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April 20, 2001 Volume 25 No. 27 ^Vfeshington University in Stloiis Kurt H. Hohenemser Thurtene Carnival Aviation pioneer integral to spring BY NEIL SCHOENHERR charitable goal. Proceeds will benefit this year's It's that time of year again. Thurtene charity, Make a dies at 95 Spring is in the air. The Difference Center of St. Louis, mercury in the thermometer is which seeks to enhance and BY TONY FITZPATRICK starting to rise. That can only enrich the lives of economically mean one thing. Cardinals disadvantaged children through Kurt H. Hohenemser, Dr.Ing., baseball? Well, maybe. But at the a combination of academic, professor emeritus of aero- University, all the signs of spring recreational and social space engineering, contributor to point in one direction — the support services. the invention of the helicopter, annual Thurtene Carnival. Eight themed facades, environmental engineer and one The event, designed and of the University's most distin- first conceptual- constructed by guished engineers died April 7, ized in 1904, is students, will 2001, at age 95 in his St. Louis one of the "We encourage house student- home. University's everyone to join us at performed plays. "Kurt Hohenemser's impact on longest-running Other Thurtene aerospace was immense, as was his traditions. It's the the carnival. It's going to traditions impact on the people he taught nation's oldest include 14 major and worked with," said David A. be a lot of fun." and largest carnival rides, 16 Peters, Ph.D., McDonnell Douglas student-run SARAH JOHNSON game booths and Professor of Engineering and chair carnival. 15 booths of mechanical engineering. "When Nearly a century later, serving an array of tasteful treats he came to Washington University Thurtene Carnival still bears a and ethnic edibles. A 15-minute in 1966, we changed the depart- resemblance to its ancestor, fireworks show will be at 8 p.m. ment's name to 'mechanical however, the big top has been Saturday. engineering and aerospace.' He was replaced by sturdily constructed The carnival is presented by aerospace. When he retired in facades, and the crowd at the now Thurtene Honorary members, 13 1975, it went back to 'mechanical two-day event has swelled to more juniors responsible for organizing engineering.' He could have taught than 100,000. the annual event. Members are any course we offered here." Admission into this year's chosen on the basis of outstand- Born in Germany in 1906, edition, Saturday and Sunday ing leadership, character and Hohenemser earned a doctorate from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. on the North participation in campus activities. from the Institute of Technology Brookings parking lot, is free but "Working on the carnival has in Darmstadt in 1929. From 1930- tickets must be purchased for really been an amazing experi- 34, he taught and conducted rides and plays. An anticipated ence," said Sarah Johnson, research at the University of 120,000 people will share the member of the honorary. "We're Gottingen and studied under spirit of Thurtene this year and are lucky to have 13 very talented Ludwig Prandtl, one of the most help the carnival achieve its See Thurtene, Page 6 famous aerodynamics physicists of the 20th century. Hohenemser was relieved of Like father, like SOn In keeping with the "Nurturing Our his duties at the institute on the Families" theme, Tyler Lasley of the Eagle Feather Drum group Calling all families eve of Hitler's rise to power performs while holding his 1-year-old son at the 11th annual because a Nazi at the university Pow Wow, held in the Field House Saturday. The culmination of considered him critical of Hitler American Indian Awareness Week, the Pow Wow was co- Tyson Trails Day offers nature, history and reported him and some sponsored by the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian BY TONY FITZPATRICK colleagues to the Nazi party. In Studies at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work. 1935, he began designing and Nearly 100 dancers representing tribes from throughout the With spring in full force, Midwest competed at the Pow Wow, which drew nearly 2,000 testing helicopters with the researchers, area naturalists Flettner Aircraft Co. in Berlin, attendees. Lasley, a member of the Mesquawki tribe in Iowa, won third place in the men's Fancy Dance. and historians at the University's when the famous German Tyson Research Center are inventor Anton Flettner was offering the St. Louis region their exploring the concept. Their only expertise in a variety of nature competition came from another Lead-poisoning fight championed and historical topics and field famous German helicopter trips at Tyson Trails Day, 10 a.m.- developer, H. Focke. by law's interdisciplinary clinic 3 p.m. April 28. In 1938, the first practical There will be nature trails and See Hohenemser, Page 6 BY ANN NICHOLSON mended the bills be sent to the full history trails to explore at the Senate for approval. Together with 2,000-acre biological field station Three students in the School of Heather Brouillet, a senior about 20 miles west of St. Louis. Law's Interdisciplinary majoring in environmental studies Nature trails include tours of Environmental Clinic (IEC) have in Arts & Sciences, Meddaugh and Mincke Quarry Cave, ecology of taken their legal and environmen- Whelan presented their arguments Tyson ponds, a mushroom foray, tal expertise to the state capital to to the governor's Ad Hoc Advisory a snake walk, a butterfly walk, a support bills that would require Committee on Lead Poisoning. bird-watching hike and crafts Missouri children to be tested for "We learned from our work in for children. lead poisoning statewide. the community that children History trails include a visit to IEC students drafted the throughout St. Louis are basically the Mincke Hollow Mining town, legislation for the nonprofit St. being used as 'lead detectors,'" a Native American tepee encamp- Louis Lead Prevention Coalition. Meddaugh said. "It is not until ment, history of Route 66, a Missouri Rep. Russ Carnahan (D- they find out a child has been nature art and photo show of One of the newest features at 59th District) and Sen. Patrick poisoned that steps are taken to works created at Tyson, storytell- Tyson Research Center is the Dougherty (D-67th District) are remedy the