Field of View for Photographer Terry Evans, Every Picture Tells a Prairie Story

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Field of View For photographer Terry Evans, every picture tells a prairie story

I KU MED PROGRAM K ICKS HABIT, NOT TRADITION

I CAMPUS EARNS HISTORIC DISTINCTION

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22 30 32 COVER STORY Tribal Counsel The Long View Landscape Perspectives A Medical Center program Designation as a Kansas helps American Indians break Historic District honors Photographer Terry Evans has the cigarette habit while the beauty of Mount Oread, spent her long, distinguished respecting the traditional role and ensures that the heart career documenting the prairie of tobacco in their culture. of campus will continue to and the people who call dazzle future generations it home. By Lydia Benda of Jayhawks. By Steven Hill By Chris Lazzarino

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Publisher Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 4 Lift the Chorus Editor Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81 Letters from our readers Creative Director Susan Younger, f’91 Associate Editors Chris Lazzarino, j’86 7 First Word Steven Hill e editor’s turn Editorial Assistant Karen Goodell Photographers Steve Puppe, j’98 8 On the Boulevard Dan Storey KU & Alumni Association events Graphic Designer Valerie Spicher, j’94 Communications Coordinator Lydia Krug Benda, j’10 10 Jayhawk Walk Student musicians play inaugural parade; Advertising Sales Representative Union ballroom gets makeover. David Johnston, j’94, g’06 Editorial and Advertising Oce KU Alumni Association 12 Hilltopics 1266 Oread Avenue News and notes: Sequester and Legislature leave Lawrence, KS 66045-3169 budget in ux; Deford earns White citation. 785-864-4760 800-584-2957 18 Sports www.kualumni.org [email protected] Men look to regain swagger for tourney; Geubelle golds lead track to second-place NCAA nish. KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINE (ISSN 0745-3345) is published by the KU Alumni Association six times a year in January, March, May, July, September and November. $55 annual subscription includes member- 38 Association News ship in the Alumni Association. Oce of Publication: 1266 Oread Gi boosts student recruitment; Ruedlinger Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Periodicals postage paid at Lawrence, KS. honors awarded.

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ISSUE 2, 2013 | 3 Lift the Chorus I exhibit and always wanted to article on Dyche Hall and go there rst. Our eldest son Lewis Lindsay Dyche. was always ready to see As a third-generation Comanche. We also took our Jayhawk, I fondly remember grandchildren to Dyche, and were particular favorites, as visiting the Panorama. One our niece’s children. All of the was the lynx crouching on a gentleman who worked behind kids have loved the Panorama rock, and the large bull moose. the scenes, literally, on the and other special spots, and One of my sisters convinced taxidermy upkeep was Tom the gi shop was our last stop me that the prairie dog that Swearingen, f’60, one of my on each visit. periodically emerges from his cousins. Back in 1977, when I I was involved in the burrow, looks around, then was a student teacher at KU, he Lawrence Convention and ducks back into the burrow, graciously let my class come Visitors Bureau for years, and was alive, that he had been for a behind-the-scenes several times brought out-of- enclosed in the Panorama look-see. town motorcoach groups to accidentally when it was built, I know a lot of folks have Dyche for a tour and dinner at and the builders decided to let worked on the Panorama over the Panorama. Judy Billings of him live in the museum. the years, and I hope the the Lawrence CVB made all Panoramania As I aged, my understanding museum can raise the money the arrangements, and the of the Panorama naturally needed for the conservation travelers loved their time in the I changed, but my appreciation assessment and restoration. It’s museum. Chris Lazzarino’s article, for it never abated. I was a treasured bit of Jayhawk Fond memories. Let’s keep “Where the Wild ings Are,” absolutely thrilled, almost history that should be pre- them going for generations. in the January issue of Kansas giddy, when, while I was a KU served. is article is a great Pete Anderson, f’60 Alumni, and would like to student, a friend got a job at way to spread the word, and Lawrence thank you for the great article. the museum and took me hopefully folks will think it My oldest sister enrolled at inside the Panorama on a needs to be saved. W to read KU as a freshman when I was private aer-hours tour, the Beth MacCurdy Wigner, d’78, about the Natural History 4 months old, and my frequent one and only only time I’ve Prairie Village Museum. Much of my college visits to campus began then, ever seen my lifelong friends time was spent in those halls. continuing for many years as from the other side of the glass. G about the Our class visited the bird two other sisters and two I am certain my long Natural History Museum’s display to create our own keys brothers followed her to KU. association with the Panorama Panorama. I hope it will help to duck identication. I served Pretty much every one of my is one factor that led me to generate funds to keep this as a student receptionist one trips to Lawrence included a major in environmental studies famous and historic spot intact summer, welcoming visitors to visit to the Natural History and pursue a lifelong career in for KU and future generations. the Panorama, and used Museum in Dyche Hall, with a environmental protection and I rst visited the Panorama calipers to measure and draw check on the Panorama as the sustainability. Even now, as a as a child of 10, when we tiny mice skulls for Dr. E. rst item on my visit. It was 50-year-old long gone from the moved to Lawrence in 1948 so Lendell Cockrum’s book on without a doubt one of my University, I still make it back my father could be a professor microtine rodents of North favorite KU places throughout to Lawrence at least a couple of in the School of Education. America. A few were used. my growing-up years, and times a year, and almost always Wow! Coming from the woods Some work was being done when I eventually became a nd a few minutes to stop by of Minnesota, the Panorama on the Panorama in the early KU student myself, the Dyche Hall to look in again on opened up a whole new view 1950s. I remember Sam Panorama remained one of my the Panorama. I am pleased to and an introduction to all Dickinson, an artist who did favorite places on campus. I’d read that eorts are underway kinds of ecozones and their the actual work. It was my job guess I visited at least a couple to restore and preserve the animals. During school years to run the hydraulic press to of times a month throughout collection for another century, my classes oen were fortunate form plastic leaves for foliage my four years at KU. and wish the eort success. to visit Dyche and its many to be used in the tropical When I was very young, I anks again for the great collections. section of the Panorama. thought of many animals in article—and for the great My children were intro- e biology department the Panorama as my friends, magazine. duced to Dyche and fell in love taught a “museum techniques” and I looked forward to Ed Hubert, c’84, g’02 with the Panorama. One son class that I loved and which visiting them. e polar bears Parkville, Mo. was fascinated by the tar pits was the inspiration for my

4 | KANSAS ALUMNI Colorado alumnus, but Jack is museum career. Part of that read in this eld, including true blue when accompanying class was training in the Donna on their many Flying D.W. Meinig and William paleontology lab in the Jayhawks adventures—though Cronon. Having recently basement of the museum. we might suspect he has his visited Kansas City aer doing Your Since my school days there I ﬁngers crossed while joining the a lot of reading beforehand, I opinion counts have worked at the Witte look forward to reading Jayhawks in our traditional Please email us a note Museum in San Antonio, the closing-night rendition of the Professor Shortridge’s book on at [email protected] Florida State Museum when it Alma Mater. that fascinating city to ll in to tell us what you think of was still in the Seagle Building, the gaps in the knowledge I your alumni magazine. the Jacksonville Children’s Hip, hip hooray have gleaned thus far. Just as Museum, and I spent the he is nding out about himself majority of my career at the T for your as he writes his books, so am I Nevada State Museum in article on Professor James nding out about myself as I Carson City. I used the Shortridge! [“Prairie Tales,” read them. It’s a gas, gas, gas knowledge I gained at KU issue No. 1] Michael McGill, b’65 when I served as a volunteer at I share his belief in the Alexandria, Va. A the Biblical Resources Center importance of the concept of who bounced to the rhythms Editor’s Note: In February in Jerusalem. I am now using region and his curiosity about of the Gaslight Gang in the James Shortridge’s book, Kansas that same information at the what makes the Midwest City and How It Grew: 1822- Lawrence United Methodist Explorations in Antiquity distinct. He has succeeded in 2011, was awarded the 2012 John Church during special Sunday Museum in LaGrange, Ga. clarifying what it means to be a Brinckerho Jackson Prize from services in the early 1970s, I KU is a great university, and Midwesterner magnicently in the American Association of attest that Paul Gray [Proles, the Natural History Museum his book e Middle West: Its Geographers. It’s the second time issue No. 1] ministered for at will always hold treasured Meaning in American Culture. Shortridge has won the least two decades longer than memories for me. I am so Since leaving KU, I have prestigious award. those for which he credits grateful to have been a part of lived in New England, Texas, himself. the museum world at KU. California and the South. In Remembering Roger Tobias, b’73, m’76 ank you so much for the each place, I was envious of the Lyons article. keen sense of regional identity Wolf Trap Barbara Trotter Herlan, that people had, as well as the Noteworthy c’54 abundant literature available I LaGrange, Ga. exploring the subject. is led interest the article in issue No. I me to a search for comparable 6 on the Filene Center at Wolf about alumni in Class Notes. J the latest studies of the Midwest in Trap [“Art in the Parks”]. It’s interesting to see what issue of Kansas Alumni, which general, of my hometown St. I had a hand in the construc- people have been doing since featured those fabulous bison Louis, and of Kansas. is tion of the center. I was the graduation. on the cover, came from CU. proved very frustrating, as I construction coordinator with One person I especially I had to remind him that the found studies that sort of the National Park Service enjoy reading about is Deanell only mail we get from CU is nibbled around the edges but during that period and was in Reece Tacha, c’68. When I was a bill! nothing as meaningful as the charge of the project supervi- assistant copy editor of the I read the fascinating article books I had read about the sor, Kramer Chapman. Jayhawker yearbook, I wrote [“Where the Wild ings Are”] other regions where I had Kramer, now deceased, one of biographies of graduating and appreciated not only the lived. Nothing that is, until I the best project managers seniors [Tacha among them] subject matter, but the consis- found Professor Shortridge’s associated with the National designated as “Hilltoppers.” tently ne writing in Kansas ne study. Park Service, also supervised She has really proved the Alumni. We KU alumni do not Unfortunately, I only construction of the St. Louis prediction that she would realize how very privileged we discovered the value of Arch. achieve and be notable in are to have such extraordinary political geography aer My recollection of Wolf Trap her life. resources. anks! graduating from KU, but it is a is very pleasant. I was pretty I look forward to reading Donna Multer Ward, d’65 rich, insightful way of looking proud of being a part of such more about her as time Pueblo, Colo. at who we are and where we an endeavor. goes on. live. I rank Professor Short- Thomas Lippert, ’51 Linda Kerby, n’71, c’87 Editor’s Note: As Donna ridge right up there with the Lakewood, Colo. Leawood reports, her husband remains the other major authors I have ever-faithful University of

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by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word

Y Graves, c’57, fellow preservationists in the

BRAR Kansas City area and founders of e Center for Understanding the Built Environment (CUBE), EARCH LI

RE S a nonprot agency that helped schools nation-

CER wide incorporate lessons on architecture and historic preservation. Since 1981, HMOF leaders have written NNETH SPE N

KE several books on KU history and helped add two campus landmarks, Strong and Bailey halls, to the National Register of Historic Places, bringing KU’s total to ve (Spooner, Dyche and Lippincott ascended to the list in 1974). ey have helped Pioneer Cemetery on West Campus and championed the adaptation of the 1887 Powerhouse into the lovely Hall Center for the Humanities. Now, as Chris Lazzarino reports in our feature story, a team including current HMOF leaders Dennis Farney, j’63, g’65, and Dale Slusser, assoc., has achieved historic designation he four Jayhawk couples who in 1981 for the heart of campus known as the Jayhawk Tfounded the University’s stalwart campus Concern for the Boulevard corridor. e Kansas Historic Sites preservation group now known as Historic Board of Review in February named the district Mount Oread Friends (HMOF) could not boast preservation of Spooner to the Register of Kansas Historic Places and more prestigious credentials: Hall, built in 1894, inspired forwarded a nomination to the National Hal Sandy, j’47, drew the most enduring the founders of Historic Register of Historic Places. symbol of our beloved bird when he was a Sarah Jackson Martin, c’02, national register journalism student on the Hill. e “Sandy Mount Oread Friends. The coordinator for the Kansas Historical Society, Jayhawk” remains a cherished symbol to landmark remains the works with the all-volunteer site review board. alumni and friends worldwide. Hal and his organization’s symbol. During her eight years with the society, she has wife, Wilda., assoc., helped create the Historic watched many nominations wend their way Kansas City Foundation. through the national process. ere are Allen Wiechert, longtime KU director of currently 1,293 Kansas sites on the National facilities planning, and his wife, Sandra, ’80, have devoted years to Register, she says, and the decision on national designation for campus research and preservation; for them, Allen’s career Jayhawk Boulevard could come in mid-May. “ is is the rst became a shared lifelong calling. A Kansas City Star story about university campus we have listed on the state register, so it’s pretty Allen’s extensive study of Spooner Hall caught the attention of exciting,” she says. Hal, who had lived in the sub-basement of Spooner in the Aer the momentous February meeting in Topeka, Farney crowded postwar 1940s. He called Allen to talk about starting a called Hal Sandy. Later they celebrated over breakfast. Although KU preservation group. he’s no longer active in HMOF, Sandy couldn’t be more proud. Hal next called Del Shankel, assoc., and his wife, Carol, ’68, “ is is a culmination,” he says. “ e district has expanded far with whom he and Wilda had brainstormed about campus more than I ever thought we could achieve. Dennis is unbeliev- preservation years before, on an Alumni Association Flying ably tireless in the task, and the group has stayed with it. e idea Jayhawks cruise of the Rhine River. In 1981, Del was completing of the national register is absolutely fabulous.” his rst of two stints as chancellor, and Carol worked for the Preservationists must remain vigilant, Sandy cautions, because Spencer Museum of Art. eir service to KU has continued “it’s easy to make a mess of things.” But our university on a hill ever since. has an advantage, he says: “We have at KU a spectacular setting.” e couples also recruited Dean, e’56, g’63, and Ginny Ward And dedicated Jayhawks with spectacular vision.

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 7 On the Boulevard

The KU Jazz Combo livened REY (3)

TO up Watson Library Feb. 15 at N S

DA the opening reception for “Rhythm and Meaning: Jazz at KU,” an exhibition featuring prominent jazz collections of the Midwest from the American Jazz Museum, the Mid-America Black Archive and more. Film and Media Studies professor and jazz critic Chuck Berg spoke at the event about his fascination with the genre and the 7,000 recordings he donated to the collection. The exhibition runs through April 19.

Exhibitions 12 Bales Artist Series: Daria APRIL 28 Instrumental Collegium “Rhythm and Meaning: Jazz Buriak, Bales Organ Recital 3 Visiting Artist Series: Musicum, Swarthout Recital at KU,” Watson Library, Hall Russell Miller, piano, with Hall through April 19 23 Wind Ensemble student singers and chamber 30 Chamber Choir and ensembles “Conversation XIV: Water,” 25 University Band & Jazz Concert Choir, Swarthout Spencer Museum of Art, Ensembles II & III 3-5, 7, 9-11 “Intimate Recital Hall March 23 through July 28 Apparel,” a play by Lynn MAY Nottage, William Inge MAY “An Errant Line: Ann Memorial eatre 4 Hamilton/Cynthia Schira,” 2 Symphonic Band Saxophone Studio Recital, Spencer Museum of Art, 9 Men’s Glee, University Swarthout Recital Hall 7 Bales Chorale, Bales through Aug. 31 Singers, Oread Consort 4 Organ Recital Hall Oboe Studio Recital, 10 KU Jazz Composers Swarthout Recital Hall 9-10 “A Brown Bear, A Concert with Jazz Ensemble 6 Caterpillar and A Moon,” Tuba/Euphonium Lied Center I and Combo I Treasured Stories by Consort, Swarthout Recital Hall MARCH Eric Carle 11 Saxophone Quartets 9 KU Youth Chorus 26 Joy of Singing 18 Trombone Choir, Swarthout Recital Hall Murphy Hall APRIL 19, 21, 25, 27 “La Boheme,” Lectures 2 KU Wind Ensemble MARCH Craon-Preyer eatre 26 Helianthus Concert, MARCH 5 Regina Carter: “Reverse 27, 29 Borromeo String Swarthout Recital Hall read” Quartet, Swarthout 25 “ e Interwoven 9 Pipedreams Live! with Recital Hall 27 Chamber Orchestra, Ideologies of Art & Artisanal Michael Barone Swarthout Recital Hall Education in Postcolonial Tunis,” Jessica Gerschultz, 12 Brentano String Quartet 27 Ad Astra Percussion, Swarthout Recital Hall Hall Center for the Humanities

8 | KANSAS ALUMNI 26 “Empowering and Special Events banquet, Adams Alumni Sustaining Malawi: Africa Center Windmill Project,” Dole MARCH 11 Black Alumni Chapter Institute of Politics 25 KU Wind Ensemble at congratulatory graduation 27 “Making Our Voices Carnegie Hall banquet, Adams Alumni Heard,” Sandra Fluke, Center 28 Paul Mesner Puppet Show: Kansas Union. 16 “ e Stinky Cheese Man,” Charlie Weis Wheat State 28 “Religion in American Regnier Hall, KU Edwards 13 KU Night with the Tour, Wichita and Liberal War and Diplomacy: A Campus Minnesota Timberwolves, 19 Commencement Open History,” Andrew Preston, Minneapolis House, Adams Alumni Hall Center for the 14 Center Humanities KU Night with the Academic calendar Houston Rockets APRIL 15 St. Louis Charlie Weis MARCH Kansas Honors 1 reception Distinguished Professor 18-24 Spring break Program Lecture, Anne D. Hedeman, 16 Wichita engineering Kansas Union MAY reception APRIL 2 20 Colorado Springs “Do Men Really Write 9 Last day of classes 3 Chanute Dierently? Gender and the wine tasting 10 Stop Day 3 Goodland Literary Biopic,” Sigrid 26-27 100 Years of architec- Nieberle, Kansas Union 19 Commencement ture education at KU, 4 Logan 2 “Ancient Children,” Lawrence 9 Greensburg Honor Roll Jeannine Diddle Uzzi, Amy 27 Rock Chalk Ball 10 Medicine Lodge Richlin, Eve D’Ambra, Hall Association events Center for the Humanities 27 Oklahoma City beer APRIL tasting and happy hour For details about Association 16 Bold Aspirations events and basketball tourna- 11 Visitor and Lecture Series: Denver networking MAY ment watch parties and rallies, H. George Frederickson, breakfast call 800-584-2957 or visit 1 Chicago Charlie Weis Kansas Union 11 Hall Center Lattner www.kualumni.org. reception 18 University Lecture Series: Family Foundation Lecture: “Exploring the Spatial Turn Keats in America, Wichita 2 Denver Charlie Weis reception Directory in the Digital Humanities: 12 TGIF, Adams Alumni Maps, Deep Mapping, and 2-4 Class of 1963 50-Year Center n Adams Alumni Immersive Geo-Virtual Reunion, Lawrence 12 Reality,” Trevor Harris, Social Work Day, Kansas Center ...... 864-4760 4 Gold Medal Club Spooner Hall Union n Athletics .....800-34-HAWKS Reunion, Lawrence n Booth Hall 4 ’Hawks, Helmets and of Athletics ...... 864-7050 Handlebars, Wichita n Dole Institue of 4 Mortar Board reunion Politics ...... 864-4900 8 Houston Charlie Weis n Kansas Union ...... 864-4596 reception n KU Info ...... 864-3506 9 Dallas Charlie Weis reception n KU main number ...... 864-2700 9 Denver networking breakfast n Lied Center ...... 864-ARTS 10 Grad Grill, Adams n University Theatre Alumni Center Tickets ...... 864-3982 11 Hispanic Alumni Chapter n Spencer Museum congratulatory graduation of Art ...... 864-4710

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 9 Jayhawk Walk

Lions get kart blanche

awrence High School engineering students were Lthrilled when they took delivery of a hybrid-powered go-kart from KU engineering students who designed and built it last year to explore vehicles that run on both gas and electric motors. As KU EcoHawks faculty adviser Chris Depcik intended, the kart will indeed be put to good use, encouraging LHS students to consider pursuing engineering careers in transportation or energy industries. But ﬁrst, says LHS engineering and architecture teacher Charlie Lauts, the Lions will give the KU kart a makeover worthy of a hot-rod reality show. “The auto-tech teacher next door is excited about it, PEAR SON

OY and might have his students add a suspension and bigger tires,” Lauts says. “And the welding teacher can have his ARRY LER ARRY L students modify the frame. There’s a lot of dierent ways this kart will be used as a learning tool.” The LHS engineering class introduces students to a broad range of engineering careers—including Wonder weeder mechanical, aeronautical and civil. Because her students are already enrolled in toughies such as calculus and ike many college kids, update the brand. advanced physics, Lauts focuses her instruction on LJohn Hall knows how his Hall drew on research and “applied” engineering, meaning, “We destroy things, or parents will welcome him his own experience to claim build things to compete with or test. The go-kart suits home this spring: with open the $800 ﬁrst prize. “I played that perfectly.” arms and a long to-do list. on things I hate about Zoom zoom. “My dad likes to get a lot weeding,” the Salina junior of work out of me, and my says. “It’s a lot of bending, a mom is a huge gardener,” lot of stress on the back.” His PPE

Hall says. “I usually have to WeedPopper uproots and TEVE PU S till beds or pull tomato captures weeds for disposal plants when I go home.” in one easy motion. “The cool The industrial design thing about garden tools is major’s chore chops paid off they’re really elegant and last fall, when he won a simple but really effective at contest sponsored by Garden what they do. I tried to Weasel. The company’s emulate tools I’ve used to 25-year-old WeedPopper ﬁgure out a more seamless wasn’t faring well, so Garden way.” Weasel and product develop- Build a better mousetrap ment ﬁrm R2FACT, run by and the world will beat a path Steve Pope, f’91, asked to your door. Build a better students in visiting professor weeder, and maybe Mom and Huw Thomas’ class to design Dad will cut you some slack and build a prototype to the next time you’re home.

