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32 A SINGULAR DISCOVERY Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves a century ago. Daniel Holz was part of the team of scientists that finally found them last fall. SPRING 2016 By Daniel Holz, SM’94, PhD’98, as told to Maureen Searcy VOLUME 108, NUMBER 3 36 GLIMPSES Poet and novelist Ana Castillo, AM’79, on feminism, writing, and a momentous education. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

38 THE NODE KNOWS The Array of Things takes Chicago’s pulse. By Susie Allen, AB’09

42 DOCUMENTARY VISION For 50 years, Kartemquin Films has focused its lenses on social forces and the human lives they shape. By Jason Kelly

Departments 3 EDITOR’S NOTES On smartphone photography, and a contest. By Laura Demanski, AM’94

4 LETTERS Readers write in to confirm age is just a number; expand on Katherine Dunham’s (PhB’36) Hyde Park history; add thoughts about mortality and the right to aid in dying; diagnose income inequality; redress the Winter issue’s anagram inequality; and more.

9 ON THE AGENDA With new programs and online tools, Mark R. Nemec, dean of the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies, hopes to reach broad audiences in innovative ways.

11 UCHICAGO JOURNAL New gifts support undergraduate education and urban inquiry; Sylvain Neuvel, PhD’03, shares an out-of-this-world story; alumni fight for the rights of the mentally ill in Illinois prisons; playwright Martyna Majok, AB’07, on her hit Ironbound; new research on an icy moon of Saturn; and more.

24 MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS How can schools prepare low-income students for success in college?

26 COURSE WORK In films like Hoop Dreams Classicist Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer and microbiome expert Jack Gilbert question and The Interrupters, scientific knowledge. Kartemquin Films puts human faces 51 PEER REVIEW on social issues. See In the alumni essay, a mother remembers the cusp of her son’s adulthood. Plus: “Documentary Vision,” Alumni News, Deaths, and Classifieds. page 42. Illustration by Borja Bonaqua. 80 LITE OF THE MIND This Botany Pond maze may amaze. By Sean Carr, AB’90

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Volume 108, Number 3, Spring 2016

editor Laura Demanski, AM’94 associate editor Susie Allen, AB’09 art director Guido Mendez alumni news editor Helen Gregg, AB’09 senior copy editor Rhonda L. Smith student intern Hannah Gitlin, ’16 graphic designer Laura Lorenz lite of the mind & interactive content editor Joy Olivia Miller contributing editors John Easton, AM’77; Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93; Rachel Julkowski; Brooke E. O’Neill, AM’04; Amy Braverman Puma; Mary Ruth Yoe

Editorial Office The University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60615. telephone 773.702.2163; fax 773.702.8836; martphone cameras have When you’re at Alumni Weekend email [email protected]. spawned many an amateur and inspired to capture the glow of The Magazine is sent to all University of but enthusiastic photogra- nostalgia or rediscovery, post the best Chicago alumni. The University of Chicago Alumni Association has its offices at pher. With 1,002 photos on of your smartphone photos to Insta- 5235 South Harper Court, 7th Floor, Chicago, my phone, even after a few gram with the hashtag #UChiAW IL 60615. telephone 773.702.2150; recent purges, I’m guilty. by June 13, being sure to keep a high- fax 773.702.2166. address changes 800.955.0065 or [email protected]. Spring especially makes resolution version (while you’re at it, web mag.uchicago.edu me a chronic offender, as follow us @uchicagomag). We’ll pub- does living in Hyde Park. lish our favorites in the Summer 2016 The University of Chicago Magazine Gargoyles and archways, issue and send Maroon memorabilia (ISSN-0041-9508) is published quarterly (Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer) by the Metra and lake scenes, to the photographers. Not registered University of Chicago in cooperation sprouting-up flowers and sprouting-up yet? Visit alumniweekend.uchicago with the Alumni Association, 5235 South buildings, skyline views from Logan .edu. We look forward to seeing cam- Harper Court, 7th Floor, Chicago, IL S Center’s penthouse—for pointing and pus through your eyes. 60615. Published continuously since 1907. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago and shooting and posting and sharing, these additional mailing offices. postmaster are a few of my favorite things. NEW VOICE Send address changes to The University of More than any geographic or man- In February Susie Allen, AB’09, joined Chicago Magazine, Alumni Records, 5235 made attraction, though, what coaxes the Magazine as associate editor. Susie South Harper Court, Chicago, IL 60615. © 2016 University of Chicago. the camera from my pocket most reli- is a College alumna who previously ably is a particular time of day. When worked in the UChicago News Office Ivy League Magazine Network the sun is still up and the streetlights for more than six years writing about the web ivymags.com come on, I’m helpless not to snap away. arts and humanities. Readers may recall Heather Wedlake, Director of Operations email [email protected] Everyone’s inner Cézanne has his her story about actress Anna Chlumsky, telephone 617.319.0995 Mont Sainte-Victoire. Mine is those AB’02, “Second Act” (May–June/15), elusive moments before twilight, when and her laugh-out-loud-funny essay campus and Hyde Park doubly glow. about life in the Regenstein, “The Reg- What does the artist in you respond ulars” (Sept–Oct/14). to? This year’s Alumni Weekend fea- We couldn’t be more delighted to tures the creative arts—visual, perform- welcome her, and look forward to ing, literary, and more. (You may notice treating you to her work on a much a similar thread running through this more regular basis. In this issue, issue.) In honor of the theme, we invite see “Jail Broken” (page 18); “Hard you to channel your inner Danny Lyon, Laughter” (page 23); and “The Node

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Ed Notes_Spring 2016_v1.indd 3 4/28/16 1:41 PM living quarters as well. The office of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority now LETTERS stands on the approximate site of the theaters. John Mark Hansen Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Just a number Service Professor in Political Science I was pleased to read the rhetorical question, “Is 90 the new 70?” from Doris chicago Arnett Gurney, PhB’45 (Alumni News, Winter/16). I totally agree. Now in my early 90s I play old men’s doubles tennis three times per week and substi- Thoughts on “Mortal Thoughts” tute teach chemistry and math, when called, in four local high schools. I serve After the challenges she faced finding a as a Eucharistic minister and, occasionally, serve as a lay preacher in my local single “dying patient” at the University Episcopal church. Past successes as an of Chicago hospitals in the 1960s, Elis- I agree totally ... that a expert witness in litigation in the fed- abeth Kübler-Ross would have been eral courts in the United States, Great amazed to have seen the subject dis- WE HELP contemporary 90 is the Britain, and Germany have led to in- cussed so openly by young physicians 20th-century 70. frequent summons to return to the and the University of Chicago Magazine courtroom. Therefore, I agree totally (“Mortal Thoughts,” Winter/16). THOSE WHO with Ms. Gurney that a contemporary For me, however, Chicago created 90 is the 20th-century 70. I wish her well in her freedom in Kansas. the beginning of a fascinating jour- Perhaps you may find significant interest on the part of old Maroons who ney from interdisciplinary studies of DO GOOD share our experience and may wish to share their conclusions on bringing a 20th- medical ethics, to helping implement century education into the 21st century, wartime service in exotic areas, and the elective abortion in the United States national impact of a GI Bill on education. My four years in the Marine Corps six years before Roe v. Wade, and now, DO WELL. were amply repaid by supporting me and my wife and two children (housed in a half century later, helping implement the barracks across the street from the Robie House) through a bachelor’s in medical aid in dying in Canada, where 1949 and a master’s and PhD in chemistry under Frank Westheimer. it is “a constitutional right.” Charles Greene, SB’49, SM’50, PhD’52 Where else could one have found santa rosa, california faculty from the schools of divinity, medicine, law, and business to stimu- late critical thinking on controversial topics and—in the case of elective Hyde Park art center with Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, a abortion—the practical opportunity Rediscover what makes us It may interest your readers to know resident of Kenwood (and namesake to put theory into immediate practice? a different kind of financial about Katherine Dunham’s (PhB’36) of the Goodman Theatre). Later, in Ronald L. Hammerle, ThM’68, involvement in the Jackson Park Art 1928, Dunham’s elder brother, Al- DMN’69 partner at the new TIAA.org Colony, which used to be on 57th bert W. Dunham Jr., PhB’28, AM’31, tampa, florida Street between Stony Island Avenue PhD’33, and his classmate Nicholas and the Illinois Central Railroad Matsoukas, PhB’29, founded a little Thanks to Ruth E. Kott, AM’07, for (“Grace Notes,” Winter/16). The theater called the Cube at 1538 East her sensitive discussion about end-of- Art Colony inhabited rows of nar- 57th Street. It became a gathering life care, the many profoundly personal row one-story shops on both sides of point for African American artists. choices that face us as we confront life- 57th, originally concession stands for When Katherine Dunham came to threatening illnesses, and the impor- visitors to the World’s Columbian Ex- school at the University the following tance of taking early advantage of the INVESTING ADVICE BANKING RETIREMENT position in Jackson Park in 1893. The year she used the theater for her dance relief that can be provided by modern inexpensive spaces attracted artists, troupe, the Ballet Nègre, and for her palliative care. and by the early 1910s it was a thriving community in dilapidated quarters. It BLAST FROM THE PAST is most remembered for the writers, poets, and essayists who congregated How many readers noticed the error there in the teens, including Marga- in the equation beneath Professor Becker’s ret Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, hand in the photograph of your Apr/96 Maxwell Bodenheim, Floyd Dell, issue? I don’t ordinarily nitpick, but this one Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Edgar jumped out as I looked to see what Becker Lee Masters, and Carl Sandburg. Sev- was lecturing about. Such little omissions eral were active in Chicago’s “little have from time to time infected my own theater” movement. In 1916 Hecht and blackboard math, so Becker’s small lapse is a Bodenheim helped found Hyde Park’s familiar one. I write to remind your own little theater, the Players’ Work- editorial staff of the merciless scrutiny under BUILT TO PERFORM. shop, at 1544 East 57th Street. Hecht which they labor. 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Layout_Letters_Spring16_v5.indd 5 4/25/16 4:40 PM 160514_TIAA-CREF_Chicago.indd 1 3/18/16 3:03 PM the establishment of this basic human wears a bit thinner.” In other words, LETTERS right, as there has been to all human it is never too soon. rights movements. Much of this is moti- In a book I coauthored with Fred vated by religious dogma. Persons tak- Craddock, former Emory Univer- ing this position should be requested sity professor of homiletics, and my The article curiously omits any not to impose their religious beliefs on daughter Joy Goldsmith, associate mention, however, of an issue that is others who don’t share them. Knowing professor of health communication at so front and center today: the move- that the theological argument will not the University of Memphis—Speaking ment to establish the legal right to aid convince many, however, opponents of Dying: Recovering the Church’s Voice in dying. It’s a controversial subject, typically fall back to the trope that es- in the Face of Death (Brazos Press, but ultimately very simple. The dis- tablishing the right to aid in dying will 2012)—we reminded the Christian eases that kill us often cause immense, create a slippery slope, in which the community of its rich resources to unbearable pain and suffering. Pallia- old, disabled, infirm, and poor will be cope with dying and urged open and tive care, though wonderful, is often coerced into ending their lives. frank discussion about death. limited in its ability to relieve that Such arguments do not hold water, We argued that the moment to be- suffering. Faced with the likelihood however. The legal change we seek is come “death self-competent” should of an agonizing death, many of us will explicit. No one qualifies just because come no later than a Christian’s bap- desire to skip the final stages. It’s not of age or disability. You must be ter- tism—baptism being that moment Seeking a few great leaders... easy to die of metastatic cancer or neu- minally ill. And the multiple layers of when a person “dies” to the old (in- rological diseases like amyotrophic safeguards against coercion or abuse cluding either fear or ignorance of lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkin- work: in 20 years of experience with death) and is consequently alive in the son’s disease. In many cases, death the Oregon law, there has not been a Christ whose conquest of death offers comes as a mercy. single such case. a way to understand physical death in We believe that terminally ill, men- We invite members of the Universi- a new and less destructive manner. motivated to tackle big challenges facing tally competent adults must have the ty of Chicago community to join us in Waiting is not helpful or necessary; it legal right to choose to cut their suf- establishing this fundamental human is not a Christian strategy. communities around the world fering short. We must have the legal right—the ultimate human right. Dale Goldsmith, AM’64, PhD’73 right to obtain the means to a peace- Edward M. Gogol, SB’76 amarillo, texas ful, dignified, humane, and pain-free glenview, illinois death. And our physicians and loved Kenneth Leonard, AB’60, MBA’66 Mind the gap with a successful track record of 20 – 25 years ones must have the legal right to pro- chicago Increasing economic inequality results vide assistance. Nancy Barnett Yalowitz, AB’60 from the Rule: profits (a word which of accomplishments in a primary career In the United States, this legal evanston, illinois somehow didn’t make it into the article) right has now been established in five go to the investors, in proportion to the states—Oregon, Washington, Ver- Thank you for the very accessible re- amount invested (“Three Views on In- mont, Montana, and, just recently, port on a problem that is absolutely equality,” Marketplace of Ideas, Win- ready to engage with Harvard California. It’s a legal right in the and simultaneously both universal and ter/16). Rich people and corporations Canadian province of Quebec and personal: death. I have been astonished have more to invest and invest more to prepare for the next phase of life’s work will shortly be the law all across Can- at the reticence of Christians to talk than poor people, so they get more prof- ada. It’s a right in several European about dying. In avoiding Jesse Soodal- its, and the wealth gap increases. countries and one Latin American ter’s (AM’15) “death self-competency” High taxes on high incomes and sub- country. The movement to establish (patients’ talking and thinking about stantial benefits to people with low in- The Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative oﬀ ers a calendar year of rigorous this right is immense and worldwide. their own mortality), Christians of- comes can offset the effects of the Rule. There is ferocious opposition to fer no distinctive advantage in facing These are more prevalent elsewhere education and reﬂ ection for top leaders from business, government, law, death over coping than in the United States, so inequality medicine, and other sectors who are in transition from their primary careers to strategies offered by has risen faster here than there. the rest of our culture. Your income depends on your bar- their next years of service. Led by award-winning faculty members from across T h e q u e s t i o n gaining power relative to that of those all of Harvard, the program aims to deploy a new leadership force to tackle raised in the article who pay you. Corporate executives, by physician Monica who essentially bargain with them- challenging social and environmental problems. Malec—when to selves for their pay, and popular enter- start thinking about tainers and athletes, whose bargaining death—should rightly power results from the revenue they be raised early on. Ar- attract from fans, have high bargain- Visit the website to be inspired by the possibilities: thur McGill of Har- ing power, and hence high incomes. vard, author of Death Shelf stockers at Walmart and adjunct and Life: An American professors of English literature have www.advancedleadership.harvard.edu Theology (Wipf and little bargaining power and low in- or email the fellowship director: [email protected] Stock Publishers, comes. Corporations have extremely 1987), quipped “Ev- high bargaining power and count their ery day the enamel profits in the billions. Inquire now for 2017

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Layout_Letters_Spring16_v5.indd 7 4/25/16 4:41 PM 160133_AdvancedLeadership_Chicago.indd 1 11/24/15 9:58 AM the high salaries for more than a small So if income distribution LETTERS fraction of their careers. You also need to pay attention to really is a serious the efforts of liberal regulators to problem, let’s start Economic inequality would dimin- eliminate jobs. The Keystone pipeline ish if the above Rule were replaced by was rejected for bogus environmental acting like it. a different rule: profits shall go to, as reasons. Similarly, the EPA is on a cru- the preamble to the Constitution puts sade against economic development. it, “promote the general welfare.” So if income distribution really is a Marvin Miller, LAB’42, AB’44, serious problem, let’s start acting like it. ters accrue,” isn’t an anagram of Cres- SB’45, SM’49 Douglas Wood, MBA’75 cat scientia; vita excolatur. For your newton highlands, houston anagram to work, it would need a V and massachusetts a third I, both of which appear in the More Mag, please Latin motto. Might I suggest instead, Your article on inequality was a good I share the disappointment shown by “Lecture is a toxic rant: sic caveat”? example of the elitist liberal method John L. Gann Jr., AB’64, concern- Edward C. Hirschland, MBA’78 of how to exploit a perceived problem ing how long an alum has to await the chicago while carefully avoiding any real ef- new seasonal magazine (Letters, fort to analyze or solve it. Winter/16). This move to four issues The writer is correct. We are grateful for The first avoided point is that glob- is in spite of having a magazine that his witty alternative, and admiring.—Ed. al economic inequality has dropped would have left a six-issue University dramatically since the 1980s due to of Chicago Magazine in the running as Corrections the almost total demise of Marxism. the World Series winner of university In “Deep Dive” (UChicago Journal, The impoverished workers of Rus- alumni magazines. Winter/16) we misidentified Ian Ur- sia, China, and their vassal states are In solace I turned to a bimonthly is- bina’s (AM’97) program of study. He now enjoying a far higher standard of sue of Harvard Magazine and there on was solely enrolled in the history de- living. Compare them to the remain- the first cover of the year was judge partment, though much of his studies ing Marxist slaves in North Korea. A Richard A. Posner, a teacher at the U concentrated on anthropology. In ad- similar move toward global economic of C Law School for 50 years. In the dition, his start date at the New York equality resulted from the shedding of accompanying article Posner states Times was 2003, not 2002. socialist structures in India, Britain, that his original thinking was influ- In the Aleph cocktail recipe, a side- and other countries. enced by the economists at the Uni- bar to “Creative Ferment” (UChicago When attention is focused on the versity of Chicago. A year earlier the Journal, Winter/16), the photograph United States, such awkward facts as Jan–Feb/15 Harvard Magazine high- of ingredients mistakenly showed Lux- the presence of millions of illegal low- lighted the work of another longtime ardo maraschino cherries instead of the wage workers are carefully avoided. U of C Law School professor, Cass company’s maraschino liqueur. What do your panelists think this Sunstein. Early in his career Sunstein In “Mortal Thoughts” (Winter/16) does to the wage structure? The most had developed with Richard Thaler, we mistakenly reported that Medi- significant societal change since the a professor of behavioral science and care approved coverage for end-of-life 1950s has been the increase in the il- economics at the U of C, the concept of counseling under the Affordable Care legitimacy rate from 6 percent to 40 “nudges” through administrative law Act. The rule that was approved in percent. In some of the low-wage sec- as “simple, low cost, freedom preserv- October 2015 was similar to what was tions of society, the illegitimacy rate ing approaches, drawing directly from proposed but later removed from the is 70 percent and higher. Haven’t any behavioral economics.” ACA. It was instead adopted as part of of the panelists figured out that there There are many more instances in the Centers for Medicare and Medic- may be some causation here? which the alumni magazine can high- aid Services’ 2016 Medicare Physician The obvious starting point for ana- light how individuals have attributed Fee Schedule. lyzing the distribution of income is a their original ideas to the University We regret the errors. decent set of relevant figures. Liberals of Chicago experience. The reduction always want to point to the CEOs of in the number of issues of the alumni The University of Chicago Magazine Fortune 500 companies, but while it’s magazine will limit the U of C’s abil- welcomes letters about its contents or about convenient to pretend that this is the ity to demonstrate the advantages of the life of the University. Letters for pub- source of the problem there just aren’t studying or working there. lication must be signed and may be edited enough of these people to be more Leonard R. Friedman, AB’56 for space, clarity, and civility. To provide than a drop in the richest 10 percent middleton, massachusetts a range of views and voices, we encour- bucket. So step one is who makes up age letter writers to limit themselves to the richest 10 percent. And you really Lacuna sport (Nostra culpa) 300 words or fewer. Write: Editor, The need to focus on lifetime income. The Your Lithe End Motif piece on ana- University of Chicago Magazine, 5235 classic example is football players who grams is great fun (“UChicago Ana- South Harper Court, Suite 500, Chicago, make the top 10 percent for their four- grams,” Lite of the Mind, Winter/16). IL 60615. Or email: uchicago-magazine year careers. CEOs usually don’t draw But alas, number 9, “As intoxicate clat- @uchicago.edu.

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Layout_Letters_Spring16_v5.indd 8 4/25/16 4:41 PM ON THE AGENDA shift to programs far afield from their undergraduate area of study: the art history major looking to attend business school or the computer science Extending inquiry major wishing to pursue a PhD in Eng- lish literature. and impact We support the tradition of rigorous BY MARK R. NEMEC, DEAN OF THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF inquiry for diverse audiences in the lib- CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES eral arts. Celebrating its 70th year, the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults continues to embody President Hutchins’s vision of the “great conver- hen William Rainey sation” based upon the close reading of Harper became the seminal texts. Graham has expanded founding president of upon this vision by offering Basic Pro- the University of Chi- gram alumni sequences around areas cago, he spearheaded of particular interest as well as devel- a radical experiment oping a master of liberal arts, which predicated on the be- offers adults the opportunity to learn lief that higher learn- from the University’s leading faculty ing should be marked in humanities and the social, physical, by research, not reci- and biological sciences. tation; by extension, We experiment by exploring, devel- not insularity. oping, and implementing new modali- WCentral to this experiment was a Mark R. Nemec joined the Graham ties and approaches to teaching and commitment to lifelong learning— School as dean in 2014. learning. Graham serves as an instru- an effort, as he said, to “reach those ment of innovation in areas of Uni- who lived beyond campus and did not versity-wide strategic importance, fall into established categories of stu- versity through professional studies with a particular emphasis on online dents.” In Harper’s view, continuing programs in newly emerging, multidis- pedagogy and digital engagement. education was crucial in helping to cre- ciplinary fields. Over the past year, our Most notably in this regard, we have ate “a community in which interest in a master’s in analytics program saw the partnered with Alumni Relations higher education is widely spread.” graduation of its initial cohort, whose and Development to launch UChi- From the outset, the University Ex- capstone projects have received acco- cago Continuum. Having begun with tension—now known as the Graham lades in venues from innovation com- alumni-exclusive sections of massive School of Continuing Liberal and petitions to academic conferences. open online courses (MOOCs), we Professional Studies—broadened the Additionally, our newly established intend Continuum to advance the Uni- University’s impact far beyond Chi- master’s in biomedical informatics versity’s engagement of constituent cago, ultimately creating a worldwide program welcomed its first students communities digitally. From online community of teachers and learners. this March, including physicians and classes to career advice to live discus- At the time of UChicago’s founding, staff from the UChicago Medicine. By sions with faculty, Continuum will the forces of urbanization, globaliza- bringing theory and practice together provide a lifelong learning home for tion, and technology drove the creation for working individuals, our profes- UChicago’s alumni and supporters, of the modern university. Today these sional programs seek to have a pro- regardless of distance or time. and demographic forces are combin- nounced impact upon both the students Though diverse, all of these offering to redefine higher education once and their professions. ings are unified by Graham’s commit- again. The University of Chicago was We span the range of education to ment to combine the scholarly rigor on a model of the 20th century university, offer new entry points for learning. which the University’s reputation was and Graham is committed to support- Graham’s summer session helps high built with progressive programming ing its efforts to be a model of the 21st school students prepare for their tran- designed to meet students’ ongoing century institution as well. sition into higher education by offering needs. We serve as a bridge for students The Graham School builds on them not only a collegiate experience and also offer programs to which alumni Harper’s vision for the modern univer- but also unique thematic programs that return throughout their lives. As a re- sity. Our fundamental belief is that the range from laboratory experience in bi- sult, Graham School students’ time at University’s eminence is enhanced by ology to critical thinking in the liberal the University of Chicago is not experi- furthering our inquiry and impact with arts. Recognizing that not everyone’s enced as simply a moment of study but ever broader audiences in ever more in- academic journey is linear, our Gradu- rather as the joining of an academic com- novative ways. ate Student-at-Large program serves as munity that will serve as an intellectual

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More than 3,500 students have received Odyssey Scholarships since the program was established in 2007.

FINANCIAL AID students with outstanding potential students and includes additional sup- through a $50 million gift and chal- port for study abroad, academic en- lenge from writer Harriet Heyman, richment, and career development AM’72, and her husband, investor Sir through paid, substantive internships Enhancing Michael Moritz. for each Odyssey Scholar. The new five-year commitment To make the greatest impact be- is part of a $350 million investment yond the UChicago community, the Odyssey by the University in the Odyssey gift and challenge also will increase by A gift from Harriet Heyman, AM’72, Scholarship program—UChicago’s 40 percent the number of high school distinct and successful model of sup- students admitted to the Collegiate and Sir Michael Moritz supports fi- port for undergraduate students with Scholars Program, which has prepared nancial aid, internships, and college the greatest economic need, many of hundreds of Chicago Public Schools preparation for students in need. whom are the first in their families to students to apply to and excel at top attend college. universities through summer courses On February 16 the University of The Odyssey program currently and enrichment activities. Of the 479 Chicago launched a $100 million en- eliminates loans and academic-year program alumni, about 70 percent have

photography by jason smith hancement of support for low-income work requirements for lower-income enrolled in the nation’s most selective

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 11 4/27/16 11:48 AM schools, and more than 90 percent grad- ten for numerous other publications. understand that, beyond tuition, stu- uated from college within six years. She is the author of a novel, Between dents with great economic needs also “Cultivating students’ potential for Two Rains (Atheneum, 1989), as well need a support network, internships, exceptional achievement regardless as Private Acts: The Acrobat Sublime and the opportunity to experience of their economic circumstances has (Rizzoli, 2011), which explores the the world.” always been a central commitment of art and artistry of acrobats through es- Heyman and Moritz, who have the University of Chicago,” said Presi- says and photographs. Heyman holds made several major gifts supporting dent Robert J. Zimmer. “Harriet and a master’s degree from UChicago’s Di- educational aid in the United States Michael’s transformative generosity vision of the Humanities. and the United Kingdom, were in- reaffirms that principle and allows Moritz, chairman of Sequoia Capi- spired by the success of the Odyssey us to pursue an ambitious model of tal, was a journalist program, which support for students of diverse back- with Time magazine WE WANT TO DO WHAT began in 2007 with grounds. We are deeply grateful for and wrote the first WE CAN TO REDUCE a $100 million gift their action on this vital issue.” book about the ori- from an anonymous Heyman, who grew up in the South gins of Apple Inc., ECONOMIC BARRIERS FOR donor known only Shore neighborhood on Chicago’s The Little Kingdom: OUTSTANDING STUDENTS. as Homer. In ad- South Side, attended Chicago pub- The Private Story of dition to the gift, lic schools and was a first-generation Apple Computer (Morrow, 1984). He Homer challenged alumni and friends college student. “At that time, public also coauthored the best seller Leading to raise an endowment of $150 million. schools provided a great foundation. (Hodder and Stoughton, 2015) with Since then, more than 3,500 students And my parents, like many middle- Sir Alex Ferguson, longtime coach of have been named Odyssey Scholars, class families then, could afford to Manchester United. and the initiative has attracted more send me to college. That is hardly the “My parents were both given schol- than 10,000 additional gifts. case for students from low-income arships, and the only way I could af- Renewing that legacy, Heyman families. We want to do what we can ford to come to the United States was and Moritz have challenged the Uni- to reduce economic barriers for out- on a student scholarship program. versity to raise $50 million for the standing students,” she said. So, belatedly, this is our way of ex- Odyssey program with the support Heyman worked at the New York pressing our gratitude to people we of alumni, parents, families, and Times and Life magazine and has writ- didn’t know,” Moritz said. “We also friends in addition to their $50 million commitment. With this $100 million enhance- ment, Odyssey will further bolster programs for first-generation students and students with financial need, even before they arrive at the University. Odyssey Scholars will receive advice and mentoring in academics, financial issues, and the College experience through the University’s new Center for College Student Success. For students with the greatest financial need, the program also will reduce family contributions for books, travel, and other activities that enhance a student’s educational experience. This pathway to success includes focused career support so that first-generation and lower-income students can develop skills and professional networks. “If my education had been restricted by what my parents could afford, I photography by cindy chew would not be attending any four-year college,” said Brian Wandawa, an Od- yssey Scholar from Kampala, Uganda. “As a son of immigrant parents, I had grown accustomed to feeling like an outsider. For me, UChicago is way more than an education. It’s been Donors Harriet Heyman, AM’72, and Sir Michael Moritz have challenged oth- the one place where I’ve been able to ers to help expand Odyssey. find myself.”

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 12 4/27/16 11:49 AM WILLIAM RAINEY HARPER’S INDEX ARTSCAPE Number of events during the upcoming arts-themed Alumni Weekend, June 2–5, 2016 (see “Artscape 2016: Editor’s Picks,” page 50): 130⁺ Total number of Steinway grand pianos in the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts: 11 Visits to the University’s Arts Incubator since its opening in March 2013: Sports are a window onto American history, says historian Matthew Briones.

Philadelphia last year. His mother CULTURAL STUDIES 25,404 clearly had no understanding of the game (as Briones recalls, she chal- Number of movies to be lenged him to play “one on one”) but screened at Doc Films Field of she compensated with trash talking: during spring quarter 2016: “Your arm is as weak as a wet noodle.” Briones, an associate professor Dreams of history, usually shares this anec- dote with his Baseball and Ameri- Historian Matthew Briones sees 92 can Culture class. And while it’s an connections between race, sports, immigrant’s story—playing a quin- Pieces in the Smart and history. tessentially American game with Museum of Art’s collection a mother who didn’t really know as of April 11, 2016: As a child growing up in Brookline, how—it resonates with his students. Massachusetts—the first American- The sport “is a deeply familial, deeply born son of Filipino immigrants— felt experience,” Briones says. At the Matthew Briones was obsessed with same time, he considers baseball “a baseball. He spent countless hours in remarkably appropriate and useful 15,235 his small backyard, throwing a tennis lens for understanding and teaching ball against the house and wrecking American history.” The game gets Year University Theater was the lawn. students in the door, but the course founded: One afternoon his mother “gave “becomes about race, gender, sexual- in and joined me on my own Field ity, and class. They’re talking about of Dreams,” Briones told a group of baseball in a way that hopefully they photography by robert kozloff alumni during a Harper Lecture in haven’t talked about it before.” 1898

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 13 4/27/16 11:49 AM As an undergraduate at Harvard, tion, Kikuchi worked tirelessly on be- Briones majored in English, focusing half of African American veterans of on African American literature. Being the Vietnam War. Asian American didn’t make him feel Briones has two book projects in the like an outsider to the discipline, he works now. The first, with the work- says: “It’s never been an authenticity ing title “The Devil’s Elbow,” takes question for me.” His mentors includ- its name from a spot in the Louisiana ed Cornel West (in 2011 Briones pub- bayou where a band of Filipino men al- lished the essay “Why I Would Take a legedly settled in 1763, intermarrying Bullet for Cornel West”) and Werner with Native Americans, Mexicans, Sollors, a German who has “dedicated and Creoles. The truth of the narra- his life to Afro Am,” Briones says. tive is in dispute. But Briones is “not In graduate school, also at Harvard, so much interested in whether it’s Briones turned to history, looking at true, as in the debate,” he says. race in the United States beyond black One chapter of the book explores and white. His first the interaction of book, Jim and Jap BASEBALL “IS A DEEPLY Vietnamese and Afri- Crow: A Cultural can Americans during Neuvel is “about the biggest science History of 1940s In- FAMILIAL, DEEPLY FELT hurricanes Katrina fiction fan,” he says. “It’s been sort terracial America EXPERIENCE.” and Rita. Another of my escape from reality and the (Princeton Uni- looks at the South- thing that makes me dream about versity Press, 2012) focused on the east Asian diaspora in general. In the other things.” intersection of Asian American and United States, East Asians are con- African American culture. (An editor sidered “a model minority,” whereas at the press chose the inflammatory ti- Southeast Asians are not, Briones says: SCIENCE FICTION tle, based on one of the chapter titles; “Vietnamese, Filipinos, Cambodians the original manuscript was called An are racialized in the way that African American Type: The Kikuchi Diaries, Americans and Latinos are.” 1941–1988.) His second project—in the very Giant steps The diaries of Charles Kikuchi, early stages and as yet unnamed—fo- Science fiction author Sylvain Neu- EX’45, a Japanese American intellec- cuses on Chicago, race, and sports. tual incarcerated during World War With the exception of baseball and vel’s own story is out of this world. II, were Briones’s primary sources. boxing, sports are generally not taken Kikuchi wrote almost daily for 47 seriously as a historical topic, Briones It started with an offer to build a toy years, beginning with the bombing of says: “I want to help make it serious.” robot for his son. Sylvain Neuvel, Pearl Harbor. Before the attack, Brio- He hopes to fi d a Chicago family in- PhD’03, had already handed down nes points out in the book, some Afri- volved in sports, preferably from the his love of all things science fiction can Americans had felt solidarity with South Side, to use as a lens on larger and expected the young boy would Japan, supposedly “the champion of historic events—as Kikuchi served as a simply say yes to a new action figure the darker races.” lens for Jim and Jap Crow. “I like these and continue watching television. For Jim and Jap Crow, Briones collective biographies,” says Briones. Instead Neuvel got a barrage of ques- looked at “a 10-year slice,” he says, “A family story, a Chicago story.” tions, “like what kind of robot, where totaling 20,000 pages. “It was a histo- Briones, who came to UChicago was it from, what does it do, are there rian’s dream.” Kikuchi’s diaries reveal in 2009, received a Llewellyn John people in it,” he recalls. His son’s ques- shared experiences in the postwar and Harriet Manchester Quantrell tions, and an anime show about a robot period among minority groups, and Award for Excellence in Undergradu- from outer space, got Neuvel think- the growing interracial alliances that ate Teaching last spring. In addition ing—and writing. quietly shaped American culture. Af- to his baseball course, his classes in- The resulting book and Neuvel’s ter studying social work in California clude History of Asians in America; debut novel, Sleeping Giants (Del Rey, and New York, he came to UChicago Is American History Dead? An Intro 2016), is about a massive top-secret

to continue his graduate education (he to American Studies; Introduction to effort, led by a University of Chicago photo courtesy sylvain neuvel used an office in the Social Science Re- Asian/Pacific Islander American His- physicist, to unearth and reassemble a search Building that is directly above tory; and Interracial America. giant thousands-years-old robot. Told Briones’s own). Kikuchi lived on the In both his research and his teach- mostly through journal entries and South Side, where he forged close ing, Briones seeks to complicate the transcripts of interviews with an un- connections with his neighbors and usual black-and-white narrative of named interrogator, the story follows a came to believe that equality for Afri- race in this country. “What about cast of scientists, soldiers, and govern- can Americans would make possible blacks and Asians?” he says. “It’s im- ment officials as they work to answer inclusion for other racial and ethnic portant to remember those interracial the same questions Neuvel’s son had groups. Later, as a psychiatric social alliances. It tells a different story.” asked: Where is it from? What does it worker for the Veteran’s Administra- —Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 do? And most important, what’s it for?

