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10 Karin Remington: At Science’s Cutting Edge A wide-reaching scope motivates Karin Remington ’91 AS e UK Wildcat celebrates 100 years of in her leading role at the Center for Bioinformatics Features Wildcat fighting spirit. and Computational Biology. e center funds ON THE COVER Photo ©2009 John Sommers II over 250 research and training grants throughout the country, from predicting drug interactions at the molecular level to modeling cell behavior and Profiles In Blue: The UK Wildcat 20 gene expression. is year the University of Kentucky reaches a By Robin Roenker milestone: “Wildcats” has been its proud moniker for 100 years! Hear what’s on the mind of our special UK Wildcat. 14 Book Smarts: My Most Memorable Book Have you read a book that really made a difference in your life? UK alumni talk about their most memorable books and how they were influenced by the extreme power a book can hold. By Sarah Dunaway I I s r e m Kris Floro: ‘All Dolled Up’ m

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Departments 3 Opening Remarks 5 Presidential Conversation 6 UK Beat 8 Research Notes 9 Development Office 25 Open Door

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Good News!

UK Alumni Association membership continues to climb. ank you for your membership! e university’s see blue. campaign won a CASE Grand Award at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, Dis - trict III Annual Meeting. At CASE Kentucky, the university won 11 Grand Awards on the way to a total of 48 honor recognitions. e UK Alumni Association won a CASE Kentucky Award of Excellence for Homecoming 2008. Reserve a long weekend to come back home for Homecoming 2009 that culminates with the UK football game Oct. 31. Don’t miss out on this award winning collection of events with something for every age group. Also receiving recognition were the association Member Calendar, the Cats For A Cause community service project, Life Member hand-written mail solicitation and the Scratch Around Town elementary school program in Fayette County. e Kentucky Kernel was named the best college newspaper in Kentucky, winning the 2007 General Excellence award in the Ken - tucky Press Association’s annual competition. is marks the fourth straight year the Kernel has received this highly prestigious award. Kernel staff members received first place awards in 15 of 26 categories, 10 second place awards, eight third place awards, and one certificate of merit. e Kernel swept the Best Spot News Coverage category, and several UK alums also won awards for their work at newspapers across the state. Six Kernel photographers received awards from the Kentucky News Photographers Association. Congratulations to the UK Cheerleading squad on the occasion of their 17th championship! Congratulations to our championship alumni athletes! e list of former Wildcats who have won a championship recently is simply staggering; gold medal winner in the Summer 2008 Olympics Tayshaun Prince, game-four starter for the World Series Champion Philadelphia Phillies Joe Blanton, U.S. member of the 2008 winning Ryder Cup team J.B. Holmes, starting point-guard for the world-champion Boston Celtics Rajon Rondo, goalie for the Major League Soccer champion Columbus Crew’s Andy Gruenebaum and quarterback for the 2008 NFL world-champion New York Giants Jared Lorenzen. e University of Kentucky College of Agriculture’s undergraduate landscape architecture program is listed in the top 15 in the na - tion by DesignIntelligence, a bi-monthly publication promoting quality design education, in its ninth edition of “America’s Best Ar - chitecture and Design Schools.” Students from the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics excelled in their first-ever opportunity to compete in the prestigious Wall Street Journal National Biz Quiz. Jeffrey Howard of Louisville, a Gatton Global Scholar majoring in accounting and minoring in international business, captured first place in the individual competition among 72 participants rep - resenting 24 undergraduate colleges and universities from across the nation. Congratulations to alumnus and CEO of Duke Energy Jim Rogers, featured in an article in Newsweek magazine as one of the 50 most powerful people in the world. Rogers, a member of the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni, also is in the UK Gatton College of Business and Economics Hall of Fame and the UK College of Law Hall of Fame. University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Dean Kenneth B. Roberts has been selected the 2009 Outstanding Dean by the Amer - ican Pharmacists Association’s Academy of Student Pharmacists. Now it’s your turn! Update us with your current news. Send a letter to Class Notes, UK Alumni Association, King Alumni House, Lexington, KY 40506 or register and log in to the Online Community at www.ukalumni.net and send us your Class Note. I look forward to hearing from you.

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When I travel across the state and around the country speaking to University of Ken - tucky alumni and friends, I am constantly reminded that people want to learn more about the exciting things happening at UK. Well, I have some good news for those out there who are looking for UK to open up the communication lines: is techie has joined the blogosphere. at’s right; I have launched a blog. is new communication tool will allow UK alumni to keep tabs on all the UK happenings — no matter where they are. I promise to “blog” at least once a week (and hopefully more oen) as we seek to keep you better in - formed. I will introduce you to some of our world-class students, share some of the groundbreaking research happening in our labs, and show how UK is making an impact in communities across the state and beyond. And it won’t just be a written piece. We will utilize the many technological formats now available — from videos to audio interviews — to make the blog as fresh and interactive as possible. Come take a look at www.uky.edu or www.ukalumni.net and check it out. One story that I would have shared on the blog if it had been available in December is the expansion of our “Digital Village.” On Dec. 8, the university announced plans to build an $18.6 million building that will house high-technology research on visu - alization, computer science, and electrical and computer engineering. Located at the corner of Maxwell and Rose streets, the new structure will join the Hardymon Building in forming the first two phases of UK’s Digital Village, a hub for high-tech re - search that is designed to connect our researchers with business leaders in downtown Lexington. When completed, the Digital Village will have four buildings conducting world-class research. is project marks a first for the university, as it will be the first higher education building in Kentucky to be constructed solely from private donations and Kentucky’s Bucks for Brains matching program. e Bucks for Brains program has been criti - cal to the growth and expansion of our faculty for many years, helping us to bring in some of the university’s top researchers. However, Bucks for Brains did not allow us to use the matching program for capital construction projects, which hampered our ability to find suitable research space for those faculty members. at changed last spring, thanks to the Kentucky General Assembly, when legislators provided UK with the flexibility to use Bucks for Brains funds for capital construction projects. Such financial flexibility has given UK a new, innovative way to help us move forward in our Top 20 climb. is new building was made possible thanks to the generosity of a UK alumnus, Davis Marksbury. e Marksbury Family Foundation, created by Davis and his wife, Beverly, is contributing $6 million for the project, which will be named the Davis Marksbury Building, pending approval by UK’s Board of Trustees. Two other donors and UK alums, James F. Hardymon and James McDonald, provided support for the project. e Davis Marksbury Building will provide nearly 25,000 square feet of space for research activity conducted by faculty in the UK Center for Visualization and Virtual Environments, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the De - partment of Computer Science, all of which are part of the UK College of Engineering. See you online,

Lee T. Todd Jr. President

www.ukalumni.net 5 Beat UK FUSION Earns Service Award UK For Unity and Service in Our Neighborhoods (UK FU - SION) has been awarded the regional National Association for Campus Activities (NACA) Outstanding Service Award for the 2007 FUSION event. The award recognizes innovative r and exemplary programs by individuals and organizations that e d a make extraordinary contributions to service learning and com - e L - d munity service. l a r e

Part of UK’s K Week, FUSION 2007 experienced a record H

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munity service in 63 Lexington neighborhoods, social service y s e t agencies, and public facilities such as parks and museums. r u o C FUSION is organized through the UK Center for Commu - : o t nity Outreach. Since FUSION’s inception in 2003, it has o h grown into one of the largest single-day community service P UK students donated over 5,000 hours of community service events in the state, and one of the greatest traditions at the during the 2008 UK FUSION event. University of Kentucky.

UK Partners With Local Farmers ‘Top Doctors’ Includes Two From UK UK Dining Services is expanding its partnerships with Ken - Two UK doctors have been named among the top five doctors tucky food producers to purchase fresher, healthier foods for in the south for orthopaedics and cancer care for women. Dr. UK’s table to enhance the university’s sustainability efforts and Paul DePriest and Dr. Darren Johnson were selected to the to support the local economy. first-ever “Top Doctors for Women” special editorial section by During the 2007-2008 academic school year, Dining Services Women’s Health magazine. This list represents the country’s purchased $60,000 in locally grown produce; the 2009 goal is to best physicians in the 10 specialties that were deemed the most increase that total to $500,000 by continuing to build local agri - important by Women’s Health readers. cultural partnerships. DePriest, UK professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Rebekah Grace Foods is the latest Kentucky agricultural group chief medical officer, was selected in the cancer care category to partner with UK Dining Services. Rebekah Grace Foods, for his work with ovarian cancer and early detection, cervical with J.D. Country Milk dairy in Logan County, will provide cancer, and Pap smear abnormalities. quality, fresh milk from pasture grazing cows that are not sup - In the area of orthopaedics, Johnson was chosen for his talents plemented with hormones to increase milk production. Approx - in knee injuries, sports medicine, knee ligament reconstruction imately 925 gallons of milk is used per week by campus Dining and arthroscopic surgery. Johnson, UK’s chair of the Depart - Facilities. ment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, is the only “It makes sense, both fiscally and ecologically, to keep our doctor in the state of Kentucky currently performing the dou - money in Kentucky and to work with Kentucky producers,” said ble-bundle procedure for ACL repair. Scott Henry, acting director of UK Dining Services. UK already has a partnership with Green River Cattle, Creation Gardens, Compiled from UK Web sites, UK Public Relations news reports, and and Reed Valley Orchards. Kentucky Alumni magazine staff reporting.

Student Affairs Creates Joseph T. Burch Society The Division of Student Affairs has established its first university relations, which placed him in charge of develop - fund-raising society in honor of Joseph T. Burch, a former ment, alumni affairs, public relations, police and parking. dean of students at UK from 1975 to 1987. Burch was be - The Joseph T. Burch Society was established to encourage hind many of the initiatives that support students today, such support for student scholarships, student orientation and as alcohol and health education. He retired in 2001, also hav - student programming. Contact Larry Crouch at ing served in other capacities including as deputy general [email protected] or 859-257-5216 or Victor Hazard at counsel, acting director of athletics, and vice president for 859-257-3754 for information on how to support the society.

6 Spring 2009 Beat

New Coal Sculpture Installed Diabetes And Obesity The new sculpture “Coal Pot” by famous Ghanaian artist El Center Established At UK Anatsui was recently installed on the University of Kentucky campus. The artwork, inspired by the artist’s previous visit to UK in 2003, is located in the Sculpture Garden of the UK Art Museum, located outside the museum on the corner of Rose Street and Euclid Avenue. The sculpture project was made possible by a grant from the Efroymson Fund and represents an ongoing partnership between the UK Department of Art and the museum. “Coal Pot” was inspired by Anatsui’s time as a visiting artist at UK and was fabricated by Garry Bibbs, head of the UK sculp - ture program, according to Anatsui’s design. It consists of a 15- foot iron cauldron filled with large pieces of Kentucky coal. The

coal will, over several years, disintegrate and be replaced, leaving y h p a

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: o t o h P Left to right: Willie Barnstable, Dr. Michael Karpf (UK executive vice president for health affairs), and Patricia Barnstable Brown Sales of highly sought-aer tickets to the internationally-known Barnstable Brown Gala in Louisville will leave a lasting impact on Kentucky and beyond for decades to come. Starting this year, Patricia Barnstable Brown and her family have pledged funding to develop the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Dia - betes and Obesity Center at UK, making the university their sole beneficiary. e Barnstable Brown Gala in Louisville is a star-stud - ded bash that allows the Barnstable Brown Foundation to support diabetes research, education and patient care in Kentucky, a state where diabetes prevalence is seventh-highest in the nation. Proceeds from the gala have always gone to further diabetes re - search and care. For the first time this year, the gala’s charitable focus will develop a large-scale center at UK that officials say will bring together the university’s breadth and depth of researchers, educators and clinicians focused on diabetes and organize them to attack the problem collaboratively and, therefore, faster. Plant And Soil Scientist Honored

m UK Associate Professor of Plant and Soil Sciences Ole Wen - u e s u droth was formally inducted as a Fellow of the American Society M t

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www.ukalumni.net 7 Research Notes

Emergency Anti-seizure Treatments To Be Studied A new UK study may help give paramedics a different option “We believe we have a better method, which is an auto injector, for treating patients’ seizures and preventing them from injuring to give medication as fast or faster than a paramedic can get an IV themselves before they receive more treatment at a hospital. started,” said Dr. Roger Humphries, chairman of the Department e clinical trial will determine whether it is as effective to use of Emergency Medicine at UK and principal investigator of the an auto injector to deliver anti-seizure medications to patients in - study. “IVs can be hard to start quickly in patients who are seizing tramuscularly as it is to treat seizing patients by intravenous injec - violently, especially in the small veins of children.” tion (IV), the current protocol used by Emergency Medical e UK research team was selected along with 16 other promi - Services. An auto injector is a spring-loaded syringe that rapidly nent research institutions across the nation to conduct the emer - delivers a single unit dose of a drug. A similar device, the EpiPen, gency medicine trial known as RAMPART (Rapid is used to administer epinephrine, a drug that is effective in treat - Anticonvulsant Medication Prior to Arrival Trial). ing severe asthma attacks.

