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Features Barbara Rice ’62 AFE has spent 25 years with Gerald R. Benjamin ’79: the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. 12seeing blue and making a difference ON THE COVER A former UK scholarship recipient achieved success and Barbara Rice: A lofty career now helps UK move forward 16helping NASA with nutrition in transformational ways. Barbara Rice ’62 AFE has forged a long career at NASA studying the nutritional needs of astronauts before, during Revolution in Black and Blue: and after their space flights in the Human Adaptation and Wagner documentary showcases Countermeasures Group. UK’s role in integrating SEC football By Robin Roenker 20 Paul Wagner ’70 AS, ’72 CI wants to set the record straight. By Hal Morris
Greta Holtz: 24Serving America’s international goals Greta Holtz ’84 GS has served in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and now is ambassador in Oman. By Robin Roenker 26Jim Duff: Bringing order to the courts As director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Jim Duff ’75 AS assists the chief justice in the operation of the federal judiciary, which includes more than 2,000 judges. By Vickie Mitchell
28We salute the 2015 Great Teacher Award recipients Each year, the UK Alumni Association recognizes six professors for outstanding teaching, and this year’s recipients are once again distinguished faculty members who are appreciated by their students.
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Pride In Blue
A year to celebrate greatness!
It’s with great pride The UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award has that we bring you the been recognizing excellence in the classroom since 1961. 2015 spring issue of This year’s award recipients (featured on Pages 28-29) cer- Kentucky Alumni tainly continue the tradition of outstanding teaching and magazine. dedication to students. You will never Also in this issue, read about Greta Holtz, the U.S. ambassa- convince me that time dor to the Sultanate of Oman, a prosperous nation situated doesn’t somehow move southeast of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula. Read faster now. It’s hard to about how a summer European backpacking trip during col- believe that it is 2015. lege eventually led to her lifelong career in Middle Eastern Doesn’t it seem like just last year we were ushering in 2000 diplomacy. Her story makes my mind wander around the and fearing the world’s end? world. Get to know Jim Duff. He is the former CEO of the 2015 is a big deal for many reasons. It’s certainly a year to Newseum, the Washington museum that educates the public celebrate greatness around here. First, the University of Ken- about the importance of the First Amendment, and president tucky marked the 150th anniversary of its founding in Febru- and CEO of the affiliated, nonpartisan Freedom Forum. ary. ink about that for a moment. ink of all the Now, he has returned to a job he held from 2006-2011. At monumental things that have happened in the world during the request of Chief Justice Roberts, he became director of this span of time. Our university has been right here through the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. it all. It’s incredible to me to think about all the people who You will want to read about academy award-winning doc- have been a part of shaping UK into what it is today. Just umentarian Paul Wagner’s commitment to telling the story think for a moment about all the students, faculty, staff and of UK breaking the color barrier for football in the South- alumni who contributed to the rich history of the University eastern Conference. He is working on a documentary that of Kentucky. We are all part of the hashtag #WeAreUK. will share the story of Nate Northington and Greg Page be- Here’s to the next 150 years! coming the first African Americans to sign with an SEC We will also celebrate the UK Alumni Association Hall of school in 1965, and how two years later, Wilbur Hackett Distinguished Alumni as we welcome the Class of 2015 in- and Houston Hogg continued to tear down barriers. ductees in April. Every five years, we recognize a select We also introduce you to J.D. Shelburne, an aspiring group of outstanding alumni for their distinguished contri- country music singer who has kept his day job — and keeps butions to the Commonwealth and the nation in their fields right on singing and performing. We also catch up with for- of endeavor. If you want to be impressed, you don’t have to mer Wildcat All-American Tony Delk, who is a part of the look any further than the members of this prestigious SEC Network college basketball broadcast team. He offers group. You can find a complete listing of all inductees at great insight into the game. www.ukalumni.net/HODA. Finally, I hope you enjoy this issue of Kentucky Alumni Speaking of impressive, our cover story this issue just hap- magazine as much as I enjoy sharing it with you. Kentucky pens to be a member of our Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Alumni magazine is another way we say “thank you” to our Barbara Rice was inducted in 2010. I had the pleasure of members. We couldn’t do what we do without you! As meeting her at the awards ceremony. In her role as research always, I welcome your feedback. dietitian working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Hous- ton, Texas, she has studied the nutritional needs of astronauts With Pride in Blue, before, during and aer space flights for over 25 years. at certainly gives new meaning to the age-old question, “What’s for supper?” Just as impressive, Rice followed her four older sisters to UK. ey all graduated with degrees in home eco- Kelli Elam ’11 nomics. Now, that’s a family legacy! Editor
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A university for Kentucky "I gleaned the remains of my life, turned toward the are also developing a hills that give me help, give me shelter, hold the sky where three-week initiative to it belongs." train community leaders — Jane Hicks and health-care leaders in the mountains. What began as a mild winter gave way to Mother Nature’s From unlocking fury at the end of February. The University of Kentucky was through research the mys- planning to host its Board of Trustees meeting in Hazard, but teries of disease at the cel- historic snowfall kept us in Lexington. lular level to engaging in Why Hazard? From the October Trustees Retreat, your evidenced-based ap- board expressed a desire to see more of the state we serve. It proaches to problems at was an enticing opportunity to spend more time in and with the community level, UK the communities where our students are from, many of our is investing in micro inter- faculty work, our Extension agents serve and where our clini- ventions that, taken together, offer the promise of macro- cians and partners heal. level change. These are just two examples of the dozens of Over the last several months, we’ve been sharing and dis- programs and initiatives ongoing at UK that total nearly cussing the special relationship and partnership the Univer- $350 million. sity of Kentucky has with the Central Appalachian region. This work and the stories captured through the UK in Ap- We launched a new series of stories, “Rooted in Our Commu- palachia initiative celebrate and promote the incredible cul- nities: The University of Kentucky in Appalachia,” that ex- ture and heritage of the region, as well as the progress we’ve amines the myriad ways in which UK faculty, staff and made together. The richness of the mountains emboldens our students are working in — and, more important, with — shared effort and the promise of tomorrow. communities throughout the mountains. Those stories and At the University of Kentucky, we take pride in the fact that other compelling features can be found at www.uky.edu/ap- our 150-year legacy of education, research, service and care palachia. means that we are — in creative and compelling ways — the These stories bring to life the significant challenges and university for Kentucky. even more promising opportunities that exist not only in In Appalachia, that service and those partnerships are Eastern Kentucky, but throughout our Commonwealth in deeply rooted and grounded in a sense of community, in a areas such as health care, energy and conservation, education spirit of partnership, with the idea that we, too, look toward and economic development. the hills — for help and shelter, for partnership and meaning, One of those stories is our partnership with the Shaping for stronger communities and for a brighter future for our Our Appalachian Region initiative, the Centers for Disease Commonwealth. Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Ap- palachian Regional Commission and Appalachian Regional Hospitals. With these partners, UK is engaged in a five-year, $1.5 million project to help patients with cancer navigate the Eli Capilouto often confusing and growing system of treatment options. We President
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UK HealthCare has opened its first Ob- servation Unit at the UK Chandler Hos- pital. Across the nation, observation units are increasingly being used to provide high quality, safe and efficient care to patients who come to the Emergency Department and are too sick to be discharged home and need additional evaluation. In the 24-bed unit located adjacent to the UK Chandler Emergency Department, pa- tients with symptoms such as chest pain, abdominal pain, dehydration or syncope (fainting or passing out) will be managed and cared for up to 24 hours until either discharged or admitted as an in-patient for more intensive care. e patient will remain as an outpatient while in the unit. Studies show benefits of patients cared for in observation units include better clinical outcomes, greater patient satis- faction, less diagnostic uncertainty and improvements in the use of hospital re- sources and staff. UK Healthcare Photo: “ere are times when a patient doesn’t of the Chandler Observation Unit. “is and provide patient care with close col- meet criteria set by Medicaid or unit allows us to monitor them for an ex- laboration among Hospital Medicine, Medicare to be admitted to the hospital tended amount of time and ensure they Emergency Medicine and Cardiology but as a physician you just don’t feel that get the care they need.” to provide prompt, high quality and they are well enough to be sent home,” The new unit, which opened with 12 efficient observation care. n said Dr. Romil Chadha, medical director beds, will eventually expand to 24 beds UK unveils historical marker Family and Consumer Sciences Extension personnel honored an early, influential Extension educator and their program’s centennial anniversary with a historical marker. e marker was unveiled in December outside of the Myrtle Weldon Suite in the E.S. Good Barn on campus. “ousands of agents have served the people of Kentucky over the last century. It is fitting that we also recognize Myrtle Weldon on the same marker. She had the initial vision for what has become the FCS extension program in 2014,” said Ann Vail, assistant director of UK Family and Consumer Sciences Extension, during the ceremony. In Kentucky, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension pro- gramming began in 1914 when UK hired 17 county Extension agents to teach food preservation. Weldon became state leader of the then UK Home Economics Extension program in 1924. Weldon oversaw the program grow in educational emphasis and in agent numbers during her 31-year tenure. In addition, she played an instrumental role in the beginnings of the Ken- Services Communications UK Ag Photo: tucky Extension Homemakers Association, a group that From left to right, Bob Weldon, Ann Vail and Jimmy Henning formed in 1932. n unveil the newest historical marker at UK.
8 Spring 2015 UK News UK celebrates December graduates ere were 839 undergraduates and 125 bright Commission Summer Session last graduate and professional students who year, spending a month in Berlin. were expected to participate in the Com- e university also awarded honorary mencement Ceremonies that were held in- doctorates. One went to Brady Deaton, side Memorial Coliseum in December. former chancellor of the University of A total of 1,357 undergraduate de- Missouri-Columbia and chairman of the grees, 536 graduate degrees and 22 pro- Board for International Food and Agri- fessional degrees were conferred for cultural Development. Don Jacobs also August and December 2014. received an honorary doctorate. He is Lauren ompson of Louisville was co-founder of the Don Jacobs Organiza- the 2014 December Commencement tion, one of Central Kentucky’s largest student speaker. e communication family-owned car dealerships. Don major has spent her time at UK partici- Jacobs and his wife Cathy Jacobs have pating in the Alpha Kappa Alpha soror- served as leading donors for many uni- ity, the National Association of Black versity projects, such as the Don and Accountants, Ad Club and serving as a Cathy Jacobs Health Education Center UK 101 Peer Instructor. She was also se- at the new Pavilion A in the Albert B.
