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16 2008 Great Teachers Features Six UK professors share the spotlight for their Judy Miller ’93 DES is manager of aircra ON THE COVER subject matter expertise and dynamic interior design for Dassault Falcon in New Jersey. instructional capabilities in the classroom.
W.T. Young Library: 20 10 Years Strong Judy Miller: Today the W.T. Young Library is a campus icon, as 12 With Flying Colors recognizable as Memorial Hall, but it took is 1993 UK graduate designs comfortable creative ingenuity to come up with a project surroundings for busy executives to enjoy while financial arrangement plan that involved the winging their way at 47,000 feet from one business participation and cooperation of the city and deal to another. several campus entities, including the UK By Beverly Bell Alumni Association, to make the dream a reality. By Robin Roenker 24 Profiles In Blue: Adrian Lim Another UK alumni community is gaining momentum in Malaysia as a result of some of the efforts led by Adrian L. H. Lim ’99 BE, who lives in Subang Jaya, just west of Kuala Lumpur in the state of Selangor.
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Class Notes
Dorothy Hatfield Gish, a grad of 1941, recently told me, “A wistful feeling came over me as I read through the recent issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine.” She remarked that the Class Note about Charles Keaton ’48 who was sharing the good news of 65 years of marriage seemed so lonely as the only one in the “Before 1960” category. She noted that she and her husband live in California, have travelled throughout the world and enjoy participating in activities at the University of Cali - fornia – San Diego working with foreign scholars learning English. She got me thinking about how oen people who are retired say they are busier than ever. One person I ran into recently is Calvin Grayson ’54, a former Kentucky commissioner of transporta - tion and director of the UK Transportation Research Center. He’s had a remarkable career, over - seeing construction of much of Kentucky’s interstate and parkway system and serving on university, state, and federal committees. He should be in Class Notes and so should you. is is not an age thing, either. You remember the roommates and friends that were an integral part of your college days, whether you just graduated or graduated 50 years ago with the Class of 1958 and are planning to return to campus for the Golden Wildcat Society Reunion Oct. 16 – 19. So much of the rest of your life happens when you are a college student. You can keep that con - nection forever. Here are some of the ways the UK Alumni Association offers opportunities to stay connected: • Kentucky Alumni is the magazine for members of the UK Alumni Association. • eAlumWise is the monthly newsletter about UK, UK sports, alumni news and upcoming events. • e UK Alumni Club network has UK alumni living around the world gathering locally for Kentucky Derby parties, game watches, community service projects and excursions to local restaurants. • New clubs are forming in Milwaukee, Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul), New York City, St. Louis, Greenville and Charleston, S.C., Knoxville, Tenn., Jacksonville and South Florida (Miami – Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) and could use more volunteers. (Hint: More volunteers, more fun, less work!) • e Legacy Initiative allows you to register your newborn; we’ll send him or her a Wildcat bib and other milestone birthday gis. By identifying your second, third, or fourth genera - tion student attending UK, you get them on the invitation list for Legacy events throughout the year. If you are an out-of-state alum, check out the Legacy tuition assistance opportunity. • is our social/professional online community with friends of friends of friends and discussion groups. All of this is available online at www.ukalumni.net where you can update your record; give us your current e-mail address (your college would like to contact you, too, with special information about programs and classmates); connect with your area club Web page and the alumni events cal - endar and more. Send me your Class Note. See you online,
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Reconnect With Your University
is is a big year for anniversaries at the University of Kentucky. Two of UK’s academic colleges are in the midst of centennial celebrations and, believe it or not, the crown jewel of our library system is turning 10 years old. e College of Arts and Sciences, home to our largest undergraduate stu - dent population, has been educating the next generation of Kentucky leaders for generations. Since 1908, the college has graduated more than 36,000 stu - dents. e college has the unique ability to influence the lives of students across the campus community as nearly every student will take one or more classes in the college during their academic career at UK. e UK College of Law, which was recently ranked 31st among law schools at public institutions by U.S. News and World Report, also celebrates 100 years of academic excellence this year. e college has the proud history of educat - ing some of the Commonwealth’s – and the nation’s – top legal minds. From prominent elected officials and policymakers to countless judges and attor - neys, the College of Law has been crucial to the success of this institution and Kentucky. It is hard to believe that our William T. Young Library celebrated its 10th anniversary in April. In a short pe - riod of time, the facility has transformed our campus community. It has quickly become “the place” for our stu - dents to meet, collaborate, work on projects, and study for tests. Boasting the largest materials endowment among public universities, Young Library is firmly entrenched among the world’s leading research libraries and has become one of the most popular landmarks on the University of Kentucky campus. Since opening its doors, the picturesque facility also has captured the attention of not only those that use the facility, but also those that visit the campus. In 2007 the library appeared on the cover of e Chronicle of Higher Education: Almanac Issue 2007-8 and served as a backdrop for UK football fans on ESPN's popular GameDay TV program. To the alumni members of these two colleges, I hope this centennial celebration provides you an opportunity to reconnect to your university. And I hope all of our alumni can get back to campus to enjoy the Young Library and its grandeur.
Sincerely,
Lee T. Todd Jr. President
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Pharmacy Grad Program Ranked Among Best The UK College of Pharmacy is ranked as the fifth best phar - Pharmacy has a current enrollment of 497 students. A new macy program in the nation by the U.S. News and World Report class of 132 students will be admitted in the fall of 2008. The 2009 edition of America's Best Graduate Schools. The current new pharmacy building is slated for completion in 2010 and ranking represents a move up from an eighth place ranking in will have three times the space of the current facility. 2005. New UK Endowment For India Studies An historic visit by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former president of India, has signaled the establishment of a new major endowment at UK for research, teaching and outreach efforts targeting studies related to the nation of India. An initial $1 million donation pre - sented at a community dinner honoring Kalam launched the President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam India Studies Endowment Fund that hopes to raise addi - tional private funding for a proposed center dedicated to India studies at UK. s
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6 Summer 2008 Beat 2008 Commencement Arts & Sciences Turns 100! Approximately 6,500 candidates for degrees were honored e College of Arts & Sciences has produced 100 years of during UK’s 141st Commencement. is includes students who knowledge and measures its success by the most relevant numbers earned degrees in August and December 2007, along with candi - — the lives enriched, the minds challenged and the thoughts pro - dates in the 2008 spring semester. In addition, four recipients who voked. e college celebrated its 100 year anniversary this spring demonstrated a high level of service and contributions to their with entertainment and refreshments in the Main Building Plaza, professions were awarded honorary doctorates during the cere - with hundreds of faculty, staff and students enjoying the festivi - mony. Individuals receiving the honor were: ties. • Gifford Blyton, a former UK faculty member from 1948 Arts & Sciences is the largest college at UK, offering 25 majors until his retirement in 1975, served as director of UK’s highly and 33 minors. Most UK students take courses in the college at regarded debate team, which won many honors under his di - some point during their education. “Since 1908, the college has rection. Blyton was the recipient of the UK Great Teacher graduated more than 36,000 students, produced a Nobel Prize- award in 1970. winning chemist, and attained Top 20 rankings in several pro - • Paul Patton, the 59th governor of the Commonwealth of grams and disciplines,” says Steven L. Hoch, dean of the college. Kentucky, graduated from UK in 1959 with a degree in me - chanical engineering. McCorvey On Board Of Trustees • Orlando “Tubby” Smith, who served as head coach of the Everett McCorvey, the Lexington Opera Society Endowed UK men’s basketball team from 1997 to 2007, has a long Chair of Opera in the UK College of Fine Arts and director of record of success as a coach, mentor and teacher and estab - UK Opera eatre, has been elected as faculty representative to lished the Tubby Smith Foundation to support underprivi - the UK Board of Trustees for a three-year term, which will expire leged children. June 30, 2012. • Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam was the 11th Presi - dent of India from 2002 until 2007. Free Health Aids For Kentucky Seniors If you are a Kentucky senior age 65 or older, UK HealthCare wants you to have the knowledge you need to manage your health in today’s complex environment. “HealthSmart!” is a series of free, informative articles that tells you how to get the best care for you and your family with helpful advice on dealing with multiple medical conditions and avoiding medication errors. Kentucky seniors also can get their own Personal Health Organizer, while supplies last. is free binder holds all your important medical informa - tion in one, convenient, easy-to-carry notebook. Keep track of appointments, test results, medications, medical history and other details that affect your health. To request the “HealthSmart!” series and the Personal Health Organizer, call UK Health Connection toll free at 1-800-333-8874. is line is staffed Monday – Friday, 7 a.m. – 6 p.m., or Saturdays 8 a.m. – 4 p.m.
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Saliva Can Help Diagnose Heart Attack Early diagnosis of a heart attack may now be possible using only drome. ey found that not only were biochemicals associated a few drops of saliva and a new nano-bio-chip. A multi-institu - with these processes in higher concentrations in saliva of heart at - tional team with clinical leadership at the UK College of Den - tack victims, but specific salivary biochemicals are as accurate in tistry and College of Medicine and clinical scientists at the the diagnosis of heart attack as those found in serum using FDA- University of Louisville and the University of Texas Health Sci - approved instruments. ence Center at San Antonio, and chemistry leadership at the Uni - e nano-bio-chip test could someday be used to analyze a pa - versity of Texas at Austin, reported this finding at a recent meeting tient’s saliva on board an ambulance, at the dentist’s office or at a of the American Association of Dental Research. neighborhood drugstore, helping save lives and prevent damage e Kentucky researchers tested the saliva from 56 persons who from cardiac disease. e device is the size of a credit card and can had a heart attack and 59 healthy subjects for 32 proteins associ - produce results in as little as 15 minutes. ated with atherosclerosis, thrombosis and acute coronary syn -
Good Cholesterol May Mass Media Not Be Good For Diabetics Campaigns Useful Researchers and the general public have long thought that levels Two researchers in the UK College of Communications and of so called “good cholesterol” – high-density lipoprotein (HDL) Information Studies have learned that targeted mass media – were heart healthy. However, a groundbreaking new study from campaigns alone can be effective in convincing high sensation- UK researchers argues that “good cholesterol” actually increases seeking, impulsive decision-making young adults to adopt the risk of heart disease in diabetics. safer sex practices. In a study published in the most recent edition of the American is study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Journal of Physiology, Eric Smart, a biochemist and vice chair of re - shows that mass media campaigns craed from sophisticated de - search in the UK College of Medicine, and a team of UK re - sign principles can be effective in changing health behaviors, at searchers conclude high levels of HDL actually can increase the least in the short-term, and that a reoccurring campaign presence risk of both heart disease and diabetes. may be necessary to sustain these safe behaviors. UK professor e researchers found that in people with diabetes, HDL mole - Rick Zimmerman is the lead researcher of the study and a center cules bind with a natural compound called myristic acid, which director in Louisville for the Pacific Institute for Research and somehow causes the HDL to inhibit the body’s natural produc - Evaluation (PIRE). Philip Palmgreen, professor of communica - tion of nitric oxide, a substance known to protect against cardio - tion at UK, was the co-principal investigator on the study. vascular disease. Myristic acid is a long-chain fatty acid suspected e 21-month-long study assessed the impact of a televised pub - of increasing cardiovascular risk. HDL in diabetics may reverse its lic service announcement (PSA) campaign on changing safer sex usual role, becoming a potential threat rather than a protectant, beliefs and behaviors. e study found that the campaign effec - the study indicates. tively increased condom use among high-risk young adults, on av - erage, by 13 percent. Similar effects were found on intentions to use condoms in the future and in perceived ability to use con - Fasting Can Reduce doms. Impact analysis suggests that the campaign may have re - sulted in 181,224 fewer occasions of unprotected sex among the Brain-Injury Impact targeted population than would have occurred normally without UK researchers have found that fasting can help reduce the im - exposure to the PSAs. pact of a moderate traumatic brain injury. e team reported its findings in the Journal of Neuroscience Research. Fasting within the first 24 hours of the injury reduces the levels of several biomarkers of mitochondrial dysfunction and cellular Compiled from news reports damage that cause a breakdown of brain tissue, according to the about research at UK. research team, led by Patrick Sullivan of the UK Spinal Cord and For more information about Brain Injury Research Center . e researchers found significant research taking place at UK, recovery of tissue sparing and cognitive function in test subjects visit www.research.uky.edu who fasted for 24 hours following a moderate brain injury.