School Start Time Impacts Ambati Receives Distinguished Teens’ Car Crash Risk Clinical Scientist Award Risks of automobile accidents involving teen drivers could be re - Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati is a recipient of the prestigious 2008 Doris duced through later starting times for high schools, according to a Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award. e award, which study by two UK researchers. provides $1.5 million in research funding e study, published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, over a five-year period, recognizes out - was conducted by Fred Danner, professor and chair of the Depart - standing mid-career physician-scientists ment of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology in the who are applying the latest scientific ad - UK College of Education, with Dr. Barbara Phillips, professor in vances to the prevention, diagnosis, treat - the UK College of Medicine and medical director of the ment and cure of disease. It enables them UKHealthCare Good Samaritan Sleep Center. to support and mentor the next genera - “Our findings are consistent with everything we know from lab - tion of physician-scientists conducting oratory studies about the devastating effects of chronic sleep dep - clinical research. rivation on daytime alertness,” Danner says. “ey suggest that the Ambati is one of only six physician-sci - typical pattern of moving school start times an hour earlier when entists in the nation to receive the 2008 Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati kids move from middle to high school is not only bad for their award. He is the first ophthalmologist to performance in school but may also increase their chances for receive this honor from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and motor vehicle crashes.” the only UK faculty member to ever receive the distinction. Ambati is professor of physiology and professor and vice chairman Compiled from news reports in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the UK College of Medicine. His research group, which he singularly about research at UK. credits for his success, is internationally recognized for seminal con - For more information about tributions such as the first mouse model of age-related macular de - research taking place at UK, generation (AMD), reported in Nature Medicine , and the discovery of complement activation as a trigger of “wet” AMD, published in visit www.research.uky.edu Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Kentucky Establishes Practice-Based Research Network e Kentucky Public Health Association and the UK College of Public Health have joined to establish the Kentucky Public Health Research Network, whose primary goal is to develop and strengthen relationships between local health departments and related com - munity partners. e initiative is under the direction of co-principal investigators Sarah Wilding of the Kentucky Department for Public Health and Dr. Angela Dearinger of the UK College of Public Health. rough the network, 18 local health jurisdictions in Kentucky will collaborate with their practice partners and academic commu - nities to develop a high-performing public health system. Multiple partners statewide include the Big Sandy Health Center in Floyd County and the Public Life Foundation of Owensboro. Five Kentucky universities, as well as several community and technical colleges, have also committed to the effort.

8 Spring 2009 Office of Development

UK Alum Davis Marksbury Makes Lead Gift Civil Engineering graduate Davis Marksbury EN ’80 and his Exstream, a customer relationship management soware company wife, Beverly, recently pledged $6 million toward the creation of that was recently acquired by Hewlett-Packard. an $18.6 million building that will be a part of the new UK Digi - Other major donors to the Digital Village currently include tal Village. e gi will be matched with money from the state’s alumni James F. Hardymon Research Challenge Trust Fund. e new Marksbury Building EN ’56, ’58, former chair will be located adjacent to the James F. Hardymon Building near of the UK Board of the corner of Maxwell and Rose Street and will house high-tech Trustees, and Jim McDon - research on visualization, computer science, electrical and com - ald EN ’62, ’64, retired puter engineering. When completed, the Digital Village will be president and CEO of Sci - comprised of four buildings dedicated to engineering technology. entific-Atlanta Inc. Marksbury began his professional career with Shell Oil Com - pany in Houston, preparing computer models for offshore oil plat - forms. He has launched several new businesses, including UK Winter College A Success The 2009 edition of UK Winter College, held Jan. 12 in Naples, Fla., was attended by more than 60 UK alums and Scholarships Are Vital friends. Topics as varied as Kentucky poetry, Alzheimer’s re - To Many UK Students search, energy resources and high-tech visualization techniques were presented by some of UK’s most esteemed faculty. Presi - Many generous alumni and friends of the University of Ken - dent Lee T. Todd Jr. also provided an update on the university tucky are, in effect, great friends of students who are scholarship to the Winter College gathering. Plans are underway for next recipients. In many instances, scholarships make the difference in year’s Winter College. Don’t miss this opportunity to go back a student’s ability to attend UK. to school and reconnect with UK alums. With the economic challenges facing us today, private support for scholarships is of critical importance. Today’s students are to - morrow’s leaders, and the contributions of individuals and alumni clubs for scholarships are invaluable to the preparation of those leaders. ank you to all those who support scholarships at the Univer - sity of Kentucky, and for more information on how you can make a contribution or establish your own scholarship fund, contact:

Remona Edenfield UK Office of Development Phone: 1-800- 875-6272 E-mail: [email protected] Winter College speakers were Dr. Rodney Andrews, Dr. Jane Gentry Vance, Dr. Lee T. Todd Jr., Dr. Brent Seales and Dr. Charles D. Smith.

www.uky.edu/development www.ukalumni.net 9 10 Spring 2009 Karin Remington: At Science’s Cutting Edge

This 1991 UK grad found her calling in computational biology — where biology, mathematics and computer science blend. By Robin Roenker

hat would happen if a flu pan - Making History tion of DNA and breaks it up into Wdemic hit the United States? If you know only a little bit about the random, numerous small segments, How would the disease most likely history of the human genome sequenc - which high-power computers analyze spread? How could it best be contained? ing project (HGP), you’ve likely heard and then reassemble into meaningful Today scientists in computational bi - of J. Craig Venter. Venter’s company, results. ology can simulate the spread of an in - Celera Genomics, set out to prove that “It was an untested hypothesis that fectious disease in amazing detail. ey it could sequence the approximately we could actually do that,” Remington use high-performance computers that 20,000 to 25,0000 genes in human says of the shotgun sequencing process. act as virtual laboratories along with DNA much more quickly and at a frac - “at was our goal as a company and as complex mathematical models that tion of the cost of the publicly funded a science team to prove that we could predict how many people an infected HGP, which was working on a 15-year actually put all the pieces back together person might encounter in a day. timeline and had a budget of $3 billion. again. It was a really exciting endeavor.” It’s a modeling tool that enables Remington worked with Venter at Remington and Venter’s team proved governments and health agencies to Celera as a senior scientist from 1999 resoundingly that shotgun sequencing prepare in advance for a worst-case to 2002 and then later in his nonprofit works — and works much faster — scenario. research organization, e Venter Insti - than other sequencing methods. In And it’s just one of a host of projects tute, from 2002 to 2006 as vice presi - 2000, Venter shared credit for sequenc - that Karin Remington, who received dent for bioinformatics research and ing the human genome with the HGP her doctoral degree in mathematics senior computational scientist. — several years ahead of schedule — from the UK College of Arts & Sci - In those roles, Remington helped de - and today the shotgun method Rem - ences in 1991, gets to help fund and velop computer algorithms and ington helped establish is the advance in her role as director of the computation soware that preferred method for Center for Bioinformatics and Compu - allowed her company’s doing genome sequenc - tational Biology (CBCB). e center is research team to suc - ing research. housed within the National Institute of cessfully sequence “It was an incredi - General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) at the fruit fly, ble paradigm shi. the National Institutes of Health mouse, dog, and It’s something (NIH) in Bethesda, Md. human genomes that I think Before becoming director of the using what was wasn’t anticipated CBCB in summer 2007, Remington then considered a at the time Celera r e had her hands in some of the most sem - risky and contro - Genomics was h p a r inal biological research of our genera - versial technique launched, and in g o t o tion, including the sequencing of the called “shotgun se - fact a lot of people h p human genome. quencing.” were saying it couldn’t H I N

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12 Spring 2009 Computational biology, or bioinfor - their projects. And CBCB director She sees it as her job to help matics — terms oen used inter - Remington hopes to advance oppor - chemists talk with physicists and en - changeably, though they are tunities for cross-disciplinary gineers, and lab biologists with math - slightly different in mean - collaboration and change ematicians and computer scientists. ing — are the common a culture within NIH “We’ve got to break down the com - thread. All projects and American uni - munication barriers and let people funded by the veristies that she know they are actually talking about CBCB rely on feels has too long the same things, even though they computers — and emphasized a may be using a different language,” analytical ap - specialized, com - she says. proaches formerly partmentalized As much as she loves fostering other the domain of approach to sci - investigators’ work right now, don’t computer science, ence. count Remington’s days as a math, physics, and “People have been researcher over. engineering — to ex - looking at these tiny “I really had just discovered what amine and organize an pieces of problems. I science was and how to do it about immense amount of biolog - think everybody is now be - the same time I was transitioning into ical data and make sense of it. ginning to realize that to really this job,” she says. “I would really like “It’s a wonderful position here,” she understand things, you can’t have a chance to go back to that someday.” says, noting she spends most days re - blinders on. You have to have a bigger viewing grant applications and meet - picture. Otherwise you just won’t get Robin Roenker ’98 AS is a ing and talking with researchers about it,” she says. free-lance writer in Lexington.

PIMSER and Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative At UK, the Partnership Institute for Math and Science Education school, district by district, Reform (PIMSER) is working toward the same type of cutting-edge, county by county, to engage cross-disciplinary, technology-based math and science learning envi - them in identifying and address - p ronment for younger students that Karin Remington hopes to encour - ing what the needs are in each p m u L age on a professional level at the NIH. specific area. t e n

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Appalachian Math and Science Partnership (AMSP) program that there have been a number of t o h began in 2002, PIMSER was launched in 2005. AMSP pairs college studies showing that the United P and university professors from UK and nine other member institu - States is losing its global compet - Eighth-graders solder flashing tions with elementary, middle, and high school teachers across the state itiveness in technology and in LED circuits while involved in a to implement strategies for improving math and science education and science and engineering. It is evi - workshop for students through encouraging kids to consider careers in science, technology, engineer - dence of unmistakable science KEEP, a program run by Dr. Janet ing, and math (STEM) fields. is activity is called the partnership en - decay,” Yopp says. “It will affect Lumpp, of the UK Electrical and hancement project (PEP) program. our standard of living. It’s going Computer Engineering Depart - PIMSER initiatives include P-12 minority education initiatives, to compromise our ability to ment. KEEP is one of the pro - teacher education initiatives, and Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative come up with medical solutions grams the Kentucky Girls STEM — a project that “particularly excites” Remington, she says, as she had to diseases. All of this has a root Collaborative endorses to excite no female mentors despite attending an all-female liberal arts college. in a lack of science and mathe - girls about pursing science or “We still desperately need more role models for girls,” Remington says. matical literacy. So there is real engineering careers. Begun in fall 2007 as part of the National Girls Collaborative Proj - concern.” ect, the Kentucky Girls STEM Collaborative awarded its first round of Partnerships fostered by the AMSP and PIMSER have been so suc - $1,000 mini-grants earlier this year to agencies across the state whose cessful that NSF has extended their funding of the AMSP for creation of programs encourage girls in the sciences. master teachers and continuation of the PEP, access to algebra and other Already, 93 such programs are members of the collaborative — from best practices. Many national educational associations interested in edu - the First Lego League Club at Gray Middle School in Union, Ky., to cation reform have made the trek to Kentucky to see them first-hand. UK’s own Girls in Research program, which encourages middle school Yopp says the partnerships have benefited everyone involved. girls in southeastern Kentucky to consider careers in drug and alcohol “Not only do the teachers learn new content and new methods, but research. the faculty learn about the actual on-the-ground needs, and it then in - John Yopp, PIMSER director, says PIMSER is different from most fluences their education of students who will become teachers. We call science and math education reform programs in that it doesn’t unilat - it a feedback loop — a circle of knowledge.” erally prescribe a set of best practices to elementary, middle, and high For more information visit www.uky.edu/PIMSER. school teachers. Instead, professors team up with teachers school by

www.ukalumni.net 13 Book Smarts: My Most Memorable Book Compiled by Sarah Dunaway

e all know that a personally meaningful book can be hard to come by, but what happens when you find Wthat one book that really makes a difference in your life? As American philosopher Mortimer Adler said, “In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many of them can get through to you.” UK alumni on the next several pages discuss their most memorable book and provide insight into the extreme power a book can hold. ere is an infinite number of ways that a book can influence lives and teach people; here’s what UK grads have to say about their favorite books.

Amanda Cathers Barbieri ’04 BE “Gone with the Wind” reappeared as a gi while I was sick St. Louis, MO with the flu, so I settled in for the weekend to read the clas - St. Louis UK Alumni Club sic. Scarlett was a heroine that I could not get enough of — her temper tantrums and selfish spells were something I As a junior at Dunbar High School I had to read Mar - could relate to as an only child. Yet her strength, independ - garet Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind.” However, as the ence and loyalty to a piece of her heritage were some things deadline loomed, I decided to cut corners and rent the that I aspired to as I was finding my way through UK. Now, movie from Blockbuster, resulting in a C+ paper! Never - as I continue to pursue my career far away from home, I theless, my curiosity was peaked — the movie love to reread “Gone with the Wind” to remind me of a love was fantastic. During my junior for the old South and a woman's strength. It takes year at UK, me back to home! I also must mention my favorite childhood story, “Penny’s Worth of Character,” written by Kentucky’s own Jesse Stewart. His descriptions of the chocolate bar and lemon soda were whimsical, making me feel as if I were a part of the story! e message of the book is time - less — that of honesty. Jesse Stuart illustrates the inner turmoil of a young boy who has been dishonest and how he makes it right. I hope that one day I will be able to share this Kentucky classic with my children.

