who will time and told a story a er each S one,” says Lund. He believes championship without Mass Street fan- graduate in May, and he works as a web Harry—who famously refused fare. The McPherson senior and winner developer for KU’s Oce of Marketing to declare bankruptcy when of the Alt Games National College Skate- Communications. If professional skate- his haberdashery failed— boarding Championships last August in boarding doesn’t pan out, he’ll happily would approve. “He was a very Huntington Beach, Calif., just wants to launch his career in computers. nice person when he would skate and hang out with his friends. “My parents are just happy that I meet you, and he always paid “A friend of mine in K.C. came out with found a passion,” Rathbone says, “and his debts.” a skate documentary and one of the guys I’m very happy I have, too. Skateboard-
interviewed said something along the ing for me is fun, and I’m going to be PUPPE lines of, ‘I don’t know what people do all doing it until I don’t have fun anymore.” VE STE day if they don’t skateboard,’” Rathbone That’s just how he rolls.
Presidential ington, D.C. But rst lady Bess papers Truman was o en home, and she had strict standards for I , -- J delivery. Lund’s paper route in Indepen- “She wanted the paper in the dence, Mo., included the home exact spot so she could open of Harry S. Truman, who then the door and get it without spent most of his time at 1600 walking very far out on the Pennsylvania Ave., in Wash- porch,” recalls Lund, a’55. “If I Lund
10 | KANSAS ALUMNI important social issues.” PUPPE And we don’t even have to VE STE wait until Dec. 22. SUSAN YOUNGER SUSAN Principal foes
E V H is a school divided. e Vail, Colo., institution is a KU-K-State battleground because of an unusually spirited staff. In New world orders one corner is Tami Payne, j’93, assistant principal, who I ’ to investigate the real story of the ancient her KU years as Baby Jay. In Maya and their alleged thedanced other and corner flipped is Principalthrough predictions for Dec. 21, 2012, Greg Doan, who prowled check out “2012: Science & purple country as K-State’s Prophecy of the Ancient Willie the Wildcat mascot. Maya,” a new iPad app now ankfully, both Payne and Lovely parting gift available on the iBookstore in Doan match their respective 32 countries worldwide. school enthusiasm with ince 1873, graduating seniors have used class gifts to John Hoopes, associate healthy senses of humor—and Sleave their mark on campus. You’d think that after 140 professor of anthropology and perhaps waning exibility. years, coming up with new ideas might be tough. What do an expert on all things Mayan, “ ere might be tension if we you get the university with everything? Another toaster? is one of many contributors to were in Kansas, but because No problem for the graduates of 2012, whose Commence- the dazzling new app. With we’re in Colorado, we’re the ment coincided with the 100th birthday of the 1912 Jay- 3-D animations, interactive only two who care,” says Doan. hawk—the first drawing of KU’s iconic mascot, produced maps and drawings, video “ e whole oce isn’t divided; interviews and an interactive it’s just me versus her.” by student cartoonist Henry Maloy. Class leaders com- puzzle of Maya glyphs all When they were asked at missioned Wichita artist Tina Murano of Murano Studios supporting a 32,000-word their rst school meeting to create a mosaic tile mural of the first bird. Installed in book by Mark Van Stone, the to describe some- May, before the latest grads flew the coop, the leggy legend e-book is the hippest way yet thing unique stands tall at Wescoe Hall’s Underground—a totem of old- to cut through the hype. school tradition, from the new school, with love. Hoopes has spent years monitoring the hysteria surrounding predictions the world will end Dec. 21, and about themselves, both herself at KU. As an outstand- he’s delighted that pleas by mentioned their animated ing gymnast, she took ight as himself and other pasts. “We thought that was Baby Jay, and fans took notice. scholars seem to have just a kick in the pants,” Payne “I was the only tumbling and been heard and many says. “I give him a hard time ying mascot in the nation at who once were because the one time I was that time,” Payne says. panicked now see kidnapped as Baby Jay was at Payne and Doan insist the Dec. 21 as a golden K-State, so I say, ‘You were high school is neutral territory, opportunity. involved in that, weren’t but both admit the coincidence “Where do we you?’” (Fortunately the KU is too funny to ignore. “Two want the world to Spirit Squad rescued her in mascots, rival schools, way go and what do we short order.) out here? Now how did that want the world to be like?” Although Baby Jay’s happen?” Doan asks. Hoopes says. “ is creates a identity is usually a secret, Someone up there must ARRY LEROY PEARSON LEROY ARRY
space for discourse about Payne made a name for have a sense of humor. L
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 11 Hilltopics by Steven Hill
PUPPE On a U.S. trip that included a stop at the VE United Nations in New York City, STE Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos visited Mount Oread to meet with students (including KU soccer players and Colombia natives Ingrid Vidal and Liana Salazar), the news media and the public.
by asking Santos a question. “I gured I wouldn’t have the chance again, so I asked him about his role as a mediator between the U.S. and Venezuela. ... He talked about his relationship with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and his friendship with President Obama.” Santos returned to Lawrence at the invitation of Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, who visited him in Bogota in State visit with students from the University Honors March 2011 (Kansas Alumni’s cover story Program, who were awestruck to be in the on Santos, “ e Gamble,” Issue No. 3, Santos returns to alma mater same room with a world leader. “As an 2011, included their meeting). From alumnus he has accomplished so much,” Lawrence he traveled to the U.N. General arly in the morning on Sept. 24, Juan said Micah Melia, a Prairie Village Assembly in New York. EManuel Santos, b’73, took a nostalgic sophomore. “I really enjoyed his com- A er beginning his career at his family’s walk down Jayhawk Boulevard, the same ments about walking down Jayhawk newspaper, El Tiempo, Santos accepted his path he followed as a student. is time he Boulevard a er 40 years. at’s an rst political role as minister of trade and was anked not by his Delta Upsilon experience we share, no matter how went on to serve as minister of nance and fraternity brothers but by his ever-present di erent our lives are.” minister of defense. In that latter role, he security team. Santos is no ordinary Will Dale, a Topeka junior, said he was earned praise for reforming the military Jayhawk; he is president of Colombia and struck by the magnitude of his opportu- and aggressively pursuing the militant KU’s only head of state. Just one week nity as he sat near students from Colom- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia before his visit to Lawrence, Colombia had bia. “ ey were freaking out, and they said (FARC). Colombians elected Santos as captured a prominent drug lord in they would never have had the opportu- their leader in 2010. Venezuela, so Santos’ security team was nity at home to be in the same room as As president, Santos has taken bold on high alert. their president,” he recalled. “ ey were so steps to end his nation’s civil war. One was Despite his entourage, Santos’ moments excited to tell their families.” Dale decided e Victims and Land Restitution Act, on the Boulevard conjured vivid memo- he should make the most of the moment which he described during his visit in a ries. Later that morning, he described his campus walk to members of the press. “I must confess I’m very moved by this experience a er 40 years being back at my “During your university life, you consolidate those alma mater,” he said. “A very important principles, values and experiences you have as a part of my career was made at KU and it has helped me tremendously. It is helping student. They give you the instruments to be me still as president.” successful in life.” —President Juan Manuel Santos Before his press conference, Santos met { }
12 | KANSAS ALUMNI task would be daunting, but he remained Home on the Hill optimistic. “I have no doubt that when we make the nal decision there will be Capitol Federal gift people on both extremes who will not be satis ed,” he told Lacy and the packed jump-starts business school’s house at the Dole Institute, “but if the expansion eort majority takes the decision and we negotiate a good agreement, then that is hen Chancellor Bernadette Gray- the only solution we can have.” WLittle arrived at KU in 2009, one of
ELSEY KIMBERLIN, KU MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS ELSEY KIMBERLIN, KU On a lighter note, Santos shared the rst alumni to visit was Jack Dicus. K highlights from his student years. Dicus, b’55, chairman emeritus of “ e rst car I had in my life I bought Capitol Federal Savings, bestowed a gi on here as a student,” he recalled. “I was in the the new chancellor: A 1941-’42 K Book, a business school and I invested in a small pocket-sized guidebook handed out to KU enterprise called Pizza Hut. I had some students once upon a time by the YWCA money that I had earned from my poker and YMCA. games, and the stock went up, so I was Holding up the little red book Oct. 4 able to buy a car for the rst time in my during a reception at the Lied Center to public interview at the Dole Institute of life.” announce an important new donation to Politics with institute director Bill Lacy. At the end of his visit, Santos received the University, Gray-Little said she took “We need to start healing the wounds of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences that welcoming present three years ago as 50 years,” he said, “so I presented to our Alumni Distinguished Achievement “a sign of things to come.” congress an audacious piece of legislation Award from Dean Danny Anderson, g’82, What came was a $20 million lead gi that allowed me to start repairing victims PhD’85. Santos said he would proudly that will cover one-third of the cost of a of the conict and start giving back to the display the bronze Jayhawk as a reminder much-needed and long-sought new home peasants the land that was taken away of KU’s impact on his life. “During your for the School of Business, which has from them by the violence.” university life, you consolidate those come to feel that its aging Summer eld is month, the world watches as principles, values and experiences you Hall quarters are holding it back. Santos begins unprecedented negotiations have as a student,” he said. “ ey give you “We’ve outgrown our capacity in two with FARC in Cuba in an attempt to end the instruments to be successful in life.” ways,” says Dean Neeli Bendapudi, the conict. Santos acknowledged that —Jennifer Jackson Sanner PhD’95, noting that one-fourth of incom-
UPDATE
n MD/PhD student in the attack cancer by destroying come back,” Stecklein says. ASchool of Medicine has cancer cells’ DNA. “We’ve found a way that we ON IPOCK
published findings that suggest The drug, Stecklein found, can target at least one D a more e¦ective way to treat disables a protein that helps the mechanism” that helps residual cancer. body repair DNA damage. cells recover. Shane Stecklein, c’06, Repairing damaged DNA is Stecklein began researching PhD’12, who is completing his normally a good thing, but not cancer as a KU undergraduate MD at KU Medical Center, when the DNA is in a cancer and decided to become a found that the drug cell. physician-scientist in oncology. tanespimycin, now in clinical “Often these treatments He’s the lead author on the trials, can increase the work very well, but there are paper, which appeared in the e¦ectiveness of chemotherapy residual cells that withstand the Proceedings of the National and radiation treatments, which e¦ects, and given time they Academy of Sciences.
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His late wife, Betty Bubb Dicus, b’55; son John B. Dicus, b’83, g’85, chairman, Ups and downs: Overall enrollment fell president and CEO of Capitol Federal; and for the fourth straight year, down 2.7 daughter-in-law Brenda Roskens Dicus, b’83. e Capitol Federal Foundation, the percent from 2011, but freshman class bank’s philanthropic arm, has made prior size increased 5.3 percent to 3,771, the gi s to KU, including a $2 million gi in 2001 to establish an endowed professor- highest since 2009. Freshmen also set ship at the School of Business. records for average ACT score (25.1) and Jack Dicus said those connections and the strong leadership of Dean Bendapudi racial diversity (21.3 percent minority). The Lawrence, were key to the foundation’s decision to Edwards and Medical Center campuses enrolled 27,939 make its largest gi ever—and the largest in School of Business history. students for 2012. “I think she is a great, great leader, and she made an outstanding presentation to our trustees,” Dicus said. “You want to help out when you hear that.” ing freshmen say they want to study “We believe that an outstanding School e new building will rise across business. “We literally have no room. But of Business deserves a great place to do Naismith Drive from Allen Field House, it’s not just that there’s no space. Our business, and that’s what we’re talking next to Robinson Gymnasium on land building doesn’t really prepare students for about today,” the chancellor said in now occupied by tennis courts. Plans call the work world, because there’s no accepting the gi , which is part of Far for KU to rebuild the courts elsewhere, technology. We don’t have room for Above: e Campaign for Kansas, the $1.2 and Summer eld Hall will house other collaboration.” billion capital campaign led by KU academic units. e new six-story building will o er Endowment. Dean Bendapudi hopes construction more space—166,000 square feet, 71,000 “We want a business school that will will begin by early 2014 and conclude in square feet more than Summer eld—and compete with not only any in the country, time for the 2015-’16 school year. She it will be con gured to encourage small but with any in the world, and that is the urged attendees at the Lied Center group learning and allow faculty and path we’re on.” celebration to work hard to ensure that students to meet outside of class. It will e Dicus family has strong KU ties. In today’s freshmen get a chance to use the also feature the newest technology and addition to Jack Dicus, three other family new building before they graduate. modern learning labs. members are business school graduates: “We need a total of over $60 million and we have $20 million, so obviously we have a long way to go,” Bendapudi said. “But we
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STE some good news coming.” e new space is expected to boost the number of undergraduate business degrees awarded annually from 500 to 750, and the number of graduate business degrees from 280 to 350. Tangible bene ts like increased elbow room and technology upgrades are important, but so are the priorities such a new project represents, Chancellor Gray-Little suggested. “Once this building is complete, not only is it going to be a great location, but it will be really a symbol of the aspirations of the University to new students, to poten- John B. Dicus, chairman, president and CEO of Capitol Federal Savings Bank, left, celebrated the tial students, to potential faculty and the Topeka bank’s $20 million School of Business gift with Baby Jay as Jack Dicus (right) and other community.” members of the Capitol Federal Foundation looked on.
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STE medical center faculty. His discovery, a gene called FtsZ, is a “key piece of the molecular machine” in bacteria cell division, Lutkenhaus says. In a seminal 1991 paper, he described how FtsZ guides cell division by forming a ring in the middle of the cell. e rst-of-its-kind nding led to the discovery that bacterial cells were much more complex than once thought and had things in common with larger and more complex eukaryotic cells, the type found in plants and animals. It also laid a foundation for the work of Losick and Shapiro. Lutkenhaus, who focuses his research on what some scientists say is the most well-understood Lutkenhaus organism on the planet, E. coli bacterium, says the two scientists took what he research that is widely viewed as a learned about E. coli and applied it to the Hail, Columbia precursor to the Nobel Prize. individual bacterium they study. Lutkenhaus will share the award with “FtsZ is one critical component of the Top science prize honors Richard Losick, the Maria Moors Cabot molecular machine that allows bacteria to med center researcher Professor of Biology at Harvard divide,” Lutkenhaus says. “We’ve discov- University, and Lucy Shapiro, the ered some others, and we’re trying to icrobiologist and University Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Chair in understand how they’re all assembled, how MDistinguished Professor Joe Cancer Research at Stanford University they’re connected.” Lutkenhaus is one of three scientists this School of Medicine. e Horwitz Prize, considered one of fall to win the 2012 Louisa Gross Horwitz Lutkenhaus discovered a key compo- the two top honors for achievement in Prize, a prestigious Columbia University nent of binary ssion, the process by biological and biochemistry research, has award for biological and biochemistry which bacteria cells divide, while a been awarded to 87 scientists since it was
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Her story BENNETT McSweeney’s and has been a made me feel part of history, ssayist, humorist and social columnist for Salon, Time and that it wasn’t something Ecommentator Sarah Vowell the opinion page of the New abstract.” read from her work and York Times. discussed her interest in history QUOTES: “I don’t know that as part of the Humanities BACKGROUND: Vowell’s six ANECDOTE: Vowell, who is I would say I’m good at history. Lecture Series sponsored by books on U.S. history and of Cherokee descent, recalled I think some of the ways I feel KU’s Hall Center for the culture take a humorous, highly how childhood time in about writing about it come Humanities. personal survey of some of the Oklahoma with relatives near from my lack of breadth and quirkier corners of Americana. the Trail of Tears shaped her depth on the subject. I kind of WHEN: Oct. 10 A regular contributor to the view of history and her start from scratch with my Public Radio International show approach to writing about it in projects, and I think they are WHERE: Woodru¦ “This American Life” from 1996 her work. “It made me think fairly informal and inviting to Auditorium, Kansas Memorial to 2008, she was also one of history wasn’t something that the reader because the reader Union the original contributors to happened to other people. It can learn along with me.”