situation, but at that ers and more. weather station, a 33-foot tall tower available to visitors on sponsoring the bills. point there already has been This family event is open to April 28s Tyson Trails Day. Last week, second-year law irreversible damage to the child. the public. Admission, which students Tiffany Meddaugh and "Hopefully, this new legislation includes all activities, is $8 per car, Shannon Whelan testified before and our educational efforts will $15 for a full shuttle van, and $5 offers abundant activities, displays the House Committee on reverse this trend, and as a result, for a car with one person. Shuttle and presentations for people of all vans will take participants to ages in the St. Louis area," said Kurt H. Hohenemser, Dr.Ing., Children, Families and Health stop the poisoning of so many remote activities or hikes. Food David Larson, Tyson field station professor emeritus of aerospace regarding the legislation. Earlier children." and drinks will be for sale. manager. "It is an opportunity to engineering, once wrote, "I don't this month, Meddaugh and The students hope the clinic's "We think the Tyson Trails Day want to go to heaven before I Whelan testified before the Senate interdisciplinary approach — See Trails Day, Page 6 have not understood completely Committee on Housing and melding scientific and legal what makes the universe tick." Insurance, which later recom- See Lead, Page 2 For directions to Tyson Research Center, see Page 6 2 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Khinduka installed as George Warren Brown distinguished professor BY ANN NICHOLSON and remains chairman of its editorial board. He has been Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D., published in U.S. and foreign who has served as dean and journals on technical assistance, professor at the George community and social develop- Warren Brown School of Social ment, and international Work since 1974, was installed social welfare. April 12 as the inaugural George Khinduka has served as a Warren Brown Distinguished member or chair of numerous University Professor. boards and committees of the Under Khinduka's leadership, National Association of Social the school has risen to one of the Workers (NASW), National top-ranked institutions of social Conference on Social Welfare, work in the country and become Council on Social Work Education, a model for cutting-edge National Association of Deans and research, innovative curriculum Directors of Social Work Schools, and fostering community self- and United Way of Greater determination. St. Louis. He is the current chair- "As dean, Shanti not only has man of the board of directors of played an instrumental role in Missouri Goodwill Industries and is the development of this school serving a second four-year term as for more than 25 years, but also chairman of the NASW Publica- has had an extraordinary effect tions Committee. He is president- on social work education elect of the Inter-University nationally," Chancellor Mark. S. Consortium for International Social Wrighton said. "His vision and Development. leadership have had a tremen- Among his many honors, dous impact on the University, as Khinduka received the NASW well — lifting our visibility and President's Award for Educational building our identity as a major Excellence and the Los Amigos de research institution. Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton (right) and John F. McDonnell (left), chairman of the University Board of la Humanidad Distinguished "I can think of no one more Trustees, congratulate Shanti K. Khinduka, Ph.D., dean of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Educator Award from the Univer- deserving of this inaugural on his April 12 installation as the inaugural George Warren Brown Distinguished University Professor. sity of Southern California School appointment as the George of Social Work. Warren Brown Distinguished Born in Jaipur, India, Khinduka University Professor." chairman of the Board of Trustees, his noble goals." work faculty. earned a bachelor's degree from The chair is named in honor said, "Shanti is my model of a Khinduka's tenure is one of The school has also substan- Rajasthan University (Jaipur) in of Brown, for whom the social great academic leader. He has led the longest for a social work dean tially increased its endowment; 1953; master of social work degrees work school is also named. the school magnificently while and the longest of a dean established a number of named from Lucknow University Brown was a wholesale shoe providing exemplary leadership to currently serving the University. professorships for faculty; greatly (Lucknow, India) in 1955 and the manufacturer based in St. Louis. the social work profession Highlights of his term as dean expanded the number of scholar- University of Southern California Upon his death in 1925, his nationally and internationally, include construction of the $13 ships for students; broadened and in 1961; and a doctorate from widow, Bettie Bofinger Brown, made the school a magnet for million Goldfarb Hall and deepened its programs of interdis- Brandeis University in 1968. Before established the school as a students from all over the world, renovation of Brown Hall; ciplinary collaboration; and joining Washington University, he memorial to him. When she died and helped lead the University in formation of centers of become the favorite locus for taught at Lucknow and Saint Louis in 1931, a portion of her estate its international efforts." path-breaking research in areas graduate education for the largest universities. was set aside for the construction Danforth, who hired Khinduka, such as addiction, mental health number of international students He and his wife of 46 years, of a new facility; Brown Hall was added: "Above all, Shanti is a leader services, social development and in any U.S. social work school. Manorama, have two daughters — dedicated in January 1937. who inspires trust and admiration, in support of American Indians; An editor of three books, Abha and Seema, both graduates of William H. Danforth, M.D., as he builds carefully on people and remarkable growth of the Khinduka founded the Journal of Washington University — and five chancellor emeritus and vice and programs, guiding us toward research portfolio of the social Social Service Research in 1977 grandchildren.