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UK earns 2015 Community Engagement Classification Recognizing UK’s commitment to its surrounding local, na- a two-year long application process. UK also received the 2010 tional and global communities, the Carnegie Foundation for Community Engagement Classification. the Advancement of Teaching selected the university to receive In a letter to McCormick, the Carnegie Foundation and New the 2015 Community Engagement Classification. England Resource Center for Higher Education praised the “The success of our reclassification efforts is the result of university, saying that UK’s report “documented excellent the efforts of a committed group of campus stakeholders alignment among campus mission, culture, leadership, re- who contributed their expertise, time and knowledge in the sources, and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy drafting of the report,” said Katherine McCormick, profes- community engagement.” sor of interdisciplinary early childhood education and James “Prominent in the reclassification application was the work W. and Diane V. Stuckert Endowed Professor in Service- of the colleges, the Center for the Enhancement of Learning Learning, who chaired the team responsible for completing and Teaching, the Center for Community Outreach in the Di- the application process. vision of Student Affairs, the Office of Community Engage- e classification recognizes institutions that provide evi- ment, the University of Kentucky International Center and the dence of substantial engagement and contribution to their Office of the Associate Provost, Division of Undergraduate Ed- communities. A significant achievement, institutions complete ucation,” said McCormick. n
UK Art goes 3D As the Smithsonian Castle displayed the first 3D-printed on the wealth of open source information available. bust of a U.S. president, students in one UK art course Initially imagined for model making and prototyping, op- wrapped up a semester learning how to not only create art with portunities to use 3D technology have boomed in recent years. the assistance of a 3D printer, but also to build 3D printers. More and more, the forms produced by printers can now be e concept for the new course came from a suggestion by used as the final product. And the industry is pushing the Derek Eggers, senior faculty instructional consultant with the realm of possibilities even further by transforming them into UK Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, and other materials using casting and mold making processes, mak- Jeremy Colbert, a facilities specialist in metal arts at the UK ing this another tool in the inventory. School of Art and Visual Studies. Eggers then teamed up with Egger and Wade’s course, “A-S 390: Hybrid Fabrication,” is senior lecturer James Wade in sculpture and art foundations to cross disciplinary and open to all majors with the goal of creat- design a 3D printing course that would teach students to not ing interaction between several departments and colleges on only use the printer but also build one from kits, capitalizing campus — engineering, art, media, agriculture and design. n
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Blue Horizons UK study on campus tobacco-free policies Amanda Fallin, assistant research pro- of policies (smoke-free indoors only, des- • On tobacco-free college campuses, fessor at the UK College of Nursing, re- ignated outdoor smoking areas, smoke- fewer students smoked and reported cently published a study, “Association of free, and tobacco-free). intention to smoke on campus. Campus Tobacco Policies With Second- Fallin said that findings indicate smoke • Strong majorities of students sup- hand Smoke Exposure, Intention to and tobacco-free policies are widely ac- ported outdoor smoking restrictions Smoke on Campus, and Attitudes About cepted and are working on campus. across all policy types. Outdoor Smoking Restrictions,” in the Findings include: • Comprehensive tobacco-free policies American Journal of Public Health. • Stronger policies were associated are effective in reducing exposure to Fallin and her co-authors surveyed with fewer students reporting expo- smoking and intention to smoke on California college students between Sep- sure to secondhand smoke or seeing campus. n tember 2013 and May 2014 with a range someone smoke on campus. Grant to meet demand for behavioral health in primary care e UK College of Social Work, in graduate social work students will prac- experience targeted gun violence in collaboration with the UK Department tice intensive case management, behav- schools. of Family and Community Medicine, ioral health interventions and secondary “is is really a great opportunity to has been awarded a $1.4 million Health prevention screening for increase interdepartmental collaboration Resources and Services Administration children/teens/and transitional age here at UK for preparing social work grant to train graduate social work stu- young adults at risk for mental illness, graduate students to meet the critical dents to meet the rising demand for so- family violence, trauma, substance mis- shortages of behavioral health care pro- cial workers trained in primary use and risky sexual behavior. Students fessionals across the Commonwealth of behavioral health with children, adoles- will serve at-risk and underserved popu- Kentucky. I cannot imagine a more com- cents and transitional aged individuals lations including rural, impoverished, munity engaged project,” said Carlton D. (ages 18-25). refugee, immigrant and inner city clients, Craig, associate professor in the College e federal grant will provide $10,000 including families. of Social Work and the project’s princi- stipends that will allow the College of Compared nationally, Kentucky has pal investigator. Social Work and the Department of higher poverty rates, child and adoles- The collaborative team working on Family and Community Medicine to cent risk of illegal substance use, youth the project also includes William Elder, create an integrated behavioral health suicides and child obesity. Kentucky’s professor in the College of Medicine, track. is track will train 92 clinical so- high school youth experience higher David Royse, professor in the College cial work students in a fully-integrated rates of violence and have had higher of Social Work and Pamela Weeks, as- model of primary behavioral health care rates of child abuse fatalities in recent sociate clinical professor in the College over a three year period. Second year years. Kentucky was also an early state to of Social Work. n Study examines communication and end-of-life decisions For many people, talking about end-of- end-of-life health decisions. In her their assessments of the conversation. life decisions can be very difficult. Al- study published this year in Communi- Scott and Caughlin found that people though making choices about health care cation Monographs, “Enacted Goal At- who paid better attention to task, iden- at the end of life is an important out- tention in Family Conversations about tity, and relational goals were more sat- come of these conversations, recent re- End-of-Life Health Decisions,” Scott isfied with the conversation, felt more search suggests that talking about and co-author John Caughlin, professor hopeful after the conversation, experi- end-of-life choices with family members and department head at the University enced less hurt after the conversation in a way that pays attention to how they of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used and felt less relationally distanced after perceive themselves and maintains your a multiple goals theoretical perspective the conversation. n relationship with them may be more im- to demonstrate that the quality of com- portant than actually reaching decisions. munication about end-of-life decisions Compiled from news reports Allison Scott, assistant professor at matters. Members of 121 older about research at UK. the UK College of Communication and parent/adult child dyads (N = 242) en- For more information about Information, focuses her research on gaged in an elicited conversation about research taking place at UK, the quality of communication about end-of-life health choices and reported visit www.research.uky.edu
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14 Spring 2015 www.ukalumni.net 15 Barbara Rice: A lofty career helping NASA with nutrition By Robin Roenker
hen Barbara Landrum Rice ’62 everything ourselves. Looking back, I’m When Rice enrolled at UK, she WAFE accepted her position as a re- very grateful to have had that type of up- wasn’t certain of her choice of major. It search dietitian working at NASA’s John- bringing,” says Rice, who credits those ex- was a chance assignment to be a dietit- son Space Center in Houston, Texas, she periences with her lifelong passion for ian’s assistant during a summer intern- thought it would be a two-year role. healthful foods and style of eating. ship at Grady Memorial Hospital in at was 25 years ago. As Rice and her six sisters grew, there Atlanta, Georgia, following her fresh- Rice, a native of Franklin, has forged a was never any question about their edu- man year that solidified her career long career at NASA as a contractor, cational path. “Our mother was adamant path. studying the nutritional needs of astro- that all of the girls would go to college or “at summer, I was able to spend a lot nauts before, during, and aer their technical school,” Rice says. “She just of time with the dietitians, and I realized space flights in the Human Adaptation said, ‘is is what you need to do, and I really liked this work,” she says. “at and Countermeasures Group. you can do it if you work really hard.’” was really when I decided to go into di- “Student groups often ask me, ‘What Rice followed her four older sisters etetics and nutrition.” did you do in your background to be to UK, where they also had majored In the following summers while at able to work for NASA?’” says Rice, and graduated with degrees in home UK, Rice held dietetics internships at who graduated from the University of economics. Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington Kentucky with a degree in dietetics “I was familiar with UK from my sis- and at Methodist Evangelical Hospital from the School of Home Economics, ters’ experiences there, and also from the in Louisville. Then, after graduation, now called Human Environmental Sci- many camps and conferences that I had she moved to California, where she ences in the College of Agriculture, attended there through my 4H work,” worked for more than 20 years as a clin- Food and Environment. Rice says. “Really, it had been driven into ical dietitian and nutrition consultant “e truth is, when I was hired I knew me by my mother that UK was the best in hospitals and schools in Los Angeles nothing about microgravity or space- place for me to study and get a degree.” and surrounding areas. While working flight. But the woman who hired me Once on campus, she says she found full time and balancing motherhood, said, ‘We can teach you those things. You herself motivated and shaped by an- Rice completed a master’s degree in nu- have intrinsic values and experiences that other strong woman: Abby Marlatt, trition and foods from California State we can’t teach,’” Rice says. who was the director of the School of University. Home Economics. “My goal, from the beginning, has al- Early Training “Abby Marlatt taught all of our ad- ways been to help people have better Rice grew up in an agricultural family of vanced nutrition classes. She was a very health. My focus, in almost all of my nine children. Her mother taught Rice vocal person who didn’t always follow all jobs has been to prevent problems. and her siblings from an early age how to the rules. She would oen stand on one That’s what drives me,” she says. “I’ve help grow and prepare their own foods of the main streets and hold signs in sup- never been interested in working in fa- and make their own clothing. “We only port of Black freedom and other civil cilities where people are already really shopped in town, which was, I think, rights issues and was just so bold. I re- sick. I’d rather work in facilities where about 12 miles from our home, on Satur- member thinking she had such courage people are relatively healthy, where I day aernoons. It was a very different — not to mention a very good knowl- can work with them to be even health- world than it is now. We made almost edge of nutrition,” says Rice. ier and prevent disease.
16 Spring 2015 Photo: Al Torres Photography Inc. Barbara Rice has spent over five decades as a dietitian in a career that has included positions as director of school food services in Culver City, California, therapeutic dietitian at Los Angeles’ Kaiser Foundation Hospital, and assistant director and director of training in nutrition at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles, in addition to her NASA position.
“Once disease occurs, it’s a lot harder to foods and prepackaged foods, rather wanted to send them off with foods undo. at’s always been my mantra — to than taking time to make things from they liked, and when they came back, if try to prevent disease. It’s a lot easier to scratch,” she says. they were nutritionally deficient in prevent obesity and diabetes, for example, “We need to be doing what we can to something, then they could turn that than to try to treat the health ramifica- keep activity levels up and just keep peo- around. In flights that short — at that tions that come from them,” she says. ple moving,” Rice says. time, most were under 13 days — Rice has spent over five decades as a di- you’re not going to develop any nutri- etitian in a career that has included posi- Career at NASA tional deficiencies,” Rice says. tions as director of school food services By 1990, Rice and her husband, Phil, But in the early 1990s, with the in Culver City, California, therapeutic whom she’d met in Los Angeles, had prospect of astronauts facing longer dietitian at Los Angeles’ Kaiser Founda- moved to Texas, where he was trans- space flights and long tenures of time at tion Hospital, and assistant director and ferred. When Rice saw a job opening for the International Space Station, Rice says director of training in nutrition at Chil- a research dietitian position at the John- it was apparent to NASA medical per- dren’s Hospital of Los Angeles, in addi- son Space Center, she applied. sonnel that research was needed to deter- tion to her NASA position. Rice says she “In the early days at NASA, they mine exactly which nutrients, and how has seen a drastic decline in people’s weren’t worried a lot about the nutri- much, the astronauts needed during overall mobility and exercise levels. “e tion of the astronauts, since they were space flight. other big contributing factor to the obe- going on such short flights. It was more NASA set aside funds to hire a re- sity epidemic is the increased use of fast like going on a camping trip. They search dietitian, the position Rice
18 Spring 2015 landed, and to conduct a few specially- Over the years, her career at NASA has graved the dates that it was in micro- earmarked research flights with crew had many memorable moments, includ- gravity,” Rice says. members to monitor their nutrition and ing the opportunity to work as a nutri- But her most deeply-cherished NASA biochemistry levels during flight. tionist on a NASA team that offered memories involve close friendships “e woman hiring me said, ‘We’ve got consultation during operations to rescue with the members of the final Colum- these research flights coming up that will the 33 men trapped for 69 days in the bia mission, which tragically ended in probably give us all the data we’re going Chilean mining accident that captured an explosion on Feb. 1, 2003, killing all to need to answer all the questions we’re the world’s attention in 2010. seven crewmembers aboard. going to have. We may not need you for By the time a supply line could reach “I worked closely with the final Co- more than a couple of years,’” Rice recalls. the miners, they had been without lumbia mission for about three years “But here I am, 25 years later.” much food and water for days. Rice and prior to launch. When the crew Over the years, Rice has worked closely the NASA team of physicians advised launched, I received a beautiful rose bou- with many NASA flight teams, oen providing nutritional formula to the quet from them that was very special to forging close personal relationships with miners gradually in a process called me, especially since the vehicle ulti- individual astronauts. “refeeding,” similar to the steps used to mately failed. About six months aer the “I may see an astronaut weekly or even treat recovering anorexia patients, work flight, I received an autographed crew more frequently for one or two years that Rice did for several years in Cali- photo that had been signed by all of until their individual health goal is met,” fornia. them prior to launch. I keep it with a col- says Rice, whose job includes nutrition “In many ways, it made sense that lage of their flight patches in a framed counseling for the NASA flight crews. they called NASA and asked for help,” case, hanging on my office wall,” Rice As astronauts prepare for a flight, she says. “We’re in the business of says. “It was a pleasure to work with such Rice’s work with them amplifies. “Dur- sending people off to harsh environ- fine people.” ing preflight testing protocols, I see them ments and in dealing with emergencies While she has no plans to retire im- three to four times per day at each of that may pop up.” mediately, Rice says she looks forward their meals to monitor their dietary in- Another time, an astronaut was so ap- to eventually having more time to visit take,” she says. preciative of Rice’s help in reaching his her grown daughter, Katie, who lives in She sometimes confers with astronauts weight goal over the course of a year Maryland, and to volunteer as a docent at the International Space Station via that he offered her the rare opportu- to assist patients at Houston’s Texas video conference, if they have questions nity to have one of her own personal Medical Center. about their nutritional needs while in mementoes taken up into space. “I And, she plans to travel a lot. “I want flight. Other days find her logging long chose for him to take a small gold shut- to go on a safari to Africa,” Rice says. hours in front of her computer, analyz- tle pendant on which I have since en- “at’s definitely on my bucket list.” n ing data obtained from the astronauts’ dietary records. Ultimately, Rice and her colleagues’ re- search has confirmed that astronauts’ daily Barbara Rice and her sisters established the caloric and nutritional needs are much the same in flight as they are on Earth, though Bessie G. Landrum Scholarship Fund in astronauts need less iron in microgravity and Vitamin D supplemented due to their Human Environmental Sciences at UK in their lack of sun exposure in space. mother’s name, as a way of honoring her Over the years, their research has helped to compile nutritional knowledge that is passion and drive for their higher education. also beneficial to people on Earth, she says. Currently, for example, Rice and her co- Rice – a member of the UK Alumni Associa- workers are conducting a study to deter- mine whether limiting the amount of tion’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni – also later animal protein the astronauts consume and amplifying their potassium intake while in founded a dietetics scholarship in her flight could help diminish the amount of calcium loss evident in their bones. “If we own name, as well as a UK library fund can do that,” Rice says, “we may be able to help people see that if you eat less meat and for use in purchasing dietetics and eat more vegetables and fruits, which are nutrition publications. good sources of potassium, then you could help offset osteoporosis.”
www.ukalumni.net 19 Revolution in Black and Blue: Wagner documentary showcases UK’s role in integrating SEC football By Hal Morris Photo: UK Athletics Photo: On Sept. 27, the four men who helped integrate the Southeastern Conference in football were honored during the Wildcats’ game against Vanderbilt at Commonwealth Stadium. Pictured are, from left, Nate Northington, Wilbur Hackett, Houston Hogg and Mel Page, the brother of the late Greg Page. A documentary by UK graduate Paul Wagner is being made to chron- icle Kentucky’s role in breaking the color barrier in the SEC.