10 | KANSAS ALUMNI IONS was awesome,” he says. With donations from the Alumni Association and others, CATMMUNI

CO Leisring booked a sleeper bus and hotel rooms. Sharon Ramsey Toulouse, f’97, MARKETIN G U assistant director of bands and an alumna of the KU ensemble and the U.S. Army Field Band, Y KIMBERLIN, K suggested the group perform EL SE K longtime KU band director Robert Foster’s arrangement of “Home On the Range” for President Obama, whose mother and grandparents were Fanfare for the president thought, ‘How do we get Kansans. The Jayhawks there?’” stepped lively in the parade’s hen associate professor and prepare to perform for the Jánis Porietis, a graduate ﬁrst division with groups from Wof trumpet Steve president. No pressure. student from Latvia, was Hawaii and Illinois. Leisring got the call inviting the “I knew there was a way among the performers Leisring The trip was a whirlwind but KU Trumpet Ensemble to play we could do it, and I knew phoned. “He was speaking in a once-in-a-lifetime experience. at the Presidential Inaugural we would look good and sound serious voice, and he said, ‘Are “It was a real honor to do it, and Parade in January, he knew he good and represent the state you sitting down?’” Porietis the students know it,” Leisring could make it happen. Never well, and those were my recalls. “At ﬁrst I was worried, says. “They learned fast, they mind that he had less than two primary concerns,” Leisring but when he told me we had looked good, they sounded weeks to gather 16 students, says. “Then my secondary the opportunity to play in the good and I couldn’t be happier organize travel, arrange music concerns took over, and I Inaugural Parade, I thought it with the result.”

And in his spare time... address the common com- and a new two-story backdrop plaint that elected ocials are behind the stage; and enclosed M B has already too eager to kick the can portions of the balcony to earned Eagle Scout rank and a down the road. “ ey keep allow more use of meeting black belt in karate, competed pushing o problems” to rooms that line the sixth oor. on the KU debate team and PPE the future, A new dance oor was

coached high school debate, TEVE PU Bevens says. “People say installed last year for about S and built a small business with the next generation will $250,000. Funding came from his parents while majoring in have to take care of it. So I student fees and KU Memorial economics and philosophy. say, ‘Why not now?’” Unions, the not-for-prot Now the 21-year-old senior service organization that is campaigning door to door in operates the building. Topeka, hoping to become the Ballroom blitz “It’s a pretty signicant youngest City Council member space for people, and we aer the April 2 election: “ e His class and work schedule T K U wanted it to continue to be rst question I get is, ‘How old is no more packed (and likely Ballroom looks better than relevant,” says Lisa Kring, are you?’ ey say, ‘Wow, that’s more exible) than a nine-to- ever aer getting its most event services director. “It’s one awfully young.’ But we get to ver’s, Bevens says. His extensive renovation since a of the rst rooms students see talking and they either say, campaign website quotes 1970 post-re rebuild. during orientation and one of ‘You’ve got my vote’ or ‘I’d like Abraham Lincoln: “It’s not the e $500,000 project the last during Commence- to learn more about you.’” years in your life that matters. completed Jan. 29 updated ment, and when alumni come e second question: It’s the life in your years.” sound, light and video systems; back they have a real attach- Where will he nd the time? Youth qualies him to built a new h-oor entry ment, too.”

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 11 Hilltopics

higher education. In her Feb. 18 testimony before the House Education Budget Committee, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little supported the governor’s proposal. “ e recommendation by Gov. Brownback to maintain an essentially at operating budget, combined with his recommendation for funding to start work on the Health Education Initiative, will help us continue our progress and contribute to the prosperity and well- being of our state,” she said. She also emphasized the importance of holding higher education funding steady aer recent lean years. “ e governor’s recommendation is also important in light of earlier budget cuts,” she said. “In actual dollars, KU received slightly less in state general fund revenues in FY 2013 than it did in FY 2006. Adjusted for ination, KU’s state funding is down $124.4 million Fade to gray over the past 14 years.” Gray-Little cited numerous ways in Budget optimism turns to uncertainty, which teaching and research improve the with state funding, U.S. research dollars in question economy, including: • From 2006 to 2010, the median income of Kansans with bachelor’s degrees he University heard encouraging mandated cuts known as the sequester— was $45,343, which is more than $17,000 Twords in January from Gov. Sam the U.S. government’s self-imposed above the median income of high school Brownback, l’82, who proposed a two- penalty for failing to resolve a budget by graduates. ose who earned graduate or year state budget that would hold higher March 1. e sequester could decrease professional degrees earned $58,212 a year. education funding steady and provide critical KU research dollars from federal As of 2011, college graduates in Kansas a $10 million investment in the KU agencies, such as the National Institutes of also have an unemployment rate half that Medical Center’s initiative to educate more Health and the National Science Founda- of workers who haven’t graduated from health care professionals for the state. e tion, and other federal funds, including college. initial funding would help KU move student nancial aid. • In FY 2011, KU conducted $256.1 forward on construction of a $75 million In Topeka, KU leaders testied before million in externally funded research, education building on the Kansas City legislative committees, providing detailed more than all other Kansas universities campus. In recent years, KU also has examples of the economic benets of combined. expanded programs in Wichita and Salina to train more health professionals. But January’s optimism faded to uncertainty by mid-March, as Kansas To join Jayhawks for Higher Education: kualumni.org/jhe legislators debated various remedies for For continuing news on state and federal budgets: the state’s growing decit, including dramatic budget cuts ($400 million and publicaairs.ku.edu/govrelations/ growing) and potential new tax revenue. and research.ku.edu/sequester_2013 Meanwhile, the ongoing federal budget stalemate in Washington, D.C., resulted in

12 | KANSAS ALUMNI • KU research has helped create 24 leading research universities in North PPE

active companies in the state. America, including KU. TEVE PU S Of course, many discoveries that lead to In a March 4 memo to faculty and sta, commercial enterprises begin with federal Warren explained that initial estimates investments in KU research. As the March “assume the administration and Congress 1 enactment of the federal budget seques- are unable or unwilling to reduce or repeal ter neared, Gray-Little joined university the sequester now that it is in eect. e leaders nationwide to warn about the consensus opinion among the higher potential impact of cuts in research. education associations and KU’s federal Campus leaders calculated the costs of an relations sta is that no action is likely immediate 5.1 percent cut for the remain- until later this month. A continuing der of the federal scal year (ending Sept. resolution signed last September provides 30), which would translate to a 10.2 funding for the federal government percent cut over the next seven months. through March 27. e necessity of Financial aid for students and funding for A campuswide team led by Steve extending that resolution may provide research are among the areas that could see Warren, c’74, g’75, PhD’76, vice chancellor an opportunity to address the sequester for research and graduate studies, will a s w e l l .” budget reductions if state and federal cutbacks continue to work with federal agencies to However, Warren noted that both come to pass. cope with the sequester, if it is not reduced houses of Congress were scheduled to be by further Congressional action. KU in recess March 23 to April 7. leaders initially determined that the e Kansas Legislature has scheduled for Higher Education, the Alumni sequester could result in a $12.6 million rst adjournment for April 5. Lawmakers Association’s 1,500-member statewide impact on research, student nancial aid will return to Topeka May 8 for the advocacy network. To join JHE, visit and other federal funding. Nationwide, the wrap-up session. In recent years, the kualumni.org/jhe. In the weeks ahead, KU long-term eect of the sequester could Legislature has not resolved the state’s will report the latest details on state and reach $95 billion over the next nine years, budget until these nal days. As the federal issues on its website; visit the links according to ScienceWorksForUs.org, a budget debate continues, the University listed on opposite page for more project of the Association of American will continue to need the help of alumni information. Universities, the organization of 62 and friends who are members of Jayhawks —Jennifer Jackson Sanner

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BARRY W BARRY 2013-’14 KU Common Book. orientation, and activities engagement. The Worst Hard Time, by and programs throughout Timothy Egan, chronicles a the academic year dozen families coping with (including a visit from the economic and natural author) encourage disaster across the plains in students, faculty and staª the Great Depression. to discuss the book and the The Common Book issues it raises. program began this The program, part of the academic year with Eula University’s Bold Biss’s Notes From No Man’s Aspirations strategic plan, Land [“By the Book,” issue aims to build community Egan No. 6]. It’s part of an eªort among faculty, staª and to reinvigorate the ﬁrst-year students; create a shared

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Newsweek. Among his many books are the novel Everybody’s All-American, and Alex: Platinum Digs: The Center for e Life of a Child, a memoir about his daughter, who died from cystic brosis at Design Research, the West Campus the age of 8. His work includes screenplays building designed and built by the (two of which have been lmed), broad- IO 804 cast work (for which he earned both an

STUD architecture students in Studio 804, Emmy and a Peabody), and weekly earned a LEED Platinum Rating commentaries on National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition.” His latest book is the from the U.S. Green Building Council New York Times Best Seller Over Time: in January. It is the fourth straight My Life as a Sportswriter. During his two-day visit to the William project from Studio 804 (and the ﬁrst Allen White School of Journalism, Deford building on campus) to achieve what is considered the talked of the transformation he has witnessed in journalism in general and highest mark for green design and construction. sports coverage in particular since he broke into the business as a copy boy for the Baltimore Evening Sun. loses. Glamour. Entertainment. Character. Among the biggest changes, he told a Master of the game Novelty. Humor. Heroes.” class on celebrity journalism taught by Added Deford, “Only love and war and Associate Professor John Broholm, is that Deford ﬁrst sportswriter to win fairy tales make for better stories” than many professional athletes have crossed a William Allen White citation sports, “and there is in sports an embrace line from stardom to celebrity. of all of those.” “Celebrities are much more dicult to rank Deford, a Sports Illustrated Deford started at Sports Illustrated as a interview, because they make more money Fcontributor for a half-century and the researcher shortly aer graduating from and surround themselves with people,” author of 18 books of nonction and Princeton in 1962. His breakthrough Deford said. at hinders what he sees as ction, visited campus in February to assignment was a prole of fellow Tiger the prole writer’s main task. receive the 2013 National Citation from Bill Bradley, whom he brought to the “I tried to divine who they were. What the William Allen White Foundation. attention of his editors. By the 1980s, were they really like? What is behind the Accepting the award in Woodru Deford’s “bonus pieces”—extended, mask? at’s very dicult to do without Auditorium, Deford—who established his in-depth proles of Bobby Knight, Pete access, even if you’re the greatest writer in reputation at Sports Illustrated with Rozelle, Bear Bryant, Howard Coselle and the world.” in-depth proles of sport’s most iconic others—were a central feature of the He advised students that interviewing is gures—said he was gratied to become magazine, and many came to be consid- like a high school date: two people getting the rst honoree whose journalism has ered the denitive portraits of their to know each other. e goal, he said, is to been dedicated mostly to sportswriting. subjects. nd that “spark of humanity” that allows He said the genre is too oen overlooked, Deford has also tackled topics outside of journalist and subject to communicate despite being important culturally. sports, writing for Vanity Fair and person to person. “ e fact that sports is found in every

society throughout human history must PPE mean something,” Deford said. “Yes, TEVE PU religion and sex are also found in every S culture, and I wouldn’t rate sports quite so high as that, but, yes, it does matter.” Frank Deford oªered advice Deford quoted columnist Jimmy and answered questions Cannon in characterizing the role that from journalism students sportswriters play in journalism: “We are during a two-day campus the toy shop of the profession.” visit in February to receive “Sportswriting truly is the easiest the William Allen White writing in the whole canon of journalists. Foundation’s National Just think: It’s full of drama, plot, denoue- ment, climax. Somebody wins. Somebody Citation.

14 | KANSAS ALUMNI PPE those programs and “he is also preparing Milestones, money students and families to take care of the TEVE PU S earth and their bodies,” says Pomeroy. and other matters As garden coordinator and “Healthy Food Activist,” Manning grants students the oen-rare opportunity to get their TAL hands dirty and build something outside. PI HOS KU “We’re trying to make that connection that our grandmothers made about where food really comes from—how easy it is to grow your own food and make your own garden,” says Manning. Manning With nearly 130 on-site, raised bed gardens, he teaches 1,300 rst-, fourth- “If you have time to build a rapport,” he and sixth-graders at seven area schools n University of Kansas Hospital is one noted, “many of them will open up and about the cycle of planting. Together they of the first five health care centers in reveal things.” build gardens, plant seeds, harvest crops the U.S. (and the first in the Midwest) Deford is the 65th journalist to receive and enjoy the fruits of their labor. Man- to be named an Advance Comprehen- the citation, which is awarded by the ning works with teachers to incorporate sive Stroke Center. Awarded by The William Allen White Foundation each what they learn outside into integrative Joint Commission, the designation February to an American journalist who classroom experiences. “In April we do certifies that the hospital meets new exemplies the Emporia newspaper our salsa workshop, where we teach kids higher standards for treating the most editor’s ideals in service to his profession to grow salsa gardens. ey learn about complex stroke cases, including neuro- and his community. the history of salsa—the music, the dance intensive care unit beds for stroke —Steven Hill and the sauce,” Manning says. “I want to patients that can provide neuro-critical supplement what teachers are doing, care around the clock. reinforce it and help them, but also create Green growers something else that’s a way to make kids n Room and board at KU will rise by excited about school and proud to come to 2.5 percent this fall under a proposal Med school’s garden program school,” Manning says. approved in December by the Kansas helps grade-schoolers cultivate e gardens’ yield—including more Board of Regents. than 500 pounds of sweet potatoes each healthy food habits year—is not enough to channel to school n A Strategic Initiative Grant from KU cafeteria systems, but Manning ensures will provide three years of support for ark Manning knows a thing or that all food is used in the program, sent the University’s Native Plant Research Mtwo about gardening. He learned home with students or given away. Program. The grant, part of KU’s Bold the ins and outs of organic gardening at Each year a new crop of kids meets with Aspirations strategic plan, allows his grandmother’s farm back when Manning, and many return to volunteer researchers from the Kansas Biological “organic food” was simply called “food.” with the program during their high school Survey and the School of Pharmacy to ese days he’s passing on his grandmoth- years. “I think the kids recognize that it is continue work to isolate compounds er’s wisdom to a new generation: elemen- an extra gi for them in their classroom,” in native plants that show promise as tary and middle school students in Manning says. drugs or nutritional supplements. The Kansas City, Kan. “Mark truly brings to life the gardens’ program had been imperiled after grant Manning directs the Kansas City Kansas life cycle,” says Pomeroy. “He teaches the funding from the Kansas Bioscience Organic Teaching Gardens, set up in 1998 importance of the garden creatures and Authority was discontinued. by Marcia Pomeroy, director of the K-12 the eco system, the ‘slow food’ movement Initiative at the KU School of Medicine. and how eating healthy foods can change a n A $500,000 gift from David Pit- e teaching gardens serve the largest life and health.” taway, c‘72, will endow a fund to number of students in the K-12 Initiative, anks to innovators like Pomeroy and support the KU debate team’s head which also includes Saturday Science; gied, green-thumbed teachers like coach. Pittaway particpated in debate Math, Reading and Technology Academy; Manning, perhaps today’s youngsters will under coaches Donn Parson and Gerald Family Genetics; Media Project; and plant a greener—and tastier—future for Ashen, g’63. It is the largest gift ever summer programs at KU Medical Center Kansas City and beyond. received by KU debate. and KU. Manning prepares students for —Lydia Benda

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PPE average and standardized test scores: at Bernadette Gray-Little. e new standards least a 3.0 GPA and a minimum 24 “encourage students to strive for excellence TEVE PU S ACT/1090 SAT (math and critical reading in high school so they’ll be ready to do only) or a 3.25 GPA and a 21 ACT/980 well when they arrive at the University,” SAT. Students must also earn a minimum she said. 2.0 GPA on the revised Kansas Qualied Students who meet the criteria and Admissions curriculum. apply before Feb. 1 will be considered for Nonresident applicants must meet the automatic admission. A committee will same GPA and standardized test score review applications of students who don’t requirements but need not complete the meet the criteria before making a nal Kansas Qualied Admissions curriculum. decision on admission. e changes were made “ ese standards let students know what ACAD EMICS with an eye toward it takes to succeed at a research university, improving success which will reduce the initial challenges Higher admissions standards once students some of them experience,” the approved for 2016 arrive at KU. chancellor said. “And for those “As part of students who need additional our mission assistance, this process will enable G KU will get tougher in of educating us to direct the right services to 2016, when new admissions requirements leaders, we them aer they arrive at KU.” recently approved by the Kansas Board of need to give Admission requirements are Regents take eect. students and currently the same at all Regents Under the new standards, incoming families an accurate universities. Students are admitted if Kansas freshmen must meet one of two picture of what it takes they meet one of three criteria: ey score thresholds for high school grade point to succeed at KU,” said Chancellor at least 21 on the ACT (980 SAT), rank in

VISITOR PPE Funny business TEVE PU

in 1998, he was a playwright, S eter Sagal—writer, humorist screenwriter, stage director, Pand host of the National actor, travel writer, essayist, Public Radio quiz show “Wait, ghostwriter and extra in a Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!”— Michael Jackson video. In 2007 delivered a speech titled he published a collection of “Current Events: Why Satire is comic essays, e Book of Vice: the Only Reasonable Response Very Naughty ings (and How to the World We Live In” for the to Do em). annual Student Lecture Series sponsored by Student Union ANECDOTE: Sagal never set Activities. out to be a humorist. “What I really wanted to be was a WHEN: Feb. 18 serious playwright. I wanted to tell the world what was wrong WHERE: Kansas Union with it, because I knew,” Sagal I’ll tell truth to power. I’ll be the explains the disputatious nature Ballroom explained. He stumbled into his jester.’” of today’s political discourse, role as host of the NPR show Sagal said. “Or Rachel Madow. BACKGROUND: Before “by dumb luck” after first QUOTE: “The $4 million a Or Rush Limbaugh. Every war Sagal began hosting NPR’s serving as a panelist. “It took year that Roger Ailes makes has its profiteers, and these are “oddly informative news quiz” me a while to adjust. I said, ‘OK, every year at Fox News” our political war profiteers.”

16 | KANSAS ALUMNI L AW the top third of their class or post a 2.0 Milestones, money GPA in the Kansas Qualied Admissions College and Law work together curriculum. and other matters Kansas law requires a four-year waiting to develop fast-track to degrees period between approval and implementa- tion of new standards, to give high school A L can shave a year n The College of Liberal Arts and students time to adapt. o their undergraduate classwork under a Sciences recognized five alumni this new partnership between the College of spring with its highest honor, the Liberal Arts and Sciences and the School Alumni Distinguished Achievement ENGINEERING of Law that will allow the rst year of law Award: four-star general Charles Boyd, school to also count toward requirements c’75, g’76; renowned paleo-artist John School of Engineering for a bachelor’s degree. Gurche, c’74, g’79; Emmy-winning hires Branicky as new dean Beginning this fall, the 3 + 3 BA/JD visual e¥ects supervisor Chris Martin, Accelerated Degree Program will invite c’03; foreign services diplomat B. Lynn M B , a professor and 200 rst-year undergraduates to apply. Pascoe, c’64; and Sesame Workshop chair of the department of electrical Competitive admission will require executive Rosemarie Truglio, g’86, engineering and students to have a minimum high school PhD’90. computer science GPA of 3.5 and a minimum ACT score of at Case Western 28. Only 20 applicants will be accepted. n A $1 million gift from the Kansas University in Students will spend three years complet- Masonic Foundation will help cancer Cleveland, will ing requirements for the bachelor’s degree, patients and caregivers at the KU become KU’s dean and three years on requirements for the Cancer Center deal with the emotional of engineering on law degree. Participants who maintain at issues related to cancer. Establishing July 1, the School least a 3.5 GPA and score at least 157 on the Midwest Cancer Alliance Behavioral of Engineering the LSAT exam are guaranteed admission Health Therapist Fund, the gift provides announced in to the School of Law aer their junior year. access to a psycho-oncologist who can February. e College will not issue an undergradu- help people deal with the psychological Branicky ate degree until students nish their rst stress associated with a cancer succeeds Stuart Branicky year of law school. diagnosis. The foundation has provided Bell, who le the “ e program will lower students’ total nearly $23 million to the Cancer Center school aer 10 years as dean to become costs and will help ensure that great KU since 1975. provost and executive vice chancellor at students stay at KU,” said Stephen Mazza, Louisiana State University. dean of the School of Law. n A new film by Kevin Willmott, KU Branicky has taught since 1996 at Case associate professor of film, debuted in

Western, where he also earned bachelor’s PPE Lawrence Feb. 16. “Destination: Planet and master’s degrees in electrical engineer- Negro” is the satirical story of a group TEVE PU ing and physics. He completed his S of African-Americans who plan to colo- doctorate in electrical engineering and nize Mars as a way to escape Jim Crow- computer science from the Massachusetts era America. The Liberty Hall screening Institute of Technology. raised money for construction of a new He is a past program manager at the Film and Media Studies building at KU. National Science Foundation and served as an external expert for the NSF for the n A $1.2 million estate gift from National Robotics Initiative. John, b’42, g’47, and Frances Peterson will beneﬁt students and faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Music and the department of dance. The couple moved to Lawrence after careers in government “I am the non-proﬁteer. I like to think of our show service, and were involved in many as the Christmas truce. It’s the one hour a week I University and community projects. John died in 2009 and Frances hope we can bring people together. ” —Peter Sagal {} in 2012.