The clinic has taken a particular hazards in St. Louis. interest in the issue because while • Evaluated for the St. Louis Lead nationally the average rate of lead health department the feasibility Problem is especially poisoning among children ages 1-5 of making St. Louis housing has been reduced to about 4 stock lead-safe. prominent in St. Louis percent, the average rate in St. "The clinic has taken a — from Page 1 Louis city is 25 percent, and one leading role in this issue because area in north St. Louis exceeds 40 there is no overall public effort expertise — will be a winning percent, Lipeles said. to prevent lead poisoning from combination. Brouillet has To date, the occurring, and applied both her knowledge of clinic has: r efforts to date environmental justice issues and • Documented to identify and her science background to for the St. Louis "We hope the IEC's treat lead- decipher medical charts indicat- health department poisoned ing micrograms per deciliter of the link between policy initiatives, children — and lead levels. The law students have lead contamina- community projects even to remedy been using their legal skills to tion of soil and hazardous research numerous local and state (From right) Second-year law students Tiffany Meddaugh and childhood lead and educational conditions in laws on lead poisoning, and Shannon Whelan meet with Missouri Rep. Russ Carnahan (D-59th poisoning, outreach will make lead their homes — employing their art of persuasion District) after testifying before the Senate Committee on Housing identified lead- are in presenting the proposed and Insurance on bills that would require Missouri children to be contaminated soil poisoning prevention a underfunded, legislation. tested for lead poisoning. The School of Law's Interdisciplinary and offered legal public priority." understaffed Environmental Clinic, directed by Maxine Lipeles (left), J.D., and technical and uncoordi- "In testifying before the professor of law, drafted the legislation for the St. Louis Lead governor's committee and the advice for MAXINE LIPELES nated," Lipeles Prevention Coalition, working with Jonathan VanderBrug (second said. "We hope state legislative committees, we from left), coalition executive director. addressing the approached the issue from a situation. the IEC's policy public policy perspective — what • Worked with Grace Hill initiatives, community projects is the law, how is it being applied Congregations United, Churches scientist and fund stipends for nurses and parents of children and educational outreach will and how effective is it," Whelan United for Community Action, students to continue projects suffering from lead poisoning to make lead poisoning prevention said. "My experience in law school Medical Waste Incinerator Group, during the summer. develop means of encouraging a public priority. with moot court competitions Missouri Coalition for the "The clinic has focused a landlords to remedy lead paint "Our goals are to increase definitely helped; I knew my Environment, Ozark Chapter of considerable share of its efforts hazards. effective treatment for children, arguments backward and forward. the Sierra Club, Grace Hill on addressing lead poisoning in • Investigated for the St. Louis remediate lead hazards in homes It was a matter of trying to get Neighborhood Health Services, large part due to the exception- Lead Prevention Coalition the and greatly reduce the number their attention since they have so Open Space Council and the ally high rate of childhood lead existence and use of public funds of children contracting lead much on their plates, and forest protection organization, poisoning in St. Louis and the earmarked for remedying lead poisoning." convincing them of the serious- Heartwood. In addition, the IEC apparent low level of public ness of the problem." assisted two mothers of lead- commitment to addressing this Record (USPS 600-430; ISSN 1043-0520), The IEC, officially launched in poisoned children in efforts to disease," Lipeles said. "Tragically, Volume 25, Number 27/April 20,2001. January 2000, provides free legal ameliorate conditions in their although lead poisoning is highly Published for the faculty, staff and friends and technical assistance to apartments. preventable, once it strikes, its Washington University community news of Washington University. Produced weekly during the school year, except school environmental and community While each semester eight law most devastating effect — brain Editor Kevin M. Kiley organizations and low-income students and a total of eight damage — is irreversible." Assistant Editor Jessica N. Roberts holidays, and monthly during June, July residents in the greater St. Louis environmental engineering and Lipeles added that unlike Assistant Editor Neil Schoenherr and August by the Office of Public Affairs, area. Law, environmental studies environmental science students other environmental injuries, the Associate Vice Chancellor Judith Jasper Leicht Washington University, Campus Box 1070, Acting Executive Editor Donna Kettenbach One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, M0 63130. and School of Engineering and pool their talents to tackle a connection between exposure to Medical News Editor Diane Duke Williams Periodicals postage paid at St. Louis, MO. Applied Science students work variety of environmental and lead and lead poisoning is widely Production Carl Jacobs Where to send address changes, throughout the year on interdisci- health issues, much of the clinic's accepted and well understood by News & Comments corrections: plinary teams under the guidance work has been on lead poisoning. scientists. (314)935-6603 of Maxine Lipeles, J.D., clinic The clinic recently received a "While the solutions to other Campus Box 1070 Postmaster and non-employees Reco rd, director and professor of law, and $25,000 grant from the Deaconess environmental problems — such [email protected] Washington University, Campus Box 1070, Judy Coyle, clinic staff scientist. Foundation and a $10,000 grant as groundwater contamination and Medical News One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, M0 63130. Since its inception, the IEC has from the Middle Fund. The grants air pollution — may still be elusive, (314)286-0119 Employees Office of Human Resources, undertaken projects and cases for will help the clinic further its the technology for reducing, if not Campus Box 8508 Washington University, Campus Box 1184, [email protected] One Brookings Drive. St. Louis, M0 63130. an array of organizations, efforts in the prevention of lead eliminating, the risk of harmful including the St. Louis Health poisoning and water pollution, exposure to lead is relatively Department, Metropolitan expand the work of the IEC's staff straightforward," she said. i ^VfehingtonUniversity in Stlouis record.wustl.edu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS April 20, 2001 3 Medical School Update Pathway to parasitic infection identified