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 14 4/28/16 8:56 AM Neuvel finished the novel, then toys for his son—a homemade set of hasn’t gone away. “One of the great called The Themis Files, at the end of Sleeping Giants Legos recently be- things about living in our era is that if 2013. After about six months of fruit- came more popular than Star Wars you look up at the sky at the right time, lessly trying to find a book agent he Legos in the Neuvel household, a the brightest thing you can see is man- decided to self-publish, but he want- major coup. made—it’s the [International] Space ed a quote from a reviewer to put on Like his son, Neuvel grew up Station,” he says. “Folks can just look the novel’s cover. So he sent a copy watching Star Wars and Star Trek. up and can say look, we went there, to Kirkus Reviews, a prominent pub- His office at the translation agency is that’s us,” and imagine going farther. lishing industry magazine. He wor- filled with evidence of decades of sci-fi For Neuvel, science fiction appeals ried Kirkus would pan the book, “but fandom; a life-sized Darth Vader and to wanderlust on a cosmic scale. “I like I thought I probably could at least a giant robot flank his desk, and action the idea that we can be a lot more than squeeze one line out of context, you figures abound. He got interested in what we are now. We can travel and know, like ‘… book.—Kirkus Reviews.’” science fiction as a kid from looking up see places and meet people,” he says— But the reviewer loved it, calling at the sky and being filled with a sense “if people they are.” the novel “a page-turner of the high- of wonder and possibility—which —Helen Gregg, AB’09 est order” and giving it a coveted star. The day after the review went live on Kirkus’s website, Neuvel got a call from a Hollywood movie producer (“Well, email first, but it sounds better if you say ‘call,’” says Neuvel). A few days after that he had a movie agent, and then a book agent. A month later book rights to Sleeping Giants had sold at auction to Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, for six figures. Movie rights have since been optioned by Sony, and David Koepp (Mission: Impossible, Jurassic Park) has finished writing the screenplay. It was the craziest time of his life, says Neuvel—a life that hadn’t exactly been conventional before. In high school he was talented but bored, so he dropped out at 15 and started working as a journalist for local newspapers near his Quebec hometown. “I don’t Sleeping Giants was published April 26. know how my parents let me do that, it was too early,” he says. For the next 10 years he “did just about every job you can think of,” from construction to scooping ice cream to selling furniture, and traveled extensively throughout Canada and the United States. He enjoyed the traveling and (most of) his jobs but eventually grew tired of meager salaries and decided to go back to school. He chose to study lin- guistics, blending his interests in science and language, and finished his bachelor’s degree in two and a half years at the University of Montreal. Four years later he received his PhD from UChicago, where he focused on computer-aided morphology and lin- guistical analysis. Today Neuvel runs a translation agency and works as a software engineer in Montreal. He’s finishing a Sleeping Giants sequel for Del Rey Neuvel’s son plays with his Sleeping Giants robot. Writing the book “was

book cover courtesy del rey, photo courtesy sylvainand neuvel continues to build sci-fi–themed born out of an excuse to make action figures, really,” says Neuvel.

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 15 4/27/16 11:59 AM source “is a new mechanism of tidal dissipation that had not been previously considered,” Kite says. Saturn’s gravitational pull influences Enceladus’s tides, causing the fissures to flex and contract. This process forces water into and out of the fissures; the rise and fall produces enough heat to keep the water and fissures from freezing. Kite and Ru- bin’s explanation “brings to the fore a process that had escaped notice,” says Carolyn Porco, head of Cas- sini’s imaging science team at NASA and a leading scientist in the study of Enceladus. Kite calls the moon “an opportunity for the best astrobiology experiment in the solar system.” Cassini data have strongly indicated that the icy plumes of Enceladus probably originate in a biomolecule-friendly oceanic environment, making it a possible home for extraterrestrial life. Cryovolcanism, the eruption of ice A vast ocean lies beneath Enceladus’s icy shell and south pole “tiger volcanoes, also may have shaped the stripes.” Researchers believe the moon is a candidate for fi ding surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s extraterrestrial life. moons. “Europa’s surface has many similarities to Enceladus’s surface, and I hope this model will be useful GEOPHYSICS “On Earth, eruptions don’t tend to for Europa as well,” Kite says. continue for long,” says Edwin Kite, One of the problems that attracted assistant professor of geophysical sci- Kite and Rubin was the anomalous ences at UChicago, who led the new tidal response of the Enceladus erup- Ocean research. “When you see eruptions tions: The eruptions are most powerful that continue for a five hours after tidal long time, they’ll be ENCELADUS IS “AN stresses reach their spray localized into a few peak. Scientists had pipelike eruptions OPPORTUNITY FOR THE previously suggested New research explains sustained with wide spacing BEST ASTROBIOLOGY reasons for the lag, eruptions on an icy moon of Saturn. between them.” including a delay in But Enceladus has EXPERIMENT IN THE the eruptions and a Enceladus, Saturn’s sixth-largest somehow managed SOLAR SYSTEM.” squishy, slowly re- moon, is full of promise. NASA calls it to sprout multiple sponding ice shell. “one of the most scientifically compel- fissures along its south pole. Known as “The new proposal is a way to [ex- ling bodies in our solar system.” Since “tiger stripes,” the fissures have been plain] a delay in the eruptions,” Porco the discovery last year of a vast ocean erupting vapor and tiny frost particles says. “You really don’t need to propose beneath the moon’s icy shell, research- continuously along their entire length any terribly squishy ice shell to do it.” ers believe it’s one of the best candi- for decades and probably much longer. The Kite-Rubin model of the Ence- dates for finding extraterrestrial life. Kite was puzzled by the behavior of ladus plumbing system suggests the NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which these tiger stripes. Evaporative cool- eruptions emanate from the tiger nasa/jpl/space science institute gathered the data confirming the un- ing from the eruptions continually re- stripes, which reach from the surface derground ocean, has also observed moves heat and energy, yet the fissures down to the water below. They ap- geysers erupting on Enceladus’s don’t clog up with their own frost. Re- plied Saturn’s tidal stresses to their southern pole since 2005. The process searchers knew some other source of computer model and watched what that drives and sustains these geysers heat and energy must be acting on the happened. “The only tricky part has remained a mystery, but now sci- fissures to prevent icing over—they quantitatively is calculating the elas- entists at the University of Chicago just didn’t know what the energy tic interactions between the different and Princeton University have pin- source was. slots and the varying water level with- pointed a mechanism that explains Kite and his coauthor Allan Rubin, in each slot as a response to the tidal Enceladus’s long-lived eruptions. from Princeton, think the energy stress,” Kite says.

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 16 4/27/16 11:50 AM The width of the slots affects how The new model also explains why says. This can be confirmed when the quickly they can respond to tidal forc- Enceladus maintains a base level of results of Cassini’s final Enceladus flying, the process by which Saturn’s cryovolcanic activity, even at the point bys of last year are fully analyzed. gravitational fluctuations squeeze in its orbit where the fissures should Kite and Douglas MacAyeal, pro- and stretch the fissures of Enceladus. freeze shut and curtail the eruptions. fessor in geophysical sciences, are in- With wide slots, the eruptions re- Key to the Kite-Rubin proposal is terested in studying an Earth analogue spond quickly; with narrow slots, the idea that the tidal ebb and flow heats to the Enceladus geysers. A crack has the eruptions occur eight hours after the water and the ice shell via turbu- formed across a section of the Ross Ice the tidal forces reach their peak. “In lence. Kite and Rubin believe that new Shelf in Antarctica, partially breaking between, there’s a sweet spot,” Kite Cassini data can test this idea by reveal- it away from the continent. “In that says, where tidal forces turn water ing whether the ice shell in the south crack you have strong tidal flow, so it motion into heat, generating enough polar region is warm or cold. “If the would be interesting to see what a real power to produce eruptions that new mechanism is a major contributor ice sheet does in an environment that’s match the observed five-hour lag. Por- to the heat coming from the fractures, analogous in terms of the amplitude of co called it “the best thing in my mind then the south polar ice in between the the stresses and the temperatures of about this new work.” fractures may in fact be cold,” Porco the ice,” Kite says.—Steve Koppes

CITATIONS

MONEY MISMANAGEMENT disciplined for misconduct or young men after four days were marked by diminished Misconduct in the American fraud are five times more likely of normal sleep, four days of gray matter volume in the financial advising industry to engage in new misconduct. sleep restriction, and two days frontolimbic region, an goes unpunished—and in This pattern of repeat offe ses of extended sleep. The weary area that plays a key role in some cases, it’s rewarded, suggests that some firms volunteers’ insulin sensitivity controlling emotions. This according to associate “‘specialize’ in misconduct,” and diabetes risk spiked when research illustrates that professor of fi ance Gregor the researchers write in the they were sleep deprived, “IED is not simply ‘bad Matvos; Amit Seru, the working paper, available but returned to normal levels behavior’ that requires Dennis and Karen Chookazian through the Social Science after they caught up. Hitting an attitude adjustment,” Professor of Finance; and Research Network. “snooze” on Saturday isn’t a according to Coccaro. the University of Minnesota’s cure-all, the authors caution. Mark Egan, AM’12, PhD’15. YOU SNOOZE, YOU WIN Lack of sleep is associated with PSYCHIC PSYCHOLOGY The large-scale study, Sleeping in on weekends many other health hazards. A study in the October Memory which used data from the could reduce diabetes risk, and Cognition shows psychic Financial Industry Regulatory according to new research GRAY MATTERS believers score lower in Authority (FINRA), shows published in March’s Diabetes Many of us lose our temper analytical ability but higher that at some top financial Care. Authored by Josiane from time to time. But for in overall life satisfaction advising firms, almost 20 Broussard, PhD’10, now of the estimated 16 million than demographically percent of advisers had been the University of Colorado, Americans affected by similar skeptics. Doctoral disciplined for misconduct, Boulder; senior biostatistician intermitt nt explosive student Stephen Gray, such as providing unsuitable Kristen Wroblewski, SB’00, disorder (IED), characterized AM’13, and David Gallo, advice, misrepresentation, SM’01; research nutritionist by sudden outbursts of associate professor of and unauthorized activity. Jennifer Kilkus; and Esra emotion disproportionate psychology, compared the The results also revealed that Tasali, associate professor of to the inciting stress, almost cognitive abilities of skeptics 50 percent of advisers who medicine, the study builds on anything can be a trigger. New and believers, hoping to commit misconduct keep their research showing that sleep research led by Emil Coccaro, understand Americans’ jobs, and nearly half of those restriction increases diabetes the Ellen C. Manning Professor belief in phenomena such who are fired remain in the risk almost as much as obesity and Chair of Psychiatry and as extrasensory perception financial services industry. does. But “catch-up” sleep Behavioral Neuroscience, and telepathy. While the two The 7 percent of all financial may curtail these effects. and published in the January groups did not differ in their advisers who have been Researchers studied 19 healthy issue of Biological Psychiatry: performance on memory Cognitive Neuroscience tasks, skeptics outperformed and Neuroimaging, has believers on tasks involving discovered that IED is a analytical and logical thinking. brain disorder with a clear Both groups responded to physiological marker, not questions about satisfaction a personality disorder. The with their lives and future researchers performed potential, revealing believers’ MRIs on 168 individuals: 57 rosier outlook. Seventy subjects with IED diagnoses, percent of believers reported 53 healthy control subjects, that friends and family shared and an additional 58 control their views, demonstrating the subjects with other psychiatric importance of noncognitive diagnoses. The brains of factors in psychic belief.

emil coccaro/biological psychiatry: cognitiveIED neuroscience and neuroimaging suff rers’ rage isn’t simply “bad behavior.” those suffe ing from IED —Hannah Gitlin, ’16

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 17 4/27/16 11:54 AM The number of mentally ill inmates in American jails and prisons has swelled since the 1960s.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE rights at Equip for Equality, an organi- serious mental illness, such as schizo- zation that advocates for the disabled phrenia, bipolar disorder, or major de- in Illinois. pression, according to a 2009 study in In their complaint, the plaintiffs Psychiatric Services. Jail broken alleged they were subjected to cruel Experts like Matthew Epperson, and unusual punishment: Inmates assistant professor in the School of A landmark lawsuit aims to reform who attempted to hang themselves Social Service Administration, trace treatment of mentally ill inmates in using prison-issued sheets say they the origin of the problem to the 1960s, Illinois prisons. were fined for the cost of the sheet. when an effort spearheaded by Presi- Suicidal inmates would be stripped dent John F. Kennedy led to the clo- The stories couldn’t possibly be true. naked and put in “crisis cells” with no sure of psychiatric institutions around That’s what Laura Miller, JD’82, mattress or blankets. Some were de- the country. Deinstitutionalization thought when she first got involved prived of psychotropic medications, stemmed from a positive impulse, in a lawsuit against the Illinois De- causing serious health risks. Others but was troubled in practice. “There partment of Corrections on behalf of were forced into extended periods in [weren’t] the same kind of resources mentally ill inmates. The class-action solitary confinement as punishment and planning made to develop a con- abuse case, Rasho v. Baldwin, which for their symptoms. (The IDOC tinuum of care in the community,” began in 2007 and unfolded over the has not admitted liability regarding explains Epperson, who studies men- next eight years, would ultimately the allegations.) tal illness and incarceration. “Folks involve 11,000 inmates represented “It’s a combination of neglect, in- went from literally living their whole by attorneys from four legal organiza- sensitivity, and a level of unconcern lives in institutions to now having to tions. In December both sides agreed that is shocking,” says Harold Hirsh- navigate issues around housing, basic to a settlement calling for $40 million man, LAB’62, JD’69, a partner at needs, and coordinating treatment.” to improve prison facilities and $40 Dentons who worked on the case Closure of state-run hospitals million annually for new personnel. pro bono. wasn’t the only force leaving the men- ©istock.com/sakhorn38 In the lawsuit’s early years, a team Incarceration of the mentally ill tally ill vulnerable to criminalization. of expert investigators visited several has grown dramatically in recent de- Epperson, who was a social worker Illinois prison facilities to examine cades. The Bureau of Justice Statistics in a county jail before becoming an the treatment of mentally ill inmates. estimates that roughly half of incar- academic, says the vast majority of the Some of the plaintiffs’ claims of abuse cerated Americans have some kind mentally ill inmates he saw suffered seemed almost unbelievable—“but of mental health problem. About 14 from a nexus of problems, includ- sure enough [they were] true,” says percent of male and 31 percent of fe- ing substance abuse and poverty. “If Miller, managing attorney for civil male inmates in American jails have a you’re mentally ill and poor ... you’re

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 18 4/27/16 11:51 AM much more likely to be in the criminal justice system,” he says. Someone with a mental illness en- NEXT GENERATION tering prison in Illinois is likely to face a system unprepared to handle RING OF WORMS his or her condition. Correctional officers are trained to subdue uncoop- erative inmates, but not those with psychotic symptoms. Inmates who are prescribed psychotropic medications often don’t receive follow-up about whether the treatment is effective. As a result, “whatever their mental health condition is, it tends to worsen in jails and prisons,” Epperson says. No single lawsuit could transform Illinois’s correctional system over- night. With Rasho, attorneys for the plaintiffs say, their goal was to make the state meet its Eighth Amendment obligation. Miller is sympathetic to the societal tendency to not make prisons “attractive and fun places. They are not country clubs.” But, she says, no one is asking for luxury. “We’re asking that they get basic services to treat an illness.” After the multiyear negotiation process, both sides agree they’ve arrived at a settlement that will, once finalized by a judge this spring, improve delivery of those basic services. Under the agreement, the state will create residential treatment units staffed by 700 new employees that will provide appropriate care to mentally ill inmates. The settlement also calls for the Il- Humble Caenorhabditis elegans It was an exciting finding: “Any- linois Department of Corrections to isn’t much to look at. But for sci- time you have the ability to look at review the mental health of all pris- entists, the tiny roundworm’s a very detailed level and make con- oners in solitary confinement, as well simplicity is its best asset: its vincing connections between biol- as 20 hours a week of out-of-cell time uncomplicated anatomy helps ogy and behavior, it’s an important for mentally ill inmates sentenced to researchers understand how the step in neuroscience,” Brown said. solitary confinement for more than worm’s behavior results from the in- In the lab Brown was often taken 60 days. teraction of its cells and molecules. by the worms’ unusual formations. The IDOC’s acting director John Adam Brown is a fourth-year With practice and a steady hand, he Baldwin said in a statement the graduate student in the lab of David taught himself to take phone cam- changes would “improve correctional Biron, assistant professor in phys- era photos of what he saw through outcomes for those with mental illness ics. (The lab’s URL is, yes, worm the lens of the microscope. and increase safety for our dedicated .uchicago.edu.) Brown is studying This image depicts the aftermath staff, all offenders, and the citizens how C. elegans behaves when food of a worm feast: a large drop of we serve.” is present and how it makes quick bacteria had been added to a worm Reforms are gradually being rolled decisions about whether to feed or colony living on an agar plate. The out and construction on the residential keep crawling. The team learned worms had eaten their way from the treatment units is already under way. the neurotransmitter serotonin is center of the bacteria droplet to the Illinois governor Bruce Rauner’s ad- key in regulating C. elegans’s ability edge, where there was still food left. ministration has set aside funding for to handle situations where food is Part of being a scientist is “see- the Rasho settlement, but Hirshman placed in discrete patches. Without ing really striking things every day,” acknowledges all the work yet to be it, “the worms will lose the ability to Brown says. He hopes his worm done. “It’s like getting to the base eff ctively forage in that complex glamour shot sheds light on the camp of Everest. You’re not at the top environment,” Brown told UChicago importance and beauty of scientific

photo courtesy adam brown/david biron yet.”—Susie Allen, AB’09 Medicine’s Science Life blog. discovery.—Hannah Gitlin, ’16

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UChicagoJournal_v11.indd 19 4/27/16 11:51 AM URBAN INITIATIVES with UChicago divisions and schools will bring policy makers and practitio- to train the next generation of city- ners in related fields to campus to work focused thinkers. with UChicago students and faculty “The Mansueto Institute for Urban on pressing urban issues. Cities, Innovation will build on the Univer- Joe Mansueto, the founder and sity’s long history of urban scholarship CEO of Morningstar Inc., and Rika and education, and will bring perspec- Mansueto previously donated $25 decoded tives from across the institution to million to support construction of the A $35 million gift from two College develop an understanding of the pro- Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. They cesses that drive, shape, and sustain cit- hope the institute will help form new alumni supports a new hub for ies,” says University president Robert collaborations to improve urban life urban research. J. Zimmer. “In recent years our faculty worldwide. “The University of Chi- and deans have articulated the oppor- cago has tremendous expertise in a “The dramatic rise in large cities over tunity for a multidisciplinary institute variety of disciplines, but we’re hope- the past 50 years has created some of that could enhance and foster a distinc- ful that bringing them together will society’s most difficult problems and tive perspective in urban research and produce even greater innovation,” most promising opportunities,” says education. We are very grateful for the says Joe Mansueto. “Finally, we want Joe Mansueto, AB’78, MBA’80. A Mansuetos’ support that will enable to support the application of academic $35 million gift from him and Rika these ideas to be realized.” findings into public policy to have an Mansueto, AB’91, announced this The Mansueto Institute will offer enduring impact for people around March, will support a new institute competitive seed funding for on-cam- the globe.” to improve urban life through schol- pus research projects and will partner The Mansueto Institute for Urban arship and education. with divisions and schools across the Innovation will play a key role in the The Mansueto Institute for Ur- University to develop classes, intern- University’s effort to bridge urban ban Innovation will bring together ships, and other new opportunities for scholarship, practice, and engage- programs in the social, natural, and undergraduates. In addition, it will ment—a comprehensive institutional computational sciences and in the expand support for graduate students commitment known as UChicago humanities to enhance UChicago’s and postdocs with urban interests. Urban. The new institute adds to on- research into all aspects of urbaniza- The institute also aims to be a virtu- going efforts in academic units across tion, from developing effective hous- al destination by establishing a library campus and will work closely with ing policies to strategies to reduce of integrated urban data and develop- initiatives such as the Urban Educa- violence. The institute will serve as ing the analytic tools needed to use tion Institute and Urban Labs, which an intellectual destination for urban these data sets to better understand partner with policy makers to trans- scholars, students, policy makers, and compare urban areas, both in the late research into effective practices and practitioners. It also will work United States and around the world. It and programs. The institute will also collaborate with the Office of Civic Engagement, which works with local communities to develop resources and programs that have a positive impact in Chicago and can be modeled around the world. “An institute devoted to studying the broad set of questions related to urban issues, and drawing upon many unique strengths of the University, will help make UChicago the preemi- nent destination for the study of important urban issues,” says Kerwin Charles, deputy dean and the Edwin and Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor in the UChicago

Harris School of Public Policy. andrew bayda/shutterstock The University will immediately begin a search, under the advisement of a faculty steering committee, for a prominent urban scholar to direct the institute. The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation will open shortly after a director is appointed and arrives on campus. The institute’s loca- A new gift aims to make UChicago a destination for the study of urban issues. tion has not yet been determined.

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national laboratories. The Engineers: Jonathan Simon, role will replace and build a Neubauer Family Assistant upon the position of vice Professor in Physics, and president for research and Bozhi Tian, assistant national laboratories and allow professor of chemistry. Simon Isaacs, the Robert A. Millikan was nominated by the US Distinguished Service Professor Department of Energy’s Office in Physics, to foster on-campus of Science for his work in programs, connect science synthetic quantum materials, and engineering work to larger and Tian was nominated by the policy issues and industry, and Department of Defense for his oversee affiliated laboratories contributions to semiconductor and other scientific projects. materials synthesis, device DIERMEIER APPOINTED PROVOST applications in photovoltaics, VISUALIZING HISTORY Daniel Diermeier, Emmett INTERNATIONAL PURSUITS intracellular electrophysiology, A restored conference room Dedmon Professor and dean Yevgen Sautin, AM’15, is one and tissue engineering. in Saieh Hall for Economics of the University of Chicago of 35 US scholars to receive a now showcases the history of Harris School of Public Policy, Gates Cambridge Scholarship SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT economics at the University of has been appointed provost for study at the University of The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Chicago. Chicago Economics Foundation has committed to of the University, effective July Cambridge next year. Sautin Experience, which opened will pursue a doctorate in another three years of funding 1. Diermeier’s successes at March 8 in the DelGiorno modern Chinese history for undergraduate research Chicago Harris since becoming Room, focuses on the lives with the goal of applying his in the sciences at UChicago. dean in 2014 include increasing and work of Nobel laureates research to foreign policy Through the Beckman Scholars the size of the faculty and the Milton Friedman, AM’33, and challenges. “I fi mly believe program, a few selected student body; collaborating Gary Becker, AM’53, PhD’55, that there is a tangible way College students receive up on a redesign of the graduate and rotating exhibits will to make the world move in to $20,000 to pursue original curriculum while bolstering explore the contributions of the right direction if you’re research with the support of a the undergraduate major in pursuing a career in policy— faculty member. The University other prominent scholars and public policy; and fostering and that historians have a is one of 12 institutions across the ideas associated with the the development of several role in those debates and the country selected to Chicago school of economics. new initiatives and institutes, conversations,” he said. Sautin participate in the program. including The Pearson Institute is the 21st UChicago student for the Study and Resolution to receive a Gates Cambridge of Global Conflicts. He “has Scholarship since the led Harris with energy, program began in 2000. boldness, and vision,” said University president Robert J. POLICE TRANSPARENCY Zimmer. “Combined with his In April the University of

ag) demonstrated ability to bring Chicago Police Department fl various perspectives together, began using body-worn he brings to his new role a cameras able to automatically set of skills and experiences upload audio and video footage central to the work of the to a secure server. The footage provost’s office.” provides impartial evidence and can be used in officer SERVING THOSE WHO SERVED training and evaluation, aiding FEEDING THOUGHT A $10 million gift from Eric in public and officer safety. The dining commons in Gleacher, MBA’67, will create About 20 officers are wearing the new Campus North a new scholarship program the cameras during the Residential Commons will be for veterans at Chicago program’s initial phase; UCPD named for Frank Baker, Booth. The funds will help expects to roll out the program AB’94, and his wife, Laura cover costs associated with a to every officer by fall quarter. Day, in recognition of their Booth MBA that may exceed “In addition to meeting a need $7 million gift to the University’s a veteran’s benefits under that the public has identifi d, Odyssey Scholarship program. the GI Bill. “My experience in ce; photography by joel wintermantle (

fi body-worn cameras aid officers The Frank and Laura Baker the Marine Corps gave me a in performing their duties,” said Dining Commons will offe boost in self-confidence, and UCPD chief of police Fountain halal, kosher, and vegan my Booth education gave me L. Walker. “These cameras help options and, in keeping with direction,” said Gleacher. “It INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP promote professionalism and campus tradition, will have was a winning combination.” To guide new and growing accountability among officers.” designated seating for each In 1996 Gleacher gave $15 initiatives in science, of the residence hall’s eight million to the development of engineering, and innovation, PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITION College houses. Campus Booth’s downtown Gleacher University provost Eric D. Two UChicago scientists North is scheduled to open Center, home to the evening Isaacs has been appointed the have received prestigious at the start of the 2016–17 and weekend MBA programs first executive vice president Presidential Early Career academic year and will house and the North American

university of chicago news of for research, innovation, and Awards for Scientists and 800 undergraduates. executive program.

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NOVEL DATA were found to have a higher con- centration of sentimental words The Sentimentality of the Novel than prize-winning novels or those reviewed in the New York Times, mysteries and best sellers (BS) tended to be on par, sentimentality- wise, with those books considered more literary. Of the 400 postwar 8 novels (POST45) studied, the 60 most canonical works (CLASSIC)— by authors like Toni Morrison and Vladimir Nabokov—were found to be the least sentimental, though So and Piper note that this is largely

6 because of the classics’ disproportionate lack of positive words. Sentiment (%) Sentiment These results indicate that pre- conceived notions may have been obscuring a more complex picture of the role of sentimentality in nov-

4 els, says So, and may vindicate emotive writing. He and Piper recently analyzed

CLASSIC MYST PW BS NYT SCIFI POST45 YA ROM VIC whether novels by writers with MFAs varied significantly in content Novel Type or style from other writers’ novels. (Their conclusion: not really.)