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UK Real Estate Young Alumni: Foundation Coming Soon Scott And Allison Downing ’0 e University of Kentucky is pleased to announce that it is in While serving on the UK Student Development Council and the process of creating the University of Kentucky Real Estate participating in events like the Fellows Society Dinner, Scott Foundation Inc. It is anticipated that the foundation will be ready Downing ’05 and Allison Leet ’05 met and fell in love. Married on to receive real estate gis as early as mid-summer. e primary May 25, Scott says his thoughts of giving “revolve around” Allison. function and responsibility of the foundation is to encourage gis “We saw firsthand that the ambitious goals set forth by Dr. of real estate and to own, and sell real property and related assets, Todd were very attainable but they required the necessary fund - for the benefit of the university. To this end, prospective land gis ing. We also experienced [and participated in] the many are received by the foundation to accommodate future academic, phonathons, mailings, and hard work that go into those drives. institutional and housing requirements and to promote the “We have a passion for the experiences and opportunities that growth of the university’s research and related activities. If you the University of Kentucky have a piece of real property that you would like to give to UK or has given to us, and we want if you would like more information on how to turn your real es - to make sure that continues tate into a stream of income, please contact the Office of Develop - into the future. Regardless ment at 859-257-3911 to discuss tax-wise strategies. how tight we might be for money, we always make it a priority to give to the Col - A Greater Need For Scholarships lege of Education, the Gat - Success begins with a dream — a dream to build skyscrapers, ton College of Business and find a cure for cancer or write the great American novel. Scholar - Economics, Senior Chal - ships help make these dreams a reality. For low-income students lenge, DanceBlue, and many with no way to finance a college education, scholarships help pro - other areas in need of finan - vide educations leading to fulfilling careers. For students strug - cial support. And as always, gling to support themselves without the benefit of federal Go Big Blue!!!” assistance, scholarships ease the financial burden. With state budget cuts, univer - A Gift That Continues To Give sity growth, and the Top 20 by 2020 initiative, scholarships are What better way to recognize a special occasion than with a gi more important than ever to the to the university? A donation to UK is a wonderful way to memo - students attending UK. By at - rialize friends, honor the achieve - tracting the best and the bright - ments of new graduates, or est students to UK, you will celebrate birthdays and anniver - improve the lives of the individ - saries. You can even choose to do - ual students, and also make UK nate to the specific college or competitive with other top edu - program which most closely cational institutions. matches the interests of the hon - oree. It is a gi that continues to give long aer the celebration ends.
www.uky.edu/development www.ukalumni.net 11 JJuuddyy MMiilllleerr:: WWiitthh FFllyyiinngg CCoolloorrss 1993 UK grad designs comfortable surroundings for busy executives. By Beverly Bell magine you’ve just signed the paperwork on a new home and you’re itching to decorate. IUntouched walls, unfurnished rooms, it’s all waiting for you, like a beautiful, blank canvas. Now imagine that your new home isn’t made of brick or wood, stucco or concrete. It doesn’t cost $150,000 or $300,000 or even $1 million. It’s not a compact condo with 700 square feet or a McMansion with 12 times that much space. In fact, the“canvas” on which you will paint isn’t a house at all. Instead, it’s a $40 million corporate jet. Welcome to life in the fast lane, literally, whisking through the air at 550 miles an hour. As a company CEO or CFO, this is your flying office, kitchen, family room. No patio or built-in pool, but a killer view. While it’s not a three-story Tudor firmly planted on the earth, you don’t have to be tethered to the ground to appreciate a sense of style. n i And that’s where Judy Coburn Miller comes in. e t s k c o “I’m a Virgo,” Miller states simply. As if that’s explanation enough. Practical, methodical, highly H e v e t discriminating, analytical, these are the qualities of those who fall under the sixth sign of the Zodiac. S 8 0
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: interior design for Dassault Falcon, the corporate jet manufacturer headquartered in France with s o t o h offices in Little Ferry, N.J., where Miller works. P www.ukalumni.net 1 Every day, Miller and her team of seven staff members take a very small space of 200-300 square feet and transform it. How they transform it is determined by the needs and wishes of the client, but it might include a full entertainment center, com - plete galley for hot meals, spacious leather, reclining and swiveling seats, and even sleeping quarters for overseas or cross- country flights. Business is conducted inside this shell. Ideas are hatched at 47,000 feet. And the plane’s interior is the incubator, providing a conducive environment and comfortable surroundings, as clouds tick by and the horizon stretches as far as the eye can see outside the window. It all begins with one simple decision — a company choosing to own a plane rather than using commercial airlines. Aer the their taste. If they’re buying it for more from her office, Miller and her staff use an specific model is selected, Miller enters the corporate use…then it needs to appeal to a actual aircra to place mock-ups of fur - picture. broader range of people.” nishings, seats and photos so that they con - Her process begins by meeting with the Décor choices for an aircra cabin are vey as accurately as possible what the company CEO, typically, but not always. nearly as diverse as those for a home inte - finished product will look like. In her 13 years at Dassault, Miller has con - rior. Clients choose everything from Of course, corporations pay a hey price sulted with the CEO’s spouse, children and Wenge West African hardwood to classic for the privilege of their own plane, rang - parents. She has sat down with the com - cherry, from Corian to granite, embossed ing from approximately $27 million to $42 pany lawyer or a designer friend of the top leather to chenille. ey order specially million depending on the type of aircra executive. It all depends on who will be fly - woven fabrics with logo inlays and mono - selected. Despite the expensive price tag ing in the aircra and for what purpose. grammed sliding glass panels. and climbing fuel prices, demand remains ey also bring samples of wood from strong. custom bookcases in their home library or Certain factors have driven the increase 2007 was a record year for ship - marble from their bathroom counter so in business jet popularity. Initially, it was ment of business jets. According that Miller can match it. One executive the events of September 11, 2001, and cor - to the General Aviation Manu - handed her a piece of the dashboard from porate concerns about the safety of senior- facturers Association, more than his Mercedes so she would know exactly level executives. is was followed by long what he wanted. and protracted travel, exacerbated by the 1,100 units were delivered into Beyond material and surface preferences, growing number of delayed and cancelled the hands of corporations, rep - they have very specific amenity requests for flights. With the average CEO earning resenting a 28 percent increase their aircra, such as storage units for chil - $11.2 million in 2007 or $5,600 an hour, over 2006. The market research dren’s toys, video game and iPod systems, time lost checking in, waiting in lines at firm Forecast International esti - and litter boxes for their pets. “at’s a big airport security, the gate and on the tar - mates that 15,000 business jets thing. A lot of people fly with their pets,” mac, starts to add up. worth $192 billion will be sold she says. Miller has witnessed the increased sales Whatever the requirements, Miller is phenomenon firsthand. When she joined within the next ten years. ready. Her highly organized approach and Dassault Falcon in 1995, the company was thoughtful nature keep her one step ahead. delivering about 30 aircra a year. Now, it’s “Foreign Sales Lift Private Jet When her team moved into a new work nearly 100. Even as the U.S. economy has Business,” March 10, 2008, Forbes.com space, Miller designed it herself, incorpo - sputtered, foreign markets such as China, rating the best layout and organizational Russia, Malaysia and South America have structure. What could take hours in track - more than made up the difference. “Quite oen, its main use is more private ing down a particular design among thou - For Miller, watching this growth and for the top executives and/or their fami - sands of samples, Miller does in minutes. being an integral part of such a unique lies,” Miller explains. “Although it’s used To mimic the natural lighting on airplanes, business has been a journey that started in for business, it’s also used for personal rea - a skylight was installed in the fabric confer - high school. All the aptitude tests she took sons.” is also impacts the interior design. ence room. Because artificial lighting also back then directed her toward creative ca - “If it’s a private individual, buying it for the is on the plane, she has fluorescent lights reers — interior design, fashion design, exclusive use of themselves and their fam - with the same color temperature as those photography and drama. But even as she ily, then it’s extremely personal in terms of on the aircra. In a hangar across the street decided on the right course, the Virgo in
14 Summer 2008 her, with those deliberate tendencies, won her campus visit, he reviewed her portfolio. which are just more or less concerned with out. She carefully considered the proximity She toured the campus and met some of the number of students enrolled and how of potential colleges close to her home in the other professors. “I really liked the much they’re going to make off of them,” New Jersey, the likelihood of landing a job school, I liked the program and so, I ap - Miller says. When she graduated in spring aer graduation, and building a sustainable plied and got accepted,” Miller says. 1993 with a bachelor’s degree in interior career. is thought process led her to In the beginning, Miller was attracted to design, Miller felt ready to tackle the de - nearby Berkley College in Waldwick, N.J., UK’s program because it was accredited by mands of the profession. “In terms of skills, and its 12-month program in interior de - the Foundation for Interior Design Educa - I think UK really prepared me. I was sign. tion Research, a special designation that proud of the portfolio that I assembled ere was only one problem. Berkley means the program had undergone a rigor - while I was there. I definitely used the skills didn’t offer a degree. New York City had ous evaluation and met a set of high stan - and techniques that I learned. ey did a several big design schools, but that would dards identified by the accreditation body. very good job as educators.” mean a grueling commute every day. en, Later, Miller appreciated something else. Now, Miller focuses all that learning and Miller’s aunt mentioned the University of In their sophomore year, all students are natural skill on good design, which she be - Kentucky as a possible option. e family required to have a portfolio review. is lieves adds to the quality of life. “You really had relatives from Kentucky, including thorough and blind assessment process want to like the environment you’re in,” she Miller’s great-grandmother. If she had to evaluates the students’ work to determine says. “For me, design and style are not go out of state to pursue her degree, it if they have the knowledge, skill and talent about money. It’s about picking quality made sense to go to a place where there was to continue in the program. Miller says it’s pieces and designs that you like, and put - a familial connection. a way of weeding out those not fully suited ting them together to create an environ - “It was one of the greatest decisions I for the profession and who might have ment that a person is comfortable in and is ever made,” Miller says. more success in other careers. happy to be in. People really want a per - e first person she met at UK was Terry “To me, that meant they really cared sonal environment…and make it their own. Rothgeb, currently an associate professor about the students that were coming out of Design helps you do that.” in the School of Interior Design. During the program, as opposed to other schools
Judy Miller On Design
Miller, an Allied Member of the American Society of Interior De - signers, shared some thoughts about color and design.
• Her favorite color? Pink. “Unfortunately, I’ve never had to do a pink interior for a plane.”
• Prior to joining Dassault, Miller had only flown twice in her life. What has she learned about flying since then? “Biz jet flying is a wonderful privilege that I’m reminded of every time I step onto a commercial flight.”
• If you want to make a space appear larger, Miller suggests using monochromatic colors. Beige, taupe and grey are good choices and use accent colors in pillows and other decorative pieces.
• ough she can’t reveal names, Miller is currently working with a top female CEO from a Fortune 500 company. She estimates that roughly 90 percent of the corporate executives she consults with for new planes are men.
• Miller doesn’t have a favorite style — “what I like is good design” — but she does have a favorite architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Miller has done set design for several off-off Broadway produc - tions and two short films. She also was hired as a product repre - sentative on QVC, the home shopping television network.
• While she doesn’t judge every interior she sees, fabrics always catch her eye. “It’s almost like a sensory reaction. You notice the quality of a fabric when you sit or touch it.” Décor choices for an aircraft cabin are nearly as diverse as those for home interiors, says Judy Miller, who regularly meets with her www.ukalumni.net 1 team of seven staff members. Great Teachers ‘It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.’ —Aristotle e l y o C m a e T : o t o h Six Great Teacher Award recipients were honored at Rupp Arena during half-time of the Georgia vs. Kentucky basketball game. P
three-time Great Teacher Award winner and a spouse who now holds the same Aprestigious honor as her husband — these are just two of the six recipients of the 2008 Great Teacher Award, presented by the UK Alumni Association. Started in 1961, this annual award is the oldest continuous award that recognizes teaching at UK. The nominations are made by students and each recipient receives a citation, an engraved plaque, and a $2,500 cash award. On a yearly basis, these six individuals no doubt influence many students and per - haps, colleagues, with their ideas about education and special approaches to teaching. It’s typical for these professors to go above and beyond for their students, someone with whom a student can discuss problems or even become a long-term mentor. The UK Alumni Association proudly congratulates this year’s recipients as they join the previous 229 honorees.