BY JIM DRYDEN transforms into the infectious depended on the number of metacyclic stage, now ready to be parasites that enter the second, Researchers have identified a transmitted when the fly bites a infective metacyclic stage, and the molecule that controls the human or other mammal. Once PTRl-knockout parasites showed ability of a tropical parasite, the fly bites, the parasites invade a much greater capacity to Leishmania, to infect humans. phagocytic white blood cells. undergo this transition. "This is the first pathway we There, they differentiate into yet The researchers then exposed have identified that controls the another stage, the amastigote normal Leishmania to different virulence of this deadly patho- form, which causes disease. concentrations of reduced gen," said principal investigator With postdoctoral fellow Mark biopterin in a test tube. They Stephen M. Beverley, Ph.D., the Cunningham, discovered a threshold above 01A I! W*^| Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Ph.D., and which entry into the metacyclic : Molecular Microbiology. "Re- colleagues stage decreased rapidly. Below this || 11 Ml ™ ,*•™ m^ markably, it normally acts to limit from threshold of exposure, the parasite virulence rather than to Colorado infectious stage of the parasite increase it." State was much more likely to form. In the April 13 issue of the University "Therefore, falling levels journal Science, Beverley's team and the of H4B, which occur normally reports that the virulence of University of during the parasite's develop- Leishmania is controlled by the Kentucky ment, appear critical to its The Center for Advanced Medicine is located at the corner of Forest levels of a substance called ability to develop into the Park and Euclid avenues. Beverley: Studies Medical tetrahydrobiopterin (H4B). tropical parasite Center, stage which infects mammals," ' The microscopic parasite Beverley set Beverley said. "Conversely, high infects more than 10 million out to learn whether parasites levels keep the parasite in its Center for Advanced Medicine will people in tropical parts of the lacking the gene for pteredine noninfectious form." world, causing an ulcerating reductase 1 (PTR1), the enzyme Beverley finds it interesting house outpatient and cancer care disease called leishmaniasis. The that converts biopterin to H4B, that lower amounts of this disease often is fatal, and no could infect mice. By knocking molecule make Leishmania more The School of Medicine and potential names for the new facility satisfactory vaccines or drug out the gene, the investigators deadly. He believes limiting its Barnes-Jewish Hospital have were tested with health-care therapies exist. lowered the amount of H4B ability to infect mammals may be chosen Center for Advanced consumers. Like a caterpillar that changes available to the parasite. advantageous to the parasite. Medicine as the official name of Currently, adult patient services into a butterfly, Leishmania has Leishmania did more than "There's a central tenet of the new ambulatory care center, are offered in 32 areas of the several stages in its life cycle. In survive — it became more evolutionary microbiology that scheduled to open in November at sprawling medical center. Because the first stage, it lives in the infectious. After about two weeks, states that 'a good parasite does the corner of Forest Park and approximately one-third of digestive tract of a sand fly, where mice injected with the mutant not kill its host too fast,'" he said. Euclid mmmmmmmmmi ______patients see it obtains biopterin and then microbe had more than 50 times "It may be that the levels of H4B avenues. The more than one converts it to the H4B needed as many parasites in their bodies that Leishmania normally contain Alvin J. "More than a building, the health-care for growth. as mice injected with normal ensure that it won't kill its host as Siteman provider or At the end of this stage, the Leishmania. The rapidity of quickly, giving the parasite time Cancer Center Center for Advanced receive ancillary parasite stops growing and infection and extent of the lesions to reproduce and be transmitted." also will be Medicine will offer a new medical housed there. services or The 14- paradigm in patient care, both, they story Center and the name selected for sometimes are for Advanced required to Medicine was our facility communicates walk several designed that promise." blocks between more than appointments. three years JIM CRANE The Center ago to provide for Advanced a single Medicine will location in which ambulatory be organized into multidisciplinary patients can park conveniently, see clinical centers, which group their physician and receive together specialties that tend to see diagnostic testing and ancillary the same types of patients. For care services. example, the lung center will "More than a building, the include specialists in pulmonary Center for Advanced Medicine medicine, allergy and immunology, will offer a new paradigm in thoracic surgery and lung transplan- patient care, and the name tation. Associated ancillary services, selected for our facility communi- such as chest X-ray and pulmonary cates that promise," said Jim function testing, will be located in Crane, M.D., associate vice the physician practice area. chancellor for clinical affairs and chief executive officer of the Faculty Practice Plan at the Peck to give address medical school. "Here, patients William A. Peck, M.D., will receive outpatient care and executive vice chancellor have convenient access to the very for medical affairs and dean of latest medical innovations and the School of Medicine, will technology." address the faculty on the Lee Bernstein, vice president of "State of the Medical School" administration at Barnes-Jewish May 7. The address will take Hospital, said, "This new facility place from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in was designed to greatly enhance the Eric P. Newman Education our ability to provide exceptional Center, and light refreshments Easter Creations Karen Parker Davis (center), a clinical specialist in the Occupational Therapy care for patients in a world-class will be provided. Program, helps Maggie Niblett (left) and Adell Denton dye Easter eggs at the Mary Ryder Home. To setting. The name simply reflects The talk is sponsored by enhance residents' quality of life, Davis directs activities at the elderly care facility three times that fact." the Executive Committee of a week. Before making a final decision, the Faculty Council. Molecule that guides nerve