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No apology needed weren’t tough enough to make a run. We at top form for the Jayhawks to advance need to have a knot put on our head.” far in the NCAA Tournament, but he also Topsy-turvy regular season But the Jayhawks responded with a Big argues that he must depend on the other Monday victory at home over Kansas four starters—seniors Je Withey (named ends with another Big 12 title State, launching a seven-game winning Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year for the streak that included a double-overtime second year in a row), Travis Releford and wo days aer his Jayhawks won a victory at Oklahoma State and an overtime Kevin Young and freshman sensation Tshare of their ninth-consecutive Big win at Iowa State spurred by senior guard Ben McLemore, the team’s leading scorer 12 championship, coach Bill Self was in no Elijah Johnson’s 39 points, the most by a and, with Withey, a member of the All-Big mood to say he was sorry about how they KU player since Terry Brown’s 42 against 12 First Team—as well as his primary did it, and he wanted his friends who North Carolina in 1991. bench players. called with qualied congratulations to “I knew our guys liked Elijah,” Self said, “We’ve got to have everybody,” Self says. know one thing: “but I didn’t realize how much they “It doesn’t take much for the timing and “ at’s not true. It doesn’t stink,” Self respected him and liked him until aer the the rhythm to get o. We’re not deep said of his team tying with KSU aer game. I have never seen a group of guys enough to say, ‘Well, if he’s not playing losing its nal regular season game at happier for one guy than they were for well, we’ll put somebody else in.’ We need Baylor. “We were in charge of the league Elijah. ... He had to make ve or six to have seven, eight guys all contributing race when we were 7-0, but aer we were consecutive plays in a row for us to have a at a very high level.” 7-3, we were never in charge of the league chance to win the game. I think that was Despite his pride in winning the Big 12 race. ... It was one of those deals we had to what was amazing about it.” title, Self also admitted, “We didn’t pop earn, and we did earn it. We’re not going Self needs his senior point guard to play any bubbly on the way back from Waco, to apologize for sharing it at all.” trust me.” Releford, the team’s Preparing for the Big 12 PPE best open-court defender,

Tournament as Kansas Alumni TEVE PU seemed in even less mood to S went to press, Self and his squad celebrate. hoped strong postseason play “We split,” Releford said of could erase the lingering memo- the league title, “and that wasn’t ries of disquieting passages that something we wanted to do. We made the season something of a denitely have to make a team jumble. Aer losing the second uncomfortable. We can’t go into game of the year, to Michigan a game and let a team like State, KU won 18 in a row and in Baylor, or anybody else, get as late January was ranked No. 1 in comfortable as they were. If we the USA Today coaches’ poll. do, it’s going to be a tough game en came a home loss to for us, no matter who we Oklahoma State, followed by a p l ay.” humbling loss at TCU, described by CBS’s Seth Davis as the biggest upset in college hoops since “We’ve got to have every- Chaminade toppled Virginia in body,” Self says. “It doesn’t 1982. e loss led Self to make his now-famous comparison to KU’s take much for the timing loss to Topeka YMCA in 1900, the and the rhythm to get o. program’s second season, and We’re not deep enough to when the TCU debacle was followed by a loss at Oklahoma, say, ‘Well, if he’s not Self said, “I felt like we were ... playing well, we’ll put what’s the word ... out-toughed, I somebody else in.’” think, in those three games. We Withey

18 | KANSAS ALUMNI Back on track Geubelle wins double gold “I honestly never would have thought a couple to help women to NCAA silver of years ago that I would be the long jump and triple jump champion at the University of Kansas. he smile was a long time coming. I’ve come a long way.” —Andrea Geubelle TWhen last seen on the national stage, {} triple jumper Andrea Geubelle had won bronze at the June U.S. Olympic Trials; though the top three event nishers technically make the U.S. Olympic team, Indoor championships. OBSEN

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inches—did not meet the Olympic 56 points, followed by KU JE standard. What she thought was the at 44 and LSU with 43. winning triple jump at the NCAA Out- “It was a great weekend,” door championships in Des Moines, said 13th-year coach Iowa—46 feet, 11 3/4 inches—would have Stanley Redwine, named qualied Geubelle for a trip to London, Big 12 Coach of the Year but it had been disqualied for a board aer his women’s team foul aer ocials upheld an appeal lodged won their rst conference by a competing coach aer the competi- championship in Febru- tion had concluded. ary. “We had really great e shattering loss of NCAA gold le performances, starting o Geubelle in tears, and, as the rest of the with Andrea in the long month played out, watching the Olympics jump, and we knew she from home. wasn’t nished. She’s just a But nine months later, Geubelle made phenomenal athlete. And her rst leap toward competitive revenge, Natalia in the pole vault. soaring 46 feet, 6 1/2 inches to win the We have three national triple jump at the NCAA Indoor champi- champions. Unbelievable.” onships March 9 in Fayetteville, Ark. Bartnovskaya, of Geubelle was grinning broadly even as Krasnoyarsk, Russia, won she rolled onto her feet and immediately the pole vault on her waved both hands high over her head. second attempt at 14 feet, Coming a day aer she won the long 7 1/4 inches, a school and jump, Geubelle’s winning triple jump— personal record. e mark the longest in school history, the fourth- is the eighth-highest in Double-gold medalist Andrea Geubelle rejoiced with horizontal longest in NCAA history and two inches NCAA indoor history, and jumps coach Wayne Pate, and later both had even more to shy of the American record—made her the earned KU’s second celebrate: National coaches named Geubelle ﬁeld athlete of the fourth woman to claim gold in both events national indoor pole vault year and, for the second consecutive indoor season, chose Pate at the NCAA Indoor championships. title, aer Amy Linnen’s in as women’s assistant coach of the year. “Words can’t even describe it,” said 2005. Bartnovskaya is in Geubelle, a senior from University Place, her rst year at KU aer Wash. “I don’t think it’s hit me yet. It’s transferring from Indiana’s Vincennes seniors Denesha Morris, Paris Daniels and awesome. I honestly never would have University to train under vertical jumps Taylor Washington secured KU’s runner- thought a couple of years ago that I would coach Tom Hays, the 2011 National up nish by earning a point with an be the long jump and triple jump cham- Collegiate Pole Vault Coach of the Year. eight-place nish in the meet’s nal event. pion at the University of Kansas. I’ve come “I like my teammates and coaches,” Dixon, who missed a month of training a long way.” Bartnovskaya said. “It feels awesome early in the season due to injury, was Geubelle’s 20 points and a pole vault to work with one of the best coaches unable to successfully defend her NCAA championship by junior Natalia Bartnovs- in the U.S.” Indoor title in the 400, placing sixth with kaya paced the Jayhawks to their second- e women’s 4x400-meter relay team of a season-best time of 52.38 seconds. consecutive runner-up nish at the NCAA junior Olympian Diamond Dixon and Senior Francine Simpson took bronze in

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the long jump, senior Alena Krechyk was 8.06 seconds, the second-best time in OBSEN h in the weight throw, Daniels ran school history, was good for second place. AC FF J eighth in the 200, and sophomore Lindsay Stigler and McCuin ran second and third JE Vollmer placed ninth in the pentathlon respectively in the 600. Clemons ran third with personal bests in three of ve events, in the 400 in 47.04, and junior Josh the long jump, high jump and shot put. Munsch ran a personal-best 4:03.09 for e women’s Big 12 Indoor title was the third in the mile. rst in program history and the rst e outdoor season begins March 27 at conference title for either of KU’s track the Texas Relays. e Kansas Relays are set teams since the men won the 1983 Big for April 17-20 for what could be the Eight crown. Event champions were legendary spring meet’s nal renewal in Geubelle in the triple jump, Dixon in the Memorial Stadium. (KU hopes to launch 400, Daniels in the 200, Krechyk in the the new Rock Chalk Park, in west Law- weight throw, Simpson in the long jump rence, by hosting the 2014 Relays in a new (with Geubelle in second) and Vollmer in track stadium.) the pentathlon (with senior Rebecca “We have some standout athletes,” Neville second). Freshman Tianna Geubelle said aer the NCAA Indoor, Valentine ran a close second in the 60. “and we have so many athletes back home Leading the men’s team at the Big 12 who are so excited to get back to practice meet was the 4x400-meter relay squad of and be here [at the NCAA championships] Lindsay Vollmer set personal bests in three of the senior Kyle Clemons and sophomores with us outdoor. It’s a great re for our pentathlon’s ﬁve events, including the high jump, Michael Stigler, Michael Hester and team. It will help push us, hopefully, to an but a sub-par 800 unfortunately dropped the Big Kenneth McCuin. eir time of 3 minutes, outdoor national championship.” 12 champion from ﬁfth to ninth.

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sophomore Alicia Pille and was named All-Big 12 First JE bases (eight) and tied for third junior Alex Jones, softball Team for the first time in her in on-base percentage (.500). scored shutout victories in career and was picked as one of ... The spring football game is three of five games in a sweep seven finalists for the Nancy set for 1 p.m. April 13 in of the March 8-10 Florida Lieberman Award, honoring the Memorial Stadium. Among the Atlantic Tournament in Boca nation’s top point guard. Senior highlights for coach Charlie Raton, Fla. Senior left-fielder forward Carolyn Davis was Weis’ second season are Maggie Hull hit her 20th career named to the Big 12’s second debuts of QB Jake Heaps and home run in KU’s 6-0 victory team. Season highlights receiver Justin McKay, junior over Louisiana-Monroe in the included a double-overtime transfers who had to sit out a tourney’s championship game, victory Feb. 2 in Manhattan for after helping KU to its first year. Returning starters are led pushing KU’s record to 19-5 as a Sunflower Showdown sweep four-game sweep since 2011, by senior halfback James Sims, the Jayhawks approached the of Kansas State and a 10-point against Niagara March 7-9. who averaged 115.2 yards in Big start of conference play March victory Feb. 17 at 22nd-ranked Suiter, of Kailua, Hawaii, went 12 games last season. Special 28 vs. Texas. “Every team was Oklahoma. As of press time, the 8-for-14 with seven stolen teams coordinator Clint Bowen, tough and I’m very proud of the Jayhawks (18-13) were waiting bases, five runs scored and two d’96, will coach linebackers, girls,” said fourth-year coach to learn whether they would RBI. His on-base percentage in and all coaches will share Megan Smith, who scored her receive a second-consecutive the series was .625 and he special-teams responsibilities. 100th KU victory at FAU with NCAA Tournament bid. ... extended his hitting streak to 10 LB Huldon Tharp chose to end an 8-7 victory over Ball State. Sophomore outfielder Michael games. A month into the his career a year early. “My “They were determined to come Suiter was named Big 12 season, Suiter was second in body just can’t hold up out 5-0 and we came out 5-0.” Baseball Player of the Week the Big 12 in batting average anymore,” Tharp said.

20 | KANSAS ALUMNI Sports Photographs by Steve Puppe

A season of ceremonies included (clockwise from above) a jersey retirement for 2008 hero Mario Chalmers, ’09; a 115th-year men’s basketball celebration that included the great Jo Jo White, ’69, and his coach, Ted Owens; Senior Night smiles from Elijah Johnson and his family; confetti-shredding Jays and celebrating students; a Senior Night group portrait of Travis Releford, c’13, Jeª Withey, c’13, Johnson and Kevin Young; and a hug for Young from coach Bill Self.

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 21 The prairie and its people are focus of photographer Terry Evans’ life and work

By S teven H ill

urators at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City gured they had Ca hit when they saw sweep-time stats for their new photography exhibition. “Sweep time” measures how long museum- goers spend in a particular room, and it’s generally considered a more accurate indicator of engagement than ticket sales. And sweep times for the retrospective exhibition “Heart- land: e Photographs of Terry Evans” were good. Very good. NS E VA SAM

22 | KANSAS ALUMNI Issue 2, 2013 | 23 ut even more convincing was the strong emotional chord Bthat Evans’ portraits of the prairie region and the people who call it home seemed to strike. “People are really moved by these pictures,” says Jane Aspinwall, the Nelson’s associate curator of photography. “I’ve had people cry. at never happens. I think people feel like this is us; this is our land, our lives. It’s our story.” e exhibition of 100 photographs representing every major project in Evans’ 45-year career closed in late January aer a three-month run. e rst complete retrospective of her work, it is just one of several events that makes this a big year for Evans, f’68. A gorgeous full-color exhibition catalog from Yale Univer- sity Press, with essays by curators and a chronology and personal bibliography outlining Evans’ life and artistic inuences, oers the most denitive guide to her work thus far. Prairie Stories, published in January, a book of seven stories told in photographs, culminates a 20-year relationship with the land and people of the Flint Hills town of Mateld Green. And a new project, “Fractured: e North Dakota Oil Boom,” a collaboration with journalist Elizabeth Farnsworth that explores the changes brought on by fracking, launched a blog in February at the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art and the Environment and will be the focus of an exhibition opening June 7 at Chicago’s Field Museum. With work in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian National Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and dozens of other museums, including KU’s Spencer Museum of Art, Evans is renowned for stunning aerial photographs that capture the sweep and subtle beauty of a majestic landscape that too oen befuddles the ground-based photographer. But these recent projects show that her fascination with the prairie is far deeper and broader. “To say that Terry Evans is an aerial photographer of the prairie would be to leave out some really essential pieces of her,” Aspin- wall says. “Prairie Specimens,” a series of portraits of plant and animal specimens from natural history museums, focuses on the region’s ora and fauna. “Steel Work,” studies of the interiors of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania steel mills, ponders the raw materials mined from prairie ground and the industrial processes that transform them from resource to commodity. at project grew from another, “Revealing Chicago,” an urban study of the plains’ metropolitan hub and economic powerhouse. Even a series of studies of Greenland glaciers commissioned by the Spencer Museum in collaboration with KU’s Center for the Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets has a heartland connection, documenting global climate change that already may be aecting prairie ecosystems.

Top: Baby, King, and Kennedys, Lawrence, Kansas, 1972-73 Above: Kansas City, Kansas, 1972 Far left: Field Museum, oak leaves, Riverside, Chicago, Illinois, 1892, 2002 Left: Field Museum, Eskimo curlew, Kansas, 1837, 2001 Previous page: Train north of Matﬁeld Green, Chase County, Kansas, July 2009

24 | KANSAS ALUMNI “She’s thinking of all these dierent aspects of the prairie, not Left: Robin Treadway, 1993 just focusing on one,” Aspinwall says, “and she uses her camera as a tool to learn.” And teach. “ e stories are there,” Aspinwall says. “Terry is able to use her camera to put them on view in a way people can really understand and respond to them. Above all, she’s a story nder.”

s a painting student at KU in the 1960s, Terry Hoyt Evans Below: Kenny Thomas, 1993 and Awanted to be Willem de Kooning, but Robert Kennedy July 2009 changed her mind. Abstract Expressionism was all the rage in those days, and de Kooning personied the movement’s artistic daring and emotional intensity. “I admired him so much and I longed to be like the Abstract Expressionists, longed to have that emotional volatility where everything came from the subconscious and out onto the painting,” Evans told students and faculty when she visited campus in November to deliver the department of design’s Hallmark Design Symposium lecture. But Evans was unable to reconcile the artist’s life she imagined (“Maybe I’d struggle over my paintings and then get together with my friends at the Cedar Tavern and talk about painting,” she mused, referring to a famous New York City hangout for Abstract Expressionists) with the isolation she felt working in her studio. “It seemed to me that I didn’t have enough imagination, that I never thought I was quite good enough to be an abstract painter.” When Robert Kennedy kicked o his 1968 presidential campaign during a visit to Kansas, including a stop at Allen Field House, she borrowed a camera from her father, Norman Hoyt, a commercial photographer in Kansas City. Evans called her father “my only photography teacher” and related how he’d include her in picture-taking excursions around town when she was young; Above: Carl Wagoner with twin calf, one of her earliest photos, which she took with her own camera 1993, and Carl Wagoner with his at age 4, is of her father at Loose Park. twins, 1994 On March 18, 1968, her father’s camera gained her access to the press section, where she got a close-up view of Kennedy and glimpsed a dierent future. “ at day when I was on the oor of the eld house and Bobby Kennedy came out and the crowd surged forward and here were these journalists around me with cameras and I was part of that, I thought, ‘ is is incredible. is camera got me in here, and look at this. is is important, this is part of history.’” Left: John Treadway, 1993 e photograph she took wasn’t a great picture, Evans says now, but it changed her life. “I had been sitting in my studio, painting, by myself, having a hard time guring out what to do next. And suddenly I had this camera and it became my way into the world.” Evans nished her degree in painting, but from then on, she says, she was a photographer. “I realized that I need to work from life.” Her earliest projects drew on the social documentary photography of Dorothea Lange. Working closely with antipoverty agencies, Evans made dignied black-and-white studies of poverty in Lawrence, Kansas City, Salina and Belleville in the Left: Eugene and Toots, 2008

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 25 Above left: Fent’s Prairie, Oct. 2, 1978 Above right: Former Wetland, 1991 Above: Evie Mae’s house, Matﬁeld Green, Kansas, 1996

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26 | KANSAS ALUMNI early ’70s. In the summer of 1974, she created portraits for “Kansas Survey,” a project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to create an “aesthetic survey” of the state. “I thought I would be quite happy doing social documentary work about poverty or farm people, because there is lots to learn,” Evans says. “I thought landscape photography was boring.” at changed when Wes Jackson, g’60, founder and president of the Land Institute, asked Evans to document his early work on a patch of native prairie near her husband’s family farm near Salina. “I remember her starting at it in a dutiful sort of way, to help out as a friend,” Jackson recalls. “But then it began to be a passion for her.” “I fell in love with it,” Evans says. “Everything interested me about it. Grass systematics, the whole biology of the prairie, how the Plains Indians had used medicinal plants, Willa Cather, everything.” In the linear patterns she discerned in a square-meter of prairie grass, the rule-straight run of a section line, the graceful swell of a contoured eld and the contrasting textures of virgin prairie and harvested cropland, Evans found a complex creative challenge that has kept her engaged ever since—the challenge of capturing dramatic images from a landscape many dismiss as plain and barren. Above left: Platte River, Nebraska, 1990 “She’s the kind of person who’s capable of goose bumps,” says Above right: CNA building, downtown Chicago, April 27, 2004 Jackson, who notes that it’s possible to be greedy about beauty. Above: Rail, roads, and water, under the skyway, Calumet Harbor, Chicago, “ at’s not Terry. She’s focused but she’s generous. She wants to May 12, 2003 communicate to the world. e thing that’s interesting about looking through a lens is it causes someone else to see through your eyes; it helps people focus and see what is around them that they couldn’t see. I think that’s the art of her work.” e “story nder” who longed to escape the isolation of the

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 27 28 | KANSAS ALUMNI Left: Steel roughing mill, East Chicago, Indiana, 2005 ‘We can get this gured out.’ Until now.” Below far left: Slag processing, Indiana Harbor, Aug. 31, 2006 Documenting the extensive fracking in North Dakota—the Below left: Mine ﬁeld to open up new pit for mining taconite, Virginia, scars etched into the land and the lives of the people who live Minnesota, 2007 there—has pushed her to speak out more strongly about what she Above: Oil pipeline right of way, Mountrail County, North Dakota, believes is a shortsighted policy that puts money ahead of people, June 6, 2011. energy independence ahead of energy conservation. Above right: Edyth S. Pladson, Wildrose, North Dakota, three oil wells on “I don’t see any concern for the kinds of things that don’t have family farm, age 94, May 24, 2012 to do with material value, like these huge open spaces,” she says. “I’ve always felt like what I wanted to show was the vulnerability of land and people and how they’re interwoven. But it seems like the stakes are higher in North Dakota. It’s a good example of studio and work from life saw in the prairie a tale as compelling what’s happening a lot of other places in this country.” and elemental as any we tell. ough Evans is less condent now that the needs of the “I thought it was so boring, and now I can’t think of anything economy and the needs of the land and people can be balanced, it more interesting,” she says of her discovery of the prairie—and hasn’t sapped her desire to work. how we treat it—as her great subject. “Land use seems to me to be “I’m 68, and I have more energy for photography than I’ve ever about everything. It’s about how people live on the earth.” had. What’s so exciting is I’ve done all these various projects, and I have all these tools I can use.” e North Dakota project shows the full power of those tools, blending sweeping aerial photo- ncreasingly, the consequences of our decisions trouble Evans. graphs of prairie (both pristine and industrialized) with intimate IAer Jackson introduced her to the prairie, she served more portraits of the people aected by the boom that hark back to her than 30 years on the Land Institute Board, and the group’s social-documentary beginnings. progressive views on land use and sustainable agriculture deeply Some are lifelong residents of the prairie. Some have come a inuenced her thinking. at inuence has been present in her long way to ride the boom. What is important to Evans is that work for years, she says. But her experience documenting the each one has a story. North Dakota oil boom has marked a turning point. e portraits are her way of showing the complexity of the “I have always felt like I was on the side of the prairie, or issue. For even though she knows exactly where she stands, she whatever landscape I’m photographing. I’m an advocate. also knows that everybody’s story is dierent. Including her own. But I always felt that it was more important to raise questions, “I found out I can’t be de Kooning, but I can be myself,” Evans to show the complexity of an issue. I’ve always felt like, says. “I can only see how I can see.”