16 | KANSAS ALUMNI founded in 1967. Forty-two have gone on to win a Nobel Prize. Milestones, money “It’s quite an honor. It’s one of the and other matters
premier prizes for basic research, and this ERSITY RELATIONS is the rst time it has been given to a microbiologist,” Lutkenhaus says. “When I n KU Endowment set a record for
look at the list of past winners, I’m UNI V COURTESY private giving in fiscal 2012, attracting amazed.” $156.5 million in gifts and future com- Lutkenhaus says he made a decision mitments. It’s the fifth straight record- when he decided to pursue a doctorate in setting year for Endowment, which is in microbiology a er earning his undergrad- Hall the midst of Far Above: The Campaign uate degree in organic chemistry. He for Kansas, a capital campaign that wanted to better understand how living Institute for Health and Disability Policy seeks to raise $1.2 billion for the Univer- things work, and he saw bacteria—and Studies, a collaboration between KU’s sity by 2016. Endowment won a 2012 speci cally, bacteria cell division—as an Center for Research on Learning and the Educational Fundraising Award from area that had gaps in scienti c under- Department of Health Policy and Manage- the Council for Advancement and Sup- standing. Gaps that he, perhaps, could ll. ment at KU Medical Center, wrote the port of Education (CASE) recognizing “My dad, who was a mechanic, used to analysis for the Commonwealth Fund, a exceptional development programs. KU ask me what I did,” Lutkenhaus recalls. “I private foundation. Hall and co-author was one of only seven public research/ said, ‘Well, if you took the engine of a car Janice Moore, c’72, g’83, s’96, compared doctoral universities in the nation to and you shrunk it down to below the size the A ordable Health Care Act’s Pre- receive the award. of the point of a pin and you now tried to Existing Condition Insurance Plan, which gure out how it worked and how it could has been in operation for almost two n Chris Elles, reproduce itself, that would be the sort of years, with state-run high-risk pools that assistant profes- thing I’m trying to do.’” existed before passage of the reform law. sor of chemistry,
In four decades, he’s gured out some of Nearly one in four Americans have ERSITY RELATIONS won a $650,000 the machine’s mystery. But not all. pre-existing conditions that make them Faculty Early “We found the engine,” Lutkenhaus says. uninsurable in the commercial market, Career Develop-
“But we haven’t put the whole car according to Hall. Putting them in a UNI V COURTESY ment Award from together.” separate pool leads to high premiums and the National high costs. “When you only have sick Science HEALTH CARE people in the pool it’s more expensive,” Foundation for Hall says. “When you include healthy his research on chemical reactions Coverage for all is key to people you spread the cost.” initiated by light. Fourteen of 19 eligible aordable care, researcher finds “Given the lack of a ordability of chemistry faculty have now received high-risk pool coverage at the individual the CAREER award, the most presti- A KU ’ of level and the high costs of plan operation, gious award for junior faculty given competing visions for health care reform the potential of high-risk pools as a vehicle by the NSF. suggests the A ordable Health Care Act for coverage expansion remains quite would more cheaply cover the nation’s limited,” Hall and Moore write. “In short, n The largest grant in KU history will uninsured than high-risk pools advocated the only way to make insurance a ordable allow the Life Span Institute to create by opponents of so-called Obamacare. for everyone is to make sure that everyone the Technical Assistance Center for In- Jean Hall, g’91, PhD’03, director of the has insurance.” clusive School-Wide Reform. The $24.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education was announced in Septem- ber. Wayne Sailor, professor of special education, is the principal investigator “I have a soft spot for Bob Dole, because he on the project, which builds on 20 years of research that suggests special educa- symbolizes a time when you could lose the tion students do better alongside other presidential election and not, like, actually become students than in separate classrooms. {}president.” —Sarah Vowell
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It’s the gift that keeps on giving. campus, which added 15 programs, two PUPPE Association to classroom buildings, a student union and a with online courses VE get at least a 10 STE To purchase a gift of membership, call 800-584-2957 or purchase online at conference center during his tenure. percent boost in Much of the growth was fueled by the T S N is teaming applications. www.kualumni.org/gift Johnson County Education Research with the state’s community colleges to Triangle initiative, which provides $5 make it easier for nurses with associate n A five-year, $11 million grant from million in annual tax funding to the degrees from those schools to obtain their the National Institutes of Health will campus. Clark helped lead the campaign bachelor degrees online at KU. create a Center for Biomedical Research to pass a referendum on the initiative, An agreement signed in September Excellence (COBRE) to study the molec- which voters approved by a wide margin eases the transition to KU for nursing ular basis of diseases such as cancer, in 2008. graduates at 17 community colleges in Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Hunting- “Bob Clark has led the Edwards Kansas and one in Kansas City. Students ton’s. The new Center for the Molecu- Campus through tremendous growth, who graduate from a participating lar Analysis of Disease Pathways will both in the campus itself and in the degree associate’s degree program in nursing with facilitate research by Susan Lunte, programs that are o ered,” said Chancellor at least a 2.5 GPA and pass the licensure Blake Peterson and Erik Lundquist. Bernadette Gray-Little. “ anks to his exam to become a Registered Nurse can leadership and the support of local sign up for KU’s RN-to-BSN program. e n KU Hospital saw a record number residents, we are better able to serve program requires students to complete 120 of patients in fiscal 2012. In-patient Kansas City than at any point before.” credit hours, including 60 hours in discharges reached 28,331, a 4.9 prerequisites and liberal arts curriculum. percent increase over 2011 and a 63 Much of the study can be completed at percent rise over the last decade. Out- either KU or a community college, but the patient visits also rose, up 45 percent last 30 hours will be completed online to 530,918, due largely to a merger with through the School of Nursing. Kansas City Cancer Center. Surgeries RICHARDSON A 2010 report from the Institute of increased 6.4 percent, to 18,867, and EARL Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Recent Grad Half-Price Recent Grad Jayhawk Generations Other Gift Ideas emergency visits were up 4.8 percent, Foundation, “ e Future of Nursing: to 47,771. The hospital served patients Life Membership* Annual Membership* Annual Membership Annual Membership–$55 Leading Change, Advancing Health,” from all 105 Kansas counties and 87 recommended more baccalaureate nurses, For 2007-2012 graduates For 2007-2012 graduates For ages 0-18 Life Membership–$1,000 percent of Missouri’s 114 counties. $500 $25 $15 says Nelda Godfrey, g’81, associate dean A 12-month installment plan is for undergraduate programs at the School n Thomas Taylor, Roy A. Roberts dis- available. of Nursing. A 12-month installment plan is Take advantage of great Your Jayhawk-in-training will tinguished professor and paleobotany “ ere are better patient outcomes with available. There’s no better way networking opportunities receive a special birthday card Strengthen your alma mater curator at the Biodiversity Institute higher levels of education at the bedside. to stay connected to the Hill through events and chapter from Baby Jay and a gift from and receive communications and Natural History Museum, won the It’s not just patient satisfaction. It Paleobotany Career Award from the and fellow Jayhawks. activities that put you in touch the Alumni Association with about happenings on the Hill. decreases mortality,” Godfrey says. “It’s Botanical Society of America in July for with fellow Jayhawks. each annual renewal. Start a that dramatic.” outstanding career contributions to his true blue tradition today! KU has o ered the RN-to-BSN field. In August, the Presidential * Recent grad rates are available for the fi rst fi ve years after completion of the last KU degree. program since 1996, but the new agree- Symposium of the IX International ment is designed to ease the transition Organisation of Paleobotany Confer- from two-year program to four-year ence was dedicated to Taylor, with program. papers presented by former students and colleagues. Clark www.kualumni.org • 800-584-2957 ISSUE 6, 2012 | 19 Sports by Chris Lazzarino Johnson started 38 of 39 games last season. He averaged 10.2 points a game, but ramped it to 13.3 during KU’s six NCAA Tournament games, including his rst career double-double (13 points and Guard in charge to be a leader, he is going to have to make 10 rebounds) in the semi nal against Ohio sure those guys’ heads are right to give us State. He staked out a vocal leadership Senior point guard Johnson the best chance.” position when dealing with swarms of It’s a responsibility that Johnson media, insisting that, unlike previous relishes leadership role welcomes. Intensely. teams that exited the tournament early, the for team relying on young talent “I literally want to be one of the best 2012 Jayhawks would concern themselves captains to ever come through here,” only with the game ahead of them; and yet Johnson says. “I de nitely took notes for he always deferred ocial leadership to oach Bill Self’s scouting report on 6-4 the last three years. I watched how Sherron senior point guard Tyshawn Taylor, Csenior Elijah Johnson hits nearly [Collins] ran the team, I watched how the explaining that the team’s intense focus— every quality he wants in his point guard: twins [Marcus and Markie Morris] ran which rst became noticeable with a road “He’s got size, he’s strong, he has range, he’s the team, and then I watched how victory over No. 6 Baylor four days a er got bounce, he can put it down and he has Tyshawn [Taylor] ran the team. I took the losing a heartbreaker at Missouri—ema- good vision. ... ere are not many better positives and the negatives, and threw the nated from Taylor. all-around guards out there.” negatives away to make it my own mix.” As soon as the Jayhawks returned from Self, entering his 10th season at New Orleans, a er beating Ohio KU and 19th overall, relies on State in the semifinals and losing PUPPE point-guard play as much as any VE to Kentucky, 67-59, in the NCAA coach in the country, and it’s STE championship game, Johnson assured that he’ll expect Johnson to immediately stepped forward and manage games with good deci- pronounced himself ready to take sions, strong ball handling, and an command. e ective outside shot that forces “In my eyes, Elijah grew up so defenses to relinquish some much during the tournament, pressure on the big men working with his game and his whole near the basket. persona,” says junior forward But Self also makes it clear that Justin Wesley. “He knew coming Johnson’s job description won’t be into this year that he was going to limited to ball skills and court have to be the leader, and he even presence: Among players expected stressed to the team, ‘Hey, guys, I to contribute signi cant minutes, want to be the leader, I want to be the Jayhawks have four seniors, the one you guys look to and I’m one junior, one sophomore and going to do the best job I can.’ And seven freshmen. ever since we’ve started workouts ere’s a lot of talent among the in the summer, he’s done that. He’s inexperienced Jayhawks—forward done such a great job.” Perry Ellis is a McDonald’s Another player whose game and All-American, forward Jamari stature grew during the Jayhawks’ Traylor has impressive strength run to the NCAA title game is and athletic moves, and guard Ben center Je Withey. e Big 12 McLemore has, in Self’s estima- Defensive Player of the Year set tion, “a chance to be one of the the record for blocks in an NCAA special ones who have come Tournament at 31, including 10 through here”—but they are still against North Carolina State in the young. Sweet 16. Without Big 12 Player of And impressionable. Elijah Johnson (15) and Je¦ Withey (5) both soared in last year’s the Year omas Robinson and his “I’m going to hold Elijah run to the NCAA Tournament championship game; as seniors on 17.7 points a game, Self says he’s responsible for how the freshmen a young team, they’re now expected to also shoulder added expecting Withey to crank up perform,” Self says. “If he wants leadership responsibilities. the scoring.
20 | KANSAS ALUMNI “I want Je to be an All-American-type guy,” Self says, “and I don’t think that it’s that big a reach. I think he is the best “I’m going to hold Elijah responsible for how the defensive guy in the country, and he may freshmen perform. If he wants to be a leader, he is have been that last year if you eliminate [Kentucky’s] Anthony Davis. But he has going to have to make sure those guys’ heads are got to develop o ensively. He had omas right to give us the best chance.” —Bill Self, on Elijah Johnson playing on the other side, so that made it a {} little bit easier for him. If he can just get a little bit more aggressive and consistent o ensively, I think he can de nitely be an PUPPE
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Withey fully grasped his status—and STE responsibility—as a senior on a freshman- heavy team when the Jayhawks gathered for their team picture. For the rst time in his athletic career, the 7-footer was directed to front row, center. “Sitting right next to coach Self, it’s a weird feeling, because for the last three years I’ve been in the back row,” Withey says. “You can kind of see it’s our team. It’s me, Elijah, Travis [Releford] and Kevin [Young’s] team. We have so many young guys; we have to show them the ropes. We have a great core. We have the really old guys and then we have really young guys. I Goodrich think it’s the perfect t. If we can all mesh at the right time, anything is possible.” Star power A&M in the conference tournament. Says Johnson, “We’ve got some talent But the NCAA Tournament took coming through. McDonald’s All-Ameri- Goodrich hopes next NCAA run Goodrich even higher. She was named cans, some real good shooters, some solid Player of the Game in a second-round ves. We have real good pieces. I’m not will be a full team eort upset of Delaware, scoring 27 points with really on defense right now. I’m ready to six assists and four rebounds, and scored attack.” ven before KU women’s basketball’s 23 with six assists against Tennessee in the Eimprobable dance through three Sweet 16. NCAA Tournament games, Angel e Jayhawks needed every bit of PUPPE
VE Goodrich engineered a remarkable season. Goodrich’s game, because they were STE e 5-4 point guard broke school and Big playing without all-conference forward 12 records while leading the nation in Carolyn Davis, who su ered a devastating assists, at 7.4 a game, and her 16 assists knee injury Feb. 12. With Davis working Feb. 8 against Texas were the most ever her way back to full speed, and players recorded in Allen Field House, including such as senior guard Monica Engelman, men’s teams. junior forward Tania Jackson, and She played 10 complete games, includ- sophomore forwards Bunny Williams and ing all 47 minutes of a double-overtime Chelsea Gardner poised to take on larger victory against Iowa State, and led the roles, Goodrich hopes another trip to the Big 12 with 37.47 minutes a game. She NCAA Tournament won’t rest entirely on scored what was then a career high 22 her determined shoulders. points in a road win at Texas, then scored “I personally do not want an individual 28 against No. 13 Texas A&M. Against all-star on our team,” Goodrich says. “I Oklahoma State, she collected 11 want it to be a team thing, where we go rebounds along with her 12 points, and out there and win because everybody is scored 21 with nine assists against Texas contributing as a team.”
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 21 Sports PUPPE VE STE Davis, who is wearing a brace on her “ at’s been my goal since the soothing the wounds repaired leg, says she is playing without end of last year, trying to be more of a one-win season pain, but coach Bonnie Henrickson will aggressive, trying to attack the rim in coach Charlie limit her minutes early in the season. more and either get the goal or get a Weis’ rst year at KU. “From a con dence standpoint and a foul,” Goodrich says. “We’re hungry. But the Longhorns mobility standpoint, she looks good,” Yeah, we can look back at the denied KU its Henrickson says. “And she’s going to get tournament and say, ‘Hey, that felt celebration, scoring better. Her 80 percent is a lot better than a great, that’s what we want to get to,’ Sims the go-ahead lot of people’s 100 percent.” but we’ve got to work every single touchdown with 12 Midway through the rst half of the day so we can get to that point. seconds le for a 21-17 victory Oct. 27 in opening exhibition game Oct. 28 against “We want that feeling again, and we Memorial Stadium. Washburn, the Jayhawks seemed to don’t want to wait until the end of the “We played our butts o on both sides of struggle to nd their rhythm. Davis pulled season to win some games to get in.” the ball,” Weis said. “Physically we not Goodrich aside during a timeout and gave only hung in there, but more than held our her the season’s rst pep talk. own. To lose with 12 seconds to go in a “I told her, ‘You need to be more game is really disappointing for everyone, aggressive,’” Davis says. “She wasn’t being Right to the end and I just feel bad for them.” the player that she was at the end of the Junior halack James Sims rushed for y e ar.” Sims again the star as 176 yards against Texas, and gained 126 Goodrich responded with a thunderous football nearly upsets Texas (including a 59-yard TD) in KU’s 41-14 drive down the lane; she drew a charge, loss the following week at Baylor, making and the contact was startling. KU pulled t came down to the nal drive of the him the rst Jayhawk with ve consecutive away to a 31-17 lead at hal ime en route Igame: KU football seemed poised to 100-yard rushing games since Laverne to a 57-35 victory. score a Homecoming victory over Texas, Smith, c’79, in 1974.
in a season with four home senior Whitney Berry scored previously spent seven years UPDATES matches remaining. The 19 points with six goals and coaching AAU and high-school Jayhawks, ranked No. 20 in the seven assists. The Jayhawks basketball in Kansas City. ... country, ran their conference scored 35 goals and limited Men’s basketball, men’s golf, mark to 8-2 and overall record opponents to 23, a 50-percent cross country and track, JACOBSEN (2) JACOBSEN to 20-4. “I will frame this one reduction from last season’s 46 softball, tennis and volleyball all JEFF for her,” coach Ray Bechard goals allowed. ... Senior golfer recorded perfect “Graduate said of Tolefree’s stat sheet. Chris Gilbert shot 68-68-69 to Success Rate” scores, meaning “Tayler was great.” Tolefree’s tie for medalist honors at the that for a four-year average, all 10-for-10 performance was the Wimberly Intercollegiate at student-athletes either third perfect attack percentage New Mexico State. Gilbert graduated or left in good in Big 12 history and the first at finished the fall season with academic standing. ... Men’s KU, topping Ashley Michaels’ nine consecutive rounds of par basketball was ranked No. 7 in .914 in 2002. Junior middle or better. ... Terry Nooner, c’00, both the AP and ESPN/USA blocker Caroline Jarmoc also g’03, a captain on the 2000 Today preseason polls and was had 10 kills on the night, on 16 men’s basketball team, joined unanimously picked by Big 12 attempts. ... Soccer ended its the women’s basketball team coaches as the preseason Tolefree season 10-8-2 with a 2-0 as an assistant to conference favorite. The loss to Texas Tech in the coach Bonnie women’s team was ranked No. Paced by a perfect 1.000 first round of the Big Henrickson. 25 by USA Today. ... Men’s hitting percentage by senior 12 soccer Nooner basketball coach Bill Self in middle blocker Tayler Tolefree, championship in San coached last September agreed to a new the volleyball team on Oct. 29 Antonio. Junior season at contract that runs through the scored a three-set sweep of Caroline Kastor led Southern 2022 season. “Bill Self not only West Virginia to run its home KU for the season Illinois and wins,” Chancellor Bernadette record to 13-0, tying the school with 24 points on 11 Gray-Little said, “but he wins record for most home victories goals and two assists; Kastor the right way.”
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Travis Releford (foreground) and Kevin Young energized Late Night in the Phog Oct. 12 with some cool moves in cool threads (above left), and in the women’s scrimmage Natalie Knight (42) tried to free herself from Lamaria Cole’s sticky defense. Coach Bill Self (far left) was the ever-charming host. Mascot antics and the season debut for a men’s team that last spring charged to the NCAA title game also delighted the crimson-and-blue crowd.
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 23 StreetH H by Steven Hill photograph by Kelly CampbellFighter 24 | Kansas Alumni to make loans. It was her rst lesson in and the stock market plummeted 700 With new memoir, banking and the importance of depositor points, congressional leaders told the U.S. Sheila Bair still battles con dence. “Ironic, perhaps, that a Treasury Department they wanted to see 6-year-old who nearly instigated a bank more help for Main Street depositors. So to protect ‘little guy’ from run that day,” Bair said, “would later treasury secretary Henry Paulson and become chairman of the Federal Deposit Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke Wall Street excess Insurance Corporation.” approached Bair with an idea: ey Indeed, as U.S. ocials raced to put wanted to expand the FDIC guarantee together a response to the economic death from $100,000 to $250,000 per depositor. s Sheila Bair neared the end of her spiral that began in earnest with the failure In her book, Bair says she was ne with ve-year term as chairman of the of Lehman Brothers, one of the nation’s the idea but didn’t think it would help FDIC in 2011, she addressed for ve largest investment banks, on Sept. 15, much. What would help, she thought, was Athe last time the national convention of the 2008, Bair was among the main players in unlimited insurance for small business Independent Community Bankers of the biggest nancial crisis since the Great checking accounts and an increase in the America in San Diego. Bair, who grew up Depression. ough her part in the FDIC’s line of credit with the U.S. Trea- in Independence, the daughter of a government’s response has been down- sury, which hadn’t been raised since 1991. surgeon and a nurse, regaled the group played in some accounts, notably Andrew e moves would bolster public con - with a story about her rst experience with Ross Sorkin’s Too Big to Fail, Bair’s own dence in the agency’s ability to guarantee banking—accompanying her father every account of the crisis presents a detailed deposits of the millions of Americans who Friday a ernoon to Citizens Bank as he look at her extensive contributions to the trusted that their savings and checking deposited the weekly proceeds of his government’s response, in which her role accounts, money they needed to pay bills medical practice. was similar (on a much bigger scale) to or were saving for a rainy day or a down “As I would stand with him in the teller that Independence bank manager: payment on a house, were safe. line waiting for our turn at the window, I reassure people that their money is safe. “However, Hank, Ben and Tim would always stare in fascination at the big [Geithner, then head of the Federal shiny steel door of the bank’s vault,” Bair think people kept their faith in the Reserve Bank of New York and later told the group. “It had a huge round metal “IFDIC, and I’m very proud of that,” President Obama’s choice for treasury handle with prongs, like the steering wheel Bair said during a recent interview from secretary] would not support me; they of a ship. I imagined that behind that door Washington, D.C., where she is now a always thought they knew better. Some- stood tall sacks of crisp green bills and senior adviser at Pew Charitable Trusts. times I wonder why they even bothered to piles of gleaming coins.” “I’m not proud of the bailouts. I am proud ask, except for appearance’s sake,” Bair One Friday, noticing the vault’s door of giving people con dence that their writes, highlighting a central theme of her open, Bair slipped o , heart racing, to money was safe. Because of that, they le book: ough she was one of the four sneak a peek at the treasures within. “I had their money in the banks. If they had main players in leading the government’s the surprise of my life: no crisp green- taken their money out of the banks, the response to the nancial meltdown—“the backs, no bags of shiny coins, just rows economy would have completely fallen four who had locked arms and gotten the and rows of little metal drawers with ap ar t .” nation through the crisis of 2008,” she numbers on them. ‘ ere’s no money in Created by Congress in 1933 in response writes—Bair was o en le out of key the bank, there’s no money in the bank,’ I to bank failures before and during the decisions. (She was in the room on Oct. shouted, racing back to my father to Depression, the Federal Deposit Insurance 13, 2008, when Paulson told the CEOs of forewarn him,” Bair told the laughing Corporation regulates nancial institu- nine of the largest U.S. nancial institu- bankers. “As you might imagine, this tions for safety and soundness, manages tions they would have to accept capital caused quite a stir among the long line of failed banks in receivership and guarantees infusions from the government, but Bair customers waiting to deposit their week’s the safety of deposits in more than 7,000 says no one bothered to ask her which earnings.” member banks. In contrast to the $700 institutions should be targeted.) “I couldn’t at visit to Citizens Bank—which Bair, billion Troubled Assets Relief Program, believe the mixed up priorities,” she c’75, l’78, also recounts in Bull by the which required congressional funding to concludes. “Seven hundred billion for a Horns, her account of the pivotal role she bail out nancial institutions deemed too big bank bailout. Zero for the deposit and her sta at the FDIC played in the big to fail, the money for the Deposit insurance system.” global nancial crisis that ared in 2008— Insurance Fund comes not from taxpayers, Bair’s erce defense of her agency’s role occasioned a hasty appearance by the bank but from assessments on the nancial as a protector of Main Street—at a time manager, who assured everyone their institutions themselves. when the government’s response to the money was safe and o ered the young girl In September 2008, a er Congress crisis focused more on Wall Street— a quick tutorial on how banks use deposits rejected the TARP plan on its rst vote earned her a reputation as a principled