Paul Wagner ’70 AS, ’72 CI wants to ber 1965, becoming the first African- elected a team captain in the SEC in any set the record straight. American player to sign with an SEC sport. It was the University Kentucky, not school, with Page signing a short time later. e story of UK’s historical role in any other school that broke the color At that time, freshmen were not eligible to breaking the SEC color barrier has been, barrier for football in the Southeastern play on the varsity team. Aer receiving a for the most part, unknown. Conference (SEC). paralyzing injury during a preseason prac- Enter Wagner, who lives in Char- e Oscar-winning documentarian tice on Aug. 22, 1967, Page died 38 days lottesville, Virginia, and got into the and Louisville native is working on a film later on Sept. 29. e day aer Page’s project through former Kentucky quar- that will do just that. e documentary, death, Northington played against the terback Paul Karem, who played with with the working title “Black in Blue,” University of Mississippi, becoming the Hackett and Hogg. will tell the story of the four men who first African American to play in the SEC. Karem was watching a documentary first integrated the SEC. He le the program aer playing in two on former Tennessee quarterback Con- “My main job is to tell the story, and more games — at Auburn and at home dredge Holloway, the first African- I’m really excited to do that,” Wagner against Virginia Tech. He then played two American quarterback in the SEC, and says. “UK alumni are going to be nuts years at Western Kentucky University. became exasperated that UK’s story had about it. It’s really going to be exciting.” In 1967, Wilbur Hackett and Houston never been told. e story by now is a familiar one. Nate Hogg signed with the Wildcats. Hackett “Our guys were six years before him. Northington signed with UK in Decem- was the first African American to be When you look at Nate, Greg Page,
20 Spring 2015 Wilbur and Houston, these guys are way friend Greg Page, who had gone to UK and know what the South was like.’” before anybody else,” Karem says. and had that accident and passed away. Karem says with all the attention being “Where’s the credit? And why don’t oth- Here was this historical and remarkable paid recently to the civil rights move- ers know about this? story that hardly anyone was aware of, ment of the 1960s in Hollywood, it was “UK played a critical role which had been mainly over- time to tell the story. in this, and no one knows looked by the media. Northington had remained silent for about it.” “I feel more people needed years about his story. But in 2013, he Shortly aer seeing the doc- to know that story. So I’m self-published a book, “Still Running: umentary, Karem attended a grateful the documentary is e Autobiography of Kentucky’s Nate reunion of former Coach being done so the story can fi- Northington, the First African Ameri- Charlie Bradshaw’s players to- nally receive the recognition it can Football Player in the Southeastern gether and said it was time deserves.” Conference,” and later attended a re- people knew about this Wagner, whose movie “The union of former players for the first time. achievement. Wagner Stone Carvers” won the 1985 “Aer talking with Paul Karem, Wilbur, at idea turned into an idea Academy Award for Docu- Houston and Mel Page (Greg Page’s for the movie. anks to a mutual friend mentary Short Subject, said the student brother), I didn’t feel any apprehension. I in Ed Mayer ’70 BE, ’73 LAW, Karem newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, was felt it would be a good story to tell. It’s met with Wagner and the documentary “agitating to integrate sports” long be- something I never dreamed would take was born. fore Northington signed. He says it’s place,” Northington says. “Now that it’s “He’s the perfect guy for the job,” important for people around the coun- coming to fruition, I’m very happy they Karem says about Wagner. try to know that this did not come “out recognized us in such a manner. I’m glad Wagner pours his heart and soul into of thin air,” and that people in the state for Greg’s family. Everybody needs to all of his projects, but rarely has he done were pushing for integration when a know about this story. anything as personal as this. large part of the South was fighting it. “To me, this story is even more re- “I’ve made films about a lot of things, “I live on the East Coast, and I work markable not because I was involved, but I think race is a story that just helps with people and am friends with people but how the SEC has turned out, just us understand who we are as Americans, who have ill-informed notions about from a few of us starting out. And now and it’s helpful to us in the present,” what Kentucky is about,” Wagner says. “I it has exploded to such a tremendous Wagner says. don’t like that, and this is a chance to try magnitude as far as contributions “It’s important to us that we make sure to right some of that and get it straight so made by African-American athletes. the world knows how important a role people in this state can celebrate what was What we did changed the face of SEC UK played in breaking the color line in accomplished. And people in the South football, and UK certainly deserves the SEC. One of the things we try to do can say, ‘Oh yeah, I see what happened credit for that.” n in the film is help people understand it wasn’t like integrating a restaurant. Foot- ball in that era was sort of the symbol and substance of Southern white su- premacy,” Wagner says. “It was not only a sport that African Americans couldn’t participate in, which was bad enough, but it was emblematic of the whole tradi- tion and history and power structure of racism in the South. “We think it’s a pretty big deal.” Northington thinks it’s a pretty big deal, as well. “Aer seeing other documentaries about Tennessee and Sylvester Croom (who be- came the first African-American SEC football head coach at Mississippi State), I thought, ‘What about UK?’” Northing-
ton says. “What about what we accom- UK Athletics Photo: plished? So that encouraged me more Former Kentucky player Nate Northington signs his letter of intent in 1965 in that something needed to be done to Frankfort surrounded by, from left, Gov. Edward T. “Ned” Breathitt, Kentucky share our story so that people know about Coach Charlie Bradshaw, Jim Gray, Northington’s coach at Louisville’s Thomas what we had done at UK and about my Jefferson High School and University of Kentucky President John W. Oswald.
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www.ukalumni.net 23 Greta Holtz ’84 GS: Motivated to serve America’s international goals By Robin Roenker
summer European backpacking trip during college changed the course of Greta Holtz’s life, literally. As the AU.S. ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, a prosperous nation situated southeast of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula, Holtz marvels at how that fateful summer trip — and a subsequent offhand conversation during class with a friend — led to her lifelong career in Middle Eastern diplomacy. Having grown up in Evanston, Illinois, and Birmingham, Michigan, suburbs of Chicago and Detroit, Holtz traveled south for college, originally planning to major in nursing at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Ten- nessee. But while touring in Europe after her college sophomore year, she realized how little she knew about
Photo: Courtesy of Megan Porter of Megan Courtesy Photo: the larger world. Once back in Nashville, her career goals Muscat, a bustling office of some 200 her grown daughter, Victoria, opted to shied. “I realized I wanted to get out and staffers including Omani civilians, Ameri- stay in Maryland with her father. see the world and learn foreign languages can Foreign Service officers and represen- Looking back on her long and rich ca- and interact with different cultures and tatives from a wide swath of U.S. agencies, reer, Holtz, who also holds a master’s de- peoples,” Holtz says. She promptly including the Defense Department, FBI gree in national security studies from the changed her major to political science, and CIA. National War College, has relished assign- rounding out her schedule with ample A longtime ally of the United States, ments that have allowed her to feel part of French, Russian and German language Oman is a stable presence in the region, tangible, important change in the region. courses, although now, she says, she is flu- run by the Sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin “Working in Iraq, in the midst of U.S. ent in Arabic and Turkish, but her Russian Said Al Said, who has rebuilt the coun- combat operations there, was one of the and German are rusty. try’s infrastructure, education and health most professionally challenging and re- During one of Holtz’s Russian classes at care systems during his 44-year reign. In warding experiences of my career,” she Vanderbilt, she mentioned to her friend, 2010, the United Nations ranked Oman says. “e opportunity to work very Gail Davis, plans to chair a campus panel first in a list of 135 countries studied for closely with U.S. military leaders and on national security issues. Davis recom- progress in education, health care and Iraqi provincial leaders was very reward- mended that Holtz contact her father, other basic living standards between ing. I loved being part of something that Vince Davis, then-director of the UK Pat- 1970 and 2010. mattered to our government and to the terson School of Diplomacy and Interna- “He’s had a long-term, strategic vision Iraqi people.” As minister-counselor for tional Commerce, for leads on possible for the Omani people since he took over provincial affairs at the U.S. Embassy in speakers. power, and he is committed to giving his Baghdad in 2009-2010, Holtz led the “It was a ‘chatting in the back of the people all the tools they need to be pros- U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Teams classroom when we weren’t supposed to be perous, healthy, educated, secure and sta- charged with helping establish the new talking’ kind of thing, but it led me to get ble,” Holtz says. “It’s an amazing thing to Iraqi government. in touch with Dr. Davis, who was a gold watch.” Aer her appointment in Baghdad and mine of resources,” Holtz says. “He ended As ambassador, Holtz spends a lot of prior to the Omani ambassadorship, up helping lead the panel, and he encour- time, as she says, “showing the flag.” Each Holtz served as deputy assistant secretary aged me to apply to the Patterson School day, she balances her time between a of state for public diplomacy in the Bureau aer college. And, voilà, that’s where I dizzying array of agenda items: meeting of Near Eastern Affairs, another role that ended up going. My decision to come to with Omani government officials to ad- was especially fulfilling. UK really was because he was such a won- vocate for U.S. national security objec- “I love doing project work and pro- derful person who showed great confi- tives; hosting meetings with fellow gramming in a country, whether it’s edu- dence in me and was such a wonderful ambassadors to discuss U.S.-European cational programs, exchange programs, mentor,” says Holtz, who received her anti-terrorism efforts in the region; and or entrepreneurial initiatives,” Holtz says. master’s degree in diplomacy and interna- working with U.S. military and Omani “My appointment as deputy assistant tional commerce at UK in 1984. security forces to defend against Al- secretary of state was during and aer the anks to Davis’s connections, Holtz in- Qaeda and secure the country’s border Arab Spring, so we were getting to go terned while at UK in the NATO policy with neighboring Yemen, where there is into those countries that had just under- office at the Pentagon. “I loved every unrest. She also mentors entry-level gone revolution with programs on media minute of it. Everything about defense staffers within the embassy; advocates freedom, writing a constitution, educa- policy was fascinating to me,” she says. But for U.S. businesses in Oman; and rou- tion, entrepreneurship, women’s empow- at the time, there were few defense posi- tinely attends graduations, ribbon cut- erment and so on. To me, helping them tions for civilians overseas, and Holtz tings, school openings and other events rebuild their countries aer years and wanted an international post. She took the where the Omani government would years of repression and dictatorship, U.S. Department of State Foreign Service like a visible U.S. presence. “As an ambas- based on their goals and objectives was Officer Test and accepted a position with sador, you’re there representing the very important and rewarding.” the U.S. Foreign Service in 1985. American government and the American When her three-year ambassador ap- Since then, Holtz — and her passport people. You are trying to show the best pointment concludes in 2015, Holtz — have been kept busy, with appoint- of America in everything you say and hopes to return to Washington before ments in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, do,” says Holtz, a married mother of pursuing another overseas appointment. Syria, Iraq, Turkey and now, an ambas- three who met her husband, Paco Cosio- But no matter what her State Depart- sadorship, which is the pinnacle of all For- Marron, while serving in Saudi Arabia. ment position, her main goal remains the eign Service positions, in Oman. rough many of Holtz’s appointments, same: “I have always felt motivated to her children have lived abroad with her. serve America and to serve America’s Representing America Currently, though, she is in Oman alone, goals outside of our country,” she says. Appointed as the Omani ambassador in because Alexandra and Anthony are at- “at’s what keeps me inspired, and it’s 2012, Holtz heads up the U. S. Embassy in tending college in the United States and what keeps me going.” n
www.ukalumni.net 25 im Duff ’75 AS has had supporting to the chief justice that he served as a much more about UK and the breadth Jroles and starring roles. He warmed pall bearer at his funeral. He was also of UK’s educational opportunities dur- the bench for UK’s final freshman bas- one of three speakers when Rehnquist’s ing those years. It was eye opening. UK ketball team, led a museum devoted to bust was unveiled at the Supreme is a national leader in so many fields of First Amendment freedoms, assisted U.S. Court. research.” Supreme Court chief justices and man- In 2011, Duff became CEO of the Duff ’s studies at UK also stood him in aged a high-profile law firm. Behind the Newseum, the Washington museum that good stead when he led the Newseum. scenes or in the spotlight, he seems educates the public about the impor- His history and political science classes equally at home. tance of the First Amendment, and pres- gave him “an early appreciation” of the In his first supporting role at UK, the ident and CEO of the affiliated, importance of the First Amendment and walk-on guard for the undefeated 1971- nonpartisan Freedom Forum. other founding principles. “My arts and 1972 freshman Kittens averaged a As 2015 began, Duff returned to a sciences background was most helpful to minute of playing time a game but had job he held from 2006-2011. At the re- me in that job,” Duff says. the time of his life as a 22-0 season un- quest of Chief Justice Roberts, he be- Although highly regarded for its edu- folded. His teammates included eventual came director of the Administrative cational value and quality exhibits, the Wildcat stars Jimmy Dan Connor, Mike Office of the U.S. Courts. He assists Newseum competes with the Smithson- Flynn, Kevin Grevey, Bob Guyette, Jerry the chief justice in the operation of the ian Institution and its museums’ free ad- Hale and G.J. Smith. federal judiciary, which includes more mission. Duff was able to improve its He jokingly tells his former teammates, than 2,000 judges, 30,000 employees situation during his short tenure. still close friends, “I averaged one point a nationwide and an annual budget of “Attendance has increased and is now game, but I only played a few minutes. just under $7 billion. between 800,000 and 900,000 a year, Imagine if I had played 40 minutes?” “Jim earned the full confidence of the revenues have increased substantially and Aer that stellar season, Duff gave up judiciary during five years of exceptional expenses are down. e endowment has playing basketball and focused on his service, and we are very fortunate that he increased remarkably in the last three studies. He studied political science, his- has agreed to return,” said Chief Justice years,” he says. tory and philosophy through the Honors Roberts in a news release announcing Two UK professors, history professor Program and graduated magna cum Duff ’s appointment. Robert Ireland and philosophy profes- laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Duff and his family — wife and lawyer sor Jesse DeBoer have been models for “Fortunately, I got into the Honors Kathleen Gallagher-Duff and their three his own teaching style. For the past 15 Program and everything was such a children — have long lived in the Wash- years, Duff has also been an adjunct wonderful experience all the way ington area, but ties to Kentucky and professor at Georgetown University. In around, both academically, as well as UK remain strong, and he has a farm in 2014, he was named the school’s presti- having the chance to wear the Ken- Owsley County. gious Peter P. Mullen Visiting Professor tucky uniform. It meant so much to me His father, Cecil, attended UK and is of Law. in my life and career … It defines you in a former All-State basketball star who “Dr. Ireland had a great knack for many ways,” he says. taught and coached in Owsley County. telling stories and making history come His experience at UK gave him the Duff ’s brother Kevin ’78 AFE is assis- to life with anecdotes about individuals confidence, he says, to apply for a job tant director, university planning and — their quirks, foibles and strengths. He with the U.S. Supreme Court. He was design at the University of Illinois at made class interesting,” says Duff. “Dr. hired as assistant to Chief Justice War- Urbana-Champaign. DeBoer was always extraordinarily pre- ren Burger and juggled those responsi- Even aer the Duff family moved to pared in his lectures. I would transcribe bilities and his coursework at Hamilton, Ohio, for Cecil Duff ’s work, the lectures — he didn’t use any notes — Georgetown University Law Center. Jim Duff returned to Lexington with his and reviewing my notes was like reading He received his law degree in 1981 and father to see some UK basketball games. a book.” also attended the University of Edin- “I knew I was going to UK by age 4,” says He hopes to continue his work with burgh in Scotland. Duff. “ere was never a question.” projects he helped initiate in the last sev- In the last 40 years, Duff has built a re- UK has made its way into Duff ’s per- eral years, including a program that sume in private practice and public service. sonal and professional life in myriad ways. brings journalists and judges together to He has been a partner in private law As managing partner in the Wash- talk about how cases in the courts can be practices, including managing partner ington office of Baker Donelson from better reported, and the Civics Renewal in the firm founded by former Senate 2000 to 2006, Duff represented UK’s Network, an effort by more than two majority leader Howard Baker Jr. In federal interests. “I helped persuade dozen nonprofits to increase civic educa- addition to Chief Justice Burger, he members of Congress as to the value of tion in schools. has worked for Chief Justices William UK’s research and what it could lead to In 2012, UK honored Duff, naming Rehnquist and John Roberts. He was in the way of jobs and economic boosts him to the UK Arts and Sciences Hall Rehnquist’s counselor and was so close for Kentucky,” he says. “I learned so of Fame. n