16 Summer 2008 ibakar“DB” Bhattacharyya knows what makes him so passionate about his job. “Working with young students, Dfrom average students to very high quality students, if you can excite them on lifelong learning and thinking beyond just textbooks, that makes it (teaching) exciting,” he says. Bhattacharyya is the UK Alumni Professor of chemical engineering in the UK College of Engineering. is year, he has the distinc - tion of being a three-time recipient of the Great Teacher Award. He is happy about receiving the award for the third time, but wants to acknowledge his students. “ere are many people to thank, but my students are the ones really deserving of recognition.” He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is active with the National Sciences Foundation sponsored Re - search Experience for Undergraduates programs, NSF-IGERT program, and the UK Center for the NIEHS-SBRP program. Bhat - tacharyya also is the co-founder of the Center for Membrane Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He has taught many courses at UK and many of his undergraduate students have brought high recog - nition to UK through research paper awards at the national and regional conferences. He has published over 165 (several with undergraduate students) jour - nal articles and 20 book chapters, and has recently received five U.S. patents with students. Bhat - tacharyya also has received a number of awards for s n his research and educational accomplishments. In i l l o
addition, he is the editor of a recently published C m book, “New Insights into Membrane Science i T : s and Technology: Polymeric and Biofunctional o t o h
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“DB’s greatest teaching strength is his ability to help students understand how the material being C covered in class fits into the larger chemical engineering curriculum, into their own research projects, into their future goals, and into current and future industrial and technological developments.” Nominator
r. Don Falace knows why he teaches. “I love the challenge. I especially like to take things that are, perhaps, difficult to un - Dderstand and try to make them understandable,” he says. Falace is a professor and division chief of oral diagnosis, oral medicine and oral radiology in the UK College of Dentistry. He has been teaching at UK since 1975. He is a Diplomate of both the American Board of Oral Medicine and the American Board of Orofacial Pain. He served as co-director of the Orofacial Pain Center at the University of Kentucky for several years and has been a member of the attending staff for 27 years. He also has been dental consultant for the UK Sleep Disorders Center for 15 years. “is is truly a great honor, especially in view of the fact that it is initiated by students,” Falace says. A 1970 UK alumnus, Falace enlisted in the U.S. Public Health Service aer graduation and spent two years working as a general dentist at the Na - tional Institute for Medical Health Clinical Re - search Center. He then completed a residency in oral surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. He is past director and examiner of the American Board of Oral Medicine. He was recently awarded Fellowship in Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He is the co-author of the widely used textbook “Dental Management of the Medically Compromised Patient,” now in its sev - enth edition.
“Most important to students, Dr. Falace is very visible in student activities outside of the college including student led fund-raisers, football games and a variety of social and charitable events. Dr. Falace has been a well-deserved student favorite for many years and will continue to be in the future.” Nominator
www.ukalumni.net 17 isa Gaetke has a wonderful relationship with her students. “It all starts with students,” Gaetke says. “Teaching is fun and very Lexciting. I learn something new from my students every day.” Gaetke is an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science in the School of Human Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture. She is director of Graduate Studies in addition to teaching a graduate dietetics course in Advanced Dietetics Issues and teaching all of the medical nutrition therapy courses as required by the accredited dietetic programs. Gaetke also has an appointment in the Graduate Center for Nutritional Sciences. She has established a national and international reputation for her research in nutrition, medical nutrition therapy, and community nu - trition as it relates to environmental contaminants. She has a clear opinion of how UK’s Top 20 goal is manifested in her classroom. “Teaching makes my research better, and research makes my teaching better. I think it’s exciting to get students involved in research and then they get a little bit involved in the university trying to become Top 20,” she says. Gaetke’s publications include numerous articles, abstracts, and two book chapters. She has won many awards for her research from such institutions as the American College of Nutrition, Ross Laboratories, Procter & Gam - ble, and the University of Louisville. She has received the former College of Human Environmental Sciences Outstanding Teacher Award twice and Most Enthusiastic Teacher Award. She earned a master’s degree in nutrition and food science in 1990 and doctorate degree in nutritional science in 1994, both from UK. She also has served as a member of the faculty Senate. She is married to Eugene Gaetke, a UK law professor and 2005 winner of the Great Teacher Award.
“It is often painfully apparent when a professor is unprepared, takes a ‘shoot from the hip’ attitude to lecturing, or simply follows the text. This never occurs in Dr. Gaetke’s classes. A student leaves improved.” Nominator
r. E. Preston Hicks says he believes teaching is a calling and he is willing to make some sacrifices to help students. “I enjoy Dthe intangible rewards that go with seeing students get excited about learning and be empowered for success in life to develop their skills and unknown potential,” he says. “ere’s just no way to put a price on that experience in itself.” Hicks is an associate professor in the Department of Orthodontics in the UK College of Dentistry. He has served in this position since 1987. He was instrumental in producing a three-year master’s degree graduate program in orthodontics and developing curricula to integrate the disci - pline of orthodontics in the undergraduate dental program and in the pe - diatric dentistry residency. He has served as the ad hoc advisor to undergraduate students seeking post-doctoral education since 1988. Hicks has published numerous arti - cles and book chapters, and served on many campus committees including the College of Dentistry Accreditation Committee. “I appreciate the UK Alumni Association’s recognition of teaching,” Hicks says. “is award marks the highlight of my academic career for I can think of nothing greater than to be recognized by students.” Hicks is a former faculty member of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in the Department of Pedodontics. He also helped to start a new dental school at Oral Roberts University in 1977. His nominator says that he always puts his students first and arrives to UK early in the morning to make himself available in case anyone is in need of his assistance. He also is willing to stay late and work around stu - dents’ schedules.
“Dr. Hicks is a mentor and friend for life for all his students. His grandfatherly sage advice and heart - warming care are unmatched not only among educators, but in people of all backgrounds.” Nominator
18 Summer 2008 ichael Kalinski has classes that last 75 minutes and might be a long haul for a room full of sleepy students but Kalinski is Mknown for having a way to combat this. He uses short breaks to tell anecdotes that are unrelated to the subject matter to help the students recharge. ey are entertained and look forward to coming to class. Kalinski is an associate professor with the Department of Civil Engineering in the UK College of Engineering. He joined the depart - ment in 2002 as an assistant professor. His research interests include engineering geophysics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, vi - bration monitoring and mitigation, and the use of coal combustion byproducts. In 2005, Kalinski received the prestigious National Science Foundation Early Faculty Career Award for research on understanding and predicting the dynamic behavior of mine tailings dam materials. Kalinski was recently selected to lead a technical team to review the Wolf Creek Dam rehabilitation project on behalf of U.S. Congressman Hal Rogers. “e idea is to bring the latest and greatest research to the classroom, so that the students are learning about what’s happening now rather than what happened 30 years ago,” he says, in reference to why UK’s Top 20 goal requires excel - lence in teaching and research. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal and conference articles and has published a labora - tory soil testing manual. Kalinski serves as faculty advisor for the Chi Epsilon National Civil Engineer - ing Honor Society. He is a member of ASCE Geo- Institute Geophysical Engineering Committee, and the ASCE Geo-Institute Earthquake Engineering/Soil Dynamics Committee, and has served as associate editor for the Journal of Environ - mental and Engineering Geophysics.
“Professor Kalinski is very supportive in helping students set and achieve goals and helps shed light on what our careers as engineers will hold.” Nominator
erence Tunberg makes good use of research for the classroom. “It’s part of what makes me teach with enthusiasm. I feel Tlike I have a much larger amount of fresh material to give and I am more engaged with the material because I am working on it my - self,” he says. Tunberg is a professor of classics in Classical Studies in the UK College of Arts and Sciences. He has taught Latin in various venues for 25 years, including teaching assignments in Belgium and Canada, as well as in the United States. He is one of the directors of the Graduate Certificate Cur - riculum in Latin Studies at UK, which introduces future teachers of Latin to new currents in the propagation of the traditional language. Tunberg’s work includes a collection of Latin speeches and commentaries on Latin works. He specializes in Latin composition and in the history of the use of Latin as an international language from antiquity to early modern times. Tunberg says he is thankful that the UK Alumni Association recognizes the academic side of UK. “at’s what a university is — a universe of knowledge. I am grateful that the UK Alumni Association takes that seriously,” he says. e professor has a personal interest in his students and every week holds a lunch meeting to get together and exchange ideas. “I love my discipline. I wouldn’t be in this business, believe me, if I didn’t because there are far more lucrative lines of work.” Tunberg has published numerous articles and books. He is active in pro - moting new approaches to the teaching of Latin. For more than a decade he has offered summer seminars designed to introduce people to the spoken use of Latin as an effective tool for teachers.
“In other courses, Latin is treated as a high school biology course, dissecting the dead carcasses of grammar points and parts of speech without ever really engaging the animal. For Professor Tunberg, Latin is a living breathing beautiful language, which illuminates mankind from prehistory all the way to this century.” Nominator
www.ukalumni.net 19 W.T. Young Library: Ten Years Strong By Robin Roenker b b e W m i T : o t o h P
ith its striking octagonal design, dramatic cupola, and sweeping two-story central windows, UK’s William T. WYoung Library looks like a place of higher learning — particularly at night, when lights from inside set the whole building aglow. Perhaps that’s why editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education chose it as their cover image for the 2007-2008 Almanac issue and why ESPN’s College GameDay set up live coverage with the library as its backdrop last fall. There’s no doubt about it: in just 10 years, the W.T. Young Library has become a campus icon, as recognizable a landmark of the university as Memorial Hall, Memorial Coliseum, or, yes, even the Wildcat himself.
20 Summer 2008 at was the intent from day one, said In August the library will sponsor a less Paul Willis, retired former director of the formal “birthday party” complete with UK Libraries. When he and then UK pres - pizza, cake, and balloons as part of K-Week ident Charles Wethington and others first events geared toward welcoming students, began envisioning a new library building particularly new freshmen, to campus. for the UK campus, they knew it needed For those who were involved in the to be “monumental” — one that could nearly decade-long planning of the new li - serve not only the university but the entire brary, the anniversary celebrations bring to Commonwealth. mind how close the Young Library came to As people filled the new library, literally never happening at all. overhanging from upper floors, to attend “For years, as I would drive past the li - its opening ceremony on April 3, 1998, brary, my reaction always was, ‘I can’t be - Wethington knew they’d hit the mark. lieve we did it.’ In those early days we “It was just a magnificent day,” Wething - struggled so hard and had so many obsta - ton said recently, recalling his thoughts cles to overcome,” said Paula Pope, former during the library’s opening a decade ago. library fund-raiser and now UK’s director “I was thinking about the entire project of campaign services and donor relations. and the number of people who had to be a Pope also is the current president of the part of this to make it happen — and that UK Alumni Association. m a r g o r p s d r o c e R d n a s e v i h c r A y t i s r e v i n U : o t o h P Bystanders watch as the six ton cupola of the William T. Young Library is raised onto the building during construction in the Fall of 1995. we’d accomplished what we had hoped to By 1989, Paul Willis knew the univer - accomplish from the very beginning. e sity’s library need was “pretty desperate, in library has been everything I think we en - terms of not having enough seating, not visioned it to be and more.” having enough stack space, and having a building that wasn’t modern enough to ac - Building It commodate the new Internet and other e day-long celebration of the W.T. electronic products and tools” that were Young Library’s 10th anniversary in May emerging, he said. included public tours of the library. ere While the original Margaret I. King Li - were multimedia displays with time-lapse brary, built in 1931, had long served the images of the library construction project university well, the 1963 addition to that and a documentary on library namesake building and the King Library North addi - William T. Young, the late philanthropist tion in 1974 made the library stacks awk - and horseman whose $5 million gi ward to use, with a labyrinth of stairwells launched the capital campaign for the new and floors that didn’t match up, Willis library building. Guest speaker E. Gordon said.