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 25 defender of the public trust. e Wall Dust Bowl and her father was raised by his dimes, and deposit the money and get a Street Journal and Mother Jones both single mother a er his father died in a stamp on their passbook.” endorsed her proposals. Bill Moyers called swine u epidemic. Fred Lovitch, retired a er 39 years as a her “a hero to many of us for her long ght “Both had a strong work ethic and a KU law professor, remembers Bair as an for an honest and accountable banking very conservative view of not borrowing “extremely intelligent, remarkably system.” Forbes named her the second- and waiting until you save enough money focused” student. Lovitch, who followed most powerful woman in to spend,” Bair said. “ ey Bair’s career and kept in touch with her the world two years never even borrowed over the years, says she remains una ected running, and Time maga- money for a house, that was by her success. “She is exactly the same zine, adding her to its “100 how conservative they person I met in law school,” he says. Most Inuential People were. ey paid cash for “Straight-talking, extremely nice and List” in 2008, dubbed her everything, and that was courteous. Nothing is about her; it’s simply “the little guy’s protector in the upbringing I had.” about the issue at hand.” Yet, he also notes chief,” a title she calls her Bair—who describes that no one would have predicted her “most cherished accolade.” herself as “a product of career path, which included stints as Bair, a lifelong Republi- public schools and proud of chairman of the Commodity Futures can, believes more regula- it”—came to KU to study Trading Commission and head of govern- tion is needed in the philosophy in 1971. She ment relations for the New York Stock nancial industry, a never got involved in the Exchange before her term at the FDIC. position directly opposite political upheaval then “She was a philosophy major who came the anti-regulatory ideology of the roiling campus. “I can’t say I remember it to law school,” Lovitch says of her non- president who appointed her. A devoted as something that was inuential on me,” business background. “Another extraordi- capitalist, she has roundly criticized the she said. “I guess it was someone else’s nary thing about her is the ability to move bailouts as “crony capitalism.” In a July b att l e .” from eld to eld and essentially teach interview with Bill Moyers she said, “We A er nishing her degree in December, herself what she needed to know.” lost our way in the mid-2000s between Bair had several months free before A er earning her law degree in 1978, free markets and free-for-all markets.” starting law school the next fall. She took a Bair eventually found her way to Capitol job as a bank teller in Lawrence, and she Hill, where, among other jobs, she worked grew up on ‘Main Street’ in rural remembers those days (which she calls the as legal counsel for Sen. Bob Dole, ’45. “IKansas,” Bair writes. “I understand— Golden Age of banking in her book) as a “I learned public service from him,” Bair and share—the almost universal outrage simpler nancial time, when the country said. “He was a very good role model for over the financial mess we’re in and how still had a strong savings culture and a me.” She remembers Dole as “ ercely we got into it.” completely di erent attitude toward credit. independent”—a label applied to Bair Bair’s parents were Depression-era kids “People would come in personally to make during the nancial crisis because of her whose attitude toward money was shaped their mortgage payment, and there was willingness to criticize bank bailouts and by hardscrabble childhoods: Her mother such pride in that. Kids would come in ght for tougher regulations in direct grew up on a Parsons farm during the with their parents, with their nickels and opposition to the ruling free-market, anti-regulation ideology dominating the capital. “Lobbyists had no sway with him. In 2010 Bair’s high-profile He was willing to take on tough issues. He leadership at the FDIC legislated; he governed.” She ticks o an TERRY ROMBECK TERRY impressive list of accomplishments: the landed her on the cover 1981 tax cuts, the ’82 de cit reduction act, of Time magazine and at the ’83 Social Security compromise, the the head of the Neewollah ’86 tax reform act. “It was such a produc- Grand Parade in her tive period, where people felt so much hometown of Independence, better about their government, and it was where she served as a really impressive time to be in Washing- honorary grand marshal ton and working in the Senate.” with her children Preston Bair is known for harboring a protective and Colleen by her side. streak: In Bull by the Horns, she reveals that FDIC sta ers jokingly called her “she-bear” because she could be as erce as a mama grizzly protecting cubs when
26 | KANSAS ALUMNI defending sta members she felt were homeowners. She was lambasted in the regulation) as members. A regular column being unfairly criticized. at protective- press and by rival regulators. Her family in Fortune and frequent op-ed pieces ness extends to the public, who she feels nances were investigated, and threats to (including one in the Washington Post was poorly served by leaders during the her safety necessitated a personal security where she satirized big bank bailouts by nancial crisis. In 2007, the FDIC led an detail. making a Swi ian “modest proposal” to e ort to restructure subprime mortgages Eventually Bair’s principled stances address income inequality with $10 to prevent widespread foreclosures that attracted positive reviews. An iconic Time million interest-free loans from the Fed to would force borrowers—93 percent of cover proclaimed her, consumer advocate every U.S. citizen) keep her front and whom, FDIC data showed, were individu- Elizabeth Warren and Securities and center in the economic policy debate. als or families, not ippers and specula- Exchange Commission chairman Mary While Bair clearly relishes the chance to tors—from their homes. Schapiro, “ e New Sheri s of Wall settle some scores while setting the record Attending a foreclosure-prevention Street,” regulators tasked with cleaning up straight on the role that she and her FDIC town meeting in California a few months the “testosterone- lled trading culture” sta played in the government’s response a er the loan modi cation program, called that brought the world to the brink of to the crisis, Bull by the Horns is also Hope Now, was announced in December nancial collapse. She was awarded a John meant to keep the pressure on for lasting 2007, Bair confronted the memorable sight F. Kennedy Pro le in Courage Award in reforms. “Our current problems are as bad of thousands of people lined up outside in 2009, and in May KU made her one of the as anything we have faced during the the stiing heat to talk to their loan rst recipients of an honorary degree from Great Depression,” Bair writes. Her nal servicer. In their faces she saw the human the University, awarding her the Doctor chapter, “How Main Street Can Tame Wall tragedy of the subprime debacle—the of Laws for notable contributions to Street,” o ers prescriptions for xing the fallout of predatory lending practices that, nancial policy. ailing nancial she said, pushed “horribly abusive” loans Perhaps most system. Some of on lower-income homeowners who would satisfying, for “the Bull by the Horns: those prescrip- have been better served by staying with little guy’s protector- tions—strengthen- Fighting to Save Main their 30-year mortgages. in-chief,” are the ing regulatory SStreet from Wall Street “It was a very emotional experience for thanks she gets from oversight, taxing me, and I still get upset when I think about the little guys and Wall Street from investment income it,” Bair said. “I get really angry when themselves. She has IItself at the same rate as people try to suggest this is all caused by received encourage- by Sheila Bair earned income, the government wanting poor people to ment from waiters, preserving the new have mortgages. is was driven by greed strangers in airports Free Press, $26.99 Consumer Finan- and people who didn’t understand these and, once, attending cial Protection mortgages being taken advantage of. ese a National Press Bureau—once again were push-marketed to people who lived Club Dinner, from Codepink, the women’s put her in opposition to many in her party. in their houses with safe 30-year mort- peace group known for rowdy demonstra- (So too does her recent decision to gages. It still makes me angry and we still tions. As she was hooded upon receiving endorse Warren, a Democrat, in her bid to have not given these people justice. We’ve her honorary degree at Commencement, wrest the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts not done right by these folks. Bair said a young woman in the crowd from Republican Scott Brown.) “It did tap my protective instincts. I shouted, “You go, girl!” Bair isn’t likely to worry that such stands think I learned that from Dole. He was “ at kind of feedback makes me feel will a ect her own political viability. always standing up for the little guy. He good, it really does,” Bair said. “If you go Having run for Congress once, unsucess- was always trying to give them voice. You into government, those are the folks fully, she seems disinclined to try again. As can see his early work on civil rights, you’re supposed to be caring about and someone who says she prides herself on disability rights, food stamps. at’s where protecting. So it’s a nice armation when playing it straight down the middle and government should focus, on the more I hear that.” doing what is right, Sheila Bair seems too vulnerable segments of society, where they Having le government service at the much a straight-shooter for 21st-century can’t speak for themselves, they can’t hire end of her ve-year term in 2011, Bair politics. And plenty of work remains to be expensive lobbyists and lawyers to get continues to press for nancial reform. She done elsewhere. things done. I learned that from him.” founded the Systemic Risk Council; the “You can make a di erence in the private group seeks to speed up reforms private sector, too, and I can be even more air would eventually win many of the and counts former Fed Chairman Paul free in my public commentary now that Bchanges she sought, but not without a Volcker and former Commodity Futures I’m not a government ocial any more,” cost. Political compromises watered down Trading Commission Chairman Brooksley Bair said. “Not that I ever had a problem many of the proposals, especially those for Born (an early advocate for derivatives speaking my mind.”
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Apryl Tillman, Kansas City, Mo., senior, led a book discussion for freshmen in Templin Hall, where she is a resident assistant.
28 | Kansas Alumni O BY THE B OK New ‘Common Book’ program part of KU’s eorts to invigorate the freshman experience by Chris Lazzarino
he cavernous space was lled stem Sept. 27 campus visit in support of another of ways. Notes from No Man’s Land, to stern. Tickets had to be secured community reading program, Read Across published in 2009 and a winner of the Tin advance, and early arrival was Lawrence, which featured his novel National Book Critics Circle Award and strongly encouraged. But it wasn’t a hot Winter’s Bone. “And if it works, double the Graywolf Press Non ction Prize, dives new band that drew a capacity crowd of fantastic. When you do something like into dicult issues of identity, race and eager students to the Kansas Union that, reading takes on some communal privilege. It was the unanimous choice of ballroom the evening of Oct. 4, or a aspects, where you and your peers may be a selection committee of faculty, sta and celebrity appearance by a superstar athlete discussing exactly the same thing at students. e group considered ve books or A-list actor. exactly the same time. Unless you’re taking forwarded by a steering committee that e attraction was a diminutive, the same class, that rarely happens.” had examined 125 books, nominated last so -spoken woman who, it can be Organized by the new Oce of First- fall by 140 members of the KU community supposed with near certainty, few of the Year Experience, KU Common Book (nearly half of whom were students). assembled freshmen had heard of before aimed to challenge freshmen in a variety Discussions about Notes from No Man’s they were handed a copy of her book—a Land were part of Hawk Week in August, collection of challenging essays about and the book was examined in depth in all identity and race called Notes from No sections of PRE 101, a rst-semester Man’s Land—at summer orientation. course designed to introduce newcomers
Author Eula Biss, who teaches non c- COMMUNICATIONS to academic life at KU. Reading groups tion writing at Northwestern University, were formed, and Chancellor Bernadette came to Mount Oread because her Notes Gray-Little highlighted issues raised by the from No Man’s Land had been chosen as book at Convocation. the debut centerpiece of KU Common e committee that chose Notes from No Book, which itself is an element of a new Man’s Land wanted its selection to be philosophy for fostering critically acclaimed, o er possibilities for academic success and social MARKETING KELSEY KIMBERLIN/KU diverse programs across a variety of bonds among freshmen. academic disciplines and campus settings, “It’s a fantastic idea to try,” and be intellectually challenging while also acclaimed author Daniel promoting discussion. Woodrell, c’80, said of KU “Every book we looked at met those Common Book during his Eula Biss criteria,” says committee member Howard
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VE ballroom, citing as evidence Americans’ dangerous? STE uid judgments about race and ethnicity, e University had to wait until Oct. 4 as well as broadly diverse classi cations to learn the answer. among di erent countries. She continued, “But is it socially real? Yeah, very much so. currently sees about 80 percent ... I’ve done most of my thinking on this KUof its freshman class return as from the vantage point of thinking about sophomores. As she stated immediately whiteness, and I do think a good starting upon her arrival at KU in 2009, and again point would be for people who are emphasized in the strategic plan Bold understood as white to think about what Aspirations, Gray-Little views improved that a ords them, to think about ways in freshman retention as one of the Univer- which they might work with or around or sity’s pressing needs. against the kind of privilege they are To help push the freshman retention gaining because of their race.” rate to 90 percent within 10 years, the Biss conceded, “I will admit that writing University reorganized New Student this book was really uncomfortable, and Orientation into the Oce of First-Year being up here is really uncomfortable, and Experience, led by Assisant Vice Provost having it published was really uncomfort- Sarah Crawford-Parker, g’97, PhD’06. Freshman fans of Eula Biss (above and on front able, for many reasons, but one of them Along with KU Common Book, the cover) on the steps of Watson Library are being my own fear that I would say the rst-year experience oce also organized (bottom to top, left to right), Row 1: Garrett wrong thing or o end someone or be a new slate of freshman seminars, created Ness, Ashley Rodgers; Row 2: Sarah Noonan, judged or somehow transgress in an area and taught by prominent members of the Terry Thomas, Hanna Boyd, Jie Liu; Row 3: Kori where we make it very, very dangerous for faculty. e seminars o er incoming Godinez, Kalen Stockton, Patrick McFarland, people to transgress.” freshmen rare opportunities to immedi- Michael Sheets; Standing: Piers Christian. If even the author admits to apprehen- ately begin studying in small-class settings sions about the concepts in her book, how with prominent professors. might young readers, forced into discus- e Oce of First-Year Experience is sion, handle it? Did KU Common Book also now in charge of summer orientation, Graham, g’09, associate director for choose too challenging a text? Would a PRE 101, Hawk Week, Hawk Days and academic programming in the Oce of book meant to foster a sense of commu- learning communities. First-Year Experience. “So we unani- nity instead prove to be o -putting, or, “What ties all these programs together is mously chose the book that we felt best met the criteria. I loved it. I thought it was creative and careful, and by careful I mean that when I read the book the rst time it was evident that she chooses her words carefully, she edits well and she under- stands the writing process.” Even by the author’s own concession, the book is dicult. Mixing her personal experiences with historical research and cultural insights, Biss fashions essays that get under the skin—almost literally. As she examines the adventures of her own young adulthood—three years spent as a creative writing teacher and community gardens inspector in the Bronx and Harlem, and, even more jolting for Biss, her rst exposure to the culture of a large public university while attending graduate school at the University of Iowa—Biss continually peeks into dangerous cultural corners. “I don’t believe that race is real,” Biss Crawford-Parker and Graham
30 | KANSAS ALUMNI that we’re very focused on the ways we “How can we develop programs that both challenge and transition students into the University,” support our first-year students, but also really engage them Crawford-Parker says. “Academic success is sort of a precondition for any other form intellectually and help them understand what success looks of success within the University, so when like? That’s our focus.” —Sarah Crawford-Parker we talk about persistence and retention, we know that we need to enhance student learning in order for students to persist this is a community of scholars, and in learn everything and nd the words to and be retained. this community we have discussion and tell the stories growing within his “How can we develop programs that debate about issues that have both imagination. both challenge and support our rst-year personal relevance and larger social Retired associate professor of English students, but also really engage them signi cance.” Alan Lichter, Woodrell said, was “probably intellectually and help them understand as close to a mentor as I’ve ever had” and what success looks like? at’s our focus.” hile KU Common Book is in its “made a huge a di erence in trying to e chancellor sees KU Common Book W rst year, Read Across Lawrence is become a writer.” as an important rst step for freshmen, in its 10th, and its second in partnership He found a second home in Watson because it immediately places them in with KU Libraries. A thousand copies of Library, where, during his “very meaning- position to discuss a meaningful and Winter’s Bone, which became an Oscar- ful Ernest Hemingway phase,” Woodrell perhaps dicult text with others who do nominated movie starring soon-to-be- was startled to nd an original issue of the not share their backgrounds or beliefs. It superstar Jennifer Lawrence, were distrib- 1924 Transantlantic Review in which is, in short, a fast-forward introduction to uted across town, and a month of Hemingway wrote that he’d happily grind thoughtful debate in a diverse setting. programming culminated with Woodrell’s T.S. Eliot into “ ne dry powder” and “You want the students to come and be rst return to campus since he departed in sprinkle it over Joseph Conrad’s grave if it part of a community of scholars and 1980 with dreams of becoming a profes- would bring Conrad back to life. And in understand that’s an important part of why sional writer. Spencer Research Library Woodrell they’re here,” Gray-Little says. “I think that At a luncheon in the Adams Alumni discovered amateur histories and military when you arrive on a campus, o en the Center, Woodrell told of how his visit to accounts that became touchstones for his things that stand out and that loom so campus sparked memories of the people, acclaimed Civil War novel, Woe To Live large are more of the social element, or places and programs that helped him On, which was made by Ang Lee into the maybe athletics events, all of which are grow from high-school dropout and lm “Ride with the Devil.” important. But you also want to say, former tough-guy Marine into an intellec- He savored Fellini lms on the big yes, you’re part of this community, and tually voracious writer who wanted to screen in Woodru Auditorium, and in TERRY ROMBECK TERRY COMMUNICATIONS KELSEY KIMBERLIN/KU MARKETING KELSEY KIMBERLIN/KU
Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little (left) eagerly joined a Notes from No Man’s Land student discussion group during Hawk Week, and author Eula Biss (above) met with students in the Kansas Union’s fourth-floor lobby before her standing-room-only ballroom speech.
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Daniel Woodrell and his wife, novelist Katie Estill, enjoyed the brief campus walk from Adams Alumni Center to Spooner Hall, where Associate Professor John Tibbetts (above) hosted a wide-ranging discussion with Woodrell and a question-and-answer session with the audience.
Murphy Hall Woodrell was doesn’t mean they know how audience were Lawrence High School spellbound by University to read, how to really “exca- students from Shannon Draper’s 20th- eatre productions that he vate” a book. century literature course. When the describes as being among “the “We work on academic students were pointed out to the rest of the three or four top live perfor- skills,” Graham says, “but we assembly, they received rousing applause, mances I’ve seen.” His own don’t remediate academics. and Woodrell elded a couple of well- troupe included novelists and When we work on developing informed and insightful questions from poets and actors and directors, communications skills—read- them, including whether he had intention- all of whom were eager to see ing, writing, speaking and ally imbued his protagonist, the tough- what life might o er them. listening—we’re building on minded and determined teenager Ree “It was kind of like a Chekov skills that are already present. Dolly, with feminist ideals. play, feeling exiled from where It’s something we all need, not “I wasn’t speci cally thinking about the action was,” Woodrell said. “ ere was just freshmen. I’m a PhD student and I still that,” Woodrell said, a er some consider- plenty of action here, but you only realized learn something about reading every day.” ation, “but at a certain point I realized it it a er you le .” All sections of PRE 101 worked on one was going to be interpreted that way.” Another prize that came to be cherished essay a week, for ve or six weeks, from Draper told Woodrell, “We were thrilled with the passage of years was a course that Notes from No Man’s Land. While every to read this book and have it be so combined Herman Melville and T.E. student was required to read the material, resonant. is is the rst class I’ve ever Lawrence, team-taught by a pair of each also was assigned speci c tasks: taught where every single student read world-renowned scholars: Elizabeth discussion director, word watcher, every single page, so thank you.” Woodrell Schultz on Melville and the late omas connector, illuminator and summarizer. seemed enamored of the teacher’s compli- O’Donnell on Lawrence. “ e point is that when you’re reading ment, and replied, “I think that one of the “ at course taught me how to read a you’ve got to be doing all of those things reasons the book caught on was that Ree novel,” Woodrell said. “How to really for yourself all of the time,” Graham says, was someone who had adversity in her excavate one.” “but we’re going to break it apart for you path and didn’t let it eat her up. She Howard Graham, of the Oce of and have you concentrate on each of these insisted on going forward. Young people First-Year Experience, confesses that a things during a given week. At the end, related to that.” challenging sociology course he took last you have the experience of looking at each Here was a KU alumnus regarded by year with Professor Bob Antonio taught one in particular, and hopefully we can many critics to be among our nest living him more about reading than anything then synthesize those skills.” authors, discussing nuances of his writing he’d yet experienced in his years of higher e highlight of Woodrell’s campus visit with eager local high school students who education, and he sees it as proof of the was a question-and-answer session in e cherished his work and arrived prepared need for initiatives such as KU Common Commons, the attractive new community with good questions. Book. Just because students can read space in Spooner Hall. Included in the Maybe there is something to this idea of
32 | KANSAS ALUMNI common books sparking academic rigor. about now that may nonetheless be and look at everything with fresh eyes.” e moment did not require years to important to you later in life.” One a er another, students rose, appreciate. In his book Works of Love, Kierkegaard thanked Biss for her work and for coming answered his own question—“Who, then, to campus, then launched an informed, o how would KU freshmen respond to is one’s neighbor?”—with, “If there are incisive query. Should America embrace Sthe task thrust before them, discussion millions, every one of these is one’s its cultural diversity or move entirely past of a delicate, daring book such as Notes neighbor.” Citing Cornell West’s citation of the notion of race? How was she able to from No Man’s Land? a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., get over her anxiety and loneliness in New Once the Union ballroom lled to Biss said, “‘Martin Luther King called for York City and come to embrace her time capacity on Oct. 4, the chancellor opened us to be love-struck with each other, not there, and what lessons could be taken the event by saying, “ is year’s book colorblind towards each other.’ e from that by students facing their own challenges our assumptions about our- challenge he’s presenting, in other words, future urban adventures? What world selves and our society. And I know from is not for us to tolerate or include or outlook should freshmen take from her attending my discussion group and accept, but to love. at’s a profound book? Another student asked why race hearing from many of you that the challenge.” must be such a fearful topic for most members of our community have e profound challenge of KU Common Americans; even her own class at rst responded to that challenge with their own Book had been examined and dissemi- found it dicult to “break the ice and get thoughts and insights on the themes nated for nearly two months now, and into a discussion of race.” How does Biss addressed, including race, community and when it nally came their time to stand feel when she is chastised for daring to personal identity.” up and be heard, the KU freshmen examine race—especially the notion of Carol Holstead, associate professor of responded. ey had not assembled in the “whiteness”? journalism and a member of the KU Kansas Union ballroom merely to com- e chancellor’s challenge had been Common Book steering committee, said, plete a class assignment; they were there answered: Yes, our freshmen are part of “ e book is provocative, as Eula with questions, for which they wanted this community, a community of scholars intended. Readers will process the book answers, unquestionably in a communal where we have discussion and debate through the lens of their own experience.” spirit of respect and intellectual curiosity. about issues of both personal relevance Holstead noted that in an interview for an e rst student to step to the micro- and larger social signi cance. online magazine story written by one of phone asked Biss, “What’s the most ey’d done the reading. ey had her students, Biss said she is “happier important thing you can teach your son something to say. And they said it knowing there are people who are strug- about race?” Another asked how race together. gling with the book or disagreeing with it would a ect the presidential election. or feel some hostility toward the ideas of Another asked Biss to explain why she it.” As a teacher, Biss told the student chose to attach the title “Is is Kansas” to reporter, she knows she is succeeding a riveting piece about drunkenness and when her students are not “incredibly debauchery she encountered in Iowa City. COMMUNICATIONS happy in the classroom.” It means, Biss replied that she hoped to call Holstead said, “that they are being attention to the line “Toto, is this Kansas?”, challenged in ways that are deeply which she’d seen spray-painted onto a uncomfortable. And I think that is boarded-up window a er a tornado blew fundamental to education.” through Iowa City. It wasn’t a cheap shot at Immediately upon taking the stage, Biss Kansas, she said, but her attempt to draw a KELSEY KIMBERLIN/KU MARKETING KELSEY KIMBERLIN/KU explained that the title of her speech— parallel with what she sees as willful “Who, en, Is One’s Neighbor?”—comes blindness to reality—the wizard pretend- from a Kierkegaard book that she disliked ing to be powerful while hiding behind a and disregarded when assigned to read it screen and Dorothy’s failure to see that as a college freshman. Like Woodrell and Kansas is Oz and Oz is Kansas—with “the his experience with professors Schultz and Oz behind America, the place that we O’Donnell, she needed time to process its could see if we let the tornado mix us up importance. “One of the things I want to share with those of you who are beginning your rst “The challenge ... in other words, is not for us to tolerate year here,” Biss said, “is that it’s very possible you will encounter ideas that you or include or accept, but to love. That’s a profound challenge.” don’t understand or don’t like or don’t care —Eula Biss
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 33 34 | Kansas Alumni Art in the Parks As a photographer and arts presenter, Terre Jones of Wolf Trap reveals the ‘Face of America’ in our national parks
n his youth, Terrence Jones devoured John Steinbeck’s Travels with ICharley, the writer’s classic American travelogue about a cross-country driving sojourn with his dog. Jones was so taken by the tale that he made himself a promise: One day he would take that trip.