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 29 ulia White Bull has seen rsthand the devastating eects of a nicotine addiction. She saw it Jgrowing up on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota, and she has seen it in her own life. She picked up her rst cigarette at age 13, and for 14 years she smoked a pack a day, unable to drop it despite family members’ desperate attempts to help her. e fear-based tactics of anti-smoking campaigns did no good. “When you’re told, ‘Don’t smoke,’ you’re going to smoke,” says White Bull. It wasn’t until 2009, as a student at Haskell Indian Nations University, that she heard of a new kind of smoking cessation program. is one, called All Nations Breath of Life, was tailored just for her as an American Indian. It recognized the importance tobacco plays in sacred ceremonies, and oered practical ways to separate traditional tobacco from commercial, habitual, cigarette use. As with anything worth doing, it was hard, and she failed the rst time. But, aer graduating from Haskell, she got an internship at KU Medical Center’s Center for American Indian Community Health (CAICH), and was once again presented with an opportunity to join All Nations Breath of Life. is time it took. “ ey wanted to see people go on a better road to a better future and show their children, so they can show their children how to be healthy, how to be active, not to abuse drugs and alcohol,” White Bull says. Now she facilitates groups and helps others overcome their addiction. KU Medical Center’s “American Indians face oppression, and there’s not much encouragement in your new smoking cessation own community, but when you get a group of American Indians together and you start encouraging each other in a program program honors that’s culturally tailored, there’s a connection there,” says White Bull. traditional tobacco use

among American Indians ll Nations Breath of Life began in A2004 as researchers from KU Medical Center joined forces with Oklahoma Area Indian Health Services and representatives from 20 Indian nations to address the smoking epidemic. (At 32.4 percent,

30 | KANSAS ALUMNI smoking among American Indians and (Navajo) reservation in Arizona where groups shared meals and enjoyed culture Alaska Natives is the highest by far among Solomon was raised, the tobacco is green nights to get back to their roots. White all racial or ethnic groups.) Together, the and leafy, but many American Indians in Bull remembers a session when an elder researchers, clinicians and tribal members the Great Lakes area smoke and pray with came to talk about the role of traditional created a curriculum for All Nations pieces of shaved red willow bark. “It was tobacco in his tribe. “You could see the Breath of Life and designed a ve-year medicine to us before, and I think that wisdom in his eyes; you could hear it in study to see how it fared. Since then, about touched a lot of people and got them his voice,” she says. “I would like to see this 500 people have gone through the pro- thinking about tobacco in an entirely program all over Indian Country.” gram. According to White Bull, and a dierent way.” e research trial for All Nations Breath six-month studywide quit rate of 37 She also checked in on participants’ of Life ended in October, but preliminary percent, it worked. Fear-based programs medication, which was oered for free in results and anecdotal evidence show that claim a quit rate of merely 8 to 10 percent. the form of nicotine patches, gum or the culturally tailored health programs can “You can never motivate anyone smoking cessation drug Chantix. Groups produce dramatic positive results. McClo- through fear,” says Charlotte McCloskey, convened nine times during the 14-week skey and other researchers at KU Medical project manager for the trial and assistant program, and facilitators held meetings Center are applying for grants to expand professor at KU Hospital’s department of

family medicine. She helped develop the PPE program with Won Choi, executive L TEVE PU S director of KU’s master’s of public health L

program, and Christine Daley, associate L professor of preventative medicine and L public health. anks to their work, All Nations Breath of Life can be used by L various tribes and allows for dierences L

among cultures, traditions, languages and L tobacco use. L “Unfortunately, some people think it’s going to be dicult to do cultural tailoring L or dicult to do something for a specic L

group,” McCloskey says. “But I hope the L numbers we have so far show that it’s L worth it. ere is some work on the front end, but people are going to get a lot more L out of it and it’s going to have a longer- L

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heree Solomon was one of the L Cfacilitators in charge of recruiting L American Indians in the Kansas City area Charlotte McCloskey and Julia White Bull to join the program. Working as a receptionist at the Kansas City Indian Center, wherever and whenever participants could the program, and they hope to someday she was selected by program developers make it work. “One group was held at a oer an online program for American because of her involvement with the restaurant for people getting o third shi, Indians living on reservations. Indian community. During the study, so the facilitator would meet them at 7:30 “I hope that this program gives hope Solomon facilitated eight groups of eight in the morning and they would eat to people who are thinking about doing to 12 participants each, prepared materials breakfast together,” McCloskey says. work within specic populations, or even for meetings and made phone calls to Meetings oered useful tips for quitting, ones that historically have been reluctant monitor progress throughout the week. like going for a walk or putting cigarette to be engaged in health interventions,” “We talked about traditional tobacco or money in a piggy bank, but stressed McCloskey says. “As long as we’re ways we use tobacco in a sacred manner as community involvement and respect of connecting and being respectful of the opposed to just an addiction,” Solomon tradition rst and foremost. people we are truly here to serve, then says. “ ere are so many variations, and Solomon held many of her meetings at these things do work. It’s a phenomenal each tribe is dierent.” On the Dineh the Kansas City Indian Center, where thing to see.”

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 31 LongTheView by Chris Lazzarino

Old Fraser Hall and KU’s first aerial image, taken in 1926.

32 | KANSAS ALUMNI View ‘KU HISTORIC DISTRICT’ HONORS AND PROTECTS BUILDINGS, OBJECTS AND LANDSCAPES THAT HELP DEFINE MOUNT OREAD’S SIGNATURE BEAUTY

ennis Farney grew up on a farm near Wilson, west of entrance. To the north, the district includes the Hill, the Campa- Salina. At KU he obtained a journalism education nile, Memorial Drive and Potter Lake. (Buildings constructed or that led him to a long career with e Wall Street signicantly renovated aer 1951, such as the Kansas Union, DJournal, but his growth here was not limited to the Spencer Museum of Art and Wescoe Hall, are considered classroom. From the day he rst stepped foot on the Hill, Farney “non-contributing” elements.) found himself transformed. “Having the historic district ocially designated recognizes the “When I came to campus in 1959, it was a revelation to me,” fact that this campus is a historic site,” Chancellor Bernadette says Farney, j’63, g’65. “Here was a place that was beautiful, a Gray-Little says, “and raises our level of awareness and vigilance place where people cherished their history and thought about it. I about preserving the campus. It’s not just the buildings; it’s the honestly think that impression probably had a greater impact on environment in a certain area, a type of planting, a type of walk. me than any course I took at KU.” It includes all those things that contribute to the environment of Mount Oread’s memorable rst and lasting impressions, its the campus.” historic foundation, topographic splendor, architectural treasures, e historic district designation does not prevent the Univer- river valley vistas and subtle delights, are, of course, primary sity from making changes to Jayhawk Boulevard’s buildings and elements of the KU experience. Now, thanks to a two-decade landscape, but it does require careful consideration. Change will collaboration among Historic Mount Oread Friends—a nonprot come, to be sure, but it must now be deliberate and closely group of volunteer preservationists that Farney joined in 1986— examined. and University planners, administrators and preservation boards, at’s exactly why Dennis Farney, who watched in horror as Jayhawk Boulevard and its immediate environs for the rst time a wrecking ball felled Old Fraser Hall in his nal months as a KU enjoy protected designation as a historic district listed in the student, rst proposed the historic district designation two Register of Historic Kansas Places. decades ago, and why he was on hand in Topeka when the state e KU Historic District designation, issued in February by the board made it ocial. Kansas Historical Society’s Historic Sites Board of Review, “Students are certainly aware that they are on a beautiful includes buildings, landmarks and landscapes along the Mount campus,” Farney says, “but when you are younger you may not Oread ridge roughly from Lindley Hall, near the Chi Omega be thinking in terms of preservation. You kind of assume the Fountain at the boulevard’s west entrance, to the 13th Street campus you see today will always be there ... until it’s not.”

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Former Wall Street Journal reporter Dennis Farney in 1993 wrote a series of articles called “The American Civilization” that was a Pulitzer Prize runner-up. Mount Oread treasures such as Spooner Hall are key elements of the KU civilization that he hopes a historic district designation will help preserve. “If you designate something as an asset,” he says, “then it tends to be cherished as an asset. It is the ultimate safeguard.”

Despite his aection for Alexandria, Farney says, he felt the pull of home and in the mid-1980s convinced his editors to allow him to cover national politics from the voters’ perspective, based in Potter Lake, 1926 Kansas City. Soon aer his return in 1985, he joined Historic Mount Oread Friends. Dyche, Lippincott and Spooner halls had been added to the arney’s rst assignments with e Wall Street Journal were in National Register of Historic Places in 1974; Strong Hall made the FDallas and then on the Page One desk in New York; in 1970 list in 1998, and Bailey Hall in 2001. Inclusion on the National he was assigned to Washington, where he covered the Ford and Register is a proud designation for cherished buildings, but Carter White Houses, national elections and Congress. Farney Farney’s experience led him to think more could be done. and his wife made their home in Alexandria, Va., where they “Historic districts are very common in the South, including cherished their Old Town neighborhood’s protected status as a Alexandria,” says Farney, who rst proposed a KU historic district historic district. shortly aer completing his second term as president of Historic “Inside the historic district, everything was harmonious; even Mount Oread Friends in the early 1990s. “When I came back out new buildings were harmonious with the old ones,” he recalls. here it struck me that KU ought to have one, as a way of labeling “And if you stepped one foot outside the district you ran into the the campus as special. Once you label something as special, then usual American urban scene of a lling station on one corner, a I think that’s the best guarantee that it won’t be thoughtlessly remnant building on another corner, a fast food place down the torn down.” road. It made a great impression on me.” Working closely with Je Weinberg, d’64, g’70, then assistant to

34 | KANSAS ALUMNI the chancellor and now an Honors Program lecturer, Farney’s biggest hurdle was convincing administrators that a historic district would not lock the boulevard and its buildings in a time capsule. If changes and improvements need to be made they can “HAVING THE be, with approval from designated boards. Farney now says the arguments were seemingly successful at the time, but it was his HISTORIC DISTRICT impression that the University cooled to the idea in the wake of sometimes-bitter disputes with local preservation groups over OFFICIALLY KU’s plans to expand outside of its traditional borders. Momentum turned in 2006, when KU landed a $130,000 grant DESIGNATED from the Getty Foundation to closely study its physical heritage, and surged again two years later when the University revealed RECOGNIZES THE the grant’s result, the KU Campus Heritage Plan. e Getty- funded study motivated University planners, administrators and FACT THAT THIS consultants to view the campus as a historical whole and to use that context in discussions about construction, renovation and CAMPUS IS A improvements for everything from sidewalks to rooops. “It was a very, very powerful study with a very powerful end HISTORIC SITE, result,” says Jim Modig, a’73, University architect and director of design and construction management. “Out of that came the AND RAISES OUR Campus Heritage Plan, which establishes a kind of baseline with LEVEL OF AWARENESS all this research on the various components, whether it’s buildings, objects or landscapes that are historic in nature.” AND VIGILANCE ABOUT Once the Campus Heritage Plan was completed, in 2008, Historic Mount Oread Friends suggested the next step should PRESERVING THE nally be pursuit of a historic district designation. e University agreed, and, with a contribution of $21,000 from HMOF, a team CAMPUS.” was assembled—including Rosin Preservation, Treanor Architects and landscape historian Carol Grove, as well as HMOF, the —Chancellor Bernadette Campus Heritage Advisory Board and the Campus Historic Gray-Little Preservation Board. An extensive document was researched and prepared (see page 36 for online link) with detailed histories about every building and landmark within the plan’s projected boundaries. It was submitted to the state’s historic preservation oce in December, and two months later sailed through its formal approval by the Kansas Historical Society, which also forwarded it to the National Park Service for consideration for the National Register of Historic Places. A tangible benet of historic district designation is tax credits for costs incurred in preservation work, which the University can sell on the open market for 90 cents on the dollar, generating even more revenue for restoration and repair. And, another study is underway for an application for historic district designation for the scholarship hall environs on the east side of Mount Oread. “You really don’t stop to think very oen about all of these components that are compiled to make the district,” Modig says. “It’s refreshing to go through that process. It helps you realize Archive photos from the that, yeah, the lawn in front of Watson is a part of that environ- Kenneth Spencer Research ment. Yes, there’s going to be some limiting factors involved, Library. Campus photos by but I look at it more as guiding principles that we need to take Steve Puppe, Earl Richardson into consideration. It doesn’t prevent development, but if and Susan Younger. we do develop it, we do it in a smart and appropriate manner, and not do something that would be devastating to the character of campus.”

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 35 ale Slusser came to KU not from a windswept Kansas farm, Dbut from cosmopolitan California, and not as an impres- sionable student, but as a mature professional. In 2000, when he arrived to take a job with KU Endowment, Slusser was as thun- derstruck with Mount Oread as Farney the farm boy had been four decades earlier. “I was impressed of course with the city of Lawrence and the buildings here,” says Slusser, Endowment’s assistant vice president for development and a longtime acionado of historic architecture, “and I was just stunned by how beautiful campus is. I had no idea that Jayhawk Boulevard RE Y

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DA As Farney had when he returned from Washington, Slusser promptly joined HMOF, and is now the group’s vice president. He also serves on the boards for the Lawrence Jayhawk Boulevard, 1946 Preservation Alliance and the Douglas County Historical Society. requires you to look very carefully at any change, and if changes At HMOF, Slusser found need to be done to advance the University, they can, and we all himself immersed among true understand that.” believers, longtime members While the toppling of Old Fraser Hall was a heartbreaking of the extended KU family event, Slusser sees the real danger in forces far less dramatic than who have devoted themselves wrecking balls swinging from cranes. “It’s the little things here to Mount Oread’s preservation and there that very gradually start to add up to some signicant since the group’s founding in loss,” he says. “Walking Jayhawk Boulevard today is a powerful Slusser 1981 (as the Historic Mount experience because it’s such a special place with a combination of Oread Fund). Along with ve views and landscaping and buildings, and in the next 10 or 20 Jayhawk Boulevard landmarks being named to the National years it’s only going to get better.” Register of Historic Places and the Getty grant’s Campus Heritage Jayhawk Boulevard’s largest construction project in recent Plan, the KU Historic District designation is itself a landmark memory, a four-consecutive-summer overhaul of streets, side- achievement for the group’s vision for Mount Oread. walks and sanitary and storm sewers, is set to begin immediately “ e biggest value, to my mind, is that it really forces the aer Commencement. Among the improvements will be the University to pay attention and to think very carefully about any addition of underground catch basins to prevent heavy rains from changes that are occurring in the historic district,” Slusser says. eroding the hillsides while also allowing for percolation into the “It’s of paramount importance to stress that this is not an attempt soil to nurture trees. Lots of trees. Big trees. to lock in forever what the campus looks like right now. at’s not Planners envision a return of the canopy that once enveloped what a historic district is for. It establishes some standards and the boulevard until it was wiped out by Dutch Elm disease. e new trees will be drought and disease resistant, and, as another precaution, likely won’t be a single species, as were the beloved old elms. But the spirit of what once was will rise again, draping READ MORE ONLINE Jayhawk Boulevard in the comforting shade of its long history and hopes for a bright future. A link to the PDF of the complete historic “To me,” Farney says, “a civilization preserves the best of the district nomination proposal—including past. We don’t just tear everything down every 50 or 100 years detailed histories of every building, object and start all over again. And I really see a university campus—at least an attractive one like KU—as an embodiment of American and landscape area—can be found on Kansas civilization. Alumni magazine’s home page, kualumni.org/ “ e historic district isn’t just about history, but a sense of kansas-alumni-magazine. place, and preserving that special sense of place that KU has and that just about every graduate shares.” e Mount Oread revelation. Past, present and future.

36 | KANSAS ALUMNI Buildings, landmarks and landscapes dating from 1863 to 1951—including the ﬁve Jayhawk Boulevard buildings already listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Spooner, Dyche, Lippincott, Bailey and Strong halls—are considered primary “contributing resources” of the KU Historic District. Elements built or signiﬁcantly altered after 1951—such as the Kansas Union, Chi Omega fountain and Spencer Museum of Art—are “non-contributing,” but the impact of any changes to those structures on the historic district would still have to be studied and approved. The University is currently preparing a historic district proposal for the east-slope scholarship halls, Danforth Chapel and the Outlook.

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 37 Association

LDE N served on the Alumni Association’s national Board of Directors from 1984 to

N GILPIN GO 1989, and Helen, c’38, volunteered for

JOA many KU events. SY eir $100,000 bequest to the Associa- OU RTE C tion has established the Howard and Helen Gilpin Legacy Relations Fund to assist in recruiting students from KU families and oering support and guid- ance while they are on the Hill. e gi is part of Far Above: e Campaign for Kansas. “Going back to our grandparents, KU has played such a special role in our lives,” Joan says. “We look forward to the programs that will help students know how much KU welcomes them and wants them to succeed here.” Joan and her husband, Web, c’66, saw their KU tradi- Helen Moore Gilpin Howard Gilpin tion continue when their youngest daughter, Gretchen Golden Curtis, n’94, g’98, followed them to the Hill. Boost for legacies recently found her grandmother’s Jay- “Recruiting legacy students has long hawker yearbooks. been a priority of the Alumni Association, Gilpin family gives $100,000 Joan Gilpin Golden, b’67, still remem- as has been providing programs and bers visiting the Hill for a recruitment support to ensure legacies succeed while to beneﬁt student recruitment weekend during high school and spending on campus,” says Kevin J. Corbett, c’88, the night in the residence halls. She and president. “We are truly grateful for the ayhawks Howard and Helen Moore her brothers, Jim, b’72, and Ken, ’69, Gilpin family’s support.” JGilpin of Iola always encouraged their heeded the advice of their parents, who Last July, the Association created a new children to continue the KU tradition were devoted alumni; Howard, b’38, sta position devoted solely to legacy begun by Helen’s parents, Roy and Birdie

Greenough Moore. Roy had nished his PPE bachelor’s degree in 1907, and Birdie TEVE PU earned two degrees at a time when few S women nished or even attended college. Aer her 1906 bachelor’s degree, Birdie completed her master’s in mathematics in 1909, an accomplishment that always intrigued their granddaughter, Joan, who

A gift from the estate of Howard and Helen Gilpin, both 1938 graduates, has created a fund to help the Association recruit legacy students like the Hovens, who grew up in New Jersey. Kathryn, a senior, and her brothers, Tom and Will, both sophomores, celebrated Homecoming last fall with their parents, Don and Janet Gorman Hoven, j’78.

38 | KANSAS ALUMNI relations. Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, WELL leads the program, collaborating with the KU Oce of Admissions to ensure MA X JOY students from Jayhawk families receive the personal touch. Among current students, 4,252—22 percent of undergraduates— boast KU heritage, and 214 have received and retained the Jayhawk Generations Scholarship, a three-tiered system of four-year, renewable tuition waivers for academically qualifed out-of-state students from KU families (for details, visit jaygen.ku.edu). Maxwell hosted a dinner last November for the current Jayhawk Generations scholars as part of her ongoing eorts to connect with legacy students during their Robin and Rick Putnam KU years. Cassidy Ritter, a freshman from Aurora, Colo., said the scholarship settled Florio Power, j’87. Father and daughter b’56, and Sue Anderson, assoc., hosted an her college choice. “Without this scholar- managed to arrive in Lawrence between event in Los Angeles; Mark and Lori ship, I would not have had the privilege to two colossal snowstorms that closed Anderson Piening, b’92, welcomed attend KU,” she said. “Hearing that I had campus. Aer the trip, Scott sent a note to students and parents in Austin, Texas; received this scholarship made my the Association: “Sydney and I really Rick, c’77, l’80, and Robin Putnam shared decision. Out-of-state tuition is very enjoyed our visit. Joy was very helpful in their home with prospective KU families expensive and this scholarship helps a lot.” getting our visit coordinated, and it went in Omaha, Neb.; and Tim, b’80, l’83, and e awards, which began in 2009, also o without a hitch despite falling squarely Melanie Andersen Trump, b’80, l’83, tipped the scales in favor of KU for famlies between the two ‘Snowmageddons,’ ” he hosted an event in Tulsa, Okla. like the Hovens of Chester, N.J. Janet wrote. “Joy was a wealth of information ese eorts will continue to grow, Gorman Hoven, j’78, is a former Associa- and really made us feel at home.” thanks to the Gilpin fund. “ e University tion national Board member with a long Alumni also extend hospitality in was built by generations of legacy students KU family tradition; her husband, Don, students’ hometowns. In January and and graduates for more than 100 years,” graduated from the University of Missouri. February, Maxwell, Corbett and KU Corbett says. “ e Gilpins have helped to eir daughter, Kathryn, now a senior, was admissions sta members traveled to ensure that being a KU legacy is a special among the rst class of Jayhawk Genera- several cities where alumni hosted honor and carries a great responsibility to tions Scholars, and her brothers, Tom and receptions for seniors who have been further the involvement and support of Will, both sophomores, also received the admitted to KU and their parents: Dana, those who have gone before them.” tuition discount. “Even though I knew I wanted to go to KU, I still had to think about MU,” Kathryn recalls, “but once the Jayhawk Architects celebrate a century Generations Scholarship became available, The School of Architecture, Design and Planning will host a reunion April 26-27. it gave a little edge to KU. It made my The schedule includes: mom so happy—it was killing her that Friday, April 26 Missouri oered scholarships for children 9 a.m. to Noon Welcome and Open House, Marvin Hall of alumni.” 2 p.m. Architecture Program 100th Birthday Party, Marvin Hall Lawn Maxwell has reached out to all prospec- 5:30 to 7 p.m. Reception, Adams Alumni Center, Seymour Pub tive students who have been awarded the 7-9 p.m. Reunion Banquet, Kansas Union Ballroom Jayhawk Generation Scholarship for this Saturday, April 27 fall, as well as all admitted high school 9 a.m. to Noon Open House seniors from KU families in Kansas. With Noon Alumni Lunch, Marvin Hall Lawn admissions colleagues, she hosts campus visits, including a February trip by Sydney Questions? Contact Patti Baker, assistant to the dean, at [email protected] or Power, a high-school senior from Tampa, 785-864-3114 Fla., and the daughter of Scott and Wendi

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Presidents Club N S DA ill and Anne Harlanske BBlessing, Lewis and Laura Davis Gregory, and Jenny Hurst Gunter and Mike Gunter attended a Presidents Club reception Feb. 9 at Indian Hills Country Club in Prairie Village. The Gregorys were honored as winners of the Mildred Clodfelter Alumni Award for their longtime service to KU. Nick Sterner and Betsy Winetroub, the Association’s assistant director of Kansas City programs, helped honor the Gregorys. Association President Kevin Corbett welcomed Cory Lagerstrom and his son, David, to a Jan. 26 Presidents Club gathering at the Adams Alumni Center. Also attending the event for Association donors were Jean Fisher Briley, Cindy Ballard, fellow ‘Millie’ award-winner Butch Billips and Becky VanWyhe Thomas. The Presidents Club now includes 389 members, who collectively have contributed $500,000 to expand the Association’s programs and events to more than 500 annually; 80 percent of these relate to KU academic programs and student recruitment.