14 Spring 2009 Sylvia Ann Luckett Betts It helped me because it served as a reminder that Bessemer, AL we really did learn the basics in kindergarten but Birmingham UK Alumni Club that we live in a hurry-up world and need re - minders from time-to-time. My most memorable book, as simple as it sounds, is So the book taught me that living a well-bal - “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten” anced life isn’t all that complicated. It renewed by Robert Fulghum. It was a fast, fun read. I was sur - my faith in mankind that we all know the basic prised at the simplicity of each story within the story. rules and just need to remember to follow them.

David Case ’79 AG appreciate it all. From the wilds of Alaska to the beaches in Enon, Ohio Hawaii, from Maine to Texas, Virginia to Califor - Greater Dayton UK Alumni Club nia, there is no place like here. It has helped me appreciate every day and how fortunate we are. One of my most memorable books is “A Walk Across America” by What most surprised me was that someone Peter Jenkins. It was a gi from my parents when I went off to UK in could take the time to make this trip and plan the fall of 1975, given to me on my birthday. When I read this book, that far in advance — money, clothes, the route, I was just starting out on my own. It impressed me as something I the physical part of the walk, surviving the might like to try someday. (Although I have not been able to under - weather. I doubt my wife and I and our dog will take such a trip, I did this year make it to my 50th state, Vermont.) ever undertake such a journey but it will always be e people he met along the way, the jobs he held, the foods, the in the back of my mind to do so. I have a sense of scenery — well, the United States is a very special place. I've also trav - adventure, and have done some adventurous things eled to about 10 foreign countries and there is no place like America. (scuba and hot air ballooning) but something like this and the e book helped me appreciate the diversity of our country and time it takes is the ultimate in an adventure.

Lee A. Jackson ’73 AS It was a gi and it taught me to never Lexington burn a bridge behind me. What surprised Fayette County UK Alumni Club me about the book was the struggles and triumphs that African-Americans had to Most memorable book: “Just Permanent Interests: Black Americans endure to get respect and become full in Congress 1870-1991” by William L. Clay. It’s a nonfiction book participants in the political process. that helps in life. It keeps me grounded in viewing and judging people as individuals, and not because of their philosophy or opinions.

Carol Mize McIntosh ’96 AS, ’00 ED biographies. In reading about his life, I learned Seattle, WA a great deal about this country’s history and Pacific Northwest UK Alumni Club politics. I have passed the copy onto so many friends and family, with my favorite pages My most memorable book is “My American Journey,” which is marked, that I don’t even know where that copy Colin Powell’s autobiography. It was the first autobiography is anymore. that I enjoyed reading and it motivated me to read additional

Ellen Ferguson Conroy is a master of making you feel you Lexington, KY are there in the low country of South Car - Fayette County UK Alumni Club olina or in NYC! While the violence in “e Prince of Tides” was horrific, the results I would choose “e Prince of Tides” by Pat Conroy. I was were very spiritual. e book taught me the drawn to the book because of the reference to the ocean in importance of being true to yourself and to the name. I love the ocean and shells. believe in a world where freedom to live e book drew me in because of the strong family life as you choose is critical. bonds despite the tragedy and hurt that occurred. Pat

www.ukalumni.net 15 Ann Brand Haney ’71 ED e second book is one for grown-ups. “e Nancy, KY Memory Keeper's Daughter” is by Kim Ed - Lake Cumberland UK Alumni Club wards, an assistant professor of English at UK. I bought my copy of this book as well, but for Actually, two books immediately come to mind. e first book different reasons. e reserve list at our li - is "e Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare. I first brary was very long and I thought it would read this book when I was about 10 and it introduced me not only be nice to “support” one of UK’s own. is to the genre of historical fiction — I have always been fascinated by book continues to haunt me years aer I history — but also to the problems one can encounter due read it. It teaches the value of honesty, no mat - to ignorance and intolerance. I used this book in a Chil - ter how painful it can first be, and it illustrates how one single act dren's Literature class while at UK and have recommended committed by one well-meaning but misguided person can change it many, many times to school children and library patrons the lives of many others in the process and how those changes con - where I work at the Pulaski County Public Library. I tinue for a lifetime. Since parts of the book took place during a bought my copy of this book at a school book fair (Har - time when I was on campus, I loved Edwards descriptions of Lex - man Avenue Elementary School, Dayton, Ohio). ington; I felt like I was reading a mental picture book.

Doug Sutherland ’78 BE diverse personalities, come from diverse back - Charlotte, N.C. grounds, and are of varying ranks. e book Charlotte UK Alumni Club moves back and forth between the time in which the story is set and their lives leading up to the war. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore but there is a work of fiction I Mailer does a great job weaving it all together. I have now read on three separate occasions, the first time being when always notice group behavior and chemistries in or - I was a student at UK (I think I bought it at the bookstore there), ganizations I’m involved in (I'm a banker), and I see and I have come away with something a little different each time. a lot of the same interactions between the characters Norman Mailer wrote “e Naked and the Dead” in the 1940s, in this story. Since Mailer wrote the novel shortly aer WWII. It is really several stories within a story, as it follows a aer he had actually served in such a campaign, there group of soldiers through a Pacific Island campaign in the war. It is a lot of historical detail that holds the attention of anyone inter - develops the character of each of the dozen or so soldiers who have ested in the war and the period.

Sarah E. Webb ’05 CIS since, thanks to a simple story about a whale. Indianapolis, IN e 4th grade version long behind me, I re - Indianapolis UK Alumni Club cently dove into Melville’s epic. I still find the same lessons hold true, whether condensed or My most memorable book is “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville. not. Ishmael forces us to realize that finding e summer aer my 4th grade my father took me to a bookstore yourself is a constant journey and cannot be and asked me to pick out any book I wanted, one that I could read done overnight. It is the day-to-day struggles over the summer vacation. Wanting to be exactly like my father, that make us who we are, and create a stronger who was an avid reader, I chose a condensed version of “Moby- character as a result. Dick”. ough it took me all summer to read, I read the book Reading is one of the main ways I relax every day. cover to cover. To a 4th grader, reading one book over the course I travel regularly in my profession so reading, whether in an air - of a summer seemed like an eternity. Finishing “Moby-Dick” port or a hotel, helps me to relax and refuel aer a hard day. My fa - sparked my interest in literature and I’ve been an avid reader ever ther paid a cheap price ($5) to spark a lifetime love of reading!

Vasilios Zoumbos ’07 BE and diversity of corporate governance forms and sys - Athens, Greece tems. It investigates the reasons for the failure of Hellas UK Alumni Club Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Parmalat and other major international corporations; examines the role of in - Studying for my doctoral degree in corporate governance, I discov - ternational standards of corporate governance, with ered a very interesting academic book. Comprehensive and up-to-date, the intervention of the OECD, World Bank and “International Corporate Governance: A Comparative Approach” by IMF; and explores the continuing cultural diversity in omas Clarke analyzes the escalating crisis in corporate governance corporate and institutional forms in the United States and the growing interest in its reform across the globe. and UK, Europe and Asia Pacific. Written by a leading name in the field, this book provides a bal - It’s illustrated with up-to-the minute case studies anced analysis of the relative strengths and weaknesses of the and packed full of excellent illustrative material that Anglo-Saxon, European and Asian traditions of corporate gover - guides student readers through this complex subject. It nance, offering a prognosis of the future development, complexity is a must read for anyone studying corporate governance. 16 Spring 2009 Chris Dykes ’96 ’98 BE found a copy of “A Salty Piece of Land” by Jimmy Spring, TX Buffett. While I can't profess to have encountered Houston UK Alumni Club one of those great moments while reading about the exploits of Tully Mars, I will admit to finding It seems as if everyone has a book that inspires them, the book to be truly captivating. e book served taught them a great lesson or perhaps helped them get as a great escape as Tully Mars took me along on through a tough time in life. But for me, reading books his Caribbean adventure. If you are looking for has never been high on my list of things to do. As an escape from the hassles of everyday life and such, I was a bit underwhelmed when I opened up a can’t simply pack up your bags and get away, pick Christmas present from my parents one year and up a copy and enjoy the next best thing!

Heather Chamberlin Dueitt ’02 AG e book helped me in life to focus on the New York, NY greater good of everyone, no matter their finan - New York City UK Alumni Club cial status. Some of the more extravagant people in life have worked their way through just about My most memorable book is “e Great Gatsby” by F. Scott everything and hold ambition that others can Fitzgerald. e book was studied in high school at Sacred Heart only aspire to embrace. is taught me the dig - Academy and has been a motivation for my life ever since. nity and focus you need to maintain in a money- e decadence of Old New York in the “Roaring Twenties” obsessed world. was so elegant and at the same time the story can relate to New What surprises me most about the book is that York in the 21st century more than ever. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s more than 90 years later “e Great Gatsby” still depictions of the lavish parties on Long Island and the city dur - mirrors society in today’s age. Despite the por - ing the Jazz Age made you feel like you were in the book living trayal of the 1920s in the book, the main societal story line alongside Daisy. transpires in the 21st century frequently.

Robert Miller e book shows you must listen to learn and Winchester, KY to share to receive. It helped me understand you Clark County UK Alumni Club must be humble to be a true friend and com - panion. Many books have special memories for me. All different e book was a gi from a friend and the sur - styles and messages, but one that I have read more than once prise to me was how much a regular person can and have passed along to friends is “Tuesdays with Morrie,” a impact your life. It does not take a world nonfiction by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher. I believe that leader or a wealthy business man — a regular it is because I treasure my time and experiences with my friends person can have all the wisdom you need to and teachers in my past. get through life.

Sasha I. Ragsdale ’98 BE tribulations (or hang-ups as Seuss calls them) Knoxville, TN in life. The book offers great advice to anyone Knoxville UK Alumni Club starting a new journey in life — children, graduates, newlyweds, new parents. My favorite book is “Oh the Places You’ll Go” by the I am sure that I was introduced to this book great Dr. Seuss. This is the book by Theodor Geisel, at an early age, but I remember it most as a originally written as a college commencement speech. high school graduation gift. I now enjoy read - It is an inspirational book highlighting the unlimited ing the book to my four-year-old nephew and potential you have within you and also is an honest actually read it to his class last year during Dr. book acknowledging that there will be trials and Seuss Week.

Elliot Tabor UK Student for my sociology class in high school. It Hometown: Scottsville, KY taught me to be grateful for the won - Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow derful family that I have and also for - giveness. In the end of the book the The most inspirational book that I have read is “A Child son forgave the mother although he Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive,” by Dave Pelzer. It is a was severely scarred for life. This was a nonfiction book about a young boy who is abused by his alco - very surprising aspect to the book. holic mother throughout his childhood. It was a requirement

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www.ukalumni.net 19 his year the University of Kentucky Treaches a milestone: “Wildcats” has Pro files in BLUE been its proud moniker for 100 years! The official nickname for the Univer - sity of Kentucky’s athletics teams, Wildcats became synonymous with UK shortly after a football victory over Illi - nois in 1909. Commandant Carbusier, UK Wildcat then head of the military department at old State University, told a group of students in a chapel service following the game that the Kentucky football team had “fought like Wildcats.” The nickname stuck. Wildcats became more and more popular among UK fans, as well as with members of the media. Later, the nickname also was adopted by the university. The words “Kentucky Wildcats” are deeply mean - ingful today to alumni, evoking happy memories of everything UK, including academic programs, as well as athletic teams. Beginning in the early 1900s, a series of live Wildcat mascots appeared on campus at football games to inspire the UK team and fans. Currently, UK is represented by a bobcat that lives at the Salato Center in the Frankfort area. Named Blue, this cat weighs about 30 pounds, which is normal, but large, for a bobcat. Although Blue is the official live UK mascot, Blue never ap - pears on campus but is available for view - ing in his habitat at the wildlife center. Today, thousands of UK fans are enter - tained by the Wildcat mascot who origi - nated during the 1976-77 academic year. Back then, UK student Gary Tanner donned the costume, dancing and enter - taining the crowd at Commonwealth Sta - dium and Rupp Arena during athletics events. Over the years there have been many students “on the inside” and it is a distinct honor to be selected to serve as a friendly ambassador for the university, attending academic functions and visiting childrens’ groups, as well as athletic events. In fact, there have been so many students privi - leged to strut their stuff as the Wildcat that some of them get together from time to time to reminisce about their special experiences, including the time that one

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For the 17th time in school history, UK Cheerleaders won the Universal Cheerleading Association National Championship trophy in January. The team is coached by Jomo Thompson; T. Lynn Williamson, advisor. www.ukalumni.net 21