By Jennifer Jackson Sanner
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covered the distance in little more than dancers’ performances in TRAP three months, and the result is a gorgeous the parks—in this case, souvenir to share—Road Trip: A Photogra- Big Cypress National pher’s Journey to America’s National Parks, Preserve, Biscayne a collection of 200 photos published in National Park, Dry WOLF COURTESY 2011, three years a er Jones’ journey. Tortugas National Park “By the time I got to take the trip, I was and Everglades National 60 ... about the same age Steinbeck was,” Park. Vignettes including Jones says. “I’ve worked since I was 13, “Alligator,” “Birds,” and my life was prescribed. Never in those “Canoe” and “Hurricane” years had I had the chance for any captivate the audience extended period of time just to be alone— and convey the essence of to be alone and think. the natural settings. Eyes “I’ve been to 213 national parks in my x not only on dancers lifetime, but when you visit them consecu- prowling like alligators tively driving cross-country, it’s very onstage but also on the eye-opening how beautiful this country giant images of them is—how much these parks mean to the emerging from the country and how unique they are.” shimmering water of the e parks have fascinated Jones since Everglades. the summer vacations of his childhood, From the rst “Face of when his family traveled to the Rocky America” performance in Mountain and Carlsbad Caverns parks, as 2000, which lmed an well as other sites. But the parks as a aerial dance company, whole—and one in particular—also Project Bandaloop, became his life’s work. As president and hanging from the CEO of the Wolf Trap Foundation since precipices of Yosemite, In 2004, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences presented 1996, Jones oversees the performance and Jones has required that Jones a Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award. On pages 24 education programs of the Wolf Trap performers travel to the National Park for the Performing Arts, a parks. “ e dancers and 25, Christine Ilisije and Elena D’Amario of Parsons Dance wooded enclave in Vienna, Va., just south needed to be there,” he performed “Birds” in Big Cypress National Preserve in a scene of Washington, D.C. e expanse of Wolf says. “ ey need to have from “Spirit of South Florida.” Trap’s arts and educational programs is as that experience and share breathtaking as the lush scenery (see box). it with the audience. People are aware that e two have been friends since 1978, Although he retires in December, we have national parks, but they don’t when they met at a workshop for arts Jones will continue as a consultant for a know why they’re there. ey take them presenters. Jones then was producing project that since 2000 has become his for granted.” performances at Millikin University and signature: Wolf Trap’s “Face of America” “Face of America” grew from Jones’ Van Leer was doing the same at e Ohio series, a multidisciplinary tribute to desire to create a gi from Wolf Trap to State University. As they moved on to the national parks that has been show- the nation in honor of the millennium. “As other university stages, they grew closer. cased on the cover of Smithsonian the only national park for the performing Jones’ nal university stop was the magazine, “Sunday Morning” on arts, I thought we could pay tribute to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
36 | KANSAS ALUMNI at the University of Illinois, where he carried with him the lessons of discipline, blocks away on Naismith Drive, so I just produced performances for 10 years before character and commitment from KU le the car and ran, because Chuck had leading the Wolf Trap Foundation. “Terre professors, including Chez Haehl; Jack instilled in me how important it was to has one of the best minds among arts Wright, g’67, PhD’69; Bill Kuhlke, g’59; never be late for a call,” Jones remembers. presenters in the country. He’s a big and Chuck Lown. He vividly recalls a “I ran to Murphy and up four ights of thinker,” Van Leer says. “He sees what the powerful lesson from Lown, the technical stairs to the light booth. I sat down, put arts can do besides just performance. He director for countless KU productions. the headset on, and not a second passed sees how they’re important in education One night Jones, then a freshman, was before Chuck was on the other end of the and important for our environment and working on the light crew for a perfor- headset, using some colorful words to just in making people’s lives better— mance when his car broke down on the remind me that I was late, and it was never making communities better.” way to Murphy Hall. “I was three or four to happen again. Just to hear his voice was PROPP ANDREW
Education in fact was Jones’ rst KU Elena D’Amario, Sarah Braverman, Christina degree—with an emphasis in theatre, Ilisije, Steve Vaughn and Eric Bourne danced English and speech. ough a career in the “Alligator” in Everglades National Park. After arts was part of his plan, “my father his 19,000-mile solo driving trip, Jones chose thought I wasn’t going to make a living,” 200 photos for Road Trip: A Photographer’s Jones says. “ at’s why I have an education Journey to America’s National Parks ($35, Ruder degree.” Jones credits his extraordinary Finn Press). professors for inspiring him to pursue his KU master’s in theatre, specializing in set and lighting design, so he could teach at the college level. He later did additional graduate work at the University of Georgia. As a faculty member and arts presenter at several universities, Jones says he
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 37 Jones has received the highest honor in the field of professional presenting, the Fan Taylor Distin-
COURTESY TERRENCE JONES COURTESY guished Service Award, from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. In 2006, Washingtonian Magazine named Jones Washingto- nian of the Year. Wolf Trap’s environmental eªorts have been recognized with Energy Star certification and sustainability awards from the Washington Business Journal and the American Jones celebrated at the annual Wolf Trap gala Sept. 15 with his wife, Polly Nell Jones, and Paul Society of Civil Engineers. Stookey of “Peter, Paul & Mary.” frightening. I don’t think I’ve ever been fact that women choreographers didn’t “Face of America” production. late for anything since then. seem to be getting a lot of commissions. Jones will consult on the 2014 edition, “To say that discipline was his rst and So I created a program called Women in “ e Majestic Parks of the Paci c North- foremost principle is a bit of an under- Dance, and I worked with six di erent west,” which will showcase the Mount statement. Between my father, who was a women over four years to commission Rainier, North Cascades, Olympic and San World War II Marine aviator, and Chuck new work, including Bella Lewitzky, Trisha Juan Island national parks. Research and Lown, I learned discipline, and if you ask Brown and Margaret Jenkins, iconic fundraising are in the works; Jones, a my sta at Wolf Trap, they’ll say Terre is women of modern dance.” consummate fundraiser, says he has pretty insistent upon discipline.” Jones’ connections to choreographers secured about half the money necessary to Jones’ training in theatre also prepared through the years have culminated in the produce the eighth edition. e 2016 “Face him to commission works, collaborating “Face of America” series. rough seven of America” will honor the centennial of with artists to start with an idea and renditions, the series has told the stories of the U.S. National Park Service, and Jones express it in numerous ways, creating a national parks through dance created by envisions elements of the eight previous full-scale production. Jones has commis- renowned choreographers Donald Byrd, productions, with perhaps a large choral sioned more than 70 works in his career, Doug Varone, Elizabeth Streb, Trey piece as a nale and a video highlighting a beginning at the Krannert Center in McIntyre and, for “Spirit of South Florida,” range of national parks in addition to Illinois. As a presenter, he brought in David Parsons. those that have been part of “Face of visiting artists, but he also served as the Of course, telling stories as vast in America.” producer for the university’s departments history and expanse as the national parks On Sept. 8, as Jones and his sta of music, dance, theatre and opera. can take time. “Spirit of South Florida” was gathered with performers, National Park “Because of my theatre background at KU, three years in the making, from initial Service leaders and patrons before the I knew how to produce, build a budget, study through numerous advance trips to world premiere of “Spirit of South assemble artists and pursue a creative the parks to talk with superintendents and Florida,” a cool breeze wa ed over the vision,” he explains. “So at Illinois, all the interpretive rangers, “who know more tents among the trees at Wolf Trap. Only technical people worked for me, and we about these parks than you can imagine,” two hours earlier, a rare D.C.-area tornado created productions for all of the Jones says. “No matter how many books had blown through, but thankfully only departments.” you read, you still don’t know them the the clouds, a few stray raindrops and the He also befriended visiting artists who way the people who live there do.” An breeze remained. A er a sumptuous became partners in commissioned work interpretive park ranger in Yosemite, outdoor bu et, the park superintendents for the Krannert Center—especially Jones recalls, knew not only the park but from South Florida thanked Jones for his choreographers. “I spent a lot of time with also the little-known aerial dancers of leadership as executive producer of “Face them backstage, and we talked about the Project Bandaloop and recommended of America.” importance of creating new work and the that Jones consider them for the rst “ is is his baby, his vision,” said Pedro
38 | KANSAS ALUMNI PROPP Our national park for the performing arts
ANDREW t the center of the 130-acre Wolf Trap sanctuary, managed by the U.S. National APark Service, is the Filene Center, a magnificent outdoor theatre that seats more than 7,000 and hosts nearly 100 performances from May to September. When the weather turns cold, performances move indoors to The Barns at Wolf Trap. In the past 17 years, Jones and his 80-member sta¦ have expanded Wolf Trap’s educational programs to serve 75,000 children and adults worldwide each year at the Wolf Trap Center for Education and through grants, residencies and workshops. Wolf Trap provides grants to high school performing arts teachers and sponsors an acclaimed internship program for graduate and undergraduate students in the business and production of the performing arts. In addition, Wolf Trap hosts a summer residency for young performers and artistic sta¦ through the Wolf Trap Opera Company. Most recently, Jones, an environmentalist who traces his commitment to the first Earth Day celebration when he was a KU student, launched a campaign to take Wolf Trap carbon neutral. He led the first National Summit on the Arts and the Environment. Since 2007, Wolf Trap has reduced its carbon footprint by nearly 25 percent by conserving in numerous ways, including energy-ecient light fixtures and recycling: Oce furnishings include only recycling containers at sta¦ members’ desks. Trash cans are available, but only in central locations. Outside, the sta¦ added beehives to pollinate the organic gardens, which furnish many of the ingredients for the Wolf Trap chef and his sta¦ to create fare for banquets and receptions. “I want to preserve what we have,” Jones says. “I want my grandsons and their grandchildren to see these vistas and appreciate them the way I did at their age and the way I still do today.” Sarah Braverman and Eric Bourne performed After his December retirement, Jones will continue to serve on the national “Chickee” in Everglades National Park. advisory board for the National Parks Conservation Association. In October, the Wolf Trap Foundation selected Arvind Manocha to be Jones’ Ramos, superintendent of Big Cypress successor as president and CEO. Manocha is currently the chief operating ocer of National Preserve. “Terre has helped the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association, where he oversees the Hollywood Bowl, a portray how much the arts and the venue that serves more than 1 million patrons annually. He will begin his new role at national parks have in common—both Wolf Trap Jan. 2. reect who we are as a community and —J.J.S who we are as a people.” As Ramos and other National Park YN
Service leaders gathered at the lectern, LLEWELL they invited Jones to join them. Designat- OBERT ing him an “honorary park ranger,” they R gave him an ocial park ranger hat and a second gi , perfect for Jones, who is an unabashed connoisseur of cowboy boots: a gleaming pair of snakeskin boots. In gratitude and triumph, Jones proudly kicked up his heels to show o his spi y new boots and joyfully proclaim, amid hearty applause, “ ere’s one less python in the Everglades!” More important, thanks to Jones and Wolf Trap’s “Face of America,” there are thousands more citizens across America who have come to understand and treasure our national parks. The Filene Center honors the memory of Catherine Filene Shouse, who donated Wolf Trap Farm to the U.S. National Park Service in 1966.
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S crooned as part of the Jayhawk Jingle contest. KU fans of all ages enjoyed food and fun with the 1912 Jayhawk mascot at the old-school rally at the Alumni Center. Students cheered at the Homecoming parade, and (blue!) pregame pancakes were a hit on Saturday morning. Artfully chalked Jayhawks livened up Wescoe Beach.
marshal and Olympic gold medalist Diamond Dixon, a Houston junior. As in years past, the KU Alumni Band played the Fight Song with gusto. As a mainstay of the annual parade, the Alumni Band won the Rich and Judy Billings Spirit of Strong tradition ing contest on Wescoe Beach, and Home- 1912 award in gratitude for strengthening coming mural painting. Overall winners the Homecoming tradition. e award After 100 years, Homecoming for the week were Delta Delta Delta honors Rich, c’57, and Judy Howard sorority and Sigma Alpha Epsilon frater- Billings, d’57, of Lakewood, Colo., who continues to rally Jayhawks nity, which together won rst prize in the provided an endowment for Homecoming. Greek Life division, and the KU School of e Billings have attended 55 consecutive ith a nod to celebrations past, this Engineering, which placed rst in the fall celebrations. Wyear’s centennial Homecoming Oct. Student Life division. e winners were Robert Foster, who served as director of 21-27 incorporated an evening parade announced at hal ime at the KU-Texas bands at KU for 31 years beginning in and pep rally with more recent favorite football game Oct. 27. 1971, accepted the Spirit of 1912 award on activities in a weeklong celebration for the Also announced at the game were behalf of the Alumni Band. campus and Lawrence community. winners of the 22nd annual Excellence in “ e KU Alumni Band has taken part in e Association, the student-led Community, Education and Leadership the Homecoming celebration since the Homecoming Steering Committee and (ExCEL) Awards. e 2012 ExCEL 1950s, and its long, storied tradition campus partners chose to return to a winners, both seniors, are Kathryn Hoven epitomizes the spirit of Homecoming,” Friday-night parade and add an old-school of Chester, N.J., and Brandon Rogers of Wise says. rally at the Adams Alumni Center. Despite Plano, Texas. e award includes a $500 Band members were among several a sudden cold snap, the festivities drew an grant to each winner; they will help plan a groups that held reunions during the enthusiastic crowd from KU and the spring leadership conference for students. weekend. e School of Journalism hosted Lawrence community. In addition, Emily Ferbezar, a junior J-School Generations, a three-day event to “ e pep rally was a big success this from Shawnee, won the Jennifer Alderdice year,” says Caitlin Wise, b’11, the Associa- Homecoming Award for her campus and tion’s student programs coordinator and community involvement with Homecom- adviser to the Homecoming Steering ing. e award honors Jennifer Alderdice,
Committee. “Because the parade ended at g’99, former Alumni Association sta YOUNGER SUSAN the Alumni Association, it really brought member who advised the Homecoming the students and alumni together.” Steering Committee and the Student Student organizations spent the week Alumni Association for many years. collecting points for their participation in e parade began at the Chi Omega daily events, such as Glow KU (for which Fountain—which spouted royal blue water Greek houses decorated KU themes in for the occasion—and made its way down twinkly lights), the Chalk ’n’ Rock chalk- Jayhawk Boulevard, featuring grand
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Graduates attended classes and tailgated PUPPE (4) TE VE before Saturday’s game. Fi een alumni S lent their expertise to students at a round robin networking session and at a chal- lenge event, which required students to solve real world journalism problems with help from faculty and alumni. “I thought it was phenomenal,” says Natasha Veeser, j’05, communications coordinator for the school. “We had so many alumni and students asking about next year already, so we better start planning again,” she says. Students and alumni also came together to bene t the community. Proceeds from the Jayhawk Jog Oct. 21 on Massachusetts Street bene ted the United Way of Douglas County. Participants literally stu ed a KU on Wheels bus with non- perishable food to collect 4,000 pounds of canned goods and other items for Just Food, a Douglas County food bank and United Way agency. e Alumni Associa- tion also hosted a book drive, which collected more than 3,000 children’s books to be distributed by the United Way. Wise, who chaired the Homecoming committee as a student before she joined the Association sta , says student and alumni participation soared because of the centennial. “I was really happy to see how involved campus was. You could tell that because it was the 100th, there was a lot more excitement than in the past, and that’s a trend we’d like to see continue.”