40 | KANSAS ALUMNI Drive in KU style. Let everyone know you’re a Jayhawk (and proud of it) with an ofﬁcial KU license plate.

Proceeds from Kansas Jayhawk license plates directly support the Kansas Honors Program, which recognizes outstanding high school seniors throughout the state. Plates are also now available for Texas and Maryland!

Kevin Corbett, c’88, Alumni Association president, and Kyle Vann, e’69, The Woodlands, Texas, show o Vann’s new Texas plate. Doug, e’66, g’72, and Marilyn Stone Ashbrook, d’66, Gaithersburg, Md., proudly display their new Maryland plate.

For more information, visit www.kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. www.kualumni.org Association New Sta Life Members e Association thanks these Jayhawks, who began their Life

PPE memberships Jan. 1 through Feb. 28. For information, visit kualumni.org or call 800-584-2957. TEVE PU S Susan Rauscher Alexander Donald R. & Melissa Ronald L. Allen Schneider Frew Susan Campbell Anderson Kate E. Giessel Scott E. & Bernadette D. Brian D. Glaser Ashcraft Jeªrey B. & Amy Batchelder Bryan N. Becker Handlin John P. Biersmith Michael J. Happe & Shannon Stanley A. & Cynthia Eckert Fitzsimmons-Happe Bowling Sue Ketcham Heilborn Dylan D. & Ellen Kraus Bryant Marc A. & Krista L. Hensel Gerald N. Capps Jr. Michael L. & Lisa Gotham The Association recently welcomed Ervin L. Cash Hinson Chip Chalmers Timothy E. Hornik

several new staª members, N YOUNGER A Robert M. Chapman Melissa B. Howe including Kelsey Hill, c’12, alumni SUS Katie J. Cheney Jeremiah J. Hull programs coordinator for national Scott & Cheri L. Clatterbuck Daniel J. Hulse & Laura K. programs; Emily Ellison, c’11, alumni Zachary S. Coble Hulse programs coordinator for Meredith D. Crenshaw Robert J. Kaleal operations; Jane Mahoney, j’13, David W. Crook Daniel T. & Janet Lee Kelly digital media and marketing Jean E. Daniels John D. & Peggy Cobb coordinator; Laura Stephens, ’08, Cristobal J. DeLeon Knudtson assistant director of hospitality Steve M. & Gena Gunn Dillard Michael J. & Jane Robinson services; and Dan Storey, staª Debra Dennis Duckworth Leach photographer and videographer. Elizabeth C. Dufresne Michael C. Leeson Robert B. Elliott Jeanmarie Will Lively Sean T. Foley Michelle E. McComb

42 | KANSAS ALUMNI Everything we do strengthens KU. Your membership David A. Meditz II K. Stuart Shea in the KU Alumni Association is the single most powerful way to Derek D. Meier Eric M. Sidebottom make all of KU stronger, including the value of your own degree. Leroy J. Mergy Lori Slater Kevin E. Carroll, assoc., Palm Beach Maggie L. Mohrfeld Gary S. Smith Board of Directors Gardens, Florida Anthony Mott Mary E. Snapp n CHAIR Marci K. Deuth, e’05, Washington, D.C. John J. Mueller Isaac F. Stallworth Jr. Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood Gregory E. Ek, b’76, Overland Park Dayona R. Nett Catherine Young St. John Steven Nicklin Kathryn H. Stanton n CHAIR-ELECT Kevin P. O’Neill & Alexandra Jay Templin Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Administrative Sta¥ K. Rozman Herbert R. & Jane Johnson n EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE n PRESIDENT Robert D. Onek Tuttle Jerey P. Briley, d’74, Overland Park Kevin J. Corbett, c’88 Nicholas A. Pellant Kato Waage Ray D. Evans, b’82, g’84, Leawood n William T. Plybon Kato & Leah Stevens Waage Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo ALUMNI CENTER Timothy E. Brandt, b’74, Director of LeRoy E. & Linda L. Poage Jacob D. Wassenberg Grande, California Adams Alumni Center Casey D. & Megan Rhea Linda McConnell Whaley Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita Blayne E. Rinne John A. Whitbread Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, n ALUMNI, STUDENT & Paul S. Robich Jeremi J. Whitham Mission Hills MEMBERSHIP PROGRAMS Mary E. Ryan Herman A. Wiebers Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, Michael Davis, d’84, g’91, Senior Kevin R. Sauer Jeªrey R. & Andrea Grimes Dallas, Texas Vice President for Alumni, Student Tammy Woods Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, and Membership Programs Illinois Schilling-Montgomery Marcia Chace Zeithamel Nikki Epley, Director of Reunions and Anity Programs Lanny G. & Jill A. Schoeling James E. Zimmerman III n DIRECTORS TO 2013 Sheri Welter Hauck, b’81, Arroyo Teri Harris, Director of Membership Grande, California Danny Lewis, d’05, Director of Alumni Programs

RE Y Je Kennedy, j’81, Wichita TO Henry Menghini, c’87, Pittsburg Heath Peterson, d’04, g’09, N S Assistant Vice President for DA n DIRECTORS TO 2014 Alumni and Student Programs Douglas C. Miller, b’71, l’74, Mission Hills n COMMUNICATIONS Debbie Foltz Nordling, d’79, Hugoton David Johnston, j’94, g’06, Director Camille Bribiesca Nyberg, c’96, g’98, of Internet Services and Marketing Dallas, Texas Chris Lazzarino, j’86, Associate Richard E. Putnam, c’77, l’80, Editor, Kansas Alumni magazine Omaha, Nebraska Jennifer Sanner, j’81, Senior Vice Larry D. Stoppel, c’73, Washington President for Communications and Corporate Secretary n DIRECTORS TO 2015 Susan Younger, f’91, Creative Director Paul L. Carttar, c’76, Lawrence Scott R. Seyfarth, b’83, Hinsdale, n DEVELOPMENT Illinois Angela Storey, b’04, g’07, Brenda Marzett Vann, c’71, g’72, Associate Development Director Kansas City n FINANCE Je L. Wolfe, b’83, Meridian, Idaho Jodi Nachtigal, Controller Dwight Parman, Senior Vice n DIRECTORS TO 2016 James Bredfeldt, c’70, m’74, Bellevue, President for Finance and Human Judy L. Ruedlinger Award Winners Resources and Treasurer Maggie Zehren, Olathe junior; Tyler Rockers, Greeley senior; and Matt Washington John Jeter, c’77, m’81, Hays n Visser, a senior from Harker Heights, Texas, are this year’s winners of HOSPITALITY SERVICES Shelle Hook McCoy, d’73, Topeka Bryan Greve, Senior Vice President the Judy L. Ruedlinger Award for their service to the Student Alumni Lori Anderson Piening, b’92, Austin, for Hospitality Association. The scholarship honors the memory of Ruedlinger, who Texas n founded SAA in 1987 and created the fund. All three students have Mark Randall, j’03, Englewood, LEGACY PROGRAMS served on the Student Alumni Leadership Board: Zehren is vice Colorado Joy Larson Maxwell, c’03, j’03, Director n RECORDS president for legacy recruitment, Rockers is past president and Visser n DIRECTORS TO 2017 Bill Green, Senior Vice President for is past vice president for alumni relations. Donald R. Brada, c’61, m’65, Lawrence Information Services Luke B. Bobo, e’82, Ballwin, Missouri Stefanie Shackelford, Vice President for Alumni Records ISSUE 2, 2013 | 43 Class Notes by Karen Goodell Upper Black Eddy, Pa., with his wife, Josette. Robert Nelson, c’68, g’69, PhD’84, endowed scholarships for students at KU’s Albert Jackson Jr., b’50, is vice Albert Steegmann Jr., c’58, received Pearson and Miller scholarship halls as 50 president of the Kansas Masonic 58 the 2012 Franz Boas Award from well as a unitrust to further enhance the Foundation. He and his wife, Vivian, live the Human Biology Association. He’s a scholarships. Robert and Lois Adams in Topeka. professor emeritus of anthropology at the Nelson, c’78, live in Kennewick, Wash. University of Bualo, and he makes his William Bunten Sr., b’52, will home in North Tonawanda, N.Y. Jerold James, j’70, l’78, owns West 52 complete nearly 40 years in public 70 Ridge Lanes in Topeka. He and his service when his term as mayor of Topeka James Clark, d’63, g’69, was elected wife, Brenda Barrand, d’79, g’81, live in ends in April. He served in the Kansas 63 to the Missouri High School Overland Park. House of Representatives and the Kansas Wrestling Hall of Fame in recognition of Larry Leonard, d’70, l’74, owns Larry Senate before becoming mayor in 2005. his years of coaching. He’s retired in Leonard PC in Tulsa, Okla., where he and Grandview. his wife, Marcia, make their home. He also Alfred Scherer, c’53, m’57, wrote his chairs the board of regents for Tulsa 53 memoirs, God’s Man: e Tales of a Robert Dennett, e’64, g’66, is retired Community College. Reluctant Doctor, published by iUniverse. 64 in Pearland, Texas, where he and his He is a retired physician in Morton, Texas. wife, Sally, make their home. Ralph Wilson, j’71, wrote Illegal Susan Mustard Gilliland, d’64, s’91, was 71 Woman (A Gypsy Love Story), Sir Robert Worcester, b’55, chancel- appointed to a three-year term on the published last fall. He and Susan Vance 55 lor of the University of Kent, was Kansas Commission for the Deaf and Wilson, c’65, g’67, live in Pasadena, Calif. named Chancellor’s Lecturer and Adjunct Hard of Hearing. She and her husband, Professor of Political Science at KU. He Donald, g’78, live in Topeka. Sheila Pyle Biggs, n’72, was lives in London. James Rosander, p’64, works as a relief 72 appointed to a four-year term on the pharmacist at Onaga and Homan North-Central Kansas Library System pharmacies. He lives in Westmoreland. Board. She and her husband, Dennis, c’70, School Codes Letters that follow names m’74, live in Abilene. indicate the school from which alumni earned John Atkinson, c’65, m’69, joined Wayne Gaul, c’72, g’83, has been elected degrees. Numbers show their class years. 65 the Biothera Research Advisory 2013 chair of the American Board of a School of Architecture, Board. He’s chief of rheumatology and a Health Physics Part II Panel of Examiners. Design and Planning professor of medicine and molecular He is senior program manager for b School of Business microbiology at Washington University in Tidewater in Columbia, S.C. c College of Liberal Arts St. Louis. John Hachmeister, f’72, associate and Sciences Earl Heller, m’65, practices orthopedic professor of art at KU, received the d School of Education e School of Engineering surgery at South Bend Orthopedics in Phoenix Award for Exceptional Artistic f School of Fine Arts South Bend, Ind. Achievement from the Lawrence Cultural g Master’s Degree Arts Commission. He and his wife, Diane, h School of Health Professions Homer “Bud” Yazel III, d’66, live in Oskaloosa. j School of Journalism 66 received the Charlie Finch Distin- William McMurray, d’72, g’77, was l School of Law guished Coach Award from the Missouri invested as a Knight of Magistral Grace in m School of Medicine Track and Cross Country Coaches the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order n School of Nursing p School of Pharmacy Association. He is counselor and assistant of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and PharmD School of Pharmacy cross country and track coach at St. Mary’s Malta. He serves as a public administrator s School of Social Welfare High School in Independence, Mo. for Buchanan County and lives in St. u School of Music Joseph, Mo., with his wife, Judy. DE Doctor of Engineering Robert Green, l’67, serves on the e Rev. Russell Ritchel Jr., c’72, serves DMA Doctor of Musical Arts 67 board of Peoples Bank. He and his as interim pastor of Vanderbilt Presbyte- EdD Doctor of Education wife, Joyce, make their home in Ottawa. rian Church in Naples, Fla. PhD Doctor of Philosophy Beth Coble Simon, (no letter) Former student f’72, facilitates assoc Associate member of the Ronald Brown, g’68, designed the insights and innovation at Decision Alumni Association 68 cover of the January issue of the Analyst in Arlington, Texas, where she College Mathematics Journal. He lives in lives with her husband, Ken.

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Brian Bracco, j’73, is vice president from Emerson, a diversied global John Wine Jr., l’78, was named 73 and general manager of 41 Action manufacturer and technology leader based 78 general counsel for the Kansas News/KSHB TV in Kansas City. He and in St. Louis. Patricia teaches at South Point Insurance Commission. He and his wife, Sarah Wallace Bracco, d’74, live in Elementary School in Washington, Mo., Ellen, live in Topeka. Leawood. She teaches art at the Nelson- where she and her husband, Bob, make Atkins Museum of Art. their home. Lucia Amsden, s’80, wrote Breaking David Meredith, f’73, owns Right Brain Kathleen Turner, c’74, received a service 80 Eggs: Finding New Meaning with Graphic Design. He and his wife, Cheryl, award from the National Communication Chronic Illness, which was published last live in Lenexa. Association. She is a professor of commu- year. She lives in Ramah, N.M. Paul Moxley, l’73, was nominated to the nication studies at Davidson College in Dennis Depew, b’80, l’83, practices law board of governors of the American Bar Davidson, N.C. She and her husband, Ray with Depew Law in Neodesha. Association. He practices law with Parsons Sprague, live in Cornelius. Robert Gish, m’80, chairs the hepatitis B Kinghorn Harris in Salt Lake City. Clinical Advisory Board for Arrowhead Gregg Barner, b’75, e’75, is retired Research Corp. and is a clinical professor David Hunke, j’74, is chief strategy 75 from a career with Honeywell. He of medicine at the University of Califor- 74 ocer for Digerati Inc. He and Janet and Ceralynn Behm Barner, n’86, make nia-San Diego. He lives in La Jolla. Gantz Hunke, ’78, make their home in their home in Overland Park. Bill Graves, ’80, was named Executive of Arlington, Va. Richard Schulte, f’75, g’78, owns Dayton the Year by the National Industrial Marilyn Metzler, d’74, retired last year Global Enterprises, an e-commerce drop Transportation League. He is president aer a 34-year career teaching high-school shipping rm. He lives in Los Angeles. and CEO of the American Trucking German. She received the Outstanding Naomi Stuart, l’75, was appointed Association and a former Kansas governor. German Educator Award from the ocer in charge of the National He makes his home in McLean, Va. American Association of Teachers of Labor Relations Board’s German. Her home is in Chapel Hill, N.C. subregional oce in Steven Obermeier, j’81, c’82, is Patricia Young Thies, d’74, received an Overland Park. 81 senior deputy district attorney in Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award Johnson County. He and Lisa Stoner

46 | KANSAS ALUMNI Obermeier, ’82, live in Olathe. novel, Mother’s Red Fingernail Polish, Scott Roberts, c’82, m’86, practices David Reese, p’81, is associate which was published last year. Her second medicine at Parkland Hospital in Dallas director of Navigant Consultant Inc. novel, She Rides with Genghis Khan, will and is a professor of obstetrics and in Centreville, Va. be published in April. Pam and her gynecology at the University of Texas. David Vernon, j’81, lives in Dallas. husband, Edmund, assoc., live in He and his wife, Kelly, live in Plano. He’s chief development ocer and vice Lawrence. president of franchise sales at Wingstop Mark Hamrick, ’82, joined Brian Boutwell, e’83, is a project in Richardson, Texas. Bankrate.com as Washington bureau 83 manager and estimator for Cornejo chief. He is past president of the National & Sons in Wichita. Timothy Collins, b’82, is chief Press Club. He and his wife, Jeanne, live Joel Hutchins, m’83, practices medicine 82 executive ocer of Wild Earth in Potomac, Md. with Family Practice Associates in Holton. Market in Asheville, N.C., where he and Jo Ulery Jurgensen, h’82, directs health David Walden-Berg, c’83, is an applica- his wife, Tiany, make their home. information management for the Hutchin- tion coordinator specialist at KP Health- Pamela Boles Eglinski, g’82, wrote a son Regional Medical Center. Connect in Pleasanton, Calif.

PROFILE by Steven Hill ON DDIN GT CRA IG BO ‘Boddington Experience’ Petersen’s Hunting, a SY OU RTE

giant among outdoor C puts viewers in the hunt magazines. His byline has since raig T. Boddington’s father required become one of the most Cthree things of him: Become an Eagle recognizable in the eld, Scout, attend KU and earn a commission topping more than in the U.S. armed forces. 3,000 stories and 19 Craig accomplished all three—which books about hunting Edward Boddington, c’47, l’48, had and shooting around accomplished himself—and then nearly the world. followed his father in a fourth endeavor. “I took Dad’s advice,” “I was admitted to KU law twice,” says Boddington says, “and Boddington embraced TV but ﬁnds writing his true calling. “I love Boddington, who declined the rst time in I’ve never regretted it.” sitting down at the laptop and trying to properly put a story order to fulll his ROTC commitment to In the past decade he together. God bless KU’s English department.” the Marines. e second time, in 1979, he branched into television, had nished ve years of active duty and hosting or co-hosting Robert Petersen, founder of the Petersen several outdoor shows, many highlighting has collected over the years. magazine empire, had just oered him his love of African plains hunting. His Boddington retired from the Marine a job. newest, “ e Boddington Experience,” Corps Reserve as a colonel in 2005. “I talked to Dad, and he said, ‘You know, which debuted in June on Sportsman Between a military life that spanned the son, you’re gonna be working a long time. Channel, is a chance to get back to the 1975 evacuation of Saigon to the wars in Sounds to me like you’ve got a chance to outdoor pursuit he loves best: everything. the Persian Gulf, and a TV career that do something you want to do that’s gonna “I was becoming branded as the Africa allows him to hunt in Europe, Asia, Africa be a lot of fun. I think you ought to do it.’” guy, and I didn’t want that, because I love and much of North America, he has seen a For Boddington, c’74, it was a dream it all,” he says. “I love my Kansas whitetail good bit more of the world than he come true. He started hunting behind bird hunting, too. Ultimately we all end up imagined as a boy growing up in Kansas. dogs while growing up in Kansas City, returning to our roots.” He looks forward to sharing some of his began submitting articles to outdoor For the California-based Boddington, favorite destinations with viewers of his magazines in high school and sold his rst that has meant buying land in southeast new show. piece while at KU aer collecting “a boxcar Kansas, where he plants food plots for His most memorable hunt is “either the load of rejection notices.” He took the job, deer and is renovating a farm building last one or the next one,” Boddington says. and only two years later was editor of to house the many trophy mounts he “I just love it.”