26 Spring 2015 Jim Duff ’75 AS: Bringing order to the courtsBy Vickie Mitchell Tim L. Uhl Pearl James Dr. Sameer Desai College of Health Sciences College of Arts and Sciences College of Medicine Department of Rehabilitation Sciences Department of English Department of Emergency Medicine Irina Voro Timothy R.B. Taylor College of Fine Arts College of Engineering Department of Piano Department of Civil Engineering
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Reserve your space today! Happy Travels www.ukalumni.net/travel 800-269-ALUM(2586) Wildcat Sports UK Volleyball posts banner year Kentucky volleyball had another banner year under Coach Craig Skinner. e Wildcats concluded the 2014 season with a 27-6 record, the most wins in a season since 2011 and the third most under Skinner. e team earned a bid to the NCAA Tournament for a school-record 10th consecutive season and advanced to the second round for the fourth year in a row. e Wildcats finished 13th in the polls, the sixth time under Skin- ner they have finished in the top 25. Kentucky fell to Ohio State 3-1 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Memorial Coliseum. e Wildcats beat Oakland 3-0 in the first round of the tournament. Junior setter Morgan Bergren was named second-team All- American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Photos: UK Photos: Athletics She was the ninth player in school history to be named either The Wildcats went 27-6 and made the NCAA Tournament for first or second-team All-American. the 10th straight season. In addition to Bergren, players Jackie Napper, Lauren O’Conner and Annie omasson were honorable mention All- gion Team. e four all-region picks are tied for the most in a Americans and were named to the AVCA’s All-Southeast Re- single season in program history, set in 2008 and 2009. n Women’s soccer: Gilliland earns All-American honors It was another record-setting year for the Kentucky women’s lection. Gilliland is the first UK player to make all-region all soccer team and another All-American season for senior Arin four years. Gilliland. e Wildcats advanced to the Sweet 16 of the In her illustrious career, Gilliland was a team-captain on two of NCAA Tournament for the first time in program history and the most successful teams in program history. e Wildcats went made it to the finals of the SEC Tournament for the first time 31-13-2 in her final two years, went to four-straight NCAA since 2006. e Wildcats lost to eventual national runner-up Tournaments, earned four-straight hosting bids and posted two Virginia in the Sweet 16, ending the season at 16-7-1. wins over top-10 teams. She also received the Honda Inspiration Gilliland was named to second-team All-American by both Award winner in 2014. Gilliland was draed eighth overall by College Soccer News and the National Soccer Coaches Associ- Chicago in the National Women’s Soccer League. ation of America. She becomes the first UK player to achieve Senior Stuart Pope became the program’s first two-time Aca- these honors and became the first player in UK history to win demic All-American, recording a GPA of over 3.9 in her four years All-American status three straight years. Gilliland was also the studying biology. Junior Courtney Raetzman joined Gilliland on SEC Defensive Player of the Year and a four-time All-SEC se- the All-South Region team, earning third-team honors. n Former Wildcat Still inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame Art Still ’80 AS, whose dominance at defensive end helped tackles for loss are available only for his senior year, when he lead Kentucky to some of its greatest moments in school his- recorded a school-record 22, a mark which still stands. tory, was inducted into the College Football Hal of Fame in Still was a unanimous first-team All-America selection in December 2014. 1977 by the AP, United Press International, Football Writers “It’s humbling to be selected because I didn’t do it alone,” Still Association of America, the American Football Coaches Asso- said. “It’s a compliment to all the guys I played with and the ciation, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Walter Camp Foot- coaches.” ball Foundation, e Sporting News and Football News. He A native of Camden, New Jersey, Still helped the Wildcats to was a finalist for the Lombardi Award and was named UPI Na- a 19-4 record in his final two seasons. UK went 9-3 his junior tional Lineman of the Year. He was the Brooks-Irvine Memo- season, winning a share of the Southeastern Conference title rial Football Club of South Jersey College Player of the Year. and finished 18th in the final Associated Press poll. Still was named SEC Senior Player of the Year by the Birm- His senior season, the Wildcats went 10-1 and finished ingham Touchdown Club and was the UPI SEC Defensive ranked sixth in the country and led the SEC in total defense Player of the Year. and rushing defense. He was taken second overall by Kansas City in the 1978 NFL Still was a four-year starter who totaled 327 tackles during his dra. Still had a record-setting 12-year career with the Chiefs career. Quarterback sacks were not kept during his career and and Buffalo Bills. He was a four-time Pro Bowl selection. n
32 Spring 2015 UK men’s soccer goalkeeper Callum Irving named College Scholar All-American
Kentucky men’s soccer goalkeeper Callum Irving earned one of the highest academic honors in collegiate soccer as he was named a College Scholar All-American by the Na- tional Soccer Coaches Association of America. The UK goalkeeper was honored for his dual accomplishments on the field and in the classroom. To be named to a Scholar All-America Team, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.30 GPA (on a 4.0 scale) throughout his or her career; start more than 50 percent of all games and be a significant con- tributor to the team. The Vancouver, British Columbia, native was named to the 2014 Conference USA All-Academic Team and the 2013 Southeastern Conference Fall Academic Honor Roll. He has a 3.692 GPA while majoring in history. Irving has earned a fair share of postseason awards, recently becoming the fourth Wildcat to be named an All-American by the NSCAA. He was also a NSCAA First Team All-Region se- UK Photos: Athletics Callum Irving was named to the 2014 Conference USA lection. He was voted the Conference USA Player of the All-Academic Team and the 2013 Southeastern Conference Fall Year, Defensive MVP and First Team All-C-USA honoree Academic Honor Roll. in addition to winning the Golden Glove Award, which went to the conference goalie with the most shutouts in UK single-season history. He tallied 10 shutouts on the league-play (five). Irving led the Wildcats to a 10-win sea- year, which tied for fourth most in the nation. Irving ranks son, second place in C-USA and a first-round hosting berth ninth in UK single-season record book with 65 saves. Irving in the NCAA Tournament. The junior finished the year ranks fifth in UK career history with 17 shutouts, five away with a 0.77 goals-against average, the fourth-best total in from the record. n Two Wildcat greats awarded highest honor by UK Athletics Former basketball star Tony Delk ’96 CI and All-American times. He played 10 years in the NBA, averaging 9.1 points gymnast Jenny Hansen ’98 AFE are the latest Wildcats to per game. have their jerseys retired. Hansen (1993-1996) was one of the most distinguished Delk (1993-1996) was the Most Outstanding Player of the gymnasts in NCAA history, breaking three NCAA records 1996 Final Four, when he led Kentucky to its sixth national in her career. She won a record eight national titles and three championship. He earned first-team All-American honors all-around titles (1993-1995). In 1995, she won a record and was the SEC Player of the Year. Delk was All-SEC his four titles, all-around, floor exercise, balance beam and vault. final two seasons, was a third-team All-American as a junior Hansen earned All-American honors in 13 events during her and All-SEC his sophomore season. Delk led the Wildcats in career. She was the 1994 Honda Cup recipient as the top scoring for three straight seasons and finished his career as women’s amateur athlete in any sport in the nation and was UK’s leader in 3-pointers (283) and was second in steals the 1995 SEC Female Athlete of the Year. She won nine in- (201) and fifth in scoring (1,890 points). Kentucky went dividual titles at the SEC Championships, setting the league 119-18 in his four years, making two Final Fours, winning record. Hansen continues to hold every individual record in the SEC Tournament twice and the Eastern Division three school history. n Wildcat punter Foster named Academic All-American Kentucky punter Landon Foster not only got it done on the ble major in finance and marketing. Foster was an honorable field for the Wildcats this year, he got it done in the classroom. mention selection for the American Football Coaches Associa- Foster, a junior from Franklin, Tennessee, was named a sec- tion 2014 Academic Achievement Award. ond-team Capital One Academic All-America by the College On the field, Foster punted 66 times for a 42.6 yard average. Sports Information Directors of America. Foster is UK’s first He booted a career-long 66-yard punt against Louisville. For CoSIDA Academic All-America selection since Tim Masthay his career, Foster has punted 195 times for a 42.2 yards per was a second-team honoree in 2007 and a first-teamer in 2008. punt average, third in UK history. He tied the school record In the classroom, Foster has a cumulative 4.0 GPA as a dou- with 28 punts downed inside the 20 yard line last season. n
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1) The Arizona UK Alumni Club held a UK vs. UofL Game Watch Party at Half Moon Sports Grill in Phoenix. 2) Members of the Charlotte UK Alumni Club participated in the first SEC Alumni Night with the Charlotte Hornets. Kentucky represented with 22 UK alumni coming out for the event. 3) Members of the Upstate SC UK Alumni Club participated in Cats for a Cause service week by volunteering for the Greenville Humane Society. 4) During Cats for a Cause week, members of the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club pitched in at 1 City Gospel Mission, a community service organization that helps the homeless and hurting break the cycle of poverty and despair. Club members helped to serve breakfast to 80 men and women and have expanded the club’s commit- ment to include a warm wear drive and donations to the mission. 5) The Greater Nashville UK Alumni Club had a great time at Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tennessee during its 2014 Cats for a Cause event. Club members helped other volunteers sort through 9,428 pounds of food serving over 12,000 families in a 47 county radius. 6) Members of the Lake Cumberland UK Alumni Club showed their Wildcat spirit during their game watch party 2 when the men’s basketball team took on Alabama. 7) Members of the Sarasota UK Alumni Club participated in Cats for a Cause by volunteering at Big Cat Habitat and Gulf Coast Sanctuary in Sarasota, Florida. The interior and exte- rior of the main entrance was painted by about 15 members of the club. 8) The Greater Houston UK Alumni Club swung into action for its Cats for a Cause event and assisted in the sorting and packing of over 12,000 pounds of food to help approxi- mately 700 families in the Houston area.
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Prior to the Mississippi State vs. UK Homecoming football game, alumni from the College of Education Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotion gathered for a tailgate event at Commonwealth Stadium with faculty, staff and students.
The College of Nursing Alumni Association held its Homecoming Brunch and Fashion Show in October. Janie Heath, dean of the college and fourth from the left, stands with the organization’s current and previous presidents. Left to right are JoAnn Wever, Connie Enlow, Anna Wilson, Heath, Eula Spears, Kim Wilder, Patty Hughes, Sherry Holmes (current president) and Patti Howard (president-elect). Hinal Gandhi, at right, is a recent December graduate.
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www.ukalumni.net/heartofbbn 36 Spring 2015 University of Kentucky 2015 Alumni Weekend April 16 – 19 The UK Alumni Association invites you to reconnect with campus, visit with former classmates and make new friends while remembering your days as a Wildcat! We welcome all alumni, friends and families back to campus! Thursday, April 16 South Carolina vs. UK Softball Tennessee vs. UK Baseball 6 p.m., John Cropp Stadium - $5 for Noon, Cliff Hagan Stadium - $5 for Tennessee vs. UK Baseball adults, $2 for youths/seniors (65+), adults, $2 for youths/seniors (65+), 7 p.m., Cliff Hagan Stadium - $5 for free for children 5 and under. free for children 5 and under. Pur- adults, $2 for youths/seniors (65+), Purchase tickets through the chase tickets through the free for children 5 and under. UK Ticket Office by calling UK Ticket Office or by calling Purchase tickets through the 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-2287 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-2287 UK Ticket Office or by calling or visiting www.ukathletics.com. or visiting www.ukathletics.com. 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-2287 or visiting www.ukathletics.com. Tennessee vs. UK Baseball South Carolina vs. UK Softball 6:30 p.m., Cliff Hagan Stadium - $5 3 p.m., John Cropp Stadium - $5 for Friday, April 17 for adults, $2 for youths/seniors adults, $2 for youths/seniors (65+), 2015 UK Alumni Association (65+), free for children 5 and under. free for children 5 and under. Purchase tickets through the Hall of Distinguished Alumni Purchase tickets through the UK Ticket Office or by calling UK Ticket Office by calling 50th Anniversary 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-2287 or 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-2287 6 p.m. Reception - 7 p.m. Dinner visiting www.ukathletics.com. or visiting www.ukathletics.com. Hilton Lexington Downtown Hotel 369 West Vine Street, Hair, the Musical Hair, the Musical Lexington KY 40507 7:30 p.m., Guignol Theatre - $15 7:30 p.m., Guignol Theatre - $15 Cost is $60.00 per person. for students, $20 for the general for students, $20 for the general Dress is Business Attire. public. Presented by UK public. Presented by UK Theatre. For tickets, visit The UK Alumni Association Hall of Theatre. For tickets, visit www.finearts.uky.edu/theatre/hair. Distinguished Alumni was estab- www.finearts.uky.edu/theatre/hair. lished in 1965 as a part of the uni- versity’s centennial celebration and Saturday, April 18 Sunday, April 19 additional selections have been Legacy seeblue. Day South Carolina vs. UK Softball made every five years. With the 10 a.m. – 1 p.m., Boone Center, 500 1:00 p.m., John Cropp Stadium - $5 2015 honorees, the total number of Rose Street & Campus - Free for adults, $2 for youths/seniors alumni honored to date is 306 from Join us for a special visit to the Uni- (65+), free for children 5 and under. more than 220,000 UK graduates. versity of Kentucky campus for cur- Purchase tickets through the This is one of the highest recogni- rently enrolled high school students UK Ticket Office by calling tions bestowed by the university on who are UK legacies. A UK legacy is 859-257-1818 or 1-800-928-2287 graduates for their professional ac- any child whose mother, father or or visiting www.ukathletics.com. complishments. The inductees’ ca- stepparent has earned a baccalaure- reer achievements have brought ate, graduate, doctorate or profes- prestige to our alma mater, and for sional degree from the University of that, their induction into the Hall of Kentucky. This event provides the Distinguished Alumni is our special opportunity to learn about the way of acknowledging their success. college admissions process, enjoy Visit www.ukalumni.net/hoda for Wildcat spirit and hear about the ex- more information or to register. periences of current students. Brunch is provided along with a walking tour of campus.