Alumni Weekend 2009 University of Kentucky April 16 – 19, 2009 Wildcat Spring Celebration! Keeneland, baseball, art galleries, golf, good food, music, hot air balloons — and more — are on tap to make the 2009 UK Alumni Weekend one not to be forgotten! Bring your family and meet up with former classmates, as well as make new friends during this exciting weekend in the Bluegrass. Plan to attend now! Here are just some of the wonderful events for your enjoyment:

All Weekend Craft Center Tour University Club of Kentucky Golf 1 – 2 p.m., Departs From King 8 a.m. – Noon, University Club of Kentucky - $45 per person Alumni House - Free Cost includes a cart. After April 7 call 859-977-1235 and Bourbons of Kentucky mention Alumni Weekend to reserve a tee time. Tasting Keeneland Racing: April 16 - 19 4 – 6 p.m., King Alumni House - 1 – 5 p.m., Keeneland - $5 Keeneland general admission $5 per person; Free for UK Thursday, April 16 Alumni Association members Alumni Career Panel & Networking Lexington Legends Outing 5:30 – 7 p.m., King Alumni House - $5 per person; Free for UK 6 – 10 p.m., Applebee’s Park - Alumni Association members $15 per person; $12 for UK Friday, April 17 Alumni Association members Downtown Gallery Hop & children 5 – 7 p.m., Downtown Lexington - Free Sunday, April 19 www.lexarts.org UK Women’s Softball UK Legacy Family Picnic 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.; UK Softball 7- 8 p.m., E.S. Good Barn Field- $5 Complex - $5 per person; Free per person; Free for UK Alumni for UK Alumni Association Association members members and up to 3 guests when registered in advance. Balloon Glow 7:30 p.m., E.S. Good Barn Field - UK Symphony Band Free Spring Concert 3 p.m.; Singletary Center for Saturday, April 18 the Arts Concert Hall - Free Classes Without Quizzes 10 a.m. and 11 a.m., White Hall UK Jazz Combos Classroom Building, Rooms 204 7:30 p.m.; Singletary Center for and 208 - Free the Arts Recital Hall - Free

Events are subject to change and are weather permitting. Transportation is not provided. For a complete list of all UK Alumni Weekend events, please visit www.ukalumni.net, keyword: weekend To register for an event: call 1-800-269-ALUM or 859-257-8905 or visit www.ukalumni.net, keyword: weekend INTRODUCING THE University of Kentucky Visa® card FROM CHASE It’s Perfect for UK Alumni!

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The UK College of Communications and Information Studies Outstanding Alumni Award was presented to Andrew Oppmann, pictured above left with Beth Barnes, director of the School of Journalism and Telecommunications, and to Phil Palgreen, pictured above right with Derek R. Lane, associate dean of the graduate program in communication and associate professor in the Department of Communication.

Four UK College of Pharmacy alumni who serve as pharmacy deans across the country joined UK College of Pharmacy Dean Kenneth B. Roberts in honoring UK professor Robert Rapp ’63,’70 PHA, as the recipient of the American College of Clinical The UK Malaysian Alumni Group gathered for dinner and fun in Pharmacy’s Paul F. Parker Medal for Distinguished Service. Pic - Kuala Lumpur during the holiday break. UK alumni living and tured, left to right, are Joseph Dipiro ’81 PHA, executive dean of working in Malaysia and Singapore enjoyed the event along the South Carolina College of Pharmacy; Robert Blouin ’81 PHA, with G.T. Lineberry, associate dean, UK College of dean of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy; Engineering, and Doug Boyd, chief of staff, President’s Office. Roberts; Rapp; David Allen ’85 PHA, dean of the Northwestern Ohio Universities College of Pharmacy; and Don Letendre ’79 PHA, dean of the University of Iowa College of Pharmacy.

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Rodger Bingham of the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, right, was the guest speaker at the Franklin County UK Alumni Club annual meeting. Bingham gave an update on the status of Kentucky agriculture and also entertained the audience talking about his experience as “Kentucky Joe” on the second season of the CBS reality show “Survivor.” Bingham is pictured with Lisa Grim, left, club president.

Members of the Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club enjoyed a bus trip to a UK football game.

The Greater Birmingham UK Alumni Club hosted a Student Send-off for incoming freshmen, left to right, Haley Himic, Mary Coston, Sally McEwen and Charles Hawley.

Members of the Indianapolis UK Alumni Club attended a Pacers game.

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Members of the Arizona UK Alumni Club enjoyed UK Alumni Day at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The group spent time with Cy Young Award winner and former UK baseball great Brandon Webb, front row center.

Members of the Jacksonville UK Alumni Club gathered to cheer on The Greater Houston UK Alumni Club hosted a wine tasting event. the Cats! The Jacksonville club is one of the newest UK Alumni Clubs. Those in attendance included, left to right, Anne Dykes, Pam Kuhn, Tom Matthews, and Tonya Matthews.

UK men’s basketball coach Billy Gillispie signs a fan’s basketball following the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club Tip-Off Luncheon.

www.ukalumni.net 27 GLEANINGS FROM THE Kentucky Kernel

pletes a height and weight study con - 1934 Moments In History cluding that the average freshman girl is Chet Wynne is appointed new athletic 1 1/2 inches taller and 10 pounds heav - director by the Athletic Council . . . ier than her 1928 counterpart . . . C. R. Dean F. Paul Anderson of the College of Hager, Extension class director in Uni - Engineering dies at his home on Rich - versity Extended Programs, is elected mond Road . . . Cameron V. Coffman, a vice president of the Kentucky Educa - junior in the College of Arts and Sci - tion Association . . . An earthmover exca - ences, is elected editor of the Kentuckian vating on the football practice field at a meeting of the University Board of strikes a 6-inch water main causing twin Student Publications . . . Head coach geysers to erupt from the pipe and a Adolph Rupp is offered a new contract slight flood in the Donovan Hall Cafete - after UK wins 64 out of 75 basketball ria . . . The proposed UK College of n

games in the past four years against out - a Nursing will admit its first students in i k c standing teams . . . Courses in all six col - u the fall of 1962 . . . Professor James B. t n e

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The nation gets a new rail-plane, “The o gress general elections within four col - h Zephyr,” which is given a trial run from P leges is discovered by the Kentucky Denver, Colo., to Chicago, Ill. . . .The Hula-Hooping Hipsters Kernel which leads to the approval of a Ohio State vs. UK basketball game pro - new election. duces the largest crowd to ever jam into If you lived through the late 1950s, you’ll the Alumni gymnasium to witness a remember the Hula Hoop national craze, 1984 game . . . Dr. Arthur Earnest Morgan, which invaded UK as thoroughly as it did James W. Brown, director of off-cam - president of Antioch College, Yellow elementary schools. It effectively became a pus class programs, retires after 22 years Springs, Ohio, is Commencement popular pastime in the United States, with of service . . . Marvin Gaye, soul music speaker . . .The College of Arts and Sci - Wham-O selling over 100 million Hula Hoops singer/songwriter, is shot in the chest ences announces the inauguration of in its first year of production. and dies in Los Angeles, Calif. . . . The curricula in Public Service . . . Joe Ru - UK basketball team is honored by 4,500 pert, football captain, is shot on campus . . . The university li - die-hard fans at a pep rally in Memorial Coliseum after a suc - brary, completed in June 1931 at a cost of $450,000, is noted cessful season, including winning the SEC Championship, SEC throughout Kentucky as the best of its kind in the state. Tournament and reaching the Final Four . . . UK schedules more than 1,000 courses for its upcoming summer sessions . . . A 1959 group of architecture students win honorable mention in a na - A 60-day European travel study tour is offered by the Paris- tional competition for passive solar design . . . 803 South is torn France-Europe Association for Travel and Study for only $1,175, down to make way for a Southern Railway underpass . . . General including airline transportation . . . The Student Union Board Telephone overcharges some dorm residents for dialing wrong Subtopics Committee sponsors a trip to Cincinnati to see “ My numbers after changes in dialing procedures are implemented . . . Fair Lady,” with 37 tickets available for $5.60 each . . . The UK The UK Athletics Board approves funds for a new indoor swim - poultry judging team wins third place in the 12th annual South - ming pool on campus . . . First baseman Randy Clark breaks the ern Collegiate Poultry Judging Contest at the University of Ten - UK season home run record with 17 runs for the season . . . Café nessee . . . The Board of Trustees approves plans for the LMNOP, a new night club and restaurant, offers alternative en - construction of a Sigma Chi house, an Alpha Gamma Rho house tertainment for Lexington . . . All five of UK’s senior basketball and a new men’s dormitory to be built behind Donovan Hall . . . players are drafted into the annual NBA college draft. Dr. Wilbur A Heinz, associate in the UK Health Service, com - Compiled by Sarah Dunaway 28 Spring 2009 Career Corner with Caroline Francis

Clinch The Interview With A Closing Statement Battling Unemployment Blues Mike Hammond, group recruiter with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Unemployment and the job search process can shake even the suggests the following strategy for closing the job interview. When most confident of individuals. Although bills and rejection letters asked if you have any questions or as the interview is nearing the end, may be mounting, follow these daily suggestions to keep your job pose this question to the recruiter, “Based on our initial interview, do search positive, focused, and moving forward. Nothing ever hap - you perceive anything that would prevent me from performing well pens as fast as we would like, however, even bumps in the road like in your organization?” Or ask, “Now that you know a little more this will eventually pass. about my background, education and experience, is there anything • Get out of the house every day and be exposed to profes - that would prevent you from extending an offer or hiring me?” sional, working people. Few jobs will come knocking on e beauty of this strategy is that it allows you to address any con - your door. cerns the interviewer may have before you walk out the door. • Don’t be embarrassed to ask for help from your network. Another closing strategy suggested by Carla Hunter, of Career Email them a fifteen second commercial that focuses on Span Inc. in Lexington, is to ask the interviewer, “May I have per - your most marketable strengths and skills. mission to make a closing statement?” Rarely will you be denied. • Seek out supportive people, besides your family, who can Say a thank you for their time and consideration. en, share three give you a jolt if needed. of your most relevant strengths for the position. • Combine efforts with others who may be searching for a job. Form your own job club or support group. • Brainstorm a list of industries or employers who may be Recession Proof Your Career thriving given a recession. Although the last six months have demonstrated that few indus - • Seek personal counseling if you are having an exception - ally difficult time of functioning. tries are recession proof, here are some things you can do to help It really is true that job seeking is a full-time job. Remember, recession proof your career: • Diversify your skill set. Take classes or sign-on for new that hope and maintaining a positive attitude are two essential projects that will expand your network, skills, expertise keys to turning your situation around. and ultimately build your resume. • Be visible in your industry or field by increasing your on - Looking For A Special Employee? line presence. Contribute to blogs. Learn more about on - Employers who are interested in participating in Career Fairs, line networking tools (LinkedIn.com, visualcv.com, etc.). campus recruiting, or posting job announcements (for internships, • Keep your resume up-to-date and constantly evolving. entry level and more experienced positions), should contact the James W. Stuckert Career Center at 859-257-2746 or visit Not Getting Interviews Or Job Offers? www.uky.edu/CareerCenter for more information. Many job seekers are spinning their wheels wondering why they are not getting contacted by employers. True, the economy may be New Director At Career Center partially to blame. However, other top reasons include: e James W. Stuckert Career Center is pleased to announce the • Unclear job goals. appointment of Francene Gilmer to the position of director. She • A resume that does not sell targeted job skills. comes to UK with over 20 years of experience in career services at • A candidate’s lack of enthusiasm. Vanderbilt University. Gilmer also has been an active community member and volunteer in the Nashville, Tenn., area. In today’s job market, top candidates must clearly and succinctly communicate their relevant job strengths (in writing and in per - Caroline Francis, Ed.S., NCCC is available for in-person, telephone son) and sell themselves to employers. For example, you must be or e-mail consultation. Reach her at [email protected] or 859-257- able to confidently state three characteristics that would make you 9323 (voicemail). Alumni Career Services are made possible by a the ideal candidate for the job and back that up with specific ex - special gift to the Career Center from the Jane I. Morris endow - amples. ment to the UK Alumni Association.