Gee, president of e Ohio State Univer - Convinced of the need by Willis, li - s n i l l sity and author of several books on infor - brary endowment campaign volunteer o C m
mation literacy, spoke on the role of and horseman John Gaines and others, i T : libraries in the digital age. Wethington made construction of a new s o t o
library building his top priority almost h P www.ukalumni.net 21 as soon as he became the 10th president Under the plan, the alumni association of UK. actually owned the Young Library building But first, they had to raise the money. during construction, with an understand - Before she knew it, Pope found herself ing that it would be turned over to the uni - overseeing “a bit of a three-ring circus,” she versity upon completion. said, with several fund-raising campaigns “Alumni place a strong emphasis on pro - launched simultaneously. ere was a stu - moting the academic growth of the univer - dent-driven campaign, dubbed “Pack the sity. is was a wonderful opportunity to Stacks,” that raised money for a book en - build something that would be long-stand - dowment; an alumni campaign and corpo - ing,” said Marianne Smith Edge, president rate campaign for capital building of the UK Alumni Association when the expenses; and the first-ever faculty/staff Young Library was opened in 1998. fund-raising campaign, which itself reaped “We were proud to have been a part of it, a 78 percent participation rate and raised to be able to play that role in providing over $1 million for the new library. what was to become a hallmark for the All told, over 14,000 people gave in ex - whole state, not just the university,” said cess of $21 million in private funds to help Bob Whitaker, former UK Alumni Associ - pay for the building and to fund a book en - ation executive director. dowment to fill its shelves. s a m o e e L : o t o h P The UK Libraries system has a $83 million book endowment, the largest of any public university, says Dean Carol Pitts Diedrichs.
en plans hit an unforeseen roadblock At the same time, the UK Athletic Asso - in 1992 when the state legislature — in the ciation stepped in to put up the money to midst of a budget shortfall — failed to pay off the bonds over time, while the Ken - award UK the bonding authority to cover tucky Medical Services Foundation agreed the remainder of the $58 million needed to back the bonds, allowing for a lower in - to construct the library. terest rate, Wethington explained. Forced to get creative, Wethington and “All these entities — the city, the UK his staff came up with a bonding plan Alumni Association, the Athletic Associa - that involved the participation and coop - tion, and the Kentucky Medical Services eration of the city and several campus en - Foundation — were critical in building tities, including the UK Alumni this new library,” Wethington said. Association. Groundbreaking for the new library e Lexington Fayette Urban County took place on December 6, 1994, and the Government, which had bonding author - library opened — without a single book in ity, agreed to sell bonds for the project. But place — roughly three and a half years because the university did not have legisla - later, in the spring of 1998. e transfer of tive authority from the state to do the con - 1.2 million books and 27,000 periodicals struction, another, private entity had to from King to Young — and the simultane - step in to officially build the library. at’s ous, complex job of relabeling and reclassi - where the UK Alumni Association came fying 500,000 books from the Dewey into play. Decimal System to the more preferred Li -
22 Summer 2008 brary of Congress System — happened “It’s an inspiring space,” said UK Libraries community feel, said Stacey Greenwell, in - later, over the summer of 1998. Dean Carol Pitts Diedrichs. “e building terim director of the Hub. “We wanted to do that (open the library was built in such a way that it is going to live Students can go there to work on joint before the materials move) because we incredibly well into the future.” projects, taking advantage of the movable wanted the freshman class that was there at’s due in large part to the forward- chairs and white boards for brainstorming. when we broke ground in 1994 to be able thinking of Willis and his staff, who recog - All the study carrels are equipped with new to use the library and see it before they nized that the building was coming at a computers. As part of the initiative, the graduated that spring,” Pope said. time when the Internet and other digital downstairs computer lab gained several information resources were about to revo - new Mac computers and high-tech digital Inspiring Space lutionize the ways people accessed library editing facilities were added to several of As a member of that graduating class of information. the AV screening rooms. 1998 which saw its time at UK marked vis - ey planned for this shi, hardwiring Via six innovative “video windows,” im - ibly, semester by semester, by the ever- all the desks with electricity and computer ages of student and faculty art, special col - growing stature of the Young Library on jacks and the building with wi-fi, so that lections holdings, even UK basketball the campus horizon, I recall very well the students can use a laptop literally anywhere games are projected onto the hexagonal chance, finally, to set foot inside on open - on site. ey also streamlined the number walls downstairs as a way of adding color ing day. of service points in the building, limiting and light to the space. Anyone who was there that day or since the checkpoints where you’d go to get a In the corners, spaces have been re - can recall the feeling of the Young Library: copy, ask a question, find microfilm, access vamped as lounge areas with vending ma - an overwhelming sense of vast space and a map, or check out a book, for instance, chines, TVs, and tables for mingling. e elegant beauty, with rich limestone and Willis explained. ere had been 12 such previous beige carpeting and paint have dark wood and sunlight everywhere punc - service points in King — too many, Willis been jazzed up with more lively shades of tuating the otherwise crisp whiteness of felt. Students wanted to be able to get what blue. the place. they needed in just one or two stops. “Students wanted a place where studying “We wanted to bring in as much natural e design team’s guiding principle was could be more of a social experience,” said Li - light as possible,” said Michael McKinnell staying true to the student’s perspective, brary and Information Science graduate stu - of Boston, the lead architect on the library Willis said. “We were trying to program the dent Krista King. “e creation of the Hub project. “e goal was to design a library building with the student in mind, how he was about listening to what students needed.” where one could see sunlight from any or she would want to use the facility.” Undergraduate Gary Gigliotti, a fourth- place in the building.” year secondary English education major, e interior rotunda of the library also New Directions oen holes himself up in the Hub in the was self-conscious in design, an attempt to Last year, the William T. Young Library wee hours of the morning. “It’s a very recall elements of classical architecture, but launched its new information commons comfy study area,” he said. in a modern way, McKinnell said. area, affectionately dubbed “the Hub at e recent addition of the Hub is just All told, the Young Library encompasses WT’s,” on its lower floor. e area is part one of many ongoing innovations at the 365,000 square feet, including seating for IT resource space, part common study UK Libraries, which are thriving thanks to 4,000 and 37 miles of compact shelving. space, all with a nod toward creating a fun, their $83 million book endowment — the largest of any public university in the coun - try, said Diedrichs. W.T. Young Library Quick Facts is fall, the new consolidated science li - 1. The Young Library sees more than a million visitors each year. brary will open in the renovated M.I. King 2. 780,000 bricks were used in the construction of the library’s exterior. Library, while efforts continue to digitize many of the university’s rare special collec - 3. The chandelier located in the fifth floor rotunda reading room weighs over tions to make them more readily available 3,000 pounds. online. 4. The stone on the floor, entry halls, stairs, walls, and pillars is Mesozoic-age Even as more and more services and re - limestone imported from southern Germany. Fossils can be seen in the sources become available online, making stone. some trips to the library unnecessary, Diedrichs feels the Young Library will al - 5 If placed end to end, the book collection of the W.T. Young Library would ways be a congregating point for students. stretch 300 miles, almost from Lexington to St. Louis, Mo. “Even in a world of the Internet, the 6. The book move from the King Library to Young Library required an building is very busy. It’s very appealing to estimated 34,560 person-hours. If a single worker worked eight hours a students,” Diedrichs said. “Students tell us, day, seven days a week on the job, it would have taken nearly 12 years to ‘When I’m here, I know I’m supposed to complete it. work.’”
Source: UK Libraries. Robin Roenker ’98 AS is a freelance writer in Lexington.
www.ukalumni.net 2 t’s only natural that UK alumni want to Iget together and share good times. at’s Pro files in BLUE one of the reasons UK Alumni Clubs form, just like some of the newest clubs that are organizing in Knoxville, Tenn., Charleston, S.C., and the Twin Cities/Minnesota area. But it would probably surprise many UK grads that another UK alumni community Adrian Lim gaining momentum is in Malaysia. is is the result of an effort led by Adrian L. H. Lim, who lives in Subang Jaya, just west of Kuala Lumpur in the state of Selangor. Lim received a bachelor’s degree in fi - nance from UK in 1999 and then contin - ued on to earn a master’s degree in business administration in 2001. Although he was born and raised in Malaysia, his family wanted him to pursue his education with a more global perspective and he also studied in China aer graduating from UK. While at UK he was very active in student organi - zations on campus, including the Interna - tional Student Council and the Cosmopolitan Club. His friendly nature made him a natural mentor and many stu - dents looked up to him for advice. Today he runs Hargrave Corporation in Malaysia, a firm that was started by his fa - ther. e company distributes industrial pumps, environmental care products and building materials. For recreation, his favorite exercise is hik - ing. “I hike a local hill, Bukit Gasing, every Saturday morning. I bump into quite a few UK alums at this hill,” he says. Though he is busy running the family company, he is a Big Blue fan, follows UK sports and organizes get-togethers for Kentucky alumni living in Malaysia. In the past, representatives from the UK community have had occasion to visit this growing group of former students. Doug Boyd, former associate provost for International Affairs and now chief of staff for UK President Lee T. Todd Jr., is impressed with Lim’s desire to show his Wildcat pride to encourage other stu - dents from Malaysia to consider attend - ing UK. Boyd saw Adrian during a trip in January and attended a dinner gather - ing Adrian organized. Boyd notes, “Adrian joins many other UK graduates in Malaysia that stay in touch with each o o
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University of Kentucky Alumni Association members, students, and fans are invited to enjoy a fun day of chills and thrills during the association’s annual UK Day at Kings Island, Saturday, June 28, 2008. Located in Mason, Ohio, just outside of Cincinnati, Kings Island provides you with a chance to experience the heart-pounding excitement of the park’s many roller coasters and thrill rides, as well as kids’ coasters and the Boomerang Bay Water Park Resort. Wear your favorite UK T-shirt to the park because association staff will be on hand to randomly award prizes to attendees wearing UK apparel. Help us cover the park in blue! Go to www.visitkingsisland.com/ukday for complete details and to purchase tickets by June 26. Discounted tickets are avail - able only through this site or by calling 1-800-333-8080. Some restrictions apply.
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26 Summer 2008 A Big Blue Welcome To Our New Board Members e votes have been counted and the UK Alumni Association welcomes 24 new faces from 18 geographic districts to its board of directors’ roster for the July1, 2008 - June 30, 2011 term: District 1 District 7 District 14 J. Chris Hopgood – Henderson Brenda B. Gosney – Butler Becky Nekervis Walker – Oldsmar, FL District 2 District 8 District 15 David W. Renshaw – Owensboro Janie McKenzie-Wells – Paintsville James B. Bryant – Cahaba Heights, AL District 3 (two elected) District 9 District 16 (tie vote) Kevin A. Connell – Louisville Joelyn Herndon Prather – Somerset Barbara J. Letton – Dayton, OH Adele Pinto Ryan – Louisville District 10 R. Scott Wittich – Powell, OH District 4 Cammie DeShields Grant – Winchester District 17 James L. Jacobus – Danville District 11 Marsha Rae Wallis – Indianapolis, IN District 5 (three elected) Sandra Kay Kinney – Doylestown, PA District 18 Derrick K. Ramsey – Lexington District 12 Daniel L. Sparks – Cypress, TX Kelly Sullivan Holland – Lexington William R. Munro – Huntington, WV Donna J. Oeffinger – Lexington District 13 District 6 Bill Perdue – Dacula, GA Sheila P. Vice – Shelbyville University Club Offers New Golf Rate UK Alumni Association members can play one time per month Associate membership offers play on either of the two, 18-hole at the University Club of Kentucky without being a University championship courses at the club, which is located at 4850 Club member. UK Alumni Association members also are now eli - Leestown Road in Lexington. is membership is $300 for the gible to become a University Club Associate Member, which al - year and members pay a $35 fee per round, which includes a cart. lows members to golf any time Monday through Friday, or Call 859-977-1252 or 859- 977-1235 for more information. weekends and holidays during twilight hours. e University
UK Alumni Weekend Louisville Turns Blue If you were lucky enough to return to campus in April for UK has opened a satellite office in Louisville at 714 W. Main Alumni Weekend, you can attest to the amount of fun had by Street across from the Louisville Science Center. It includes room all! Highlights included the Little Kentucky Derby, Balloon for officials in development, admissions and athletics. ere also Glow and a family picnic, Blue/White football game, will be space for alumni, corporate partnerships and development Keeneland and golf. meetings. Louisville is the state’s largest city and headquarters of many large businesses. Many of UK’s top students are recruited from the Louisville area. You’ve Got E-Mail . . .
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The Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club UK alumni in the Little Rock, Ark., area are working to form an sponsored a pizza and game watch party at the Maplewood official UK Alumni Association club. Group activities include Boys Home. getting together to cheer on the Cats.