19th century Lowbrow Highbrow Super highbrow They’re also developing projects on American culture more generally, evaluating the impact of Buzzfeed- style writing on traditional journal- istic discourse and measuring white Critic James Baldwin once wrote texts to “look at big patterns” across appropriation of black lyrics in rock that sentimentality is “the osten- many works, says So, and offers in- and pop music from the 1950s to tatious parading of excessive and sights “in a new way, more at scale, today. So cotaught a course on cul- spurious emotion” and “the mark and perhaps more convincingly.” tural analytics last quarter and reg- of dishonesty.” He’s not alone—for To compare the sentimentality ularly hosts forums and lectures on generations reviewers and crit- of different types of novels, So and the digital humanities with another ics have used emotive writing to his collaborator Andrew Piper of frequent collaborator, Hoyt Long, separate mass-market pulp from McGill University used a computer associate professor of Japanese lit- real literature, says Richard Jean So, program to count the instances erature at UChicago. assistant professor of English. But of emotionally charged words like Using computers to analyze can sentimentality really serve as a abominable, obscene, courageous, art is not without controversy in litmus test for the lowbrow? and rapturous in roughly 2,000 digi- academia, but So, who trained as “I don’t want to say James tized books. a more traditional close reader, Baldwin is wrong,” says So. “But The graph of their results is adamant that computer-based

there’s a different way of looking shows the average percentage of approaches will never replace so jean richard courtesy image at the question.” sentimental words across the dif- other forms of literary analysis. The For years So has been using text ferent classifications and genres digital humanities, he says, is about mining, natural language process- of novels. By far the most maudlin “taking the core humanistic values ing, and other computer-based were the Victorian-era novels, and questions and putting them techniques to gain more quantita- which contain, on average, about into dialogue with new methods” tive perspectives on literature and seven and a half more sentimental from other disciplines to uncover culture. The digital humanities, as words per page than contemporary new knowledge. “A computer is, in the burgeoning field is known, lever- prize-winning fiction (PW). some ways, a very sophisticated, ages advances in computer science While books in some popular subtle reader of literature.” and the mass digitization of literary genres like romance or young adult —Helen Gregg, AB’09

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Hard living in working-class Jersey.” I made it something you could stage for $75 in a basement somewhere. I would laughter not compromise the story I wanted to tell, but I would try to make it Martyna Majok’s acclaimed new as easy as possible for an organi- play finds light in the dark. zation to want to help me tell it. The play requires four ac- On its face, Martyna Majok’s (AB’07) tors and a bench or a bus stop Ironbound doesn’t seem to offer much sign—but really, everything to laugh at—the play follows Darja, a except the actors is negotia- Polish immigrant living in New Jer- ble. This limitation was actu- sey, through 22 years of personal and ally inspiring and strangely economic hardship. The character is freeing—it made me write based (in circumstances, at least) on more economically and make Majok’s mother. But at its first read- bolder choices. ing, “people laughed,” she says. “I trusted that.” Why is Ironbound’s humor That an audience could relate to important to you? flinty, caustic Darja enough to find These characters aren’t walking the bleak comedy in her story was en- around day after day bemoaning their couraging: “Laughter means they’re fates. They’re aware of their circum- listening, that they want to be there, stances, sure, but they’re making things that they’re finding something honest happen, they’re working to change What inspires you? in the material.” them. They have no use for bullshit, no The people I grew up with—working- After well-received premieres in time for it. These characters’ humor is class men and women. Family stories. Chicago and Bethesda, Maryland, in their ability to call it like it is. They And family mysteries. NJ Transit, Ironbound opened off-Broadway in are flawed but aware. They are smart. the MTA, the CTA. Feeling either March. “Ms. Majok’s perceptive dra- The last thing I want is for an audience very familiar or very foreign. The way ma, with its bone-dry humor and vivid to feel like they’ve watched a story with people speak, the accidental poetry characters, illustrates how vulnerable no hope. Or no bite. and profundity that comes from being people like Darja are,” Charles Isher- clear-eyed about your life—about life wood wrote in the New York Times. What’s your role in the rehearsal in general. The way people speak who For Majok, the play’s success, process? had to learn English later. My mother. along with several new commissions I listen to the actors, where I see Jersey. Chicago. Poland. New York. and a one-year fellowship from the them struggling to get to an honest Playwrights of New York (PoNY), place in their acting. Those are the Do you feel any less anxious about is a welcome breakthrough. Once places I know I need to work on in pursuing a career in theater? she committed herself to playwrit- the script. Two years ago, my husband and I ing, “that was sort of it for me. Which were sleeping in a bathtub—the only meant bumps along the way,” she says. What do you hope people take place the bedbugs in our Harlem “But I was gonna find a way to make away from Ironbound, and your sublet couldn’t get to. We lived in 13 this happen.” (Majok’s comments work more generally? apartments in one year because we have been edited and condensed.) For those who have also grown up couldn’t afford a security deposit in —Susie Allen, AB’09 with these characters, or who are New York City. Neither of us come these characters, I hope they will from money and both of us took gi- What were your goals with feel seen. I hope they’ll feel that their ant risks becoming theater artists. Ironbound? stories—and their lives—are valued. Before I got the phone call about the I asked myself, during a difficult year, For those that might not otherwise PoNY Fellowship, we weren’t sure if I never wrote another play again, meet these characters outside of a if we could continue pursuing a life what would I regret not having said? theater—or that might not talk to in the theater. This year has been a That became Ironbound. And when I them—I hope they feel connected. major blessing—it’s saved our dreams first started thinking about the play, That they look at their cab drivers and kept us going. I’m anxious about I thought, “Lemme make this thing or cleaning ladies, at the other peo- this year ending. But it’s truly helped as produce-able as possible, ’cause no ple on the subway or waiting for the me so much and, yes, eased my mind a theater’s gonna want to present a play bus, a little differently, with a little lot more. I think the hustle is forever. I

photography by jason smith about a poor Polish immigrant woman more complexity. suspect that’s the American way.

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illustrations by allan burch ------4/28/16 10:00 AM Theclasslaughs. 10theOf students, Interestingly, in the one-sex model, There’s a clamor of voices. “That is Bogdan leads the discussion back to You could see Laqueur’s work as It seems like there’s so much more “Tom,”Gilbert interrupts after the Tom looks skeptical. This is, af atly. “It’s not Shy-cah-goo.” ter all, a course on questioning truth claims. “No really,” Gilbert insists fl two are British, like Gilbert; more are twononnative speakers who use British pronunciation. (“It can’t be a coincidence,” that the group is so international, Bartsch-Zimmer says later. Perhaps, since these students areoutsidetheir ownculture, theyare more aware “that culture plays a huge shapinginknowledgerole practices.”) The ancient Greeks believed that women had the exact same genitals as men, only “inside out,” says Bog - dan—an idea that persisted through Renaissance. the wasthoughtwomanitmusthave thata an orgasm to conceive. And therefore if a woman conceived, a sexual act could not be considered rape. “It was pretty shocking to read,” says Bog dan, “but if I had lived in the 15th cen tury, maybe I would have thought the same way.” not a dead belief, unfortunately,” says and He, Bartsch-Zimmer, Gilbert. severalstudents are all talking aboutpoliticianthe can’tsaidyou who at once get pregnant from “legitimate rape” (Todd Akin, former Republican rep resentativefrom Missouri, in 2012). Laqueur’s curious assertion that the two-sex model arose “sometime in further with no ex 18th century,” the planation. “Why the 18th century?” Bogdan asks. “I think it’s helpful to thinkbothof the one-sex and two-sex models as social constructions.” “very old-fashioned,” says Bartsch- and male just for room with Zimmer, female. “It doesn’t take into account ourcurrent cultural willingness seeto spectrainstead polarof opposites.” agenda, packed a with but discuss, to there’s no time. Tom takes over, lead article Shapin’s on discussion the ing 19th in century phrenology Edabout inburgh—which he pronounces as if it rhymed with Pittsburgh. Twice. infraction.Edin-bruh.” “It’s second

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tting ’90s jeans—are passing two Jack Gilbert Jack fi the university of chicago magazine | spring 2016 Students in the course are required The theme of today’s class is prob The answer, it turns out, is 15. But gradu the in students the of Most In the video, six people—half in dent. Today’s leaders are Bogdan, a to lead a class, along with a fellow stu der from the Greeks to Freud by Thomas Laqueur (Harvard University Press, 1992);StevenShapin’s“Theessay Poli Observation:ticsof Cerebral Anatomy and Social Interests in the Edinburgh Phrenology Disputes” (1979); and an article, “When Good Observers Go Bad: Change Blindness, Inattentional Blindness, and Visual Experience,”(2000). Rensink Ronald by lems with seeing. “Is sight objective,” the syllabus asks, “or does it see what read day’s The see?” to primed is one ingsinclude ate course, Case Studies on the For the on Studies Case course, ate mation of Knowledge, did notice; they knew the secret of the famous experiment. “I just focused on Gilbert. the adds gorilla,” basketballs. How many times do peo that isn’t the point. While busy count er, white shirts, half in black, most ill-in ple wearing white pass a ball? ing, viewers often don’t notice that someone in a gorilla suit walksscene, turns into to the the camera and beats hischest times,few a then walks off. 26 What know? do you BY CARRIE GOLUS, AB’91, AM’93 COURSE WORK KNOWLEDGE L UCH_Coursework_v1.indd 26 ------◆ -

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- by William William Howell eldof fi “I’ll probably hang around, actually,” At the end, Bartsch-Zimmer re His conclusion: “As a scienti His points, as seen on his slides, in slides, his on seen as Hispoints, Gilbert gives his recap just as swift Progress and Modernity, Barbarism andCivilization. Gilbert contradicts cheerily. “Sit in the background. I’m quite enjoying it.” minds the students, “Let’s say good bye to Jack.” Bartsch-Zimmer will remain for the course’s next module, coteaching Democractic Knowledge with ris. After that, vid B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in the Department of Classics, and political science associate professor Jennifer Pitts Stein Jr. Professor at Chicago Har er, I have to accept bias and just get on withit,”says. he “Which isall kind of depressing. Also objec that fact the quiteaccept can I cause comforting, be tivity does not exist within our fi clude “I didn’t really choose to study the microbiome; the zeitgeist bit me!”,“History doesn’t incomecans!” (meaning arbitrarily defined eras), “Maybe today is just likeyesterday!”, and “Objectivity is for the dogs!” ly: “Before this class I had no freaking freaking no had I class this “Before ly: understanding of what epistemology [the theory of knowledge] was,” he says. “Now I do. Which is really good.” tary,” tary,” Bartsch-Zimmer concludes. “But Western modern science is not asantiseptic sometimesasit claims. It is not a universalist, value-free story progress.”of venes in our lives in the West withresults, realfrom the medical to the mili by Stephenby The Structure - - - - c Revolutions fi nd. fi ortsupportto a TheStevanovich Insti ff tute,founded Aprilin 2015, interdivisional new a “is e inquirythat has nonatural of Scienti ThomasKuhn(University of ChicagoPress, 1996), and Press,1979), Cole (Harvard UniversityCole 1992). Press, Making Science the university of chicago magazine | spring 2016 27 - - - - Genesis and c knowledge c rstpart aof ifi fi by Ludwikby Fleck

c Fact Bartsch-Zimmer outlines her Western modern science “inter fi Her slide includes a Renaissance illus Gilbert’s last day in the classroom. (The structure—threecourse’s - mod ules of about three weeks each, co taught by different professors—is as unusual as its content.) takeaways briskly. Western modern science (abbreviated WMS in her PowerPoint presentation) is not just the story of progress, nor is it purely objective or universal. Scientists of ten see only what they expect to trationLaqueur’sfrom book:although allegedly it’s female anatomyobservation, based it looks on“suspiciously” male, Bartsch-Zimmer points out. (University of Chicago(University of Development of a Scien ti SYLLABUS tionKnowledgeof (KNOW theis402) CaseStudies onthe Forma of two-quartersequence feredtheby Stevanovich In include module stituteonthe Formation of books Required Knowledge. scient its for ------nd evidence to prove your own The final reading of the day, by To demonstrate change blindness, “Observation by human beings After the student-led discussion, Shapin’s argument, Tom explains, rst module of the course, Science in in Science course, the of module rst

Rensink, is on change blindness and in the blindness—e.g., inattentional Tom shows two busy photographs of passengers and an airplane on the tarmac. Photo one, photo two. The photos are different, but second, how? the In Again: two. photo one, photo miss is engine massive airplane’s the is not a fail-safe procedure,” Bartsch-Zimmer. says And the problem goes far beyond “these silly experi Bartsch-Zimmer and Gilbert each take a few minutes to look back at the fi Context, which ends today. It’s also is that scientific knowledge doesn’t come about because of objective, dis interested research. For example, the dispute over phrenology—the use of skull shape and size to assess intellect and character—brought about a rapid increase in the understanding of brain anatomy. “That’s how science hap pens,” says Tom. The process of try ing to fi point “is actually the driver of science.” visiblegorilla beginningtheat class.of ing. Only a few people noticed. mentalsettings,” says Tom. “This isa real issue for science.” from the new york public library library public york new the from UCH_Coursework_v1.indd 27

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UCH_BusEthic_v2.indd 28 4/28/16 1:42 PM UCH_BusEthic_v2.indd 29 4/28/16 1:41 PM elling people that you teach business eth- no longer give capitalism his unstinting support, many ics tends to elicit a grin. Not necessarily a people were left wondering whether their own faith in the malicious one. More often it is a sign of be- system was fundamentally misguided. musement. Business ethics is so commonly assumed to be an oxymoron that the very idea of a class devoted to it seems novel, n the years following the crisis, such misgivings grew naive, and perhaps even foolhardy. This is amid reports of the very sort of behavior Buckley had true even for those who actually engage in warned about. Perhaps most infamously, a Senate in- business—and who benefit most by vindi- I vestigation revealed a Goldman Sachs banker crowing cating the notion that business and ethics over email about a “shitty deal” he had brokered with a large aren’t entirely incommensurate. institutional client in the summer of 2007. The $1 billion Students who take my Chicago Booth class, Ethics of Busi- mortgage-linked investment known as Timberwolf, which ness, aren’t immune to such views. But most of them sincerely lost 80 percent of its value in five months, was issued shortly Twant to believe in business ethics, even if they have no idea after Goldman decided to shift $6 billion in bets that securi- what that actually entails. My approach to the subject takes ties like it would continue to perform well to $10 billion in shape around a memorable observation that conservative bets that they would fail. To many, Goldman’s salesmanship iconoclast William F. Buckley Jr. borrowed from the Austrian smacked of double-dealing, akin to selling a car with faulty ex-Communist Willi Schlamm: “The trouble with socialism brakes and then taking out insurance on the driver. The re- is socialism. The trouble with capitalism is capitalists.” assurance by some bankers that such deals were simply how The adage indicates two standards for evaluating capital- capitalism worked only strengthened the conviction that the ism. The first is moral. Does capitalism generally presuppose financial system was just as flawed as its participants. virtuous pursuits? What kind of behavior does it reward? Having taught business ethics for more than a decade now, How does it shape society beyond the commercial realm? I have watched the moral and cultural consequences of the The second involves what we might call the ideological financial crisis reflected in the faces of my students. In the integrity of capitalism. Given the story free-market pro- years leading up to it, those who hailed from prestigious ponents tell about its material promises, how well does the banks carried themselves with the airy confidence of the system hold up once it’s actually implemented? elect. But as panic swept the financial markets, their swagger I explain to my students that any economic system must gave way to uncertainty. In the years that followed, as the meet both of these standards to be successful. No matter how economy smoldered, these students increasingly looked like lofty its moral ambitions, if an economic system fails to work survivors of a natural disaster: wary, skittish, even slightly in practice, no one is going to embrace it. By the same token, if haunted. Finance was no longer the default choice for any it works extremely well to provide material benefits but turns ambitious MBA—a distinction now strongly contested by pages) (previous offset.com / braun sebastian copyright image its participants into moral monsters, most people will take a Silicon Valley—and those from the finance world routinely pass on it as well. found themselves defending their employers from accusa- Buckley appreciated the extent to which capitalism can tions that they were a blight on the body politic. (Indeed, embolden and reward bad behavior—hence “the trouble some admitted to concealing their work whenever possible.) with capitalism is capitalists”—but he did not live long enough to see the full extent to which the ideological integrity of the system was called into question by the 2008 financial crisis. In October of that year, nearly six weeks af- I HAVE WATCHED THE ter Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Alan Greenspan famously announced to a congressional committee that there MORAL AND CULTURAL was a “flaw” in the free market ideology that had guided his decision making as chair of the Federal Reserve. CONSEQUENCES OF Greenspan later softened his statement, suggesting the flaw was limited to subprime derivatives contracts. These are the complex instruments that Warren Buffett called “fi- THE FINANCIAL CRISIS nancial weapons of mass destruction” for their tendency to mask the risk that investment banks were taking on from REFLECTED IN THE FACES investors and regulators while, at same time, magnifying

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UCH_BusEthic_v2.indd 30 4/28/16 1:45 PM For such students, the financial crisis mon good not because of the intentions of gave way to a crisis of faith in capitalism. participants, but despite them. Indeed the Few were prepared to give up on the sys- most provocative contention of his work tem altogether, but their career decisions (and arguably the greatest triumph of his seemed more tentative and ambivalent. system) was not to insist on the virtue of How might a business ethics curriculum greed, but to acknowledge our disdain for address such uncertainty? My answer has it and nevertheless to insist that, within been to take them back to Adam Smith certain bounds, we have good reason to Essayist John Paul Rollert and guide them through a reappraisal of countenance it. the ironic wisdom of the “invisible hand.” The subtlety of this argument leaves it Though the term is only used three open to confusion and abuse. Some view times in the full body of his work, the invisible hand has be- it as a license for bad behavior—hence the perverse logic of come the regnant image of Smith’s philosophy. The most fa- “greed is good”—but more often it is treated as a reprieve mous instance is its single appearance in An Inquiry into the from having to be too concerned with the consequences of Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776), in a passage one’s actions. To my mind, this is the greatest danger of a where Smith praises the advantages of free trade and ob- crude interpretation of the invisible hand. It’s all too easy serves the paradoxical relationship between the activities of to reduce Smith’s logic into a very convenient philosophy: the merchant and the material advantage of the community. Don’t worry about your actions. Do whatever you want, and By his efforts, Smith observes, the merchant “intends only good will inevitably follow. his own gain,” and yet, “he is in this, as in many other cases, An invitation to eschew self-awareness is generally ill-ad- led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part vised, but it is absolutely devastating to the mission of a busi- of his intention,” namely, the advancement of the common ness school. MBAs are trustees of the American economy, good by enlivening market forces that make an economy and the institutions that credential them are laboratories of more productive and efficient. commerce and temples to capitalism. Even if, morally speak- Few students have ever actually read this passage before ing, the broader benefits of that system accrue behind our coming to my class, but many already take it for gospel. backs, there is nothing to be gained by allowing those who Without addressing the technical merits of Smith’s argu- profit most from the system to be blithe about its activity. ment (a discussion best left to economists), there are three If business schools do nothing more than prepare their stu- ways I attempt to challenge my students’ thinking. dents to be efficient gears in a system whose integrity they First, I ask them to consider whether Smith’s vision, or the take for granted, they will not only be poorly equipped to fix popular appropriation of it, vindicates any type of self-inter- flaws that appear, they won’t be trusted with responsibility. ested pursuit. Surely the man who steals my car is acting in his We live in an era when capitalism increasingly determines own favor no less than the salesman who sold it to me at a hefty present conditions as well as the sense of what’s possible. It markup. The difference between the two isn’t a matter of mo- may be fairly said that, for anyone who wants to change the tivation, but the manner in which it is exercised. Self-interest world, there is no better and more obvious place for learning isn’t its own defense, but what are the criteria by which we how to do so than a business school. Whatever else it might separate impermissible pursuits from those that are valid? do, an MBA education should give students a sense of self- Second, I ask my students to think about the presumed con- awareness about the system they will dominate. That effort nection between self-interest and the common good. Even in may fall within “business ethics,” but it should be shouldered commercial exchanges that are voluntary and informed—the in common by a business school faculty. Whatever students terms under which “competitive capitalism” flourishes, ac- may believe before they arrive, our responsibility is to en- cording to Milton Friedman, AM’33 —is it truly the case that sure that they leave institutions like Booth seeing them- all such transactions enhance the common good? How might selves as stewards of their destiny, and ours, rather than this be measured? And should we only include material conse- heedless pawns of an invisible hand. ◆ quences? The last concern bears special scrutiny, for it seems strange to say that the consequences of such behavior should John Paul Rollert, AM’09, is an adjunct assistant professor only be measured in dollars and cents. of behavioral science at Chicago Booth and a PhD candi- Finally, I bring to their attention that Smith’s description date in the Committee on Social Thought. He has taught of the ironic wisdom of the invisible hand is not exactly flat- classes in ethics, leadership, and politics at Harvard, Yale, tering to individual actors. On his account, self-interested and UChicago. He has published essays in Harper’s, the New

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Daniel Holz, SM’94, PhD’98, is an associate professor in the De- instein was right. In 1905 he developed his theory of partment of Physics, the Department of Astronomy and Astrophys- special relativity, which, in addition to producing his ics, the Enrico Fermi Institute, the Kavli Institute for Cosmological equation E = mc², defined space and time as one unified Physics, and the College. He is also a member of the Laser Interfer- E construct: a four-dimensional fabric of the universe. ometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) collaboration, His theory of general relativity, published a decade later, founded in 1997 to search for ripples in space-time, which would con- uses the nature of space-time to explain gravity: it’s not a firm a key part of Albert Einstein’s 1915 general theory of relativity. force but instead is the result of space-time warping around In September LIGO detected these gravitational waves. The massive objects. Put a bowling ball at the center of a trampo- discovery not only confirms Einstein’s century-old theory but also line; the fabric will dip and wrap around its bulk. Now put a marble at the edge of the trampoline; it will roll toward the marks the beginning of a new era in astrophysics. Holz spoke to bowling ball. The marble isn’t pulled by the bowling ball; it’s the Magazine about what it’s like—and what it means—to hear rolling down the curvature in the trampoline caused by the two black holes colliding. bowling ball—that’s gravity. Now bounce the bowling ball; it will send ripples through the trampoline, and that’s what gravitational waves are—ripples in the fabric of space-time. was in bed when I got the news. It was around 7:00 It’s not just a metaphor. If you shake an actual bowling in the morning on September 14, and I was check- ball around, you make gravitational waves, on a tiny scale. ing email before work. There was a message with Whenever anything accelerates, gravitational waves prop- the subject line, “Very interesting event.” agate outward, letting the rest of the universe know that I didn’t believe it, though. No one believed it. something has changed. We test ourselves to make sure our equipment is These waves travel at the speed of light and are very weak- working—there are people who secretly create ly coupled, meaning they don’t interact much with matter, fake events, and then we see if we can find them. so they go through everything. We’re constantly bathed in We were in testing mode, so surely it was fake. But these waves. But they are very difficult to detect, even when very quickly, within two and a half hours, we’d produced by a cataclysmic event. done preliminary analyses and it was fairly clear For waves to be loud enough for us to hear, they must be it was real. generated from an extreme event, such as black holes or neu- So by the time I got to work, I was already intrigued. By tron stars smacking into each other at roughly light speed. Ilunchtime, I was excited. By dinnertime, I was living the The waves we detected in September were produced by two dream. It was real, it was happening, just like we had pre- black holes crashing into each other a billion light-years away. dicted. We had detected gravitational waves. This collision was phenomenally energetic, for a fraction of a second outshining the entire rest of the universe combined. And that was another part of Einstein’s theory, that there should be these mysterious regions of space-time with in- BY DETECTING surmountable gravity; everything falls in and can’t escape, pages) (previous hurt/caltech-jpl r. by illustration including light. He called them singularities, which are at the center of what we now call black holes. GRAVITATIONAL WAVES For a long time people thought they weren’t real—they were some extreme, mathematical thought experiment that AND MEASURING we could never hope to prove and that probably didn’t exist in nature. We couldn’t directly observe them as they don’t THEM, WE’VE SHOWN emit light. We could only infer their existence by looking at their presumed effect on the surrounding universe, the way THAT BLACK HOLES light bends and such. By detecting gravitational waves and measuring them, we’ve shown that black holes do in fact exist, and behave the way Einstein predicted. DO IN FACT EXIST, We can only detect waves if the event occurs reasonably close to us, though. A billion light-years is really close AND BEHAVE THE WAY in this language, and within this distance we think these events happen many times a year. We just needed technol-

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UCH_Gwaves_v2.indd 34 4/25/16 4:46 PM est “wiggle” in space-time. If both detectors, separated by thousands of miles, wiggle in a predictable way at about the same time, we know it’s a wave event and not caused by some local disturbance. When LIGO was proposed in the early ’90s, people thought it was crazy, that taxpayer money shouldn’t fund it because it was impossible. The instrument can’t possibly be sensitive enough. And if it is, what if gravitational waves aren’t even real? Or what if there are no sources of gravita- Daniel Holz speaks on campus following the webcast of a tional waves loud enough for us to hear? press conference about LIGO’s discovery. But LIGO was built, and it works. We could have been waiting a long time to find out if it worked because we weren’t sure how frequently these powerful events happened. I coauthored a series of papers saying they should be ’ve been studying relativity since I was an undergrad. fairly common, that we’d see an event maybe once a month My junior year at Princeton, we were encouraged to or so. We found something just a few days after turning on. do a research project. I approached a professor in the One resounding detection. I physics department, John Wheeler. He had done a lot Gravitational waves aren’t sound waves—they’re not of work on black holes, actually coined the name, and was compression waves in the air—but they have similar prop- one of the legendary figures in the theory of relativity. erties. You can take the gravitational waveform and put it It was intimidating. I remember standing outside his directly into speakers. So we did that, and it sounds like a door, too nervous to go in. But I had to find an adviser—it thump. You can hear it with your unaided ear, even with the was getting late and I was desperate. I figured, what do I noise. We expected most of the sources to be very difficult have to lose? So I went in, and that’s the moment every- to hear, but this one was really loud. That’s part of the rea- thing shifted. That first time I introduced myself, he sat me son we’re so confident. It’s beautiful and perfect. down, and I was there over two hours. I walked out with a project—on gravitational waves and black holes, no less. For the next year and a half, I worked with Wheeler non- he LIGO collaboration is enormous. The discovery stop; I was in his office for many hours almost every single paper, published in February, has 1,004 coauthors. day. It was an incredible experience. The UChicago contingent includes myself; Ben When I came to the University of Chicago for gradu- T Farr, a postdoctoral McCormick Fellow in the En- ate school, my adviser was Robert Wald (Charles H. Swift rico Fermi Institute; astronomy graduate student Hsin-Yu Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Physics, Chen; and physics graduate student Zoheyr Doctor. Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College), who had been Part of the research we do involves deciphering the illustration by r. hurt/caltech-jpl (previous pages) (previous hurt/caltech-jpl r. by illustration Wheeler’s student and is an expert on general relativity waveforms. We detect something, and then we ask, well, and black holes. I’ve been working on gravity ever since. what was that? You have to turn the data into a statement: I joined the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave that was two black holes, each 30 times the mass of the sun, Observatory (LIGO) collaboration a couple of years ago. merging a billion light-years away in that part of the sky. I had all these questions about LIGO. I had been writing We help figure that out. theoretical papers about gravitational waves and black Now that we’ve detected gravitational waves, now that holes and neutron stars and cosmology. If I really wanted to we know they’re real, we can start probing questions about make these a reality, I should try to learn from and contrib- the evolution of the universe, how stars live and die, how ute to the effort to detect gravitational waves. So I joined black holes form. This discovery opens the door to so much the collaboration. astrophysical and cosmological exploration. This feeling is hard to describe. It’s something I’ve been working on essentially my entire career. You spend IGO is the most sensitive instrument ever built by all this time searching for something, and then suddenly mankind. It consists of twin detectors, one in Liv- you hear it; the event is in your data, loud and clear. It’s a ingston, Louisiana, and the other in Hanford, Wash- moving experience. Even now, it gives me goose bumps ington. These devices act like antennae to detect to think about it. I see a plot of our results, and I just can’t

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nowledge makes you strong,” writes Ana ured, I can write, I will write, I will teach myself to write. But Castillo, AM’79, in the introduction to I have to have information. her new memoir. “Not scattershot information … but checking and cross-check- You helped create the opportunities that exist today for ing your resources, going to the source, writers of color. radical curiosity.” Castillo was a newly One of the reasons I began writing is that there was a void. published poet in 1978 when she read in And as much as I love literature, there were not Latinas pub- the Chicago Sun-Times about a new Lat- lishing in the United States. I felt a need as a political person in American studies graduate program to make that happen. Even in a very modest way, whether at the University of Chicago. She en- it’s a small press or self-publishing, you’re putting it down. rolled a short time later. “I believed that That’s a political act. I started out that way and 40 years later I would be a good poet and a better poet,” she says, “if I I have to say, yes, writing wasn’t even a realistic thought. It understood the subject matter that I wanted to write about was a dream, it was a vision, it was a really revolutionary act. Kand the world.” I wasn’t doing it for money or fame. I was doing it because it Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me (Feminist Press), was a political act. comes out in May. The personal essays in it weave together the experience of Castillo’s Mexican American How did you wind up at UChicago? family over five generations, from her immigrant I just walked in and had an interview with the director grandparents’ forced repatriation during the Great of the program. And then I was accepted—it happened Depression to her mother’s return to the United States, very rapidly. It was almost informal. It was one of the and from Castillo’s upbringing in Chicago to raising her most singularly important educational experiences of my own son to recently becoming a grandmother. (Read one life, that program. of the essays, “Bowing Out,” on page 52.) After UChicago, Castillo published more poetry as well What made it so important? as essays and fiction, becoming an influential literary and This was the late ’70s and I was a very political Latina, up on political voice and one of the first Chicana writers to reach many of the things that were happening in Latin America. a broad audience. Her breakthrough novel, So Far from God Several of the countries were taken over by dictatorships: (W. W. Norton) was published in 1994, the same year as the Chile, Argentina. The program was focusing on that, and also book version of her dissertation, Massacre of the Dreamers: on Mexico, which is my family background. So it was speak- Essays on Xicanisma (Plume). Castillo coined “Xicanisma” ing personally to me and it was speaking politically to me. for the vocal, historically and politically conscious Chicana feminism she is known for. Her interview with the Maga- zine is edited and condensed. FOR A POOR BROWN How has studying social sciences influenced your literary career? GIRL TO BE RECOGNIZED As a Latina, Mexican, Chicana, indigenous woman, I was interested in history, politics, and culture because we are very FOR HER INTELLECTUAL underrepresented and undervalued in society. I felt that what I needed was more information. It’s very funny now because ACUMEN WAS JUST we have such a proliferation of MFA programs, making that

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Glimpses_v3.indd 36 4/25/16 4:44 PM my first novel, which got some attention. I was invited to speak at the Ger- man Association of Americanists and American Studies at the University of Bremen. There was a great deal of interest in my theories and ideas. At one point I said, “I’ve written it in fiction and poetry; one of these days I’m going to write it all down as nonfiction.” The dean of American studies said, “And the day you do, we will accept it here as a formal dissertation.” I said, me and my big mouth. I went “I have always seen myself as a poet,” says Castillo. “I think that back to the States and thought about it. poets, true poets, are witnesses to their society and the world My friend Sandra Cisneros said, “You around them.” theorize all the time, you just don’t write it down.” And the other women in my clique said, “Of course you should write it down.” So I wrote back and said I’ll ac- I’ve always told people who have very different impressions cept your offer, but I’m not going to write it for academics. of the University of Chicago, what I appreciated about my pro- I’m not going to write it for white people, and I’m certainly gram was that they gave the left point of view, the right point not going to write it for Germans. I’m going to write this of view, and the neutral point of view, and they never told us for other Chicanas. or guided us or directed us which one to choose. You chose. That dissertation was Massacre of the Dreamers, which is It was so incredibly fabulous for me as a poet, as a thinker, to my only formal book of feminism. It just had its 20th an- be told, “Here, look at all these points of view. You decide. niversary and came out in a special edition (University of And we’ll respect you as long as you can defend yourself.” New Mexico Press, 2014).