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He ored recently with the Out - news of your recent accomplishments and Jessica Gay Bell ’43 CIS is a is a member of the UK Alumni standing Alumnus of Kentucky transitions. 2008 William R. Markesbery Association Hall of Distin - (OAK) Award from the Ken - Please write to us Senior Star. She was selected by guished Alumni. tucky Advocates for Higher at Class Notes the UK Sanders-Brown Center Education. UK Alumni Association on Aging Foundation for her 1960s King Alumni House active contributions and inspi - Wilfrid Schroder ’68 AS, ’70 Lexington, KY ration to the community. She Morell “Gene” Mullins ’63 LAW is serving on the 40506-0119; previously wrote news copy at AS, ’67 LAW recently retired Supreme Court of Kentucky. Fax us at 859-323-1063; WHAS-TV in Louisville and with emeritus status from the He previously served on the E-mail us at served on the airport board in University of Arkansas at the Kentucky Court of Appeals, as [email protected] or Lexington. She also is a co - Little Rock William H. Bowen well as the Kenton County submit your information founder of the Lexington Ball. School of Law, where he taught District Court. in the online community at since 1980. www.ukalumni.net Robert Mayes ’50 BE is presi - William Cunningham ’69 keyword: class dent of Columbia Southern W. Currie Milliken ’64 LAW LAW is serving on the Please be advised University, an online university is an attorney in Bowling Supreme Court of Kentucky. that due to space based in Orange Beach, Ala. Green. He was awarded the He was previously a circuit constraints and the length He recently received the Medal highest recognition from the court judge in Kentucky. of time between issues, for Achievement in Promoting Hilltoppers ’76 Chapter of the your submission to Class Education from the Central American Business Women’s Howard Enoch III ’69 AS is Notes might not appear Committee of the Vietnam As - Association for supporting the the director of the E. Paul for several issues. sociation for Promoting Educa - strengths and values of the Robsham Jr. Theater Arts We look forward to hearing from you! tion. e prestigious award is local chapter. Center at Boston College in given based on contributions to Massachusetts. He resides in developing an international ed - Alan R. Siskind ’64 BE is a Framingham. COLLEGE INDEX ucation program in Vietnam. board member of Aventura Agriculture — AG Holdings Inc. in Fort Laud - Stephen White ’69 ’72 ’74 AS Arts & Sciences — AS Joseph C. McMurtry ’50 PHA erdale, Fla., where he serves as is dean of the College of Arts Business & Economics — BE Communications & is a 2008 William R. Markes - an independent director. He and Sciences at Kansas State Information Studies — CIS bery Senior Star, selected by was previously a partner at a University, where he has suc - Dentistry — DE the UK Sanders-Brown Center Miami advertising agency and cessfully increased the number Design — DES on Aging Foundation. He was specialized in representing ho - of minority and female faculty Education — ED a combat medic for the U.S. tels, airlines, cruise lines, auto members. He has been awarded Engineering — EN Fine Arts — FA Army where he earned two dealers and auctions. several recognitions, including The Graduate School — GS Bronze Stars and a Purple the National Council for Geo - Health Sciences — HS Heart. He owns Drug Mart in Duane Gilliam ’67 EN is graphic Education Distin - Law — LAW Nicholasville with a business chairman of the board of direc - guished Teaching Achievement Medicine — MED partner and works there part tors for VeraSun Energy Corp., Award. He also is involved with Nursing — NUR Pharmacy — PHA time. McMurtry was previously one of the nation’s largest various organizations, includ - Public Health — PH president of the Lions Club, ethanol producers. He has vast ing the National Council for Social Work — SW the Rotary Club and the Jes - experience in the oil industry Geographic Education, as well samine County Chamber of and previously served as execu - as the Association of American Commerce. He is the founder tive vice president of Marathon Geographers. of the Copia Foundation and Ashland Petroleum LLC. He is also has donated land for a park a 2003 inductee into the Uni - 1970s in Lebanon, Ky. versity of Kentucky Engineer - ing Hall of Distinction. Edward D. Hays ’70 AS, ’73 Eugene L. DuBow ’53 AS re - LAW is an attorney at Sheehan cently completed his 42nd year James Klotter ’68 ’69 ED, ’75 Barnett Hays Dean and Pen - with the American Jewish AS is a history professor at nington in Danville. He was Committee, where he is senior Georgetown College and has appointed recently by Ken - advisor. Decorated by the Ger - published scholarly works tucky Gov. Steve Beshear to the man government for the work about Kentucky’s history. He Department of Workers he has done in German - Amer - has appeared on several televi - Claims as an administrative law ican Jewish relations, he now sion networks, such as the His - judge. publishes a newsletter on the tory Channel and KET, as an

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James J. Hoecker ’70 ’75 AS continuously promoting the is a senior counsel for Husch community and the environ - Blackwell Sanders in Wash - ment. Salmon lives in Madis - ington, D.C., where he fo - onville. cuses on emerging markets in the wholesale natural gas and Douglas D. Tough ’72 BE is electric industry. He was pre - on the board of directors for viously the chairman of the International Flavors and Fra - Federal Energy Regulatory grances Inc. He is the CEO Administration. and managing director of Ansell Limited in Australia, Benjamin Pugh Jr. ’71 BE is which focuses on health care vice president and senior busi - barrier protection. He was pre - ness banker at Huntington viously president and CEO of Bank in Cincinnati, Ohio. He Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Inc. has more than 30 years of ex - perience and was previously omas A. Bowden ’73 AS is president and CEO at Citi - an analyst at the Ayn Rand zens Deposit Bank & Trust, as Center for Individual Rights in well as executive vice presi - Washington, D.C. He prac - dent at U.S. Bank. ticed law in Baltimore for 20 years before joining the non - G. Lindsey Davis ’72 ED is profit sector. He lives in bishop of United Methodist Millersville, Md., with his wife Churches for the Louisville and son. L?I?ED7H?;IÅM;B9EC; area, which consists of 22 churches, as well as a school, Ron Key ’73 AS is the dean of clinic and hospital. He is the the languages and speech divi - former resident bishop of sion at the Virginia Beach North Georgia. campus of Tidewater Commu - nity College. He was vice pres - Garry A. Fleming ’72 BE, ’78 ident of academic affairs at GS was appointed to the John Okefenokee Community and S. Shannon Endowed Profes - Technical College in Waycross, sorship in Economics at Ga., as well as dean of liberal Roanoke College in Salem, arts at Cuyahoga Community Va. He has been an economics College in Cleveland, Ohio. professor at the college for 22 years and received the Scott C. Veazey ’74 DES is the Roanoke College Exemplary National Council of Architec - Teaching Award in 2004. tural Registration Boards’ treasurer. He previously served Estill Curtis “Buck” Penning - as the council’s secretary and ton ’72 AS is a scholar in regional director and also is af - American Southern art. He filiated with VPS Architecture, currently focuses on Kentucky known for its “green” methods painters. He was the founder of of architectural practices, and the Morris Museum of South - is a managing partner with the ern Art in Augusta, Ga., and Evansville, Ind., firm. has co-established Cane Ridge Publishing House in Louisville. Karen Cotton McDaniel ’75 CIS is a professor at Eastern Sue Anne Salmon ’72 CIS, Kentucky University. She was ’94 ED is a member of the appointed recently by Gov. Sierra Club and Kentuckians Steve Beshear to serve on the for the Commonwealth. She Kentucky Humanities Council. was honored at a health food conference in Louisville for

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Gail Insko Wise ’75 ’80 NUR, Robert Brock ’79 FA is the di - Don Penn Moore III ’82 BE is search protocol clinical manager ’98 ED is the dean of nursing rector of the Kentucky Reper - president of the Moore Auto - at the UK College of Nursing, and allied health as well as the tory eater in Horse Cave, motive Group in Owensboro. where she is currently opera - associate provost at Gateway which won the Governor’s He also is treasurer of the Ken - tions manager for emergency Community and Technical Awards in the Arts Commu - tucky Wesleyan College Board and trauma services. College in Kentucky. She was nity Arts Award for 2008. of Trustees. previously the dean of nursing John Russin ’83 AG is associate at Kentucky Christian Univer - Nicholette M. Odlivak ’79 AS Mary Cowdrey Noble ’82 vice chancellor for the Louisiana sity in Grayson. Gov. Steve is president and CEO of Com - LAW is serving on the State University AgCenter, Beshear recently appointed her munity Agency for Senior Citi - Supreme Court of Kentucky. where he focuses on continuing to represent registered nurses zens in St. George, N.Y., where She is one of the founders of the center’s research and exten - on the Kentucky Board of she was previously vice president. Kentucky Drug Courts, where sion program strengths, as well Nursing. She also is the former vice presi - she previously served as judge. as collaborating with local stake - dent of the North Richmond holders. He is a nationally-rec - Vanissa Braswell Murphy ’77 Community Mental Health Crystal Collins Spencer ’82 ognized researcher in the field of FA is a professor of music and Center for the Sisters of Charity. CIS is a senior partner with aflatoxin management in corn, theater arts at the University of She has expertise in the areas of Lozier ames Frazier Spencer as well as soybean pathology. Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where mental health and geriatrics. & Schlieter PA in Pensacola, Fla., she was awarded the Maxwell where she focuses on workers Colley W. Bell III ’84 AS is the Schoenfeld Distinguished Pro - 1980s compensation, medical malprac - head of Nansemond-Suffolk fessorship for her commitment tice and mediation. e Pen - Academy in Suffolk, Va. He was and achievements. She has Del Miller ’80 PHA is a physi - sacola News Journal named her the former assistant head of completed several research cian at University Hospitals Outstanding Business Woman in school at Tower Hill School in projects, including interdisci - and a professor of psychiatry at 2007 and Super Lawyer maga - Wilmington, Del. He also has plinary lessons in general the Roy J. and Lucille A. zine named her a Securities Liti - experience as a teacher, dorm music. Carver College of Medicine at gation lawyer in 2006. parent, residence director and the University of Iowa. He was dean of students. Susan Stokley Clary ’78 AS, appointed to the Katherine Gregory A. Burton ’83 BE is on ’81 LAW is serving as the Griffin Professorship for his re - the board of trustees of the Uni - Jeffrey W. Hinkel ’84 DES is Supreme Court of Kentucky search in the areas of schizo - versity of Charleston. He is pres - owner of Voltage, one of the clerk and general counsel in phrenia and other major ident and CEO of BrickStreet only retail outlets in the Cincin - Franklin County, Ky. mental illnesses. Mutual Insurance and also is on nati, Ohio, area to offer contem - the board of directors for the porary high-design lighting and Mark ompson ’78 ED is im - Alan Reinstein ’80 BE is an ac - United Way of Kanawha Valley, furniture. e store specializes mediate past chairman of the counting professor at the Wayne the West Virginia Chamber of in European-made furniture Southern Regional Council of State University School of Busi - Commerce, and the West Vir - from designers such as Cassina, the National Recreation and ness Administration. He recently ginia Roundtable. Maxalto and B&B Italia. Park Association. He has won the UK Von Allmen School served as director of Paducah of Accountancy Outstanding F. Kathleen Foley ’83 AS is a Madison Hodges ’84 CIS is on Park Services since 2001 and Ph.D./DBA Alumnus Award. former actress and theater critic the board of directors for the has worked in the parks and for the Los Angeles Times . She North Treasure Coast Chapter recreation profession for 30 Larry Manship ’81 MED is a was honored at the UK Col - of the American Red Cross in years. general surgeon at the Mead - lege of Fine Arts Recognition Florida. He also is the manager owview Regional Medical Cen - Ceremony with the Distin - of WQCS radio in Fort Pierce. Ruth Webb ’78 AS, ’86 LAW ter in Maysville. He has more guished Alumni Award which He is a former executive director is the deputy commissioner for than 20 years of experience and celebrates her devotion to the - of the University Station Al - the Bureau of Operations and also conducts his own practice, ater. She was previously vice liance, as well as a former execu - Support Services in Kentucky, which is located in the same president of the Los Angeles tive with National Public Radio. where she oversees offices of building. He was previously a Drama Critics Circle and is co- Education Technology and In - surgeon in Mount Sterling and author of “Nuclear Chic.” Emilie Yarid Couch ’85 BE is a ternal Administration and Sup - Columbia, S.C. partner of the family-owned port for the Education Patricia Kunz Howard ’83 ’90 Yarid’s, which recently celebrated Department. She has been staff John P. McDonald ’81 BE is ’04 NUR was inducted into the its 90th reunion. Yarid’s consists counsel for the House of Rep - president of Morpace Inc., a full- Academy of Emergency Nurs - of several stores in various loca - resentatives, as well as executive service, practice-based survey re - ing in 2008 by the Emergency tions including a discount outlet director for the Kentucky Insti - search and consulting firm Nurses Association for her con - in downtown Lewisburg, Va. tute for Education Research. headquartered in Farmington tinuous contributions to patient Hills, Mich. care. She was previously the re -

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Lisa Herzberg Echsner ’85 HS Michael J. Plummer ’87 AS is a is state director for the Greater lieutenant colonel 67th Signal Kentucky Chapter of the Battalion commander in the March of Dimes, located in U.S. Army. He holds a master’s Louisville. She oversees mis - in military strategy from the sion outreach, marketing com - Maxwell Air Force Base in munication and fund-raising. Montgomery, Ala. He lives in She was previously metro serv - Martinez, Ga. ice center regional director for the Girl Scouts of Kentucky. Audry Gayle Rhodes ’87 MED provides occupational health Andrew Oppman ’85 CIS is care and medical oversight at the publisher of e Leaf- Convenient Care in Owens - Chronicle, Tennessee’s oldest boro. He is a retiree of the U.S. :H;7C;HIÅM;B9EC; newspaper. He also is publisher Air Force. He previously prac - and president of the Daily ticed at the occupational med - News Journal in Murfreesboro. ical clinic at St. Mary’s in He was previously the editor Evansville, Ind. He is board cer - for the Kentucky edition of the tified in occupational and envi - Cincinnati Enquirer. ronmental medicine, as well as family medicine. Donald Reid ’85 AG, ’00 ED is principal at Kennedy Metro James Stewart ’87 BE is execu - Middle School in Louisville, tive vice president and chief ad - where he had been assistant ministrative officer at Graon principal. He also is a former School Inc. in Northern Vir - high school agricultural science ginia. His key challenge is the teacher. implementation of a fully paper - less electronic client record Deborah J. Drury ’86 DES is within the organization. He was owner of Deborah Drury Inte - previously chief financial officer rior Design in Lexington. She at Centerstone of America. was awarded first place in two American Society of Interior Melanie D. Otis ’88 ’89 SW, Designers competition cate - ’99 AS is an associate professor gories. She also has won previ - at the University of Kentucky. ous awards, including a She recently was appointed as Cornelius A. Hubbuch ASID the Richard K. Brautigam Pro - Design Award, as well as a fessor in Criminal, Juvenile and CWB Magazine Award. Social Justice in the College of Social Work. Todd Osborne ’87 DES is vice president at Hellmuth Obata Mary Beth McGlothlin Rouse and Kassabaum in Los Angeles, ’88 ED is employed at Wood - Calif., where he focuses on the ford County firm’s aviation and transporta - High School, tion practice. His clients in - where she clude Los Angeles World teaches forensic Airports, the LA County Met - science, biology ropolitan Transportation Au - and integrated thority, the Phoenix Sky science. e National Associa - Harbor International Airport tion of Biology Teachers and the State of Hawaii De - awarded her with Kentucky’s partment of Transportation, 2008 Outstanding Biology Airport Division. Teacher Award. She also has been recognized by “Who’s Who” among Science Teachers multiple times.