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Georey Blatt, m’84, is a partner in tion, which coordinated all military Terence Robertson, c’87, m’91, is an 84 the Kansas City rm Midwest ceremonial support for the inaugural anesthesiologist at Bothwell Regional Neurosurgery Associates. He and his wife, period. He lives in Springeld, Va., with Health Center in Sedalia, Mo. Ronda, live in Overland Park. his wife, Catherine. Stephen Sullivan, PhD’87, is a partner Christina Connell Stanga, c’84, m’91, Patrick Brough Jr., c’86, is marketing in the New York City intellectual property practices psychiatry with the Mayo Clinic promotion adviser for John Deere & law rm of Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Health System in Eau Claire, Wis. She and Company. He and his wife, Annie, live in Scinto. her husband, James, m’91, live in De Soto. Neillsville. Andres Carvallo, e’86, is executive vice Marion Bollig Jr., g’88, works as a president and chief strategy ocer for 88 reporter and photographer for e Douglas Cunningham, j’85, is Proximetry. He lives in Austin, Texas. Leaven in Kansas City. He and his wife, 85 associate publisher and editor of the Lynn Kingsley, j’86, works as a real- Linda, live in Baldwin City. Putnam County News & Recorder in Cold estate sales consultant with Re/Max First Spring, N.Y. He lives in Milford, Pa. Realtors. She lives in Overland Park. Grant Burgoyne, l’89, was elected Nancy Stoetzer Mays, j’85, c’86, directs Christopher Tilden, c’86, g’92, directs 89 last fall to his third term in the public aairs and communications for the community health for the Lawrence- Idaho House of Representatives. He also is Johnson County Manager’s Oce. She Douglas County Health Department in managing partner of the Boise law rm of lives in Shawnee with her husband, Keith. Lawrence, where he and his wife, Kather- Mauk & Burgoyne. Sandra Stewart Worm, j’85, recently ine, make their home. Anne Johnson, c’89, recently became became vice president of Mudlick Mail in director of development for the San Acworth, Ga. Scott Diel, b’87, wrote the libretto Francisco Symphony. She and her hus- 87 for a nancial opera that dramatizes band, Chris Hepp, assoc., make their home Gerard Armoury, d’86, a U.S. Army a Twitter feud between economist Paul in Santa Clara. 86 master sergeant, served on the Joint Krugman and Estonian President Toomas Katheryn Spalding McWard, c’89, Task Force National Capital Region in Hendrik Ilves. He and his wife, Janika, live practices law with the law rm of support of the 57th Presidential Inaugura- in Searcy, Ark. Debra Schuster in St. Louis, where she

48 | KANSAS ALUMNI and her husband, Douglas, c’86, live. Sarah Phillips Tidwell, g’91, received the master’s of arts in applied linguistics at the 2012 President’s Award for Outstanding University of Alaska-Fairbanks. James Starr, c’90, coordinates Service and Commitment from the Kansas Elizabeth Phelps, g’92, is director of 90 projects for Systems Integration State Nurses Association. She’s an assistant KanCare Interagency Coordination and Solutions. He lives in Aon, Mo. professor of nursing at Emporia State Contract Mentoring at the Kansas University. Department of Health and Environment Scott Branton, a’91, is an architect in Topeka, where she lives. 91 with Spur Design in Kansas City. Carey Mills Federspiel, d’92, is a Linda Moshier, f’91, performed with 92 self-employed children’s author and Jerey Bridgforth, a’93, works as Nobody’s Business Trio in December at illustrator. She and her husband, Fred, live 93 front-end developer at Easy the Iridium Jazz Club in New York City, in Larchmont, N.Y. Designs. He and Anne Glidewell Bridg- where she lives. Allan Hayton, c’92, was elected to a forth, g’93, live in Orlando, Fla. Christopher Palmer, c’91, is executive two-year term on the board of directors of Daniel Deaver, e’93, directs manufactur- director of Cornerstone of Topeka. the Doyon Foundation. He is completing a ing for Georgia Gulf Sulfur Corporation

PROFILE by Lydia Benda

Midwife delivers hope, clinical practice to teach skills in women’s GORDON healing in the heartland health, primary care, gynecology, delivery,

postpartum and newborn care. “Without E CATHERIN SY er completing medical missions in Cathy’s support and willingness to accept OU RTE A37 countries and delivering babies in students, our program would suer C nine, Catherine Gordon has brought a new tremendously,” Busenhart says. “New Birth method of health care to Kansas City. Her Company provides excellent out-of-hospi- latest endeavor is New Birth Company, a tal birth experiences for our nurse-mid- nurse-midwifery practice founded in 2010. wifery students—oen the only out-of- “Women have been told they can’t do hospital experience that they will get.” things or that they’re not eligible for Gordon says she hopes to see her birth normal birth,” says Gordon, n’94, g’98. center model replicated across the country. “We help them surpass that and be “I like to get things started and then redeemed of their failures and past fears.” pass them over to other people to run,” New Birth Company is the brainchild of she says. Gordon and Kendra Wyatt, a former She has done the same for Kansas City’s patient of Gordon’s who sought natural Mercy & Truth Medical Missions, which childbirth aer seeing it rsthand at a she founded in 1994 aer a mission trip to In addition to caring for mothers and babies, birth center in Haiti. Mexico inspired her to treat those who Gordon, here with granddaughter Iliana “Lala” Although the costs of childbirth vary could not aord health care. Rose Lopez, wrote All Babies are Born, a 2011 widely across the nation, depending on the With the help of her family and church, book that chronicles the birth stories of 12 types of procedures, Gordon says nurse- she created Mercy & Truth, a nonprot, babies and mothers in nine countries. midwifery centers can provide cost-eec- family-practice medical center for the tive care. “We can reduce the cost to less uninsured. “We started the rst clinic in than $5,000,” she says, “and still include Johnson County, which everybody prenatal care and delivery fees, as well as thought was stupid,” Gordon says. “But Matt, c’09, took over as executive director educating the woman.” Johnson County has the highest number in 2010, freeing his mother to begin New Cara Busenhart, director of the KU of uninsured people in our state, so it’s not Birth Company. School of Nursing’s nurse-midwifery stupid—it’s just an aordable way to do Gordon says she owes her healing gis program, says Gordon has provided health care.” e center now includes three to her faith. “Without faith we’re just valuable lessons and experience for locations in the Kansas City area. worker bees. What a great opportunity students as an adjunct instructor and Mercy & Truth also sends health care we have as health care providers to love preceptor, accepting students into her providers around the world. Gordon’s son, and to serve.”

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 49 Class Notes in Valdosta, where he and Laura Gwillim- University in Bangkok, ailand. His Fuels Trading in Park City, Utah. Deaver, c’91, g’94, make their home. home is in Lawrence. Edward Lief, c’96, works as an agent for Liberty Mutual Insurance in Lake Oswego, Julie Porter Borsari, c’94, teaches at Jason Patchen, b’95, is vice presi- Ore. He and his wife, Katherine, live in 94 Jordan Elementary School and was 95 dent and regional distribution Donald. recognized as the Lowell Joint School manager for ACE USA in Overland Park, Elizabeth Long, c’96, joined the Kansas District Teacher of the Year and one of 16 where he and Danica Hansen Patchen, Department of Health and Environment Los Angeles County Teachers of the Year. d’94, g’01, make their home. as a KanCare integrated-quality monitor. She lives in Fullerton. John Whitmer, ’95, was appointed to a She lives in Mayetta. Christopher Carter, l’94, was named four-year term on the Kansas Commission Melissa Miller Ringhausen, g’96, has chief executive ocer of PDIX Interna- on Peace Ocers Standards and Training. been inducted into the Ottawa University tional in Houston. He lives in Wichita. Athletic Hall of Fame. She’s head coach of Jason Haney, c’94, is a corporate trainer the McKendree University women’s and performance consultant with Black & BORN TO: basketball program in Lebanon, Ill. Veatch. He and Janice Khongmaly Haney, Cynthia Cogil, e’95, and Oliver Bau- Melissa and her husband, Lance, live in n’95, live in Gardner. mann, son, Nikolai Valentin Baumann, O’Fallon. William Horton, h’94, teaches allied July 20 in Washington, D.C., where he Shauna Roche, b’96, was named to the health at Hutchinson Community College. joins a sister, Sasha, 3. Cindy is a principal board of the New Mexico Society of Kurt Warnke, c’94, manages real estate at SmithGroup Inc. Certied Public Accountants. She lives in for DKMallon in Wheaton, Ill. He and his Farmington, where she’s a partner in wife, Laura, live in Elmhurst. Greg Gurley, b’96, directs develop- Chandler & Co. Lindsey Williams, f’94, g’99, an associ- 96 ment for Kansas Athletics’ Williams ate professor of music education at the Education Fund and is an announcer for BORN TO: University of Missouri-Kansas City, the Jayhawk Radio Network. He and Amy Amanda Warren Martin, f’96, and received a Fulbright Scholar Award to O’Neal Gurley, d’96, live in Leawood. David, b’97, daughter, Amelia Jane, Oct. 22 lecture and do research at Mahidol Braden Hopkins, j’96, is president of SC in Lawrence, where they live. Amanda is

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an illustrator and designer with Amanda Scott Garrie, ’98, is director of assurance and is regulatory and IRB Warren Graphic Design, and David is a tax 98 parks and recreation for the city of coordinator at QPS-BioKinetics. She and manager at Sprint Nextel. Nixa, Mo. her husband, Kevin, PhD’01, live in Christie Humphries, j’98, is an account Springeld, Mo. Stuart Canning, g’97, is chief executive at KMBC/KCWE TV in Kansas 97 development ocer for the United City. She lives in Overland Park. BORN TO: Way of the Bay Area in San Francisco, Robert Salyer, l’98, is a partner in the Paul, ’99, and Callie Shultz Castro, b’01, where he lives. Elko, Nev., law rm of Wilson Barrows g’03, son, Louis Paul, July 2 in Shawnee, William “Bo” Ferguson, g’97, recently Salyer & Jones. where he joins two sisters, Mia, 6, and became deputy city manager of Durham, Sophia, 4. Paul directs user experience at N.C. BORN TO: Front Flip LLC. April Broussard Giles, s’97, is president Stacey Scott Rinnert, c’98, and John, and chief executive ocer of the Colorado c’13, daughter, Megan Grace, Oct. 8 in Kalletta Ebbs Caldwell, b’00, BioScience Association in Denver, where Lawrence, where she joins a brother, 00 manages customer experience for she and her husband, Gregory, c’96, make Gabriel, 5. Stacey manages projects at KU’s Sprint Nextel in Overland Park. She their home. Information Technology Services, where recently nished 12th in the World John Olander, g’97, is vice president and John is a media producer. Triathlon Grand Final in Auckland, New general manager of transmission and Zealand, where she had the third-fastest distribution at Burns & McDonnell in Thomas Aldous Jr., l’99, is a partner run time. Kansas City. 99 at William Mullen in Richmond, William Newton, c’00, is a communica- Va. He and his wife, Amber, live in tions specialist at James Madison Univer- Charlottesville. sity Health Center. He and Jennifer Ryan Mitchell Janasek, m’99, practices Newton, c’00, g’01, PhD’12, live in medicine at the Banner Health Center in Harrisonburg, Va. Loveland, Colo. Mary Ann Saunders, f’00, won a Tara Mobray Ru, c’99, manages quality Phoenix Award for Volunteer in the Arts

52 | KANSAS ALUMNI last fall from the Lawrence Cultural Arts Michael, daughter, Aubrey Faye, Nov. 19 in des Design, a custom concrete business. Commission. Mary Ann, who lives in Overland Park, where she joins a brother He lives in Prairie Village. Lawrence, has been a community theatre Michael Jr., 5, and a sister, Greta, 3. volunteer for many years. Molly Collins, g’02, co-authored So Traci Cuevas, c’01, m’06, recently 02 Much More than the ABCs: e MARRIED 01 became an adult hospitalist at Early Phases of Reading and Writing, Shannon Zilligen, d’00, to Robert Stormont-Vail Regional Health Center in which was published last year. She is a Veltman, Oct. 7 in Park Ridge, Ill. She is a Topeka. lecturer in the department of teaching and physician’s assistant at URO Partners, and Gideon King, m’01, practices medicine learning at Vanderbilt University in he is a vice president at Northern Trust. with Madsen Medical in Waverly, Ohio. Nashville, Tenn. ey live in St. Charles. David Kollho, e’01, m’06, is a urologist Kelley Fried Cowman, c’02, is vice at Woodland Healthcare. His home is in president of sales at Greenway Technology. BORN TO: Chicago. She lives in Olathe. Leslie Peterson Reardon, c’00, b’00, and David Root, f’01, owns Atlas Archime- David Latta, e’02, is a lieutenant

PROFILE by Chris Lazzarino P GROU MED IA

Test pilot pushes Citation new airplanes for the ISUAL V

to record speed, safely cost of fuel. NY– “I became aware that MPA he ight path that took Aaron Tobias Cessna had a bit of a

Tfrom his private pilot’s license, earned unique situation, where FTRCRA CO while he was in high school in Lyons, to a majority of the test A AI

the command seat for the rst test ights pilots were what we CE SSN of Cessna’s high-speed Citation X, pointed refer to now as ‘home- directly through KU’s aerospace engineer- grown,’” Tobias says. ing program—not, as Tobias rst envi- “ ey were training on sioned, the U.S. Air Force Academy. their own in the Swayed by scholarships and the oppor- company ying club, After proving the near-Mach speed and safety of the latest tunity to attend college with his girl- and then with their Citation X (shown above), Aaron Tobias will now focus on Cessna’s friend—now his wife of 13 years, Kimberly technical engineering largest-cabin aircraft, the Latitude, scheduled to ﬂy in 2014. Semmel Tobias, d’02—Tobias, e’01, g’05, expertise, they were realized that the military was not his only given opportunities.” option for a high-speed career in aviation. Tobias joined Cessna’s “When an area of interest sends you in ight-test engineering department in Tobias and his colleagues shared one direction, you shoot for the top,” he 2002, and over the next three years earned highlights of their near-Mach testing at says, “and all the doors open below that. his ight instructor’s certicate and a KU the Society of Experimental Test Pilots’ en you can pick which one you want.” graduate degree with an emphasis in ight annual meeting, for which they won the Following his second year at KU, Tobias test. Now an engineering test pilot, Tobias group’s prestigious Ray Tenho Award as landed an internship in advanced design was designated the command pilot for the the symposium’s outstanding technical with Cessna in Wichita, but aer a new Citation X, designed to push the paper. summer spent crunching numbers, he original model’s top speed from Mach “We’ve come up with some new realized on his second-to-last day that he .92—92 percent the speed of sound—to techniques for dive testing, and I’m had yet to even see a real airplane. Mach .935, making it the world’s fastest pleased to say that Cessna senior “At that point,” Tobias says, “I knew non-military aircra. management sees the safety benet to there was something wrong.” In order to earn the safety certication, the industry as a whole. e next summer, Tobias requested an Tobias had to push his Citation X “basi- “It’s always a challenge to carve the internship in ight test engineering, and cally right up against 1.0” to prove the proprietary data out, but you can still there he discovered a unique benet: a aircra’s worthiness in an overspeed communicate an eective message, which Cessna ight club oering rentals of nearly emergency, such as a dive. is focused almost entirely on safety.”

ISSUE 2, 2013 | 53 Class Notes commander in the U.S. Navy. He and his MARRIED lives with his wife, Alison. wife, Amy, live in Norfolk, Va. Nicholas Dawson, d’03, to Amber Catesby Major, s’04, l’04, was elected a Kyle Richards, g’02, PhD’11, is a Ferguson, Aug. 4 in Ludlow, Vt. He works partner in the Kansas City law rm of supervisory senior analyst at Kearney & for ESPN in Bristol, Conn., and she works Bryan Cave. Company in Alexandria, Va., where he for Staywell Health Center in Waterbury. Kyle Vena, d’04, has been promoted to and Briana Donovan Richards, ’13, make eir home is in Southington. assistant director of player development their home. for the Kansas City Royals. BORN TO: Abby Coble, p’03, works as a Mahalley Allen, g’03, PhD’05, and Cory Joshua Hillman, f’05, in February 03 pharmacist at Kansas Rehabilitation Turner, son, Ethan William Allen Turner, 05 attended the 55th annual Grammy Hospital in Topeka. She lives in Lawrence. Oct. 23 in Chico, Calif., where Mahalley is Awards with the Kansas City Chorale, Philip Ehret, ’03, is a contract adminis- an associate professor of political science which won two Grammys for choral trator at Black & Veatch in Overland Park. at California State University. performance. He sang with the chorale on His home is in Lawrence. Misti Boland Osbern, c’03, and Jeremy, the award-winning album and is currently Scott Gootee, b’03, l’05, became a c’04, son, Roman Lee, Oct. 19 in Law- a member of the Phoenix Chorale while partner in the Kansas City oce of Stinson rence. Misti is a freelance production completing his doctorate in piano perfor- Morrison Hecker. designer and artist, and Jeremy owns mance at Arizona State University. He lives Courtney Deutsch Gruber, b’03, is an rough A Glass Productions. in Tempe. assistant vice president of college stores at Allison Wiegand, j’05, works as a Neebo. She and her husband, Charles, Regan Carrizales, c’04, g’06, was consulting services associate with Nureen b’02, g’04, live in Golden, Colo. He’s 04 hired by Silicon Prairie News in Investments in Chicago, where she lives. project manager for Markit on Demand. Omaha, Neb., to work as a community Sarah Millin, l’03, has been elected a builder. MARRIED partner in the Kansas City law rm of Jason Fraser, c’04, serves as a manage- Ashlee Marshall, c’05, to Blair Teater, Lathrop & Gage. ey make their home in ment ocer with the U.S. Department of May 19 in Leawood. ey both work for Overland Park. State in Washington, D.C., where he the Cerner Corporation in Kansas City.

54 | KANSAS ALUMNI Angela Karlin, g’06, directs student Ann Marie Shipstad-Lauderdale, c’06, Laci Gerhart, c’06, and Anthony Barley, 06 nancial assistance at the Univer- supervises cultural arts for the Glenview ’13, Jan. 2 in Las Vegas. ey live in sity of Central Missouri in Warrensburg. Park District in Glenview, Ill. She and her Lawrence, where they both are completing Her home is in Lee’s Summit. husband, Clint, live in Evanston. doctorates in ecology and evolutionary Justus Kilian, b’06, directs operational Jill Anderson Williamson, b’06, is a biology at KU. excellence for Panzanzee in Chicago, judicial clerk for the Alberta Provincial where he studies for an MBA at the Court in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She BORN TO: University of Chicago. and her husband, Grant, live in Vancouver. Austin, c’06, and Elissa Lemesany Nathan McKee, c’06, is the learning Loelling, c’07, son, Emerson Jackson, Nov. commons manager at the University of MARRIED 14 in Lawrence, where he joins a brother, Houston. Gregory Adelberg, c’06, to Lisa Heil- Connor, 1. Austin is a switchman/ Gregory Schmidtlein, b’06, g’07, recently bronner, Aug. 26 in Chicago, where they conductor with Union Pacic Railroad, joined Kennedy & Coe in Topeka as a live. Greg works for the Chicago Transit and Elissa is oce manager at Parkway senior associate. Authority, and Lisa works for Pinstripes. Properties.

PROFILE by Lydia Benda SON WI L SY P HILIPSY The power of chocolate

Wilson also explores the power of the OU RTE and the human heart mind and chocolate’s placebo eect. C Biomedical evidence does not support that edical historian Philip Wilson’s new there is an addictive nature to the primary Mbook, Chocolate as Medicine: A ingredients of chocolate, “yet, I have never Quest roughout the Centuries, is a spoken to an audience where more than delicious addition to the literary world, half does not claim to be addicted,” Wilson and he says the historical account of says. “Chocoholics” are many, but few Philip Wilson, holding a cacao pod, “felt like a chocolate’s health benets was as fun to deny the restorative qualities of chocolate, kid in a candy store” while researching his book write as it sounds. Because, he says, “Who and Chocolate as Medicine proves it’s not in the Hershey chocolate library. “That’ll keep doesn’t love chocolate and want chocolate just good advertising. me coming back for another project or two,” to be good for you?” “History plays itself out,” he says. “What he says. e Penn State humanities professor once stood as fact gets a little gray as we admits his interest in chocolate predates come to learn a little more, and things his move to Hershey, Pa. (home to e don’t always quite work the way we had tion on end-of-life care. “It takes a lot Hershey Company: “the other game in come to understand.” more time per patient than we see in the town”), but his proximity to Chocolate Wilson learned the importance history normal clinical setting, but I think many World certainly kept his mind on the plays in medicine during his KU under- of us feel this is the ultimate best end sweet treat. Chocolate as Medicine is the graduate career in biology, when he product,” Wilson says. collaboration of Wilson, c’87, and Jerey researched past experiments. He went He hopes the Kienle Center improves Hurst, principal scientist for Hershey on to obtain a master’s in the history of communication lines between physicians Foods Technical Center. Wilson took over medicine at Johns Hopkins University and patients. “We understand as a society the historical accounts of chocolate, and and a doctorate in the history of science that there are some things that are beyond Hurst led scientic discussions. “Like (medicine) at the University of London. our knowledge right now to completely chocolate and peanut butter,” Wilson says, Looking to the past to improve modern cure,” Wilson says. “But patients want “we came together and it was a good health care is key to Wilson’s proudest comfort, professionally delivered—for match.” accomplishment: directing the Doctors physicians to be human with them, to pat e book follows the history of choco- Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine at them on the back or hold their hand, give late through time and place, beginning Penn State Hershey Medical Center, where them a hug, cry with them or laugh with with Mesoamerican remedies for sore feet professionals from medical, nursing and them.” and sterility and continuing to European public health departments treat patients No new scientic ndings can heal like aphrodisiacs and 21st-century cardio- through integrative medicine, healing arts the human hand, and perhaps, a bar of protective qualities. such as visual arts and music, and educa- chocolate.