cells also directs immune cells BY GILA RECKESS Rao and Jane Y. Wu, Ph.D., fields. This study shows what similar mechanisms for finding functions of the bacterial product. associate professor of pediatrics happens if we venture out and their ways. The team then determined Scientists have the first evidence and of molecular biology and collaborate with scientists in "These experiments were carried whether Robo — a receptor that that cues that guide migrating pharmacology, led the Washington other fields." out to address the question whether enables Slit to act on nerve cells — nerve cells also direct white University teams. Lili Feng, Ph.D., After a cell is born, it navigates there is mechanistic conservation plays a similar role in the immune blood cells called leukocytes, led the Baylor to its destination, guided by between the two systems," Rao said. system. They had previously made which have to find their way to team. signals from other molecules His group studied a protein a fragment of Robo that blocks inflamed, infected or damaged This study already in place. Researchers have called Slit, a known repellent in the normally full-length Robo areas of the body. The study, a bridges the found that the nervous system neuronal migration. Two of the protein. When this blocker was collaboration between the School gap between uses molecules that attract three known Slit proteins also have added to the dish, Slit no longer of Medicine and Baylor College two previ- migrating cells, molecules that been found in organs other than inhibited leukocyte migration. So of Medicine, is reported in ously stop cell migration and molecules the brain. Robo and a receptor on the cells Thursday's issue of the journal independent that push cells away. But so far, The researchers simulated appeared to be competing for Slit. Nature. fields — only attractive molecules have leukocyte migration in a dish, using "These results suggest that Slit "This similarity between the immunology been identified in the immune a molecule known to attract also is likely to act through a Robo- immune system and nervous Rao: Researches and neurol- system. immune cells. When they added like receptor on leukocytes to system might suggest new cell-guidance cues ogy — and Neurons take minutes or human Slit protein (hSlit2) to the inhibit their migration," Rao said. therapeutic approaches to highlights the hours to migrate to their dish as well, fewer cells migrated. He and his colleagues also are immune system disorders such as need for collaboration. destinations, whereas leukocytes They repeated the procedure in the trying to find out whether Slit inflammation and autoimmune "This kind of research could migrate within seconds. Even so, presence of a bacterial product also can actively repel leukocytes diseases," said Yi Rao, Ph.D., have been done several years ago," Rao and his colleagues wanted to known to attract leukocytes. Again, and whether other neuronal associate professor of anatomy Rao said. "But we all get used to determine whether migrating hSlit2 inhibited cell migration. guidance cues influence immune and neurobiology. addressing questions in our own leukocytes and neurons use However, it did not inhibit other cell migration. 4 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS University Events Hotchner winner 'Caught in Carnation' debuts at PAD

BY LIAM OTTEN confinement in the play," Costumes, 'Caught in Carnation' Hanrahan added. "Perry and Iker lighting and sets A priest and a ghost, a tragic are caught in a small town, they're were designed by fire, a frozen lake. The stage caught by the weather, by their sophomores is set for Peter Hanrahan's WHERE: A.E. Hotchner Studio vows and by dogma. And they're Cassandra Beaver, surreal new drama "Caught in Theatre, Mallinckrodt Center both coming to terms with guilt — Jen Goldstein and Carnation," which examines the WHEN: 8 p.m. April 25- 27; 2 p.m. their respective lovers have died, Caity Mold-Zern, ties of faith and history that bind April 28-29 directly or indirectly, because of respectively. The two men of the cloth in wintry TICKETS: $8 for University faculty, things that they've done." production also upstate New York. staff and students and senior "It's a poetic, beautifully written stars sophomore Hanrahan, a junior majoring citizens; $12 for the general public; story about love and guilt," said Jane Rhyu as parish in English, won the Performing available at Edison Theatre Box Office Kerry Mulvaney, a first-year PAD housekeeper Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & (935-6543) or MetroTix 534-1111 graduate student who directs the Janeane, whom Sciences' 2000 A.E. Hotchner five-member cast. Mulvaney, Mulvaney describes Playwriting Competition, which For more information, call 935-6543. whose resume includes stints as "the sort of sponsors one full theatrical working with new playwrights at mother figure who production each spring. Winning youth, is a haunted man — the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, tries to keep plays are chosen one year before literally haunted, with the Ky., and the Steppenwolf Theatre everyone else performance, and playwrights amicable, if rambunctious, ghost in Chicago (where she also served grounded in spend the interim period of his former lover Erica (junior as assistant to actor John reality." developing and refining their Annie Portnoy) stowing along in Malkovich), added, "Peter is one of A.E. Hotchner, a works, most notably during the his suitcase. Yet the fiery Erica is the most eccentric and evocative 1940 graduate of annual A.E. Hotchner Play soon joined by the icy, mysterious young writers that I've encoun- the University, is the Development Lab, conducted Mina (sophomore Erica Nagel), tered. His words are so fresh and author of numerous each fall by a visiting theater and it becomes clear that Iker, like quirky that you think, 'No one else screenplays, novels, professional. his protege, is tormented by a could write like that.' plays and memoirs, Showtimes are 8 p.m. April 25- dark, unforgiving past. "The action and the text are very including the 1966 Junior Annie Portnoy as Erica and junior Danny 27 and 2 p.m. April 28-29 in the Hanrahan, a former altar boy, dense, and we wanted to make sure volume "Papa Nathan as Father Perry in Peter Hanrahan's A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre in said part of his motivation for the design elements weren't Hemingway," which surreal new drama "Caught in Carnation," Mallinckrodt Center. writing "Caught in Carnation" was distracting," Mulvaney noted, recounts his long winner of the 2000 A.E. Hotchner Playwriting Set in a fictional town, to frankly investigate the often explaining her decision to employ a friendship with the Competition. "Caught in