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Andrew Self ’88 LAW is a Gary Valentine ’90 EN is the professor in 1990 and served as the applications manager of Christian County circuit judge. Kentucky manager for the School of Math and Sciences protein and genomic sciences He previously worked in private Ohio River Bridges Project, chairwoman and dean of Lib - for GE Healthcare in Piscat - practice and was a featured which is the planned construc - eral Arts until her appointment away, N.J., where he supervised speaker at the Constitution Day tion of two bridges and the re - as interim provost. the sales and marketing sup - celebration in 2008 at Hop - design of Spaghetti Junction in port team. He also is a member kinsville Community College. Louisville, along with several Sheryl Beasley Edge ’92 BE is a of the American Society of other projects. He had been a central executive committee Mass Spectrometry and the Matthew T. Williamson ’88 branch manager for precon - member of the Kentucky Dem - American Chemical Society. EN is a process department struction with the Transporta - ocratic Party. She previously in - manager for ADF Engineering tion Cabinet’s District 4 office terned with former Sen. Michael Christopher Essid ’93 Inc. in Miamisburg, Ohio. He in Elizabethtown. Wendell Ford and also worked AS is the director for the Office previously worked for Procter with Gov. Paul Patton. of Emergency Communications & Gamble and also has experi - Lucy Ogburn Weaver ’90 BE is in Washington, D.C. He was ence with plastics and con - senior vice president of lending John-Mark Hack ’92 AS is di - previously a management con - sumer products, as well as at the Bank of Florida - Tampa rector of governmental affairs sultant for the State of Virginia. specialty chemicals. Bay, where she previously served for Kentucky American Water, a as vice president. She has more company with major service Peter C. November II ’93 BE, Melanie Joy Defler ’89 SW than 15 years of financial experi - areas in Lexington and Owen - ’96 LAW is senior vice presi - owns, boards, rehabilitates, ence and is actively involved ton. He previously founded dent, general counsel and direc - breaks and trains horses near with the Humane Society and Global Development Partners, a tor of mergers and acquisitions Eminence. She also designed the Tampa Bay Junior Achieve - lobbying firm that represents for LHC Group Inc., which her own barn. ment program. clients in sectors such as real es - provides home nursing services. tate, health care, banking and He was previously an equity Jeff Fluhr ’89 AG is president David Dalton ’91 AS is a his - nonprofit organizations. partner with Alston & Bird LLP of Wichita Downtown Devel - tory professor at the College of in Atlanta, Ga., where he repre - opment Corp. in Kansas. He the Ozarks in Point Lookout, Paul Long ’92 AS is vice chan - sented publicly traded high was the City of Baton Rouge Mo. He is published in several cellor of educational services at growth health care companies. Downtown Development Dis - journals and is the Elizabeth Metropolitan Community trict assistant executive direc - Hoyt Clark Chair of Humani - College in Kansas City, Mo., Roger Ross ’93 LAW is vice tor, where he helped to ties. He was recently appointed where he served as a philoso - president of legal affairs for Via facilitate public and private in - by Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt to phy instructor and also the so - Licensing Corp. in San Fran - vestments in the downtown the Missouri Civil War Sesqui - cial science and business cisco, Calif. He manages the area, worked to improve the centennial Commission. division chairman. As vice legal, patent and compliance city’s riverfront and assisted in chancellor, he oversees the de - operations for the organiza - consolidating state offices to Douglas W. Gott ’91 Law has velopment of academic policies tion. He was previously a part - bring them downtown. been practicing as a workers and new programs. ner at McDermott Will & compensation attorney in Bowl - Emery in Silicon Valley. 1990s ing Green. He recently was ap - Rob Ostrander ’92 DES is a pointed by Gov. Steve Beshear multimedia producer with M. Sean omson ’93 BE is Michael Bowling ’90 EN is as an administrative law judge in Shadow Productions in Burling - CFO of HCA Inc. in Freder - vice president of entertain - the Department of Workers ton, Vt. He is a longtime musi - icksburg, Va. He joined HCA in ment strategy and portal Claims. His term expires at the cian and producer and earned a 1995 as staff accountant at services for AT&T Entertain - end of 2011. specialized degree in audio engi - Frankfort Regional Medical ment Services. He has experi - neering at Full Sail University in Center in Kentucky. He also has ence in areas ranging from David A. Hall ’91 AS is resident Orlando, Fla. been CFO of the Retreat Hospi - sales and marketing to opera - vice president of public affairs at tal in Richmond, Va. tions. He resides in Dallas, the CSX Corp. in Louisville. He Logan E. Whalen ’92 AS is as - Texas. also was reappointed by Gov. sociate professor of French and Jeffrey Burlew ’94 CIS is the as - Steve Beshear to serve as a Ken - graduate liaison for the Depart - sistant metro editor at the Talla - Susan March George ’90 AS is tucky Emergency Response ment of Modern Languages, Lit - hassee Democrat. He recently executive director of St. An - Commission member. eratures, and Linguistics at the won the Florida Society of drews Estates South in Boca University of Oklahoma. Newspaper Editors’ annual jour - Raton, Fla. She has 15 years of Bobbie Scott Hatfield ’91 AS nalism competition in the Free - experience in the senior living is provost and vice president of G. Reid Asbury ’93 AS is the dom of Information category for services industry. academic affairs at the Univer - director of marketing for Pro - an article written on local gov - sity of Rio Grande in Ohio. tea Biosciences Inc. in Morgan - ernment spending. She began as a mathematics town, W.Va. He was previously

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Anthony Johnson ’94 ’96 BE Shawn M. Crouch ’96 HS is is vice president, senior busi - chief of staff in the office of ness banking relationship the vice president for health - manager for KeyBank in the care operations at UK Southwest Ohio and North - HealthCare, where he creates ern Kentucky districts. He and executes strategic initia - was previously vice president tives and operations manage - of Park National Bank, as ment. He was recently named well as vice president, com - as a “Top 40 Alumnus” by the mercial lending of Bank of UK College of Health Sci - C7L;H?9AIÅM;B9EC; Kentucky. ences, and was previously the commissioner at the Ken - Colleen J. Litkenhaus ’94 AS tucky Department for Medi - is an assistant U.S. trade rep - caid Services. resentative for intergovern - mental affairs and public James Long ’96 ’01 AG is liason, where she manages the vice president of commodity U.S. Trade Advisory Commit - analytics for John B. Collins tee system and leads domestic Associates Inc., a reinsurance outreach efforts. She was pre - broker for crop insurers based viously in the White House in Minneapolis, Minn. He chief of staff’s office and was provides experience in areas a special assistant to the presi - such as weather derivatives dent for management and ad - and crop reinsurance model - ministration. ing. He was previously risk analytics manager for Gen - Timothy Marinaro ’94 EN is worth Financial Inc. a city engineer at the sewage treatment plant in New Al - Kevin Schwartz ’96 BE is the bany, Ind. He was previously founder of Schwartz CPA a sales and service engineer at Group in Owensboro, which General Electric, where he focuses on providing insight sold equipment and chemi - and guidance along with tax cals. He also has nearly 10 and accounting information. years of experience in con - He recently was named co-en - struction. trepreneur of the year by the Greater Owensboro Chamber John “Tres” Settle ’95 ED is of Commerce. superintendent of McLean County public schools. Before Leila W. Salisbury ’97 AS is this, Settle was principal of the director of the University McLean County Middle Press of Mississippi, where School. she helps find new opportuni - ties for the formatting and Stephen Stengell ’95 BE is distribution of books. She president of Allied Energy previously worked for the Inc. in Bowling Green, where University Press of Kentucky. he has been employed since Salisbury lives in Jackson. the company was founded. He has more than 10 years of Natalee Gilmore Ferreri ’98 management experience in AS, ’02 LAW is a contract the oil and natural gas indus - lawyer for Compliance Inc. in try, and has attended the Ex - New York. She was previously ecutive Management an attorney at Jackson Kelly Program, sponsored by the PLLC in Lexington and a re - Independent Petroleum Asso - search associate at Agency ciation of America. Approval & Development in Jacksonville, Fla.

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Lisa Carol Mullins ’98 BE is C. Matthew Saunders ’01 AS a partner in Two Stone Inc., is a teacher at Matanzas High which owns Louisville School in Palm Coast, Fla. For Stoneware, a maker of hand- the third time this academic crafted, functional pottery. year, he has taken students The company is nearly 200 from surrounding schools to years old and among its serv - Central America to participate ices provides a bridal registry, in the Belize Valley Archaeo - in which brides sign up for logical Reconnaissance Project. custom-painted dinnerware, bakeware and serveware. Gerald Gonsalves ’02 BE is chairman of the department of OEK«H;ÅM;B9EC; Austin L. Reitenga ’98 BE is business administration at an assistant professor at the South Carolina State Univer - University of Alabama Cul - sity. He was employed previ - verhouse School of Account - ously at the College of ancy. He also is a certified Charleston, where he was an management accountant and assistant professor of manage - a certified public accountant. ment information systems and His research primarily fo - global operations and technol - cuses on variables that lead to ogy management. executive compensation. Bryan Lee ’02 DES is a regis - Elisa A. Cawood ’99 LAW is tered architect at BSSW Archi - part of the employee benefits tects Inc., which is head- team at Womble Carlyle San - quartered in southwest Florida. dridge & Rice in Charlotte, He has completed several proj - N.C. She helps clients with ects, including the Terry Park Employee Retirement In - Stadium renovation and new come Security Act issues, as construction for the Lee well as employee benefits. County Justice Center in Fort She previously practiced at Meyers. Kane and Koltun in Florida. Richard Pace ’02 BE is ac - 2000s count supervisor at omas J. OEK«H;Å7BM7OIÅM;B9EC;Å>EC; Paul Inc. in Philadelphia, Pa. David Fooy ’00 ’04 ED is as - He manages national consumer ;N?D=JEDÅM;B9EC;IÅ8KI?D;IIC;DÅ7D:ÅMEC;DÅM>EÅ sistant principal at Kalama - promotions, strategic planning zoo Central High School in and new product launches for M7DJÅJEÅFHEIF;HÅ7D:Å?DDEL7J; Å9H;7J;ÅEFFEHJKD?J?;I Å Michigan. He was previously the M&M’s brand. an assistant principal at a middle school in Dry Ridge. Terrence eodore Tucker ’02 9>7D=;ÅB?L;IÅ7D:Å8K?B:Å9ECCKD?J?;IÅ7D:ÅM;«BBÅ:EÅ ’06 AS is an assistant professor Holly Dunn Pendleton ’00 at the University of Arkansas ;L;HOJ>?D=ÅM;Å97DÅJEÅC7A;ÅOEKÅ<;;BÅH?=>JÅ7JÅ>EC;Å BE is executive director of in Fayetteville, focusing on Holly’s House in Evansville, English literature. ED9;Å7=7?D Ind., a place of advocacy for violence and abuse victims. Keith Harmon ’03 MED is a The organization provides a surgeon with Pocatello Surgical safe place for individuals re - Associates in Idaho. He previ - porting violent crimes. The ously completed his residency facility provides space for in Grand Rapids, Mich. He law enforcement officers, ad - also goes on a three-week an - vocates and prosecutors, as nual trip to Vietnam with the well as Child Protective Vietnam Hope Connection to Services. help the local poor and dis - EHÅCEH;Å?DEKI; abled residents. tt{ŁŠ7?DÅJ ÅK?J;Ås{v Å ;N?D=JED Å Åu{v{x ==H;7J>EKI;¡ECC;H9; ;N?D=JED9EC Åy{{ÄturÄrr{{ÅÅÅÅ ECC;H9; ;N?D=JED9EC Class Notes