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 41 Association PUPPE SCOTT the KU Natural History Museum and VE Biodiversity Institute. Krishtalka described STE the need to restore the museum’s popular Panorama of North American Animals. To highlight the need, he donated a one-of-a-
COURTESY NANCY HOFF NANCY COURTESY kind item to the evening’s silent auction: a majestic 4-foot, 13-point rack from an elk shot in late 1800s on an expedition led by KU’s famed Lewis Lindsay Dyche. As the crowd dined on Stroud’s fried chicken, Association president Kevin Pfei¦er Scott Corbett, c’88, and assistant director of Wichita programs Lynn Loveland, ’78, thanked Wichita alumni for their loyalty— and assisted other student recruitment not only in making the Roundup a Banner years e orts. Pfei er is a producer at Arthur J. tradition but, more important, supporting Gallagher Risk Management Services. KU’s expanded presence in Wichita Volunteers earn Wintermote Scott, of Pittsburg, received her award at through a thriving and active alumni honors for guiding chapters the Hawkstock family event Sept. 29 in chapter. Mulberry. As a Jayhawk Society member wo energetic Association leaders are and KU ambassador, she has volunteered
Tthe 2012 winners of the Dick Winter- for the Tri-State Chapter since its incep- HACKER
mote Volunteer of the Year Award. ey tion in 2006 and recently completed a CRAIG are Ryan Pfei er, j’02, of the Greater three-year term as president. She has Kansas City Chapter; and Nancy Ho coordinated events in Southeast Kansas, Scott, c’71, of the Tri-State Chapter. Southwest Missouri and Northwest e award annually recognizes alumni Oklahoma. For the past 11 years, Scott and who have demonstrated outstanding her husband, Michael Brewer, have leadership of their local chapters during a co-hosted the Pittsburg Kansas Honors one-year period. Dick Wintermote, c’51, Program with Rodney, c’71, m’74, and served as executive director of the Karen Odgers. Scott currently works as a Association from 1963 to 1983. His legacy home health therapist for Mercy St. John’s represents the importance of building a of Joplin, Mo. strong volunteer network. “Nancy Scott and Ryan Pfei er exem- plify the spirit of Dick Wintermote,” says Business dean Neeli Bendapudi, PhD’95, Kevin Corbett, c’88, president of the Roundup review greeted guests. Roundup chairs Lucy and Jerry Association. He describes Wintermote as Wichita event marks a decade Burtnett, p’69, welcomed Jayhawks with hosts “a man who loved KU as much as anyone Janet Lusk Murfin, d’75, and David Murfin, I’ve ever known.” by incorporating past themes b’75, e’75, who have opened their stables for Pfei er, who lives in Prairie Village, the Roundup for 10 years, and the Association’s received his award at the Jayhawk Open ore than 400 alumni and friends June 15 in Olathe. He recently ended his Mgathered Oct. 20 at the Mur n Lynn Loveland, ’78. Jayhawk boots, worn by term as president of the Kansas City Stables in Wichita to celebrate the 10th Carol Swanson Ritchie, d’54, were among the Chapter board. Under his leadership, the annual Jayhawk Roundup.Volunteers Jerry, fashion statements of the evening. Baby Jay Rock Chalk Ball in two short years raised p’69, and Lucy Burtnett, gave an encore greeted Je¦, b’83, and Polly How Gentry, j’84, more than $280,000 to expand the performance as event chairs, leading a and Jess Cornejo, b’10. Alumni and Wichita Association’s programs to serve alumni team of 50 volunteers, who resurrected businesses donated 97 items for the silent and recruit students. Pfei er has contrib- decorations from each previous year of the auction. Dancers took to the floor urged on by uted to a vast array of events, including the Roundup to recall the varied themes of the disc jockeys from Monster Entertainment of annual Kansas City Chapter Blood Drive, decade. Chicago. As always, event co-founders and the ’Hawks, Helmets & Handlebars bike Special guests were Neeli Bendapudi, stalwart donors Scott, c’54, and Carol Ritchie safety event and the Jayhawk Open golf PhD’95, dean of the KU School of Busi- joined the Wichita celebration. tournament. He also attended college fairs ness, and Leonard Krishtalka, director of
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Everything we do strengthens KU. Your membership in the KU Alumni Association is the single most powerful way to Life Members make all of KU stronger, including the value of your own degree. Board of Directors Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Palm Beach he Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life Gardens, Florida memberships Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. For information, T n CHAIR Marci K. Deuth, e’05, Washington, D.C. visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Gregory E. Ek, b’76, Overland Park
Donard L. Allen Paul M. Joslin & Norah E. n CHAIR-ELECT Nathapong Arunakul Brown-Joslin Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Administrative Sta n PRESIDENT Lynn A. Bachman Brad R. Jurgensmeier n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Andrew A. & Ashley Pate Joshua D. Keepes Jerey P. Briley, d’74, Overland Park n ALUMNI CENTER Backhus David V. Kenner Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Timothy E. Brandt, b’74, Director of Mark W. Bassett Georgia Lomicky Kerns Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo Adams Alumni Center Tarun Bhargava & Candice Joan S. Kramer Grande, California n ALUMNI, STUDENT & Beek Bhargava Amber Gerstle Kuykendall Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Sidney L. & Carolyn Skinner Matthew M. & Jamin Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Senior Mission Hills Black Landavazo Vice President for Alumni, Student Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Nancy C. Boss James R. Lewis and Membership Programs Dallas, Texas Sarah Brown Emily C. Littrell Nikki Epley, Director of Reunions Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Danielle S. Browning Janet K. Long and Anity Programs Illinois John C. & Lori K. Bullock Wendy A. Lynn Teri Harris, Director of Membership Joyce Chong Benjamin L. McMillan n DIRECTORS TO 2013 Danny Lewis, d’05, Director of Alumni Bruce E. Connelly Matthew B. Metcalf Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo Programs Carolyn W. Coulson Brian A. & Jane Bates Metz Grande, California Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, Rebecca A. Cross John T. Miller Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Assistant Vice President for Jay Deiser Robert E. Miller Henry Menghini, c’87, Pittsburg Alumni and Student Programs n Robert J. & Carol Chaney Sean M. Miller n DIRECTORS TO 2014 COMMUNICATIONS Dema Brian D. & Cheryl M. Milligan Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Director Reed & Stacey D. Dillon Alice Karakas Neuman Mission Hills of Internet Services and Marketing Douglas W. & Melissa Studley Evan M. O’Brien Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate Donahoo Robert T. Oelschlaeger Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Jonathan M. Dorsey Mark J. & Holly E. Oertel Dallas, Texas President for Communications and Wendell A. Dutt Tamara Powlas Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, Omaha, Nebraska Corporate Secretary Erin M. Ekholm Kenneth W. Reeves III Susan Younger, f’91, Creative Director Bradley J. Eland Stephen R. Rempala Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Washington n DEVELOPMENT Justin A. Engels Jerry D. & Kay Prelogar n DIRECTORS TO 2015 Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Holly R. Fischer Roberts Paul L. Carttar, c’76, Lawrence Associate Development Director Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, Tanner J. Ford Jennifer L. Smith n FINANCE Reagan M. Fromm Stephanie M. Smith Illinois Jodi Nachtigal, Controller James D. Gentile Miranda R. Soper Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, Dwight Parman, Senior Vice Phyllis Maxson Gin Katheryn J. Speed Kansas City President for Finance and Human Kurt L. & Carol A. Glendening Kristin A. Stegenga Je L. Wolfe, b’83, Meridian, Idaho Resources and Treasurer Je¦rey C. Goble Amy M. Thompson n DIRECTORS TO 2016 n HOSPITALITY SERVICES James T. Good Jr. & Janice W. Garrett N. Tibbets James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President Good Beverly J. Tong Washington for Hospitality Vicki L. Hamlin Andrea R. Vieux John Jeter, c’77, m’81, Hays n LEGACY PROGRAMS Mark Harbaugh Sue Ward Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, Director Sheila M. Hegde Matthew J. Westering Lori Anderson Piening, b’92, Austin, n RECORDS Joel D. Hill Benjamin H. White Texas Bill Green, Senior Vice President for Steven E. Hu¦ Kevin W. & Brooke Robinson Mark Randall, j’03, Englewood, Information Services Holly A. Hoyt Yoder Colorado Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President for Alumni Records Angela D. Johnson Sheahon J. Zenger n DIRECTORS TO 2017 Donald R. Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence Luke B. Bobo, e’82, Ballwin, Missouri
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Jerry Levy in Lawrence. She recently was Class Notes by Karen Goodell named secretary of the Kansas Association for Justice.
Gary Boortz, b’72, g’74, manages Bernice Snyder Rosenkranz, c’32, Stephen Chill, c’63, is retired in 72 channel development for Mercury. 32 celebrated her 103rd birthday Nov. 63 Leesburg, Fla., from a career in He lives in Denver with his wife, Holly. 3. She makes her home in San Diego. banking. Richard Mosher, c’72, is IT audit Marjorie Wolf Hoy, c’63, and her director for MetaBank in Sioux Falls, S.D. Herbert Regier, b’39, lives in Silver husband, James, PhD’66, live in Gaines- 39 Spring, Md., where he enjoys ville, where she’s a professor of entomol- Bernard Ewigman, c’74, chairs singing for fellow residents of Riderwood ogy at the University of Florida. 74 biological sciences at the Village retirement community. University of Chicago. He recently Carol Fabian, c’68, m’72, was named became the NorthShore University Margaret Ann Zimmerman, n’47, is 68 Distinguished Medical Alumna by HealthSystem’s Owen L. Coon Chair of 47 a retired nursing supervisor who the KU Medical Center Alumni Associa- Family Medicine. lives at Riderwood Village retirement tion. She’s director of breast cancer Frank Hankins, e’74, retired earlier this community in Silver Spring, Md. prevention at the KU Medical Center in year from Lydondellbasell. He lives in Kansas City. Morris, Ill. Mary Louise Fischer-Butler, d’51, John Kyees, b’68, has been appointed James Johnson, PhD’74, has been 51 lives in Silver Spring, Md., where she to the board of directors of Rackwise, a named to the South Dakota Arts teaches advanced bridge lessons to other developer of data center infrastructure Council. He’s distinguished professor retirees at Riderwood Village retirement management so ware. He lives in emeritus of communication studies and community. Westerville, Ohio. theater at South Dakota State University in
Sue Anschutz-Rodgers, d’55, Patricia Cahill, c’69, g’71, was 55 president, executive director and 69 elected chair of the Corporation for trustee of the Anschutz Foundation, was Public Broadcasting. She was appointed to School Codes Letters that follow names named one of the Denver Rescue the board of directors by President Barack indicate the school from which alumni earned Mission’s Women Who’ve Changed the Obama in 2009. Patricia is an assistant degrees. Numbers show their class years. Heart of the City. Sue makes her home in professor of communication studies at the a School of Architecture, Denver. University of Missouri-Kansas City. Design and Planning Clifton Conrad, c’69, g’71, is a professor b School of Business Thomas Pettit, ’58, wrote an of education at the University of Wiscon- c College of Liberal Arts 58 illustrated children’s book, 26 sin in Madison, where he and Pam and Sciences Poem-Stories About Animals, A to Z, Fankhauser Conrad, d’70, g’72, make their d School of Education Aardvark to Zebra. He lives in Palm home. e School of Engineering f School of Fine Arts Springs, Calif. James Pankratz, d’69, makes his home g Master’s Degree in Boise, Idaho, where he’s a retired h School of Health Professions MARRIED teacher and coach. j School of Journalism Michael Byers, c’60, to Karen l School of Law 60 McFarland, July 29 in Topeka. ey Thomas Black, c’70, a retired m School of Medicine divide their time between homes in 70 attorney, lives in Lawrence. n School of Nursing Topeka and Sun City West, Ariz. Marilee Millett Means, d’70, h’77, p School of Pharmacy PharmD School of Pharmacy PhD’94, is a clinical assistant professor at s School of Social Welfare Robert Travnicek, ’62, received the KU Medical Center in Kansas City. She u School of Music 62 the Mississippi State Medical received the 2012 Outstanding Achieve- DE Doctor of Engineering Association Physician’s Award for ment Award from the American Society of DMA Doctor of Musical Arts Community Service for his work leading Cytopathology. EdD Doctor of Education public-health emergency preparedness PhD Doctor of Philosophy and response to Hurricane Katrina. He’s David Cover, c’71, c’72, g’77, recently (no letter) Former student assoc Associate member of the director of the Coastal Plains Public became of counsel at the law rm of 71 Alumni Association Health District, and he makes his home in Sprouse Shrader Smith in Tulsa, Okla. Long Beach, Miss. Kathy Kirk, d’71, practices law with
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Brookings, where he and his wife, James Mason, c’75, is an interpretive executive vice president of the American Ardis, live. naturalist at the Great Plains Nature Association of Private Lenders. He lives in Center in Wichita, where he and his wife, Kansas City. Gary Andrew, f’75, was named the Helen, make their home. His book, Mary Eicher Olson, h’76, g’12, has been 75 2012 Outstanding Federal Defender Wichita, was published as part of Arcadia elected to the board of directors of the Paralegal by the National Association of Publishing’s Postcard History Series. Mat-Su Health Foundation. She’s a Federal Defenders. He is chief paralegal physical therapist in Palmer, Alaska. for the Capital Habeas Unit in Los Scott Beeler, c’76, was named by Best Angeles. 76 Lawyers to the publication’s 2013 Rebecca Lilleston Aistrup, c’77, Sue Best, s’75, s’76, is an oncology social Lawyers of the Year list. Scott is partner in 77 recently joined BBCetc in Ann worker at the Oregon Health and Sciences charge in the Overland Park law rm of Arbor, Mich., as a principal consultant. University in Portland, Ore., where she Lathrop & Gage. He lives in Leawood. Kim Obiala Heck, j’77, is chief executive and her partner, Nancy Congdon, make Eric Edell, c’76, m’81, is senior vice ocer of the Sports Turf Managers their home. president for clinical practice at Via Association. She lives in Lawrence. Bruce Clarke, b’75, is senior vice Christi Regional Medical Center in Donna Dreitz Schmisseur, p’77, works president and chief nancial ocer for ML Wichita. as a pharmacist at Walmart Pharmacy in Macademia Orchards in Hilo, Hawaii. Lee Hawkins, s’76, is executive vice Pratt, where she and her husband, Robert, Lawrence Dreyfus, c’75, PhD’82, has president of the Wayne County Medical l’77, make their home. been named vice chancellor for research Society of Southeast Michigan. He and and economic development at the Univer- Patricia Mills Hawkins, c’75, make their Deborah Hayes, c’78, f’93, teaches sity of Missouri-Kansas City. He and Elise home in Detroit. 78 at the Orange County Museum of Williams Dreyfus, c’79, g’85, make their Daniel Hubbel, b’76, g’77, serves as a Art. She lives in Irvine, Calif. home in Lawrence. regional director of the National Labor James German, b’78, is president of Sallie Price Fukunaga, c’75, d’76, g’87, Relations Board. He and Leslie Harman JMG Corporation in Barrington, Ill. PhD’89, teaches at Mozingo Music in Hubbel, ’78, live in St. Louis. Cindy Brunker McClannahan, c’78, l’81, O’Fallon, Mo. Larry Muck, b’76, g’79, recently became chairs estate planning for the Kansas City
50 | KANSAS ALUMNI rm of Seigfreid, Bingham, Levy, Selzer & by the Kansas Supreme Court to a Gee. four-year term on the state’s Task Force for Julie Robinson, j’78, l’81, serves as a Permanency Planning. She’s chief judge of judge of the U.S. District Court in Topeka. the Reno County Court in Hutchinson. Her home is in Lawrence. Jean Giddens, n’81, was named Distin- guished Nursing Alumna by the KU Kathryn Potter Crask, f’79, d’79, Medical Center Alumni Association. She’s 79 teaches music in Yorba Linda, Calif. a professor and executive dean of nursing Roberta Strevell Armstrong, f’83, Jolene Danaher Errante, g’79, owns JME at the University of New Mexico in 83 is vice president of Armstrong Services in Lenexa. Albuquerque. Telecom in Binghamton, N.Y. Craig Limbocker, c’79, l’82, is a senior John Pilla, e’81, is senior vice president Liz Day Cook, ’83, works as an IT attorney at the Federal Deposit Insurance and general manager of Spirit AeroSys- business analyst for CompuCom. She and Corporation in Kansas City. tems in Wichita. her husband, David, j’83, g’89, live in Ronald MacDonald, ’79, supervises Olathe. training for United Parcel Service in Shari Feist Albrecht, c’82, is Barry Mandelbaum, e’83, works as a Lenexa. He lives in Olathe. 82 associate chief counsel for the state chemical engineer for ConocoPhillips. Blake Thompson, c’79, is senior vice of Kansas. She and her husband, Martin, He lives in St. Louis. president of supply chain and manufactur- l’83, live in Topeka. Col. Joseph Moore, c’83, is a manage- ing at Swisher Hygiene. He lives in Martin Keenan, c’82, l’85, teaches ment analyst for the Department of Charlotte, N.C. political science at Central Community Veterans A airs in Washington, D.C. David Zamierowski, m’79, has been College. He and his wife, Julie, live in He lives in Fredericksburg, Va. named Honorary Health Professions Hastings, Neb. Natalie Ellis Morris, d’83, works as a Alumnus by the KU Medical Center Michael Regier, b’82, has been named resource teacher at the Instructional Alumni Association. He and Marilyn chief legal ocer of Atlantic Health Resource Center in Olathe. Mott Zamierowski, ’79, live in Overland System in Morristown, N.J. He lives in Cecil Smith, g’83, is a professor of Park. Maplewood. educational psychology at Northern
Clair Keizer, j’80, is a partner and 80 marketing director of clair de lune in Leawood. Michael Skoch, c’80, m’84, is chief medical ocer and vice president of Mary Lanning Healthcare in Hastings, Neb.
Gregory Baker, g’81, recently 81 was named city manager of Damascus, Ore. Angela Gordon Bandy, b’81, is vice president of accounting and administra- tion at the Dupont Community Credit Union in Waynesboro, Va. Timothy Burke, j’81, owns TMB Travel Concierge in Kansas City. Patricia Macke Dick, l’81, was appointed
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www.kualumni.org Illinois University in DeKalb. Division. Her home is in Jasper, Ga. Highberger & Ananda. Lisa Stehno-Bittel, h’83, was named the e Rev. Lisa Schwartz, c’85, serves as KU Medical Center Alumni Association’s Melissa Jones, h’84, works as a minister of Unitarian Universalist Fellow- Distinguished Health Professions 84 physician assistant at Insight ship in Winston-Salem, N.C. Alumna. She’s a professor and chair of Primary Care in Denver. Reginald Smith, c’85, is vice president of physical therapy and rehabilitation science Brad Wells, j’84, is a senior loan ocer business development at Retro t Weight at the KU Medical Center. She and her at Pulaski Bank Home Lending. He and Loss in Skokie, Ill. husband, Douglas, g’86, live in Bonner Kimberly Stroup Wells, d’92, g’95, live in Springs. Lenexa. J.D. Bloom, l’86, is a vice president Susan Hutchison Stocker, ’83, was 86 and trust advisor at UMB Bank named 2012 Enabler of the Year by Dennis Highberger, e’85, l’92, is a Colorado in Denver. the GE Energy So ware Engineering 85 partner in the Lawrence law rm of Susan Schultz Huxman, g’86, g’88, is
PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino WINES FUTO COURTESY Futo Wines newest star ourished in hospital supply among Napa Cabernets sales before turning full time to investing, an interest he’d hen Wichita businessman Tom nurtured since boyhood. Futo WFuto and his wife, Kyle, bought a joined a rm in Colorado, 40-acre Napa Valley property in 2002, they where he met and married his intended to one day produce the same sort wife, and the newlyweds of ne red wine they enjoy drinking: returned to his native Wichita nothing but the best. e winemaker they to begin a family. hired to oversee the operation agreed, and e Futos found themselves accepted the job with one condition. surrounded by delightful “Part of his request was that we put our neighbors, and the only Now that he owns his own vineyards and winery, Tom Futo’s name on the bottle,” Futo, ’71, says while interest they didn’t share with philosophy remains unchanged from the preferences he taking a break from the October harvest. their new social circle was and his wife, Kyle, developed as wine consumers: “We would “He felt that if we put our name on the wine: Everyone else drank it, rather have one A-plus bottle of wine than six B-plus bottle we would do everything possible to but the Futos did not. bottles of wine.” bring him the best grapes we could.” “So we started trying a few A decade later, Futo Wines, described by glasses of wine,” Futo says. “ en we’d go when the same property came up for sale the wine blog Vinography as “one of the into a wine shop in Wichita, pick up a case again in 2002, the Futos jumped. more remarkable projects to emerge in of six reds, six whites, and take notes on ey have since added 110 acres of Napa in several years,” has established what we liked. We quickly gravitated surrounding property, and now process itself among elite producers of Cabernet- toward reds.” grapes from their ve vineyards in a based blends. Each Futo Wines vintage Soon the Futos were vacationing in custom winery built on the property in sells out, at more than $200 a bottle, to Napa Valley, where, Tom recalls, every time for processing the 2008 vintage. mailing-list customers and a select roster visit was better than the last. When a “It is a wonderful business. No two days of restaurants. gol ng partner from Wichita considered are the same. You are never bored, you are “ is valley,” Futo says, “is as good a buying Oakford Vineyards—then owned never short of things to learn, you are place to grow Cabernet Sauvignon as by Kansas Citians Chuck, e’46, and surrounded by passionate, hard-working anywhere in the world.” Catherine Piller Ball, ’48—he asked Futo people. It’s as good as it gets. A er focusing on sciences while an to join him in the deal. Futo was intrigued, “ e beauty of life is that you’ve got one undergraduate at KU and earning an MBA but ultimately chose to honor his commit- chance to live it. If you have a strong at Southern Methodist University, Futo ment to avoid doing business with friends; passion or a strong desire, move on it.”