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J.D. Shelburne ’07 CI is still life revolved around the fam- It just came natural,” he says. holding onto his day job as a ily farm and his grandparents He started playing for workers’ compensation ad- in Spencer County. Growing friends and at little bars juster, but for how much tobacco and driving tractors around town and in longer — that’s the question. are familiar to him. In high Louisville. e Taylorsville native says school, he was more than He says he was attracted to he’s grateful that he’s had a competent at baseball and country music early because steady income while pursuing basketball and knows the he grew up on it, and he was his dream of a full-time career thrill of a 3-pointer. He con- heavily influenced by Garth in music. Shelburne is getting sidered playing college sports Brooks. “It was always the close to accomplishing this, and had some offers, but he music that had clean lyrics.” performing at over 250 events says he realized it wasn’t his Shelburne says. a year, bringing his unique true passion. at turned out He learned that the more he style of country/honkey- to be a good thing. “When I played, the more he discov- tonk/gospel music to Middle went to college, that’s when I ered his “sound.” He pulled America. He’s already opened found music – my true call- together his first self-titled for top performers such as ing. It’s amazing how the CD in 2012, featuring a sin- Montgomery Gentry and Mi- Lord works,” he says. gle he wrote called “Farm- randa Lambert, among 50 Shelburne first earned an as- boy.” He released a second other national acts, and been sociate degree at what was CD late last year and has de- written up in Country then Lexington Community veloped a huge following. Weekly Magazine. College before enrolling at the “It’s like I was put on this “I didn’t want to move to UK to study telecommunica- earth to sing music, but never Nashville and be a starving tions in the College of Com- knew it until mid-way artist,” he says. “I moved munication & Information. through my life,” he says. down here in February 2008 But when he was in college, When he’s not actually per- and got a job with an insur- his beloved grandmother forming or at his day job, he is ance company... e more died. Later, an acoustic guitar handling the business-side of popular I’ve gotten through Shelburne found in the back his entertainment career and the years, my music income of her closet changed his life his social media. Suffering has become more than my forever. e guitar had be- burnout is not a problem for day job. longed to his uncle, but Shel- him while juggling two ca- When his first job folded, burne had never seen the reers, he says, because music is Shelburne got a position pro- instrument. When he opened his passion and the income is cessing workers’ compensa- the case, there was a chord so attractive. tion claims. But several book in it. e first song was Shelburne, who was com- evenings each week, he’s also “Unanswered Prayers” by missioned a Kentucky on the road, playing a variety Garth Brooks. It seemed like Colonel in 2007, knows there of venues. Sometimes it’s just a sign from his grandmother are lots of ways to gauge suc- him and an acoustic guitar. meant especially for him, he cess. As he pursues long-term Other times, he’s backed by says. stardom, he has two immedi- band members. He’s played “Aer I found that guitar, it ate goals. larger and larger gigs in was like — boom! I just never “I want to sing ‘My Old Nashville (the CMA Music sat it down. Between classes, Kentucky Home’ at Rupp Festival), Louisville (KFC I’d pick it up, Google a fa- Arena for a men’s basketball Yum! Center) and Lexington vorite song, and try to figure game,” he says. “And I want (Rupp Arena), among others out how to play it. I’ve never to play the Grand Ole Opry. in neighboring states. had a lick of training in I’m waiting on that phone Some of Shelburne’s early singing or playing the guitar. call now.” n
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Before 1960 Chancellors Club Teaching tion providing crises relief to Information in Class Notes is William F. “Rusty” Russell Professorship. In addition to Wake County residents. He compiled from previously ’49 AS celebrated his 90th his UK degrees, Benedict retired from IBM in 1996 published items in birthday on Oct. 6, 2014, earned his doctorate in mi- and has been involved with newspapers and other with a 13,500-foot skydive in crobiology from Vanderbilt Dorcas Minstries since then. media outlets, as well as Zephyr Hills, Florida. His University. items submitted by wife Catherine C. Russell ’47 Betty Soeder Springate ’74 individual alumni. CI and good friend Donald 1970s ED is an attorney in Kentucky Alumni K. Cark ’49 CI were on hand John D. Nichols ’70 AS re- Lawrenceburg. She was ap- magazine welcomes to cheer him on. tired from the faculty of pointed to serve as interim news of your recent Oklahoma Baptist University. District Court judge for An- accomplishments and Dale A. Barnstable ’50 ED Nichols also earned his bach- derson, Shelby and Spencer transitions. was honored for his military elor’s degree from Union counties from June 2014 to Please write to us service during World War II University and his doctorate January 2015. She previously at Class Notes at the 11th annual USA from the University of Ten- served as the county attorney UK Alumni Association Cares Anniversary Gala in nessee. and assistant county attorney King Alumni House Louisville. for Anderson County, was a Lexington, KY James E. Rogers ’70 BE, ’74 general counsel for the Ken- 40506-0119; David W. “Doc” Livingston LAW is a senior adviser to the tucky Workforce Cabinet and Fax us at 859-323-1063; Email us at ’52 ED is a musician and for- Broadscale Group in New administrative law judge for [email protected] or mer music professor at West- York, New York. Rogers was the Kentucky Education and submit your information ern Kentucky University in previously the chairman, pres- Workforce Development in the online community at Bowling Green. He was re- ident and chief executive offi- Cabinet. www.ukalumni.net cently added to the WKU cer for Duke Energy and keyword: class Hall of Distinguished served as president, chairman Garnett T. Furnish ’75 BE is Please be advised Alumni. In 1977, Livingston and CEO for Cinergy and the executive director of the that due to space received the Governor’s PSI Energy. Cynthiana-Harrison County constraints and the length Award in the Arts. Livingston Economic Development Au- of time between issues, also has a bachelor’s degree Tom Buford ’71 BE was re- thority. your submission to Class from WKU and earned his cently elected Notes might not appear for several issues. doctorate from Ohio State to a seventh Barbara Peterson Glenn ’75, We look forward University. He was inducted term in the ’80 AFE is the chief executive to hearing from you! into the WKU Music Wall of Kentucky State officer for the National Asso- Fame, and the band room at Senate. Buford ciation of State Departments COLLEGE INDEX Franklin County High is the chairman of Agriculture in Arlington, Agriculture, Food School was named in his of the Banking and Insurance Virginia. Glenn has previ- & Environment — AFE Arts & Sciences — AS honor. Committee and the Licensing ously served as senior vice Business & Economics — BE and Occupations Committee. president of science and regu- Communication & 1960s latory affairs for CropLife Information — CI Dentistry — DE Wilma J. Brown ’66 AS is Peter F. Korsching ’72 ’77 America and as managing di- Design — DES the owner of Pies for You and AS is a freelance columnist rector of the animal biotech- Education — ED Cookies Too in Danville. She for the Nevada Journal in Ne- nology, food and agriculture Engineering — EN retired aer teaching for 28 vada, Iowa. He is also a pro- section of the Biotechnology Fine Arts — FA The Graduate School — GS years in the Boyle County fessor emeritus in the Iowa Industry Association in Health Sciences — HS school system and also has State University Department Washington. Glenn has also Law — LAW taught at Centre College. of Sociology. worked for the U.S. Depart- Medicine — MED ment of Agriculture, Agricul- Nursing — NUR Pharmacy — PHA Robert M. Coots ’66 AS, ’69 Gary L. McKinney ’72 BE is tural Research Service and Public Health — PH LAW is an attorney in Tay- the president the Federation of Animal Sci- Social Work — SW lorsville. of the board of ence Societies. directors for Stephen H. Benedict ’69 ’71 Dorcas Min- C. David Hagerman ’75 AS, AS is a professor in molecular istries in Cary, ’78 LAW is the Circuit biosciences at the University North Car- Court judge for Boyd County of Kansas and was awarded a olina, a nonprofit organiza- in Ashland. He has also
42 Winter 2014 served as the Common- recently elected to the Ten- ously, Bauscher was in food John M. Flora ’82 DES is a wealth’s attorney in Boyd nessee State Senate represent- service sales before joining senior project County. ing District 7. He was Jefferson County Schools. manager with previously a Knox County Dewberry in John W. Strein ’75 ED, ’79 commissioner. Joseph R. “Randy” Burba Orlando, HS is a physical therapist in ’81 CI is the vice president of Florida. Caledonia Township, Michi- William Wallace Evans ’79 customer service and market- gan. AFE is a retired agriculture ing for Salt River Electric in Beverly Grief Largent ’82 teacher and Future Farmers of Bardstown. He won a na- DE is a pediatric dentist in Samra J. Buins ’77 AS is a America adviser at Taylor tional photography award Paducah. She was named the lecturer at the University of County High School in from the Council on Rural 2014 Pediatric Dentist of the North Texas Mayborn School Campbellsville. Electric Communicators for Year by the Academy of Pedi- of Journalism in Denton. She his picture of oroughbred atric Dentistry at the group’s received the 2014 Honor Ray Allen Mackey ’79 AFE racing at Churchill Downs in annual meeting in Boston, Professor Award from the is a farmer in Hodgenville. Louisville. Massachusetts. Student Government Associ- He recently won the Swisher ation. She is also faculty ad- Sweets/Sunbelt Expo South- Joseph T. DiPiro ’81 PHA is Jane Mitchell Weston ’82 viser to the Public Relations eastern Farmer of the Year the dean of the Virginia LAW is a priest at St. Simon’s Student Society of America, Award in Kentucky and was a Commonwealth University Episcopal Church in Cony- Kappa Gamma Chapter of finalist for the Southeastern School of Pharmacy in Rich- ers, Georgia. Previously, she the ATO Fraternity and the Farmer of the Year. mond, Virginia. He received was an attorney in Lexington Delta Chapter of the Mu Ep- the 2014 Paul F. Parker and Los Angeles, California. silon eta Catholic Sorority. Pam VanHook Wilson ’79 Medal for Distinguished AS is the executive director Service to the Profession of Jim J. Heitholt ’84 AFE is George W. Jacobs ’77 CI re- for the Capital Medical Soci- Pharmacy. the head of the Department tired as the publisher of the ety and the CMS Foundation of Plant Sciences at the Uni- Cynthiana Democrat news- in Tallahassee, Florida. Wil- Myra Turner Elliott ’81 ’93 versity of Wyoming. Previ- paper. He began his career at son also serves as the commu- NUR is the dean of academic ously, he taught crop the Democrat as an advertis- nity service director on the affairs at Big Sandy Commu- physiology at Texas A&M ing sales representative, be- board of directors of the Ro- nity and Technical College in University-Commerce. came sales manager and then tary Club of Tennessee. Prestonsburg. She was previ- general manager in 1978. He ously the Biological Science Stephen H. Jett ’84 AS is an later served as regional man- 1980s Division chairwoman and co- attorney at Ta ager for four newspapers, as Darrell A. Blair ’80 EN is the ordinator of the associate de- Stettinius & well as Standard Publishing president for gree nursing and pathways Hollister LLP in Shepherdsville. the industrial nursing program, and associ- in Cleveland, materials seg- ate dean of Allied Health at Ohio. He has Edward T. Saad ’77 EN is ment of the school. been selected the founder of the Shake- GrafTech In- for inclusion in Best Lawyers speare & Co. restaurant ternational, George Michael “Mike” Per- in America for the second chain, which has two loca- which is headquartered in ros ’81 AFE is a financial ad- consecutive year. tions in Lexington, as well as Parma, Ohio. He previously viser in Danville and was other countries. e restau- served as vice president of recently elected as Danville’s Sondra Zimmerman rant chain began in Dubai in global services for GrafTech’s mayor. Marston ’84 EN is a retired 2001 and has 18 locations in graphite electrode’s line of U.S. Air Force pilot. She was the Middle East. He opened business. Letcher E. “Lee” Collins ’82 elected president of the his first American location in AS is the chairman of Gov- O’Fallon Women’s Club in Lexington in May 2012. Julia Oliver Bauscher ’81 ernment Affairs for the Inde- Belleville, Illinois. AFE is the director of school pendent Pilots Association in Richard M. Briggs ’78 MED and community nutrition Louisville. He earned his is a heart and lung surgeon at services for Jefferson County master of divinity degree St. Mary’s Tennova Medical Public Schools in Louisville. from the Louisville Presbyte- Center in Knoxville, Ten- She recently began her term rian eological Seminary. nessee. He is a colonel in the as the president of the School U.S. Army Reserves and was Nutrition Association. Previ-
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Larry D. McColpin ’84 AS degree, Ballard earned his Tammy Ewayne Baker ’89 Phyllis G. Case ’90 ’92 ED is a retired colonel in the master’s degree and Rank I in MED is an obstetrician and retired as director of special U.S. Army and is the direc- administration from Western gynecologist in Knoxville, instructional service for tor of training at its Trans- Kentucky University. Tennessee. In addition to her Grant County Schools in portation School. In UK degree, Baker earned her Williamstown. addition to his degree from William E. Elliott ’87 FA is a bachelor’s degree from UK, McColpin has master’s sergeant major in the U.S. Georgetown College. Stacy M. Horn ’90 AFE is a degrees from the Florida In- Army. Elliott, a member of costume supervisor in Holly- stitute of Technology and the Army field band, was David A. Breaux ’89 AS is the wood, California. She was the Army War College. awarded the Defense Merito- dean of the College of Arts nominated for an Emmy rious Service Medal. and Sciences at Delta State Award in 2014 for her work Clarence R. Wyatt ’84 ’90 University in Cleveland, Mis- as costume designer for the AS is the president of Mon- James E. Geisler ’88 BE is sissippi. He was a professor of AMC show “Mad Men.” mouth College-Illinois. the interim chief executive of- political science at the Univer- Wyatt was previously a Pot- ficer for DynCorp Interna- sity of Louisiana-Lafayette Andrew A. Kooshian ’90 AS tinger Professor of History, tional in McLean, Virginia. and taught in the Department is a sergeant in the field opera- chief planning officer and of Political Science and Public tions bureau of the Nashville, special assistant to the presi- Sandra Rector Barriger ’88 Administration at Mississippi Tennessee, Police Department. dent at Centre College in ’91 ED is a fourth-grade State University. Danville. teacher at Saffell Street Ele- Ronald S. Poole ’90 PHA is mentary School in Lawrence- Debra Hembree Lambert a pharmacist and owner of James W. “Jamie” Link ’85 burg and received the ’89 LAW is a lawyer in Poole’s Pharmacy Care in BE is the executive director of Campbellsville University Ex- Mount Vernon. Lambert was Central City, Livermore and the Kentucky Horse Park in cellence in Teaching Award. recently elected as a judge to Owensboro. He has been Lexington. Link has also She previously taught at Cap- the Kentucky Court of Ap- named to the board of direc- served as a business manager ital Day School in Frankfort. peals, 3rd District, Division 1. tors for Baptist Health for the Department of Parks, Madisonville. He has also chief executive officer for the Daniel E. McKay ’88 BE is Bill Robinson ’89 AS is an served as director of the World Equestrian Games in the chief executive officer of attorney in Springfield and Board of Health and First 2010 and deputy secretary for Sparks Health System in Fort was recently elected as the National Bank of Muhlen- the Finance Cabinet of the Smith, Arkansas, and Summit Washington County attor- berg County. Kentucky Horse Park in Medical Center in Van Buren, ney. He was previously the as- 2006. Arkansas. He was previously sistant county attorney in Cindy D. Stowe ’90 ’91 the CEO of Northwest Washington County, the city PHA is the dean of the Sulli- Greg N. Stivers ’85 LAW Health System and vice presi- attorney for Springfield and van University College of had his appointment as a U.S. dent at Community Health worked at the firm now Pharmacy in Louisville. Previ- District Court judge for the Systems Professional Services known as Mattingly Simms ously, she was a professor and Western District of Kentucky Corp. Robinson & McCain PLLC. associate dean for administra- confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He has been named a Ken- tive and academic affairs in Stivers was previously an at- Russell J. Mumper ’88 AS, tucky Super Lawyer for seven the College of Pharmacy at torney with Kerrick Stivers ’91 PHA is the vice provost consecutive years. the University of Arkansas Cole in Bowling Green, Ken- for academic affairs at the for Medical Sciences. tucky. University of Georgia- 1990s Athens. He was vice dean and Larry B. Gills ’90 AS is an as- Sheila A. Carroll ’91 ’95 Mark T. Merz ’86 AFE is a a McNeill Distinguished Pro- sistant director of the Divi- NUR is a retired nurse in Fort prekindergarten teacher at fessor at the University of sion of Employee omas. She is also the direc- Oak Point Elementary School North Carolina-Chapel Hill Management in the Kentucky tor of the Rose Garden Home in Marion, Virginia. Merz Eshelman School of Phar- Personnel Cabinet. He was Mission Center for Hope and was named the 2015 Smyth macy and also taught at UK. recently re-elected to a four- Healing free medical clinic. County Teacher of the Year. In 2007, he was named a year term to the Kentucky She was recently awarded the Great Teacher by the UK Personnel Board. Florence Nightingale Award Jonathan N. Ballard ’87 ED Alumni Association. for Excellence in Nursing by is the superintendent for the Donald G. Kirby ’90 ’92 BE the University of Cincinnati Elizabethtown School Dis- is the owner of DGKirby College of Nursing for her trict. In addition to his UK Consulting Inc. in Union. work at the clinic.