Michael Orlando ’03 AG is an Brian omas Ray ’04 BE is a recently was awarded the Zuck - Paul Kevin Burberry Award assistant bear program coordi - senior financial analyst for erman Fellowship from Harvard from the Human Development nator for the Florida Wildlife Hilton Hotels Corp. in Mem - University which provides him Group to recognize her achieve - Commission in DeLand, Fla., phis, Tenn. with full tuition plus a $30,000 ment and commitment. where he helps to protect the stipend. animals, as well as educate peo - Nathan Speck ’04 DES is an as - Daniel Bernitt ’08 FA is a solo ple about bears. sociate designer at Gould Evans Kristin Stoner Barnes ’06 SW performer and writer who has in Lawrence, Kan. He previously is the project director for the showcased his work in festivals Daniel Robinson ’03 MED is interned at Fitzsimons Office of AmeriCorps’ Cincinnati Youth across the country. He has re - practicing at Pediatric Affiliates Architecture Inc. in Lexington Collaborative, where she pro - ceived several grants and fellow - of Hampton Roads in Virginia as an architect and associate de - vides one-on-one support for ships and wrote “Dose: Plays & Beach. He has trained with signer. high school students going Monologues,” which was a Children’s Hospital of e through the college application Lambda Literary Award in Kings Daughters and Eastern Michelle Smith Tipton ’04 AG process. Drama finalist. While at UK, he Virginia Medical School, both is the executive director of An - was a member of the Honors in Norfolk, Va. gels’ Place of Pittsburgh in Penn - Steven Goodson ’06 CIS is spe - Program and was a Gaines Fel - sylvania. She oversees media and cial assistant to Tubby Smith, low. Mindy R. Smith ’03 AS, ’06 public relations and secures head coach of the University of HS is a physician’s assistant at funding for the nonprofit organ - Minnesota men’s basketball Emily A. Cox ’08 AS is the win - Good Samaritan Hospital in ization. e organization aids team. He was previously an assis - ner of the Miss Kentucky 2008 Lexington. low-income parents who are tant coach at UK and also was a pageant. She is a spokeswoman full-time students. She also par - Team USA assistant coach at the for the Kentucky Department of John Cowan ’04 MED is the ticipated in the 2008 Forbes World University Games in Agriculture’s campaign to edu - owner of Bowling Green Der - Fund Conversations, which 2005. While at UK, he was the cate the public about the nega - matology and Skin Care Spe - aimed to build partnerships student manager for the basket - tive effects of minors purchasing cialists, a facility that treats a among nonprofit organizations. ball team. tobacco products. She plans to wide variety of skin problems. return to the UK College of He previously interned with the Jason S. Matuskiewicz ’05 AS, Tara Bonistall ’07 AS SW is a Pharmacy when her year as Miss Internal Medical Department ’08 LAW is an attorney at the staff member with Planned Par - Kentucky is over. at New York University School Frank Jenkins Law Office in enthood Southwest Ohio Re - of Medicine and completed his Lexington, where he focuses on gion in Cincinnati, Ohio, where Nathan Landrum ’08 AS par - residency at the Department of motor vehicle accidents and she counsels HIV patients. She ticipated in the Fuller Center Bi - Dermatology at Emory Univer - other personal injury cases. He recently served as an MTV news cycle Adventure last summer to sity in Atlanta, Ga. also assists clients with workers’ correspondent for the Interna - benefit Fuller housing projects. compensation benefits and So - tional AIDS Youth Summit and e ride stretched from San Christopher J. Crumrine ’04 cial Security disability. Conference in Mexico City. Diego, Calif., to Savannah, Ga. CIS is strategic program assis - Along the path, Landrum and tant for Phi Gamma Delta In - Alison T. Montoya ’05 CIS is Nathaniel T. Emge ’07 AG is an the other riders stopped to work ternational Fraternity. He on the news team at WLWT- assistant tennis coach at Michi - on Fuller housing projects. recently was appointed by Gov. TV in Cincinnati, Ohio. She gan State University. He played Steve Beshear to serve as a stu - had been weekend news anchor, tennis for UK as a student and Danielle E. Rose ’08 CIS works dent member of the Kentucky weekday reporter, editor, pro - was a co-captain his senior year, in administration and marketing Council on Postsecondary Edu - ducer and photographer for a three-year letter winner and at Morley and Associates Inc. in cation. He was previously the WBBJ in Jackson, Tenn. also ranked 41st in singles. He the Evansville, Ind., area. She UK Student Government As - previously was a teaching profes - previously interned with Pre - sociation chief of staff. Mary E. Phillips ’05 BE is sional at the WildCat Tennis ston-Osborne in Lexington and teaching accounting at Middle Club, as well as the Lexington UK Public Relations. Clay Duerson ’04 ’05 BE Tennessee State University. She Tennis Club. was selected out of 48 candi - also recently taught a workshop Sarah Collier ornton ’08 dates as the Gillette Rookie hosted by the American Insti - Christina Espinosa ’07 ED is a MED is in residency at George - Reporter, which gave him the tute of Certified Public Ac - staff member in the UK Human town University Hospital in chance to report on the countants in Murfreesboro. Development Institute, where Washington, D.C., having grad - World Series as a part of the she is gauging consumer satisfac - uated from UK with high dis - Major League Baseball cover - Ryan Quarles ’05 ’06 AG, ’06 tion of people in Kentucky with tinction. age team. While at UK, he GS was a student member on disabilities and is assisting in cre - was the Wildcat mascot. the Kentucky Council on Post - ating an online version of the in - secondary Education and a sec - stitute’s graduate certification ond-year law student at UK. He program. She recently won the

40 Spring 2009 In Memoriam The UK Alumni Association extends its sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased. James W. May ’29 Jessie Ballard Hester ’40 Eva Singleton Lear ’46 Paul E. Williams ’49 Bloomington, Ind., Fellow Paris, Ky. Lexington, Ky. West Liberty, Ky. W. Windsor Cravens ’35 Mary Snyder Morrisey ’40 Ramelle F. Patterson ’46 Jay T. Cavender ’50 Ft. Wayne, Ind. Knoxville, Tenn. Louisville, Ky., Life Member Springboro, Ohio Edith Denton Ensminger ’35 Luther M. Ransdell ’40 David Alper ’47 G. Fred Charles Jr. ’50 Tampa, Fla. Winchester, Ky. Pacific Palisades, Calif. Ashland, Ky., Fellow eodore M. Wilson ’35 Dorothy Gentry Wiss ’40 G. William Blair ’47 William N. Cherry ’50 Louisville, Ky. Blacksburg, Va. Birmingham, Ala., Murray, Ky. Lenore Moore Benton ’36 Martha Stark Ellis ’41 Life Member Rudolph W. Doerhoefer Jr. ’50 Downingtown, Pa. Murray, Ky. James W. Ellington ’47 Louisville, Ky. Gene Myers ’37 Robert H. Ellis ’41 Pompano Beach, Fla. James Eddleman Jr. ’50 Lexington, Ky. Murray, Ky. Ralph L. Estes ’47 Louisville, Ky., Life Member Henry L. Adams ’38 omas H. Shelley Jr. ’41 Danville, Ky. George S. Gresham ’50 Bellingham, Wash. New Burnswick, N.J., omas E. Gish ’47 Denham Springs, La. John C. Dixon ’38 Life Member Whitesburg, Ky. Bernard E. Head Jr. ’50 Tell City, Ind. John W. Smith Jr. ’41 Howard B. Jones ’47 Greensboro, N.C., Life Member Alice Pile Killpatrick ’38 Lebanon, Ky. Orlando, Fla. Frances Wells Muir ’50 Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Marvin M. Tincher ’41 Robert L. Kelley Sr. ’47 Bloomfield, Ky. Fellow Ormond Beach, Fla. Frankfort, Ky. Robert M. Ranson ’50 Peter W. Kurachek ’38 Ina Huddleston Blakeman ’42 Robert K. Landrum ’47 Owensboro, Ky. Minnetonka, Minn., Campbellsville, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Elizabeth Link Recktenwald ’50 Life Member Sara Triplett Campbell ’42 Anna Newton Teas ’47 Rock Hill, S.C. Samuel B. Walton Jr. ’38 Henderson, Ky., Life Member Williams, S.C. Sara Lamb Rodman ’50 Lexington, Ky. Opal Skaggs Conley ’42 Sidney C. Barnard ’48 Louisville, Ky., Life Member Jane Crump Arterburn ’39 Ashland, Ky., Fellow, Huntsville, Ala. Edward T. Rogers Jr. ’50 Park City, Ky. Great Teacher Award Morris W. Beebe Jr. ’48 Elizabethtown, Ky. Frances ompson Crain ’39 Earle C. Fowler ’42 Lexington, Ky., Past President Harvey A. Rogers Jr. ’50 Versailles, Ky. Chapel Hill, N.C Charles F. Dearth ’48 Lexington, Ky., Life Member Merle W. Fowler Jr. ’39 Squire N. Williams Jr. ’42 Dayton, Ohio William H. Sebastian ’50 Paducah, Ky. Frankfort, Ky. John J. Hopkins II ’48 Lexington, Ky. J. Lee Friedman ’39 Nancy Maxwell Noone ’43 Frankfort, Ky., Life Member William C. Swi ’50 Atlanta, Ga., Life Member Springfield, Va. Charles T. Mitchell ’48 Crawfordsville, Ind., Beverly Richards Loser ’39 Milton J. Stewart ’43 Frankfort, Ky., Life Member Life Member Pinehurst, N.C., Life Member Martinsville, Ind. Raymond G. Preece ’48 William L. Wayman ’50 Robert W. Rudd ’39 Clark F. Wood ’43 Indialantic, Fla. Birmingham, Ala. Sanibel, Fla., Life Member Louisville, Ky. Roy B. Ritchie ’48 James P. Wesley ’50 Anna Odor Buchholz ’40 Clay C. Brandenburg ’45 Hindman, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Versailles, Ky., Life Member Robert D. Bell ’49 Conrad M. Willis ’50 Robert M. Cluggish ’40 Mary Rogers Barnard ’46 Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Hampton, Va. Maitland, Fla. Huntsville, Ala. Fellow Cecil C. Burnette ’51 Fred M. Crawford ’40 Helen Arnold Byrd ’46 Russell J. Ford ’49 Hendersonville, Texas Colorado Springs, Colo. Fishers, Ind. Wichita Falls, Texas Scott L. French ’51 Raymond C. Guy ’40 Harold J. Evans ’46 Billy B. Nall ’49 Blairsville, Ga. Tallahassee, Fla. New York, N.Y. Lake Oswego, Ore. Ernestine Jasper Schoolcra ’49 Lois Craig Frizzell ’51 Somerset, Ky. Oro Valley, Ariz., Life Member