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 53 Class Notes president of Conrad Grebel University Angela Miller, c’91, g’96, is an College in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 91 assistant professor at George Mason Troy Trulock, b’86, recently was elected University. She makes her home in mayor of Madison, Ala. Burke, Va. Susan Jackson Harden, c’94, a’94, is Darin Wohlgemuth, d’91, serves as 94 vice president of planning and Robert Binns, c’87, g’99, is chairman interim dean of admissions at Iowa State design at RBF Consulting in Irvine, Calif. 87and chief executive ocer of Global University in Ames. She and her husband, Michael, live in Aviation in Peachtree City, Ga. Laguna Niguel. Stephen Smith, m’87, chairs the surgery BORN TO: Sherry Helus, ’94, recently became department at the University of South Robert, c’91, and Caroline Koch Gollier, principal at Marysville Elementary School. Carolina in Columbia. j’00, c’00, son, Elijah, July 30 in Lawrence, She lives in Olathe. where they live. Marlene Dearinger Neill, j’94 is a Cheryl Huxman Dooley, s’88, is a public-relations lecturer in the journalism 88 psychiatric social worker for Sarah Mozingo Martin, c’92, and department at Baylor University in Waco, ComCare of Sedgwick County in Wichita. 92 her husband, Drew, celebrated their Texas. She and her husband, Tony, live in rst anniversary in October. ey live in Haysville. Hutchinson, and she’s a district human- LaRisa Chambers-Lochner, c’95, resource coordinator for Dillon 95 recently was promoted to develop- Michael Bedell, b’89, g’91, is Companies. ment director for the College of Liberal 89 associate dean and professor of Jeªrey Meesey, j’92, is digital editor of Arts and Sciences at KU Endowment. She management at Northeastern Illinois Florida Today. He lives in Melbourne. and her husband, Brian, ’95, live in University in Mundelein. Lawrence. Steve Meeks, c’93, is chief executive Allen Greiner, m’95, g’00, received the Lisa Mansur, m’90, practices 93 ocer of Meticul Solutions and Early Career Achievement in Medicine 90 medicine at the Lisa Mansur Clinic chief information ocer of Career Alumnus Award from the KU Medical in Lincoln, Neb. Athletes. He lives in Houston. Center Alumni Association. He’s a
54 | KANSAS ALUMNI professor and associate chair of the her husband, Christopher, c’96. Amanda, June 23 in Golden, Colo., where research department of family medicine at she joins a brother, Ian, 2. the KU Medical Center. Allen and Kelli Vicky Hermreck, c’96, g’99, owns Matthew, c’97, g’01, and Arwen Liston Greiner, c’93, live in Lenexa. 96 Communication Station in Dickey Moore, g’01, son, Landon James, Amy Wolf Lovell, c’95, directs profes- Modesto, Calif. June 8 in Overland Park, where he joins sional services for Children’s Mercy Adam Wenz, ’96, joined Hutton Real a brother, Jackson, 2. Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City. She Estate as a site acquisition partner. He lives and her husband, Jason, ’95, live in in Duluth, Ga. Lashawn Fitzhugh-Miller, s’98 Lawrence. 98 joined Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Jennifer Ford Reedy, c’95, is president BORN TO: where she’s a hospice social worker. and CEO of the Bush Foundation in Matthew, ’97, and Kelly Cannon Gaven Ludlow, s’98, directs resource St. Paul, Minn., where she lives with 97Boeckman, j’98, daughter, Cora family services at TFI Family Services in
PROFILE by Steven Hill ALBRO NOAH
Progressive thinking puts Modern military campaigns, professor in Fast Company like one-of-a-kind building projects, are not simple linear s the Kau man Center for the processes. ings quickly get A Performing Arts began taking shape complicated. Architects must in Kansas City three years ago, Matt integrate the conceptual Schmidt saw more than a stunning planning they do as designers building: He saw the potential for a unique with the detailed plans needed learning experience for his students at Fort to build a structure. Leavenworth’s School for Advance “ at’s a very similar Military Studies (SAMS). problem we face in military Schmidt, g’02, found parallels between planning,” Schmidt says. “We the complex thinking required to design have a general concept for a Partnerships with Safdie Architects and Populous landed and construct a distinctive structure like campaign—for instance, Matt Schmidt a unique teaching opportunity and a spot on the Kau man Center and the skills deciding to land by boat in Fast Company’s business innovators list. required to plan and execute complex northern France on D-Day— military campaigns. at insight led to a and from there we have to unique partnership with several design work with experts who know how many business leaders with a focus on innova- rms—and a place for Schmidt on Fast ships, how many gallons of fuel we need.” tion in technology, economics, leadership Company magazine’s “100 Most Creative Field trips Schmidt arranged by and design, released its annual list in June. People in Business” list for 2012. cold-calling architects and construction A celebration of “business innovators who An assistant professor at SAMS, managers at the Kau man Center dare to think di erently,” it includes Schmidt helps U.S. Army ocers learn to (designed by Safdie Architects) and famous names like singers Cee Lo Green develop modern military operations, Livestrong Sporting Park (designed by and Bjork, lmmaker Wes Anderson and which require not only analysis, but also Populous) “were a bridge between the astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson. synthesis. e approach values teamwork, lectures and the scenario exercises—we At No. 22, Schmidt ranks higher on the holistic thinking and focusing not on don’t call them war games anymore—we list than all but Green. nding a solution, but on identifying the do to help students develop planning “Friends kept saying, ‘Wow, you topped correct problem. skills. It was their chance to talk to people Wes Anderson.’ My reply was, ‘Yeah, but “If you can correctly articulate the who’ve been dealing with these problems the di erence is it’s a big deal to me, and problem,” Schmidt says, “the way to daily, at a very high level, for decades.” Wes Anderson probably doesn’t even manage it is pretty much obvious to you.” Fast Company, which targets progressive know he’s on the list.’”
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 55 56 | KANSAS ALUMNI Topeka, where he and his wife, Laura, Lauren Bechdoldt Bishop, n’03, is an Jennifer Scales Ananda, c’04, make their home. admissions nurse at the San Diego 04 l’10, s’10, is a partner in the Matthew Schmidt, s’98, is interim Hospice. She lives in Carlsbad, Calif. Lawrence law rm of Highberger executive director of the Health Ministries Jarod Delozier, b’03, owns Ugly Mugs & Ananda. Clinic in Newton. Co ee and Tea in Nashville, Tenn. Kari Miller Clouse, g’04, m’09, practices Bee Yeap, c’98, directs Choice Hotels Elizabeth Hamby Duvall, e’03, manages medicine with Harder Family Practice International. She lives in Phoenix. the aviation program for the Missouri in Augusta. Department of Transportation in Je erson Holly Wideman Gudenkauf, p’04, Brian Milligan, e’99, practices City. She was elected as a board of works as a pharmacist at Kmart in Topeka. 99 medicine at St. Luke’s Neuroscience directors representative to the executive She and her husband, Ronald, live in Institute. He and Cheryl Funke Milligan, committee of the Missouri Society of Whiting. b’98, live in Mission Hills. Professional Engineers. Nicolas Jaumard, g’04, PhD’09, is a Umakant Vadnere, g’99, was promoted Ryan Fleming, c’03, is an associate editor postdoctoral fellow at the University of to vice president of the Newark, N.J., oce with Digital Trends in Portland, Ore. Pennsylvania’s neurosurgery department. of ornton Tomasetti, an international Randy Masten, g’03, is assistant director He and Emily Moisan Jaumard, g’08, live engineering rm. in the oce of professional military in Philadelphia. graduate education at KU. He and Margot Levy, b’04, manages accounts at Preston James IV, l’00, g’00, joined Kathleen King-Masten, c’04, make their Lockton Companies in Kansas City. 00Northwood University in Midland, home in Lawrence. Elizabeth Olson, c’04, is a family nurse Mich., as an assistant professor of enter- Jimmy Yu, g’03, is a professor of religion practitioner at Guthrie Health. She lives in tainment, sport and promotion. at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Vestal, N.Y.
Amber Swartz Gallemore, d’01, g’07, 01 teaches science at Plant City High School. She lives in Lithia, Fla. Ryan Schmidt, d’01, coaches baseball at Hutchinson Community College.
MARRIED Andrea Troutman, b’01, g’03, to Caleb Seimears, May 19. ey both work for Holland 1916 Inc., where she’s a controller and he’s an engineer. eir home is in Overland Park.
Michael Chavez, g’02, manages the 02 public art program for the city of Denver. Christina Gawlik, d’02, is an assistant professor at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Mindy Carlson Nicholson, c’02, g’05, works for KU Endowment in Lawrence, where she and her husband, Derek, c’04, make their home. Michelle Sherwood, j’02, is an evening anchor for Fox Wilmington News in Wilmington, N.C. Erica Brown Terry, c’02, is development ocer at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
Ellary Schneider Blair, f’03, owns 03 Ellie Potts Inc. in Lawrence.
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MARRIED and her husband, Derrick, live in Halsey, c’06, g’08, June 30. ey live Danice Brown, j’04, to Ryan Shaw, Dec. Mahomet. in Lawrence, and Megan works as a 31 in Kansas City, where they live. She Wayne Simien, c’05, was inducted into speech-language pathologist for the teaches eighth grade and coaches dance in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame. Wayne, Shawnee Mission school district. Park Hill, and he’s a manager at Stone whose KU basketball jersey was retired in Canyon Pizza Co. 2011, played for the Miami Heat before BORN TO: retiring in 2009 to pursue a career in Sarah Hinrichsen, p’05, and her hus- Christopher Duensing, c’05, Christian ministry. He and his wife, band, Aaron Head, son, ane Head, July 05 teaches at CTI. He lives in Las Katherine, live in Lawrence. 1. ey make their home in Lecompton. Vegas. Patrick Steªen, g’05, works as an Robert Elder, c’05, g’08, is collections administrator at the KU Medical Center in Kellie Johnson, a’06, directs the registrar for the Admiral Nimitz Founda- Kansas City. 06 Rizzo Group in New York City. tion in Fredericksburg, Texas. Brett Thompson, d’05, is a physical Robert Messinger, c’06, coordinates Bradford Hollingworth, ’05, directs therapist at Select Physical erapy in Lee’s football operations at the University of brand marketing and strategic partner- Summit, Mo. He lives in Mission. Miami in Miami, Fla. ships for Country Radio Broadcasters in Elizabeth Rinehart, c’06, m’12, is a Nashville, Tenn. MARRIED resident physician at Brigham & Women’s David Koepsel, b’05, practices dentistry Scott Aligo, d’05, and Sarah Phillips, Hospital in Boston. She lives in Roxbury at Wichita Family Dental. g’11, June 29 in Lawrence. ey live in Crossing, Mass. James Lewis, c’05, is Mid-Atlantic College Station, Texas. territory manager for Miele Inc. Dia Hanson, ’05, and Mark Simons, p’07, MARRIED He lives in Richmond, Va., with June 16 in Lawrence, where they live. She’s Emily Reimer, b’06, and Kevin Gold- his wife, Natalie. a paralegal at the Lawrence law rm of stein, j’07, April 29 in Atlanta, where they Heather Hellman Roy, d’05, works as a Barber Emerson, and he’s a Walgreens live. Emily is an account executive for GME accreditation specialist at Carle store manager in Ottawa. BoBo, and Kevin is senior sales manager Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Ill. She Gregory Summers, c’05, and Megan for Pardot.
58 | KANSAS ALUMNI Katherine Butkus, b’07, teaches Laura Watkins, j’07, is community Maricopa High School. eir home is in 07 business at Sheridan High School. and outreach manager for Drumroll. Chandler. She lives in Denver. She lives in Mission. Lesley Humphreys, d’07, to Michael Ryan Hall, m’07, joined the Hutchinson Kathryn Brown Woolbright, c’07, is a Euston, May 26 in Estes Park, Colo. Clinic as a radiologist. program specialist for Alameda County She’s an account executive with VQ Travis Riedel, c’07, manages products Emergency Medical Service. She and her OrthoCare, and he’s a nancial advisor for Kera FAST Inc. He lives in Winston husband, Blake, e’02, make their home in at Wells Fargo Advisors. ey live in Salem, N.C. San Francisco. Englewood. Christopher Roberts, c’07, practices law Ashley White, c’07, to Lance Hulbert, with Butsch Fields & Associates in MARRIED June 16 in Lawrence. She is a content Clayton, Mo. He lives in St. Louis. Heather Brummitt, g’07, to Cortney strategist for the American Academy of Anne Sims, c’07, is an executive Kellenaers, March 9 in Gilbert, Ariz. She’s Family Physicians, and he owns Image assistant at Stryker Orthopaedics-Joint a news producer with KPHO TV in Lawn and Landscape in Overland Park, Preservation in Denver. Phoenix, and he teaches biology at where they live.
PROFILE by Carol Crupper PUPPE VE STE Stint as CPB chair caps President Obama appointed remarkable radio career her to the bipartisan board in 2009, and board members atricia Deal Cahill considers public elected her chair in September. Pbroadcasting one of the best invest- e position caps a distin- ments the country can make, and in her guished four-decade radio new post as chair of the Corporation for career launched at KU, where Public Broadcasting board of directors, she worked at KUOK and she’s working to secure its future. KANU. A er reporting for “Democracy needs an informed KCUR in Kansas City, she was electorate,” she says, and today’s bitter a reporter, producer, program divides make it essential to have a place to director, news director and turn for in-depth, unbiased information. general manager at KMUW in Patricia Cahill emphasizes quality, diversity, education, arts “With the proliferation of 24-hour-a-day Wichita. and culture as she makes the case for continued support for news cycles, with hundreds of news and Cahill’s last 25 years in radio opinion sites available from all kinds of were at KCUR. As general public broadcasting. disparate sources, there is more need for manager, she put the station citizens to trust the information they are on sound scal footing and during the rst presidential debate to cut provided as factual and fair,” Cahill says. shaped it into a voice for Kansas City. Now funding for “Sesame Street,” Cahill was Serving the public instead of sharehold- retired from broadcasting, she continues pleased to see a comment in the Kansas ers, public broadcasting can spend more to teach broadcast management at the City Star: “Dear Politicians: Big Bird is not time on news stories and present all sides University of Missouri-Kansas City. the problem; Big Bird is the solution.” of an issue, Cahill believes. And, she notes, Her national post o ers new challenges. e federal government spends $445 “Arts and culture are important to better “Managing a local public radio station is million on public broadcasting, about one understanding the world and each other.” on the ground, it’s daily, handling a one-hundredth of one percent of the total Since 1968, the nonpro t board that transmitter going down, it’s constant U.S. budget, Cahill notes. As a national Cahill, c’69, g’71, now heads has managed motion,” Cahill says. “At the national level advocate for maintaining that support, federal investments in public radio and it’s like 1,000 feet up, taking a look at the Cahill has come a long way from her rst television. It awards grants to help fund big picture, seeing how stations relate with on-air words as a freshman at KU: “What’s programs such as “Sesame Street,” “PBS their listeners and viewers and each other.” this red light doing on?” NewsHour,” “Frontline,” “Great Perfor- is fall, she watched the ap over Big —Crupper, d’67, mances” and “All ings Considered.” Bird unfold. A er Mitt Romney pledged is a Lawrence freelance writer.
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Devon Harris Berke, c’08, and Buchanan, d’10, EdD’12, June 9 in Kansas of Alabama-Huntsville. 08 Austin, g’09, celebrated their rst City. He’s senior auditor with DCAA, and Emily Minion, b’09, g’10, works as an anniversary in August. She’s a preschool she teaches second grade at St. omas assurance associate at Pricewaterhouse- teacher at the Goddard School, and he’s an Aquinas Catholic School. ey live in Coopers in Kansas City. She lives in architect with Burns & McDonnell. ey Wichita. Olathe. live in Overland Park. Erik Morrison, d’09, plays baseball for Benjamin Martin, c’08, was promoted Stephanie Baugh, d’09, received a the Chicago White Sox organization’s to captain in the U.S. Air Force. He is 09 John McLendon Minority Post- Birmingham Barons of the AA Southern stationed at Fairchild AFB in Spokane, graduate Scholarship Award from the League. His home is in Arroyo Grande, Wash., where he and Kasey Taliaferro National Association of College Directors Calif. Martin, b’11, make their home. of Athletics. She’s an intern for the Natasha Parman, d’09, g’12, works as a Christy Nichols, c’08, works as a National Association of Collegiate Women physical therapist at Apply Physical mental-health therapist and hospital Athletics Administrators. Her home is in erapy. She lives in Tacoma, Wash. screener at the Wyandot Center. Lenexa. Rachel Pepper, g’09, g’12, received the She lives in Mission. Kristin Salanski Chandler, f’09, teaches Early Career Achievement in Nursing Ryan Rowan, c’08, is deputy prosecuting elementary-school music for the Blue Alumna Award from the KU Medical attorney for the Porter County Prosecu- Valley Uni ed School District. She and her Center Alumni Association. She’s nurse tor’s Oce. He lives in Valparaiso, Ind. husband, Jonathan, live in Overland Park. manager of transplant and renal progres- Jillian Garrett, c’09, edits the Action! sive care services at the KU Medical MARRIED Entertainment Guide for the Arkansas Center. She makes her home in Hannah Beshore, c’08, to Travis City Traveler. Platte City, Mo. Hummel, June 23 in Nickerson. She Ashley Jenkins, c’09, is assistant Jessica Puljan, b’09, is unit manager for teaches rst grade in Hutchinson, where catering coordinator for Paulo & Bill in Altria Group Distribution. She lives in they live, and he’s a government account Shawnee. Her home is in Overland Park. Little Rock, Ark. executive with Verizon Wireless. Nathan Mack Jr., c’09, is a regional Timothy Spencer Jr., c’09, lives in Ryan Gegen, b’08, g’09, and Anne admissions counselor at the University Lawrence, where he’s assistant ticket
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62 | KANSAS ALUMNI manager at KU’s Lied Center. New Holland in Burridge, Ill. She makes anniversary in October. ey live in St. Tricia Sweany, c’09, works as a her home in Chicago. Marys, and Kenzie works as a merchandise media librarian at the Santa Fe Public Lauren Heimbaugh, c’10, illustrated a distribution analyst for Collective Brands. Library in New Mexico. children’s book, Marshall the Miracle Dog. Rachelle Pauly, d’10, teaches math at Jennifer Johnson von Fintel, m’09, She lives in Ballwin, Mo. Tonganoxie Middle School. She lives in practices emergency medicine at Provi- Hilary Lowe, PhD’10, wrote Mark Lawrence. dence Medical Center in Kansas City. Twain’s Homes and Literary Tourism, Steven Schebler, p’10, works as a Spencer Wynant, b’09, g’09, is an published by the University of Missouri pediatric pharmacist at Children’s Mercy investment associate at Northern Trust in Press. Hilary is assistant director of Hospitals and Clinics in Kansas City. He Denver. corporation and foundation relations at lives in Prairie Village. Drexel University in Philadelphia. Celina Suarez, PhD’10, is an assistant Elise Grosdidier, j’10, is a marketing Kenzie Cordt Olejnik, j’10, and her professor of geology at the University of 10 communications specialist for Case husband, Dane, celebrated their rst Arkansas in Fayetteville.
PROFILE by Lydia Benda VEZ
Chavez enlivens you three years.’” Once an artist is
Denver’s public art MICHAEL CHA COURTESY selected, Chavez enver printmaking artist Michael leads the discussion DChavez, g’02, has spent most of his on budget, materials, adult life working in art museums. Now size and timing. he’s stepping out, way out, and rede ning But the process “public art” as the new public art program doesn’t end there. manager for Arts and Venues Denver. Chavez also directs “Sometimes when people hear ‘public maintenance of art’ they think of a statue on a corner or a existing works, many big thing in a park,” Chavez says. “But we of which are out in work in all media imaginable.” the elements and In July, Chavez began overseeing every more than 60 years piece of public art in the county of Denver: old. He creates plans Denver’s Percent For Art ordinance mandates that 1 percent of any new sculptures in city buildings, interactive to repaint, repair or capital improvement project be dedicated to the arts for that location. digital art and even live performance refurbish any art that “The fact that it is in our law proves that Denver cares about our cultural pieces. “We’re a city agency and the needs attention. landscape,” Chavez says. The mural is titled “Multiple Personality collection technically belongs to the When budgets Disorder,” by David Choe. citizens of Denver, so I want there to be allow, Chavez delves this feeling that it belongs to them,” into the fun stu . Chavez says. Just recently he coordinated a live event to about this job is that there’s always For each project, Chavez assembles a enhance community involvement a er something new on the horizon.” panel of community members and civic completion of a new walking bridge. Whether he’s helping select new leaders to select the art. e panel issues “ ere was a little bit of money le over, commissions, taking care of old ones or an open call for artists, who then submit so we used it to stage a performance on orchestrating unusual outreach events, work for review. Chavez drives the that bridge at sunset with bagpipers,” he Chavez already has made a niche for selection process and advises the panel. says. himself in Denver’s art scene. “If an artist proposes something in a As long as events occur in a public “I hope that what I do brings an overall material that I know is going to deteriorate space, the public is invited and it’s free, sense of pride in Denver—that the or is going to fade, I can say, ‘You might Chavez can extend the de nition of public community knows their city values like this piece, but it’s only going to last art into unexpected arenas. “What’s fun creativity and art and culture.”