The Charleston UK Alumni Club recently held its first official Joker Phillips, UK assistant and future head football coach, was event — a reception for UK alumni and friends. the guest speaker at the Fayette County UK Alumni Club annual meeting.
Members of the Chicago UK Alumni Club enjoyed their Kentucky Members of the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Derby party held at Arlington Park. Those in attendance included, Alumni Club got autographs from head football coach Rich front row, left to right, Diane Massie, Kim Parks, Tim Farrell and Elisa - Brooks during the club’s Welcome Luncheon for last season’s beth Ray, and back row, Brandon Fox, Jenn Foley and Jenny Gron. Music City Bowl championship coach.
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Chattanooga UK Alumni Club
About 350 miles south of Lexington, on the banks of the Tennessee River, is the scenic city of Chattanooga, Tenn. is historic city is located at the beginning of the Trail of Tears, Sherman’s march across Georgia, and where the Great Train Chase ended. Residents of this area include about 70 active members of the Chattanooga UK Alumni Club. e club is involved in a variety of civic activities as well as just old-fashioned fun. Game Watch Parties are a must, of course. And club members are always delighted when Larry Conley, one of Rupp’s Runts, ar - rives to spend an evening discussing the upcoming basketball season aer a day of golf. Last year the club hosted a Cham - pagne Picnic atop Monteagle that was followed by dinner at High Point Restaurant, rumored to have once been the home of Al Capone’s mistress. A visit to the Canyon Grill also was a fun evening and lived up to its reputation reported in Southern Living. In addi - tion, club members actively participate in college nights and career days and re - cently interacted with students from 30 schools in Georgia and Tennessee. e club also had a chance to meet with some members of the UK women’s soball team this past year, and the group enjoyed a tour The Chattanooga UK of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park. Alumni Club and members Sipping mint juleps, donning Derby bonnets, feasting on barbeque and singing “My Old Ken - of the UK women’s softball tucky Home” is how you’ll find Chattanooga UK Alumni Club members during their annual Derby team visited the Kentucky Party hosted by Jane and Bill Pickering. Guests bring items to be sent to U.S. military personnel re - Monument erected in the covering in Germany and the financial proceeds collected help boost the club’s scholarship fund. Chickamauga and Jerry Peyton, club president, invites any UK grad visiting Chattanooga on the first Wednesday of Chattanooga National the month to join the Chatty Cats for lunch, fun and UK discussion at one of Chattanooga’s Military Park. restaurants. Club members are proud of their city and love to show it off, including the local aquar - ium, the pedestrian bridge on the Tennessee River, and local historical sites. To see Chattanooga upcoming events, go to www.ukalumni.net, keyword: calendar.
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Nick Phelps, left, UK Student Government Association president, is pictured with Wendell S. Norman, right, SGA president in 1955-1956. Norman is a 2008 inductee into the UK College of Engineering Hall of Distinction.
The UK College of Education celebrated 10 years of honoring “Teachers Who Made a Difference.” Frank Welch, center, one of this year’s recipients, is presented the award by James Cibulka, left, dean of the UK College of Education, and Claudine Barrow, right, who nominated him for the award. New Achievers Honored Congratulations to all of the 2007-08 AG & HES Alumni Association New UK College of Nursing faculty members Achiever Award Winners recently honored at the Radisson Plaza Hotel. Fol - Ellen Hahn, Debra Moser, Ann Peden and lowing a buffet brunch, recipients (ages 40 and younger) were individually Lynne Hall presented their research at the recognized with an engraved wooden UK award acknowledging their lead - Southern Nursing Research Society confer - ership excellence in agriculture and/or human environmental sciences. This ence entitled“Cognitive Behavior Strategies: year’s honorees are Alison Sexten Smith, Bluegrass Area; Vanessa Baker The Body of Evidence Grows.” Ruda, Fort Harrod Area; Ryan D. Bivens, Lincoln Trail Area; Melissa Colson Lipps, Louisville Area; Heather L. Kirk, Northeast Area; Chrystal Noble- Combs, Quicksand Area; and Garrett Croley, Wilderness Trail Area.
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College of Dentistry
UK College of Dentistry has a long tradition of excellence and is a credit to the strength of its mission, reflecting the three-part mission of the University of Kentucky: education, research, and service. UK Dentistry students, faculty, and staff strive to achieve excellence while working toward their goals. “Our students exemplify the hard work and dedica - tion it takes to continue the excellence in the dentistry profession well into the future,” says Dean Sharon P. Turner. UK dental students have achieved excellence and many prestigious awards for their accomplishments. To have students that are motivated to seek out and com - pete for these honors is an indication of the UK Col - lege of Dentistry’s dedication to student success. UK College of Dentistry has been selected as a re - gional recipient of the 2008 Outreach Scholarship W.K. Kellogg Foundation Engagement Award by the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. is project implemented a new pre - natal care model adding oral health education and den - tal care to an existing prenatal group and is a result of a collaborative effort among health care systems in Madisonville. is research-driven project has im - pacted the oral health of Kentuckians and saved ap - proximately $1.5 million in health costs for premature infants in the test group. One of the most powerful and signature activities of the UK College of Dentistry is its mobile dental vans that canvas the state providing outreach oral health care. ese outreach efforts served over 10,000 Ken - tuckians in 2007. e UK College of Dentistry addi - tionally administers the Seal Kentucky school-based dental sealant program. As a result of this program’s success, dental sealants were added as a dental benefit under the Kentucky Medicaid program. e combined effort, dedication, and commitment from the UK College of Dentistry’s constituencies have created a legacy of excellence that is currently, and will continue to carry, UK College of Dentistry Alumni Association the importance of oral health into the future. student representatives, from left, are Kyle Reynolds ’09, Ellen Travis ’11 and Breck Gibbs ’10. These students participate in UKCD Alumni Association board meetings as voting members and are a vital part of the board’s desire to communicate with all students at the college.
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Workshop Attendee Wins Big UK Mentoring Network Needs YOU! Students who attended the Last Minute Job Search workshop e James W. Stuckert Career Center is actively seeking UK at the Stuckert Career Center got to pick from 8 mini-work - alumni and friends to join the UK Mentoring & Shadowing Net - shops to help work. is comprehensive program links UK students with them learn how to alumni, employers, and friends for career exploration and guid - get started looking ance. UK students and other alums get huge benefits out of their for a job, includ - interactions with experienced professionals. We hope that you’ll ing advice on how benefit from this opportunity to share your insight and expertise to write a com - while giving back to the university. pelling resume As a participant in the UK Mentoring & Shadowing Network, and cover letter. you can choose your level of involvement in the program, such as They also received having a one-time informational meeting with a student, hosting a a complimentary student at your workplace for a site visit, or engaging students in leather portfolio mentoring relationships. and business We try to make the mentoring and shadowing process as easy as cards, courtesy of possible. You will simply need to complete profile information on the UK Alumni our online, password-protected Web site. Interested students or Association Jane I. Morris Endowment. alums will be able to contact you about mentoring or shadowing Whitney Beil, now a 2008 UK graduate from the Gatton Col - opportunities. lege of Business & Economics, recently received a $50 Speed - If you would like to be a part of the UK Mentoring & Shadow - way Gas Card as her prize for being the first person to land a ing Network, you may start your mentoring profile by visiting job who also attended the Last Minute Job Search workshop. www.ukalumni.net, keyword: mentor and completing the infor - Whitney accepted a job with National City. Caroline Francis, mation required. If you have questions, please contact Brooke left, the alumni career services coordinator, and Sue Strup, Brown at 859-257-7377 or [email protected] right, director of experiential education at the UK Career Cen - ter, congratulated Beil on her new job. Job Search Tip Serve On A Hiring Committee Schedule two networking meetings this month with Although your job may be secure today, one never knows what people who do not work for your current employer. tomorrow will hold. Network with business professionals and be - Reconnecting with former colleagues is a highly come more adept with job search skills (before you may need effective networking and potential job search tool. them) by volunteering to serve on a hiring committee. Perhaps it’s Business networking sites such as LinkedIn help for an opening in your current place of employment, a board on facilitate the process. which you serve, your church, or other community organization.
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Crutcher served as an attorney for Akin, UK Alumni Association UK College of Agriculture, in ’69 BE, live in Cincinnati. Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Field King Alumni House conjunction with the Agricul - as a specialist in energy issues. Lexington, KY ture and Human Environmental He also was assistant Kentucky 40506-0119; 1970s Sciences Alumni Association. attorney general and clerk to Fax us at 859-323-1063; He lives in Raleigh, N.C. E-mail us at Richard I. Fleischer ’70 LAW the chief justice of the Ken - is the chairman of Fleischer Im - tucky Supreme Court. While [email protected] or 1960s submit your information migration Practice Group, a earning his undergraduate de - in the online community at newly-developed legal practice gree, he was a reporter for the Ronald H. Reed ’67 EN is vice www.ukalumni.net area for Cohen, Todd, Kite & Lexington Herald. He lives in president of industry and gov - keyword: class Stanford LLC. He also is a co - Charlotte, N.C. Please be advised ernment relations for Square D founder, along with his son that due to space Company. With over 35 years Neil, of Fleischer Law Firm Steven H. Murdock ’72 ’75 constraints and the length of experience in the electrical LLC, which recently merged AS is the director of the of time between issues, industry, Reed began his work with Cohen, Todd, Kite & United States Census Bureau your submission to Class at the Square D Company in Stanford LLC. He has prac - and will lead the efforts of the Notes might not appear 1962. He holds more than 10 ticed all aspects of immigration 2010 Census. He has been a for several issues. patents and is a member of sev - law, including immigrant and professor of demographics at We look forward eral professional and technical nonimmigrant visas, natural - several universities, including to hearing from you! societies, including the Na - ization, deportation and asy - North Dakota State University, tional Society of Professional lum for over 35 years. He lives Texas A&M and the University Engineers and the American in Cincinnati, Ohio. of Texas – San Antonio. He COLLEGE INDEX Society of Mechanical Engi - Agriculture — AG also was director of the Texas Arts & Sciences — AS neers. He lives in Versailles. Charlie R. Hendrickson ’70 State Data Center. Business & Economics — BE ’75 BE is the CEO of Alvarez Communications & John T. Riley ’68 AS is the & Marsal (A&M) Technology Robert A. Brown ’76 EN is Information Studies — CIS chairman of ASTM Interna - Asset Management Services, the senior technical manager of Dentistry — DE tional Committee D05 on Design — DES designed to enable companies aviation services for the Education — ED Coal and Coke, a 315-member to integrate technology spend - Louisville office of Michael Engineering — EN committee responsible for ing into their overall business Baker Jr. Inc. He provides tech - Fine Arts — FA more than 75 international model, reduce operating and nical and operational expertise The Graduate School — GS standards related to the effec - maintenance costs, improve ef - in airport design, engineering Health Sciences — HS tive industrialization of coal, Law — LAW ficiency of technology related and construction projects, as Medicine — MED including classification, sam - processes and policies, and well as quality assurance/qual - Nursing — NUR pling and preparation. He also maximize value of technology ity control functions for avia - Pharmacy — PHA is a professor emeritus at West - investments. He previously was tion projects. Most recently, Public Health — PH ern Kentucky University and Social Work — SW a member of A&M dispute Brown served 14 years as direc - the former director of the analysis and forensic services, tor of engineering for the WKU Materials Characteriza - assisting public sector entities Louisville Regional Airport tion Center. He lives in Bowl - in Louisiana with their busi - Authority. A licensed profes - ing Green. ness interruption claims in sional engineer and surveyor, connection with hurricanes Brown is a Fellow with the Amelia Sympson Crutcher ’69 Katrina and Rita. Before American Society of Civil En - CIS is one of 10 women from joining A&M, he had over 30 gineers. He lives in Crestwood Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, and years experience with Big Four with his wife Ann Bowen Northern Kentucky who has accounting firms, including 17 Brown ’77 ED. been named Enquirer Women years with Pricewaterhouse- of the Year for 2007. She is in - Coopers. He lives in Normandi Ellis ’76 CIS is the Class Note volved with the Cincinnati was submitted online Waynesburg. winner of three awards from at www.ukalumni.net Park Foundation, Playhouse in the Council for the Advance - keyword: class the Park, ReSource Center, ment and Support of Educa - Children’s Hospital Medical tion for her work as