Carnation" opens with hidden emotional lives of priests. simplified, arena-style set. "The story famous writer. His the arrival of young Father Perry "I guess I got a good view of is so self-contained, the characters so memoir, "King of the Hill," which senior citizens, and $12 for the (played by junior Danny Nathan), priests and how they interact," he bound by time and circumstances, recounts growing up in St. Louis, general public — are available at sent by the archdiocese to succeed said of his Catholic school days. "I we also felt it was important for the was made into a feature film the Edison Theatre Box Office his one-time mentor, the elderly was able to see them both at the audience to be able to see them from in 1993. (935-6543) and all MetroTix Father Iker (senior John altar and as just people. all sides, unguarded — almost Tickets — $8 for University outlets (534-1111). For more Spernoga). Perry, despite his "There's a strong element of caught on stage." faculty, staff and students and information, call 935-6543. "Chungking Express" • Student Recitals • "War of the Worlds" • Constraint Induced Movement

"University Events" lists a portion of the 4 p.m. Marketing assoc. lecture. "The Tuesday, April 24 199 Cupples I Hall (tea 4 p.m., Room ogy. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. activities taking place at Washington Combined Study Advantage." Dextor 200). 935-6760. 362-8873. University April 20-May 2. Visit the Web Fedor, sr. vice president for strategic Noon. Molecular Microbiology and 12:05-12:55 p.m. Program in Physical for expanded calendars for the School of marketing, Walt Disney Productions Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series. Friday, April 27 Therapy seminar. "Constraint Induced Medicine (medschool. wustl.edu/events/) and graduate of WU Olin School of "Evolution of the Majority: Insights From Movement: Are We Forced to Use It?" and the Hilltop Campus cf6000.wustl.edu/ Business and School of Art. May Genomic Comparison of Bacteriophages." 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. "The Alexander W. Dromerick, assoc. prof, of calendar/events/). Aud., Simon Hall (reception following, Roger W. Hendrix, prof, of biological Genetic Structure of Reciprocal Social neurology and neurological surgery. Lopata Courtyard). 935-6315. sciences, U. of Pittsburgh. Cori Aud., Behavior in Children." John N. Classroom B114, 4444 Forest Park Blvd. Constantino, asst. prof, of psychiatry 4 p.m. Neuroscience seminar. "The 4565 McKinley Ave. 362-2772. (child) and pediatrics. Clopton Aud., 4950 286-1404. Reelin Pathway: Tales From Mutant 4 p.m. Anesthesiology research unit Children's Place. 454-6006. Mice." Thomas Curran, St. Jude's seminar. "Functional Development of a Wednesday, May 2 Exhibitions Children's Research Hospital, Single CNS Synapse." Henrique von Noon. Cell biology and physiology Memphis, Tenn. Cori Aud., 4565 Gersdorff, asst. prof., Vollum Inst., Ore. seminar. "Organelle Inheritance in Yeast: Noon. Orthopaedic research seminar. "The McKinley Ave. 362-7043. Health Sciences II., Portland. Room 5550 Regulation of Membrane Deformation, Amino Propeptide of Type IIA Procollagen: "Muses and the Healing Art." Through Clinical Sciences Research Bldg. Movement and Fusion." Lois S. Weisman, Another Growth Factor Binding Protein?" Aug. 31. Glaser Gallery, The Bernard 7:30 p.m. St. Louis Astronomical 362-8560. assoc. prof, of biochemistry, U. of Iowa, Audrey McAlinden, orthopaedic surgery Becker Medical Library, 660 S. Euclid Society lecture. "Chaos on lo." Iowa City. Room 426 McDonnell Medical dept. Key Library, Suite 11300, Barnes- Ave. 362-4235. William B. McKinnon, prof, of earth 4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "Vitamin B12 Sciences Bldg. 362-2713. Jewish Hosp. Bldg. 454-7800. and planetary sciences and fellow, catalyzed Dechlorination of Pollutants." McDonnell Center for the Space Wilfred van der Donk, chemistry dept., U. 3 p.m. Mathematics solvmanifold seminar. 4 p.m. Biochemistry and molecular Sciences. Co-sponsored by earth and of III., Urbana. Room 311 McMillen Hall Pat Eberlein, U. of N.C., Chapel Hill. Room biophysics seminar. "Molecular Basis of planetary sciences and NASA's (coffee 3:40 p.m.). 935-6530. 199 Cupples I Hall. 935-6760. Pilus Retraction." Michael P. Sheetz, prof., Missouri Space Grant Consortium. Columbia U„ Sherman Fairchild Center, 8 p.m. Writing Program Reading Series. 4 p.m. Anatomy and neurobiology Film Room 162 McDonnell Hall. 935-4614. N.Y. Cori Aud., 4565 McKinley Ave. Graduate students, MFA, will read from seminar. "ES Cells - Sifting the Hope 362-0261. their poetry/fiction. Hurst Lounge, Room From the Hype." David I. Gottlieb, prof, of Monday, April 23 201 Duncker Hall. 935-7130. anatomy and neurobiology and assoc. 5:15 p.m. Mothers and Babies Research Tuesday, April 24 prof, of biochemistry and molecular Noon. Biology seminar. "Molecular Center conference. "Mechanisms of biophysics. Room 928 McDonnell Medical 6 p.m. Chinese Film Series. "Chungking Capacitators for Evolutionary Wednesday, April 25 Hyperglycemia-induced Apoptosis in the Sciences Bldg. 362-7043. Express." Room 219 Ridgley Hall. Change." Susan Lindquist, Howard Mouse Blastocyst." Kelle H. Moley, asst. Noon. Orthopaedic research seminar. prof, of cell biology and physiology and of 935-5156. Hughes Medical Inst.. molecular obstetrics and gynecology. Room 36, third genetics dept. and cell biology. U. of "Mechanical Influences on Bone Monday, April 30 Chicago. Room 322 Rebstock Hall. Formation, Repair and Adaptation." floor south, St. Louis Children's Hosp. Noon. Lung biology conference. 935-5348. Steven Goldstein, Orthopaedic Research 747-0739. Laboratories, U. of Mich., Ann Arbor. Key "Neutrophil Arsenal in Host Defense Noon. Molecular biology and Library, Suite 11300, Barnes-Jewish Against Bacteria: Lessons From Targeted Lectures pharmacology research seminar. Hosp. Bldg. 454-7800. Mutagenesis." Azzaq Belaaouaj, asst. prof, "Patterning, Function and Biomechan- of medicine. Room 801 Clinical Sciences ics of the Cell Motility Driving 5:15 p.m. Mothers and Babies Research Research Bldg. 362-8983. Friday, April 20 Elongation of the Vertebrate Body Center conference. "Studying Biological Music Processes Using Expression Noon. Molecular biology and pharmacol- Axis." Raymond Keller, prof, and chair ogy research seminar. "Finding Genes for 9:15 a.m. Pediatric Grand Rounds. "Eating of biology, U. of Va., Charloftesville. Microarrays." Thomas J. Mariani, Autoimmune Diseases." Anne M. Disorders in Primary Care Practice." Room 3907 South Bldg. 362-2725. research instr., pediatric pulmonary div. Sunday, April 22 Richard E. Kreipe, George Washington Room 36, third floor south, St. Louis Bowcock, prof, of genetics and of Goler Prof, of Pediatrics, chief, Noon. Neurology and neurological Children's Hosp. 747-0739. pediatrics. Room 3907 South Bldg. 7 p.m. Senior voice recital. "The adolescent medicine div., U. of Rochester surgery research seminar. Karen L. 362-2725. Telephone." Gian Carlo Menotti's opera. O'Malley, prof, of anatomy and School of Medicine and Dentistry, N.Y. Thursday, April 26 Noon. Neurology and neurological surgery Lori Feiler, soprano, Michael Markham, neurobiology. Schwartz Aud., first Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Place. research seminar. "Pathogenetic baritone, and Vera Parkin, pianist. Graham floor, maternity bldg. 362-7379. 