Who did you work with? What does being a feminist mean to you? Friedrich Katz, John Coatsworth, and the director of the People have always thought that feminism is politics or an program, T. Bentley Duncan, AM’61, PhD’67. They were ideology, and it really isn’t. It really is about focusing in on the original professors of that program and it seemed to me women’s identities and rights and their places in the world. that they had enormous respect for us. We were treated When I was very young and was thinking about these with equal respect: Señorita Castillo, Señor Coatsworth. things as a Latina, I read Germaine Greer’s The Female Eu- I was respected, and I had never had that experience be- nuch (1970). Here’s this tall, Anglo, white woman feminist fore. It meant so much to me to have that be a given. I remem- who seemed to have nothing to do with me. Something she ber having a horrible flu during the snowstorm of 1979. I had said that continues to make sense to me is that the one thing a job and I was so sick. And I didn’t do very well on an exam a woman has a right to do is to pursue her happiness. When that I took. I got a C. I went to Professor Coatsworth and you hear that, it sounds frivolous. She’s happy because she asked if I could redo it. I said, “I know what I can do.” And belongs to the country club, or because she doesn’t have to he said, “We know what you can do too, Ms. Castillo.” I was worry about her bills, her children are taken care of. But like, “You do?” that’s not what she means. She means that unless you feel It meant so much to me. For a poor brown girl to be rec- like you are a full participant in this world, you can’t feel ognized for her intellectual acumen was unheard of. He just happy. You can’t feel joy. said that: “We know what you can do.” It’s a lot harder to achieve than what it sounds like. And that’s been a guide for me in terms of leading my life. When Did you go directly to pursue your PhD? I feel unsettled, when I feel devalued, demeaned, dismissed, The PhD is also one of those great, tremendous opportu- I search for space that would make me feel comfortable, that

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KNOWSThe Array of Things takes Chicago’s pulse. by susie allen, ab’09

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UCH_AOTs_v2.indd 38 4/27/16 1:00 PM UCH_AOTs_v2.indd 39 4/27/16 1:01 PM his spring, under the glow of Chicago’s traffic lights, 500 custom-designed sensors will start coming to life, busily gathering information on the city’s air quality, temperature, traffic, sound quality, and more. The devices, soon to be mounted on traffic signal poles across the city, are the eyes, ears, and nose of the Array of Things, an ambitious effort to use highly localized, real-time data to address urban challenges. Some have likened the Array of Things to a municipal Fitbit, monitoring the everyday life of the city. Charlie TCatlett, who spearheaded the project, compares it to an array telescope. Like the Array of Things’ individual nodes, each dish of the telescope is powerful, “but together they can see much further and in more detail than any one of them could do on their own,” says Catlett, senior computer scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, senior fellow at UChicago’s Computation Institute (CI), and director of the CI’s Urban Center for Computation and Data. Catlett recruited experts from the CI, a joint initiative of UChicago and Argonne, and from the School of the Art In- stitute of Chicago (SAIC) to design the nodes, which will be mounted 13 feet above the ground. Environmental sensors are housed within a beehive-like enclosure that con- nects to a rectangular box containing two small computers, each about the size of a deck of cards. THE ARRAY OF THINGS The data collected by the Array of Things will be made available to the public online, offering moment-by-mo- IS “A PLATFORM THAT ment, block-by-block insight into city life. Catlett hopes it will help researchers and citizens solve complex urban problems. Possible uses might include helping asthma suf- PEOPLE COULD USE TO ... ferers avoid areas of poor air quality or detecting urban flooding in real time so the city can deploy its resources to ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE illustration by goerge joch , node image courtesy courtesy image node , joch goerge by illustration

prevent property damage. pages) (previous laboratory national argonne The team is still deciding on precise locations for the OR ADVOCATE FOR nodes; the goal is to place them in areas where the data is most likely to lead to meaningful action, investment, or JUSTICE.” policy change. “We’re interested in how to make the city work better for people who need the city to work better, as opposed to people who would like the city to work bet- The transparent, collaborative spirit of the Array of ter,” he says. Things is reflected in the nodes’ design. “If the data is open Because collected information can be used in whatever and visible, then the instrument itself needs to be open and ways citizens devise, the project aims to give Chicagoans visible,” Pancoast says. “We’re using materials and aesthet- “the ability to advocate on their [own] behalf with fantastic ic treatments that make you want to look at it.” data that a system like this can provide,” explains Doug- The nodes’ design evolved with the project. Initially, las Pancoast of SAIC, who helped design the nodes. “We Catlett—who had gotten interested in wearable sensors could potentially be building a platform that people could and portable air quality monitors while working at Ar- use to advocate for services or advocate for change or ad- gonne—proposed to the city the idea of mounted lockboxes

vocate for justice.” to house data-collecting equipment. The lockboxes would infographic courtesy argonne national laboratory

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UCH_AOTs_v2.indd 40 4/27/16 2:55 PM Swabbing faucets and floors and other surfaces gives Gilbert a picture of how microbes move in our environment.

The design of the Array of Things nodes is intended to reflect the project’s goals of transparency and collaboration.

provide a power source and internet connection while pro- team is conducting workshops and outreach around the city tecting the devices from theft and vandalism. to solicit input on the project, and hopes ideas from the public To save time and effort, the plan to mount lockboxes might shape future iterations of the Array of Things. to hold sensors morphed into mounting the sensors them- In one workshop at Lane Tech College Prep in Chica- selves (“if we’re going to go to the trouble of mounting go’s North Center neighborhood, Catlett and Pancoast are something,” why not make it useful right off the bat, helping high school students build their own data collect- Catlett figured), and the Array of Things was born. A $3.1 ing devices. The questions they’re asking the students to million grant from the National Science Foundation helped consider are not so different from the ones they continue to fund the design and manufacture of the devices; the City of ask themselves: “What do you really care about? What do Chicago is paying for their installation. you want to know more about—and when you know more Nine early prototypes mounted on the University of Chi- about it, aren’t you more capable to describe situations spe- cago campus with custom-molded sensor enclosures proved cifically and to advocate for change?” ◆ too laborious and expensive to replicate. Reliability was a major concern—even one failure a year for each device would result in hundreds of service calls—as was Chicago- ans’ privacy. (An early idea to count foot traffic by connecting to Bluetooth-enabled devices in the vicinity of the nodes was scrapped after residents raised concerns.) Also “really high on our list,” Catlett says, was making the instruments attractive, conspicuous, and unthreatening. Catlett and Pancoast like the current futuristic-looking design, though both stress it is meant to be flexible and may The Computation Institute supports scholars tackling the change somewhat as the 500 nodes are installed in phases. most challenging questions by off ring powerful technol- Not only can the types of sensors change, the appearance of ogy and innovative computational methods to unlock dis-

infographic courtesy argonne national laboratorythe nodes could be customized to each neighborhood. The covery. Learn more at campaign.uchicago.edu.

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UCH_AOTs_v2.indd 41 4/28/16 10:44 AM film DO UMENTARY VISION For 50 years, Kartemquin Films has focused its lenses on social forces and the human lives they shape. by jason kelly

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artemquin Films has occupied the same Today cofounder and artistic director Gordon Quinn, building for nearly all of its half-century AB’65, the last of the founding partners still in the orga- existence, but it’s a different place now. nization, shares an office with Kartemquin’s bulky first The turreted structure wraps around camera, a 16mm with reels protruding like Mickey Mouse the corner of Wellington and Wolcott, ears. A Chicago Tribune appreciation of Blumenthal, writ- just over the western edge of Chicago’s ten after his death in 2014, is framed nearby. Lakeview neighborhood. A Stewart- Fifty years and more than 50 films generate a lot of his- Warner manufacturing plant was down tory. In the offices, that history adorns walls, overflows the street when the documentary film shelves, and infuses conversations even as a new generation production house arrived in 1973, seven of filmmakers, staff, and interns expand Kartemquin’s film- years after its founding by three young ography and build on its philosophy. Some are too young to UChicago alumni. But by the mid-1980s the factory had remember the height of Hoop Dreams passion, let alone the been replaced by “a gated Yuppie community,” late Kar- group’s founding influences. But they carry on the founders’ Ktemquin partner Jerry Blumenthal, AB’58, AM’59, la- passion for “sparking democracy through documentary.” mented in a historical essay about the organization. Inside, the urban chic he dreaded feels far away. Post- It Notes on doors designate editing suites. At the top of a uinn calls Kartemquin today “a full-blown media creaky staircase, framed letters from Chicago mayors Rich- arts organization.” That’s a long way from its three- ard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel, neither very popular in man beginnings in the Hyde Park Bank building in these offices, mark milestones in Kartemquin’s history and 1966, and even from the relatively ad-hoc operation speak to its significance as a Chicago institution. As if to of a decade ago. He has been there from day one, the “quin” balance the political scales, there’s also a 1981 note from the in Kartemquin, a portmanteau formed with the last names Sandinista government in Nicaragua expressing thanks for of the other founders—Stan Karter, EX’66, and Jerry the gift of a camera “to document the revolution.” Temaner, AB’57, whose tenures were brief. The three heard Three Emmys clustered on a mantel with other awards echoes of Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 film Battleship Potemkin nod to the mainstream recognition Kartemquin has in- in the name. The filmmakers Kartemquin. Like the crew on creasingly attracted. The nonprofit was approaching 30 Eisenstein’s cinematic ship, they saw themselves as rebels years of making documentaries that were politically tren- against prevailing authority, although their most important chant and critically acclaimed, but not widely seen, when filmmaking influences were more contemporary. its 26th film, Hoop Dreams, won the audience award for best As undergrads who belonged to Doc Films, they were

documentary at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival. It went entranced by the icons of the detached observational style unless otherwise noted, all photos courtesy kartemquin on to earn more than $11 million worldwide at the box office called cinema verité—Jean Rouch, Richard Leacock, D. (it had cost $700,000 to make). Recent movies, like The A. Pennebaker. After seeing Leacock’s Happy Mother’s Interrupters (2011) and Life Itself (2014), have also received Day (1963), about the life of a South Dakota family in the national attention. Now, with a golden anniversary gala on weeks after the birth of quintuplets, Quinn said to himself, the calendar and 10 films in production, Kartemquin is still “That’s what I want to do.” the artistic force for social justice its founders envisioned, For Kartemquin’s first film, Home for Life (1966), he and just more so. Temaner followed two new residents of a home for the elderly. The filmmakers consciously kept themselves at a remove from the subjects, producing a fly-on-the-wall documentary without imposing a point of view. Scenes ran long—some ex- THE WAY YOU GET cessively so, Temaner recalls some viewers saying—to capture life as it unfolded. “Our idea at that time,” he says, “was PEOPLE TO CHANGE to give people the opportunity to figure out things themselves.” Roger Ebert, EX’70, in his first year as the Chicago Sun-Times film critic, called Home for Life “extraordinarily THEIR THINKING IS YOU moving,” and it was named Best American Film at the 1967 Chicago International Film Festival.

APPROACH THEM ON Blumenthal joined that year, in order to dedicate himself fi

“to a life of penury and pleasure, making movies, that is,” lms AN EMOTIONAL LEVEL. he wrote in his historical essay. As the filmmakers honed

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UCH_Kartemquin_v5.indd 44 4/27/16 4:46 PM their craft while supporting themselves on outside projects—industrial and educational films and the like— Kartemquin’s work became more overtly political. In the 1970s the organization operated as a collective (since the 1980s it has been a nonprofit From left, collective members Blumenthal, Sharon Karp, Sue Davenport, and organization). Leftist po- Quinn at Wellington Street a few years after Kartemquin’s arrival there. litical positions superseded filmmaking skills as a prereq- uisite to join. Members represented the civil rights, black power, antiwar, and women’s on exposing and analyzing the external forces negatively liberation movements, among others. affecting people’s lives, illustrating the consequences The “hustle committee” did the fundraising, which in- through individual stories but emphasizing social critique. volved hauling projectors to bars and union halls for screen- Kartemquin’s films have always addressed social issues— ings. Regular “structure and identity” meetings defined the immigration, urban violence, homelessness, health care, and collective’s priorities. The members debated whether to make economic issues from labor unions to unemployment to liv- narrow, interest-driven films or to appeal to wider audiences, ing on minimum wage—and Quinn once considered himself and the more accomplished among them trained the others in an activist first and foremost. His perspective began to shift camera, sound, and editing techniques. Blumenthal remem- while at work with Blumenthal on their 1988 film Golub, bered the meetings as “complicated, comic, and doomed.” about antiwar artist Leon Golub, AB’42. The documentary The films Kartemquin made in that era emerged from represented a “bridge,” Hoffman says, between the overtly relationships with local activist groups such as the work- political work that preceded it and the focus on emotional ing-class youth movement Rising Up Angry, steel work- identification with individuals that defined subsequent ers’ unions, and striking doctors at Cook County Hospital. films—to the greatest popular acclaim in Hoop Dreams. “The “We really made connections with what was going on in way that I think you get people to change their thinking is Chicago in a progressive way,” says cinematographer and you approach them on an emotional level,” Quinn says now. videographer Judy Hoffman, a collective member who is “You make them feel something.” unless otherwise noted, all photos courtesy kartemquin now a professor of practice in UChicago’s cinema and me- Director Steve James’s story of Chicago high school bas- dia studies department. “What kinds of films did they need ketball players Arthur Agee and William Gates aspiring to get their work done?” to stardom brought a larger audience to issues Kartemquin Cinematographer Peter Kuttner, for example, was a had been addressing for decades. Because it was a tale of founding member of Rising Up Angry. A camera techni- sports, family, and coming of age, Quinn says, Hoop Dreams cian on dozens of Hollywood movies, he teaches film and drew viewers who otherwise might not have identified media skills to low-income students through Chicago with the struggles of working-class inner-city life. “Lots youth media projects and community organizations. His and lots of people watched Hoop Dreams who would never Kartemquin credits include Now We Live on Clifton (1974), watch a film about an inner-city family, ... but they watched about gentrification in working-class West Lincoln Park, Hoop Dreams. They spent almost three hours with those and The Chicago Maternity Center Story (1976), about the people,” he says, “and bonded with them.” home-birth organization’s struggle to survive funding cuts. Even if unsympathetic viewers aren’t persuaded to a Echoes of Kartemquin’s cinema verité influences re- filmmaker’s point of view, Quinn came to believe, estab- mained, but the aesthetic of detachment had been cast off lishing an emotional connection between viewer and sub- in favor of explicitly advancing the collective’s agenda. jects still bears fruit. One of his favorite critiques came “We were making films with driving narrations, and very in an online comment responding to The New Americans analytical,” Quinn says, “with a verité backbone to them.” (2004), a seven-hour miniseries that aired on PBS and There was a heartbeat too—the children at the center of chronicled four years in the lives of immigrants from India, Nigeria, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and the Middle fi Now We Live on Clifton who fear being forced out of their lms neighborhood, the young mother expecting her first baby East. The angry commenter saw through the filmmakers’ in The Chicago Maternity Center. The filmmakers focused ploy. They were trying to make the audience identify with

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UCH_Kartemquin_v5.indd 45 4/27/16 4:46 PM A selected filmography from Kartemquin’s first 50 years. the film’s subjects by portraying them as human beings just like the viewers, with families they love and aspirations for their lives. “And I resent it.” To Quinn, that was validation. He hadn’t changed the commenter’s mind on the issue, but The New Americans had elicited an acknowledgment of the people beyond the political abstractions. “I’ll take that,” he says.

he subjects and styles of Kartemquin films vary widely, but Quinn is always asking himself, “How can we show the consequences in people’s lives of T the decisions that are made in a democracy?” The question echoes an idea Quinn encountered in the Col- lege that has bent the arc of his career. It comes from the educator and pragmatist philosopher John Dewey, who cofounded the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. Quinn wrote about it in his BA thesis and has used it in in- numerable fundraising proposals since. Scanning the spines on his office bookshelf, he finds what looks like a circa 1980s edition of Dewey’s The Public and Its Problems (Henry Holt and Company, 1927). He holds the paperback but quotes from memory: “Artists have always been the real purveyors of the news. For it’s not the outward happening in itself which is new, but the kindling by it of MARCO (1970) emotion, perception, and appreciation.” News, in Dewey’s formulation, was transitory spectacle, A pregnant woman confronts resistance over undigested information or passing images of misfortune. her decision to have a natural childbirth using the “What we would call sensationalism,” Quinn says. Deep Lamaze method. exploration of the real-world impact of policies, expression of the complex ways events shape people’s lives—that was the artist’s responsibility. It’s a responsibility Quinn continues to embrace, and to pass down to new generations of filmmakers. And Kartemquin’s stable of filmmakers and list of films are growing. Its 27 releases since 2000 repre- sent more than half the organization’s total output. IT’S NOT THE OUTWARD HAPPENING IN ITSELF WHICH IS NEW, BUT THE KINDLING BY IT OF THE LAST PULLMAN CAR (1983) Fighting for the future of American-built railroad EMOTION, PERCEPTION, cars, workers struggle to keep manufacturing jobs in the Pullman neighborhood on Chicago’s AND APPRECIATION. South Side.

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UCH_Kartemquin_v5.indd 46 4/28/16 12:09 PM Steve James has been prolific in the two decades since Hoop Dreams, with well received works such as Stevie (2002), The Interrupters (2011), and the Ebert biography Life Itself (2014). Peabody Award–winning filmmaker HOME FOR LIFE (1966) Maria Finitzo’s Kartemquin productions include Mapping Called “extraordinarily moving” by Roger Ebert, Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita (2007) and In the Game EX’70, Kartemquin’s fi st documentary follows two (2015), about the struggles of low-income students on a high school soccer team in a predominantly Hispanic Chicago new residents at a home for the elderly. neighborhood. And Emmy nominee Joanna Rudnick’s In the Family (2008) explores the complexities of genetic testing while her On Beauty (2014) follows an erstwhile fashion photographer challenging our standard notions of beauty. Kartemquin’s reputation in the independent documentary industry now attracts waves of new producers and directors. With her UChicago students, Hoffman says, the name carries almost mythological status. For executive director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights and senior lecturer in the College Susan Gzesh, AB’72, Quinn’s founding philosophy was prescient. The students she teaches in the College today embrace visual culture, in particular documentary, as a medium for telling stories. In human rights studies, she says, it’s important that students “become more sophisticated producers and consumers of visual texts.” Gzesh, a former member of Kartemquin’s UE/WELLS (1975) board of directors, helped organize one of the first major Kartemquin retrospectives on campus in 2006 and has Workers unite across racial lines in a drive by the hosted Quinn and Blumenthal in her Contemporary Issues United Electrical Workers Union to organize at the in Human Rights course to talk about making art that’s po- Wells Foundry in Chicago. litically and artistically powerful. One former student of Hoffman’s, Dinesh Sabu, AB’06, is among the young filmmakers who have gravitated to Kartemquin. Sabu started as an intern almost a decade ago. He’s nearing the completion of his first feature-length documentary, Unbroken Glass. It tells the story of his parents, who both died when he was young, his mother by suicide after suffering from schizophrenia. The film explores her life, his parents’ relationship, and the taboo surrounding mental illness in the South Asian immigrant community. Grappling with such difficult personal experiences was at times “nerve-racking” and “really, really fraught,” Sabu says. Even writing grant proposals meant revisiting dark moments, but the process toughened him and created a necessary distance between Sabu as a person and as a filmmaker. By the time he held screenings of rough cuts for Kartemquin colleagues last year, he felt prepared to receive their criti- HOOP DREAMS (1994) cism on a professional level. “Ultimately, you just have to have faith that it’s going to Director Steve James’s acclaimed account of two make your film better,” Sabu says. “Oftentimes a film won’t high school basketball players, their quest for really find an audience until it’s basically done and there’s professional glory, and the challenges they face in all these problems with it that might have been addressed inner-city America. earlier in the process.”

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artemquin filmmakers receive such essential feedback early and often. Although ideas can come from anywhere, all Kartemquin films are made in-house. Independent producers and directors K STEVIE (2002) present their vision and the organization helps them bring it to fruition. It provides office space, equipment, editing, James reunites with a rural southern Illinois man funding, and distribution for the projects it supports. “It’s whom he once served as a Big Brother, with painful very hard to make a film without that,” says Hoffman, and consequences. Kartemquin’s presence means “there is at least one place in Chicago where documentary filmmakers can go to try to make movies.” For many who go, Kartemquin’s most important service is the collaborative community it provides to help see them through the creative process. “We don’t want to make films with people where we’re just putting our name on it or they’re just sending us rough cuts,” says Tim Horsburgh, director of communication and distribution. “We feel like there’s a special sort of connectivity in the building.” The offices have a definite grad-school vibe. Other than a couple of quiet nooks, rooms are big and open, the interaction casual and irreverent, the spirit communal and egalitarian. From everyone, interns on up, ideas are encouraged. Expected. Demanded. Beckie Stocchetti, AB’08, Kartemquin’s director of engagement and programs until this past March, remembers MILKING THE RHINO (2008) from her internship how Blumenthal would draw everyone into a conversation, even if it meant he had to “call you out” Ancient customs and Western influences clash as to express an opinion. Eventually, Quinn points out, Stoc- Himba and Maasai people in Africa, displaced and chetti became the one calling on people. disaff cted by “white man conservation,” try to Points of view often collide, echoing how Quinn and claim the spoils of wildlife tourism. Blumenthal used to tussle over everything from where to end a scene to the merits of Hollywood movies neither of them had seen. (They joked about having their own television show, à la Siskel and Ebert, called Not At the Movies.) Their combative, productive partnership was an example

for everyone, Stocchetti says, of “people who can argue photography by kevin horan about everything but still ultimately respect each other and work together to finish a project.” Finishing projects once strained the organization’s resources. Everyone worked part time on films and part time on other priorities, such as promoting diversity in the independent documentary industry and advocating for fair-use rights. “Whenever the films would ramp up,” says Justine Nagan, AM’04, Kartemquin’s executive director from 2008 to 2015, “there would be no one left to mind the store.” Nagan—who left last year to lead American Documen- LIFE ITSELF (2014) tary Inc., the producer of the PBS series POV—oversaw Based on his memoir and subtitled “The only thing Kartemquin’s evolution into a more stable and self-sustain- Roger loved more than movies,” the film traces ing operation. Before becoming executive director, she ran communications and distribution. What qualified as a great Ebert’s Chicago writing and TV career and his accomplishment back then was an agreement with the Muse- emergence as a national cultural voice.

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UCH_Kartemquin_v5.indd 48 4/27/16 4:47 PM WE DON’T JUST MAKE FILMS. WE’RE ENLARGING THE FILMMAKING COMMUNITY HERE IN REFRIGERATOR MOTHERS (2002) Faced with the challenge of raising children with CHICAGO. severe autism, a generation of mothers in the 1950s and ’60s also endured blame for their um of Modern Art in New York to sell DVDs of Golub. The museum ordered six copies. Nagan’s reaction was, “Halle- children’s condition. lujah, victory!” She conceived of a more ambitious enterprise that could devote undivided attention to all of Kartemquin’s priorities. The process began with a $50 0,0 0 0 MacArthur Foun- dation Creative and Effective Institutions award in 2007. Nagan formalized many programs that the organization had operated on a shoestring, developing a fundraising structure and expanding the staff to support both the filmmaking process and the wider mission. She started KTQ Labs, for example, as part of that wider mission. The monthly forum invites outside filmmakers to screen rough cuts and receive feedback from Kartemquin’s brain trust. Kartemquin had long opened its doors for screenings, but KTQ Labs has created more opportunities, and interest has grown to the point that there’s now a waiting list. THE INTERRUPTERS (2011) Another relatively recent venture, Diverse Voices in Docs, offers mentorship to aspiring minority filmmakers in Director James and author Alex Kotlowitz partnership with the Community Film Workshop of Chi- collaborate on an exploration of violence in cago. “We don’t just make films,” Horsburgh says. “We’re Chicago and the people putting themselves in enlarging the filmmaking community here in Chicago.” harm’s way to stop it. As Kartemquin’s audience and influence have grown over the past half century, so has Quinn’s view of the forces that give documentary film its persuasive power—art and activism. At a recent board meeting, a question arose about where members fall along the spectrum between those two sup- posed poles. Quinn rejected the entire premise. “It’s a false dichotomy. That was my problem with it,” he says. “You have to be about both, and you can be extreme about both.” ◆

Jason Kelly is an associate editor of Notre Dame Magazine.

On June 2, during Alumni Weekend, the Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Memorial Human Rights Lecture will feature Gordon HARD EARNED (2015) Quinn in conversation with Jacqueline Stewart, AM’93, PhD’99, professor of cinema and media studies. The event, A six-part series for Al Jazeera America sponsored by the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, chronicles the struggles of five families trying to begins at 6:00 p.m. in Mandel Hall. get by on low-wage work. For more information, visit alumniweekend.uchicago.edu/eventhighlights.

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Headed to Alumni Weekend? This year’s edition highlights the arts, but there’s something for everyone. Here are five events that caught our eye.

1. Meet the filmmaker. The Robert H. Kirschner, MD, Memorial Human Rights Lecture features cofounder and creative director of Chicago’s own Kartemquin Films Gordon Quinn, AB’65, speaking about documentary and democracy. (Get a refresher on the history of Kartemquin in “Docu- mentary Vision,” page 42.) Thursday, June 2, 6:00–7:30 p.m. in Mandel Hall. 2. Kick back. In what’s become a modern-day Alumni Weekend tradition, part of the quad is magically transformed into the Baderbräu Beer Garden, offering local brews, bever- ages, and snacks. A perfect respite between classes, er, UnCommon Core sessions. Friday, June 3, 1–4 p.m., and Saturday, June 4, 2–5 p.m., on the main quadrangle. 3. Walk about. From libraries to hard hats to public art, the weekend has a tour for everyone. Get up close and personal with the not-quite-completed Campus North Residential Commons or the newly finished William Eckhardt Re- search Center. Or stop and smell the roses on the Cam- pus Gardens Tour with UChicago’s landscape architect Richard Bumstead. 4. Hear something new. The University Symphony Orchestra’s special concert in honor of conductor Barbara Schubert’s 40th year with the orchestra features the world premiere of a commis- sioned work by Ricardo Lorenz, PhD’99. There are two chances to attend: Friday night at 8 p.m. and Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. 5. Laugh a lot. Generations of Off-Off Campus alumni take the stage Saturday evening, making it up as they go. Saturday, June 4, 7–9 p.m. in the Cloister Club, Ida Noyes Hall.

—Laura Demanski, AM’94 photography by anne ryan

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Vendors chat during the eighth annual 57th Street Art Fair in 1955. This year’s fair will be held during Alumni Weekend on June 4 and 5. uchicago photographic archive, apf2-09877, university of chicago library

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Bowing out BY ANA CASTILLO, AM’79

This month the Feminist Press published but he was still a clumsy duckling re- We have our little chats then, my Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me, an turning every day to the fold of his almost grown-up son and I, about his essay collection by Ana Castillo, AM’79. mother’s wing. Now he is nearly six grades at school, homework, what Written over 20 years, the essays focus on feet tall and will start shaving soon. money he needs now and for what, or her experiences as an American woman He’s kind of got a girlfriend. about where each of us is at in our lives of Mexican descent, as a writer, and as a He comes into my room, his single on that given day. “Are you in a rela- daughter and mother. They culminate in mom’s room, usually accompanied tionship?” I ask him. Castillo’s searching, emotional account of by his little dog, Rick. The dog is less I say that word because I’ve over- her son Marcel0’s two-year incarceration certain that it is welcomed into this heard him use it on the telephone with for “a senseless robbery” in 2009, the social forbidden domain than his master and his best friend. I’m trying to imagine and personal forces that led to his troubled hesitates when Mi’jo is invited in. I am what “relationship” could mean to a act, and his reemergence, in prison, as the usually not in the middle of anything pair of 15-year-olds. son she had known. Ten years before the that can’t be interrupted, my laptop “I don’t know,” he says. I guess he’s robbery, she sketched her life with Mi’jo, as propped on a pillow or frayed tarot trying to understand what it means to she affectionately calls Marcelo, when he cards out for a little nightly musing or him, too. was on the cusp of adulthood. For an inter- I’m reading or doing all three and lis- “You’re too young,” I say, predictably view with Castillo, see Glimpses, page 36. tening to a jazz program on Chicago to him as the strictest mother he knows. National Public Radio. I am always “You’re like a green corn. You’re not “decent,” which is how a woman who ready to give anything. Too green.” henever Mi’jo wants sleeps alone usually dresses for bed. No “And you’re too old for a relation- to come into my gratuitous nudity on my own account. ship,” he says, also predictably as a bedroom he knocks, Before you know it my almost teenager who has to get in the last of course. It’s some- grown-up boy is sneaking under my word. It doesn’t have to make any sense thing he learned how comforter and trying to get the dog as long as it’s the last word. to do at five. But in to hop in too. (Which it does not do, Well, I’m not in any “relationship” the last couple of being that the dog is no fool and un- so it’s a moot point at the moment, but years, before he en- derstands the hierarchy of command I must admit he’s got me there. I’m ters he gives me an in our household: do not—if you know pretty content dancing solo and, like Eastern-style bow what’s good for you—jump on the ma- a bona fide bachelor, getting very ac- and says something ma-san’s bed.) customed to my habits. (I’d say “bach- in Japanese, I think, which I don’t un- elorette” but it would call to mind The Wderstand. I don’t even know where he Dating Game show and that’s some- learned it. Maybe TV. You think all I heard the first tear thing I really don’t do anymore, not to your child is picking up from television mention the fact that I can recall that is how to become a cold-blooded killer at the seam, but he program very likely makes Mi’jo’s teekay credit photo and then he comes up with an elegant was still a clumsy point.) Maybe my wise 15-year-old is ritual of respect toward his mother. right, perhaps I have gotten too old for I am thinking about this because my duckling returning a relationship. If he’s too green, possi- only child is now 15 and he is beginning every day to the fold bly you could also get so ripe you need to separate. At the brink of adoles- to stand all on your own to be fully photo credit teekay cence I heard the first tear at the seam, of his mother’s wing. appreciated by everyone, no compro- castillo ana courtesy photo

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mises, no fifty-fifty sharing. Most kiss on his forehead, now covered with importantly, no shared bathroom. an outbreak of teen acne. (There are two basins in my bathroom He gets up; the dog scampers out but one is used for a flowerpot.) quickly behind him. Mi’jo, at the But what I say to my son is this: “Go door, turns around, bows, and bids to bed. I pay the bills around here. I goodnight with his Japanese phrase. can do whatever I want.” I wish I knew what he is saying. But “I’m the man of the house,” he says. I’ve never asked him. It’s one of the I can’t believe my ears. Before I have a many new things about him now that chance to react, he adds with a teasing are him and that I’m not expected to smile, “I’m the man of the house be- understand, just let be. ◆ Coast Lines cause I’m the only man in the house.” How Mapmakers Frame “I am the woman of the house,” I say. Ana Castillo, AM’79, is the author of the World and Chart “And Rick is the dog of the house,” So Far From God (1993) and Sapogo- he says with a full-fledged grin and puts nia (1990), both New York Times No- Environmental Change his head on my shoulder. Suddenly he’s table Books of the Year, as well as The Mark MonMonier not 15 and ready to soar off into new Guardians (2007), Peel My Love Like an “For anyone interested in an informative horizons to escape the nagging, oppres- Onion (1999), and many other books. and entertaining read on climate change sive ball and chain previously known She is returning to her hometown, via the science of cartography and photo credit teekay credit photo as Mami, but a peaceful, trusting child Chicago, after 12 years in the Chihua- map-making.”—Weatherwise who (like his mother, and yes, even like huan Desert of New Mexico. the dog, and every other living thing on Visit http://bit.ly/freebk to the planet) is just trying to figure out Reprinted from Black Dove: Mamá, get your copy! where he fits to keep everything bal- Mi’jo, and Me by permission of the Femi- anced—and in harmony. nist Press. This essay was originally pub- the University oF ChiCago Press www.press.uchicago.edu photo credit teekay photo courtesy ana castillo ana courtesy photo “Goodnight,” I say to my son with a lished in Salon.

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ROCKING THE VOTE MTV News has hired Wonkette founding editor and New York Times Magazine contributor Ana Marie Cox, AB’94, as senior political correspondent. Cox, who also hosts CBS’s politics podcast The Brouhaha, will help the network bolster its political coverage ahead of the 2016 election.