6 Summer 2008 Class Notes publications manager and edi - partment of Social and Health university’s mentoring program Kevin B. Watson ’82 EN, ’86 tor of Berea College Magazine. Services. He most recently for women and minorities. She LAW is a partner in the firm She received a grand award for spent four years as a senior lives in Manhattan, Kan. of Cohen a direct mail publication and mental health program admin - Seglias Pallas she also won two excellence istrator, working with commu - Carolyn Crowe Riticher ’80 Greenhall & awards relating to the maga - nity and state psychiatric BE is the chief operating offi - Furman PC. zine. She lives in Berea. hospital services and helping cer for Windham Brannon, an With a back - implement legislative initia - Atlanta-based accounting ground in civil James L. Youngquist ’76 ED is tives. He has worked in nearly firm, where she oversees oper - and mining engineering, he executive director of the Uni - every phase of mental health ations, includ - works in the company’s con - versity of Arkansas at Little services in Washington, includ - ing advising on struction group. While at UK, Rock Institute for Economic ing clinician, administrator and the develop - he was the founding editor of Advancement. He previously manager. He lives in Olympia, ment, delivery the UK Journal of Mineral served as the interim director Wash. and improve - Law and Policy. He lives in of the Fanning Institute at the ment of the or - King of Prussia, Pa. University of Georgia. He also Scott D. Packard ’79 BE is ganization’s services. She also coordinated and directed president and CEO of Wright serves as the firm’s principal, Jett H. Johns ’83 ’89 BE is UGA SouthEast Regional Di - Tree Service Inc. in Des managing a large book of vice president of finance at rectors Institute providing con - Moines, Iowa. He also is the clients. Riticher has over 25 Nissan North America Inc. in sultation, applied research and chairman of the board of the years experience in corporate Nashville, Tenn. He is respon - other technical services related Tree Care Industry Associa - accounting, tax research, plan - sible for all aspects of corpo - to regional strategic planning tion. He lives in West Des ning and return preparation, rate finance, including and community development. Moines, Iowa. auditing, litigation support accounting, planning, report - He lives in Watkinsville, Ga. and business valuation. She ing, analysis, treasury, tax, cus - 1980s was awarded the Distin - toms and overall management Brian Lihani ’77 CIS is the guished Member Award in controllership. Prior to joining marketing manager for Erica John “Rick” Bender ’80 AS is 1997 by the Georgia Society Nissan in 2006, he worked 23 Enders Racing Team in the Na - vice president at Daugherty Pe - of CPAs and has served as years with Square D/Schnei - tional Hot Rod Association troleum Inc., an operating sub - president of the organization. der Electric. He lives in Championship Drag Racing sidiary of NGAS, an inde- She also is a past president of Franklin, Tenn. Series. He lives in Colorado pendent exploration and pro - the Educational Foundation Springs, Colo. duction company operating for GSCPA, a current member David R. Proffitt ’83 DES is primarily in the Appalachian of the governing council for the American Institute of Ar - Anne Browne Bucalos ’78 ’03 Basin. He previously was the the American Institute of Cer - chitects Endowed Professor at ED is associate dean of the director of the division of oil tified Public Accountants, and the UK School of Architec - Annsley Frazier ornton and gas conservation at the past chairwoman of the Joint ture in the College of Design. School of Education at Bel - Kentucky Department for Nat - Trial Board of the AICPA. In addition to teaching duties, larmine University in ural Resources. A registered pe - She lives in Dunwoody, Ga. Proffitt serves as an advocate Louisville. A member of the troleum geologist, he lives in for both the architecture Bellarmine faculty since 2000, Lexington. Robert L. Purswell ’81 BE is profession and the College of she has worked as assistant pro - a mining engineer for Red Hill Design, while seeking to fessor, undergraduate chair - Ruth Geis Dyer ’80 EN is as - Energy serving in the com - strengthen the relationship woman, associate professor and sociate provost and professor of pany’s Ulaan Ovoo project lo - between the two. He also interim codean. She also spent electrical and computer engi - cated in north central serves as a liaison with the 20 years in the public school neering at Kansas State Univer - Mongolia. A seasoned veteran Kentucky Design Assistance system and five years in higher sity. She also is a Fellow of the in coal mine engineering, Team for community-based education. Her areas of schol - Institute of Electrical and Elec - Purswell has worked exten - design initiatives. Proffitt is an arly interest include teacher tronics Engineers (IEEE), a sively on many Asian and associate of GBBN Architects dispositions, students with not-for-profit technical-profes - American coal mines as gen - as well as the national secre - emotional and behavioral chal - sional society. Her status as Fel - eral manager, financial plan - tary of the American Institute lenges, and adolescent develop - low recognizes unusual ner, business development and of Architects. ment. She lives in Louisville distinction in the profession manager of technical services. A with her husband Dean W. and is conferred by the IEEE former resident of Basin, Wyo., Bucalos ’78 LAW. Board of Directors upon senior he now lives in Mongolia. members who have demon - David B. Weston ’78 SW is strated an extraordinary record chief of mental health services of accomplishment. At Kansas for the Washington state De - State, she also coordinates the
www.ukalumni.net 7 Class Notes Andrew S. Howell ’83 BE is nel, administering the city’s op - peer-reviewed physics journal Kathleen O’Nan Davis ’92 the executive vice president and erating and capital improve - Physical Review Letters. He LAW is the executive director chief operating officer for the ment budgets and advising the lives in Oxford, Miss. of the Colburn Earth Science Federal Home Loan Bank of council on public policy. He Museum in Asheville, N.C. She Cincinnati, a wholesale regional previously was employed by the Deborah Joyce Smiley ’89 AS, previously spent four years at bank providing financial serv - city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where ’92 LAW is vice president and the Asheville Citizen-Times as ices for residential housing and he worked on budget develop - wealth strategist for National business editor and community economic development to ment, implementation and City Bank in St. Louis, Mo., publications director. She and member institutions in Ken - monitoring of the financial ad - where she is responsible for her husband, Jeff, live in Mills tucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. ministration department. trust business and financial River, N.C. With the bank since 1989, planning. She previously served Howell previously served as ex - Lisa Dausman Nunan ’87 CIS as trust advisor of UMB Invest - Neil Fairweather ’95 LAW has ecutive vice president, mission is promotions manager at Os - ment and Wealth Manage - opened the law firm of Fair - asset activity, with overall re - wald Communications, where ment. She lives in Ballwin, Mo. weather & Jackson LLC in sponsibility for the bank’s credit she previously served as an Cincinnati, Ohio. e firm fo - services, mortgage purchase account executive and graphic 1990s cuses on representing a variety program, and housing and com - designer. She lives in of businesses in both the trans - munity investment. His current Newburgh, Ind. Steve P. Sanders ’91 BE is a actional and litigation context. responsibilities also include first officer with Continental Fairweather previously worked overseeing the bank’s account - Joel Mobley ’89 AS is assistant Airlines. A former captain with for Graydon Head & Ritchey ing, operations and treasury de - professor of physics and astron - Express Jet Airlines flying the LLP, also of Cincinnati, where partments. He lives with his omy and a research scientist at Embraer 145, he now copilots he practiced in the areas of wife, Cynthia Krugel Howell the University of Mississippi Boeing 737s and is based in bankruptcy, reorganization, ’83 EN, in Cincinnati, Ohio. National Center for Physical Houston, Texas. In addition to corporate finance and general Acoustics. His latest research flying, Steve and his wife also commercial litigation. Keith A. Spoelker ’86 GS is the confirms that underwater own a gourmet coffee and administrative officer for the sound waves can exceed the vending business called city of Bellevue, where his du - speed of light. is research LuTrick, named aer their chil - ties include managing person - was recently published in the dren Lucy and Patrick.
8 Summer 2008 Class Notes Kenneth Troy Koch ’95 ’96 is a member of the Tennessee PHA was appointed to the and the American Intellectual UK Alums By Design Louisville Property Law Associations. He Metro Board of was a regional marketing engi - Health. Koch neer for Trane Inc. before he FRCH Design Worldwide has nine University of Kentucky also is the direc - attended law school. He lives graduates on its leadership team. FRCH is an internationally-fo - tor of the phar - with his wife, Meredith cused design, architecture, branding and communications firm of macy sales Lankster Walker ’97 ’00 SW, approximately 300 employees with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio, support for Humana Inc. His in Nashville, Tenn. and Las Vegas, Nev. It was recently honored by the Wall Street experience includes leadership Journal as one of 15 Top Winning Workplaces in 2007. Several positions in the areas of retail Daniel H. Kinkead ’97 DES is contributing factors to winning the award included the com - pharmacy, managed care, phar - a registered design associate at pany’s strategy to give employees chances to have fun together macy benefit management, Hamilton Anderson Associ - both at work and in their spare time. e company hosts a sum - Medicaid and disease state ates, a Detroit based design mer picnic, trips to local venues like a Kentucky race track, and a management. He lives in firm. He also is a member of Christmas party for the employees and their families. Louisville. the American Institute of Ar - chitects and has over eight Tracey Holmes Donesky ’96 years experience in architec - AS is an attorney and share - tural and urban design. He has holder at Leonard, Street and designed a variety of project Deinard, a Min - types that include urban rede - nesota law firm velopment, higher education, where she prac - K-12, recreational facilities and tices employ - international mixed-use devel - ment and labor opments. He lives in Detroit, law. She also has Mich. been named a “Rising Star” by Minnesota Law & Politics. Kimberly Lucas ’97 AS re - While a student at UK, she was cently concluded four years of a member of the women’s Golf service with the U.S. Agency team. She lives in Minneapolis, for International Development Minn. (USAID) South Africa and is now posted to USAID “We are very proud of our firm and that so many of us are UK Phillip E. Walker ’96 EN, ’01 Afghanistan, continuing as a grads!” said Donna Shelton Szarwark. LAW is a registered patent at - foreign service agriculture offi - UK grads pictured here are Kim Barrens, director, studio op - torney and shareholder of cer and assigned to the alterna - erations, ’93 BE; Shane Kavanagh, senior vice-president, spe - Waddey & Pat - tive development and cialty architecture, ’92 LCC; Rob Depp, vice-president, client terson PC, a full agriculture office. She lives in relations, ’90 FA; Kristi Horn Ward, vice-president, accounting, service intellec - Kabul, Afghanistan. ’91 BE; Barb Suetholz Beeghly, vice-president, planning and tual property merchandising, ’80 DES; Katie Griffith Smith, accounting law firm han - Adam H. Edelen ’98 AG is the manager, ’91 BE; Jeff Siegel, director, studio operations, ’89 dling patent, director of Kentucky Home - CIS; and Donna Shelton Szarwark, senior vice-president, trademark, copyright, trade se - land Security. Prior to his ap - human resources, ’83 AS. Peggy Kennedy, vice-president, mar - cret and domain name related pointment by Gov. Steve keting, ’72 CIS was not available for the photo. matters for its clients. Walker’s Beshear, Edelen directed strate - practice is focused on patent gic planning for omas & and trademark prosecution, King Inc. He also served as an Jack S. Gatlin ’98 BE, ’01 Christie Deanne Dutton ’99 with a special emphasis on the aide to Gov. Paul Patton and is LAW is the county attorney CIS is a meteorologist on the evaluation and protection of a former vice president of the for Grant County. He previ - 10 p.m. news broadcast for complex patent technologies. Greater Lexington Chamber of ously was the assistant county WXIX-TV, Fox 19, in Cincin - He currently serves as treasurer Commerce. Edelen was chair - attorney and also works in the nati, Ohio. She holds a meteor - of the executive board of the man of the 2006 United Way law office of Ackman, Lorenz, ology certificate from Young Lawyers Division of the of the Bluegrass Annual Cam - Gatlin & Voelker. He lives in Mississippi State University Nashville Bar Association. He paign and chairman of the Williamstown with his wife, and seals of approval from the is a member of the Intellectual board of Kentucky Educational April Hollon Gatlin ’98 BE, American Meteorological Soci - Property Section and the Television. He was named a ’01 LAW, who is the county’s ety and National Weather As - Young Lawyers Division of 2007 Young Leader by the master commissioner. sociation. She lives in both the Tennessee and the American Foundation. He lives Covington. American Bar Associations and in Lexington.