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MARRIED Grape Expectations. He lives in Denver. Kaitlyn Coen, b’10, g’11, and Kyle Adam Vossen, j’11, is press assistant for Haake, e’10, June 30 in Kansas City. Topshop/Topman. He makes his home in Kaitlyn is a federal tax associate with New York City. KPMG in Kansas City, and Kyle is a civil Communication in Chicago. engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of MARRIED Michael Diener, b’12, works as a loan Engineers. Austin Bradley, g’11, and Kelsey Fuller, ocer with CBC National Bank in Cole Curry, c’10, and Kelly Opp, c’12, ’12, June 30 in Edgerton. He’s an architect Overland Park. He lives in Shawnee. Sept. 1 in Kansas City, where they live. and assistant program manager for 360 Clinton Edenfield, g’12, is a nancial Cole is a solution architect at Cerner, and Architecture, and she’s a special-education adviser with Edward Jones in Shawnee. Kelly is assistant director of admissions at teacher for the Blue Valley school district. Jordan Fee, c’12, works as an intern at the Kansas City Art Institute. ey live in Prairie Village. Midwest Mutual Insurance in Plymouth, Christina Stephenson, c’10, and James Nai-I Hu, g’11, and Joel Finney, c’12, Minn. Hopkins, c’11, May 27 in Danforth Chapel. March 17 in Lawrence, where they live. Katherine Feller, b’12, is a nancial She’s a research administrator at KU Nai-I teaches Mandarin Chinese at Topeka analyst with Sabre Holdings in Southlake, Medical Center in Kansas City, and he’s a High School, and Joel is a research Texas. She lives in Grapevine. real-estate agent with Reece and Nichols. assistant at KU. Andrew Filmore, j’12, is a production ey live in Lenexa. assistant at Stand Up to Cancer. He lives in Atef Alsarayreh, PhD’12, is a Los Angeles. BORN TO: 12 professor of English at Mutah Matthew Franzblau, g’12, is a communi- Nathan, g’10, and Tobey Wyatt Brady, University in Mutah-Alkarak, Jordan. cations assistant in the athletics depart- g’10, daughter, Kora Noel, May 8 in Hilary Barbour, e’12, works as a design ment at Oregon State Univrersitiy. He lives Chicago. Nathan is a technical marketing engineer at Garmin International in in Albany. manager for Crossbeam Systems, and Olathe. Her home is in Overland Park. James Gentile, b’12, works as a techni- Tobey is an executive assistant at Michael Jennifer Berman, c’12, is based in cal analyst at Cerner in Kansas City. His Pine & Associates. Tallinn, Estonia, where she works with home is in Lee’s Summit, Mo. youth from Estonia, Latvia and Andrew Grom, c’12, works as quality James Allison, g’11, works as a Lithuania during a one-year fellowship manager for Cardiac Services. He lives in 11 nancial advisor associate for Morgan with the American Jewish Joint Distribu- Winthrop Harbor, Ill. Stanley Smith Barney in Kansas City. tion Committee. Her home is in Alok Gupta, g’12, lives in Lawrence and Brian Blackwell, e’11, is a wind-turbine Plano, Texas. is a correspondent for Down to Earth. design engineer with Wezel Engineering. Tyler Brevik, c’12, is an underwriter for Rachel Hager, g’12, manages device He lives in Lawrence. EMC Insurance in Wichita. He lives in development for Sprint Nextel in Overland Mischia Brown, b’11, recently became a Derby. Park. She lives in Lenexa. relationship manager at Frontier Insurance Karlie Brown, a’12, is a campus mission- Chris Harris, c’12, plays football for the Strategies. She lives in Hutchinson. ary with FOCUS in Des Moines. Denver Broncos. He makes his home in Adam Merando, m’11, was named Jessica Cassin, ’12, works for Zillner Tulsa, Okla. Intern of the Year at the KU School of Marketing and Communications in Noah Hendrix, e’12, is a so ware Medicine. He’s a rst-year resident in Lenexa. Her home is in Overland Park. engineer with Apple. He lives in San internal medicine and makes his She recently completed an internship at Francisco. home in Overland Park. Bailey Lauerman, located in Lincoln, Neb., Ashley Hoyle, c’12, serves as a campus Kirsten Oschwald, g’11, is an applica- working for Bailey Lauerman’s client, the minister with Called to Greatness in tion engineer at Sunlite Science & Tech- Smithsonian Institution. Lawrence. nology. Her home is in Lawrence. Logan Chamberlin, e’12, works as a Steven Johnson, ’12, plays football for Matthew Petty, e’11, works as a design project engineer with Apex Engineers in the Denver Broncos. He lives in Southlake, engineer with SpaceX. He lives in Merriam. He lives in Overland Park. Texas. Redondo Beach, Calif. Christine Curtin, j’12, is a media Andrew Joseph, j’12, is an aliated Ciara Roberts, j’11, manages leasing and relations specialist at Walker Sands writer for e Arizona Republic. He lives marketing for e Reserve on West 31st in in Tempe. Lawrence. Cailee Kelly, c’12, works for Burns Benjamin Shrimplin, g’11, is site & McDonnell in Kansas City. She makes coordinator for Sonic Equipment Com- her home in Shawnee. pany in Iola. His home is in Ottawa. Beatrice Kilat, c’12, is a vendor intern Ryan Tripp, c’11, is a sales associate for for the Eat Real Festival. She lives in
64 | KANSAS ALUMNI Oakland, Calif. representative. She lives in Oakley. home in St. Louis. Jinae Birney Krieshok, g’12, coordinates Whitney Schieber, j’12, is a development Jesse Mitchell, p’12, to Jamie Smith, MBA recruiting and marketing for KU’s assistant at KU Endowment. She lives in Aug. 18 in Lawrence, where they live. She’s School of Business. She and her husband, Lawrence. a pharmacist at QualiCare Pharmacy, and Benjamin, g’12, live in Olathe. He’s an Carissa Swanwick, g’12, is assistant vice he’s vice president and branch manager of engineering manager for Research president of strategy management at Community National Bank in Tonganoxie. Concepts Inc. Waddell & Reed. She lives in Lenexa. Adam Long, PhD’12, directs the Heather Turi, g’12, teaches in the Kansas BORN TO: Hemingway-Pfei er Museum in Piggott, City public-school system. Denton Nichols, ’12, and Lori, daughter, Ariz., where he lives. Stacie Weninger, c’12, works as a Ivy Elizabeth, July 3 in Lawrence, where Jacqueline Mocnik-Boyd, c’12, works for technical writer at Perceptive So ware. Denton is an architect with Clark/ North American Savings Bank. She and She lives in Kansas City. Huesemann and Lori practices medicine her husband, Ryan, live in Lawrence. Keith Yackie, b’12, is an account at Lawrence Family Medicine and Mireia Beas Moix, g’12, is a curatorial executive for Transworld Systems. He Obstetrics. assistant at the University of California at makes his home in Mission. Santa Barbara. Denton Zeeman, g’12, is a program ASSOCIATES John Nguyen, p’12, g’12, is a pharmacist manager in KU’s School of Business. He Barbara Atkinson, former executive vice at Walmart. He lives in Basehor. makes his home in Olathe. chancellor of the KU Medical Center and William O’Quinn, d’12, serves as a former executive dean of the KU School of campus minister at the Church of Christ MARRIED Medicine, was named Honorary Medical in Lawrence, where he lives. Whitney Hoyt, g’12, to Robert Wojahn, Alumna by the KU Medical Center Stephanie Peter, b’12, works as a June 9 in Kansas City. She is a speech Alumni Association. She and her husband, production accountant at Cool re language pathologist at United Services William, live in Gardner. Media. She lives in Ballwin, Mo. Early Childhood Center in St. Peters, Mo., Jeª Aube, a professor of medicinal Bridget Robben, b’12, joined AgTrax and he is a fourth-year medical student at chemistry at KU, was chosen as a fellow by Technologies in Hutchinson as an account Washington University. ey make their the American Chemical Society.
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In Memory Overland Park. Survivors include his wife, Kay; three daughters, one of whom is Terri, f’77; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Milton Bosse, m’38, 97, July 8 in retired teacher and school counselor. She Christine Buchholtz Carlson, c’52, 81, 30sPittsburgh, Pa., where he was a is survived by her husband, Will, b’48, and July 9 in Highlands Ranch, Colo., where retired physician. He earlier had taught at two daughters. she was retired from working in education the University of Pittsburgh and helped Millard “Bud” Musselman, e’48, 88, and medical elds. She is survived by her establish its polio research laboratory, April 13 in Escondido, Calif., where he was husband, William, g’52, two sons, a where he helped conduct clinical trials for a retired engineer. He is survived by his daughter and four grandchildren. Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine. He is survived wife, Emily Berry Musselman, f’48; four William Cavanaugh, c’50, 85, July 19 in by two sons, a daughter, eight grandchil- sons, two of whom are omas, c’82, and Leawood, where he was former managing dren and six great-grandchildren. Daniel, ’78; six grandchildren; and two director at Marsh & McLennan Insurance. great-grandchildren. He is survived by two sons, one of whom Ada Lee Fuller Baumgartner, f’42, Venita Inloes Schneider, d’47, 90, July is Timothy, m’86; a daughter; and 11 40s92, Aug. 24 in Charleston, S.C., 12 in Mount Vernon, where she was a grandchildren. where she was active in church and former music teacher. She is survived by James Fluker, l’59, 59, Aug. 1 in Kansas volunteer work. Among survivors are two her husband, Solomon, a son, a daughter, City, where he practiced law for 25 years daughters, four grandsons, nine great- two grandchildren and seven before becoming director of casualty and grandchildren and one great-grandchildren. later general counsel at Universal Under- great-great-granddaughter. Joyce Shannon, f’49, 90, Sept. 5 in writers Group. He is survived by his wife, Henry Dreher Jr., c’40, m’43, 73, July 11 Holmes Beach, Fla., where she was retired Betty, two sons, a sister and two in Salina, where he practiced medicine for from careers in advertising and real estate. grandchildren. many years. He is survived by two sons, Several cousins survive. James Francis, b’52, l’57, 82, Aug. 23 in Henry III, c’66, g’68, and David, c’73; two John Staats, a’49, 89, July 15 in Tulsa, Okla., where he was controller at daughters, Elizabeth Dreher Richardson, Jackson, Miss., where he had owned an Campbell Wholesale. He is survived by his d’70, and Carody Dreher Wise, c’74, g’76; architecture rm. He is survived by his wife, Nancy, three sons, a daughter, a a brother, Richard, c’48, m’50; eight wife, Billie Giles Staats, ’42; a brother; two brother, a sister, three grandchildren and a grandchildren; and three great grandchildren; and two great-granddaughter. grandchildren. great-grandchildren. David Grice, e’54, 82, Aug. 3, 2010, in Evelyn Cooper Dresser, c’47, 87, June 7 Ralph Uªord, e’49, 87, July 20 in Olathe, Alpine, Texas, where he was a retired in Chester eld, Mo., where she was a where he was a retired mechanical engineer. A daughter, a sister and a retired bacteriologist and a teacher. engineer with Allied Signal. He is survived granddaughter survive. Surviving are three sons; two sisters, one by his wife, Dolores Travalent U ord, c’49; Janet Stewart Halloran, d’54, 79, July of whom is Jane Cooper Glaub, d’49; and three sons, two of whom are Martin, c’74, 27 in Topeka, where she was a former three grandchildren. and Dave, g’84; ve grandchildren; and elementary school teacher. Four daughters Jane Anderson Gunn, j’47, 87, Sept. 27 three great-grandchildren. and eight grandchildren survive. in Lawrence, where she had been a Mary Ellen Barker Van Citters, c’49, 84, Winnifred Schumacher Hawkins, c’54, librarian at the School of Journalism and June 30 in Edmonds, Wash., where she was 80, July 31 in Oklahoma City, where she later owned the Emporium, a consignment a former teacher. She is survived by her was an artist and co-owner of Studio Six. art gallery. She is survived by her husband, husband, Robert, c’49, m’53; two daugh- She is survived by her husband, Doug, two James, j’47, g’51; and a son, Kevin, c’79. ters; two sons; and a brother. sons, a daughter, two granddaughters and Collier Johnston Jr., ’42, 93, July 8 in three great-grandchildren. Yuba City, Calif., where he was a retired Fred Alexander, p’50, 89, Feb. 24 Donald Hunninghake, m’59, 78, Feb. 2 engineer with Lockheed Aircra . A sister 50sin Independence, Mo., where he in Carlsbad, Calif. He was a professor survives. was a retired pharmacist. He is survived by emeritus of medicine and pharmacology at Alberta Keller, g’41, 95, Sept. 1 in a son, a daughter and two grandchildren. the University of Minnesota and a senior Congress, Calif. She chaired the English Guido Barrientos, g’57, PhD’59, 80, July eld medical director at AstraZeneca department and taught at omas 26 in El Paso, Texas, where he taught Pharmaceuticals. He is survived by his Downey High School in Yorba Linda for psychology for more than 30 years at the wife, Sherrie; two daughters, one of whom 27 years. A nephew and three nieces University of Texas and was a clinical is Denise, m’89; a son; a stepdaughter; a survive. psychologist. He is survived by his wife, stepson; and ve grandchildren. Cleo Rein Landon, b’47, 88, May 27 in Roselia, a son and a daughter. Robert Lauber, b’55, 85, Aug. 8 in Greenwood Village, Colo., where she was a Milton Blunt II, a’51, 85, Aug. 18 in Fernandina Beach, Fla., where he retired
68 | KANSAS ALUMNI from Sears-Roebuck. Survivors include a Leawood. He had served in the U.S. survived by his wife, Bridget, three sons, daughter, Lauren Lauber Strucely, c’72, Marine Corps and is survived by a son, his mother, a sister and seven and a son. Allen, b’80, g’85; two daughters; ve grandchildren. D.J. “Dean” Mantooth, ’52, 81, July 26 grandchildren; and three Richard Fenske, e’69, 66, Aug. 29 in in Hutchinson, where he was retired from great-grandchildren. Wichita, where he was a retired mechani- a career with Skelly Oil. He is survived by cal engineer with Professional Engineering his wife, Marie Nichols Mantooth, assoc.; Donald Almquist, c’69, 69, Dec. Consultants. A memorial has been two daughters; two sons; seven grandchil- 60s23 in Greenwood, S.C., where he established with KU Endowment. He is dren; and a great-granddaughter. was retired from the Internal Revenue survived by his wife, Mary Ann, a son, John Merryman, g’52, 90, Aug. 4 in Service and worked as an antiques dealer. three daughters, his mother, a sister and Topeka. He taught history for 40 years at A sister survives. three grandsons. Highland Park High School, where he also Lynn Anderson, b’61, l’64, 72, Aug. 26 Gerald Henkel, j’69, 69, July 3 in coached football and track. He is survived in Bellevue, Wash. He was retired CEO of Sarasota, Fla., where he was retired. He by his wife, Betty, three daughters, a sister, Frank Russell Investment Management had been circulation director for Writer’s eight grandchildren and seven Co. in Tacoma, and earlier had been Digest in Cincinnati and for Essence great-grandchildren. president of First National Bank of magazine in New York City. Surviving are Barbara Gooden Mulch, c’59, PhD’72, Lawrence. He is survived by a daughter, his wife, Margaret, a daughter, two sons, 76, April 29 in Santa Ana, Calif., where she Heather, c’86, l’95, g’95. two sisters and three grandchildren. was dean emerita of graduate programs, Richard Avila, e’69, 68, March 17 in James Heyle, ’68, 74, June 19 in New associate professor of history and former Pinehurst, N.C., where he was a retired York City. He was an architect, photogra- director of fellowships at Chapman U.S. Navy commander. He is survived by pher and environmentalist. Surviving are College. Her husband, Merrill, c’57, g’58, two sons, a daughter, two brothers, a half his wife, Hannah, and a sister. survives. sister, three half brothers and four Robert Hines, a’63, 76, April 14 in Nellouise Shanahan Sherman, n’51, grandchildren. Reston, Va., where he was a retired d’81, 81, July 19 in Lawrence, where she Martha Bell Barr ’63, 87, July 19 in architect and a championship race car was a former nurse practitioner at the Lawrence, where she was a homemaker driver. He is survived by his wife, Judy, a K-Mart Distribution Center. She is and a community volunteer. She is son, a daughter, his mother, two brothers survived by her husband, Jerry, ’53; three survived by a son, William, c’73, l’76; two and four grandchildren. sons, two of whom are omas, f’76, and daughters, Patricia Barr Clarke, s’68, and Douglas Keller, f’65, g’66, 70, July 19 in Barry, ’81; a daughter, Penny Sherman Deborah, f’73; seven grandchildren; and Independence, where he lived. He had Johnson, f’01; a sister; a brother; and nine six great-grandchildren. been a professor of art at Co eyville grandchildren. Ronald Black, e’66, 68, April 10 in Community College and had taught art at Jack Stelmach, m’53, 86, July 22 in Washington, Ill., where he was retired Columbia College and at the University of Kansas City, where he was former vice from a 42-year career as an engineer at Missouri. Surviving are his wife, Sandra; a president at Baptist Medical Center and Caterpillar Tractor Company. He is son; a daughter; two stepdaughters, one of had practiced family medicine for many survived by three sons, a sister and four whom is Vicki Peyton, g’97, PhD’00; a years. He is survived by his wife, Patricia grandchildren. brother; two grandchildren; three step- Scherrer Stelmach, c’45, c’46; two sons, Karen Weber Cancilla, d’61, 72, March grandsons; and a great-grandson. one of whom is Christopher, c’75; a 12 in Orangevale, Calif. She had been an James Lewis, EdD’61, 80, April 3 in daughter, Cheryl Stelmach Beaver, a’77; a oce manager at AC Checkwriting Missoula, where he was a former professor sister; six grandchildren; and a Systems and is survived by her husband, and chair of the educational leadership great-grandchild. Tony; a son; a daughter; a sister, Kay department at the University of Montana. Elaine Oehrle Stewart, c’56, 78, July 19 Weber Dunlap, d’65; and a granddaughter. Among surviviors are four sons. in Edmond, where she was a retired William Dryer, c’60, 74, Oct. 24, 2011. William Miller, c’68, 67, May 22 in teacher. She is survived by a son, a He lived in Scott City, where he was a Ballwin, Mo. He is survived by a daughter daughter, a brother and ve retired chemistry and physics teacher at and a sister. grandchildren. Scott Community High School. He is John Ross, c’61, 72, Aug. 31 in Law- Doris Reiner Towle, d’55, 78, July 22 in survived by his wife, Marilyn Austin rence, where he was retired from a career Tucson, Ariz., where she was a former Dryer, assoc.; and two daughters, Brenda with the U.S. Department of Defense. He travel consultant with Cruise Innovations. Dryer Chelvan, j’04, and Amy Dryer is survived by his wife, Vicki Dilley Ross, She is survived by her husband, Stewart, Overton, ’93. d’64; two sons, one of whom is Martin, two daughters, two sons, a brother and ve William Elley, p’68, 67, March 10 in g’00; a daughter; and three grandchildren. grandchildren. Buckner, Mo., where he was former owner J. Bixby Willis, b’63, l’70, 70, April 3 in C. Dixon Vance, b’51, 82, June 14 in and operator of Elley’s Pharmacy. He is Wichita, where he was an attorney and a
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 69 In Memory rancher. Two nephews survive. Kansas City. He worked for the U.S. Barbara Phillips Short, ’71; a daughter, Melvin Winters, EdD’62, 86, April 21 in Department of Defense. Survivors include Kisha Phillips-Short, ’13; and two Lenexa. He was superintendent of the his wife, Sara, a daughter, a son, his brothers. Olathe School District from 1968 until stepmother and a brother. Mary Williams Stuewe, d’71, 63, Aug. 1991 and had served as an executive board Julie Frisbie, d’73, 65, Feb. 13 in Topeka. 19 in Alma, where she was clerk of the member of the Kansas State High School She lived in Grantville and had been a Board of Education for USD 329 for more Activities Association. In 1991, he received teacher for many years. She is survived by than 15 years. Earlier she taught junior- the Apple Award from KU’s School of her twin sister, a niece and a nephew. high social studies in Great Bend. She is Education. He is survived by his wife, Robert Harrison, j’71, 64, Feb. 15 in survived by her husband, David, ’71; a Jenice; two sons, Timothy, j’73, and Ty, Independence, Mo., where he was retired daughter; a son; four sisters, two of whom b’79; two daughters, Melanie Winters from a 30-year career with Kansas City are Melinda Williams Trummel, c’60, and Busse, d’76, and Jill Winters Harrelson, Power & Light, where he was a customer Jane Williams Petterson, c’69, g’70; and a h’86; six grandchildren; and three service/sales representative. He is survived granddaughter. great-grandchildren. by his wife, Janet, a stepson, a stepdaugh- Thomas Tomsich, a’79, a’95, 56, June 6 ter and a brother. in Guilford, Conn. He had worked for Robert Allinder, d’78, 57, July 11 Ivan Hays, s’72, 77, March 7 in Wichita. Fletcher ompson Architects in Bridge- 70sin Mission. He is survived by his He had been a social worker for the state port as a design director and was wife, erese Murray-Allinder, a’84, a’85; of Missouri and later had a private employed by the facilities department at and a sister, Mary Allinder-Greenlee, ’81. practice. Two brothers and nine sisters Yale University. He is survived by his wife, Roger Corley, PhD’73, 77, June 9 in survive. Gail, a daughter, his parents, four sisters Maryville, where he was a professor of Elizabeth Kovacic Hewett, g’70, 65, and a brother. American history at Northwest Missouri June 30 in Livermore, Calif., where she Lovely Ulmer-Sottong, d’73, g’81, State University. He also was a retired was an elementary school teacher. Two PhD’87, 60, July 14 in Port Royal, S.C. She major in the U.S. Army National Guard. daughters and two grandchildren survive. was retired director of the South Carolina Survivors include his wife, Janice, two Robert Lanier, m’76, 67, April 7 in Commission on Higher Education. She is sons, three daughters, two brothers, a Cheyenne, Wyo., where he owned survived by her husband, Geo rey, assoc.; sister and eight grandchildren. Cheyenne Hematology-Oncology. He is a stepson; a stepdaughter; and four sisters, Bruce Dickson III, e’71, g’76, 64, July 31 survived by his wife, Betsy, a son, two one of whom is Johna Ulmer Merritt, d’65, in Lawrence, where he was a civil engineer stepsons, a daughter, a stepdaughter, a g’70. and a communications consultant. He is brother and ve grandchildren. Eileen Heath Van Kirk, f’71, 62, June 25 survived by his wife, Loretta Poell Dick- Cynthia Burnett Murray, c’71, n’75, 63, in Blue Springs, Mo. She had been a son, f’74; two sons, Bruce, ’09, and Blake, Aug. 3 in Lawrence, where she had been computer programmer for American ’07; and a brother. an obstetrical nurse at Lawrence Memorial Century and is survived by her husband, Edward Dougherty, m’74, 65, Feb. 8 in Hospital and a school nurse at Lawrence Bruce, a son and a brother. North Palm Beach, Fla., where he had a High School. She is survived by her Walter Verbanic, g’75, 65, Feb. 17 in private neuropsychology practice for many husband, omas, c’69; a daughter, Anne Kansas City, where he was retired from a years. He is survived by his wife, Anne Murray Emert, l’05; a son; her mother; two career in advertising. He is survived by a Manitone Dougherty, ’73; two sons; a sisters, Barbara Allen Kurzinski, c’69, and daughter, a son, three brothers and a sister. sister; a brother; and two granddaughters. Mallory Burnett, j’75, l’80; and a grandson. Stephen Winters, d’72, 63, July 6 in James “Mike” Duncan, m’77, 60, May Daleen Rustman, s’79, 71, Aug. 23 in Quincy, Ill., where he was senior bene ts 28 in Bethesda, Md. He had been deputy Overland Park. She had been coordinator specialist at Winters Insurance Group. chief medical ocer of the Space Life of aging for Heart of America Family He is survived by his wife, Mary; a Sciences Directorate at Johnson Space Services and was a soloist, choral singer daughter, Jennifer Winters Reekie, c’04; Center in Houston, as well as chief of and actress in Kansas City and Topeka. three stepsons, one of whom is Benjamin space medicine and deputy chief medical Surviving is a brother, Mark, g’82, PhD’87. Van Ness, c’06; a sister, Ann Winters ocer at NASA. He later was chief Mark Sherwood, f’70, 65, Feb. 12 in Knapheide, assoc.; a brother; and ve medical ocer at the National Transporta- Parkville, Mo., where he owned Systematic grandchildren. tion Safety Board. Surviving are his wife, Graphics. He is survived by a sister, Robin Candace, and ve nieces and nephews. Sherwood Page, c’76. David Beck, b’82, 56, Aug. 13 in John Flummerfelt, a’73, 62, Aug. 25 in Timothy Short, c’74, l’77, 60, Aug. 2 in 80sBasehor, where he owned Leavenworth. Among survivors are two Pittsburg, where he had practiced law Davensons Nursery and Landscape. sisters, Susan Flummerfelt Lackey, d’76, since 1976. He also was an ocer and Among survivors are his wife, Mary Myers and Netta Flummerfelt George, ’74. board member of the Kansas Trial Lawyers Beck, p’82; two sons, David, ’13, and Michael Freeman, e’72, 61, March 5 in Association. Among survivors are his wife, Nathaniel, ’13; and his mother.