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Justin Ballinger, d’07, is principal at Brian is a deputy district attorney with the Travis works for Freightquote.com in 07 the Medicus Firm in Dallas, where Larimer County District Attorney’s Oce. Lenexa, and Jannell works at Associates in he and his wife, Kara, make their home. Dentistry in Lawrence. Dustin Duey, p’07, is a clinical pharma- Felicia Fairley, c’08, competed in Lauren Miller, b’08, g’09, to Brandon cist at Blessing Hospital in Quincy, Ill. 08 the Miss California USA pageant Schomberg, Oct. 13 in Iowa City, Iowa. representing the city of Compton. Lauren works at Datacard Group in MARRIED John Harrenstein, g’08, serves as city Minnetonka, Minn., and Brandon works Jennifer Braley, h’07, g’09, to Matthew administrator in Eudora. at Twin Cities Orthopedics in Edina. ey Engler, June 9 in Kansas City. She is an live in Minneapolis. occupational therapist at MidAmerica MARRIED Rehabilitation Hospital in Overland Park, Laura Berry, d’08, g’11, to Michael BORN TO: and he teaches in Shawnee Mission. Brogdon, Oct. 26 in Overland Park. She Ellie Lloyd Heath, b’08, g’09, and Amy Huber, g’07, to Richard Moritz, teaches math in Shawnee Mission, and he’s Christopher, daughter, Reagan Grace, June Oct. 6 in Kansas City. an instrument technician for Specialty 18 in Overland Park. Ellie is a federal tax Jess Randall, c’07, m’12, and Callie Medical Systems. senior associate at KPMG in Kansas City. Penzler, d’08, g’13, June 7 in Beaver Creek, Elizabeth Blomquist, c’08, and Alejan- Beau, c’08, and Ashley Trent Winfrey, Colo. He is a pediatrics resident at dro Gonzalez, c’09, Oct. 13 in Kansas City, d’09, daughter, Charley Nicole, Nov. 18 in Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and she where they live. She’s a school psychologist Eudora, where they live. Beau works for teaches h grade in Tempe. eir home with Lawrence USD 497, and he’s a student Farmers Insurance in Olathe, and Ashley is in Phoenix. at the Cleveland Chiropractic College. is a receptionist at Lawrence Family Vision Melissa Horen, c’08, to Jake Kaplan, July Clinic. BORN TO: 1 in Kansas City. Melissa directs leadership Kimberly Duensing Hardouin, d’07, management for the American Israel Matthew Baker, a’09, g’11, is g’10, and Brian, l’09, son, Stephen, Nov. 19 Public Aairs Committee in Atlanta, 09 assistant regional planner for the in Loveland, Colo. Kim teaches sixth- where they live. Maryland State Highway Administration. grade language arts and social studies at Travis Lower, c’08, to Jannell Homan, He lives in Baltimore. Heath Middle School in Greeley, and Oct. 27 in Lawrence, where they live. Rachel Burchﬁeld, j’09, coordinates

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Greek aairs at the University of Missis- Newsroom Contest for his personality Aaron Whitesell, b’11, is a nancial sippi. She lives in Oxford. prole, Train Kids. He is a reporter for the analyst at Textron. He and Megan Adams Karen Collier, l’09, is corporate counsel Havre Daily News in Havre, Mont. Whitesell, b’12, live in Montoursville, Pa. at NexLearn in Wichita. Megan works for PlattForm Advertising. Je Deters, j’09, edits sports copy at the MARRIED Topeka Capital-Journal. Kelsey Eriksen, b’10, to Jim Barnes, MARRIED Keith Guertin, b’09, works as a nancial Sept. 29 in Lawrence, where they live. Jill Ethridge, c’11, to John Gillett, Nov. 3 advisor at Cornerstone Financial Advisors Kelsey is a development assistant at KU in Topeka. Jill is a law clerk at Gillett Law in Overland Park. He lives in Kansas City. Endowment, and Jim is a self-employed in Chanute, and they live in Fredonia. Brian Schneweis, j’09, c’09, coordinates musician and music producer. communications for KU’s Oce of Julia Barnard, c’12, is a Repair the Admissions. He lives in Lenexa. David Hardy, g’11, is senior vice 12 World professional at Texas Hillel in Christopher Trepinski, f’09, appeared 11 president and commercial market Austin, where she and her husband, last fall in the 300th episode of Law & leader for UMB Bank. He lives in Jenks, Jordan Wade, g’12, make their home. Order: SVU. He lives in New York City, Okla. Joan Rhodes Benson, n’12, is an where he works as an actor. Cassie Rupp, j’11, coordinates market- orthopedic clinic nurse manager at ing and events for Barracuda Networks. Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics in MARRIED She lives in Los Gatos, Calif. Kansas City. She lives in Shawnee. Jessica Smith, d’09, to Russell Beach, Katie Savage, g’11, wrote Whirlybirds Kyle Burns, d’12, manages arena tours Oct. 6 in Tonganoxie. She is a sales and and Ordinary Times: Reections on Faith for Feld Motor Sports in Fort Worth, customer-service manager at Antigen and the Changing of Seasons, which was Texas. Laboratories in Liberty, Mo., and he is a published last year. She makes her home Erin Carlson, j’12, coordinates accounts foreman electrician at Capital Electric of in Kansas City. for Kuhn & Wittenborn in Kansas City. Kansas City. ey live in Tonganoxie. Michelle Scott-Young, n’11, works as an Courtney Burns Havens, b’12, is Zachary White, j’10, won rst place intensive-care unit nurse at St. Francis marketing director at Ross Brown Partners 10 in the Inland Press Association’s Hospital in Topeka. in Scottsdale, Ariz. She and her husband, Derek, live in Phoenix. Tyler Hillmer, e’12, is an engineer in training at Miller & Associates Consulting Engineers. He lives in Goodland. Kristin Maun, l’12, is an AmeriCorps equal justice works legal fellow for the Veterans’ Legal Project at Legal Aid of West Virginia in Martinsburg. Holly Medlen, n’12, is a nurse with Olathe Health Systems in Paola. Kathleen Nugent, b’12, works as an accountant for Koch Business Solutions in Wichita. Jonathan Shorman, j’12, covers the statehouse beat and local politics for the Springeld News-Leader in Missouri. Ryan Stein, b’12, works as a consultant for Microso. He lives in Charlotte, N.C.

MARRIED Evan Bargnesi, g’12, to Laura Alford, Sept. 22 in Lawrence. ey both work for Occidental Petroleum in Bakerseld, Calif., where they live. Jordan Wright, c’12, to Amanda Haas, Sept. 22 in Lawrence. ey live in Wichita, where he is a computer technician at Best Buy and she’s an attorney at Morris Laing Evans Brock & Kennedy.

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Recent Grad Annual $25/year $30/year Membership In Memory Charles Rossman, e’49, 86, Nov. 6 in Ardmore, Okla., where he was retired from a career in the oil industry. He is survived by his wife, Brunhilde, a daughter, ve sons, a brother, 10 grandchildren Thelma NeView Hollowell, c’29, Santa Fe, N.M., where he was an author. and four great-grandchildren. 20s103, Sept. 26 in Leavenworth, He is best known for his novels, Mrs. Madison “Al” Self, e’43, 91, Jan. 13 in where she was a retired teacher. She is Bridge and Mr. Bridge, and his acclaimed Hinsdale, Ill., where he founded Allen survived by two daughters, Louise Custer biography, Son of the Morning Star. Financial. He was a recipient of KU’s Hollowell Jones, c’65, and Janice, d’68; two He is survived by a sister, Barbara Connell Distinguished Service Citation, and in grandsons; and a great-grandson. Zimmerman, ’50. 2010 he was recognized as a life trustee of Quentin Cramer, c’40, m’43, 93, May 10 KU Endowment. He is survived by his Helen Moore Gilpin, c’38, 96, in Kansas City, where he was a retired wife, Lila Reetz Self, ’43. ey established 30sNov. 21 in Iola, where she was rheumatologist. His wife, Esther Robinson the Self Engineering Leadership Fellows active in church and community aairs. Cramer, n’43; and two sons survive. program at KU and the Self Graduate She is survived by a daughter, Joan Gilpin James “Bob” Gro, b’41, in Anchorage, Fellowship. Two grandsons also survive. Golden, b’67; two sons, James, b’72; Alaska, where he was a retired attorney. John Selton, b’47, 89, Dec. 30 in and Howard “Ken,” ’69; nine grandchil- He is survived by a daughter, Kyle Gro Shawnee Mission, where he was retired dren; 24 great-grandchildren; and two Rader, c’74; six grandchildren; and eight from the Celotex Corp. He is survived by great-great-grandchildren. great-grandchildren. three sons, Mark, ’70, John, ’77, and Eldon Sloan, c’31, 103, Dec. 16 in Charles Medlock, e’49 p’61, 86, Nov. 4 omas, c’87; a daughter; a sister, Katha- Topeka, where he practiced with the law in Bartlesville, Okla., where he was a rine Shelton Jones, ’52; seven grandchil- rm of Sloan, Hamilton & Sloan. He is retired pharmacist. He is survived by his dren; and eight great-grandchildren. survived by two sons, John, c’57, and wife, Mary McNalley Medlock, ’51; three Robert Sheppard, c’43, m’45, 91, Nov. Paul, c’61; a daughter, Mary Sloan sons, one of whom is Patrick, c’82; a 24 in Smith Center, where he was a Mozingo, c’63; nine grandchildren; and daughter; two brothers; eight grandchil- surgeon at Smith Center Medical Group, 11 great-grandchildren. dren; and ve great-grandchildren. which he founded. He is survived by his Donna Stember Meyer, n’46, 88, April 8 wife, Eda Jean, assoc.; a daughter, Debra Lida “Betty” Fincham Aench- in Chula Vista, Calif. She is survived by Sheppard Evangelidis, n’70; two sons, 40sbacher, ’45, 89, Aug. 27 in her husband, John; a son; a daughter; and Robert, c’71, and David, c’76; a sister, Wichita. She is survived by her husband, two sisters, Beverly Stember West, d’49, Maxine Sheppard Bowman, assoc.; eight Gene; two sons, one of whom is Arthur Jr., and Muriel Stember Hannig, c’46. grandchildren; and nine b’70; a daughter, Cathy Aenchbacher Audene Fausett Miller, d’42, 92, Nov. 9 great-grandchildren. Songer, ’71; a brother; and two in Olathe. She is survived by three sons, Ben Spencer, b’47, 89, March 19 in granddaughters. Stephen, c’68, p’70, omas, b’69, and Wichita, where he had been a CPA for Fox Bill Belden, c’49, 86, Dec. 26 in David, ’76; two sisters, one of whom is & Company. He is survived by a daughter, Lincoln, Neb., where he retired from a Carolee Fausett Hieber, ’47; eight grand- Margaret Spencer Schmitz, d’68; and a 47-year career with Franklin Life Insur- children; and 10 great-grandchildren. son, Robert, c’71, c’72, g’74, PhD’78. ance. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn, Cora Hepworth Myers, c’41, 93, Dec. 22 Shirley Hoyt Von Ruden, c’49, h’51, 85, assoc.; a son, Scott, ’83; three stepsons, in Atlanta, where she was a retired teacher, Aug. 11 in Hutchinson, where she worked two of whom are Steven Sutton, f’82, librarian and school administrator. She is for Harris News Service and was former and Robert Sutton, ’67; a sister, Barbara survived by two sons, one of whom is president of the Hutchinson Community Beldon Miller, ’77; three grandsons; and Richard, c’69; a sister, Eugenia Hepworth College Endowment Board. She is a great-grandson. Berger, d’46; and two granddaughters. survived by a son; a daughter, Libby Von Donald Burnett, e’48, 94, Nov. 11 in Leone Homan Park, c’40, 93, Oct. 8 in Ruden Doann, n’77; a sister, Suzanne Hoyt Deer Trail, Colo. He is survived by his Prairie Village, where she was a retired Marquis, c’53; and six grandchildren. wife, Martha, assoc.; a son; and a daughter. executive president at UMB Bank. She is Harold Wray, b’41, 93, Nov. 14 in Eugene Conklin II, c’49, m’52, 88, in survived by a son, John Jr., c’68; a daugh- Lawrence, where he was retired from the Dubuque, Iowa, where he practiced ter, Daisy Park MacDonald, ’83; two U.S. Department of Agriculture’s computer pediatrics at Medical Associates. Surviving grandchildren; and a great-grandson. center. He is survived by a daughter, are his wife, Marilyn Steinert Conklin, j’49; William Reno Jr., b’48, 93, Dec. 17 in Barbara Wray Dickerson, ’77; two sons, a son; a daughter; 10 grandchildren; and Leawood. He is survived by two sons, one Michael, c’73, b’76, g’77, and Mark, b’76; a four great-grandchildren. of whom is William III, b’71; nine grand- sister, Frieda Wray Culbertson, ’48; and Evan Connell Jr., c’47, 88, Jan. 10 in children; and seven great-grandchildren. four grandchildren.

60 | KANSAS ALUMNI Joyce Nickell Attwood, ’53, 82, Leslie Leifer, PhD’59, 83, Nov. 9 in attorney. He is survived by his wife, Grace; 50sDec. 11 in Spokane, Wash., where Lakewood, Colo. He had been a professor three sons; four brothers, three of whom she was a jewelry designer. She is survived of physical chemistry at Michigan Techno- are Carl, c’52, m’59, Charles, c’54, m’57, by her husband, Wayne, c’51, m’59; two logical University. He is survived by his and James, p’66; nine grandchildren; and daughters; a son; a brother, Wendell wife, Elizabeth Bluett Leifer, g’55; a son; three great-grandchildren. Nickell, c’46, m’60; ve grandchildren; and and two grandchildren. Samuel Woods, c’52, m’55, 82, Dec. 21 two great-grandchildren. Maurice Martin, c’52, 84, July 4 in Tyler, in Concord, N.H. He practiced surgery in Russell Etzenhouser III, c’55, m’59, 78, Texas. He was an IBM branch manager Kansas City for many years and later Jan. 2 in Kansas City, where he was a retired and later owned a business in Dallas. opened the Wound Healing Center in pediatrician. He is survived by his wife, Surviving are his wife, Pat, a daughter, a Peterborough, N.H. He is survived by his Marie Taylor Etzenhouser, assoc.; a son and four grandsons. wife, Cynthia Quick Woods, n’55, PhD’89; daughter; two sons, Russell IV, c’85, and Cliord McDonald, b’50, 87, Jan. 9 in four sons, three of whom are Dennis, c’82, William, c’89; and four grandchildren. Lawrence, where he had owned McDonald m’86, Donald, c’85, and Tom, b’87; a Margaret Campbell Fligg, c’56, c’57, 78, Beverage. While at KU, he played on the daughter; three stepdaughters; two Nov. 28 in Kansas City, where she was 1947 Big 6 Champion team and the 1948 brothers, Hugh, c’49, m’52, and Stan, c’45; active in civic and church aairs. She is Orange Bowl team. He is survived by two and 13 grandchildren. survived by her husband, Kenneth, c’55, sons, Kent, c’76, g’05, and Greg, ’77; two James Zimmerman, e’51, 84, Nov. 16 in l’57; two daughters, one of whom is Cathy daughters, Carol, ’80, and Teresa McDon- Topeka, where he was former project Fligg Frame, c’83; a son, William, ’91; and ald Allen, h’98; and 11 grandchildren. manager for the Topeka Engineering eight grandchildren. James Miller, c’56, 77, June 15 in Department. He is survived by a son, Marilyn Lindberg Harwood, p’50, 84, Kansas City. He had been a professional James, assoc.; a daughter; a sister; and four Oct. 12 in Glasco, where she helped with the Boy Scouts of America and later grandchildren. establish Glasco Medical Clinic. She is worked as a nancial planner. Surviving survived by her husband, Claude, c’51, are his wife, Helen, two daughters and Wallace Dean Barnes, d’63, 72, m’55; a son, Larry, ’80; a daughter; two three grandchildren. 60sNov. 30 in Garland, Texas, where grandchildren; and two stepgrandchildren. James “J.F.” O’Malley II, m’54, 91, Dec. he was former district manager for Kellogg Rose Campbell Heine, d’59, 75, Nov. 9 20 in Leawood, where he practiced Sales Company. While at KU, he played in Wheat Ridge, Colo., where she was a urology for many years. He is survived by football as a tackle, guard and place kicker. retired teacher. Surviving are a son, Jerey his wife, Marybeth; ve sons, three of He is survived by his wife, Elaine; ve St. John, ’10; a daughter, Suellen St. John whom are James III, g’73, Patrick, g’75, sons; two brothers; two sisters, one of Eichman, c’89; a sister; and a grandson. and Terence, g’84; two daughters; 19 whom is Shirley Barnes Welch, assoc.; and Robert Howard, b’54, 87, Oct. 10 in grandchildren; and 22 11 grandchildren. Overland Park, where he was retired from a great-grandchildren. Dennis Barritt, b’68, l’71, 66, Nov. 10 in career with Sears, Roebuck and Co. He is Marilyn Hentzler Peters, d’53, 81, Nov. Lawrence, where he owned Westridge survived by his wife, Gwendolyn, assoc.; 10 in Topeka, where she was a retired Development Co. and had been vice three sons; and four grandchildren. teacher. She is survived by a daughter, president of Lawrence National Bank. A Paul Johnston, e’57, 78, Nov. 22 in Karen Jaquith Voth, d’81, g’83; and two daughter; a son; two sisters; a brother, Lawrence, where he worked for Farmland grandchildren. David, ’76; and two grandsons survive. Industries and the Cooperative Farm James Salyer, p’58, l’73, 76, Dec. 30 in Shirley Hutchason Boersma, d’60, 74, Chemical Association. He is survived by his Lawrence, where he practiced law and had Dec. 8 in Leawood. She is survived by her wife, Evelyn Grith Johnston, assoc.; three owned Round Corner Drug. A memorial husband, Cornelius III, b’60; two sons, one sons, one of whom is Merlin, a’84, a’85; two has been established with KU Endowment. of whom is David, b’87; a daughter; and daughters, Paula Johnston Aiken, d’79, and He is survived by a daughter; a brother, three granddaughters. Penny Johnston Eschliman, ’89; a brother; d’80; two grandchildren; and four Marjorie Van Horne Denes, g’65, 89, 11 grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren; great-grandchildren. June 16 in Mission, where she was a three great-grandchildren; and ve Virgil Schmidtberger, ’51, 86, Nov. 11 in former speech pathologist. She is survived stepgreat-grandchildren. Lawrence, where he started Lawrence by ve sons, two daughters, 13 grandchil- William Keeler, c’57, m’61, 76, Jan. 3 Decorating Service. He is survived by a dren and 13 great-grandchildren. in Reno, Nev., where he was a retired son, Gary, c’71; a daughter, Cathy William Faeth, c’63, 72, Nov. 7 in surgeon. He is survived by two sons, Schmidtberger Raddatz, j’76; a brother; a Kansas City. A sister, Marjory Faeth Brier, Scott, c’85, and Brad, m’90; a daughter, sister; three grandchildren; and ve d’65, survives. Anne Keeler Wright, c’87, l’92; two broth- great-grandchildren. Scott Higginbottom, c’62, 72, Nov. 17 ers, Richard, c’63, and Bradford, c’61; and Robert Schro, b’51, 83, Feb. 7, 2012, in in Wichita, where he worked for SER nine grandchildren. Springeld, Mo., where he was a retired Corp. 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Niewald, f’64, survives. Unruh Boyd, d’80, g’96; three sons, Kip, Susan; and two sisters, Debra Kincaid David Kerr, b’64, 70, Dec. 16 in Over- c’83, Kyle, ’84, and Kurt, c’89; 26 grand- Funk, ’72, and Donna Kincaid Boles, d’81. land Park, where he was a retired systems children; and ve great-grandchildren. Roger Kraft, a’71, 65, Oct. 16 in Kansas analyst for Yellow Freight. He is survived Jerrie “Jean” Shellhammer Wayne, c’67, City, where he was a principal in Roger by his wife, Joan; a son; a daughter; two 65, June 27 in Wichita. She is survived by Kra: Architecture-Design. His partner, brothers, one of whom is omas, b’62; her husband, Larry; a son, Jake, e’03, g’05; Scott Anthony, and two brothers survive. and ve grandchildren. and her mother. David Mark, d’77, 66, Sept. 22 in Rama Kay Beims Mallett, d’66, 69, Sept. Barbara Holm Wetzler, c’61, g’84, 73, Shawnee, where he was a rate analyst with 1 in Trinidad, Colo. She was former Dec. 7 in Overland Park. She had been a Kansas Gas Service for more than 30 years. director of human resources for the city of physical therapist for the Shawnee Mission He is survived by his wife, Barbara Seitz Denver. Surviving are her mother, Violet School District. A memorial has been Mark, assoc.; a daughter; two sisters; and Beims, ’43; a stepdaughter; two brothers; established with KU Endowment. She is three grandchildren. two sisters; and three grandsons. survived by her husband, Charles, c’60, Jerey “Pooh” Miller, c’76, 59, Nov. 24 John Marx, PhD’65, 75, Dec. 13 in l’63; a daughter; two sons, David, c’86, l’90, in Lawrence, where he worked for ICL Lubbock, Texas, where he was an associate and Bradley, c’89; two brothers, Kenneth, Performance Products for more than 35 professor emeritus of chemistry at Texas c’66, l’69, and Steven, e’71; and three years. He is survived by his wife, Janice Tech University. He is survived by his wife, grandchildren. Wingert Miller, assoc.; a son; a daughter; Pat, a daughter, a son, four sisters and a Lloyd Wisdom, e’66, g’68, 75, Sept. 4 in his father, Eldon, ’52; his mother and brother. Gladstone, Mo., where he was retired from stepfather; a sister, Jennifer Miller Harris, Robert Nicholson Jr., c’69, l’72, 65, Jan. the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. His n’99; and a grandson. 1 in Paola, where he owned Nicholson wife, Cora, a daughter, a son, a sister, a Joanne Anderson Ramberg, g’74, Law Firm. He was a longtime Kansas brother and six grandchildren survive. PhD’86, 86, Oct. 1 in Lawrence. She had Honors Program volunteer for the Alumni coordinated programs for the Division of Association and received the Mildred David Bauer, c’72, 62, Oct. 15 in Continuing Education at Washburn Clodfelter Award in 2007. He is survived 70sKansas City. A sister and a University in Topeka. Among survivors by his wife, Kathy, assoc.; a son, David, half-brother survive. are two daughters, Linda Rambert Joler, d’11; a stepson; a stepdaughter; his mother, Robert Bridges, g’76, 71, April 14 in d’73, and Laura, d’81; and three sons, one June Powell Nicholson, ’39; and a brother, Kansas City. He had been city administra- of whom is Steven, c’73, m’82. John, f’67, g’73. tor of Clinton, Mo., and is survived by four Sandra Evertz Stephens, d’72, g’75, 62, James Renier, b’69, g’70, 66, June 19 in sons and seven grandchildren. Dec. 19 in Landenberg, Pa. She was a Fort Worth, Texas, where he was retired Larry Clark, c’70, g’74, l’74, 64, Oct. 15 librarian at Maclary Elementary School in chief nancial ocer at 21st Century in Albuquerque, N.M. He had worked for Newark, N.J. Survivors include her Grain. A daughter, a son, a sister and two the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, husband, Greg, c’69, PhD’76; a daughter; a grandchildren survive. D.C., and is survived by his wife, Judy. son; her father; and a grandson. Irene Vollweider Rose, d’60, 97, Jan. 13 Gary Colton, d’72, 62, Aug. 10 in Kansas in Lawrence, where she was active in civic City, where he was a former teacher and Douglas Buethe, d’84, 65, Aug. aairs. She is survived by a son, Frederick, salesman. He is survived by his wife, 80s11 in Wineld, Ill., where he c’65; a daughter, Carol, c’64, PhD’97; ve Cathryn, two sons, a daughter, 10 grand- owned Skyline Builders. He is survived by grandchildren; and ve children and a great-granddaughter. a son, two daughters, two sisters, a brother great-grandchildren. Hazel Henderson Economides, s’70, 65, and three grandchildren. Leo “Gene” Spalding, j’63, 70, May 11 Sept. 20 in Olathe, where she was a former James Golden, e’80, 62, Nov. 6 in Los in Pleasant Hill, Iowa, where he was social worker. A son, John, c’94, survives. Angeles, where he was a mechanical retired from a career with Maytag. He is Timothy Grojean, e’70, g’72, 63, Aug. engineer. He is survived by his wife, survived by his wife, Charlie, two sons, a 18 in Leawood, where he was president of Kathleen, three sons, a daughter, his brother and two grandsons. Draw the Line Advertising and had parents, a sister and six grandchildren. James Thomas, ’61, 72, Sept. 21 in worked at Webb Electronics. He is Lois Mae Heilmer Hanson, ’84, 89, Sept. Houston. He ran omas Construction survived by his wife, Renee Warning 11 in Newton. She is survived by her Company in St. Joseph, Mo., and is Grojean, j’74; and his father. husband, Norman, b’48, g’51, PhD’86; survived by a brother and a sister. Phillip Jones, g’72, 65, July 16 in three daughters, two of whom are Joy Barbara Anderson Unruh, d’62, 79, Dec. Garland, Texas, where he was an attorney. Hanson Robb, c’82, g’86, and Jennifer, 27 in Lenexa, where she was a retired A brother survives. b’85, g’87; and two granddaughters. teacher. She is survived by her husband, Douglas Kincaid, c’71, 63, Dec. 4 in Janet Helsel, c’80, 57, Jan. 10 in Duane, d’53, g’56; two daughters, Kathy Mukwonago, Wis., where he was a Wichita, where she practiced law for 30 Sue Unruh Hirleman, d’78, and Laurie podiatrist. He is survived by his wife, years. She is survived by a son, Benjamin