8 a.m. Pulmonary and Critical Care 454-6006. Mechanisms of Muscle Cell Death in the Chapel. 935-5581. Medicine conference. The I. Jerome Noon-1 p.m. Work, Families and Muscular Dystrophies: Nitric Oxide and 11 a.m. Mathematics analysis seminar. Fiance, Visiting Prof, of Medicine Public Policy Brown Bag Seminar Cellular Susceptibility to Oxidative Stress." Monday, April 23 Pedro Mendez-Hernandez, Purdue U. conference. "Inflammation and Series. "Child Support and the New Tom Rando, asst. prof, of neurology and Room 199 Cupples I Hall. 935-6760. Remodeling in the Pathogenesis of 7 p.m. WU Jazz Singers concert. Ross Bell, World of Welfare." Irwin Garfinkel, neurological sciences, Stanford U. Asthma." Jack A. Elias, prof, of medicine; dir. Friedman Lounge, Wohl Center. Noon. Cell biology and physiology Columbia U. Room 300 Eliot Hall. Schwartz Aud., first floor, Maternity Bldg. chief, pulmonary and critical care seminar. "Studying Biological Processes 935-4918. 362-7379. 935-5581. Using Expression Microarrays." Thomas medicine, Yale U. School of Medicine. J. Mariani, research instr., pediatric 4 p.m. Immunology Research Seminar Clopton Aud., 4950 Children's Place. 2 p.m. Molecular microbiology special Tuesday, April 24 pulmonary div. Room 426 McDonnell Series. "Cellular and Molecular Basis 362-8983. seminar. "Measles Virus Entry and Re- for Human Immune Response to targeting." Robert Cattaneo, prof, of 8 p.m. Music dept. student recital. Graham Medical Sciences Bldg. 362-2254. Noon-1 p.m. Genetics seminar. "The Porcine Xenograft." Thalachallour biochemistry/molecular biology, Mayo Chapel. 935-5581. Regulation of the Microtubule Cytoskel- 12:30 p.m. School of Social Work lecture. Mohanakumar, prof, of medicine, of Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Room 775 eton." Yixian Zheng, embryology dept., "Issues in Social Welfare: The View From pathology and of surgery. Eric P. McDonnell Medical Sciences Bldg. Carnegie Inst. of Wash., Washington D.C. Thursday, April 26 the Lieutenant Governor's Office." Joe Newman Education Center. 362-2763. 362-2746. Maxwell, Lt. Governor. Brown Lounge, Room 823 McDonnell Medical Sciences 8 p.m. Music dept. student recital. Graham 4 p.m. Condensed matter/materials 4 p.m. Immunology Research Seminar Brown Hall. 935-6601. Bldg. 362-2062. Chapel. 935-5581. and biological physics seminar. Series. "Host and Viral Genes Regulating 1:10 p.m. Social Work Lecture Series. 3 p.m. Romance Languages Silver "Nano-scale Characterization of Herpesvirus Latency, Immune Regulation "Gene Therapy on Trial." George Brooks Memorial Lecture. "Political Correctness Semiconductor Surfaces and of Latency and Vasculitis." Herbert W. Sunday, April 29 Johnson, prof, of biology. Brown Lounge, and the Renaissance: Montaigne's Heterostructures." Sascha "Skip" Virgin IV, assoc. prof, of pathology Discourse on Native Americans." Frangois Brown Hall. 935-4909. 3 p.m. Chancellor's concert. Music of Sadewasser, Hahn-Meitner Institut, and of molecular microbiology. Eric P. Khatchaturian, Borodin, Rachmaninoff and Rigolot, Princeton U. Room 300 Berlin. Room 241 Compton Hall ( 4 p.m. Chemistry seminar. "Palladium Newman Education Center. 362-2763. Brookings Hall (reception following). Rutter. WU Symphony Orchestra, Dan coffee 3:45 p.m.). 935-6276. Oxidase Chemistry: Mechanisms and Presgrave, dir. Chamber Choir of WU, 935-5175. Applications in Aerobic Oxidation 7 p.m. Monday Night Lecture Series. Tuesday, May 1 John Stewart, dir. Graham Chapel. Catalysis." Shannon Stahl, prof, of 4 p.m. Hematology seminar. "Red Blood Harris Armstrong Lecture. "The 935-5581. chemistry, U. of Wis., Madison. Room Noon. Molecular Microbiology and Cell Development and Leukemogenesis." Catalytic City: Between Strategy and 311 McMillen Hall (coffee 3:40 p.m.). Microbial Pathogenesis Seminar Series. Gregory D. Longmore, assoc. prof, of cell Intervention." Kenneth Frampton, 935-6530. "Legionella pneumophila: Bacterial Monday, April 30 biology and physiology and of medicine. prof, of architecture, Columbia U. parasite of Phagocytic Cells." Joseph P. Room 8841 Clinical Sciences Research Steinberg Hall Aud. (reception 6:30 4:30 p.m. Mathematics colloquium. Pat 9 p.m. Concert of English madrigals. More Bldg. 362-8801. Vogel, asst. prof, of molecular microbiol- p.m., Givens Hall). 935-6293. Eberlein, U. of N.C., Chapel Hill. Room Fools Than Wise, madrigal ensemble. record.wustl.edu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS April 20, 2001 5 Stith receives Women's Society's full scholarship Sports

BY JESSICA N. ROBERTS Softball stays over .500; was impressive at No. 2 singles, Kimberly Stith's dream of handily defeating her oppo- continuing her education at Augustana tourney next nent, 6-0,6-2. The Bears the University will come true The University's Softball team dropped just their third match thanks to the Women's Society of remained two games above of the season Saturday, falling Washington University (WSWU). .500 despite dropping two of to Kenyon (Ohio) College, 5-4. Stith, a transfer student from three games over the April 13 The Bears split the singles Florissant Valley Community weekend. Sophomore pitcher portion of the match, as Steph College, will attend the University Liz Smith tossed a gem in Cook, Jen Kivitz and Laura on a full tuition scholarship. Game 1 of a road doubleheader Greenburg all won. But WU Stith's selection as the 26th April 13 against Maryville dropped two of three doubles scholarship recipient was University, but the hosts matches to take the loss. Now announced April 11 at the managed two unearned runs to 11-3, the Bears will head to the society's annual meeting. WSWU steal a 2-0 victory. But Smith University of Rochester (N.Y.) member Mary Behnke introduced responded with a complete- for today and Saturday's Stith to an audience of nearly 100. game shutout in the nightcap, University Athletic Association The scholarship for commu- stretching her season record to (UAA) Championships. nity college transfer students was 11-6 with the 6-0 win. Fresh- Kimberly Stith (right), the 26th recipient of the Elizabeth Gray established in 1976, and in 1995 Danforth Scholarship, receives her certificate from Danforth at the man center fielder Jen Hiller Track & field primes for was named the Elizabeth Gray Women's Society of Washington University's annual meeting went 3-for-4 with two runs. A UAA Championships Danforth Scholarship as an April 11 in the Women's Building formal lounge. 