70 | KANSAS ALUMNI Barbara Bartling Frey, c’87, 76, July 28 William Doyle, g’94, 68, Feb. 10 Bocal Music, a double reed publishing in Mission, where she was a former social 90sin Omaha, Neb. He had worked in company. A memorial has been worker. She is survived by a daughter; a information technology and is survived by established with KU Endowment. son, Benjamin, c’89; and two his wife, Constance, a son and a daughter. His wife, Nancy Rutherford Hawkins, granddaughters. Ronald Rowland, g’97, 80, July 31 in g’86, survives. Ruth Wilkie Holthaus, g’84, 85, Aug. 28 Madison, Ga., where he was a code- R. Keith Lawton, b’47, 93, Aug. 17 in in Burlington, where she lived. She taught enforcement ocer and licensed plumbing Lawrence, where he was former vice nursing at Central Missouri State Univer- operator. He is survived by his wife, chancellor of campus planning and sity, the University of Hawaii and at Evelyn, three sons and seven development. A memorial has been Graceland College in Independence. grandchildren. established with KU Endowment. He is Surviving are a daughter, a son, three Sandra Stuban, g’94, 55, July 14 in survived by his wife, Phyllis Hughes grandchildren and two Fairfax, Va., where she was former chief of Lawton, assoc.; a daughter; a son, Chad, great-grandchildren. patient education at Tripler Medical ’69; two sisters, one of whom is Martha Mark Hutchison, j’86, 49, June 6 in Center and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Lawton Walker, d’58; ve grandchildren; Oklahoma City, where he was former city Army. Survivors include her husband, and three great-grandchildren. editor of e Oklahoman. He is survived Steven, her parents and four sisters. e Rev. John Macauley, 83, Aug. 2 by three daughters, two brothers and two in Lawrence, where he was a professor sisters. Ryan Colwell, c’02, 32, July 9 in emeritus of religion and history. He also Kristin Putnam Johnson, c’80, 56, Aug. 00sBrooklyn, N.Y. He was co-artistic had helped found Bishop Seabury 6 in Omaha, Neb., where she owned director at the Toy Box eatre Company. Academy and had co-founded the rst Design Works. She is survived by her Surviving are his father; a sister, Erin Episcopal Native American campus husband, Chris; a daughter, Victoria, j’10; Colwell Meyer, d’97, g’01; a brother, James, ministry at Haskell University. He is a son; and two stepdaughters. e’98; and his grandmother. survived by two sons, one of whom is Nancy Brown Mille, d’83, 68, July 19 in Ian, c’92; and three grandchildren. Rose Hill. She taught at Sylvan Uni ed Lisa “Liese” Ridgeway Vanatta, Paul McCarthy, 83, Sept. 16 in Law- School District for 22 years. She is 10s’12, 43, Aug. 31 in Overland Park. rence, where he was a professor emeritus survived by a son, Robert, ’89; a daughter, She worked for Sprint/Nextel and was a of mathematics. He taught at KU from Dianna Mille Fisher ’96; a brother; four member of the Johnson County chapter of 1961 until 1993. Survivors include his grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; the International Association of Adminis- wife, Jean White McCarthy, assoc., a son, and two great-granddaughters. trative Assistants. A memorial has been two sisters, four grandchildren and ve Beth Reiª Niven, c’85, 51, Aug. 20 in established with KU Endowment. She is great-grandchildren. Leawood, where she lived. She spent 10 survived by her husband, Scott, c’03; a son; Patricia McRae-Denning, m’82, 56, years in New York City as a stage manage- a daughter; her parents; a brother; a Sept. 17 in Lawrence. She practiced ment intern and later as a faculty member stepsister; and two stepbrothers. medicine for 23 years at KU’s Watkins at the Juilliard School. She is survived by Student Health Center and served as her husband, Kip, c’68; a daughter; a THE UNIVERSITY C OMMUNITY chief of sta from 2005 to 2012. She is stepdaughter; a stepson; her parents; and a Donald Bushell Jr., 78, Sept. 16 in Port survived by her husband, Dale, m’82; sister, Susan Rei Ahn, c’88. Townsend, Wash. He was a KU professor two sons; a daughter; her mother, Martha Rall, c’85, 48, June 6 in Derby. of human development and family life. He Mary Martin McRae, b’43; a brother, She had been a keyboard operator at is survived by three daughters, Erin, ’85, Douglas, e’75; and two sisters, Wichita State University. Surviving are her Mikelan Bushell Coleman, ’88, and Kristen Christie McRae Kirmse, b’75, and husband, Ross, two sons, her parents and Bushell Fulton, c’89, m’93; and eight Marla McRae Je ress, ’80. two sisters. grandchildren. Lynn Nelson, 80, Sept. 2 in Lawrence, Scott Rice, a’85, 55, Aug. 13 in Kansas John Glinka, 92, July 28 in Lawrence, where he was a professor emeritus of City, where was a project manager at where he was former associate dean of medieval history. He is survived by his HNTB Companies. He is survived by a libraries. A memorial has been established wife, Carolyn Seymour Nelson, PhD’70; son, Sam, ’14; his mother; a brother, Mark, with KU Endowment. He is survived by and a son, Lynn, g’92. e’75, g’78; and a sister. his wife, Almeda; a daughter, Charlee Howard Rosenfeld, 78, Sept. 19 in John Tihen, c’84, 60, Sept. 10 in Cape Glinka, d’75; a stepson; two stepdaughters; Lawrence, where he was a professor Coral, Fla., where he taught in the Lee and a stepgranddaughter. emeritus of social psychology. He is County school system. He is survived by Alan Hawkins, 74, July 21 in Lawrence. survived by his wife, Beverly Glick his wife, Barbara, a stepdaughter, his He was a professor emeritus of bassoon Rosenfeld, g’70, g’79; three daughters, mother, two brothers, four sisters and a and music theory at KU, where he taught Shelle, c’84, g’88; Lisa, ’83; and Jessica, ’87; stepgranddaughter. from 1975 until 2004, and he had owned and six grandchildren.
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HEIDI brilliant Type A woman made frightful by her psychoses and unrea- Gone Girl sonable expectations. by Gillian Flynn “As she says herself,” Flynn recounts, “she Crown, $25 can change her person- ality the way the rest of us can change a dress.” As Nick and Amy’s characters who agellate each other in the history unfolds, the name of “love.” “ ey are soul mates but cavalcade of suspects they also happen to bring out these really who might have had it toxic things in each other, like this weird, in for Amy widens to awful, yin-yang,” Flynn says. As Nick include Nick’s Alzheim- muses: “We complete each other in the Deceptive genius er’s-aicted father, Amy’s stalker ex-beau, worst possible way.” is dangerous a mass of homeless former factory workers cocktail of a romance—love and marriage Game of ‘he-said, she-said’ and, of course, Nick—because, as Nick laced with deceit and psychopathy and, admits, “Everyone knows it’s always the just for avor, some good old-fashioned turns dark, mean and crazy husband. Just watch ‘Dateline.’” sex and gore—is a sickeningly sweet read. “Dateline” notwithstanding, Nick invites Flynn’s Gone Girl has been on the New illian Flynn’s third novel, Gone Girl, suspicion. His list of secrets and lies is long York Times Best Sellers list for 21 weeks Gdances around the decomposing and even his twin sister and bosom buddy, straight, hitting number one in July. “I’ve marriage of Nick, a laid-o New York Margot, is le questioning his motives. In been trying to take moments to just magazine writer turned Missouri bar pursuit of answers, Nick follows Amy’s breathe and appreciate it, because you just owner, and Amy Dunne, a complicated traditional anniversary treasure hunt, le never know,” Flynn says. “A book takes on New York “Cool Girl” turned McMansion before her disappearance, which leads him its own strange life.” housewife—from their “happiest couple on a sinister game of cat-and-mouse with Nick and Amy’s story will soon play out on the block,” big city, trust-fund life to the cheery written clues thick with double- in living color in the lm adaptation of morning of their h wedding anniver- entendre. Any defenses Nick or his New Gone Girl, for which Flynn is now writing sary, when Amy inexplicably goes missing. York attorney can conjure up are quickly a screenplay. e movie will be produced Flynn, c’93, j’93, author of Sharp Objects thwarted, twist a er twist, by the bril- by Reese Witherspoon and released by and Dark Places and former Entertain- liantly psychotic mind behind Amy’s 20th Century Fox, potentially next ment Weekly critic, welcomes readers into disappearance. summer. the untrustworthy narrations of Nick and Gone Girl is at once disturbingly Flynn’s interest in the morbid began in Amy with chapters alternating between macabre and ippantly comedic. e early childhood, watching Hitchcock Nick’s account of his life since Amy’s whodunit suspense is matched by the movies with her lm professor father and disappearance and Amy’s detailed diary realistically unpredictable emotions of playing fairy tales with her cousins. “I was entries. “ ese are two people who are by nature very manipulative, are by nature used to “I think everyone who has a safe life wants to know getting what they want, and they’re also writers, so they’re doubly good at spinning what they would do if their life became unsafe, and and word choice and delicately damning there’s something about that that drives some of us.” others they disagree with,” says Flynn. rough her entries we see Amy devolve { —Gillian Flynn } from a bright, attractive, love-stricken
72 | KANSAS ALUMNI always the witch,” Flynn says. “To me, 36-year-career he has transformed playing the bad guy was much more fun thousands of pounds of rock into projects
than the princess.” Growing up in a happy, public (a 10-ton limestone arrowhead for MIDDLEMAS (3) loving home in Kansas City allowed her to the Kansas City Chiefs) and private (a test the boundaries through horror movies Japanese tea house in a backyard garden). KEITH and dark, scary stories. “I think everyone He carved a Civil War-era rie from white who has a safe life wants to know what marble for a town square and designed an they would do if their life became unsafe, award-winning fountain at Jayhawk and there’s something about that that Towers. He repaired and reconstructed drives some of us,” she says. chimerae and stone nials on the Douglas She translated her interest in the arts County Courthouse and used river cobble into a double major at KU in English and and quartzite to create an outdoor pizza journalism. “My training at KU meant the oven reminiscent of a medieval cottage. world to me,” she says. “It’s so important to Every project is a work of art, an understand the value of words and achievement for someone who never took lyricism and what you can create with an art class. Instead, he learned his cra ction.” from a mason and artist in New Mexico, In Gone Girl, Flynn has created a nding a vocation that let him use his realistic yet “horror, funhouse” version of boundless interest in the arts and sciences. the world that captures readers, blanket Middlemas’ curiosity started when he over the head, for a deliciously disturbing was a boy. “I grew up in a house beside a good time. square mile of heavy woodlands mixed —Lydia Benda with patches of prairie, and I learned about most of the wildlife and native plants which live in northeast Kansas,” he Rock star says. “I picked blackberries, watched a den of foxes from a treetop, found perfect Middlemas makes his mark arrowheads, and captured crawdads in the with art of stone clear creek.” Inquisitiveness continued at KU, where ow does a person who’s interested in he loved what he calls “the society of the Heverything settle on a career? For University.” Keith Middlemas, the answer was set in “One is thrown head rst into associa- stone. tion with wealthy undergrads, crystalline Middlemas, c’74, is a stone carver. In a hearts from small towns, 20-year-olds PUPPE VE STE
Stone carver Keith Middlemas’ eclectic creations include an award-winning fountain at KU’s Jayhawk Towers, a dragon carved from a 1,400-pound block of stone at the Douglas County Courthouse and a custom backyard kitchen that houses a wood-fired oven for } baking bread and pizza.
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 73 Rock Chalk Review from Brazil or the Middle East, plus a source for the phrase “heard it through the variety of educators with surprising Spy Sites of grapevine”: Old Grapevine Tavern, at 11th biographies.” NewN York City Street and Sixth Avenue, where Union Middlemas took it all in. “I wanted to ocers—and Confederate spies—joined by H. Keith Melton learn everything: botany, linguistics, the city’s “fashionable men,” who had been and Robert Wallace Eastern civilization, probability and swapping gossip in the clapboard tavern matrices, Spanish, geology, Shakespeare.” The Foreign Excellent since its opening a century earlier. Not long ago, a client sent him a stone, Trenchcoat Society, A er proceeding through both world asking if he could determine its age. $19.95 wars, the FBI’s pursuit of the KGB during Middlemas identi ed fossilized remnants the cold war, and modern-day terror of mollusks and dated it to the Paleolithic operatives, Spy Sites closes with an account Period. His work also tests his knowledge of the 10 Russian intelligence ocers in other elds: Consider the engineering includes photographs, illustrations, maps arrested in 2010. Because the Russian spies involved in moving large pieces of stone and short entries that bring to life the included a glamorous young beauty, who into place, or the science of creating an daring espionage escapades within lived in a fashionable high-rise at 20 oven that can reach 700 degrees. America’s pre-eminent city. Also included Exchange Place and met with an FBI While natural curiosity, innate talent are forewords by a retired CIA ocer who special agent at the Starbucks on Hanover and a diverse academic background have is now executive director of the Interna- Square, the case generated “more a sense helped his career, there are areas in which tional Spy Museum and a retired major of amusement than alarm,” which, the he wishes he were better informed. general of the Soviet Union’s KGB. book argues, is unfortunate: Bidding projects is particularly challeng- Spy Sites opens with a brief essay about “ e decade-long FBI operation that ing. “I’ve gotten better at answering the the importance of spies to Gen. George exposed the Russian spies, code named question, ‘How big a net do I need to Washington’s war of independence: “His GHOST STORIES, involved hundreds of capture this particular gorilla?’” ‘con dential correspondents,’ operating agents and thousands of hours of man- At 65, he thinks about the mark he will clandestinely inside British-occupied New power. e investigation uncovered a leave on the world, and takes comfort in York City, employed the tools of classic sophisticated and far-ranging intelligence knowing his work will be around long tradecra , including dead drops, signal operation that integrated traditional a er he’s gone. sites, commercial covers, invisible ink, tradecra with the latest advancements in “Nothing lasts forever,” he says, “but ciphers, numbered code names, and communications technology.” some things last awhile. One of them is aliases. So good were their covers and By merging a pair of well-trod topics stone.” tradecra that the identities of some of into a compact union, Spy Sites of New —Carr, d’84, g’89, PhD’03, is a Lawrence Washington’s most valued agents remained York City o ers welcome new perspectives freelance writer. a secret well into the 20th century.” on both the Big Apple and the trenchcoat A tale from the Civil War o ers a likely crowd that lurks within. —Chris Lazzarino Gotham spy games DropIN/PopUP Waiting Room Project New book a thrilling guide to New York City espionage
ssignment to New York is the career Aapex in many professions—including espionage. Spy Sites of New York City, the third book by Robert Wallace, g’68, a retired CIA ocer and former director of the agency’s Oce of Technical Service, and intelligence historian H. Keith Melton, is an intriguing travel guide, of sorts, that delivers insider details on people and places that made New York the hub for spies and their pursuers since the Revolu- tionary War. e small, smartly designed book
74 | KANSAS ALUMNI PUPPE VE Upstairs, downstairs questionnaire at a downstairs STE kiosk, called the PopUP Interactive exhibition encourages Superhuman Voting Station. fresh thinking about health care Responses are incorporated into a data visualization map n exhibition appearing at KU’s projected on a screen in the ASpencer Museum of Art through Jan. DropIN Waiting Room installa- 27 brings to the forefront a space o en tion upstairs in the 20/21 seen as an a erthought: the doctor’s oce Gallery. at space also includes waiting room. a clip tree where museumgoers “ e DropIN/PopUP Waiting Room can hang postcards on which Project” by Marguerite Perret, Bruce they’ve written comments. Scherting, Robin Lasser and James Stone, “You can write down your explores issues surrounding contemporary thoughts, questions and Desaire health care by turning on its head the idea concerns, voice whatever you of a waiting room as a passive space where want about health care in America,” their expertise to further research toward a the user is powerless. Museumgoers who Straughn says. “ e content of the cure. Desaire in August was awarded a visit the exhibition, which recreates exhibition is drawn from whatever people $1.38 million grant from the National elements of a waiting room, are asked to put in. e wider the range of views, the Institutes of Health for a project that will share their thoughts about health care. more we learn.” investigate a group of potential HIV eir input is then integrated into the —Steven Hill vaccines. exhibition in several ways. e vaccine candidates come from “Health care is something we all deal collaborators at Duke Medical Center and with, for ourselves or for people we care Vital research Harvard Medical Center. Desaire’s group about,” says Celka Straughn, Andrew uses analytical techniques to characterize Mellon director of academic programs at Chemist characterizes vaccine compounds and help developers the museum. “It can be quite emotional. HIV vaccines answer critical questions, including why And in a very charged political climate of particular vaccine candidates have an election where health care is one of the lobally, 33.4 million people are living especially advantageous properties. major issues, people have very strong Gwith HIV/AIDS. Of those a ected, “By getting the molecular picture of the opinions. We want them to share those more than 97 percent reside in low- and molecule with the protein and the glycans opinions, but also think about the opin- middle-income countries, particularly [sugars] together we can help guide more ions of others, to contextualize and think sub-Saharan Africa. informed thinking about what would through their opinions a little more.” ankfully, scholars such as KU make an even better vaccine,” Desaire says. Visitors are asked to ll out a short chemistry professor Heather Desaire use Desaire became involved in HIV vaccine research in 2005. She hopes to help collaborators make an e ective vaccine that would someday be distributed to parts of the world where HIV/AIDS has become PUPPE (4)
VE an epidemic, “places where if someone STE gets HIV there’s not a lot of support, so the absolute best course of action is to prevent the spread,” Desaire says. Pharmaceutical companies typically don’t have the capability to work on HIV vaccines because of the high risk and low probability of payo , she says. “But in academia, if we don’t get an HIV vaccine but we do get some other important information and we publish it, maybe that “The DropIN/PopUP Waiting Room Project” reimagines a doctor’s waiting room and invites will help some other researcher on a u Spencer Museum of Art visitors to share their thoughts on the U.S. health care system by vaccine or something and it will still have completing a questionnaire, voting, and leaving written comments. Input from Kelsey Hill, c’12, been worthwhile.” and other museumgoers is incorporated into the exhibition. —Lydia Benda
ISSUE 6, 2012 | 75 Glorious to View Photograph by Steve Puppe
On a splendidly crisp Homecoming weekend in late October, the Chi-O Fountain greeted returning alumni, parade-goers and football fans with bubbling bursts in blue.
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