44 Spring 2015 Troy L. Benningfield ’92 ED Chris S. Perry ’93 EN is the Matthew A. Blandford ’96 CI Brian E. Linder ’96 ED is a is the instructional supervisor president and chief executive is the divisional sales manager residential real estate special- and food service director for officer for the Kentucky As- for the regional/financial insti- ist for Sibcy Cline Realtors in Marion County Schools in sociation of Electric Coopera- tutions channel at John Han- Williamstown. Lebanon. Benningfield was tives in Elizabethtown. He cock Investments in Louisville. previously the district instruc- had served as the CEO of the Kristen Grant Lupinski ’96 tional supervisor for Taylor Fleming-Mason Energy Co- Shawn P. Boggs ’96 HS is the ED is an assistant professor at County Schools in Camp- operative in Flemingsburg. executive director of diagnostic Albany State University in bellsville, has taught English services at King’s Daughters the Department of Health and journalism and was a cur- Christopher A. Schalk ’93 Hospital in Ashland. Previ- and Human Performance. riculum coach. AFE is a farmer and agricul- ously, Boggs has served as a di- Lupinski has worked in the ture teacher at Barren County rector of the hospital’s clinical health education field in vari- David J. Hale ’92 LAW had High School in Glasgow. He lab and as a phlebotomist, ous capacities for more than his appointment as a U.S. was named the agriculture medical technologist and labo- 17 years. District Court judge for the and natural resources agent ratory operations manager. Western District of Ken- for Barren County Coopera- tucky confirmed by the U.S. tive Extension. Senate. Hale was the U.S. at- torney for the Western Dis- Wanda Meaux Wilson ’93 trict of Kentucky, and also ’12 ED is a teacher in the worked at Reed Weitkamp Madison County public Schell & Vice and was asso- school system in Richmond. ciate at the former Brown Todd & Heyburn in Todd A. Shamash ’94 AS is Louisville. an attorney and deputy gen- eral counsel and head of regu- Robert Kirby Goidel ’93 AS latory affairs for Capital is a professor at Texas A&M BlueCross of Susquehanna University in College Station, Township. He was previously Texas, in the College of Lib- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Cor- eral Arts Public Policy Re- bett’s deputy chief of staff, a search Institute and trustee on the Pennsylvania Department of Communica- Employees Benefit Trust tion. Fund, and director of govern- ment affairs for Jefferson Anthony P. Griffin ’93 BE is County (Pennsylvania) a lieutenant colonel in the Health System. U.S. Army Reserves. He was appointed the commander of Timothy W. Roy ’95 ED is the 4th Battalion, 413 Regi- the principal at James Madi- ment, Forger Battalion at son Middle School in Madis- Fort Knox. onville. He was principal at Webster County High School, Todd R. Meerdink ’93 BE is is an ordained deacon and di- the director of rector of music at Dixon Gen- digital market- eral Baptist Church. ing at Sentry Insurance in Stephen S. Stengell ’95 BE is Ellen Cook van Nagell ’73 HS sported a UK cap on her trip to Stevens Point, the founder, president and Darwin’s Lake, Galapagos Islands, in December on a National Wisconsin. He chief executive officer of En- Geographic Expedition. She is a realtor in Louisville. Go Cats! was previously with the Kim- core Energy in Bowling berly-Clark Corp. Green, Kentucky. In addition What about YOU?! Show us where you are wearing your to his UK degree, Stengell UK pride. Send us your UK spirit photos at [email protected] earned his MBA from West- and you might end up in Kentucky Alumni magazine or on ern Kentucky University. our social media!
www.ukalumni.net 45 Class Notes Tony Delk ’96 CI always welcomes a challenge After working as a college assistant and NBA scout when While he has en- his playing career ended, Delk has found that challenge as a joyed working in the college basketball analyst for the SEC Network. studio talking bas- “It’s been really good. I’ve had a lot of producers and other ketball, Delk says it’s analysts that have helped me out. We had a talent coach I nothing like working worked with, so after shows we would get feedback. There’s a game. a lot of support,” he says. “It’s new to me. It’s still basketball, “With the games, but you have to articulate it to your audience and be in- you feel like you’re
formed so they understand it more.” more part of the Photo SEC Network Photo: Delk, the Most Outstanding Player of the 1996 Final Four game, you’re right there on the floor,” he says. “So I like when Kentucky beat Syracuse for the national title, played being there articulating the game, and I still get to give my 10 years in the NBA, averaging 9.1 points per game. After opinions. And I like to voice my opinion.” his playing career, Delk worked as an assistant coach at UK Delk likes his TV gig and is not sure if he will get back in 2009 and then New Mexico State before working as a vol- into coaching. unteer scout for the Hawks. “I’m enjoying it. It’s a new challenge. And who knows? It “I knew they were launching the SEC Network and I may lead back into coaching someday,” he says. “My friend is knew (the former UK director of media relations for the coaching high school basketball back in Tennessee, and I’m University of Kentucky Athletics Association) Brooks giving him advice and he says, ‘Dude, you need to get back Downing knew someone there. I interviewed for a job as an into coaching.’ analyst and then did some in-studio work, then did a game “But I like doing this, and it doesn’t eat up a lot of my and then did some more studio work,” Delk says. “I was time. Once you are coaching, it’s a 24 hours a day, seven waiting to see what the Hawks would do and when I was of- days a week, 365 days a year job,” he says. fered the job, I knew I would get a lot of chances to work Delk lives in Smyrna, Georgia. He has three daughters, with ESPN and the SEC Network.” Taylor (16), Bella (11) and Trinity (8). n
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46 Spring 2015 Rosalie O’Dell Mainous ’96 bution and Human Resources Willis H. Justice elementary Training, a board adviser to the NUR is the dean of the departments as a human re- schools in Winchester. local animal rescue, Our Pal's Wright State University- sources manager. Place, and volunteer attorney Miami Valley College of Sarah Burton Zettler ’98 CI for the Atlanta Volunteer Nursing and Health in Day- Jeffery L. Larkin ’97 ’01 AFE is a teacher in Westerville, Lawyers Foundation and Pro ton, Ohio. She was recently is a professor of biology at the Ohio. Zettler recently partici- Bono Partnership of Atlanta. inducted as a fellow of the Indiana University of Pennsyl- pated in the Miami Univer- American Association of vania. He recently received a sity Earth Expeditions global Jason J. Mulvene ’99 BE is Nurse Practitioners. She has grant from the U.S. Fish and field course in India. Zettler the owner of Blue Ocean also served as the associate Wildlife Service to support his studied the ecological, cul- Traders Inc. antiques com- dean for graduate program project, CERW Forest Man- tural and spiritual landscapes pany in Louisville. and research at the University agement and Fledgling Survival of the Western Ghats moun- of Louisville School of Nurs- to study cerulean warblers’ re- tain range. Debra M. Sanderman ’99 ED ing, as well as the coordinator sponse to forest management. is a counseling director at Bell- of the Neonatal Nurse Practi- Larkin is a science board mem- Ashleigh Edward Bills ’99 CI brook High School in Bell- tioner Program, among oth- ber of the Appalachian Moun- is senior copywriter at Cre- brook, Ohio. Sanderman ers. She was appointed a tains Joint Venture. ative Alliance in Louisville in recently participated in the Robert Wood Johnson Foun- the Creative Services Depart- Miami University Earth Expe- dational Executive Nurse Fel- Johnny M. Highfield Jr. ’98 ment. Previously, he was cre- ditions global field course in low in 2009 and was in the EN is the operations coordi- ative director at Finelight Hawaii, studying what it takes Leadership America Class nator at the Marathon Petro- Communications. to save species in the wild and 2011. leum Co. refinery in engage with local partners de- Catlettsburg. James A. Hanlon ’99 ’08 AS veloping and testing site-spe- Jennifer Gilbert Newby ’96 is the director of the Institute cific methods of community AS runs a beef cattle farm in Dustin T. Ingram ’98 AS is a for Urban Research at South- engagement to sustain ecologi- Boyle County. She has been risk analyst at Fidelity Invest- ern Illinois University-Ed- cal and social health in Hawaii. elected to join the Boyle ments in Edgewood. Ingram wardsville. He was previously County Industrial Founda- recently participated in the a graduate instructor in the Brandin A. Stewart ’99 BE is tion Board of Directors. Miami University Earth Ex- UK Department of Geogra- the vice president of sales for peditions global field course phy and a geography instruc- WMAQ-TV in Chicago, Illi- Christy Wood Pritchard ’96 in Costa Rica studying biotic, tor at Bowling Green State nois. He was previously head AS is the archaeology project physical and cultural forces University in Ohio. of sales for NBC’s San Diego, manager for Brockington and that affect tropical biodiver- California, outlet. Associates in Elizabethtown. sity at the Monteverde Cloud Elizabeth A. Lester ’99 EN is She is also on the board of di- Forest Reserve and La Selva an intellectual Holly Harris VonLuehrte ’99 rectors of the Elizabethtown Biological Station. property attor- CI, ’04 LAW is an attorney Heritage Council. ney with in Frankfort and the manager Genae D. Strong ’98 NUR is Sutherland As- for James Comer’s campaign Jenny Schumacher Guldseth an associate professor at the bill & Brennan for Kentucky governor. ’97 CI is employee benefits University of Memphis LLP in Atlanta, director in human resources Loewenberg School of Nurs- Georgia. She was one of four 2000s for Allianz Life Insurance ing in Memphis, Tennessee. recipients of the 2014 Georgia Byron E. Darnall ’00 ED is Company of North America. She was awarded the 2014 State University Intellectual principal at Potter Gray Ele- She leads the development Award of Excellence in Edu- Property Community Service mentary School in the and implementation of the cation by the Association of Award. She is a board member Bowling Green Independent company’s health care and fi- Women’s Health, Obstetric of the Orange Duffel Bag Ini- School District in Kentucky. nancial literacy programs, and Neonatal Nurses at the tiative, a nonprofit providing Previously, he was bureau manages the relationship with national convention in Or- evidence-based life coaching to chief for educator quality at the organization’s key benefit lando, Florida. at-risk youth, and an executive the Iowa Department of Ed- administrator and provides board member of the Georgia ucation in Des Moines. Dar- direction on many key strate- Angie Taylor ’98 ED is the State University Intellectual nall has also taught English gic priorities. Previously, principal at Cox’s Creek Ele- Property Advisory Board. She and language arts at Bowl- Guldseth spent three years mentary School in Cox’s is actively involved in organiza- ing Green High School and providing counsel and sup- Creek. She has also been prin- tions such as the Leukemia & was principal at Glasgow port to the company’s Distri- cipal at Fannie Bush and Lymphoma Society's Team in High School.