www.ukalumni.net 41 In Memoriam Bernard A. Hogan ’51 Charles W. Hardison ’56 William J. Coy ’59 Suzanne Keeling Burlington, Ky. Lawrenceburg, Ky. Saratoga, Calif. Sutherland ’62 Mary Ann Laub Holway ’51 William T. Stoeckinger ’56 Henry N. Hardin ’59 Richmond, Ky. Cleveland, Ohio Bartlesville, Okla. Bowling Green, Ky. Philip B. Austin ’63 Charles A. Parman ’51 Charles E. Taylor ’56 Elizabeth Terry Martin ’59 Louisville, Ky. Reedley, Calif. Hilton Head Island, S.C. Leitchfield, Ky. Leslie Keith Ball ’63 James D. Sigler ’51 Mildred R. Wightman ’56 Glenn W. McWhorter ’59 Bedford, Ky. Corydon, Ky. Arlington, Texas Louisa, Va. Douglas Carter ’63 Jay L. Chambers ’52 Charles G. Wylie ’56 Clyde T. Bates ’60 Tompkinsville, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Georgetown, Ky. James E. Berry ’64 Fred C. Davis ’52 John K. Evans ’57 Kash R. Callahan ’60 Marinette, Wis. Green Cove Springs, Fla., London, Ky. West Liberty, Ky. James L. Gay ’65 Life Member Ronald N. Gordon ’57 James A. Dobbs ’60 Versailles, Ky. Everett L. Halstead ’52 Reston, Va. Mounds, Okla. Freida Lewis Shuffett ’65 Oak Ridge, Tenn. Robert D. Green ’57 omas W. Hudson ’60 Lexington, Ky. Jean Marie Harris ’52 Tucson, Ariz. Louisville, Ky. Emma J. Gilbert ’66 Indianapolis, Ind. Patricia C. Lewis ’57 Jack T. Lambert ’60 Richmond, Va. Frank W. Sandusky ’52 Worthington, Pa. Valparaiso, Ind., Life Member Ronald Linkes ’66 Louisville, Ky. Leonard L. Morgan Jr. ’57 Kay Baker Mills ’60 Somerset, Ky. Ronald L. Jackson ’53 Nashville, Tenn. Richmond, Ky. Ben W. Gabbert Jr. ’67 Minot, N.D. Charles L. Atcher ’58 W. Clark Parks ’60 Waynesburg, Ky. Emma Paynter Wills ’53 Lexington, Ky., Fellow Richmond, Ky. Robert L. Bowers ’68 Lexington, Ky. Quincy S. Bastin ’58 Fred E. Phillips III ’60 Richmond, Va. Edward Madden ’54 Raymore, Mo. Oldsmar, Fla. Larry E. Davis ’68 Pippa Passes, Ky. Joseph H. Bergfeld ’58 Raford E. Ramage ’60 Gilbertsville, Ky. Robert H. Alves ’55 Crestview Hills, Ky. Burna, Ky. Joseph E. Richardson ’68 Versailles, Ky. James G. Blankenship ’58 Dorothy A. Schulz ’60 Louisville, Ky., Life Member, William D. Blair ’55 e Woodlands, Texas, Cub Run, Ky. Fellow Groveland, Calif. Life Member James E. Baker ’61 Curtis M. Hastings ’69 Robert G. Cobb ’55 Robert K. Collier ’58 Monticello, Fla., Life Member Lexington, Ky. Leesburg, Fla. Clion, Va. David S. Bowman ’61 Patsy Edwards Peck ’69 Robert R. Combs ’55 Frances Nave England ’58 Montgomery, Ala. Lexington, Ky. Fort Mitchell, Ky. Jacksonville, N.C. Ned G. Jennings ’61 John B. Southard Jr. ’69 Kenneth M. Litchfield ’55 William G. Hammack ’58 Lexington, Ky. Louisville, Ky. Hopkinsville, Ky. Nicholasville, Ky., Robert W. Megibben ’61 Hubert G. Allen ’70 Robert N. Pigg ’55 Life Member Finchville, Ky. Winchester, Ky. St. Petersburg, Fla. Anna Hisle House ’58 Linda Hockensmith Daryl F. Lewis ’70 Martha Jones Sparkman ’55 Lexington, Ky. Moreland ’61 Frankfort, Ky., Danville, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Donald L. Meyers ’58 Life Member Robert M. Braden ’71 Vearl R. Stewart ’55 Colorado Springs, Colo. Mary Lou Carpenter ’62 Corbin, Ky. Mount Sterling, Ky. William E. Rider ’58 Louisville, Ky. Billy J. Fyffe ’71 Charles L. Blackburn ’56 Cincinnati, Ohio Franklin J. Desanto ’62 Lexington, Ky. Hampton, Va. Cecil E. Allen Jr. ’59 Louisville, Ky. Robert C. Hart ’71 Donald H. Gibson ’56 Annandale, Va. Robert F. Knarr ’62 Princeton, Ky., Life Member Hebron, N.H. Jerry L. Cobb ’59 Frankfort, Ky. Owen D. Hendrixson ’71 Lexington, Ky. Raleigh, N.C., Life Member

42 Spring 2009 In Memoriam Leonore Morgan Ittmann ’71 Joan Dulworth Smith ’82 Former Students Stan B. Jacobs, Houston, Texas Houston, Texas Jesse L. Amburgey, Lexington, Ky. Richard L. Landers ’71 Idris Cader ’83 Mallie, Ky. Mary Parker Johnson, Hebron, Ky. Boynton Beach, Fla. Willys Hunter Anderson, Frankfort, Ky. Tommy L. Robinson ’71 Bradley W. Peterson ’84 Lexington, Ky. Ruth Kalb Leathers, Hamton, Ky. Seattle, Wash. David L. Arnall, Frankfort, Ky., Life Member Othal Smith Jr. ’71 Robert M. McCafferty ’85 Frankfort, Ky., Life Member Evelyn G. Levy, Nashville, Tenn. Fort omas, Ky., William Cashman Ayer, Lexington, Ky. George R. Snellen ’71 Life Member Madisonville, Ky. Pauline A. Levy, New Market, Ala. Merle Weiner Wekstein ’85 Ryon T. Blakemore , Louisville, Ky. Wallace B. Wobbe ’71 Lexington, Ky. Louisville, Ky. Ted Mackorell, Louisville, Ky. Yeshi Ayele Bogale ’86 John C. Bondurant, Boone, N.C., Life Member John W. Clavinger ’72 Lexington, Ky. Hickman, Ky. James C. Madden, Ft. Mitchell, Ky. Russell L. Hall ’86 Wendell F. Bueche, Lexington, Ky. omas E. Rollins ’72 Siloam, N.C. Chicago, Ill. Steve W. Majors, Paducah, Ky. Terry Tucker Ramey ’86 Veronica Scanlon Campbell, Louisville, Ky, John G. Womack II ’73 Lexington, Ky. Topeka, Kan., Life Member Joan Lewis Millard, Grayson, Ky. Beverly Callahan Lubbers ’90 Seamus E. Carmody, Lexington, Ky. Mary Clements Austin ’75 Villa Hills, Ky. Midland, Texas J. David Santen, Henderson, Ky. Angelique Susan Robey ’90 Ella Hammock Collins, Midway, Ky. Marjorie Wolf Hayes ’75 Lexington, Ky. Barbourville, Ky., Life Member Harry Settles, Frankfort, Ky. Evan H. Silverstein ’90 Woodford Conley, Springfield, Ky. Walter W. Ross III ’75 Louisville, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Mitzi McGraw Stevenson, Columbia, S.C. Paul A. Weaver ’92 Lena Ballew Depp, Richmond, Va. Vicki J. Rymell ’75 Georgetown, Ky. Frankfort, Ky. Cleve omas, Richmond, Ky., Life Member Carla Ann McDonald ’97 Sammie Meade Dodson, Paris, Ky., Life Member J. Boone Sutherland ’75 Lexington, Ky. Lexington, Ky. John Q. ornbury, Richmond, Ky. Lora L. Tyson ’98 Donald E. Eckard, Lexington, Ky., Life Member John C. Cleveland ’76 Chicago, Ill. Louisville, Ky. Carolyn Moore Tierney, Blackey, Ky. Barbara Griffin Slatter ’00 Dorothy Compton Ennis, Vero Beach, Fla. James F. Ruch ’76 Lexington, Ky. Lexington, Ky. Bennie E. Turner, Louisville, Ky. Phyllis Kesler Greene ’02 Elmer S. Goley, Richmond, Ky. John Reg White ’76 Lexington, Ky. Burlington, Ky. Edwin G. West, Lexington, Ky. Alisha Marie O’Connell ’03 Bessie Goldsmith Goodlette, Richmond, Ky. omas W. McClure ’77 Lexington, Ky. Hazard, Ky. Ada Fischer Wikler, Finchville, Ky. Mark Allen Hamon ’04 Jane Westphal Griese, Lexington, Ky. Elizabeth Jewell Smith ’80 Jackson, Miss. Frankfort, Ky. John W. Worrel, Austin, Texas Jennifer Marie Casper ’08 Jim Henry, Amelia, Ohio Penny Travelsted ’80 Lexington, Ky. Marco Island, Fla. Jack L. Yeaste, Bowling Green, Ky., Fellow Ryan Jay Pederson ’08 George T. Hicks, Lexington, Ky. Steven R. Welton ’80 Louisville, Ky. Sparks, Nev. Portsmouth, Ohio Susan Stoner Hope, William C. Richardson ’81 Redmond, Wash. Lexington, Ky. Elizabeth Barbeiux Hopper, Barton A. Branscum ’82 Hazard, Ky., Fellow Vienna, Va.

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For all life can be.sm 090201FSKAM Joe Blanton Is World Series Champ “Former Wildcat” is becoming synony - walks, a 3-0 record and a 3.18 ERA. with 133, which was eighth in the NCAA. mous with the phrase “World Champion.” Aer success in the minors, Blanton was He became the second Wildcat player all- Pitcher Joe Blanton became the latest for - called up for active duty on Oakland’s ros - time to be selected in the first round of the mer Wildcat to add the phrase next to his ter in 2004. During the remainder of the MLB dra in 2002, selected by the Athlet - name. Blanton and his Philadelphia season, Blanton made three appearances, ics with the 24th overall pick. Phillies teammates claimed the Major pitching eight in - League Baseball World Series title, beating nings. In five seasons the Tampa Bay Rays in five games. in Oakland, he threw Blanton became the first UK pitcher to 424 strikeouts. In win a game in the World Series and also 2008, Oakland traded became the first pitcher to hit a home run Blanton to the in the World Series since 1974. Blanton Phillies. tossed six innings, allowing four hits, two Blanton posted walks and striking out seven in the Phillies ERAs of 5.58, 5.59 10-2 game four win. e solo blast was the and 4.59 during his y

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www.ukalumni.net 45 Derby Divas and Diabetes Docs team up to provide one resource for diabetes and obesity! Announcing the formation of the Barnstable Brown Kentucky Diabetes and Obesity Center

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facilitating hope, through research and care. George C. Herring has written “From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Troy T. Jackson ’99 ’06 AS is the author of “Becoming King: Foreign Relations Since 1776,” the newest volume in the acclaimed Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader,” Oxford History of the United States series. With more than 1,000 which explores how King grew from a novice preacher at a small pages, the book uses foreign relations to tell Baptist church in Montgomery to a nationally recognized leader the story of America’s dramatic rise from 13 of the civil rights movement. Jackson addresses the beginnings of disparate colonies huddled along the At - King’s career as he skyrocketed to fame as lantic coast to the world’s superpower. Her - the spokesperson of the Montgomery bus ring tells a story of stunning successes and boycott. Jackson builds upon the vast doc - sometimes tragic failures, captured in a umentation of the King Papers Project, narrative that illuminates the central im - an endeavor begun in 1985, and also ex - portance of foreign relations to the exis - amines the influence King’s father had tence and survival of the nation and on his son’s life and religious views. He highlights its ongoing impact on the lives also writes about the people of Mont - of ordinary citizens. Human drama and gomery and how their ambitions and epic events are covered in detail as the hopes for the future helped King to book shows how the nation owes much make his own voice heard. King’s to the adventurers and explorers, the sea dedication to his cause helped turn a captains, merchants and leaders of in - movement into a social revolution dustry, the missionaries and diplomats who discov - that forever changed the face of the ered or charted new lands, developed new avenues of commerce and country. established and defended the nation’s interests in foreign lands. Jackson also has a degree from Princeton eological Herring is Alumni Professor of History Emeritus at the University Seminary and is senior pastor at the University Christian Church of Kentucky. in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Jack DuArte, UK alum, is the author of Duane S. Nickell ’83 AS has written the Antonio S. ompson ’06 AS is the au - “Singapore!,” the second novel of his World first in a series of books that describes sci - thor of his first book, “German Jackboots War II trilogy, which chronicles the story entific points of interest across the United on Kentucky Bluegrass: Housing German of a British naval lieutenant who becomes States. “Guidebook for the Scientific Trav - Prisoners of War in Kentucky, 1942 – 46,” a key element in alerting his superiors to eler: Visiting Astronomy and Space Explo - which tells how the Commonwealth Japanese intentions. ration Sites Across America” includes housed and entertained more than 10,000 information on NASA facilities, plan- prisoners during World War II. e Clark Group etaria, space museums, meteor craters and www.clarkpublishing.com the Northern Lights, among other points Diversion Press of interest. www.amazon.com Michele L. Luck ’99 ’00 ED teaches AP World History at Bryan Station High Rutgers University Press Terry Reed ’68 AS has written “Of Herds School in Lexington and is the author of rutgerspress.rutgers.edu and Hermits: America’s Lone Wolves and “A Lesson Plan for Teachers (New and Submissive Sheep,” a book that celebrates Old!),” a step-by-step guide that covers as - Stephen M. Taylor ’66 ED has written America’s lone wolves, cultural hermits, pects of how to have an effective, efficient, four books, with the latest, “Diyarbakir,” a and all such solitary, marginalized figures high-expectations classroom. Cold War drama that ends in the future as who are the cultural bedrock of the nation cultures and technologies collide in the an - that detests them. LuLu cient Kurdistan city and travel to America. www.lulu.com Algora Publishing AuthorHouse www.algora.com www.authorhouse.com

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: o t o h P Too Much Turkey ...... or too much pumpkin pie! Isaac Jeong may have had plenty of both at the International Students anksgiving dinner at the King Alumni House in November. e UK Alumni Association enter - tained approximately 230 students and their families from 30 different countries, introducing some of them for the first time to a traditional U.S. holiday meal with all the trimmings. Like most relatives aer a special holiday meal, little Isaac, son of Jihea and Hanbeom Jeong from South Korea, sought relief — with a tot-sized nap!

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