62 | KANSAS ALUMNI Farrell, c’12; her mother, Dorothy, assoc.; a Douglas, ’82; and a grandson. Surviving are his wife, Nita; a daughter, brother, Michael, ’79; and a sister Peggy William Stuart, PhD’00, 44, Sept. 9 in Mary, ’90; a son; and three grandchildren. Helsel Santoro, ’88. Richmond, Va., where he was a communi- Frank Gene Martin, Nov. 17 in Pensa- Thomas Hill, c’83, s’85, 59, Dec. 29 in cations professor at Longwood University. cola, Fla. He taught pharmacology and Olathe. He had worked at the Johnson He is survived by his wife, Amy, and toxicology and was former dean of County Substance Abuse and Wyandot two sons. pharmacy at KU. Survivors include his Mental Health Center, where he directed wife, Peggy Walden Martin, ’71; a son, the alcohol and substance abuse treatment Raphael Blitz, ’14, 23, Jan. 4 in Patrick, ’87; a daughter, Megan Martin program. A memorial has been established 10sLawrence, where he was a KU Culig, p’87; his mother; a sister; and ve with KU Endowment. He is survived by student. He is survived by his parents, grandchildren. his wife, Kathy, a daughter, his parents and Harry and Melanie Blitz, four brothers, James McLean, g’59, PhD’65, 86, Dec. a grandson. four sisters and his grandmother. 10 in Chapel Hill, N.C., where he was an Tracy Vanatta Lenihan, c’81, 53, Nov. 7 Brian Carman, ’13, 32, Dec. 30 in adjunct professor of speech and hearing at in Overland Park, where she worked for Overland Park. He had served in the U.S. the University of North Carolina. Earlier Sprint. A memorial has been established Marine Corps and with the Kansas he had taught at KU’s Bureau of Child with KU Endowment. She is survived by National Guard. Survivors include his Research. He is survived by his wife, Lee her husband, Jim, assoc.; two sons; her parents, Susan and Gerald Carman, and Snyder McLean, assoc.; two sons, one of parents, Chester, b’59, g’63, and Patsy a brother. whom is James, ’77; ve grandchildren; Vanatta, ’59; and a brother, Scott, c’03. and a great-grandson. Margie McLean Winter, g’80, 91, Nov. THE UNIV ERSITY COMMUNITY Richard Moore, ’74, 89, Nov. 13 in 16 in Topeka. She lived in Prairie Village Fred Bell Jr., 91, Dec. 21 in Lincoln, Neb. Lawrence, where he started the interdis- and is survived by a daughter, Karen, d’76; He retired in 1986 aer 15 years as a re ciplinary Remote Sensing Laboratory at three sons; and six grandchildren. service instructor for the KU Continuing KU. A memorial has been established Education Division. He is survived by his with KU Endowment. He is survived Dawn Weldon Beye, s’92, 58, wife, Phyllis Shull Bell, assoc.; a daughter; by two sons, one of whom is Daniel, 90sNov. 29 in Independence, Mo., two sons; and eight grandchildren. j’75, g’80; two grandchildren; and two where she was executive director of the Morton Creditor, 89, Dec. 30 in Kansas great-grandchildren. Child Abuse Prevention Association and City, where he was a professor emeritus of James Ralston, d’52, g’58, PhD’73, an ordained minister. She is survived by general medicine at KU Medical Center. 81, Nov. 7 in Lawrence, where he was a her husband, Kirk; two sons, one of whom Among survivors are his wife, Una, two professor emeritus of choral music at KU. is Travis, s’02; and a granddaughter. daughters, two sons, a stepdaughter, a A memorial has been established with Michael Manske, g’98, 54, Nov. 26 in stepson and a sister. KU Endowment. He is survived by his Overland Park, where he was a retired Elizabeth Morey Goetz, g’70, PhD’77, wife, Susan Frederick Ralston, d’70, g’78; colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps. He also 85, Nov. 2 in La Jolla, Calif. She was a four daughters, three of whom are Julie worked as associate professor of criminal professor emeritus of child development Ralston Hodges, ’78, Meghan Ralston justice and legal studies at Washburn at KU and former director of the Edna A. Adams, c’03, and Natalie Ralston Wile- University in Topeka. Four daughters and Hill Child Development Laboratory. She is mon, f’05; 13 grandchildren; and six a sister survive. survived by two daughters, Vickie, n’88, great-grandchildren. Roger Taylor II, s’91, 62, Dec. 27 in g’97, and Sibyl Goetz Wescoe, c’75; three Tamerlan Salaty, e’63, g’68, 90, Dec. 27 Kansas City. He lived in Lawrence for sons, two of whom are Steve, ’85, and in Lawrence, where he was a professor many years and was involved with the omas, c’90; and six grandchildren. emeritus of Slavic languages and literature Court Appointed Special Advocates Francis Heller, 95, Jan. 9 in Denver. He at KU. A memorial has been established program. He is survived by his wife, Ellen was a distinguished professor emeritus of with KU Endowment. He is survived by Miles Taylor, l’92; a stepdaughter; two law and political science at KU, where he his wife, Caroline Logan Salaty, c’64, c’65; stepsons; and two sisters. served in faculty and administrative two daughters, Tamara Salaty Burton, c’96, positions for 60 years. Among his many and Madina Salaty, ’93; and two William Crouch, g’01, 62, Dec. 15 awards was the Distinguished Service granddaughters. 00sin Overland Park. He had been a Citation in 1998. A son and a granddaugh- Alvin Schild, 96, Jan. 14 in Lawrence, special agent for the Federal Bureau of ter survive. where he was an emeritus professor of Investigation and later was director of Robert Lineberry, 70, Dec. 5 in Houston, education at KU. He is survived by his internal auditing for BMA. Surviving are where he was a professor of political science wife, Joyce McKercher Schild, assoc.; three his wife, Donna Meeker Crouch, c’83; two and former provost at the University of daughters, Linda Schild Twitchell, j’73, sons, one of whom is Jerey, e’00; a Houston. Earlier he had been dean of KU’s Darcy, d’75, and Crystal Schild-Carstens, daughter, Julie, n’12; his mother; a brother, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. ’83; a brother; and four grandchildren.

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SNER For most, performing for the Y E L T president would be a once-in-a-

SY CHRIS SY lifetime experience, but knowing

OU RTE Elsner, it might not be. “They asked C if we would ever consider singing for an inauguration, and we were like, ‘Yes!’” Elsner says. “We’ll put that on the bucket list now that we’ve crossed o the White House.”

president’s pastry chef. ey sang a cappella for 45 minutes for a holiday party, and aer performing enjoyed “Bo the dog”-shaped cookies. But the real treat came as a surprise to everyone. e social secretary for the president told Elsner that if they could be ready quickly, the presi- Presidential small town, people just didn’t do that kind dent and the rst lady would greet them of thing, so I wanted to have an adven- personally. performance ture,” she says. “It’s been awesome to see “ ey had heard how great these girls the world and bring what we have from are from the state of Kansas,” Elsner says, Music educator takes choir Kansas somewhere else.” “but the girls had black and purple teeth at includes Washington, D.C. Since from eating those cookies!” Fortunately, on an unforgettable trip early 2012 Elsner had attempted to get in they cleaned up in short order and met the touch with the White House about a president and rst lady in the diplomatic ansas City Allegro Choir director performance, but it was not until mid- receiving room. “ ey shook hands with KChristy Elsner might have to start a November that she got the news she hoped every one of our girls and our sta,” says new bucket list. In the past year she has to hear. “One of our sta members came Elsner. “One of our girls was crying, and built her dream practice space in Bonner running in right in the middle of rehearsal Michelle Obama just picked her up and Springs, taken her choir to Carnegie Hall, and said, ‘I just got an email—from the hugged her and said, ‘You need a hug!’” and performed for the president and rst White House!’” Elsner had two weeks to e Obamas even requested that the lady at the White House. plan the trip for 25 high school girls, but choir sing again for guests at the end of the “2012 was a banner year and it was a she wasn’t about to let the opportunity event, another hour and 15 minutes. For crazy year,” says Elsner, d’92. She began pass. e real trick was keeping things most, performing for the president would Allegro Choirs 13 years ago as an experi- hush-hush. “We didn’t even know what we be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but ment, and now the successful outside-of- were singing for and couldn’t announce knowing Elsner, it might not be. “ ey school program includes ve groups and that we were singing until aer it hap- asked if we would ever consider singing 225 members, second grade through high pened,” she says. for an inauguration, and we were like, school. Under her direction, the choirs Once they arrived, things could not have ‘Yes!’” Elsner says. “We’ll put that on the have earned many accolades, as well as gone better. Elsner and her choir were bucket list now that we’ve crossed o the opportunities to perform around the given a behind-the-scenes tour of the White House.” world, and she’s just as excited about the White House, including the kitchen, and —Lydia Benda experience as they are. “Growing up in a they enjoyed some taste-testing with the

64 | KANSAS ALUMNI about the play’s themes. “ No training is as important as what it means to “We had lots of compliments,” Leon says. “Many couldn’t believe that we were a share theatre around the world in festivals. It takes college troupe. ey thought we were enormous preparation, and then you’re ready for professionals.” One fan the KU troupe had already won anything thrown at you.” —Mechele Leon {} over was also on hand to cheer them on. “Guo Hua is so dynamic and passionate; people loved seeing her again,” Leon says. takes enormous preparation, and then “ ere’s a way in which people are in awe ON (4) you’re ready for anything thrown at you.” of her; sometimes you’re almost put into Rehearsals began in September, and, silence in her presence.” with nancial support from the chancellor —Chris Lazzarino SY MECHELE L E MECHELE SY and provost’s oces and the College of OU RTE C Liberal Arts and Sciences, the KU group departed for Shanghai in early November. Once in China, the Jayhawks had about a week to gear up for two performances of their revival of Lei’s production, with Leon supervising as restaging director. eir rst challenge was immediately apparent: the Shanghai stage was smaller than Craon-Preyer eatre’s. Elahe World stage Marjovi, g’12, who designed the original set for the 2011 production and now KU troupe reprises Miller play interns with the renowned Broadway at Shanghai theatre festival designer Tony Walton, joined the KU troupe in Shanghai, and, along with er her fall 2011 residency with lighting designer Julia Ubert, a second- AUniversity eatre, during which she year scenography graduate student, directed KU students in the Arthur Miller expertly recongured the set and its drama “All My Sons,” Chinese director and complex staging. actress Guo Hua Lei le Lawrence so e next signicant hurdle wasn’t nearly thrilled with the experience that she so typical: While preparing to reprise his convinced colleagues organizing the lead role as the troubled businessman, Shanghai International Contemporary father and husband at the center of Miller’s eatre Festival to extend an invitation to drama about tragic greed, Jake Smith, c’12, her KU troupe. came down with strep throat. With three e request was unusual—the festival days of intravenous antibiotic treatments typically invites only professional compa- in a nearby hospital and extended bed rest nies—but was eventually approved, and in the hotel—which cost Smith his chance last November a dozen students and to join others in sightseeing—Smith young alumni, along with Associate rallied in time to take the stage. Professor Mechele Leon, trekked to “Jake was such a pro,” Leon says. “He Shanghai, where they again presented “All was just a hero.” My Sons,” this time as the rst production Leon says the powerful play was a hit on the Shanghai festival’s main stage. with the Chinese theatregoers, who share “When the invitation came, my heart concerns about pitfalls in their country’s stopped and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, can rapidly expanding capitalist society similar we do this?’” recalls Leon, acting chair of to those dramatized by Miller in “All My the department of theatre. “But then I said, Sons,” set in the 1940s. Many audience ‘We have to do it.’ No training is as members stayed for post-performance Shanghai sites and theatre thrills made for a important as what it means to share “talk-back” sessions, engaging the Jay- busy trip to China last November for students theatre around the world in festivals. It hawks with eager questions and comments and young alumni.

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TEVE PU were recruited for paid internships. S “ e group that heard our nal presen- tation included Bayer HealthCare’s senior vice president of global innovation, and he was just blown away by what these kids had done,” omas says. “It was really the ultimate interview and Bayer got the pick of the litter. “I know what people want when they hire new designers because I used to do it. e reality of these real-world situations is Design students ponder exemplied by what we do here.” creative options for new —Chris Lazzarino transmission controls in a Ford Taurus cut in half for easy access to the interior. Lowriders take high road Book shows custom cars as art, adjacent to Bob Billings Drive on West Big-time design Campus, the CDR has forged alliances symbols of family pride with Garmin, Nokia, Bushnell, Bayer Ford is latest partner to seek HealthCare and, most recently, Ford. s a prop in mass-media portrayals of innovation from KU designers omas spent two years cold-calling AMexican-American culture, lowrider Ford. Aer being told repeatedly that the cruisers with their hydraulic shocks and esigner Greg omas is fond of automaker only worked with design custom paint jobs have become visual Dcounting his blessings: Studying students at MIT and the University of shorthand to announce the arrival of design at Yale. Landing a job with design Michigan, he asked, “Why are we still tough guys prowling their turf. e titans Charles and Ray Eames, then talking?” Ford responded last summer stereotype is unfortunate, says Ben moving to Hollywood to work for yet with a proposal for KU students to come Chappell, assistant professor of American another legend, Saul Bass, before running up with ideas for a next-generation studies, because the bouncy and beautiful his own California rm for 30 years. child-safety seat. omas’ students came custom cars are more typically viewed by When he arrived at the University in up with eight pages of concepts in two their owners as productive outlets for 2004, omas saw in KU’s design depart- months, and impressed Ford’s designers recreation and bonding as well as expres- ment an opportunity to create a design- enough to land another assignment: sions of pride in family heritage. research center focused on real-world redesigning gear shis in automatic Chappell took part in a lowrider car partnerships with demanding clients from transmission cars. club while living in Austin, Texas, both as across industry. Ford even shipped to the CDR a 2012 an enthusiast and anthropologist, and used “ e great design think-tanks, places Ford Taurus that had been cut in half to his experiences and research to write where creative ideas and innovation expose interior controls. Lowrider Space: Aesthetics and Politics of happen, are formulated on three key “Our task is to come up with something Mexican American Custom Cars, published disciplines: design, business and engineer- that hasn’t been done before,” omas in 2012 by the University of Texas Press. ing,” says omas, professor of design and says. “It’s a challenge we like.” e book celebrates not just glittering cars, director of the Center for Design Research omas hopes his students in Advanced but also enthusiasts who embrace them. (CDR). “Whatever product or service you Design Studies 560 can reproduce the “ e lowriders I got to know best,” can imagine, it has those elements in it. same success with Ford that they had last Chappell says of his car-club days, “really And that’s what attracted me to the spring with Bayer. Unfettered by ties to a wanted to appear as positive forces in their university setting. We have each of those company that signs their paychecks, the communities.” elements. It’s unique, and the resources are student designers not only came up with Chappell dicovered that Austin’s g re at .” strong concepts for new diabetes lowriders frequently used club events Now housed in the beautifully reno- monitoring systems, but they also found as charity fundraisers, and their late-night vated and expanded stone barn and house aws in existing systems that Bayer itself weekend caravans were about far more

66 | KANSAS ALUMNI than swapping car stories. mother, herself a windblown buttercup, “When people were gathered in a assures me is trapped inside, beneath the Fat Girl, Terrestrial parking lot, you’d hear about a funeral if impudent ballast of esh.” someone had lost a family member. Or Wallis’ oversized body causes all kinds by Kellie Wells relationships, or work issues. It was really of trouble in this rambunctious fun house University of a public sphere where people were talking of a novel by Wells, j’86, c’89, who teaches Alabama Press, about what was going on in their lives.” at the University of Alabama. Wallis’ $19.95 Chappell found that cars most prized for mother withholds food to thwart her customization are early-1960s Chevy freakish growth, her brother believes she’s Impalas, because the solid frames with- God and the befuddled Kansans she stand hydraulic hops and expansive at encounters in her hometown of Kingdom surfaces allow room for artwork to tell Come and on her travels as a crime scene personal stories. Like the cars themselves, investigator (her specialty is constructing from Kingdom Come, including, the art evokes a time when many Mexican- miniature dioramas of suicides) don’t nally, her own brother, Obie. American families were rst entering the know what to make of the “reluctant Wallis is larger-than-life not only middle class and were eager to become giant,” doomed by her size to be forever physically, but also mentally: Her capa- more visible in American society. altering the course of things no matter cious narrative voice—a rich burgoo of “ e car should be an expression of the how invisible she’d like to be. hardboiled detective noir, absurdist fairy owner,” Chappell says, “and you have to When she discovers the similarly tale and metaphysical ruminations on the build it and maintain it. So working on proportioned Vivica Planet, whose brother nature of God and humanity—lend this cars and sharing knowledge is a big part of suers a fatal asthma attack aer Wallis fabulist tale a erce poetry from line to it. People will barter labor and parts. douses him with pepper spray when he line while at the same time creating a plot ere’s a really extensive social network tries to mug her—she meets a kindred as disorienting as a fever dream. Wells’ around lowriding.” body, if not a kindred spirit. Where Wallis third book of ction (her rst, the story —Chris Lazzarino is ill at ease with her biblical dimensions, collection Compression Scars, won the Vivica “luxuriates in her monstrosity, Flannery O’Connor Award for Short wears it like an ermine coat (if all ermines Fiction) and her most ambitious to date, were still alive and snapping at the esh Fat Girl, Terrestrial is as sprawling, Lowrider Space beneath their razor teeth).” Together they rough-and-tumble and utterly unique as poke and prod the mysteries of Kansas and Wallis Armstrong herself. No mean by Ben Chappell the cosmos, perhaps none so personal for feat, that. University of Texas Wallis as the disappearance of children —Steven Hill Press, $55 First-person singular ince the success of his 1977 comic novel The Last Cattle O READ READ ER SDrive, Robert Day, c’64, g’66, has focused his raucous wit and vision on razor-sharp short fiction. Where I Am Now Writ large collects seven stories—all first-person, all set in or influ- Wells blasts literary convention enced by his native Kansas, all first-rate examples of the form. From the aging firebrand in the beautifully elegiac to Kingdom Come “My Father Swims His Horse at Last,” to the philandering bone collector of “The Skull Hunter,” Day’s storytellers kay, confession: I’m no petticoat, no share his own honed sense of the absurd and love of lively Ogirly betty, no hothouse orchid,” language. Like the wronged wife who says of a rival, “I’ll cut Wallis Armstrong bluntly admits at the her gut button out with my Queen Steel. And shove it down Where I Am Now start of Kellie Wells’ indelible tour de force, her throat,” Day’s stories have a way of biding their time by Robert Day Fat Girl, Terrestrial. “I’m 8’ 11 1/2”, still a before cutting like bladed steel straight to the heart of the cubit or so shy of Goliath (depending on matter at hand. BkMk Press, who you ask), 490 pounds, a few tubs of —Steven Hill $15.95 butter in excess of the dainty dish my

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