FAITHFULLY LIBRARY LEADER During his speech at the annual President Barack Obama has nominated Carla D. Hayden, AM’77, PhD’87, to head National Prayer Breakfast in Wash- the Library of Congress. If confi med Hayden would become both the fi st woman ington, DC, in February, President and the first African American to be the nation’s top librarian. The CEO of the Barack Obama recognized the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore since 1993, she previously held leadership courage of Muslim activist Rami positions with the Chicago Public Library and the American Library Association. Nashashibi, AM’98, PhD’11, in continuing to pray publicly following the San Bernardino shootings in GRIDIRON GURU borhoods surrounding each stop. December. The executive director of The Cleveland Browns have pro- “We are seeking artists who make Inner-City Muslim Action Network, moted Ken Kovash, MBA’06, to compelling, provocative, interesting Nashashibi works to bring social vice president of player personnel. work that seems like it would be a services and arts education to under- Formerly the Browns’ director of good fit,” she told the Chicago Tribune. served communities across Chicago. research, Kovash now uses his analytic abilities to help run the team’s HEALTHY FOCUS ACE REPORTING scouting program. Before joining the Pacific Standard magazine named Ian Urbina, AM’97, is a recipient of Browns in 2013 Kovash was senior Sean Dickson, AB’09, one of its “30 the 2015 George Polk Award in Jour- analytics manager with the Dallas Top Thinkers Under 30” for his work nalism for Foreign Reporting. The Cowboys, where he led one of the in improving access to health care. As awards commemorate CBS corre- first analytics departments in the Na- a manager with the National Alliance spondent Polk, who was killed while tional Football League. of State and Territorial AIDS Di- covering the Greek civil war in 1948. rectors Dickson advocates for more Urbina, a New York Times reporter, TURNING A PAGE affordable HIV/AIDS medications. won for his series the Outlaw Ocean, Lisa Lucas, AB’01, has been appoint- He has been an outspoken critic of a chronicle of human trafficking, ed executive director of the National Turing Pharmaceuticals and its for- poaching, and other lawlessness on Book Foundation, which presents mer CEO, Martin Shkreli, after the the high seas. For more on Urbina and the annual National Book Awards. company raised the price of an anti- the Outlaw Ocean, see “Deep Dive,” Lucas, most recently the publisher of parasitic drug commonly used by UChicago Journal, Winter/16. literary magazine Guernica, assumed patients with compromised immune her new role on March 14 with a goal systems from $13.50 to $750 a tablet. RIDE ON of engaging as many people as possi- In February the Quinnipiac Univer- ble with contemporary US literature. HERR PRÄSIDENT

sity School of Law recognized Lula M. “The focus for me is inclusivity—and Michael P. Steinberg, AM’81, library free pratt enoch courtesy photo White, AB’60, AM’63, for her part that’s everyone: That’s regional, PhD’85, has been chosen as presi- in the civil rights movement with the that’s racial, that’s socioeconomic,” dent of the American Academy in Black Law Students Association’s she told NPR. “Everyone is either a Berlin, effective August 15. Founded Thurgood Marshall Award. White reader or a potential reader.” in 1994, the academy is focused on organized protests in Chicago in the strengthening intellectual, cultural, 1960s and was one of the Freedom MOVING ART and political ties between the United Riders who challenged segregated in- Elizabeth Kelley, AM’91, is in charge States and Germany by hosting terstate transit services in the South. of a $2.5 million Chicago Transit Au- American scholars and artists and of- “She’s someone on whose shoulders thority project to put more public art fering public events in Berlin. Stein- those of us here today, black and in 10 train stations and a bus station. berg is the vice provost for the arts white, should stand,” said Quinnipiac Kelley, the CTA’s public art admin- and a professor of history, music, and professor Marilyn Ford at the award istrator, is commissioning work from German studies at Brown University. presentation. local artists that will reflect the neigh- —Helen Gregg, AB’09

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Notes_Spring2016_v4.indd 52 4/27/16 2:09 PM EMMETT TILL IN DIFFERENT STATES: POEMS RELEASES By Philip C. Kolin, AM’67; Third World Press, 2015 In 1955 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi for reportedly The Magazine lists a selection of general flirting with a white woman. Poet interest books, films, and albums by alumni. and University of Southern Missis- For additional alumni releases, use the link sippi professor emeritus Philip C. Ko- to the Magazine’s Goodreads bookshelf at lin’s latest collection reflects on more mag.uchicago.edu/alumni-books. than seven decades of race relations in America through the evolving, SOLEMN still-resonant legacy of Till’s murder. By Kalisha Buckhanon, AB’99, AM’07; St. Martin’s Press, 2016 HEROINES OF MERCY STREET: THE REAL In the final novel in Kalisha Buckha- NURSES OF THE CIVIL WAR non’s trilogy on black American life, CITY OF THORNS: NINE LIVES IN THE By Pamela Toler, AM’81, PhD’03; Solemn Redvine senses that a baby WORLD’S LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP Little, Brown, and Company, 2016 in her rural Mississippi trailer park By Ben Rawlence, AM’99; In this companion book to the PBS may be her half sibling. After seeing Picador, 2016 drama series Mercy Street, history the baby dropped down a community Ben Rawlence first visited Dadaab, writer Pamela Toler tells the sto- well, Solemn is thrown into chaos a Kenyan refugee camp near the ries of several real-life nurses who that only deepens when the baby’s Somalian border, as a Human Rights worked at a makeshift Union hospital mother disappears, a crime the local Watch researcher in 2010. Over the in Virginia during the Civil War. police force is reluctant to investi- course of four years and seven long Toler draws on diaries, letters, and gate. In this lyrical, haunting coming- visits, he saw the camp’s population memoirs to show how overwhelming of-age story, Solemn struggles to find swell to half a million people and casualties on both sides of the war identity and a way forward in the face witnessed the violence, destitution, turned the Madison House nurses of poverty and disenfranchisement. and hopelessness in which they live. into fierce patient advocates, mark- Through the stories of nine of the ing a new era in American medicine. refugees, Rawlence examines the sociopolitical forces that keep them trapped at Dadaab and puts individual faces on a humanitarian crisis.

MARKETS OF PROVENCE: FOOD, ANTIQUES, CRAFTS, AND MORE By Marjorie R. Williams, AB’80; St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016 Markets have been a part of life in Provence, France, since the Middle Ages. Food and travel writer Marjo- rie R. Williams highlights 30 of the region’s markets in a pocket-sized THE DEFENDER: HOW THE LEGENDARY BLACK guide. Including color-coded maps, HAIR: A HUMAN HISTORY NEWSPAPER CHANGED AMERICA browsing and payment etiquette, and By Kurt Stenn, LAB’57, SB’61; Pegasus By Ethan Michaeli, AB’89; Houghton key French phrases, the guide pro- Books, 2016 Mifflin Harcourt, 2016 vides information both necessary and Hair complements our fashion Founded in 1905, the Defender news- enriching for a Provençal shopping trends, is found in musical instru- paper in Chicago has become an in- experience. ments, aids in forensic science—and fluential publication for generations has become part of our identity. Fol- of African Americans thanks to its HERE THE BLUE RIVER licle expert Kurt Stenn, former di- unflinching coverage of racial justice By Haroula Rose (Spyropoulos), AB’02, rector of skin biology at Johnson and issues and columns by prominent MAT’02; Little Bliss Records, 2016 Johnson, explores many biological, black thinkers. Former Defender re- Folk singer/songwriter Haroula cultural, and anthropological strands porter Ethan Michaeli chronicles the Rose’s second LP, named after a line of hair and its history, including the paper’s past and the way it has shaped in a Ralph Waldo Emerson poem, science behind relaxers and dyes, the American history, from encouraging features layered, flowing melodies role of hair shirts in medieval reli- the Great Migration to galvanizing and plenty of storytelling. Many gion, the art of wig making, the use civil rights activists to helping elect songs pay homage to her literary in- of hair in commercial products from presidents from John F. Kennedy to fluences, from Pablo Neruda to Bon- brushes to tennis balls, and more. Barack Obama. nie Jo Campbell, AB’84. — Helen Gregg, AB’09

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Releases_Layout_Spring16_v3.indd 53 4/26/16 12:50 PM I had the pleasure of describing our Hutchins program and speculating on how useful it might ALUMNI have been for Santa Cruz in its initial dreams for its colleges. It still feels like it gave me a good start. NEWS —Pavel Machotka, AB’56

Because he has lived in Italy since his retirement, it has been difficult for Pavel to keep in touch with the University or attend reunions. However, in a recent interview at UC Santa Cruz on the occasion of the school’s 50th anniversary, he reflected on his U of C experience. He writes: “I had the pleasure of describing our Hutchins program and speculating on how useful it might have been for Santa Cruz in its initial dreams for its colleges. It still feels like it gave me a good start.” sen d you r n ews to: Bernice “Brine” College classes Yutan Firestone, AB’56, SB’56, SM’59, 188 Mary Street, Winnetka, IL 60093. Email: [email protected]. send your news to: Roland Fin- For many years four UChicago won the 2016 PROSE Award in Archi- ston, AB’57, SB’57, 856 Thornwood grads in the Washington, DC, tecture and Urban Planning from the As- 57 Dr., Palo Alto, CA 94303. Phone: 48 metropolitan area—Mike Daniels, sociation of American Publishers and the 650.494.0287. Email: [email protected]. AB’49, JD’52; Mel Spaeth, AB’48, JD’52; 2015 Athenaeum Literary Award for Art send your news to: Bob Bloom, Larry Berlin, AM’50; and Gerald Green- and Architecture from the Athenaeum of SB’58. Email: bobloom@ameritech wald, AB’48, JD’51—have been meeting Philadelphia. Barbara is the Andrew W. 58 .net. monthly for lunch. “The prime topic used Mellon Professor Emerita in the Humani- send your news to: Joette Knapik to be national politics,” says Gerald, “but ties and research professor in growth and Trofimuk, AB’59, AM’61, Photo- now we seem more interested in talking structure of cities at Bryn Mawr College. 59 genesis Gallery, 100 East San Fran- about family, books, music, and Metro- send your news to: The University of cisco St., Santa Fe, NM 87501. Email: ojoette politan Opera HD simulcasts, which we Chicago Magazine, c/o Alumni News Editor. @cybermesa.com. frequently watch together.” Email: [email protected]. Ken Leonard, AB’60, MBA’66, send your news to: The University of After retiring from the University writes, “Since my semiretirement Chicago Magazine, c/o Alumni News Editor. of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000, 60 some 13 years ago I have been spend- Email: [email protected]. 56 Pavel Machotka, AB’56, turned ing my time campaigning for change in Il- Houses for a New World: Builders and to writing and painting. His recent books linois law to allow doctor-assisted aid in Buyers in American Suburbs, 1945– include Cézanne: Landscape into Art ( Yale dying, similar to laws now in place in Or- 53 1965 (Princeton University Press, University Press, 1996; enlarged edition egon, Washington, Vermont, Montana, 2015) by Barbara Miller Lane, AB’53, from Arbor Vitae, 2014), Style and Psyche: and, most recently, California. I and my The Art of Lundy Siegriest and Terry St. John small band of pro-choice activists (includ- (Hampton Press, 1999), Painting and Our ing several U of C alums) have been hard at Inner World: The Psychology of Image Mak- work drafting legislation in cooperation What’s new? We are always eager to ing (Springer, 2003), Cézanne: The Eye and with the American Civil Liberties Union, receive your news, care of the Alumni the Mind (Éditions Crès, 2008), and “The putting on educational programs to en- News Editor, The University of Chicago Prague Uprising 1945” (2015). He has had courage everyone to fill out advance di- Magazine, 5235 South Harper Court, solo exhibits of his paintings in Prague and in rectives, and writing grants to charitable Suite 500, Chicago, IL 60615, or by email: Italy, and he received an honorary doctorate foundations trying to raise enough funds uchicago-magazine@uchicago.edu. from Charles University in Prague in 1998 to start hiring professional public relations No engagements, please. Items may be on the 650th anniversary of the university’s people and lobbyists. Hopefully there are edited for space. As news is published in founding. In 2015 he received the Universi- other like-minded fellow alums who will the order in which it arrives, it may not ty of California’s systemwide Constantine join our crusade by contacting me at ken appear immediately. We list news from all Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award. @kenleonardassociates.com or visiting our former undergraduates (including those Created by a bequest from UCLA professor website at finaloptionsillinois.com. I know with UChicago graduate degrees) by the Panunzio, the award honors outstanding that there are plenty of very talented writ- year of their undergraduate affiliation. scholarly work or educational service per- ers and public speakers who are anxious to All former students who received only formed since retirement by a University of contribute their skills on behalf of the right graduate degrees are listed in the California professor emeritus or emerita in to determine how much pain and suffering

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 56 4/27/16 1:36 PM se n d you r n ews to: Steven Kailes, AB’60, Apt. 8L, 3430 North Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL 60657. Email: [email protected]. Just out is Ivan Argüelles’s (AB’61) latest book of poetry, Orphic Cantos 61 (Luna Bisonte, 2016). He writes, “I’m back with still another book published. Like an art of the fugue, this book consists of 101 poems on the theme of Or- pheus and Eurydice.” The introduction says, “Argüelles [is] one of the most unique and authentic poets working in English today. ... When you consider Ivan Argüelles’s work, you are looking at something basic about human experience. His work is one of our greatest treasures.” Ivan comments that his writing “delves deep into the classics, for which he owes a fundamental debt to his years studying them in the musty rooms on the south side of the quad.” Michael Stoken, AB’61, is still working as a portfolio manager with Morgan Stan- ley. “My Swedish expat wife, Agneta, and I live in Highland Park, IL, where we’ve managed to raise four great kids— only one grandchild so far. ... We spend Residence hall rock: Debbie (Mines) Chassman, AB’58, plays the guitar and Elaine some social time with Myron “Mike” Ein- Katz, AB’58, listens on a bed during an informal jam session with friends in their isman, AB’62, MBA’63, and his wife, Green Hall room. Meg Boland, and with Norman Mar- gulies, SB’61, MBA’62, and Sarah Ann Margulies. Last year I had a wonderful conversation with my old roommate Paul along to me. (I owe you one, Roberta.) vides a series of enlightened and learner- Hyman, AB’61.” The head of the urology depart- empowering alternatives to it. Among Jeannine A. Majde-Cottrell, SB’64 ment at UIC since 1989, Larry has had those alternatives are ones that clearly (Class of 1961), and her husband, Joseph, a distinguished career that includes his demonstrate how educators can expand visited my husband, Beryl, and me presidencies of the American Urologi- their vision of what learning and learner [Roberta Jacobson, AB’61] while we cal Association, the Chicago Urological potential are and use those new under- were staying in Sun City, AZ. Jeannine Society, and the Illinois State Urological standings to bring far more heart, soul, and I entered UChicago together in the Society. In his honor UIC established the opportunities, and possibilities to learn- fall of 1957 after graduating from Chi- Dr. Lawrence S. Ross Professorship. As ers of all ages.” cago’s Kelvyn Park High School. Though have so many of our classmates, Larry, Early last year Bill shifted his focus she took longer than me to earn her newly emeritus, has reinvented himself. to advancing educational thinking and undergraduate degree, she went on to get From an eminent surgeon he has become change in the Philippines. After he con- a PhD at Notre Dame. a distinguished photographer, observ- ducted an extremely successful Skype lec- The four of us spent a lot of time talking, ing, “As a surgeon, I am a visual person. ture, Philippine higher educators invited eating, and visiting a few tourist spots in … As an artist, I use my visual skills to him to present his transformational the Phoenix area. It‘s really great to see old create photographic images of people and approach to outcome-based education friends and to renew those connections. their communities.” His interest in the and leadership to various organizations Mike Stoken enjoys reading my notes Ribereños, the “river people” of the Peru- and institutions directly. Last April Bill to you all, relating tidbits from my life, vian Amazon, led to his photo exhibit at addressed five different audiences of edu- and he responded! Like Mike, many of us Instituto Cervantes in Chicago this past cators—more than 700 individuals in all— have a few old friends whom we’ve kept fall. The opening crowd included more including the National Commission on in touch with from UChicago. Please let than 150 people, including the Consul Higher Education, the policies of which us know whom you see and what you are General of Peru. Commenting on one of shape the entire nature and focus of the doing these days. I look forward to hear- the photos, Larry noted that the people country’s higher education system. He ing from you. “don’t have mirrors. Their only self- wrote, “My presentations were received send your news to: Roberta Jacobson, image is in the river,” so they marveled at with great enthusiasm and resulted in AB’61, 483 Norwick Ln., Carol Stream, IL seeing themselves on the screen of his dig- many invitations to work with higher edu- 60188. Email: robertajacobson@att.net. ital camera. Many of the stunning photos cation institutions throughout the coun- Dear Classmates, in the exhibit as well as those taken on try. Most significantly, the commission Just when I was lamenting the trips to Bhutan and Nepal are on view at invited me to work with them on a funda- 62 absence of news for the column, Larry’s website: photodocimages.com. mental restructuring of all its professional Charles “Chuck” Bernstein, AB’62, and Bill Spady, AB’62, AM’64, PhD’67, development programs and expected his wife, Roberta Lesner Bernstein, shows no signs of redirecting his inter- learning outcomes—an endeavor with AB’65, the correspondent for the Class ests. He has published his ninth book, enormous potential for educational of ’65, came to my rescue. Roberta, who Bringing Heart and Soul to Education change in the country.” Bill was also works at the University of Illinois at Chi- (Mason Works Press, 2015). Along with able to share his most advanced work on cago, saw an article in the UIC newspa- 10 other contributors he describes the learner potential and empowerment with per (fair game for me) about Lawrence “profoundly limited and limiting nature progressive educators in K–12 schools, “Larry” Ross, SB’62, MD’65, which she of what is being called educational again enthusiastically received. And he

uchicago photographic archive, apf4-02837,showed university of chicago library Chuck, who promptly passed it ‘reform’ in the United States and pro- was able to “launch the Spady Center for

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 57 4/27/16 1:37 PM Transformational Learning and Leader- Retirement allows for more 2 police station, torture that resulted ship in Manila and initiate a training pro- in coerced confessions to murder, and gram for facilitators” who will carry the time with grandchildren, to death penalty and life sentences. An center’s transformational work forward in extraordinary agreement provides for his absence. but otherwise it is not that reparations to each of the men tortured Taking a break from winter in Chi- interesting. So I continue to and incarcerated; free community college cago, your correspondent went on her education for torture victims, their chil- annual jazz cruise (a floating jazz fes- do what I’ve been doing all dren, and grandchildren; a curriculum tival in the Caribbean; one of the per- along, and now I am seeing on Chicago police torture to be taught formers was Grammy-winning vocalist in public junior high and high schools; a and former Divinity School student Kurt some encouraging results torture memorial; and a center for the Elling, EX’92). I followed this with a after decades of efforts. victims of torture on the South Side trip to Sarasota, FL, where I visited our where torture took place. The glory goes classmate Judy Goldstein Marks, AB’63 —Bernardine Dohrn, AB’63, JD’67 to years of agitation, mobilization, educa- (Class of 1962), AM’69, and her hus- tion, and persistence. band, Arthur. They gave a great dinner “Retirement allows for more time with party that included a traveling jazz pal grandchildren, but otherwise it is not from Chicago, Almarie Masoud Wagner, make it to our 55th, even traveling in from that interesting. So I continue to do what AM’68, and former Chicago-area resi- London if necessary. The reunion plan I’ve been doing all along, and now I am dents Leon Ellin, AB’65, and his wife, is to keep the weekend simple and stress- seeing some encouraging results after Marge. Judy and Arthur have a culturally free, but, we hope, engaging and worth a decades of efforts.” Bernardine con- and socially rich life during their winter trip to Hyde Park whether from near or cludes with a comment that many of us stay in Sarasota, from opera and theater far. In the next column, I’ll provide more can understand: “Just between us, too performances to numerous art openings. names of those who are already on board many close friends are seriously or ter- In these past few months your class for 2017. I hope to have a letter out to you minally ill—a challenge of aging I hadn’t correspondent received lots of accolades in the not too distant future. previously considered but that increas- connected to my involvement with jazz. On that very happy note, dear class- ingly consumes me.” My former teaching colleague and chair mates, I wish you a lovely spring/summer. Larry Lowenthal, AB’64 (Class of of the Cornell Awards Committee of the And, if you are in town, please join me for 1963), provided an update on a couple Hyde Park Historical Society, Frances the 10th Hyde Park Jazz Festival Gala on of Larrys: Sheridan Vandervoort, SB’57, SM’65, June 23 at the Logan Center. “After decades of no contact, East informed Almarie Wagner and me that send your news to: Judith E. Stein, House roommates Lawrence “Larry” E. we were jointly named recipients of the AB’62, AM’64. Email: jestein5200 Weiss, AB’63, and Larry Lowenthal, 2016 Paul Cornell Award for “dedica- @gmail.com. or “Florida Larry,” reconnected when tion to advancing jazz as a central feature Bernardine Dohrn, AB’63, JD’67, Florida Larry and his wife, Jan, were vis- of the cultural scene in Hyde Park and responded to my request for an up- iting Denver. Weiss, or “Denver Larry,” beyond.” Both Almarie and I serve on 63 date on what she is involved in now retired to Denver following his pioneer- the boards of the Hyde Park Jazz Society that she has retired from Northwestern ing career as an animal rights lawyer. and Hyde Park Jazz Festival, and have University School of Law as director of the Florida Larry’s first career was on the been deeply committed to and involved Children and Family Justice Center. creative side of the advertising business, in the success of these organizations. We “For three decades I’ve been part of a and he subsequently became an expert were honored at the Historical Society’s growing wave of people teaching about, witness retained on both sides of lawsuits annual banquet at the Quadrangle Club organizing against, and resisting the involving real estate brokers. Florida in February. expanding US carceral state, the grow- Larry discovered that Denver Larry was In addition, the board of the Hyde Park ing gulag of prison expansion across the still immersed in the same causes that Jazz Festival surprised me by naming land. This addiction to arresting and drove him when he was actively involved me its honoree for this year’s 10th anni- caging children, women, and the mar- in his law practice. So, ever the support- versary festival gala. There is little that ginalized and oppressed (dispropor- ive roommate, Florida Larry offered to

makes me speechless, but this honor tionately people of color) runs deep in develop a website that would help Denver uchicago photographic archive, apf4-02837, university of chicago library; ad image uchicago special collections research center does. It doesn’t seem so long ago when American life, such that it appears to be Larry promote animal rights to a wider a few of us joined with Hyde Park’s cul- natural or inevitable. Thanks to Black public audience than he could reach tural community to create a jazz festi- Lives Matter, to state budget crises, to on his own.” val that would bring new people into the organizing by formerly incarcerated Florida Larry concludes, “The site fea- neighborhood. A decade later, we’ve suc- people and their families, and to the tures essays authored by Denver Larry ceeded beyond our wildest dreams. As exposure of state-sanctioned police vio- with tabs titled ‘Animal Rights,’ ‘Farm we all know too well, time indeed flies. lence, we are at a moment of potentially Animals,’ ‘In the Wild,’ ‘Animal Law,’ Since time seems to move more swiftly significant decarceration. Although ‘Vegetarian and Vegan,’ and more, plus than we do, please save June 1–4, 2017, retired, I still work for repealing extreme galleries devoted to the paintings and for our class’s 55th reunion. Dennis P. sentencing, abolishing the death penalty, painted creations of Janet Hastings, O’Leary, SB’62, has agreed to reprise closing prisons, downsizing jails, not Denver Larry’s life partner. Her color- his role of gift chair, and almost every requiring cash bail. And of course, for ful work also adorns many of the essay member of our committee for the 50th has reinvesting the public resources that go pages. Janet is a citizen of the United consented to lend an idea or a hand and toward these failed pillars of the criminal Kingdom who has lived in the United return to campus next year. I had a lovely justice system into communities sorely in States for more than 40 years. Denver chance meeting with Andrea Pontecorvo need of affordable housing, living wage Larry describes her as his inspiration.” Martonffy, AB’62, MAT’65, PhD’80, work, and community schools.” The website is live, and interested alums who is still happily teaching history at In 2015, she writes, “the unimagina- are invited to visit animalshaverights.net. UChicago Laboratory Schools and has ble occurred. The Chicago City Council Many of us have put travel on our already promised to join us for the 55th and the mayor publicly apologized for retirement bucket lists. However, as reunion in 2017. And Judy Marks, who decades of police torture of more than time has gone by, some of us have modi- had to miss our 50th, is determined to 100 African American men at the Area fied those lists as we have completed our

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 58 4/27/16 1:38 PM dreamed-of journeys and/or as the real- ventures (à la Twain’s Innocents Abroad) makeup and dressed in a tunic. Per Bob: ity of health and declining energy levels and his meanderings and thoughtful “At this point, 56 years after arriving have necessitated readjustments. Not reflections at bobanddennisontheroad on campus and first hearing this music, so for Robert “Bob” D. Francescone, .blogspot.com. Below is an edited excerpt wearing a tunic is fine with spears, the AB’63. Bob and his partner have traveled of his ride up a volcano on an “indignant, loincloth is best left at home.” He adds a to many familiar destinations touched b---- camel from Hell” he named Ethel. final note: After the opera season ended, by Western civilization (Turkey and “It’s a six-hour drive, then a three-hour it was back “to Kenya and Ethiopia, and Vietnam), but have also (and increas- climb. It’s late afternoon when we reach then on for first time visits to Somali- ingly) reached beyond the familiar. Bob’s base camp—a couple of black lava rock land, Djibouti, and Rwanda.” travels are not of the high-end, soft, shelters, throwing captured heat back se n d you r n e ws t o: Chris Keeley, 14-day variety. Rather, his travels tend at us. It’s stifling. Our names are called. AB’63, MAT’75, MBA’79, 10532 South to embrace rough-and-ready adventures Our camels are ready. … Mine (“Ethel”) Bell Ave., Chicago, IL 60643. Email: in exotic locales for extended periods. is clearly a maniac. She’s an immense pile [email protected]. Recent destinations include 40 days and of mattresses with a face and four spindly sen d you r n ews to: Barry D. 10,000 kilometers in Ethiopia and 40 legs. And she is not pleased. She doesn’t Bayer, AB’64. Email: uchicago64 more in the “-stans” (Uzbekistan, Turk- like the mattresses and she definitely 64 @gmail.com. menistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyr- does not do evening work. She bucks, Reacting to a comment I made in the gyzstan, and Afghanistan). The lengths she roars, she swings her legs, bares her e-blast we sent on January 12 regard- vary: Five weeks crossing the oases of teeth, slobbers, and refuses to drop to 65 ing the use of “UChicago” instead Egypt; almost three weeks of camping her knees. … Mouth-dragged into sub- of “U of C,” Robert Lehr, EX’65, asked, in a desert in Chad; 24 days in Iran; a mission, she folds down into a five-foot “What’s this about the UChicago ‘new 4x4 trek across Sudan; seven weeks that heap of mattresses. It takes two people name’?” I replied to Robert that I thought included visits to Namibia, Botswana, to get my legs over the pile of mattresses that the reason for this change was to pre- Zimbabwe, the Zambezi river, Zambia, so wide it splays my legs into immedi- vent confusion among the general public Kenya, and Tanzania; three weeks in ate paralysis. The rest of me follows. with UIC, the University of Illinois at Chi- Uganda, where he trekked twice to see Joints scream. Ethel’s hind end suddenly cago, which didn’t yet exist when we were the mountain gorillas; and another three launches skyward. I launch forwards and students. I checked this with the Alumni weeks in Cameroon and in Oman. Bob earthwards. I’m saved by the wooden News editor, who explained that the Uni- has traveled to Africa six times in the saddle handles and the indignation-pro- versity has indeed been using UChicago as last four years and is planning a seventh pelled elevation of Ethel’s front end. I am a distinctive shortened form of its name in trip. (Per Bob: “I have always wanted to now seven feet above the ground, semi- official communications to avoid confusion breathe spices while I percolate under the paralyzed, on top of a crazed camel. … with other schools. In alumni-to-alumni sun in Zanzibar!”) Only three more hours to go.” communications like our class notes, refer- Bob keeps a travel blog of his journeys. At the end of the adventure, Bob con- ences to our alma mater as the U of C will not You can follow his experiences and misad- firms his motto: “Forget calm. Live like be changed. So feel free to continue to use it. you’re in an opera!” And, when not trav- We welcome news from another EX’65- eling, Bob actually lives in an opera. He er, Kenneth Kleefeld, bringing us up to performs as a supernumerary in Sara- date on his whereabouts and activities: sota Opera productions, perhaps a source “The U of C turned out to be less of inspiration for his travels. His most than an ideal choice for me, or at least it recent role was in Aida as a spear-carrier seemed so back then. I hightailed it north and as one of four carriers of a canopy. to [the University of Wisconsin–]Madi- He was in full ancient Egyptian kohl eye son for my last two undergrad years, where I stayed for my PhD in economics. I have been retired for almost eight years from a series of quant research jobs, the last 20 years of my career spent on Wall Street. I have been keeping very busy the

uchicago photographic archive, apf4-02837, university of chicago library; ad image uchicago special collections research center last several years playing violin with the New Jersey Intergenerational Orchestra. In addition to full-length symphonies, the programs include concertos that give teenage prodigies from New Jersey the chance to showcase their talents. The orchestra itself includes some very talented young people with whom I feel honored to perform. I am very lucky to have found this retirement activity.” You may have seen in publications from the University that famous pianist- composer Philip Glass, AB’56 (’65 back- wards?) was a Presidential Arts Fellow at the University from February 16 to 18, followed by a sold-out concert on the 19th. Well, not to be left out or outdone, our “Hoosier” classmates and prior correspondents, Sally Cook, AB’66 (Class of 1965), and Louis Sherman, SB’65, PhD’70, upon learning that Glass would Sing out: An advertisement promotes the Blackfriars’ 1962 musical, Sing Out perform on February 20 at Purdue Uni- Sweet Rock by Robert Stephen Reisner. versity in West Lafayette, IN, where

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 59 4/28/16 12:53 PM Lou is a professor, decided to create an tant learning was that although I did Because I have gray hair, event for the U of C Alumni Club of Indi- know quite a bit of French, there was ana (founded by Sally) in conjunction much more to learn than I had realized. people always ask me if I with the Glass concert. Lou and his wife, At the end of the month, I found myself am still practicing. Now Debby Sherman, SM’70, hosted a lovely still stuck at an intermediate level, albeit Wisdom preconcert meet-and-greet reception in somewhat more advanced than when I that I have two new knees their home for the club members attend- had started. But I met many interesting ing the concert. people of all ages and from all over the I see a long professional life This column’s report (by prior corre- world, conversing in our halting French.” still ahead. spondents Sally and Lou) in the July– Paul Lieberman’s (AB’65) new email lives here. Aug/15 issue included a wonderful address, [email protected], —Loraine Stern, AB’65, MD’69 description by Katherine Bailey Line- reflects his total involvement in a happy han, LAB’61, AB’65, and hubby Glenn retirement. Read more about Paul in the Loafmann, AB’65, of their spring 2015 Winter/16 issue. trip to Spain and Portugal. A follow-up While some of us are busier than ever gions deal with death and dying, with par- was included in their Christmas news- pursuing new activities after retiring ticular emphasis on the conflict between letter, which they attached to a holiday from our professions, many others are religious traditions and the modern medi- thank-you note to the other members of still actively engaged in their original cal and legal environment. Drake is collab- the 50th reunion committee, which they careers or pursuing new professional orating with a local retirement community so ably chaired. They wrote: enterprises. Loraine Stern, A B’65, that is offering a series of lectures by local “Sagrada Familia wasn’t the only MD’69, informs us: doctors and lawyers on some of the practi- impressive church we saw this year. The “I am still working as a pediatrician but cal aspects of aging in the current envi- cathedrals at York and Durham in Eng- have cut my hours and am taking a bunch ronment (that program is run by Mary’s land, which we visited in November, are of art classes—I hope to keep working partner, Kent Zimmerman). Mary and wonders for their size and proportion and until my feet or my mind force me to quit. Kent’s travel plans this year include Costa color and light, but with quite a differ- Because I have gray hair, people always Rica; Washington, DC (Mary has never ent design than Gaudí used! (There are ask me if I am still practicing. Now that been to the Smithsonian!); Gettysburg, straight lines, for one thing.) They share I have two new knees I see a long profes- PA; and Rome (for Kent’s 75th birthday). a touch of Gaudí’s playfulness, how- sional life still ahead.” And—get this—she attended the Iowa ever—angels with bagpipes, for exam- Mary Gottschalk, AB’66 (Class of caucuses on February 1. ple, overlooking the tomb of ‘Jabba the 1965), reports that she has taken yet Here are Mary’s impressions of her Bishop,’ and in the crypt there is a won- another left turn. After 30-plus years in caucus: “A middle school gymnasium derfully unrestrained 12th-century carv- finance she is now coteaching an honors with royal blue bleachers … nowhere ing called the Doomstone. But Durham course in comparative religion at Drake near enough seating for the 420 voters is a university town, and there’s more University in Des Moines, IA. Her (a record 62 percent of registered Dem- to life than churches. We enjoyed the adjunct appointment at Drake, through ocrats in the precinct), plus assorted hard-left upstairs People’s Bookshop, the May 2017, reflects the confluence of an children, out-of-town observers, and indoor market just off the square, a walk interest in bioethics and an interest in reli- photographers. To confirm that voters in along the river, the John Duck pub. On gion and philosophy. The course she is the gym matched the sign-in sheets, the Remembrance Sunday a stirring service coteaching explores how different reli- moderator walked through the crowd, honored those in (all) “the uniformed ser- with each person calling out the next vices” who protected their country and number in the sequence. Amazingly, ministered to the casualties amidst war we only had to do it once. After the first and great catastrophes. The Bishop of ‘huddle’ in our respective corners, Clin- uchicago photographic archive, apf1-0313, university of chicago library chicago of university apf1-0313, archive, photographic uchicago Durham is a gifted preacher and pastor, ton was ahead of Sanders by eight votes— as many bishops are not, and we were tallied by literally counting bodies. glad to be able to share in that time along After the second vote—when some of with the enormous number of veter- the 13 undecided caucus-goers and the 32 ans, current militia members, military O’Malley supporters switched their sup- bands, and local folks who crowded into port—the body count showed that Hill- Durham Cathedral.” ary had won by a mere four votes … [by] a In the category of interesting new post- hair under 1 percent.” retirement activities, Jeanette Sharpe, Lesley Brill, AB’65, is gracefully tran- AB’65, MAT’69, reports that in addi- sitioning into retirement by remaining tion to continuing to teach psychology, active in academia. “Although I retired caring for four grandchildren and occa- from Wayne State University in May, sionally some elder relatives, reading I’ve yet to feel out of the swing of aca- about current politics, and singing in demia as I wrap up my study of the films Wisdom has knowledge, experience and insight. He’s highly various choral groups, in the past year of Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laun- she has embraced many resources—such drette [1985], Dangerous Liaisons [1988], regarded at Montgomery Place. Educational lectures at “The as the Alliance Française in Washing- High Fidelity [2000], The Queen [2006], ton, DC, and French films available on etc.). The book is under contract to University,” friendly discourse and cultural excursions inspire him the internet—to improve her fluency in Bloomsbury Academic. As has been the to learn more. He shares his optimism, enjoys like-minded French. Her most interesting and suc- case for some years, my wife, Megan, and Montgomery Place cessful endeavor was a one-month French I split time between a Mies van der Rohe people and feels right at home in the heart of Hyde Park. For Engaged Living immersion course held in the scenic little townhouse in Detroit and an old farm- French town of Villefranche-sur-Mer, Cameraman: Stanley Karter, EX’66, house in rural western New York—no more information call us at (773) 819-9039 or email Montgomery Place is a not-for-proﬁ t “where a number of the townspeople poses with his camera. He was a plumbing or grid electricity, but plenty of [email protected]. 501(c)(3) organization. seemed engaged in helping institute stu- founding member of documentary quiet, wildflowers, birds, trees, and local dents learn French.” In the course of fi m group Kartemquin (for more, see friends. I enjoyed the recent news and that month, she said, “my most impor- “Documentary Vision,” page 42). reminiscences from Nancy Dier, AB’65.” 5550 South Shore Drive • Chicago, IL 60637 60 the university of chicago magazine | spring 2016 (773) 819-9039 • MontgomeryPlace.org

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Wisdom has knowledge, experience and insight. He’s highly regarded at Montgomery Place. Educational lectures at “The University,” friendly discourse and cultural excursions inspire him to learn more. He shares his optimism, enjoys like-minded Montgomery Place people and feels right at home in the heart of Hyde Park. For Engaged Living more information call us at (773) 819-9039 or email Montgomery Place is a not-for-proﬁ t [email protected]. 501(c)(3) organization.