www.ukalumni.net 47 Class Notes CAREER CORNER Katie Webb Kneisley ’00 ’01 Joshua L. Mounts ’02 ’04 ED is an English teacher at ED is the principal at Baker Starting a job on the right foot Garrard County High School Intermediate School in in Lancaster and recently re- Winchester. He was the as- According to the Bureau of Labor ceived the Campbellsville sistant principal at Clark Statistics, the average number of jobs University Excellence in Middle School in Winches- held in a lifetime ranges from 11 to Teaching Award. ter and taught at the Edythe 15. It’s no surprise that we will be the Jones Hayes Middle School “new kid on the block” during our ca- Aaron K. Dale ’01 FA retired in Lexington. reer. Networking remains the most as musical director for critical strategy in the job search Kentucky Vocal Union an a Allison M. Rathmann ’02 process and is more than 80 percent cappella ensemble, in Eliza- AS is a neurologist at Ad- effective in landing a new position. bethtown. In addition to his vanced Neurosurgery Associ- UK alumna Liz Cornish ’75 AS, lead- UK degree, Dale has a mas- ates in Morristown, New ership coach and Founder of FHD Caroline Francis ter’s degree in special educa- Jersey. Previously, she was (First 100 Days) Consulting, says it best, “It’s not who you tion from Campbellsville with the Cleveland Clinic know. It’s who knows you. Be proactive, be curious and be University. Foundation in Ohio. visible!” First impressions become lasting perceptions. Do everything Jason E. Lowe ’01 EN is an Phillip P. Crace ’03 MED is in your power to begin your new job on the right foot. engineer and office manager a general surgeon at Riverland Do as much research as possible regarding your new com- for the Huntsville, Alabama, Medical Center in Ferriday, pany, employer, colleagues, industry and products. Investigate office of Barge Waggoner Louisiana. He completed a the company culture and appropriate professional attire to help Sumner & Cannon Inc. five-year general surgery resi- you assimilate with the environment and peers. Review the dency program in Cincinnati, LinkedIn profiles of colleagues in your new department. Learn Roula S. Allouch ’02 BE, ’06 Ohio, and worked at the about their career paths and find something in common. LAW is an attorney from Er- Highlands Regional Medical You may be nervous to begin your new position. A multi- langer. She has been named to Center in Kentucky. tude of emotions can be expected. Employers expect a slight head the Council on Ameri- learning curve, and it is acceptable to ask questions. Seek guid- can-Islamic Relations and its Sarah Timmons Dauer ’03 ance in order to achieve success in your new position. Be- national board chairwoman. AS is assistant vice president, friending a veteran employee or asking for a mentor is valuable in-house counsel at Shoe in becoming familiar with office protocol, management styles Bruno A. deHarak ’02 ’06 ’07 Carnival Inc. and has been and professional growth. Perhaps there are other UK alumni AS is an assistant professor of with the company since in the organization to reach out to for guidance or support. physics at Illinois Wesleyan 2010. She started as parale- Quickly learn the names of your new colleagues. Address- University-Bloomington. He gal and administrative assis- ing colleagues by name can help in building professional rela- received a three-year National tant to the senior vice tionships. ose peers may also be more likely to lend a hand Science Foundation grant to president of human resources during your adjustment phase. While communicating with fund 12 undergraduate re- and in-house counsel. Dauer new colleagues, avoid comparing your new and previous search assistant positions, has also served as a captain in companies. If your previous employer had a more efficient along with equipment and the U.S. Air Force and is a way of doing something, wait for the appropriate platform to supplies. He was previously in member of the Kentucky Bar tactfully present your suggestions/ideas. the U.S. Marine Corps and Association and the Indiana Do your work and demonstrate potential. Don’t be afraid worked in electronics and sys- Bar Association. to ask for help as you learn the ropes. Appear willing to learn tems programming at Lock- and take initiative. You may find it beneficial to set goals, heed Martin. Matthew M. Loy ’03 BE is track your progress and seek regular feedback. A positive at- the chief executive officer of titude and open mind go a long way, leading to a successful Dustin K. Howard ’02 ’04 United Citizens Bank of transition into a new job. ED is the principal at Camp- Southern Kentucky. Aer bell Junior High School in joining the bank in 2003 as UK Alumni Association members are eligible for two com- Winchester. He had been a internal auditor and loan re- plimentary appointments per year with an alumni career special education teacher at view officer, he became vice counselor. Call 1-888-9UK-CATS (852287) to schedule an George Rogers Clark High president/chief financial offi- appointment. Your alumni career counselors are available to School and served as a school cer in 2008. review your resignation letter by email. psychologist for Clark Visit www.ukalumni.net/career to learn more about County Public Schools. Alumni Career Services.
48 Spring 2015 Ashley S. Tate ’03 CI is the Kentucky. He was previously Jamie L. Brown ’07 AS is an Jessica L. Davis ’09 CI is a marketing director for the Car- the director of London attorney with Bass Berry & pharmacist at the Lexington lyle Development Group in Downtown. Sims PLC in Nashville, Ten- Veterans Affairs Medical Phoenix, Arizona. She was pre- nessee. Brown earned her law Center. She recently com- viously the marketing director Tyler R. Yeager ’05 CI is a degree from Vanderbilt Uni- pleted her postgraduate year for the in-house marketing de- senior associate practicing in versity and previously prac- of pharmacy practice resi- partment at Ziff Properties bankruptcy, financial restruc- ticed in Wilmington, dency at Baptist Health Hos- Inc. in Charleston, Arizona. turing, commercial litigation Delaware. pital in Lexington. She She is part of Carlyle’s develop- and asset protection at Seiller earned her doctorate in phar- ment team for the Metrocenter Waterman LLC in Louisville. Brandon M. Moody ’07 AS macy from Ohio Northern Mall in Phoenix. is a regional sales manager for University in Ada. Charles F. “C.F.” Callihan the Aquila Group of Funds in Jenerrie E. Harris ’04 AS is ’06 AS is the director of de- Louisville. He was previously Stephen E. Gallagher ’09 AS the women’s basketball velopment at the Louisville a territory manager for Jeffer- is employed as a coach at coach at the University of Ballet and a founding mem- son National Life Insurance. North Plano Crossfit in Massachusetts-Lowell. She ber of the [give] 502 charity Plano, Texas. was previously an assistant organization. Michelle Ogden Patrick ’08 coach at Longwood Univer- AFE is district coordinator Kara Michelle Harp ’09 CI sity, Wright State University Benjamin L. Collier ’06 AS, for the LaRue County Con- graduated magna cum laude and Navy. ’10 BE, ’13 AFE is complet- servation District in Hod- from the Northern Ken- ing a postdoctoral fellowship genville. tucky University Chase John D. McClain ’04 BE is in business at the Wharton School of Law. a credit analyst with Dia- School of the University of Chelsey McGlothin Tingle mond Hill Investment Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. ’08 AS is principal of Eastern Audra Lee Isaac ’09 AFE Group in Columbus, Ohio. He was awarded the Out- Elementary in Henry County. graduated from the Univer- In addition to his UK de- standing Doctoral Disserta- She started with the county’s sity of Louisville School of gree, McClain has a degree tion Award by the schools as the career readiness Medicine. She is in residency from the Tepper School of Agricultural and Applied counselor with the Race to training in dermatology at Business at Carnegie Mellon Economics Association. the Top program. Previous to East Carolina University Vi- University in Pittsburgh, that, she was a special educa- dant Medical Center in Pennsylvania, and holds the Carrie L. Truitt ’06 FA is the tion teacher at Eminence Ele- Greeneville, North Carolina. chartered financial analyst executive director of the Arts mentary for five years. designation. Council of Mercer County. She earned a degree in arts ad- James W. Ward ’08 AS is an 2010s Eric A. Moyen ’04 ED is a ministration at UK with a spe- assistant professor of geology Adam J. Cobb ’10 AS is a sci- professor and chairman of the cialty in music performance. in the Department of Physics ence teacher at West Hardin Department of Health, Exer- Previously, she was develop- and Geosciences at Angelo Middle School in Cecilia. cise Science, and Secondary ment director at the Commu- State University in San An- Education in the Helen nity Arts Center in Danville. gelo, Texas. Ward earned his John A. Elder ’10 CI prac- DeVos College of Education Truitt also has worked in the bachelor’s and master’s de- tices law in the office of Mat- at Lee University in Cleve- Office of Development at UK, grees in geology from Sul tingly and Nally-Martin land, Tennessee. was director of development Ross State University in PLLC in Lebanon. He fo- for the Lexington Philhar- Alpine, Texas. cuses his practice in the areas Julia Hinkle Rollins ’04 ’09 monic and was a representa- of civil and commercial litiga- AFE is the Kentucky Farm tive at Ephraim McDowell Eric Westbrook ’08 AFE is tion. Bureau Federation Area 8 Health Care Foundation. the Wakulla County 4-H (Eastern Kentucky) program program assistant in Craw- Joseph J. Enricco ’10 CI is an director. She was previously Gregory Scott “Brad” Brad- fordville, Florida. He previ- Army specialist and recently the county Extension agent in shaw ’07 AS is president of ously worked in the Florida graduated from basic infantry Lawrence County. Bradshaw Litigation Consult- Department of Agriculture training at Fort Benning in ing LLC in Austin, Texas. He and Consumer Services Columbus, Georgia. Chris K. Robinson ’05 CI is recently authored the book, Metrology Laboratory in Tal- the director of the London “e Science of Persuasion: A lahassee. Tourism and Convention Litigator’s Guide to Juror- Commission in London, Making, Second Edition.”
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Jaclyn Ionna Lacy ’10 AS is tion of County and City the Account Services Depart- Ashton Potter Wright ’13 PH employed by Christ Hospital Health Officials. Jett is also a ment at Creative Alliance in is the local food coordinator in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a reg- captain in the U.S. Air Force Louisville. for the city of Lexington. istered nurse. She received a National Guard. Wright is responsible for im- master’s degree in nursing Heather Branham-Green ’12 proving connections between from Mount St. Joseph Uni- Trent C. Peake ’11 AFE is the FA is artistic director at the Central Kentucky farmers and versity in 2013. member services manager of Columbian eatre in consumers. She previously had the Sanibel & Captiva Islands Wamego, Kansas. She served a fellowship at the Centers for Christson Adedoyin ’11 SW Chamber of Commerce in as a guest artistic director for Disease Control and Preven- is an associate professor of so- Florida. Previously, he worked the 2013 spring show, “e tion in Atlanta, Georgia, where cial work at Samford Univer- in the insurance industry and Sound of Music,” and has expe- she served as the operations sity in Birmingham, Alabama. also has experience in customer rience in directing and acting, manager for first lady Michelle He had been an assistant pro- service and hospitality man- both on the stage and in televi- Obama’s Let’s Move! Child fessor at East Carolina Univer- agement within the Hilton sion. Care campaign. sity since 2012. group of hotels. Anthony V. Cadle ’13 AS is Former Students Rosalind E. Essig ’11 AS is a Jill L. Seelmeyer ’11 CI is ad- the Main Street manager for Georgia Heise is the director staff writer for e Jessamine ministrative director at the the city of Dayton, Kentucky. of ree Rivers Health District Journal newspaper in Kentucky School for the Health Department in Owen- Nicholasville. Blind Charitable Foundation Taylor M. Riley ’13 CI is a ton. Heise is the president of in Louisville. Previously, she staff writer and photographer the National Association of Swannie N. Jett ’11 PH is a was development assistant at for the Oldham Era newspa- County and City Health Offi- health officer for the Florida God’s Pantry Food Bank in per in LaGrange. Riley was cials. She is a Kentucky and Department of Health in Lexington. previously a reporter for the National Public Health Lead- Seminole County. He recently online publication SurfKY in ership Institute Fellow and an began his term as president- Catherine G. Boccieri ’12 BE Owensboro. adjunct instructor in the UK elect of the National Associa- is assistant account executive in College of Public Health.
UK alums and friends showcase art in Chattanooga
Sculpture Fields at Montague Park (SFMP) is a new, contemporary sculpture park being built in Chattanooga, Tennessee, started from an idea that John and Pamela Henry had and helped along with the aid of several area Ken- tucky alumni. John Henry, a sculptor, is a Lex- ington native and UK alumnus, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from UK. Seventeen pieces are already present in the park, and as soon as further walkways are in- stalled, more artwork will arrive, ultimately fea- turing 75 large-scale works, an amphitheater and landscaped gardens. The park is due to open in fall 2015. At the groundbreaking were, front row, left to right: Bill Chapin; Jane Cobb Pickering, Chat- tanooga UK Alumni Club and SFMP board;
Pamela Henry, club member and SFMP board; Valencia Stephanie Photo: Isaac Duncan III, club member, SFMP board, sculptor with Schatz, parent of a UK student and SFMP board; and a piece in the park; Doug Schatz, club member, sculptor Henry Wolf, club member. UK alums Harriett Whitaker with a piece in the park; Warren Barnett, SFMP board. and Mark Hite also work on the development committee Back row, left to right: Kent Underwood, club member, for the park. John Henry is not pictured. n SFMP board; Mary Schatz, parent of a UK student; Walter
50 Spring 2015 Kentucky Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame honors several with UK ties e Fih Annual Kentucky Entrepreneurs Hall of Fame in- • John A Williams Sr., UK graduate and a member of the duction ceremony at the Mellwood Arts and Entertainment Gatton College Alumni Hall of Fame. Williams, of Pad- Center in Louisville had a definite University of Kentucky “fla- ucah, is the founder and chairman of CSI, providing cus- vor” to it. tomers with integrated and streamlined technology ree of the four individuals who entered the hall of fame in solutions. Currently, he serves as co-chairman for the the class of 2014 have strong UK ties, while one of the three Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Leadership Institute younger executives celebrated as an “emerging entrepreneur” for School Principals. In 2006, he received the Gover- serves in an advisory role to the UK Gatton College of Busi- nor’s Technology Award as the individual who most de- ness and Economics. served to be recognized as a leader in technology e hall of fame inductees are: innovation in Kentucky. • James Booth, a current member of the UK Board of Trustees. • Ulysses Lee “Junior” Bridgeman, former star basketball Booth, a native of Martin County, is the chief executive of player for the University of Louisville who went on to a Booth Energy Group. He also owns 19 Fast Lane conven- successful career in the NBA. Bridgeman is the presi- ience stores, 10 fast food restaurants serving eight million dent and CEO of Bridgeman Foods Inc., which owns customers in 2013, Car City, Elite Insurance, R&J Building and operates more than 160 Wendy’s restaurant fran- Supply, and more. In recent years, Booth’s business holdings chises across the country, as well as more than 118 reported combined annual revenues of $750 million. Chili’s restaurants. He is ranked No. 3 on the Restau- • Chris Sullivan, UK graduate and member of the Gatton rant Finance Monitor’s Top 200 franchisee-owned College Alumni Hall of Fame. Sullivan, a resident of companies. Florida, is co-founder and former president and CEO of Among those honored as an emerging entrepreneur was Nate the Outback Steakhouse restaurant company. In 2007, Morris, co-founder and CEO of Morris Industries in Lexing- OSI Restaurant was sold for $3.1 billion to Bain Capital ton. A social entrepreneur, he is the co-founder of Rubicon Partners and Catterton Partners. Outback has 968 loca- Global, North America’s leading provider of sustainable waste tions worldwide and also operates over 300 locations of and recycling services. Recently named to Fortune Magazine’s Carrabba’s Italian Grills, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse and “40 under 40,” Morris is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Bonefish Grill, among others. Council at the Gatton College.
UK celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2015 – 150 years of education, tradition and legacy! Be on the lookout in May for a special commemorative issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine! Travel back in time as we explore the history of UK from its days as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky to today’s land-grant, flagship university. Coming soon!