www.ukalumni.net 9 Class Notes Lindsay H. Hoffman ’99 CIS sible for managing sales and She also is the STRI represen - Christina A. Kurapkat ’06 is an assistant professor in the operations in all territories tative on the Metropolitan CIS is the event planner for Department of Communica - owned and operated by the Park Board of Directors. She JAMfest Events LLC, a cheer tion at the University of company. He spent the past previously spent six years at and dance event company in Delaware. Her research inter - seven years in various group Metropolitan Park conducting Louisville that hosts over 70 ests include public opinion, po - and global financial manage - seed biology research. In 2005, annual events across the litical communication and ment positions with Procter & Sautu and members of STRI United States. She is responsi - media effects. She teaches Gamble and previously was an Office of Communications and ble for planning 12 events and courses in political campaigns, operations officer with the U.S. Public Programs obtained the serves as the vendor contact data analysis and news writing. Marine Corps. He lives in Boca funds to launch the pilot pro - person. Hoffman lives in Newark, Del. Raton, Fla. gram “A Living Book” for con - tinuous docent training in the Jordan F. Stewart ’06 CIS is a Geordie F.O. Kelly ’99 FA has Craig M. Kinslow ’02 BE is use of informal environmental computer engineer for ProSolv been selected for commission assistant vice president and loan education centers. Cardiovascular, which is based as a naval officer in the Navy officer at the North Bullitt loca - in Indianapolis, Ind. He is pur - Music Program. He has been a tion of First Citizens Bank near Maria Gall ’06 LAW is an suing further technical and en - part of the program since 1997 Louisville. He previously served attorney with the litigation gineering related certifications, and now as an ensign-band - as home mortgage consultant, group at Cadwalader, Wicker - and lives in Charleston, S.C. master, will lead a Navy band. sales manager and Kentucky sham & Ta, the oldest contin - He lives in Poulsbo, Wash. branch manager with Wells uously-running law firm in the Andrea McWilliams Conrad Fargo Home Mortgage. He lives United States. She previously ’07 DEN is a general practi - 2000s in Mount Washington. served a one-year clerkship tioner of dentistry at Tri-State with U.S. District Judge Family Dental Centers in Patrick J. Joyce ’00 BE is the Adriana E. Sautu ’04 AS is a Charles R. Simpson III of the Evansville, Ind. She previously chief operating officer of Cov - biologist for the Center for Western District of Kentucky was employed in the office of erall Cleaning Concepts, a Tropical Forest Science at the in Louisville. She lives in New Dr. Charles Rice in Mount commercial cleaning franchis - Smithsonian Tropical Research York, N.Y. Sterling. ing organization. He is respon - Institute (STRI) in Panama.
In Memoriam The UK Alumni Association extends its sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased. Christine Shouse Dummit ’26 Sidney L. Gall ’38 of Lexington, James E. Corbin ’43 Everett M. Scranton ’47 of Lexington Life Member, Fellow of Urbana, Ill., Life Member of Grosse Pointe, Mich. Ralph A. Stevens ’30 Frederick F. Moore Sr. ’38 Marjorie Randolph Rush ’43 Felix M. Gossum Jr. ’48 of Fulton of Mesa, Ariz. of Lexington, Life Member of Winchester Hubert Hall ’48 of Irvine, Gladys Kirkland Kemper ’31 Marjorie Jenkins Chadwick ’39 James M. Strauss ’43 Life Member of Louisville of St. Louis, Mo. of Northbrook, Ill. Dan C. Hutson ’48 of Murray, Elizabeth Clo Twitchell ’31 James Dorris Ruark ’39 Henry C. Blount Jr. ’44 Life Member, Fellow of Providence, R.I., Life Member of Morganfield of Lexington Frank Y. Hukill Jr. ’48 of John D. Hasler ’32 Robert H. Cleveland ’40 omas J. Penn ’45 of Lexington, Louisville of Port St. Lucie, Fla. of Versailles, Life Member Life Member, Fellow Bryan T. Iglehart ’48 Edward H. Johnson ’32 Coleman Friedman ’40 of Louisville June Hubbard Saalfeld ’45 of of Clarksville, Tenn. of Covington, Va. George W. Grider ’40 Crestview Hills Donette Davis Jackson ’48 Katherine Gordon Howard ’33 of Albany, Life Member, Fellow Betty Walsh Morris ’46 of Bloomington, Ill. of Winchester Homer L. Knight ’40 of Radcliff of Lexington, Life Member Emma Redden Moody ’48 Rissa Hieronymus Arterberry ’35 Carmel G. Clark ’41 of Pikeville Grace Willmott Myers ’46 of Lexington of Nashville, Tenn. of Lexington, Life Member Patricia Stem Horney ’41 Gene T. Qualls ’48 John P. Bell ’37 of Louisville of High Point, N.C. Martha Gayle Parks ’46 of Birmingham, Ala. of Lexington S. W. Dantzler ’37 Lewis P. Johnson Jr. ’41 Leo W. Zimmerman Jr. ’48 of Bluefield, W.Va., Life Member of Pella, Iowa Robert D. Preston ’46 of Louisville of Lexington, Fellow Irene Sparks Graney ’37 Samuel B. Pole III ’41 William H. Cassidy Jr. ’49 of Naples, Fla., Life Member of Leland, N.C. Jettie K. ompson ’46 of Louisville of Washington, Mo. Ruth Ecton Fife ’38 of Lexington, Shelby Shanklin Jr. ’42 Suzanne Futch Flatley ’49 Life Member, Fellow of Lexington Mildred Erd Scott ’47 of St. Petersburg, Fla. of Madison, Ind. James R. Boyd ’43 of Danville 40 Summer 2008 In Memoriam Vernon W. Garrison ’49 Peggy Wheeler ompson ’53 Marion Geren Blyton ’68 Rodney B. Featherston ’86 of Cincinnati, Ohio, Life Member of West Columbia, S.C. of Lexington, Fellow of Tampa, Fla. eodore M. Haggard ’49 Nancy Carolyn Lilly ’54 Edgar A. Smith ’68 James A. Mackenzie ’86 of Charlotte, N.C. of Seattle, Wash. of Hopkinsville of Louisville Clement S. Hill III ’49 Joe B. Price ’54 of Lebanon, William T. Bishop III ’69 Gregory T. Goldey ’87 of Lexington, Life Member Life Member of Lexington, Fellow of Winchester James E. Hopson ’49 Montford L. Reed ’54 Russell Bowen Jr. ’69 Charles R. Orange ’89 of Wellesley, Mass. of Jacksonville, Fla. of Spring Hill, Fla. of Russellville William T. Minke ’49 Galen W. Kiser ’55 of Lexington Philip E. Paulin ’69 Barton A. Johnson ’92 of Franklin, Tenn., Life Member Sam B. omas ’55 of Lebanon of Stillwater, Okla. of Providence Hudson M. Nichols ’49 Wilbert H. Earley ’57 Willard D. Bostwick ’70 John Y. Stein ’92 of Lexington of Harrodsburg of Barbourville of Plainfield, Ind., Life Member Gary Lee omas ’00 of Versailles Ruth Jordan Sammons ’49 Phillip E. Grawemeyer ’57 Charles E. Hook ’70 Patrick Ellis Skaggs ’02 of Ashland of Upper Arlington, Ohio of Louisville of Wakulla County, Fla. John D. Taylor ’49 of Erie, Pa. Theda Frances Steil of ’57 Linda Hackensmith Sallee ’70 Former Students Margaret Hewlett Young ’49 of Doylestown, Pa. of Lawrenceville, N.J. Elizabeth Rogers Blevins of Columbus, Ohio Carl S. Corbin ’58 of Providence James C. Robertson ’71 of Lexington, Life Member of Lexington James M. Craon ’50 Ted Frazer Jr. ’58 of Marion of Henderson, Life Member Don E. Uhl ’71 of Lansing, Mich. Clairbel Breazeale Buchanan Joseph E. Johnson III ’58 of Winchester William L. Gresham ’50 of Bal Harbour, Fla. Susan Matherly Wood ’71 of Owensboro of Wake Forest, N.C. Dorothy Everman Burch Simeon O. Montgomery Jr. ’58 of Lexington Curtis D. Hamilton ’50 of Lebanon, Life Member Frederick A. Woodress ’71 of Kirkland, Wash. of Muncie, Ind. Emily Hall Butcher John L. Hampton Jr. ’59 of Georgetown Nancy Barnett Hamilton ’50 of Village of Palmetto Bay, Fla. James R. Gum Jr. ’72 of Bowling Green of Pacifica, Calif. Johnny L. Clayton Sr. of Louisville Jerry B. Johnson ’59 Woodrow Miller ’50 Michael W. Kemplin ’72 Elvin Cooper of Paducah, of Hot Springs Village, Ark., Life Member of Elizabethtown Life Member, Fellow of Sarasota, Fla. Nancy Weaver Elvove of Paris Robert C. Price ’50 of Lexington Donald L. Ecton ’60 Cynthia Walker Loving ’72 John C. Revel Jr. ’50 of Lady Lake, Fla. of Lexington Jack C. Fife of Lexington, Fellow of Conway, S.C. Aletha Brown Skelley ’60 Michael D. Major ’74 Juanita Clark Foley of Louisville Frank K. Rogers ’50 of Lexington of Clemson, S.C. of Cincinnati, Ohio Katherine Wash Hixson Jack H. Strother ’50 Ann Weisner Duncan ’61 Mary Bobo Flurry ’75 of Cynthiana of Ormond Beach, Fla. of Lexington, Life Member of Austin, Texas Evelyn Baker Hymson Hugh C. Adams Jr. ’51 Richard W. Spears ’61 Paul E. Lee ’75 of Waynesboro, Va. of Lexington, Life Member of Nicholasville of Lexington, Life Member, Fellow Robert C. Lindig ’75 David C. Kirkland Johanne Graham Biggerstaff ’51 Vernon J. Calhoun ’63 of Mora, Minn. of Dublin, Ga., Life Member of New Bern, N.C., Life Member of Williamsburg Jay M. Brumfield ’76 Cindy J. Kline of Lexington, Robert C. Hurst ’51 of Bardstown George R. Herron ’63 of Lexington, Fellow Life Member John D. Lowe III ’51 of Taylors, S.C., Life Member Victoria Jean D'Ambrocia ’76 Harriet Alexander Martin of Columbia, Life Member Luther C. Godbey ’64 of North Canton, Ohio of Lexington Ruth Schapira Pierce ’51 of Seneca, S.C. Olivia M. Frederick ’77 Douglas McCammish of Bethesda, Md. W. Nicholas Pope ’64 of Louisville of Winchester Malcolm B. Saunier ’51 of Shaker Heights, Ohio, Tony R. Wingler ’77 Linda Wilson Meade of Lexing ton of Lexington Life Member of Greensboro, N.C. Barbara Stivers Meyer Homer A. Frank ’52 Jane N. White ’64 of Lexington Eva Catherine Davenport ’78 of Baldwin, Md. of Lawrence, Kan. Collins D. Brown ’65 of Benton of McAllen, Texas John B. Moore of Lexington Kenneth P. Harding ’52 Donald A. Hill ’65 of Danville Alan L. Little ’78 of Charlotte, N.C. Merle P. Mulligan of Georgetown of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. John H. Coppinger ’66 Nancy Hodge Kenney ’79 Shelley A. Omer of Lexington of Marietta, Ga., Life Member Walter H. McIntyre Jr. ’52 of Lexington Roger W. Reeves of Versailles of Eustis, Fla. Judy S. Spencer ’81 of Campton J. Wendell Roberts ’66 John V. Rogers of Lexington, James E. Parrott ’52 of Eminence of Venice, Fla., Life Member Cary M. Hull ’82 of Lexington Life Member Paul D. Ross ’52 of Lexington William F. Horton ’67 Mary Louise Joyce ’82 of Frances Terrell Sexton Martha Tyree Hoskins ’53 of Haines City, Fla., Life Member Laguna Beach, Calif., Life Member of Lexington of Nashville, Tenn. J. Alan Lips ’67 of Cincinnati, Ohio Joseph B. Mattingly ’82 R. Winston Stigers of Lexington Roy D. Sims ’53 Warren W. Price ’67 of Lexington of Smyrna, Tenn., Life Member of Williamsburg, Va. Edward V. Dorsey Sr. ’84 of Lewes, Del. www.ukalumni.net 41 John H. Minan ’66 BE recently published “e Little Green Henry G. Crowgey AS ’68 penned the first edition of “Ken - Book of Golf Law: e Real Rules of the Game of Golf,” a book on tucky Bourbon: e Early Years of Whiskeymaking” in 1971 and golf law that appeals to lawyers and golfers alike. Minan selected e University Press of Kentucky has re-released it. e book is 19 cases to correspond to the typical 18 holes played in a round of the first of its kind to carefully trace the early years of bourbon in golf, plus one for the traditional 19th hole social recap. Each chap - Kentucky and to draw from extensive research of 17th and 18th ter examines a set of facts and incorporates an actual case involv - century newspapers, court records, diaries and journals. It details ing golf. e book discusses legal issues such as Tiger Woods’ right the evolution of bourbon from its rough beginnings to its more of publicity, personal injury claims for negligence and products li - refined days just before the Civil War. ability, contract disputes involving hole-in-one contests and golf Distilled spirits were an integral part of early colonial life for set - cart rentals, a forfeiture claim under the Endangered Species Act, tlers no matter what their origin. In the the Internal Revenue Service’s litigation against a taxpayer over tax early days, rum was the drink of choice deductions for golf expenses, patent and trademark disputes, and until whiskey became a popular re - more. e book’s forward is written by Gary McCord, CBS placement as it is made from corn, an Sports analyst, Champions Tour player, abundant crop in the new world. and author of “Golf for Dummies.” Bourbon emerged in the late 18th Minan is a professor of law at the Uni - century, distinguishing itself from versity of San Diego School of Law whiskey through its unique where he teaches property, land-use plan - corn/rye mash, use of limestone ning and water law. He is a former asso - spring water and charred oak bar - ciate dean for academic affairs, acting rels for aging. It also became a sub - dean of summer programs, and director stitute for money during tough of the USD International and Compar - times, was used as a common ative Law Programs at Trinity College home remedy, and considered a in Dublin, at Magdalen College, Ox - “panacea for ailments of ford, and in Florence, Italy. Minan mankind.” practiced admiralty law as a trial at - e book also tackles myths about the bourbon torney with the U.S. Department of industry, including its link to Bourbon County, Kentucky, and Justice, and has qualified as an expert whether Elijah Craig was the first Kentucky distiller of bourbon. on matters involving land-use plan - Crowgey is a professor of history at the University of North ning and real property. Carolina – Wilmington.