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 61 4/28/16 1:20 PM Hope to see you all in Gettysburg in June and to collect your news in person. But you always can—and should—drop me an email to keep our conversation going. Cheers, Roberta. send your news to: Roberta Lesner Bernstein, AB’65. Phone: 773.324.6362 or 312.520.6362 Email: bernsteinroberta @gmail.com.

50TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 Our plans for the 50th reunion continue to develop. Sign up and find 66 more information, including where to stay, at aw.uchicago.edu. There is also a Facebook page for the class reunion. Katharine Wexler, LAB’63, AB’66, was saddened by the death of her father, Haskell Wexler. “Despite moving to Los Angeles in the 1960s, Chicago was always his hometown emotionally,” she writes. “He passed away peacefully at the age of 93 just after Christmas. He was world-renowned not just as an Oscar- winning cinematographer but also for his documentaries and social activism. He may be best remembered for Medium Cool (1969), his cinema verité feature set within the real-life police riots of the 1968 Democratic Convention. He was active until just days before his death, promoting awareness of the dangers of sleep deprivation and long hours for entertainment workers.” Jeffry C. Ruprecht, AB’67 (Class of 1966), has retired for a second time, this time from teaching English as a second language at a refugee center in his hometown of Twin Falls, ID. He and his wife take bird-watching trips, most recently to South Africa. The have 10 grandchildren, five of whom live in the state.

Eric Hirschhorn, AB’65 (Class of library chicago of university apf3-00219, archive, photographic uchicago 1966), continues to serve as US under- secretary of commerce for industry and security. “I am currently involved Accessible art: In 1968 a student looks through some of the hundreds of works in implementing the Iran nuclear agree- donated by Joseph A. Shapiro, EX’34, available for rent through the Art to Live With ment, issuing regulations opening up program. For $1 per quarter, students could rent original works by artists like Henri trade between the United States and Matisse, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee. Experience a modern, mobile-friendly Cuba, maintaining sanctions against version of the unique program at mag.uchicago.edu/arttotextwith. Russia because of its conduct in Ukraine, removing the 40-year-old ban on exports of crude oil from the United States, completing the president’s Export Control Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Mark Naf- broadcasting live again, and he invites his Reform Initiative, and negotiating with talin, AB’64 (Class of 1965), to whom classmates to tune in over the internet. China about various export control and we’re still indebted for his beautiful Why wait another four years for nonproliferation issues. Still loving the piano playing at the Saturday night party a class reunion? Join us in Gettys- job, which I’ve held for six years this during last June’s reunion, continues his burg, PA, June 5–6 for a mini reunion April, and wondering what I can do for celebrated musical career as a performer hosted by classmate Antigoni Lefteris an encore after President Obama leaves and radio broadcaster. He is now with Ladd, AB’65. Events include a tour of office in January. I’m very much looking Bridgeport, CT’s free-form, listener- the Gettysburg battlefield’s World War forward to our 50th reunion in June.” sponsored station WPKN (89.5 FM), II sites, a D-Day program focusing on James W. Fullinwider, AB’66, and his broadcasting The Mark Naftalin Welcome the leadership of Dwight Eisenhower, wife, Midge, spent a month in Lucca, Show. The show airs throughout southern and an unusual tour of the Gettysburg Italy, last June. Jim is planning on coming Connecticut and across Long Island on National Cemetery with stories of the to the reunion. the second Wednesday of each month World War II veterans buried there. Sallie Anne Simpkins Hane, AB’66, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern, and Contact Antigoni via email (antigoniladd has retired from computer-aided draft- streams live (and is archived) at wpkn @tigrettcorp.com) or phone (717.334 ing, a career she started after her children

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 62 4/27/16 4:57 PM sends warm woolens to cold climates for ing more time in Holderness, NH, where Still loving the job, which children who need them. their house is habitable but not quite fin- Diana Race Howell, AB’67 (Class ished. In the meantime, they still reside I’ve held for six years this of 1966), practices matrimonial law in in Minneapolis. Kansas City, MO. send your news to: Carol Cohen Cas- April, and wondering what se n d you r n ews to: Dick Lyford, well, SB’69, 1024 West Upsal St., Phila- AB’66, 1600 Hub Tower, 699 Walnut St., delphia, PA 19119. Email: carol.s.caswell I can do for an encore after Des Moines, IA 50309. Fax: 515.246.4550. @gmail.com. President Obama leaves Email: rlyford@dickinsonlaw.com. send your news to: Pete Douglass, Tom Heberlein, AB’67, reports that AB’70, MD’74. Email: edouglass office in January. the University of Chicago Magazine 70 @comcast.net. 67 has agreed to publish his proposed —Eric Hirschhorn, AB’65 (Class of 1966) article on the Small School Talent Search 45TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 in a future issue. Forty-six of us, or nearly 8 percent of our class, were recruited to the Dear Class of 1971, U of C from small towns in the Midwest. Happy spring, soon to be summer! his wife, Maggie, and to help care for Tom will write about how the program 71 I hope all is going well with you Jules, Brigitte’s first grandchild. Brigitte started, who was recruited, and how they and your friends and family. Please try remarks that as an “ardent feminist” she managed in Chicago and at the University. to find time in your busy work and play had expected to have a daughter instead He says if you would like to tell your schedules to send news about you, your of a son; however, she is delighted to SSTS story, please contact him at thomas achievements, milestones, publications, report that her grandchild is a “long- [email protected]. “In spite of the posi- epiphanies, family, colleagues, and any awaited baby girl who will grow up in a tive spin the admissions office put on the news you would like to share in our tradition of strong women, with an eye to program, 18, or 40 percent, of the SSTS column. attending the College of the University students did not graduate (the general at- Edith “Kathy” Knowlton, A B’7 1, of Chicago as part of the Class of 2037.” trition rate was 25 percent for our class),” alerted us to a mistake in our column Susan Winston Leff, AB’71, has been writes Tom. “If you are still in touch with appearing in the Fall/15 issue of the Mag- appointed to the board of the Massa- any of those who left the University or if azine. We correctly reported that Kathy chusetts Cultural Council by the state’s you know why they left (perhaps you were presented a paper at the Balint Federa- governor. Susan tells us that she and her a close friend or roommate) I would espe- tion, but we misrepresented Kathy’s husband, Drew M. Leff, AB’69, MBA’70, cially appreciate your getting in touch with Balint practice to be related to “Bálint’s “welcomed the wedding of our son Jona- me. I hope to see you all at the 50th reunion, syndrome,” which is a neuropsychologi- than on August 1 and the upcoming wed- which might be a good time to highlight and cal disorder. Kathy’s expertise as a Balint ding of our son Daniel on June 18.” further discuss the lessons from the Small specialist is in fact related to empathy Thomas Garrick, AB’71, MD’76, says School Talent Search.” Tom is a professor groups and research. We previously cor- he continues to “work across two univer- emeritus in the Department of Community rectly reported the nature of Kathy’s sities (the University of California, Los and Environmental Sociology at the Univer- Balint empathy groups but somehow the Angeles, and the University of Southern sity of Wisconsin–Madison. He divides his unrelated definition of Bálint’s syndrome California) and Veterans Affairs in foren- time between Stockholm and Wisconsin. crept into our final copy of our column. sic and psychosomatic psychiatry.” His Will this be the last class news column? My apology to Kathy. wife “continues on air at NPR” and “our Is this what you want? If you enjoy read- Brigitte Schwarz King, AB’72 (Class oldest is graduating law school at the Uni- ing about our classmates, help keep the of 71), writes that she “said goodbye to versity of California, Hastings, and our column alive. I’d especially like to hear Chicago forever” and moved to Gar- youngest is about to enter college (hope- uchicago photographic archive, apf3-00219, university of chicago library chicago of university apf3-00219, archive, photographic uchicago from those who have never sent in any diner, ME, to be near her son, Max, and fully the U of C). Things are going well.” news, or who haven’t submitted any in Philip Lutgendorf, AB’71, AM’82, several years. What are you doing? Where PhD’87, “continues to teach Hindi and are you? Are you retired? In a second or modern Indian studies at the University third career? Have you been honored of Iowa and to serve as president of the recently with awards or recognition? American Institute of Indian Studies.” sen d your n ews to: Deanna Dragu- The first two volumes of Philip’s planned nas Bennett, AB’67, 3962 Arlington seven-volume translation of the Hindi Dr., Palm Harbor, FL 34685. Phone: Epic of Ram by Tulsidas were published 727.772.6997.Email: the67scribe by the Murty Classical Library of India/ @hotmail.com. Harvard University Press in January. send your news to: Mike Nemer- Please visit murtylibrary.com/volumes off, AB’68, Sidley Austin LLP, 1501 .php for more information. Philip is also 68 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20 0 05. an invited participant in the 2016 Jaipur Email: [email protected]. Literature Festival. Please share your news and updates John L. Bryant, AB’71, AM’72, with classmates. We look forward PhD’75, notes, “After 30 years at Hof- 69 to hearing from you. stra University, I retired from teaching Against the better judgment of his part- December 31. However, I am staying on ners, Ken Cutler, AB’70 (Class of 1969), as director of Hofstra’s Digital Research MBA’70, was reelected for another three Center (which I founded two years ago).” years as managing partner at Dorsey and In the first week of the New Year John Whitney, a 560-person law firm with 19 received the Distinguished Editor Award offices in the United States, Canada, the Wild screen: Andy Warhol’s The Nude from the Council of Editors of Learned United Kingdom, and Asia. I’d say that Restaurant (1967) had its Chicago Journals, given at this year’s Modern congratulations are in order! Looking premiere at Doc Films on May 8, 1968. Language Association convention in ahead, Ken and his wife, Linda L. Cutler, It was shown again as part of Doc’s Austin, TX. Readers will remember that

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 63 4/27/16 1:40 PM Melville Electronic Library, founding editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, and consulting editor of the Mel- ville Society. Paul Belserene, AB’71, recalls that it has been “45 years since I, like many in my class, boycotted graduation.” Neverthe- less, Paul says he is “immensely grateful to the U of C, particularly the philosophy department, for preparing me for nothing while teaching me how to think (and for not being where fun goes to die back then).” Paul has spent most of his time since ’71 in Vancouver, British Colum- bia, “almost never with an actual job but almost always finding ways to be of benefit for money.” He has constructed a very creative career, with or without an “actual job.” His career path of great significance is as a storyteller. “After developing pavil- ions for the Expo ’86, the world’s fair, I’ve worked as a consulting storyteller for corporations and organizations.” In addition, “since ’76 I’ve been teaching creative writing through the University of British Columbia.” Finally, “for fun and to save the world, I teach meditation in the Shambhala tradition.” Alas, Paul surmises, “Retirement does not seem to be an option but it would be good to slow down. Last fall my daughter and I traveled the length of the Italian boot, from Ital- ian Switzerland to the instep, visiting the villages that my mother’s (her grandmother’s) ancestors came from. More like that would be good.” Clearly, learning how to think has served Paul very well and many Best minds of my generation: The 1970 Festival of the Arts prospectus highlights of us should be quite jealous. events with Allen Ginsberg; Studs Terkel, PhB’32, JD’34; and Nelson Algren. Leonard Zax, AB’71, sends an update on the state of affairs at the Hamilton Partner- ship where he champions for the support of our newest national park, the Paterson advertising agency J. Walter Thompson Fame. He joined fellow soccer teammate Great Falls National Historical Park of Pat- and its global media company Mindshare. and classmate Dennis Ball, AB’74, who erson, NJ. Leonard notes: “This has been A highlight of her career was meeting with was inducted in 2012. After more than 40 a landmark year for our national historical the International Olympic Committee 12 years, Ball still holds the records for ca- park and the Hamilton Partnership as we years ago in Lausanne, Switzerland, to reer goals with 49 and career points with continue to grow and make visible prog- advise them on the future of media. She is 120 (two points per goal and one for each ress. … Thanks to the hot Broadway musi- gratified that they acted on her advice on assist), and Schuster is second with 48 cal Hamilton, Paterson’s founding father a number of key business issues. At the U goals and 115 career points. They are the is becoming a pop culture icon. … We of C Debbie participated in Students for two most prolific scorers in Maroon men’s hosted a brunch with Lin-Manuel Miranda Violent Non-Action (SNVA) activities. soccer history and “were an unstoppable and many other Hamilton cast members, This group took a satirical approach to the scoring duo,” writes Schuster. Ball scored along with historian Ron Chernow and chaos of the late ’60s and early ’70s and, a goal and/or had an assist in 80 percent of

playwright John Guare. … In October we among other events, created the Lascivi- the games he played and averaged 1.3 goals center research collections special uchicago honored Hamilton star Jasmine Cephas ous Costume Ball and the Nude Swim-in per game; and Schuster scored a goal and/ Jones and Paterson’s own Doug Herzog, and dug trenches at the corner of 58th and or had an assist in 70 percent of the games president of Viacom’s music and entertain- Woodlawn in the spring of 1970 to protest he played and averaged 1.0 goals per game. ment group. We are looking forward to an the Vietnam War and Kent State. Debbie From the editor: Robert Appelbaum, even more exciting 2016 as we celebrate recently made a donation to the University AB’74, has published Terrorism Before the the 100th anniversary of the National Park to establish the SVNA Memorial Fund in Letter: Mythography and Political Violence Service with new educational partnerships the College to provide scholarship support in England, Scotland, and France 1559– and community events.” for undergraduate students. 1642 (Oxford University Press, 2016). se n d you r n e ws t o: Elaine Black, send your news to: Dorthea Juul, AB’72, Robert is a professor of English literature AB’71. Phone: 415.389.9043. Email: PhD’89, Apt. 302, 1115 South Plymouth Ct., at Uppsala University in Sweden. [email protected]. Chicago, IL 60605. Email: [email protected]. send your news to: Barbra Goering, Debbie Solomon, AB’72, recently send your news to: Carolyn “Lyn” AB’74, JD’77, 65 E. Monroe St., Chicago, retired from a career in marketing Ragan, AB’72 (Class of 1973). IL 60603. Email: [email protected]. 72 and media research, during which she 73 Email: [email protected]. From the editor: Suzanne Erfurth, worked for Milton Bradley (testing new On October 23 Paul T. Schuster, AB’75, has published The Secret Life toys and games), Quaker Oats, advertis- AB’74, MBA’75, was inducted into 75 of Hodge, the Bookstore Cat (Suzanne

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 64 4/27/16 1:41 PM colorful life of the cat in residence at Se- in the mid-1970s as roommates at the Uni- dad, Divinity School alum Harvey Lord, lected Works Used Books and Sheet Music versity of Chicago and have remained AM’65, PhD’73, was the pastor at Uni- in Chicago. friends ever since.” versity Church), the only non-hedgie in send your news to: Bruce Gluckman, send your news to: James Lawrence the family (and proud of it), keeps busy AB’75, 21 Courtland Pl., Middletown, NY Fuchs, AB’76, AM’77, PhD’83. Email: managing our church’s quite amazing 10940. Email: bgluckman@hvc.rr.com. [email protected]. thrift shop in Fairfield. If you are in the send your news to: Julian Brown, area, check it out: firstchurchfairfield 40TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 AB’77, AM’78, 2503 Elmen St., .org/the-store.” 77 Houston, TX 77019. Email: jdb David Jaff , AB’78, JD’81, reports, “I Our classmates have continued to @juliand.com. left my job as general counsel of Guard- blaze their way along both inter- Further evidence of U of C–bred ian Industries Corp., a multinational 76 pretative and natural trails. David versatility is reflected in this latest manufacturing company, after 24 years Glassberg, AB’76, now a professor at the 78 set of classmate narratives on (1) the to start my own law and consulting prac- University of Massachusetts at Amherst, connection between hedge funds and thrift tice, Jaffe Counsel. I call myself a special writes that “besides the usual academic stores and (2) the international opportuni- situations counsel, working with com- stuff,” he has been helping to develop the ties abounding in the entrepreneurial well- panies that face significant opportunity, childhood home of noted African Ameri- spring that is Detroit. Thanks to our peers challenge, or transformation. Much of can scholar and civil rights leader W. E. B. for helping us to see beyond the likely con- my work so far has been with companies DuBois in Great Barrington, MA, “into an ventional assumptions. that are expanding internationally. I’m international tourist destination.” David Jim Meisner, AB’78, MBA’79, writes, based in Detroit but working with clients cowrote the seven wayside exhibits along “While our oldest child, Breyten Meis- around (and outside) the country. Entre- the interpretive trail leading to the site. Da- ner, AB’05, is the third-generation U of preneurial life is an adventure, and I’m vid concludes, “Please come and visit the C alum in the family, his younger brother, having a great time. Erica Peresman, site the next time you are in western Mas- Jordan (a 2009 graduate of the NYU AB’80, and I are now happy empty nest- sachusetts.” For more, see duboisnhs.org. Stern School of Business), is the one ers, living vicariously through our daugh- Brad Robinson, AB’76, retired from living in Chicago these days. He works at ters, Adela (24) and Mara (20).” the Connecticut Department of Energy Ronin Capital, developing and trading a send your news to: Greg Gocek, AB’78, and Environmental Protection in March sophisticated equity option system that AM’80, MBA’85. Email:[email protected]. 2015 after almost 36 years of regulating has been performing extremely well in send your news to: The University pesticides. He writes that he is “now its first year of live trading, disproving of Chicago Magazine, c/o Alumni enjoying a relaxed pace, traveling, and efficient market theory. Breyten trades 79 News Editor. Email: uchicago a master naturalist program that lets me convertible bonds at HBK in New York. [email protected]. play outside with fellow nature nerds.” Our youngest, Kristen (a 2011 graduate From the editor: Nancy Rose Hunt, From the editor: Do Not Wash Hands in of Colgate University), is working at a AB’80, has published A Nervous Plates (Amazon Digital Services, 2016) hedge fund marketing company, Perkins 80 State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie is “a humorous look at three women’s Fund Marketing, in Fairfield, CT. So all in Colonial Congo (Duke University Press, travels through India,” writes coauthor three kids are in the biz. I’m still invest- 2015). Nancy is a professor of history at the Barb Taub, AB’76. Barb and coauthors/ ing in hedge funds at Commonfund in University of Michigan. photographers Jayalekshmy Ayyer, Wilton, CT, and my wife, Marilyn (we send your news to: Pia Lopez, AB’86 PhD’78, and Janine Smith, EX’76, “met met and married in Hyde Park where her (Class of 1980). 912 Hamlet Dr. North, Avon, MN 56310. Email: pialopez1958 @gmail.com.

35TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 The Class of 1981 Reunion Commit- tee invites you to join us for the 35th 81 reunion celebration at Ida Noyes Hall on Friday, June 3, for an evening of recon- nection with classmates and campus. If you are unable to return to the U of C this spring, please consider commemorating this reunion with a gift to the 1981 Odyssey uchicago special collections research center research collections special uchicago Scholarship fund to help us reach our class goal. Alumni may make their reunion gift, including support to the Odyssey Scholar- ship, at give.uchicago.edu. send your news to: Brian David, AB’81, MBA’91. Email: bdavid@chicagobooth .edu. Jeffrey J. Haas, AB’82, was promot- ed to content specialist at ADP and 82 continues to teach creative writing at Emory University. His first short story collection, Searching for Nada (2012), is available as an e-book on Amazon, and he is busy working on his second. He has New movement: The Modern Dance Group’s 1972 spring show was directed by accepted the position of communications associate professor of dance Elvi Moore. A 1974 Chicago Tribune article credited chair for the UChicago Alumni Club of Moore with “buil[ding] the University of Chicago’s dance division from virtually Atlanta. You can find him on Facebook by

uchicago special collections research centernothing into a discipline with scholarship as well as practice.” searching for “Jeff Haas Duluth, Georgia.”

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 65 4/27/16 1:41 PM Catherine Mansell, AB’82, AM’85, It’s rewarding work but versity Press, 2016). Ari is a Presidential who uses the pen name C. M. Mayo, won Professor in the biology department and the National Indie Excellence Award for heartbreaking to see just the director of the cellular and behavioral History for her latest book, Metaphysical neurobiology graduate program at the Uni- Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Fran- how compelling the issue of versity of Oklahoma. cisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, “Spir- food insecurity is here. In Claudia M. Gold, AB’83, MD’87, itist Manual” (Dancing Chiva, 2014). In has published The Silenced Child: From October she gave a Centennial Lecture at this city 131,000 [people] Labels, Medications, and Quick-Fix Solu- the University of Texas at El Paso called tions to Listening, Growth, and Lifelong “On Writing About Mexico: Secrets and don’t know where their next Resilience (Da Capo Press, 2016). Claudia Surprises.” Based in Mexico City, she is meal is coming from. is a pediatrician and is on the faculty of at work on a book about far west Texas. the University of Massachusetts Boston Her husband, Agustín Carstens, AM’83, —Mark Hohnstreiter, AB’82 Infant-Parent Mental Health Program. PhD’85, has been appointed for a second send your news to: Gwyn Cready, term as governor of the Bank of Mexico. AB’83, MBA’86. Email: cready@gmail Mark Hohnstreiter, AB’82, is now .com. development director of El Pasoans I have lived in West Hartford, CT, for Classmates—Now that the 2016 Fighting Hunger Food Bank in El Paso, more than 22 years. I love biking and caucus circus has left Iowa, it’s TX. “It’s rewarding work but heart- hiking in the spring, summer, and fall 84 pretty lonely out here on the farm. breaking to see just how compelling the but wish I had more time to do these. I I’d be delighted to get updates on your life, issue of food insecurity is here. In this like to cross-country ski in the winter your work, your family, your hobbies, your city 131,000 [people] don’t know where when both weather and time allow. I am grammar pet peeves (mine, currently, is their next meal is coming from.” He still a local interviewer for the U of C Alumni misuse of the phrase “as such”), or your has a home in Las Cruces, NM, where Schools Committee. I also like to travel, insightful election-year observations. he enjoys time with his horses, and he cook, and sing. I have a 25-year-old Heck, I’d be reasonably pleased to receive continues to paint oil landscapes across daughter who works in communications your crumpled-up grocery list. If the news New Mexico. at the Environmental Defense Fund and drought lasts I may have to entertain you Joseph A. Grossmann, AB’82, is cel- a 16-year-old son who knows way more with details of my upcoming foot sur- ebrating the 23rd year of his branding and about everything tech than I do. I see gery—drat that lengthy second metatarsal! marketing firm, Jell Creative. He says, Margo Lynn Hablutzel, AB’83, occa- Please spare us all from this fate by sending “I’ve enjoyed growing my business and sionally at U of C or Jewish community your news. developing a strong team of creatives and events and keep up with some other class- s e n d you r n e ws t o: Karen Erger, I’ve also been fortunate to work with so mates via Facebook.” AB’84, JD’90, 662 Old School Rd., Ely, many of Chicago’s cultural and educa- Robin A. Kirk, AB’82, named her first IA 52227. Email: [email protected]. tional institutions, including Grant Park poetry collection, Peculiar Motion (Fin- By now we are well into a new year; Music Festival, Harris Theater for Music ishing Line Press, 2016), after the astro- I am still trying to recover from and Dance, Adler Planetarium, After nomical term describing the motion of 85 overdosing on Anderson Cooper School Matters, Lyric Opera, Chicago galaxies. She says that she came across and Kathy Griffin and their New Year’s Symphony Orchestra, and the Pritzker the term “when I was reading about the Eve broadcast, but at least things should Military Museum and Library.” Two big bang theory and how the universe is improve from that inglorious start of the recent engagements reconnected him expanding,” Kirk says. “But a few galax- year. At least that was what I thought. with UChicago. He and his team devel- ies are actually moving inwards, against Then the Patriots lost, and then Donald oped new branding and a communications what the theory predicts. I thought this Trump lost in Iowa. How dare this hap- strategy for the University of Chicago was a lovely metaphor for life. Things pen! These guys are perennial winners. I Harris School of Public Policy—rechris- don’t always go according to plan and am hoping things soon return to the way tening the school “Chicago Harris”—just that’s what this collection is about.” Kirk they should be and 2016 delivers as we all in time for the school’s 25th anniversary. is a faculty cochair of the Duke Human hope. Best wishes to all of you for a great More recently, Jell was engaged by Chi- Rights Center at the Franklin Humani- 2016. Now, on to the news. cago Collections Consortium (a consor- ties Institute and a founding member of Eric Rosenthal, AB’85, has had a tium of libraries and museums, including the Pauli Murray Project, an initiative of spate of good news and recognition of the University of Chicago Library), to the center that seeks to use the legacy of late. He will be given an honorary degree rebrand the organization and design its the activist and Durham, NC, daughter by Georgetown University at the May flagship initiative, Explore Chicago Col- to examine the region’s past of slavery, commencement of the Georgetown Uni- lections, a website providing access to segregation, and continuing economic versity Law Center. (He received his JD more than 100,000 archival materials inequality. Kirk read from her poetry from Georgetown in 1992.) Georgetown held at its member institutions. “I’ve collection in April at the Regulator Book- is not the only institution recognizing taken many twists and turns after leav- shop in Durham. She is a regular My Eric—he also received the 2015 John ing my graduate program at the Univer- View columnist for the Durham News, Phillips Award from his high school, sity, including directing a tech start-up in part of the Raleigh News and Observer. Phillips Exeter Academy. It is Exeter’s the ’80s and writing design books in the To learn more about Peculiar Motion, highest award for humanitarian contri- ’90s,” Joe says. “All of these seemingly please write peculiarmotion@outlook butions. Erik is the executive director disparate experiences have converged in .com or the Regulator Bookshop at of Disability Rights International and my work at Jell.” Joe is also celebrating his [email protected]. is often out in the field working hard to 35th year with Melissa Taylor, whom he send your news to: Laurie Silvestri, protect the human rights of people with met at the Shoreland. AB’82. Email: las .lawoffices@gmail disabilities. On a more personal note, Hilary Wolpert Silver, AB’82, became .com. Erik has a 10-month-old granddaughter, a care management solutions coordina- From the editor: Ari Berkowitz, Juliette, who is “record-breakingly cute,” tor with SCIO Health Analytics, a con- AB’84 (Class of 1983), has pub- and whom he and his wife, Laurie, visited sulting firm, in the spring of 2014. “I’ve 83 lished Governing Behavior: How in Boston over the holidays. been analyzing health care data for more Nerve Cell Dictatorships and Democracies Well, that is all there is for now—please

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 66 4/27/16 1:42 PM cial capacity) read the SCOTUSblog so you don’t have to. SCOTUS, of course, is the Supreme Court of the United States, and Carolyn Shapiro, AB’86, AM’93, JD’95, recently argued a case in front of that august body. The case, Duncan v. Owens, takes up the question of what constitutes trial error and whether there was one in Mr. Owens’s murder conviction, and, if there was, if it was egregious enough that Mr. Owens would be entitled to “post- conviction habeas relief.” The case turns on whether the judge in the original trial based his decision on something (here, Owens’s motive) for which there was no evidence. Disclaimer: We are not a lawyer, and this is a summary of the blog report. Lawyers, the curious, and anyone who wants more or better details should plan to speak to Carolyn at reunion. And about that reunion: this will be the last Magazine issue before our (30th!) reunion. The reunion in which you’ll get to see old friends, eat Harold’s, “See Your Food” at Valois (now retrospectively even cooler as a place where the president used to eat), drink (legally) at Jimmy’s, visit all the super groovy new buildings that are all over campus, see the also super groovy new quarters of the beloved Seminary Co-op Bookstore. As well as: garden party it up at Todd Schwebel’s (EX’86) lovely home, see a Cubs game with classmates, go to smart faculty talks with other smart people, show off your offspring (assuming they’re still young enough to let you drag them somewhere), argue ferociously about Plato vs. Aristotle or Trump vs. Cruz vs. Sand- ers vs. Clinton. And walk by your old dorm (or its old site—our buildings they are toppling … or have toppled), go to the beautiful Promontory Point, mourn Ribs ’N’ Bibs, meet your next spouse. (Statistically this happens, people. Obvi- ously, only the single should be consider- ing this option.) There will be talking, laughing, singing of ’80s songs (Wham’s “Freedom,” anyone, anyone?). If you’ve been to other reunions, you know how much fun they are. If you haven’t, now is the time. If not now, when? You should And the people were singing: In 1983 a just-reunited The Band played a Major come. We’re (an actual plural this time) Activities Board concert in Mandel Hall. A recording of the show was recently all still smart, and we’ve mellowed. How released as And Then There Were Four (All-Access Records, 2015). Read Donald C. can you pass this up? Plus: the art fair! Dowling Jr.’s (AB’82) reflections on the concert in the Maroon: bit.ly/1UVSV1X. See you there. send your news to: Martha Schulman, AB’86, Apt. 17C, 70 West 95th St., New York, NY 10025. Email: nibbs999@gmail send your news to: Stuart McDermott, included Granada’s Alhambra, ancient .com. AB’85, MBA’99. Email: smcdermott cave paintings near Ronda, and a Klezmer s e n d you r n e ws t o: Stephan @hollandcap.com. concert in Córdoba. Mostly it was just so Lau, AB’87. Email: stephan much fun to have hours and hours to talk, 87 @racingsquirrel.com. 30TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 eat, laugh, and sing songs from our past, in- A Chicago gathering is in the works cluding some key hits of the 1980s. It’s hard for those Class of 1988 alumni Lisa Reynolds, AB’86, and Julie to believe that we forged this friendship in 88 reaching a certain half-century Rechter, AB’86, left behind hus- Pierce Hall (and the chem library) way back mark this year. (And of course anyone else 86 bands and teenage sons to spend nine in 1982. We hope to visit some of our old who just wants an excuse to gather with old days in September touring southern Spain. haunts at reunion. See you then!” frenemies in a casual atmosphere.) Here’s Lisa’s description: “We traveled with Your class correspondent is full service: We’re looking into the last weekend of

copyright 2016, the chicago maroon. all rightsLisa’s reserved. reprinted with permission. sister and sister-in-law. Highlights We (we like to use the plural in our offi- July at the University, specific venue and