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Utha Blackburn Deen ’29 Luther B. Caldwell Jr. ’49 William B. Kauffman ’52 Robert T. Seay ’59 Lexington, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Life Member Glen Rock, N.J. Menomonee Falls, Wis. Myra Dickerson Marvin C. Hedden ’49 Lynwood Schrader ’52 Bobby R. Flener ’60 Noethlich ’32 Frankfort, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Frankfort, Ky. Pickerington, Ohio Charlie D. Keller ’49 Life Member, Fellow Dixie Patrum Jasper ’60 Robert B. Young ’38 Clion Forge, Va. Michael N. Cavaluzzi ’53 Paris, Ky. Grosse Pointe Park, Mich. William D. Lester ’49 Milwaukee, Wis. John Henry Porter ’60 Sally Pemberton Griggs ’39 Brandon, Fla., Life Member Warren C. Hale ’53 Nebo, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Frances Hamilton Laurel, Ky. Gordon K. Sapp ’61 Helen Garono Rast ’39 Matarazzo ’49 Ann Oldham Kirk ’53 Louisville, Ky., Life Member Hilliard, Ohio Murray, Ky. Louisville, Ky., Fellow Robert C. Shelton ’61 Janet Tadlock Jennings ’40 Henry Meigs II ’49 Jane Bartlett Meyer ’53 Carrollton, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Louisville, La., Goshen, Ky., Richard L. Trauth ’61 Joseph P. Rose ’41 Life Member, Fellow Life Member, Fellow Lambertville, Mich. Santa Maria, Calif., Burl Phillips Jr. ’49 Ann Bohon Stork ’53 James L. Crutcher ’63 Life Member Lexington, Ky., Naples, Fla. Lexington, Ky., Life Member Life Member, Fellow Edwin C. Barkman ’42 Joe E. Fuqua ’54 Helen Fisher Frye ’63 Phoenix, Ariz. Patricia Perrone omas ’49 Lexington, Ky. Danville, Ky. Marian Bradford Davis ’42 Louisville, Ky., John A. Sproule ’54 Life Member, Fellow Robert N. Grise ’63 Cynthiana, Ky., Life Member Williamsburg, Ky. Richmond, Ky. Richard D. Howard ’50 Allie Webb Allen ’43 Doraleen Isaac Bailey 55 Patsy F. Hardin ’63 Houston, Texas Georgetown, Ky., Lexington, Ky. Life Member Lexington, Ky. Anne Lyttle Hackney ’44 Richard K. Fenley ’56 John L. McDaniel ’63 Lexington, Ky. Harold F. Miller ’50 Louisville, Ky., Bloomfield, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Life Member Charleen Burris Tate ’45 Life Member, Fellow George C. Williamson ’50 Wallace D. Mohn ’63 Paris, Ky. Harold W. Owens ’56 Williamsville, N.Y. Leitchfield, Ky. Irvington, Ky. Alene Scott Cottle ’46 Kathy Herron Powers ’63 Portsmouth, Ohio, J. Doris Willson ’50 Finnell L. Fields ’57 Louisville, Ky., Life Member Cincinnati, Ohio, Life Member Mount Sterling, Ky. Life Member James M. Hisle ’46 Woodson T. Wood ’50 omas E. Gaston ’57 Maysville, Ky. Carolyn Setzer Sparks ’63 Lexington, Ky. Owensboro, Ky. Decatur, Ga., Fellow Dale Crabtree ’47 Joan Crawford Atkins ’51 Curtis D. Herron ’57 Danville, Ky. Nick F. Stamatis ’63 Lexington, Ky. Raleigh, Ill. Lexington, Ky., Fellow Richard L. Eubanks ’47 Emma Barnes Cloud ’51 David S. Noyes ’57 Bowling Green, Ky. Joseph E. Sutherland Jr. ’63 Fort Mitchell, Ky., Louisville, Ky., Fellow Louisville, Ky. Life Member Charles W. Honaker ’51 James E. Owens ’57 Apopka, Fla., Life Member Gene Germain Whitaker ’63 Florence Landrum Utica, Ky., Life Member Dallas, Texas McMullin ’47 Valva C. Midkiff ’51 John W. Ryan ’57 Richmond, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Elaine Van Hoose Boiman ’64 Midland, Calif. Aldie, Va. A.W. Rowland ’47 Mildred Vance Rodes ’51 Jill Roaden Bailey ’58 Owensboro, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Edward G. Drach ’64 Glasgow, Ky. Cincinnati, Ohio Richard T. Stofer Jr. ’47 Charles B. West Jr. ’51 Glenna A. Bevins ’58 Lexington, Ky., Life Member Henderson, Ky. Louise Pryor Hobbs ’64 Lexington, Ky., Life Member Lexington, Ky., Fellow Vernon J. Cole ’48 Guy W. Baker ’52 Peter Drenchko ’58 Jay E. Queen ’64 Lexington, Ky., Quincy, Ill. Hillsborough, N.J. Life Member, Fellow Ashland, Ky. Orville F. Boes ’52 eo Greene Jr. ’58 Ben L. Kessinger Jr. 48 Berea, Ky. James W. Hardin ’65 Lexington, Ky. Custer, Wis. Lexington, Ky., William R. Gentry Jr. ’52 Life Member, Fellow Ernest E. Brown ’59 Bardstown, Ky., Life Member Paducah, Ky., Life Member
52 Spring 2015 Leslie N. Burger ’66 Gale R. Price ’80 Donald R. Langston Jim Syers Versailles, Ky. Winchester, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Life Member Lexington, Ky., Fellow Lona Willoughby Kemplin ’66 Brenda Jones Teague ’80 H. Foster Pettit P. David Wilson Wilder, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Fellow Lexington, Ky., Fellow Frank F. Barile ’67 Lucille W. Lyons ’83 Juan G. Rodriguez Sidney D. Womack Bridgewater, N.J. Lexington, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Lexington, Ky. O. Connor Spaulding ’67 Glenna M. Mullins ’83 Life Member, Fellow Hurricane, W.Va., Crescent Park, Ky. In Memoriam Life Member Kimberly Baugh Rideout ’86 Niles K. Walton ’67 Lexington, Ky. Former Kentucky Gov. Fort Myers, Fla. Robert A. Bohanan ’88 Wendell Ford passed away in Karen F. Fischer ’68 Versailles, Ky. January in his hometown of Louisville, Ky. Owensboro. He was 90 years Mark R. Elrod ’89 old. Carol A. Georges ’68 Lexington, Ky. Ford, who served in the Maysville, Ky. Edward T. Graham ’89 U.S. Senate for 24 years and Karen E. Hall ’68 Harrodsburg, Ky. was Kentucky governor from Lexington Ky. Julia Ann Cowgill ’92 1971 to 1974, was known as Charles T. Riddle ’69 Lexington, Ky. the tobacco famers’ best Crestwood, Ky. friend because of his support Matthew D. Nelson ’92 for the industry. trusted Wendell Ford be- Kittye D. Robbins-Herring ’69 Lexington, Ky. He not only le an indeli- cause he was who they were Starkville, Miss. Michael T. Overman ’98 ble mark on the Common- — hard-working, honest, Norbert onnard ’69 Columbia, S.C. wealth, but on his university proud, resilient. A Kentuck- Oak Ridge, Tenn. Harold M. Russell ’00 — the University of Ken- ian. Senator Ford’s love and Marjorie Doyle Price ’70 Campbellsville, Ky. tucky. pride extended to his univer- For decades, he was inti- sity, the University of Ken- Shelbyville, Ky., Life Member Joshua T. Sullivan ’03 mately involved with the tucky. He worked with Richard L. Finnie ’71 Valdosta, Ga. Martin School for Public presidents from Otis Single- Lexington, Ky. Kristian Lynn Ray ’11 Policy and Administration, tary to me, greatly assisting Joyce M. Southgate ’71 Lexington, Ky. and a public policy research our rise and progress as a na- Lexington, Ky. Brad Shelton ’11 center in UK Libraries bears tionally prominent research Nancy S. Hilton ’973 Lexington, Ky. his name. UK Libraries is institution and a leader in the Berkeley, Calif. also home to his correspon- development of public policy Diane E. Morris ’73 Former students dence, papers and oral histo- discussion and discourse. He Scottsdale, Ariz., Fellow and friends ries that document his long was rightfully proud of e public service career as a leg- Martin School for Public Charlene E. Davis ’75 Mary Fehn Baker islator, lieutenant governor, Policy and Administration in Lexington, Ky. Newburgh, Ind., Life Member governor and senator. which he was so involved for Mark R. Lovell ’75 Peter P. Bosomworth UK President Eli Capi- decades as well as the public Villas, N.J. Lexington, Ky., Fellow louto said, “If history’s chron- policy center in UK Libraries John W. Zachem ’75 Audrey Shimmin Dorton iclers hope to draw a that bears his name. UK is Lexington, Ky., Life Member Lexington, Ky., Fellow character sketch of the arche- the proud home of his volu- typal Kentuckian, they need minous correspondence, pa- Michael M. Brookins ’76 Minerva Fricke Howard look no further than Wendell pers, and oral histories Austin, Texas, Life Member Lexington, Ky., Fellow Hampton Ford. He worked documenting his life and ca- Ann Jones Clarke ’76 Jane R. Huang in hallowed halls of power, reer. at’s appropriate since Paducah, Ky. Lexington, Ky., Fellow but his voice was always that Kentucky was always home James R. Wood ’77 Willa Dawahare Itani of the authentic Kentucky ex- to his heart. And we are im- Louisville, Ky. Nicholasville, Ky., perience — the bone-tired measurably better as a state tobacco farmer, the weary and people for this Kentuck- Clara Turner ’79 Life Member, Fellow but resolute coal miner, the ian’s life.” Aiken, S.C. John L. Ladenburger resilient factory worker in Ford received an honorary Corbin, Ky., south Louisville. ey doctorate from UK in 1973. Life Member, Fellow
www.ukalumni.net 53 Alan B. Sullivan ’76 DES and Joe Cox have written “Voice of Doug Brunk is the author of “Wildcat the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sports- Memories: Inside Stories from Kentucky casting.” As one of the first voices of the UK Basketball Greats,” which includes a fore- men’s basketball program, Claude Sullivan word by Dan Issel. Since the tenure of (1924-1967) became a nationally- known Coach Adolph Rupp, the UK men’s bas- sportscasting pioneer. His career followed ketball team has been a powerhouse. e Kentucky’s rise to prominence as he an- individuals who have coached, played for nounced the first four NCAA championship and inspired the Wildcats are important titles and covered scrimmages during the can- figures in Kentucky history. celed 1952-1953 season following the “Wildcat Memories” illuminates the in- NCAA sanctions scandal. Sullivan’s reputa- timate connection between the basket- tion propelled him to Cincinnati, where he ball program and the Commonwealth. became the voice of the Reds. It brings together some of the program’s Claude Sullivan’s son Alan Sullivan offers greatest coaches, players and personali- an engaging look at the sportscaster’s life ties to reflect on Kentuckians who pro- and the context in which he built his ca- vided inspiration during their tenure as Wildcats. reer before his success was cut short when he passed away at 42. Featuring personal essays and behind-the-scenes stories from leg- e book features interviews with Babe Parilli and Cawood ends Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones, Joe B. Hall, Kyle Macy and Ledford, among others, and documents the rise of sports radio Tubby Smith, among others, this collection shows what makes during the 20th century. UK basketball extraordinary.
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Gary P. West ’67 CI is the author of “e Boys from Corbin: Gary P. West ’67 CI has written “Better than America’s Greatest Little Sports Town,” which tells the story of Gold: Olympian Kenny Davis and the Most athletes who began their careers as Corbin Controversial Basketball Game in History.” Redhounds. Calvin Bird, Frank Selvy, Roy Every four years, the best athletes gather for Kidd and others — these boys went on to sporting events to determine new thresholds play for the Los Angeles Lakers, St. Louis of excellence. In summer 1972, however, the Cardinals, New York Knicks, San Diego Olympic games were not like any other. Chargers, Oakland Raiders, Kentucky What was to become the most controver- Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, Western sial basketball game in the history of the Kentucky Hilltoppers, Furman Paladins sport was conducted in the aermath of a and the Eastern Kentucky Colonels. terrorist attack that had invaded Olympic e book also talks about the offspring Village. As the USA team — a team that of two families, the Birds and the Selvys, had never been defeated in the history of but mainly focuses on Calvin Bird. Olympic basketball — took the court to For four decades, Corbin High School play for the Gold Medal, there was an un- sports were the glue that held the town nerving tension building. together. For those who worked on the railroad, cut or hauled is is the story of Kenny Davis, captain of that team and a Ken- timber or chiseled coal from nearby mines, football and basket- tucky farm boy, who was in the challenge of a lifetime. e book ball were diversions from providing for their families. Sports tells how Davis and the team dealt with the crushing disappoint- were the common denominator that transcended economic lev- ment that befell them, and how Davis came back home to later suc- els of Corbin’s citizenry. cess as a businessman.
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e UK Women’s Athletic Association was instituted in 1922 to further the athletic interests and activities of university women. Marty McKinney was aiming for a strike, while Ana Rios, Bonnie Sharp and Paula 65 Hunt waited their turns during the WAA Bowling 46 years ago... Tournament in the 1949-1950 academic year. years ago... e UK Athletic Board celebrated the 1,000th victory of UK men’s basketball with an awesome cake for the team.
years ago... years ago... The annual Chi Omega Greek Sing was a chance for Many students attempting to complete their art proj- 27 fraternities and sororities to show their talent. During 6 ects on time have spent hours upon hours in the the 1988 contest, members of Chi Omega belted out a Reynolds Building. Rebecca Rowland, while an art stu- selection during the opening ceremony. dio senior, threaded a loom so she could weave her final project for a fibers class in 2009. Photos: Kentuckian Photos:
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Winter wonderland Photo: Jeff Hounshell Jeff Photo: In January, Central Kentucky was on the receiving end of almost 4 inches of snow. Maxwell Place sat majestically amid the white powdery accumulation, as if transported to another era. It would be easy to imagine a horse-drawn sleigh “parked” at its side entrance, waiting to carry President Capilouto to his next meeting on campus. During late February, Kentucky was slammed by a combination of snow accumulations hovering around 12 inches and an arctic front that drove the temperatures to below 0 on several days, resulting in classes being called off for four days during the same week — truly a modern-day record! n
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