ABA Publishing e University Press of Kentucky www.ababooks.org www.kentuckypress.com
Liz Cornish ’75 AS has had her pub - Kim Edwards, associate professor of Janna McMahan ’86 CIS is the author lished book, “Hit the Ground Running: A English at UK and the author of “e of “Calling Home,” a haunting, heart-break - Woman’s Guide to Success for the First 100 Memory Keeper's Daughter," recently had ing novel about mothers and daughters, Days on the Job,” re-issued as an audio her award-winning novel made into a Life - choice and regret, and the dreams, passions book. time channel movie. and troubles of one small Southern town. American Media International Penguin Group USA Kensington Books www.amazon.com www.penguingroup.com www.kensingtonbooks.com
Evelyn Young Christensen ’73 ’77 ’80 Craig J. Phillips ’90 GS is a traumatic Elizabeth Shear Orndorff ’93 CIS won ED is author of over 30 educational activ - brain injury survivor and has a Web site $10,000 for “Death by Darkness,” judged ity books and has two new titles recently which is designed to encourage, motivate the best new work at the 2007 Interna - released for ages four and up: “Fraction and empower readers, both disabled and tional Mystery Writers’ Festival at River - Finders” and “Decimal Destinations.” nondisabled, to live life on life’s terms. Park Center in Owensboro and also Mindware Second Chance to Live received $5,000 as best new playwright. www.mindwareonline.com www.secondchancetolive.wordpress.com Elizabeth S. Orndorff Danville, KY
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19 Moments In History dent can cram into one of Cropper’s laun - Dr. eodore T. Jones becomes Dean of dry bags . . . UK junior home economics Men, replacing Professor C. R. Melcher . . . major Billie Lou Reed of Carrollton is the John Lewis Jr. of Winchester takes a posi - recipient of a $300 Statie Erikson scholar - tion as music instructor and also is in ship for the 1958-59 school year . . . Her - charge of the university band, as Professor man Spivey, the dean of the Graduate Elmer Sulzer will devote his time to uni - School and William Webb, a distinguished versity publicity activities . . . e local professor of physics, are among 11 speakers Kappa chapter of Phi Beta wins a national at the first UK Alumni Association Semi - award for being the most outstanding nar entitled “e American Political Tradi - chapter in the United States . . . Overall tion” . . . Two female students enroll in the enrollment decreases slightly from the pre - UK Air Force ROTC program. ey will vious spring semester as 2,240 students substitute a leadership laboratory for drills, begin their fall classes, although later that the lab consisting of mainly secretarial ) r
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&OR MORE INFORMATION AND TO ORDER GO TO WWWSEEBLUEUKALUMNICOM Four Wildcats Taken In NFL Draft Four University of Kentucky football players were selected in the National Football League Dra. Jacob Tamme, tight end, was Kentucky Football selected in the fourth round by the Indianapolis Colts (12th over - 2008 Schedule all); Keenan Burton, wide receiver, was selected in the fourth round by the St. Louis Rams (128th overall); André Woodson, quarterback, was selected in the sixth round by the New York Gi - Date Opponent Site ants (198th overall), and Steve Johnson, wide receiver, was se - Aug. 31 Louisville Louisville, Ky. lected in the seventh round by the Buffalo Bills (224th overall). Sept. 6 NORFOLK STATE COMMONWEALTH STADIUM Four players marks the most Wildcats selected since 1993. Sept. 13 MIDDLE TENNESSEE COMMONWEALTH STADIUM e last time Kentucky had four dra picks in the first seven Sept. 20 Open rounds was 1979, when a total of eight Wildcats were taken, Sept. 27 WESTERN KENTUCKY COMMONWEALTH STADIUM five of whom went in the first seven rounds. Oct. 4 Alabama Tuscaloosa, Ala. Junior Andy Winings Named Oct. 11 SOUTH CAROLINA COMMONWEALTH STADIUM To Second Team All-SEC Oct. 18 ARKANSAS COMMONWEALTH STADIUM Kentucky junior golfer Andy Winings was named to the Oct. 25 Florida Gainesville, Fla. 2008 All-Southeastern Conference second team. He played in Nov. 1 Mississippi State Starkville, Miss. all 11 of Kentucky’s tournaments and recorded nine top-2- in - Nov. 8 GEORGIA COMMONWEALTH STADIUM dividual finishes. Winings claimed the Palmas Del Mar Inter - Nov. 15 VANDERBILT COMMONWEALTH STADIUM collegiate title and finished fourth in the UK Bluegrass Nov. 22 Open Invitational. Four of Winings finishes came in the top 10. Nov. 29 Tennessee Knoxville, Tenn. UK Leads SEC Winter Sports Honor Roll Schedule is subject to change; times to be announced. e University of Kentucky had 53 student-athletes on the Home games in ALL CAPS 2008 Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll for win - ter sports, the most of any league school. UK had five honorees for women’s basketball, five from men’s basketball, eight from gymnastics, three from rifle, 15 from men’s swimming, and 17 from women’s swimming.
Locke Breaks Varsity And Freshman Records MOVING? University of Kentucky track and field jumper Derrick Locke Get a big discount on your move and help the leapt into the university’s record books in his first outdoor competition by breaking the UK varsity and freshman outdoor UK Alumni Association at the same time. long jump marks. He finished fourth overall with a long jump distance of 25-3.25 to set a new standard at Kentucky breaking the decade-old record set by Andrew Channer by two inches.
Rifle Finishes Fifth At NCAA Championships Ashley Jackson posted a team-high 580 in smallbore and a 582 in air rifle in UK’s fih place finish at the NCAA Champi - onships. e fih-place finish is UK’s 14th top-10 finish in the last 15 years, with the Wildcats placing fourth a year ago.
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e University of Kentucky Athletic Association presented 25 honors at the sixth-annual CATSPY Awards, held to recognize ath - letic and academic performance during the 2007-08 year. With co- winners in some categories, a total of seven teams and 25 individuals were recognized. Football and women’s tennis won the Male and Fe - male Team of the Year awards for their achievements in 2007. e Mr. and Miss Wildcat Awards were given for all-around excellence in athletics, academics, character, and service. Crissy Cannon of the gymnastics team was named Miss Wildcat, while football’s Jacob Tamme and Wesley Woodyard were co-winners of Mr. Wildcat.
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46 Summer 2008 ‘Mr. Wildcat’ Gone From Sidelines
UK basketball coaches, players, student assistants, adminis - Keightley passed away March 31 from internal bleeding trators and fans gathered in Rupp Arena for a public memorial caused by a previously undiagnosed tumor on his spine. He was service for longtime basketball equipment manager Bill 81 years old. Keightley. Others expressed their sentiments on blogs and radio call-in shows. Some stories made you laugh; others made you cry — all re - flected love and respect. They came from people who knew him well to people who had only seen him on the sidelines on TV. He was the man who was always getting and giving hugs to the alumni players doing the “Y” in the Kentucky cheer. The “Bill Keightley Equipment Room” in Memorial Coli - seum was as much a fixture around UK basketball as the seven national championship trophies on display in the Joe Craft Center. It was an amazing place, full of equipment, of course, but also plaques and trophies he was safekeeping for players, framed photos and such to be autographed, more stuff than the eye could discern at a glance. With the jovial Mr. Bill smiling at you, it almost felt like Santa’s Workshop. Who knows when the practice began, but Keightley would often find an alum with a washing machine in the cities where UK was playing in a tournament. In Atlanta, Ga., he could al - ways count on Dave and Diana Shelton. The Shelton’s would rendezvous with Keightley in the hotel lobby late at night, take home laundry bags full of sweaty uniforms to wash and have them back in the team hotel by 7 a.m. Keightley had been associated with the Wildcats’ basketball program since 1962. In 48 seasons, 40 as manager, he played a role in 57 percent of Kentucky’s basketball games, according to UK Athletics. Out of 2,588 games, he was on the sidelines for 1,113 wins and 351 losses. During his tenure, he served under six UK head coaches, from Rupp to Gillispie. In 1997 UK honored Keightley with a retired jersey in his honor. Keightley also was among 88 Wildcat greats inducted into the charter class of the UK Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.
Coach Mike Lyden Gone From Poolside
Mike Lyden, UK diving coach since 1993, Coach of the Year in 1996. In March 2006, who led the program to its first national cham - then-junior diver Taryn Ignacio — who Lyden pionship in 2006, died April 11 aer a two-year first coached at age 12 — earned UK its first na - fight with cancer. He was 51. tional diving title with a record-setting dive on At the memorial service, family, friends, ath - the platform. letic director Mitch Barnhart and other mem - Current diving coach Gary Conelly summed bers of the UK Athletics department, and all up Mike by saying he was an amazing person, but one of the UK divers he ever coached at and incredible guy to be with, a family man, and UK were there. UK President Lee Todd and the perfect diving coach. head football coach Rich Brooks were also in at - Known as ‘Iron Mike,’ he appeared fearless tendance. and lived by the motto “Bigger is better.” ose During his career, Lyden was named South - around him knew he never let fear hold him eastern Conference Diving Coach of the Year back as a diver, never as a coach and never in his nine times, including three consecutive seasons fight with cancer. from 2005-07, and NCAA Women's Diving
www.ukalumni.net 47 Quick Takes w o l n E a r r e i S : o t o h P Funny Money Marian Moore Sims, president-elect of the Fayette County UK Alumni Club, demonstrated to students how to win money and discount coupons in the Cash Cube during the Spring Chill event at semester’s end. e get-together is an annual event for students and is sponsored by the UK Alumni Association and its Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow (STAT) members. Fayette County UK Alumni Club members were invited to help out at the event held just be - fore finals. Sims, who also is on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors and is a former UK Board of Trustees member, has furthered the education of many students over the years, having been a school teacher at Cassidy Elementary, Morton Middle and Henry Clay High School in Lexington. She now teaches teachers how to teach at Morehead State University. What was she thinking when she got into the Cash Cube? “I just didn’t want the kids to think this retired widow on a pension (ReWOP) was stealing all their money! I passed out my collection to the kids waiting in line.”
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