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 67 4/27/16 1:42 PM Mostly it was just so much “Fellow residents of Coulter House may Nathan Robb, AB’95, AM’01, is enter- remember a little feathered friend who ing his 12th year in New York City, “and fun to have hours and hours illicitly cohabited with me second year. is still adjusting.” Nathan recently moved Mocha, a tangerine dove who was never to the Lincoln Center area and would to talk, eat, laugh, and restricted to a cage, cooed and cooed that love to connect with any nearby class- sing songs from our past, year, occasionally complementing the mates. He is the assistant vice president NIN or Jane’s Addiction blasting from my for government relations at Columbia including some key hits boom box. Despite getting caught with University, which, he explains, “basi- of the 1980s. Mocha by our resident heads during a Bur- cally means a lot of travel to and from ton-Judson fire drill, we managed to make Washington. I still get plenty of mile- —Lisa Reynolds, AB’86 it through the entire year in University age from my U of C stories—such as housing. A dorm visit by a local vet who attending my first college party where made house calls prompted my second- the center of attraction wasn’t a keg of floor residents to finally warm to Mocha, beer or a dart board but a spirited game of fee TBD. If interested, please email Mark who was very briefly ill. Sadly this little Boggle (yes, seriously).” For classmates Kolodny, AB’88, at classof88turns50 Maroon passed away last year after being who want to reconnect with Nathan, his @gmail.com. an extremely healthy and faithful pal for email is [email protected]. send your news to: Emily Carlson, an unanticipated 24 years.” Nathan’s story about Boggle didn’t sur- AB’88. Email: mle@solsticeartsource. As of last November Robert Fred- prise me at all. On the contrary, it made com. erick, AB’95, is the digital managing me think there are many other stories out send your news to: The University editor of American Scientist magazine, there to evidence how unique the U of of Chicago Magazine, c/o Alumni which is published by Sigma Xi, the Sci- C [not UChicago] experience could be. 89 News Editor. Email: uchicago entific Research Society. Rob explains, Please send in the uniquely U of C stories [email protected]. “Yes, we’ll be redoing the website you share with people in an attempt to se n d you r n e ws t o: Michael (americanscientist.org), a project I’m explain what the school is really about Oberlander, AB’90, 8347 Cornell managing as well. It’s a great opportu- (and include an update on yourself). If I 90 Ave., St. Louis, MO 63132. Phone: nity, particularly in getting to work with get enough stories I’ll share mine ... and 314.608.4614. Email: moberlander32 some wonderful people!” it’s a good one. @gmail.com. Andrew Varcoe, AB’95, is currently in From the editor: On March 10 pediatric the third phase of his legal career. After dentist Mina H. Chung, AB’95, and the 25TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 law school he worked as a clerk for two other owners of Grove Dental Associ- excellent judges and spent time as a liti- ates saw their practice named Boling- se n d you r n ews to: Martin J. gator at the firm now known as Wilmer - brook (IL) Business of the Year. The Berman-Gorvine, AB’91, 10717 Hale. Next he was an in-house lawyer at dental practice “is in our 46th year in 91 Deborah Dr., Potomac, MD 20854. the US Department of Agriculture for Bolingbrook and we are grateful and Phone: 301.765.9124. Email: martin several years, where he litigated vari- blessed by the doctors and staff, whose @martinbermangorvine.com. ous environmental and natural resources attentions are always focused on serv- From the editor: Edgar Bueno, law matters. Now he is deputy general ing and giving back to our community,” AB’92, the former chief of the civil counsel for agriculture and environment writes Mina. Maritza Perez, AB’98, 92 division of the US Attorney’s Of- at BIO, the trade association for the bio- also practices as a general dentist at fice for the Southern District of Georgia, technology industry, in Washington, Grove Dental Associates. has joined the health care and litigation DC. He focuses heavily on environmen- send your news to: Kathleen Abbott, practices of Morris, Manning & Martin as tal law issues and on legal and regulatory AB’95, Unit 2, 4241 North Damen Ave., a partner. He is based in the firm’s Atlanta issues relating to agricultural and indus- Chicago, IL 60618-3011. Phone: 415.661 and Savannah, GA, offices. trial biotechnology. .8554. Email: kabbott@hotmail.com. s e n d you r n e w s t o: Aaron Gelb, “Trade association legal practice pre- AB’92. Email: agelb@vedderprice.com. sents a new array of pleasures and chal- 20TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 send your news to: Shinyung Oh, lenges. Food and agriculture law seems AB’93. Email: shinyungo@gmail ‘hot’ these days. It feels a bit surprising to Classmates, please send your news 93 .com. be part of the trend or trends.” Outside of to class correspondents Jeff Hjelt, se n d you r n e ws t o: Sendhil work Andy and his wife, Joon, are gener- 96 AB’96, and Jenny Olaya, AB’96. Revuluri, AB’94. Email: sendhil ally occupied with the care and rearing From the editor: Colin R. Johnson, 94 [email protected]. of their four young children, “who give AB’96, is a coeditor of Queering the Coun- Matilda “Mattie” Szydagis, AB’95, us great pleasure and joy. Not long ago, I tryside: New Frontiers in Rural Queer Stud- cowrote and directed The Hoosac, a was pleased to attend a talk given at the ies (New York University Press, 2016). 95 short horror film. It is currently Folger Shakespeare Library by Colum- Colin is an associate professor in the being submitted to film festivals and, as bia University professor James Shapiro, gender studies department at Indiana of December, it has been accepted into AM’78, PhD’82, a member of our U of C University–Bloomington. the Fantasmagorical Film Festival ( July community who is now a very prominent s e n d y o u r n e w s t o : Jeff Hjelt , 29–31), part of Fandom Fest. The Hoosac Shakespeare scholar. Shapiro had just AB’96. Email: jhjelt@uchicago .edu. is a ghost story about a lonely soul who published The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in Or Jenny Olaya, AB’96. Email: jlo202 can’t escape his past life. It’s based on the 1606 (Simon and Schuster, 2015), which @excite.com. real-life Hoosac tunnel tragedy in which is the sort of book that many of my class- Robyn McCoy, AB’96 (Class of trapped workers suffocated to death in a mates, I imagine, would likewise enjoy 1997), has watched with a heavy small, isolated New England mill town in and appreciate. Chatting after the talk, 97 heart the ongoing clashes and ten- the mountains. Katarzyna “Kathy” Szy- he was gracious and thoughtful. Like me, sion between police and the public in cities dagis Müller, AB’86, PhD’95, was script he’d been a student of the late Ned Rosen- around the country, including Ferguson, consultant on the project. For more infor- heim, AB’39, AM’46, PhD’53, a formi- MO, and Baltimore, and the breakdown mation visit thehoosacfilm.com. dable, witty, dear man. I am saddened to of relations between the black commu- Amanda Geppert, AB’95, sends an think of the teachers and friends who are nity and law enforcement that seem to be

update on one of her U of C roommates. no longer with us.” growing in intensity. So she has stepped uchicago photographic archive, apf7-06014-002, university of chicago library; copyright 2016, the chicago maroon. all rights reserved. reprinted with permission.

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 68 4/27/16 1:43 PM up to do something about it. Robyn is experience and eight years of writing,” The life of the mind really currently a partner with McCoy and says Eddie. Associates in Ann Arbor, MI, and also se n d you r n ews to: Carolyn Yhun is more than a theory—it’s works with the Michigan Children’s Law Chong, AB’02, MBA’08. Email: carolyn a practice! Center in Detroit. She has planned, orga- [email protected]. nized, and facilitated several presenta- Mike Gosalia, AB’03, has published — Jacob Luttio, SB’04 tions of “What to Do When Stopped by his first book, The Drug from Mum- the Police” for local high school students 03 bai (Zharmae Publishing Press, and for the community at large. A video 2016). To learn more about the book, visit of the May 28 presentation at Henry Ford goo.gl/PqkDch. Congratulations, Mike! arrival of Kiran John Thottathil Gardner. High School can be viewed at youtu.be s e n d you r n e w s t o: Joe Griffith, He was born on August 8 in Oakland, CA. /p8v-hKGfX4k. Robyn has also spoken at AB’03. Email: [email protected]. Matt Plooster, AB’04, and his wife, “expungement forums” and traveled across Leann (Sechrest) Schuering, Natasha, welcomed baby boy William Michigan educating people about what it AB’04, received her doctor of musi- Matthew Plooster on March 19, 2015. takes to clear their criminal records. 04 cal arts degree from the University Jacob Luttio, SB’04, reports, “I am send your news to: Alpha Lillstrom, of Michigan in 2014. Her family also wel- entering my sixth year as the manager AB’97, Apt. S718, 800 4th St. SW, Wash- comed their second child, Emmett Thomas, of a brick-and-mortar retail establish- ington, DC 20024. Email: alpha@alumni in March 2015, and then moved to St. Louis ment, Holy Land Art Company, in the .uchicago.edu. in September. Also in 2015 Leann began a church goods supply industry. I never send your news to: Elaine Chang, new video blogging and performance duo would have expected my life to take this AB’98. Email: echang@mba2005 called the Art Song Doctors. The mission course, but it’s an interesting meditation 98 .hbs.com. is equal parts education and performance. on emergence and complexity. ... I have send your news to: Julie Leicht- Clare Buckley Flack, AB’04, MAT’05, a two-year-old son, Noah, who is a joy man, AB’99. Email: uchicago99news and John Flack, AB’02, MDiv’07, wel- to behold. I feel fortunate to be work- 99 @gmail.com. comed a daughter in December 2014. ing in a capacity that brings many points send your news to: Mary Tang, They live in New York City. of contact with people of faith, and in a AB’00, or Julie Patel, AB’00. Courtney (Hardie) Johnson, AB’04, way that utilizes some of my education at 00 Email: chicago2000@gmail.com. writes, “Ben Johnson, SB’03, and I wel- the University of Chicago and beyond. I comed our third boy, James Stephen, on received my MBA in international busi- 15TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 July 7. He joins Rocco (5) and Eddie (3). ness from Lynn University in May 2014. I stay at home with them and started a However, I will always think back to the send your news to: Robert Fung, blog: boyohboyohboys.com.” University of Chicago as the place that AB’01. Email: robert.uchicago@gmail The past year was a busy one for Chris- prepared me like no other to be ready for 01 .com. tine (Carqueville) Oryhan, AB’04—she the barrage of life’s demands. The life of From the editor: Eddie Sung, AB’02, moved to Seattle, got married, and took a the mind really is more than a theory— has published Customer Moat: Un- job as an anesthesiologist and pain medi- it’s a practice!” 02 veiling the Secrets of Business Strategy cine physician at Virginia Mason Medi- Devon Pennington, AB’04, is at the (Sung Publishing, 2016), which includes cal Center. She writes that she is happily University of North Carolina’s Kenan- eight tools that companies can adopt to married and employed! Flagler Business School for a full-time become more competitive. The book is the David Gardner, AB’04, and Sapna Thot- MBA; won the 2015 Alpha Challenge, “culmination of 15 years of research and tathil, AB’04, are happy to announce the the nation’s largest stock picking competition; and finally saw his one-year-old nephew in Switzerland. Leighton Smith, AB’04, writes that 2015 “was a year of change for our family. We built a new home and welcomed our third child, Caroline. I accepted a new position as director of client services for BerganKDV, a newly formed financial services and consulting firm doing business primarily in the Midwest. We continue to enjoy living near Iowa City, IA, and have been fortunate to build a community of friends here over the years.” Nadia Gaya, AB’04, reports, “I currently maintain my license as an attorney but am coming up on four years doing tax accounting for Deloitte after obtaining my tax LLM from New York University in 2012 and making a career change from a small law firm to a Big Four. I live with my fiancé in Brooklyn, NY, and life is good!” After five years at the Sierra Club (working largely on clean energy issues and supporting the Obama administration’s Clean Air Act rulemaking), Craig Segall, AB’04, moved to Sacramento, CA, in 2013 to take a job as senior counsel Picturing victory: In 1996 Scav Hunt contestants work on item 251, “Three team to the California Air Resources Board. members each with a pane from Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights There he helps support governor Jerry

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 69 4/27/16 1:43 PM fulfilling job, as we sort out how to decar- Johanna (Cronin) and Jared Shelby, bonize one of the largest economies in the both AB’05, would like to announce the world. … Happily, the Sierra Nevada is birth of their baby, Charlotte Clementine just over an hour away, so the rest of my Shelby, on December 29. Jared writes, time is filled with backpacking, spelunk- “We even have her rocking UChicago ing, rafting, and exploring. It’s a joy to gear already,” courtesy of Anna Lyman, get to enjoy the world, as well as to help AB’05. Congrats on the newest addition preserve it.” to your new family, Johanna and Jared, Miriam Hess, AB’04, lives in Los and hooray for our newest Maroon! Angeles, where she is a TV staff writer at Please follow the Class of 2005 Face- DreamWorks Animation. She is expect- book group for more calls for news and ing her first child in May. other updates. Until then, Margaret Ryznar, AB’04, married XOXO, Frank Sensenbrenner in Rockefeller Gossip Anna Memorial Chapel on a summer after- From the editor: Young Capital Partners noon in 2015. It was a truly UChicago manager Joshua Young, AB’05, recently affair. Sarah Helfinstein, AB’03, was a landed a $20 million university endow- bridesmaid. Honorable guest was Soren ment, quintupling the assets under his Dayton, AB’99, who introduced the management. couple in Washington, DC, at a holiday send your news to: Anna VanToai, party hosted with his wife, Amanda AB’05. Email: [email protected]. Butler, AB’04, JD’09. Also in attendance were Lawrence “Larry” Berlin, AB’89, 10TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 MBA’94; Natalie Brown, AB’04; Justin “Gus” Hurwitz, JD’07; Michael Lotus, Happy Spring! AB’85; Jean (Lyons) Lotus, A B’88; I’ll start with Teresa Bejan, Martin Salvucci, AB’10, AM’11; and 06 AB’06. I’ll let her speak for her- David Skelding, AB’80. Margaret is an self (she’s so very good at it): “After associate professor of law at Indiana Uni- Flying high: Acrobats perform on the spending a year on the tenure track at the versity’s Robert H. McKinney School of Midway as part of the World’s Fair University of Toronto, I was lured away Law. Gus is an assistant professor of law at Reimagined in May 2004. Hosted by Le by the siren song of dreaming spires University of Nebraska–Lincoln College Vorris and Vox circus, the event also and the position of associate profes- of Law. Natalie recently left her position featured tumblers, dancers, clowns, sor of political theory at Oxford. Being as an associate at the Washington, DC, jugglers, and live music. Photography dragged unexpectedly into the current office of Latham & Watkins and moved by Amber Mason, AB’03. fracas about the statue of Cecil Rhodes with her husband and one-year-old son, as a fellow of Oriel College has also pro- Anderson, to Boulder, CO. All enjoyed vided lots of fodder for my book Mere revisiting their college stomping grounds Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of for the wedding weekend. Sloan Research Fellow. Kevin is an Toleration, forthcoming with Harvard Leslie Danford, AB’04, writes, “Will assistant professor of mathematics at the University Press next year. I owe it all Danford, AB’03, SM’06, and I welcomed University of Illinois at Chicago, and to fundamentals.” our second son, Theodore, in June. Big his research interests include algebraic Bob Rayson, AB’06, reports the birth of brother Hugh (age 2) is loving our new geometry and commutative algebra. Tess and Natalie, born October 9. That’s addition, and we are all adjusting to (crazy send your news to: Mercedes Lyson, right: twins. He’s wrapping up his year and wonderful) life as a family of four.” AB’04. Email: mercedes_lyson@alumni as chief resident and next he’ll pursue a And I’ll end with my own updates— .brown.edu. cardiology fellowship at the University of after finishing a postdoctoral year at Julio Chavezmontes, AB’05, a North Carolina Department of Medicine. Northeastern University, I’m now work- film producer, is currently working His supermom wife, Ashley Whyte-Ray- ing as a research associate at Tufts Med- 05 on a project that is backed by film - son, AB’05, will be doing a neuromuscu- ical Center in downtown Boston. This makers Alejandro González Iñarritu and lar disease fellowship at Duke next year. appointment is focused on work, health, Carlos Reygadas. Julio writes, “It would Janelle (Hartman) and Dan Gingold, and productivity, and I’m in good com- be wonderful to share this news with the both AB’06, are loving that Baltimore pany with an interdisciplinary team of alumni community and the University of life. He’ll be chief resident and a junior sociologists, statisticians, and psychia- Chicago Magazine.” More information can clinical faculty member in emergency trists. I continue to pursue my creative be found at variety.com/2016/film/global medicine at the University of Maryland. university of chicago magazine uchiblogo magazine chicago of university passions through DJ gigs and my YouTube /inarritu-reygadas-emiliano-rocha-minter Janelle loves her job at the White House channel/website (lamouretlamusique -we-are-the-flesh-1201687692. Office of Management and Budget work- .com),which revolves around eco-beauty In May 2015 Janice “Apple” Dantes, ing on health policy and budget. Dan has and alternative health and lifestyle. AB’05, was admitted into the Chicago Bar been “shredding pow” (while he might Thanks so much to everyone who sub- Foundation’s Justice Entrepreneurs Proj- use that phrase naturally, I’m not cool mitted updates; it’s great to see such ect, a legal incubator program, to provide enough to not put it in quotation marks) a good representation from ’04 in this legal services to the middle class. She com- with our classmates, including a trip to issue! As always, feel free to submit news pleted the first phase as a resident attorney Salt Lake City with Brett Reynolds, to me anytime. at Chicago Volunteer Legal Services. AB’06, JD’09; Phil Smithback, AB’06; From the editor: Angela Mahaffey, Robert Martin, AB’05, writes that Ben Parker, AB’07; and Jeff, AB’07, and AB’04, writes that she is now Angela he has been accepted into a Maternal- Carolyn (Gruber), AB’05, Latshaw. Dan Mahaffey, PhD. She received a doctoral Fetal Medicine Fellowship at UT South- and Janelle are really looking forward to degree in chemistry from Loyola Univer- western Medical Center in Dallas. He is seeing classmates at the 10-year reunion sity in Chicago on December 19. currently an attending physician there, in June! The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has having finished his ob-gyn residency at I quite agree. I’ll see you all back on named Kevin Tucker, AB’04, a 2016 the medical center in 2015. campus in June. Here’s a Facebook event

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v9.indd 70 4/28/16 1:44 PM The Sierra Nevada is just the University of Chicago working in Heaven Church in Illinois. Godfather Alumni Relations and Development as J. Andrew Marriott, AB’07; Christine over an hour away, so the associate director for class giving and (Pabin) Bishof, AB’00; John S. Bishof reunions. Jesse says, “I’m delighted to III, AB’00; and other friends and family rest of my time is filled with be connecting with alumni to discuss were in attendance. backpacking, spelunking, engagement and philanthropic opportu- send your news to: Liz Egan, AB’07. nities,” and invites anyone interested in Email: [email protected]. rafting, and exploring. It’s a getting involved to email him at jameyer No submissions this time around, joy to get to enjoy the world, @uchicago.edu. but I know there must be lots of Jon Simon, AB’07, recently returned 08 news, so drop me a line. as well as to help preserve it. from a five-year stint in Russia, where he From the editor: Two years ago Bharath was working for the American embassy. Sithian, AB’08, quit his job as a bond —Craig Segall, AB’04 “I had a wonderful, but exhausting, time trader with J. P. Morgan to cofound a immersing myself there,” Jon reports. He medical device company with his father adds: “As a small side hobby, I am trying and best friend. In January their product to collect a SASA [South Asian Students Healthy Heels, which prevents bedsores for the reunion: facebook.com/events Association] show T-shirt from each of on hospital patients’ heels, was given an /1733015660261212/. In the meantime, its 26 years.” So far Jon has tracked down innovation award by the Patient Safety keep the updates coming! shirts from 2005–12 and 2014, and is Movement. More information can be send your news to: Rada Yovovich, looking to fill in the gaps. “It was always found at preventreat.com. AB’06. Email: [email protected]. one of my favorite U of C experiences,” send your news to: Wendy Gonzalez, Ceyda Savasli, AB’07, and Christo- he says. AB’08. Email: wendyg@uchicago.edu. pher Gross, AB’05, were married in James Moore, AB’07, writes with Hi, friends! We didn’t hear from 07 Chicago on September 12. The couple the news that he recently moved back too many of you this round but dated in 2004 and 2005, Ceyda reports, but to Nashville, TN, with his wife, Sara, 09 we’re looking forward to seeing then they went their separate ways; Chris where they welcomed a son into their what you are up to this summer! A big attended Harvard Medical School and family. In addition to caring for a new ‘huzzah!’ and pat on the back go to Ben- Ceyda finished college and began her career baby, James also recently began a new job jamin Esparza, AB’09, who completed at Bank of America in New York. Though as a landscape architect, “so it has been a the 2016 Boston Marathon for charity. they kept in touch through the years, a re- busy year,” he says. He ran for Camp Shriver, which is a sum- connection in 2013 led to their engagement This is the last year of internal med- mer program for children from low so- in Kyoto, Japan, in 2014. When the wedding icine residency at Johns Hopkins Bay- cioeconomic backgrounds and children bells rang, several UChicago alums were in view Medical Center for Carl Streed with disabilities. attendance, including bridesmaids Annie Jr., SB’07, and then it’s on to Harvard’s s e n d y o u r n e w s t o : J a n e L i , Margaret Dean, AB’07; Bahar Obdan, Brigham and Women’s Hospital for a AB’09. Email: [email protected]. Or AB’07; Elif Cinar, AB’07; Kimberly Song, fellowship in general internal medi- Sydney Chernish, AB’09. Email: sydney AB’07; and Meghan Berry, AB’06; and cine research with a focus on lesbian, [email protected]. groomsmen Michael Tessel, AB’04, and gay, bisexual, and transgender heath. In December Rory Tolan, AB’10, Orlando Tregear, AB’05, MBA’13. Ceyda “Thankfully my fiancé, Chad Rubal- was appointed a staff editor at the reports many more alumni—“too many to caba, AB’00, JD’07, will be able to move 10 New York Times. He is helping shape list”—were present for the ceremony, in- with me to Boston as he works for Educa- stories for the daily paper as well as the cluding “a strong showing from AOIIs and tion First, a consultancy firm that spe- Sunday Metropolitan section. Before that Alpha Delts, with UChicago friends flying cializes in education policy,” Carl adds. he was an editor at a variety of magazines, in all the way from Ecuador and Turkey, Alex Coppock, AB’07, writes with the most recently Vice. During his time there, like Bahar, Jose Urizar, AB’04, and Mu- news that his wife, Penelope Van Grins- Vice was named Ad Age’s Magazine Brand rat Coskun, AB’07.” Also in September, ven, AB’07, is continuing her master of of the Year and received PEN Center Christopher began work as an attending fine arts program in ceramics at Pennsyl- USA’s Award of Honor for its contribu- orthopedic surgeon at the Medical Uni- vania State University and that he will tions to political and cultural writing. versity of South Carolina and Ceyda says begin as an assistant professor of political sen d your n ews to: Jeannette Daly, she “caught the start-up bug post-finance science at Yale University in the fall. AB’10. Email: jeannette.daly@gmail and is at SnapCap Capital in Charleston, From his home in northern Virginia, .com. Or Amy Estersohn, AB’09 (Class of SC. Drop us a line if your travels bring you where he resides with his wife, Adri- 2010). Email: [email protected]. through Charleston!” enne, and children Constance, Ross, Andrea Arntsen-Harris, A B’0 7, and Ambrose, Mark Meador, AB’07, is writes with the happy news of her wed- engaged in a yearlong detail as counsel university of chicago magazine uchiblogo magazine chicago of university ding to Andrew Kiefer in Chicago on to Republican Utah senator Mike Lee, It’s not too late to April 11, 2015. U of C alumni in atten- advising the senator in his role as chair- become a doctor dance included maid of honor Emilee man of the Senate Judiciary Subcommit- Bryn Mawr College’s prestigious Lales, AB’03, and bridesmaids Jennifer tee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program J. Kim, AB’07; Alison Chevrier, AB’07; and Consumer Rights. will help you realize your dreams. and Jamie Smith, AB’07. Andrea also James Dagonas, AB’07, writes that • For women and men changing career direction reports that in 2012 she received a master after two years in the Chicago office of • Over 98 percent acceptance rate into medical of science degree in communication from the Boston Consulting Group, he has school Northwestern University and that she transferred to Oslo, Norway, to continue • Early acceptance programs at a large selection currently works as associate director of in his role as project leader as part of of medical schools donor relations at Northwestern Univer- BCG’s ambassador program. • Supportive, individual academic and premedical advising sity Feinberg School of Medicine. Andrea From the editor: Michael Bishof, AB’07, Bryn Mawr College and her husband live in the Edgewater and Cynthia Pekron (and their son Ronan Canwyll House | Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 neighborhood of Chicago. Bishof) welcomed a new baby, Casimir 610-526-7350 Also in Chicago, Jesse Meyer, AB’07, Patrick Bishof, in May 2015. Casimir [email protected] www.brynmawr.edu/postbac/ recently accepted a position with was baptized in July at Mary Queen of

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 71 4/27/16 1:44 PM 5TH REUNION June 2–5, 2016 I look forward to returning summer, I returned to my family farm in Iowa to help out with the harvest— send your news to: Grace Chapin, to Chicago in the near something I haven’t been able to do since AB’11. Email: ghchapin@gmail before I started at the College! 11 .com. future, but in the meantime, “My father, Benjamin Riensche, Krista Kraus, AB’12, and Peter LoPres- I’m relishing every moment MBA’89, runs our sixth-generation ti, AB’11, got married surrounded by a family farm, the Blue Diamond Farming 12 wedding party that included Ari Allyn- I have here in the heartland. Company, with his father, Roland. Early Feuer, AB’11; Kaan Kadioglu, AB’11; Chel- last year, my dad underwent massive sea Vail, AB’12; and Lyss Welding, AB’11, —Lauren Riensche, AB’15 heart surgery, and with my grandfather and forgot to tell this publication. So they’re in and out of the hospital as well, I came letting everyone know they celebrated their home to pitch in. It wasn’t until I suffered one-year anniversary on December 13. a few of those 17-hour harvest days that I se n d you r n e ws t o: Colin Bohan, portunities—like the ones of this issue’s remembered how much I missed it all: the AB’12. Email: [email protected]. featured classmates. dew-and-coffee smell of early field morn- From the editor: Alex Stein, AB’13, a Maranna Yoder, AB’15, moved to ings, the excitement at the completion of professional actor, performed in the Washington, DC, last July to work for each finished acre, being covered in top- 13 Midwest premiere of The New Sin- the Brattle Group, an economic consult- soil from head to toe, and the breathtak- cerity, a play about the occupy movement, ing firm. Soon after, she received and ing cornfield sunsets. I look forward to at Theater Wit in Chicago’s Lakeview accepted an offer to move to Sydney for returning to Chicago in the near future, neighborhood. two years, where she will be assisting but in the meantime, I’m relishing every send your news to: Parvathy Murukur- the firm in expanding operations in Aus- moment I have here in the heartland.” We thy, AB’13. Email: parvathym@uchicago tralia. She explains, “Generally, we do want you back in Chicago too, Lauren, .edu. economic analysis for use in lawsuits, but it’s wonderful to know that you’re From the editor: Sam Greene, SB’14, and we also do a lot of work in the energy doing so well at home. SM’14, is a finalist for the 2016 sector advising regulatory agencies Do you have new opportunities or 14 Hertz Fellowship, which funds and utility companies. We have done announcements you want to share with graduate education for “leaders in the or are currently doing several projects our classmates too? Drop a message my fields of applied physical, biological, and with Australian clients, both in the liti- way—I look forward to hearing and writ- engineering sciences.” Sam is currently gation and energy fields, and we hope ing about them! studying at the University of Oxford on a to expand our presence with the new se n d you r n ews to: Nadia Alhadi, Rhodes Scholarship. office.” Although she is nervous, she AB’15. Email: [email protected]. send your news to: Sara Hupp, AB’14. is looking forward to the experience. Email: [email protected]. “There are only four people moving down there, and I don’t know anyone in 1st REUNION June 2–5, 2016 Australia, so it will be an exciting adventure!” Congratulations, Maranna, on Happy spring, ’15ers! You’ve made the opportunity. it through the winter again, which Lauren Riensche, AB’15, has been 15 we all know is an especially big doing some moving around herself—from Advanced degrees permission. with reprinted reserved. rights all maroon. chicago the 2016, copyright feat for those living in Chicago and along the Midwest to the East Coast, and back: the East Coast. May your future be filled “Upon finishing an advertising train- CHICAGO BOOTH with sunshine, warmth, and fresh oping program in New York City this past Guillaume Sainteny, MBA’02, has published The Forest Behind the Climate: Why Climate Hides Other Environmental Prob- lems (Rue de l’echiquier, 2015), in which he advocates for climate and environmental policies that address multiple issues including air and water pollution, soil erosion, and loss of biodiversity.

CHICAGO HARRIS Operation ASHA CEO Sandeep Ahuja, MPP’06, reports that the organization has “taken great strides in Cambodia, where we have trained more than 3,000 people from remote villages as community health workers. These ‘foot soldiers’ carry out tuberculosis detection and provide door- step delivery of TB medicines to patients living in villages and far-flung areas.” In 2014 Kristen Hajduk, MPP’07, cofounded an initiative called No Excep- tions, advocating for the US military to open all positions to women. In Decem- ber 2015 defense secretary Ash Carter announced that there would be “no exceptions” to full integration in the mil- Chicago style: Dennell Reynolds, AB’11, models a design by Allison Wu, SB’11, at itary, opening all positions to women. MODA’s annual spring fashion show in 2011. The event was held at the Chicago Additionally, Hajduk was selected for a Cultural Center. 2016 Next Generation National Security

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 72 4/27/16 1:44 PM Fellowship with the Center for a New work of Nicola Lombardi to the English- corporate attorneys with high levels of American Security. speaking world,” with two of his trans- customer satisfaction. Litt is a partner at In addition to researching the econom- lations from the Italian appearing in Honigman Miller Schwarz and Cohn and ics of existing US nuclear power plants issues of Disturbed Digest and one in the works out of the firm’s Chicago office. and climate change policy at Carnegie British anthology Play Things and Past Mellon University, Mike Roth, MPP’14, Times (KnightWatch Press, 2015). His SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION has released his first solo album, Slow second annotated translation of a chap- Georgetown University Press published Down (2015). More information can be ter from Eugène Briffault’s Paris à table the second edition of Federal Service and found at mikerothmusic.com. (1846) appeared in the summer issue the Constitution: The Development of the of Gastronomica: The Journal of Criti- Public Employment Relationship by David DIVINITY SCHOOL cal Food Studies. For more information H. Rosenbloom, AM’66, PhD’69, in Michael Schuck, AM’78, AM’80, and links, see his website: jweintraub 2014. Cornell University Press published PhD’88, associate professor of Chris- .weebly.com. the first edition in 1971; the book was orig- tian ethics at Loyola University Chi- Hector Williams, AM’67, PhD’73 inally Rosenbloom’s PhD dissertation. cago, published Democracy, Culture, retired from the University of British “A dissertation with a 43-year shelf life in Catholicism: Voices from Four Continents Columbia’s Department of Classical, two editions is an unusual achievement,” (Fordham University Press, 2015) with Near Eastern, and Religious Studies he writes. Rosenbloom, the Distinguished coeditor John Crowley-Buck. “The after teaching there for 45 years. He Professor of Public Administration at book is an interdisciplinary study of the continues “to have a desk in the depart- American University’s School of Public restraints and resources of Catholicism ment,” to supervise two PhD students, Affairs, will be in residence at Renmin for democracy in four diverse cultural and to work on publishing his archaeolog- University of China for parts of the 2017, contexts: Indonesia, Lithuania, Peru, ical excavations at Mytilene (in Lesbos) 2018, and 2019 academic years. and the United States,” writes Schuck. and Stymphalos (in Peloponnese, Nancy Waters Ellenberger, AM’72, At Loyola he is also codirector of the Greece). He has a new part-time career has published Balfour’s World: Aristoc- International Jesuit Ecology Project, “lecturing aboard small cruise ships (100 racy and Political Culture at the Fin de which has been developing a free elec- passengers or fewer) in the Mediterra- Siècle (Boydell and Brewer, 2015), which tronic textbook in environmental sci- nean and around South America and the describes how prime minister Arthur ence, ethics, and spirituality called Canadian Arctic.” Balfour and other Edwardian politicians Healing Earth. The April issue of Society features shaped the “emotional regime” among William J. Meyer, AM’88, PhD’92, John Fidler’s (AM’75) review of Jill Britain’s political elite at the turn of the recently published Darwin in a New Key: Lepore’s The Secret History of Wonder century. Ellenberger is a professor of his- Evolution and the Question of Value (Cas- Woman (Knopf, 2015). A PDF of the tory at the United States Naval Academy. cade Books, 2016). review can be accessed here: bit.ly David Nexon, AM’71, PhD’74, who The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary /1YjeR 4W. served as Senator Ted Kennedy’s senior in Nineteenth-Century American Culture In November Elizabeth Schiller health policy adviser and directed the (UNC Press, 2016), by Elizabeth Hayes Friedman, AM’93, PhD’00, received senator’s HELP Committee health staff Alvarez, AM’99, PhD’11, explores how, the National Professional Science Mas- from 1983 to 2005, has coauthored Lion of amid anti-Catholic sentiment in America, ter’s Association Board of Directors the Senate: When Ted Kennedy Rallied the images of Mary transcended theologi- Award at NPSMA’s Sixth National Con- Democrats in a GOP Congress (Simon and copyright 2016, the chicago maroon. all rights reserved. reprinted with permission. with reprinted reserved. rights all maroon. chicago the 2016, copyright cal divides and helped reflect and shape ference in Arlington, VA. Friedman is Schuster, 2015). gender roles. the director of professional master’s pro- In Processual Sociology (University of grams and new initiatives for the Col- Chicago Press, 2016), Andrew Abbott, HUMANITIES DIVISION lege of Science at Illinois Institute of AM’75, PhD’82, argues that the social After 36 years of aviation research and Technology. She also gives a shout-out world is constantly changing, and indi- the publication of more than 80 technical to her sister Wendy Schiller Kalunian, viduals and entities can’t be studied as if papers, Laurence M. Gordon, AM’71, AB’86, for her promotion to chair of the they are fixed in time. Abbott is the Gus- has retired as lead engineer from the political science department at Brown tavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Mitre Group in McLean, VA. While at University [For more, see Alumni News, Service Professor in the University’s Mitre he obtained a master’s in opera- Winter/16.—Ed.]. Department of Sociology. tions research, tutored dozens of second- Gary M. Crow, PhD’85, has been ary school students in math, and was an PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION named executive associate dean of the adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Intellectual property law firm Brinks School of Education at Indiana Uni- Community College, where he taught Gilson & Lione has elected Yuezhong versity, Bloomington. In November evening math courses. He continues as a Feng, SM’98, PhD’02, as a shareholder. he was awarded the Roald F. Campbell math tutor in Beaufort, SC, where he and Feng litigates “complex patent, Hatch- Lifetime Achievement Award by the his wife, Patricia, now live. Waxman, and ITC Section 337 cases, and University Council for Educational Joe Weintraub, AM’67, PhD’73, guides clients through the patent process.” Administration. writes that he “had a productive year in Angela Rosita Cowser, AM’88, has 2015.” His 10-minute play, Reunion, was SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SERVICE ADMINISTRATION received Louisville Seminary’s First produced by LowellArts in Lowell, MI; John Wagner, AM’71, has published a Decade Award, which recognizes a Fourth Street Theater in Chesterton, memoir of his human rights work in Peru, recent graduate for making a significant IN; and Paw Paw (MI) Village Play- Troubled Mission: Fighting For Love, Spiri- impact in the first five to nine years of ers, where it was judged Best in Show. tuality, and Human Rights in Violence-Rid- his or her ministry or service. Cowser, Three Cat Productions in Chicago put den Peru (Kelly House, 2015). Find the assistant professor of the sociology of on his play Christmas in Vegas as part of book and read more on the Magazine’s religion and director of the Center for the its seasonal Holiday Stories, as well as GoodReads shelf (mag.uchicago.edu Church and the Black Experience at Gar- a staged reading of his full-length play /alumni-books). rett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Caliban as part of its 2015 New Works Paula E. Litt, AM’75, has been recog- focuses on empowering her students to Festival. In addition, his radio play Exit nized as a BTI Client Service All-Star pursue social justice. 34 was included in this year’s Atlanta for 2016. Compiled by legal strategic In January J. Hughes, AM’88, PhD’95, Fringe Festival. He “also introduced the research provider BTI, the list recognizes was appointed associate provost for

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 73 4/27/16 1:45 PM institutional research, assessment, and planning at the University of Massa- chusetts–Boston. In May J. and Monica Bock, LAB’78, will be celebrating the graduation of their daughter, Althea Bock-Hughes, from Oberlin College with a double degree in opera performance and biology. Their son, Tristan Bock- Hughes, Class of 2017, is a student and activist at the University of Chicago, “working on urban policy and criminal justice reform.” Noah Samuel Leavitt and Helen Kiyong Kim, both AM’97, have coauthored a book, JewAsian: Race, Religion, and Identity for America’s Newest Jews (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). In the book, the husband-wife team explores intermarriage between Jewish and Asian Americans and how children of these marriages negotiate their own identities in contemporary America. The Law School’s Kapnick Leadership In The Chicken and the Quetzal: Incom- Development Initiative brings the mensurate Ontologies and Portable Values in Guatemala’s Cloud Forest (Duke Uni- interpersonal savvy of the business world versity Press, 2016), Paul Kockelman, SM’94, PhD’02, explores the cultural to legal education, without sacrificing the history of a Guatemalan village and its relation to conservation and ecotourism. analytical rigor of the academic program. Former Biological Sciences Division faculty member and medical sociologist Gavin W. Hougham, AM’93, PhD’04, has been appointed director of Battelle Memorial Institute’s Seattle office, where he “leads a team of program evalu- ators, statisticians, epidemiologists, and other social scientists who conduct contract and investigator-initiated research YOU CAN and development.” Hougham also received an affiliate faculty appointment at the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecol- ogy, and retains affiliate faculty status

uchicago photographic archive, apf3-01140, university of chicago library chicago of university apf3-01140, archive, photographic uchicago HELP LEAD at UChicago’s Center for Health and the Social Sciences. Hougham hired fellow alum Shana “Ender” Ricart, AM’10, PhD’15, as a research scientist on his ger- ontology/aging research group. Ricart THE WAY. completed a Japan Society for the Promo- tion of Science postdoctoral research fellowship in Tokyo. Ronojoy Sen, PhD’05, has published Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India (Columbia University Press, 2015), which traces the rise and fall of different sports in India and sports’ transition from a LAWYERS LEADING IN EVERY FIELD hobby of the elite to a national pastime. Super Lawyers named Adam Doverspike, THE PHOENIX SOCIETY University of Chicago Law School graduates are AM’06, to its 2015 Oklahoma Rising Stars list. Doverspike, who practices law with Plan a gift. Define your legacy. not just lawyers; they are leaders in the courtroom GableGotwals, was recognized for his and the boardroom, in government and public interest, and in private practice. Through the work in energy and resources law. Learn more about the Phoenix Society and how Julia Cassaniti, PhD’09, has published Kapnick Leadership Development Initiative, we your planned gift can support future leaders. Living Buddhism: Mind, Self, and Emotion equip graduates to take the lead with confidence Visit phoenixsociety.uchicago.edu, call 866.241.9802, in a Thai Community (Cornell University in whatever careers they choose. Press, 2015). Julia is an assistant profes- Relax to the music: A surgery patient listens to recorded music at UChicago’s or email [email protected]. sor of cultural anthropology at Washing- Goldblatt Memorial Hospital in 1950. The OR-ready system, a combination of For more information about the Law School, visit ton State University. magnetic tape recorders, lightweight headphones, and an anesthetist-controlled law.uchicago.edu or contact Alison Coppelman at send your news to: The University of switchboard, was specially designed for UChicago hospitals. The goal was to Chicago Magazine, c/o Alumni News Editor. distract the patient and drown out the sound of clinking instruments and doctors’ [email protected]. Email: [email protected]. conversations during procedures involving spinal, local, or regional anesthesia.

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AlumniNews_Layout_Spring16_v8.indd 75 4/28/16 1:21 PM Department of Chemistry and the James from 20 06 to 2010. In 20 05 she received the DEATHS Franck Institute in 1961, later chairing the Chicago Booth Distinguished Entrepre- department and directing the Materials neurial Alumni Award. A pilot and ama- Research Laboratory. The longtime editor teur violinist, Gould became a full-time of the Journal of Chemical Physics, he was winemaker in 2009 when she and her hus- FACULTY AND STAFF one of the first scientists to describe chemi - band, Allen Stewart, bought a California cal reaction dynamics on a molecular scale, vineyard. She is survived by Stewart and John Fennessy, professor emeritus of ra- and he developed influential theoretical her son. diology, died January 3 in Hinsdale, IL. and computational models for determining He was 82. A native of Ireland, Fennessy reaction rates and related measures. Light 1930s did his residency at UChicago and joined retired in 2001. He is survived by his wife, the faculty of its radiology department Phyllis Kittel; three sons, including David Leonard Liebermann, SB’37, SM’38, in 1965. An expert on chest and abdomen Caldwell Light, LAB’79, MBA’88, and PhD’40, died January 8 in La Jolla, CA. He radiology, he was named chair of the de- Robert W. Light, LAB’80; a brother; and was 10 0. A longtime professor of physics at partment in 1974 and oversaw the develop- 10 grandchildren, including Lab students the University of California, San Diego, ment of the radiology facility at Mitchell Isabella, Ethan, and Bryce Light. Liebermann was known for his research Hospital. He was a founding member of Gary Palm, JD’67, former clinical profes- on sound propagation in solids and liquids the Society of Thoracic Radiology and the sor of law and director of the Edwin F. and for organizing on-campus forums for first vice president of the Radiological So- Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, died February 14 the Department of Defense to consult with ciety of North America. A popular teacher, in Chicago. He was 73. A volunteer in the physicists. He took early retirement and Fennessy won the McClintock Award for Mandel Clinic during law school, Palm re- developed and commercialized a series of Outstanding Teaching in 1969 and was turned to UChicago in 1970 as an assistant instruments including a gas leak detector voted the graduating medical students’ professor and director of the clinic. Under for refrigerators. Liebermann is survived favorite instructor almost 30 times. He re- his leadership the clinic focused on com- by two daughters, including UChicago tired in 2005. He is survived by his wife, munity-based advocacy and clinical edu- professor of physics Kathryn Levin; a son; Ann Mary Ursula; two daughters, includ- cation, becoming one of the first programs five grandchildren, including Tamara E. ing Deirdre Fennessy, LAB’80; four sons; to have students litigate real court cases un- Lotan, LAB’94, MD’03, and assistant a sister; a brother; and four grandchildren. der a professor’s supervision. Palm was the professor of physics Michael A. Levin, Samuel D. Golden, AB’45, JD’49, former first clinical teacher on the American Bar LAB’97; and six great-grandchildren. associate general counsel for the Univer- Association’s Accreditation Committee sity, died March 8. He was 89. Golden was and served for six years on the ABA’s legal 1940s an attorney at Argonne National Laborato- education group. He became a full profes- ry from 1954 until 1962, when he joined the sor at the Law School in 1983 and directed Janet L. Kohrman, AB’40, AM’49, of University’s Office of Legal Counsel. He the Mandel Clinic until 1991, when he was Chicago died March 14. She was 97. A so- was a leader in helping what is now known appointed a clinical professor of law. He cial worker, Kohrman was a lecturer and as the University of Chicago Medicine retired in 2000. He is survived by a sister. administrator at UChicago’s School of become a separate legal entity, and was Antonin Scalia, former University of Chi- Social Service Administration, worked deeply involved with UChicago’s contracts cago Law School professor, died February at Michael Reese Hospital, and served as with the Department of Energy and other 13 in Shafter, TX. He was 79. Scalia taught a counselor at the Juvenile Protective As- government agencies. Golden officially at the University of Virginia and served sociation in Chicago. She was a founder of retired in 2003 but continued to work part in the Nixon and Ford administrations the Institute for Clinical Social Work and time in the legal office until 2008. An avid before joining the Law School faculty in enjoyed attending performances at Step- musician, he ran a chamber music group in 1977. A staunch advocate of interpreting penwolf Theatre in Chicago. Her first hus- Hyde Park and was also active with the lo- the Constitution as the founding fathers band, Charles Pfeiffer, SB’40, died in 1944. cal KAM Isaiah Israel Congregation. He would have, Scalia helped organize and She is survived by a daughter, Cathryn is survived by his wife, Paula; a daughter; advised the Law School’s first chapter of Ann Collins, LAB’76; two sons, includ- two sons, Jonathan Golden, LAB’71, and the Federalist Society. In 1982 he was ap- ing Daniel B. Kohrman, LAB’74; and six Daniel Charles Golden, AB’72; five grand- pointed to the US Court of Appeals for grandchildren. sons, including Joshua L. Golden, AB’04, the District of Columbia and in 1986 he Mary T. Mitchell, SB’42, SM’44, of and Benjamin David Golden, AB’04; and was appointed to the US Supreme Court. Springfield, VA, died February 26. She one great-granddaughter. During his three decades as an associate was 94. Mitchell was an analyst with the Franca Kuchnir, associate professor justice his commitment to originalism, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago before emerita of medical physics, died April 29, sharp wit, and expressive opinion writ- joining the Federal Deposit Insurance 2015, in Milford, MA. She was 79. Kuchnir ing made him a major figure in modern Corporation in 1964. In 1975 she became worked at Argonne National Laboratory conservatism. He is survived by his wife, the first woman to hold the position of as- and taught at the University of Illinois at Maureen; four daughters, including Ann sociate director of planning and program Chicago before joining UChicago in 1971. Banaszewski, LAB’79; five sons, includ- development in the bank supervision divi- A neutron dosimetry and clinical radiation ing Eugene Scalia, LAB’81, JD’90; and sion. Mitchell retired in 1984. She is sur- researcher who taught technical medical many grandchildren. vived by a daughter, Miriam Dewhurst, staff as well as students, she developed a LAB’65; a son; three stepdaughters; four neutron therapy facility at the University TRUSTEES grandsons; a great-granddaughter; and a that operated for more than 10 years. In great-grandson. 1999 she launched the University’s resi- Kathryn Gould, MBA’78, of Portola Val- Bernice Colner Spielberg, SB’42, died dency program in medical physics. Kuch- ley, CA, died November 26 of cancer. She February 28 in Los Angeles. She was 95. nir retired in 2001. She is survived by her was 65. A venture capitalist, in 1995 Gould Spielberg moved with her family to Los husband, Moyses; a daughter; a son; a sis- cofounded Silicon Valley firm Foundation Angeles in 1960. After the death of her first ter; five granddaughters, including Abigail Capital, an early investor in Netflix and husband, William Colner, SB’41, in 1968, Kuchnir, Class of 2019; and a grandson. Lending Clubs that now manages more she earned a master’s degree and taught John Light, professor emeritus of chemis- than $2.7 billion in assets. She joined the creative writing at Valley State Universi- try, died January 18 in Denver. He was 81. A University Board of Trustees in 2002 and ty, Northridge. She is survived by her hus- physical chemist, Light joined UChicago’s was the chair of its Investment Committee band, Arnold Spielberg; three sons; three

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Layout_Deaths_Spring16_v3.indd 76 4/26/16 3:14 PM stepdaughters; one stepson; seven grand- John H. Oberhelman, MD’57; and nine urbs. He worked for the American Friends children; and many step-grandchildren grandchildren. Service Committee before spending two and great-grandchildren. Charles Pressman, AB’46, JD’51, died decades as the head of the Leadership Robert Frederick “Bob” Dale, SB’43, of October 2 in Lake Forest, IL. He was 92. Council for Metropolitan Open Commu- West Lafayette, IN, died February 1. He Cofounder of the Chicago-based firm Press - nities. After retiring in 1992 he spent 10 was 94. A weather officer during World War man & Hartunian, Pressman was a defense, years as the senior scholar in residence at II, Dale spent 20 years with the US Weather employment discrimination, and civil rights Loyola’s Center for Urban Research and Bureau, working as a climatologist in sev- attorney and a longtime director of the Learning. He is survived by his wife, Hel- eral cities. In 1967 he became an associate American Civil Liberties Union’s Chicago en L. Williams, PhB’50; a daughter; two professor at Purdue University, where he chapter. He left the firm in 1982 but contin- sons; three sisters; two brothers; and five taught agricultural meteorology and statis- ued to work on cases for the next three de- grandchildren. tical climatology until 1987. He is survived cades. His first wife, Lenore G. Pressman, by three daughters, two sons, 17 grandchil- AB’48, AM’53, died in 1986. He is survived 1950s dren, and four great-grandchildren. by his wife, Joan; a daughter; a son; a sister; Muriel Friedman Tuteur, AB’43, of Laguna a granddaughter; two stepdaughters; a step- Warren Nyer, SB’50, died February 4 in Woods, CA, died February 3. She was 93. son; and three step-grandchildren. Idaho Falls, ID. He was 94. Nyer worked Tuteur served in the Women’s Army Corps William F. Schroeder, AB’46, died Octo- on the Manhattan Project as an undergrad- during World War II and later was a case- ber 20 in Boise, ID. He was 87. A College uate research assistant and was involved in worker and a preschool teacher. In 1969 she graduate at age 17, Schroeder spent much of the creation of the world’s first controlled, started the country’s first union-sponsored his legal career as a litigator and advocate self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. In day care center; she directed the Amalgam- for the responsible use of public lands and 1951 he joined the National Reactor Test- ated Day Care and Health Center until 1983. resources, particularly those in the west- ing Station in Idaho and later consulted for Tuteur received the Coalition for Labor ern United States. In 2000 he received the nuclear power utilities. He was a charter Union Women’s Florence Criley Award Oregon State Bar’s Award of Merit, the member of the American Nuclear Society in 1982 and the National Council of Jewish organization’s highest honor. Schroeder is and vice chair of the Atomic Energy Com- Women’s Hannah G. Solomon Award in survived by his wife, Alberta; three daugh- mission’s Safety and Licensing Panel. He 1988. She is survived by a daughter, a son, ters; three sons; 14 grandchildren, includ- is survived by two sons, three stepdaugh- and a granddaughter. ing Anna C. Gustafson, AB’14; and eight ters, and several step-grandchildren and Laurence Finberg, SB’44, MD’46, of San great-grandchildren. step-great-grandchildren. Francisco died January 22. He was 92. An Richard Kekuni Blaisdell, MD’47, died Charlotte Lettermon, AM’51, died Feb- expert on fluid and electrolyte abnormali- February 12 in Honolulu. He was 90. Blais- ruary 14 in Holland, MI. She was 90. Let- ties in children, he taught in and chaired the dell was an assistant professor of medicine termon was a children’s social worker with pediatrics departments of several academic at UChicago before joining the faculty at the State of Wisconsin, retiring in 2001. medical centers including at the State Uni- the University of Hawaii, where he taught She was a member of East Congregational versity of New York Downstate Medical until 2006. An advocate for accessible and Church and enjoyed decorating, crafting, Center, where he also served as dean of culturally appropriate health care for na- reading, and solving crossword puzzles. the medical school. Finberg won the Medi- tive Hawaiians, he focused on the unique Her husband, Harrison Dean Lettermon, cal and Biological Sciences Alumni As- medical needs of the indigenous popula- AM’51, died in 2013. She is survived by her sociation’s Distinguished Service Award tion in much of his research. He was influ- sister. in 1969, and continued to teach pediatric ential in the passage of the federal Native Arnold Katz, LAB’48, AB’52, died Janu- medicine in retirement. His first wife, Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988, which ary 25 in Norwich, VT. He was 83. Katz Harriet Levinson Finberg, AB’45, AM’47, established Hawaiian health centers that became a professor of cardiology at the died in 1994. He is survived by his wife, integrated Western and native medical Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1969 Joann Quane-Finberg; a daughter; two practices. He is survived by a daughter, a and was appointed the first chief of cardi- sons, Robert Finberg, AB’71, and James son, and four grandchildren. ology at the University of Connecticut’s Finberg, JD’83; and many grandchildren, Martha Basu, LAB’45, PhB’48, died Janu- medical school in 1977. An award-winning including Sara Julie Fine, AB’04. ary 11 in Los Angeles. She was 85. Basu and researcher, he published more than 400 ar- Clarence “Clar” W. Cukor, PhB’46, SB’48, her husband spent several years in India ticles and several textbooks. After retiring of Atlanta, died March 12. He was 90. A and later lived in California and Pennsyl- in 1998 he continued to teach as a visiting World War II veteran, Cukor worked in vania. An active community volunteer, she professor at Harvard and Dartmouth. He is the packaging and vending industries, enjoyed playing cards, crafting, reading, survived by his wife, Phyllis; three daugh- spending the last two decades of his career cooking, traveling, and keeping in touch ters; one son; and eight grandchildren. as the marketing and export manager of the with friends and family. She is survived by John Rayne, SM’52, PhD’54, died August Georgia Duck and Cordage Mill. He vol- two sons, a sister, three granddaughters, 9 in St. Louis. He was 88. A native of Aus- unteered with several professional orga- and two grandsons. tralia, Rayne attended UChicago on a Ful- nizations and wrote hundreds of technical Edith R. Skom, AB’48, died February 3 in bright Scholarship and briefly worked for articles on manufacturing. He is survived Winnetka, IL. She was 86. Skom taught a national science agency in Australia and by his wife, Janet, and two daughters. writing at Northwestern University’s a research laboratory in Pittsburgh before Harry A. Oberhelman Jr., SB’46, M D’46, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences for joining the physics faculty at what is now died February 10 in Stanford, CA. He was more than 30 years, retiring with emeritus Carnegie Mellon University in 1964. His 92. A veteran of the US Air Force Medical status in 2012. A novelist herself, Skom research focused on thermal and electrical Corps, in 1960 Oberhelman joined the fac- was best known for her literature-themed connectivity in metals and metal alloys at ulty of the Stanford University School of mysteries. She is survived by her husband, very low temperatures. Rayne retired from Medicine, where he trained more than 160 Joseph H. Skom, PhB’47, SB’51, MD’52; CMU with emeritus status in 1995. He is general surgery residents and maintained a daughter, Harriet Meyer, MD’79; and survived by his wife, Ann; two daughters; a surgical practice. He retired in 2001 but three grandchildren. a son; and two grandsons. continued to consult and teach, becoming Kale A. Williams Jr., AB’48, died January 7 Alex Poinsett, EX’54, died October the medical director of Stanford Health in Boulder, CO. He was 90. A World War 23 in Chicago. He was 89. A Navy vet- Care’s International Medical Services in II veteran, Williams was an advocate for eran, Poinsett was a staff writer at Jet 2006. He is survived by his wife, Betty; integrating public housing more thorough- magazine before becoming senior editor a daughter; three sons; a sister; a brother, ly into Chicago’s neighborhoods and sub- of Ebony magazine. He was a founding

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Layout_Deaths_Spring16_v3.indd 77 4/26/16 12:47 PM member of the National Association of vation causes. He is survived by his wife, She was 71. Greer worked for Revlon, Black Journalists and the author of five Nancy; a daughter; two sons; and seven Christian Dior, and the US Postal Ser- books. He is survived by a daughter, P. grandchildren. vice, and lived in several cities across the Mimi Poinsett, LAB’74, MD’83; a son, A. Margaret Miner “Peg” Morton, AM’56, country. She enjoyed outdoor activities Pierre Poinsett Sr., LAB’78; a sister; two died December 19 in Eugene, OR. She was including hiking, skiing, kayaking, horse- grandsons; a great-granddaughter; and a 85. Morton was a rural outreach coun- back riding, and caving. She is survived by great-grandson. selor for a southern Illinois health center many friends. Bernard George Springer, AB’54, SM’57, and a dedicated Quaker activist. Involved PhD’64, of Encino, CA, died January 29, in many antiwar and civil rights protest 1970s 2015. He was 79. Springer was a professor movements, she focused in her later years of physics at the University of Southern on promoting peace in, and solidarity with, Philip Joel Greenberg, PhD’70, died De- California and later worked at the RAND Latin America. She is survived by three cember 26 in Chicago. He was 73. A stu- Corporation. He specialized in US/Soviet daughters, three granddaughters, and two dent of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, military assessment and devoted many grandsons. Greenberg taught at the Massachusetts In- of his later years to global arms control stitute of Technology, Monmouth College, proposals. He is survived by a son and a 1960s and Roosevelt University. He also worked daughter. at the Atmospheric and Environmental John Gagnon, AB’55, PhD’69, died Feb- Patricia P. Rosenzweig, AB’61, died Research Institute and for Bell Laborato- ruary 11 in Palm Springs, CA. He was 84. December 19 in Chicago. She was 76. A ries/AT&T. Later he tutored students in A sociologist with a focus on sex research, leader in architectural services marketing, science while continuing to conduct inde- Gagnon worked at what is now the Kin- Rosenzweig started her own marketing pendent research. He is survived by friends sey Institute at Indiana University before group in 1976 and mentored many archi- and family. joining the State University of New York tects throughout her career. In 20 06 she be- Anne Roby, AB’70, died December 13 in at Stony Brook. He theorized sexuality came a full-time volunteer counselor at the Chicago. She was 75. Roby taught adult was more social construct than biological University’s career advising and planning learners at Roosevelt University, the Read- identity, and in the 1980s he worked with services. She is survived by three sisters. ing Institute, and a drug abuse clinic. Later the National Opinion Research Center at Gerald A. Cohn, JD’62, of Orinda, CA, she was an editor at Encyclopaedia Britanni- the University of Chicago on an influential died November 26. He was 78. Cohn was ca and worked in grade school math and sci- large-scale survey of American sexuality, a trial lawyer in San Francisco and taught ence curriculum development. Roby was focusing on both sexual practices and at- civil trial law at Stanford University Law active in many local organizations, includ- titudes. Gagnon is survived by his wife, School. For 17 years he was a special master ing reading and exercise groups. She is sur- Cathy Greenblat; two daughters; two sons; in the US District Court of San Francisco. vived by two sons and four grandchildren. and five grandchildren. He is survived by his wife, Karin; a daugh- Steven Lawrence Detweiler, PhD’75, died Rita Weinberg, AM’47, PhD’55, died ter; and two stepsons. February 8 in Gainesville, FL. He was January 28 in Valencia, CA. She was 91. Charles R. Perry, MBA’62, PhD’68, died 68. Detweiler was an associate professor A psychologist focused on children and March 15 in Chelsea, MI. He was 77. Perry at Yale University before joining the as- family issues, Weinberg worked for the was a longtime professor of management trophysics faculty at the University of Institute for Juvenile Research and con- and industrial relations at the Wharton Florida in 1982. An expert on gravitation sulted for the Infant Welfare Society in School of the University of Pennsylvania. and black holes, he published more than Chicago. She taught at National Louis An expert on labor issues, he published 100 scholarly articles. He enjoyed running University from 1976 to 2011 while main- widely and served in the US Office of Man - with the Florida Track Club and completed taining a private practice. Her husband, agement and Budget from 1971 to 1972. He the 2015 Boston Marathon. He is survived Samuel Kirson Weinberg, AB’34, AM’35, is survived by his wife, Karen; two daugh- by his wife, Sandy; a daughter; a son; two PhD’42, died in 2001. She is survived by a ters; a stepdaughter; a stepson; a grand- sisters; and two grandsons. daughter, Carol R. Weinberg, AB’73; two daughter; and four step-grandchildren. sons; two sisters; six grandchildren; and Raymond P. Westerdahl, SM’59, PhD’62, 1980s two great-grandchildren. died November 9 in Denville, NJ. He was Richard S. Frank, AM’56, died March 1 86. A Korean War veteran, Westerdahl Charles T. Carlstrom, AB’82, AM’82, of in Palm Desert, CA. He was 84. Frank was a physical chemist at the US Army’s Bay Village, OH, died January 15 of septic was a legislative reporter and political cor- Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, NJ, where he shock. He was 55. Carlstrom taught eco- respondent for the Philadelphia Bulletin specialized in high-temperature reactions. nomics at the University of North Caroli- before joining the National Journal, a po- He later worked on pollution abatement at na at Chapel Hill before becoming a senior litical trade magazine, in 1971. He became Army ammunition plants. An avid singer, economic adviser in the Federal Reserve editor in 1976 and was known for his focus he was a tenor soloist at several churches Bank of Cleveland’s research department. on deeply researched, nonpartisan news and with local choruses. He is survived by For two decades he was a dedicated patron and analysis. Frank retired in 1997 and his wife, Carolyn (Lovejoy) Westerdahl, of the Cleveland International Film Festi- from 2000 to 2009 was an editor at Boston AB’55, SB’57. val. He is survived by his mother, a sister, University’s Washington Journalism Cen- William H. Schaap, JD’64, died February and a brother. ter. He is survived by two sons, a sister, and 25 in New York City. He was 75. A lawyer two grandsons. and activist, Schaap provided legal counsel 2000s Norman F. Gustaveson, DB’56, AM’59, to Vietnam War protesters in the United died February 12 in Chapel Hill, NC. He States and abroad and, with his wife, co- Matthew William Geiger, MDiv’04, died was 85. Gustaveson was secretary of the founded CovertAction, which sought to March 9 of cancer in Alexandria, VA. He Campus Y at the University of North expose illegal Central Intelligence Agency was 43. Geiger was an adjunct instructor Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1964 to 1976 activities. Schaap was an attorney for sev- at several colleges before teaching high and was later nominated to UNC’s Order eral CIA whistle-blowers and in 1980 the school religion and ethics in Massachusetts of the Golden Fleece for his service to the couple started the radical Sheridan Square and then Virginia. He continued his stud- university. From 1974 to 1982 Gustaveson Press. After Hurricane Katrina, Schaap ies while teaching and received a doctor of was a commissioner for Orange County, represented displaced homeowners in New ministry degree from Virginia Theologi- NC. Throughout his life he advocated for Orleans. He is survived by a sister. cal Seminary in 2013. He is survived by his social justice, environmental, and conser- Bonnie Greer, AB’65, died April 18, 2015. wife, Emily; his parents; and a sister.

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