6-1 loss Monday to perennial expression of gratitude and NAIA power Missouri Baptist The Bears track and field admiration for all Danforth had were on hand to congratulate College moved the Bears to 17- team prepared for today and done as first lady of the University the new scholarship recipient 15 on the season. They will hit Saturday's UAA Champion- from 1973-95. "This is a dream come and honor Danforth. the diamond today and ships at the University of This year, through a special true for me. I was The 1995-96 recipient, Brian Saturday in the Augustana (111.) Chicago by competing at the development campaign effort, Saville, is completing his third College Tournament. Cougar Classic Open, hosted WSWU brought the scholarship beginning to think that year at the School of Medicine, by Southern Illinois Univer- endowment level to more than all my hard work would where he prepared and taught a Women's tennis 11-3 sity at Edwardsville. Team $1 million. mini-course in cardiovascular after Midwest invite scoring was not kept, but Stith carried a 3.94 grade point never pay off." physiology that was used to several Bears turned in fine average at Florissant Valley in KIMBERLY STITH introduce first-year students to WU women's tennis sand- individual performances. On addition to her role as mother to more advanced cardiac wiched heartbreaking 5-4 losses the women's side, freshman three children. She is also a physiology and pharmacology around a 6-1 victory Friday and Emily Lahowetz won the member of the Phi Beta Kappa forward to seeing what their in a clinical setting. Saturday at the Midwest 1,500 meters (4:50.96), and honor society. scholars accomplish during their The 1999-2000 recipient, Invitational in Madison, Wis. senior Susan Chou flew to a Stith will take coursework in years at the University and Sarah Wood, junior in Arts & The weekend began with a 5-4 10:21.9 in the 3,000 meters to Arts & Sciences and is interested beyond. Sciences, is a member of the loss Friday to Luther College. win by more than 20 seconds. in becoming a surgeon. "Providing scholarship women's soccer team. Jenny Stein started the match Valerie Lasko took second in Two of Stith's sons and her resources for deserving students The Women's Society is an off right for WU by winning at the 200-meter dash (26.32 mother, Georgette, beamed with gives WSWU members a great organization of volunteers and No. 1 singles, but then the Bears seconds) and third in the 100 pride as Stith accepted the award deal of satisfaction," said Harriet professional women who are dropped second, third and fifth meters (12.79). For the men, from Danforth and expressed her K. Switzer, Ph.D., University influential in the St. Louis singles, putting them in a hole freshman Darius Viet won his gratitude. coordinator of WSWU and community. In addition to the they couldn't overcome. Shilpa first event of the season with a "This is a dream come true for secretary to the Board of annual scholarship, the society Reddy and Jen Kivitz won at No. UAA and WU team season- me," Stith said. "I was beginning Trustees. "They love to see the offers services to the entire 3 doubles, 8-5. The Bears best time of 9:47.17 in the to think that all my hard work talents of 'their' students thrive at University community, bounced back by sweeping all 3,000-meter steeplechase. would never pay off. I have the University, and they look including the Bear Necessities six singles matchups on the way Brett Pond finished second in worked very hard for this, and I forward to hearing about their gift shop, friendship and to a 6-1 thrashing of St. Thomas the pole vault, leaping want you to know that I will keep accomplishments in the letters hospitality for international (Minn.) University. Senior 12-foot-6, and fourth in the on working hard." they receive from the graduates." students and funding for captain Nandina Chaturvedula javelin at 162-foot-3. The Women's Society looks A number of past recipients sponsored projects. Summer school offers array of classes

Campus Watch Summer is right around the concepts as they are used to study corner, and summer school politics, economics and business. The following incidents were reported to University Police April 10-18. Readers with information that could assist in investigating these incidents registration is now open. More Real case studies will be examined are urged to call 935-5555. This information is provided as a public service to promote safety awareness and is available on the University Police than 200 classes offer students and several basic game experi- Web site at rescomp.wustl.edu/~wupd. everything from accounting to ments will be part of the class. Zen Buddhism. • "Aspects of Native American April 12 April 14 locked office in Ridgley Hall Summer courses are offered and Hispanic music and culture Room 314A and took a laptop 5:38 p.m. — A student stated 1:34 a.m. —A student reported during three-, five- and eight- in New Mexico" takes students computer and docking station week sessions with both day and West. Held in Santa Fe, the class that two people were attempt- his 1989 maroon Volvo missing that was sitting on his desk. ing to solicit magazine from his parking spot outside of evening hours: delves into Pueblo, Navajo, Total loss is valued at $4,528. • Session 1: May 21-June 8; Hispanic and Anglo cultures, subscriptions and were acting fraternity house No. 2. The An investigation will continue. suspicious. There were similar vehicle was later found in the • Session 2: June 11-July 13; focusing mainly on Native American prehistory and history. reports in Dauten and West Campus garage. University Police also responded • Session 3: June 11-Aug. 3; • Session 4: July 16-Aug. 17. Students will visit numerous Beaumont halls. The suspects to 11 additional reports of theft, were later identified and April 16 four reports of vandalism, three Full-time staff and their historical sites and view tradi- warned by the University reports of false alarms, three spouses or domestic partners tional sand painting, song and 9:31 a.m. — A professor stated receive 50 percent tuition dance demonstrations during the police department not to reports of automobile accidents that between 12 p.m. April 13 remission for undergraduate two-week sojourn. Craig solicit and issued a trespassing and 9:30 a.m. April 16 an and one report of assault. warning. summer courses offered at the Monson, Ph.D., professor of unknown person entered his University. music in Arts 8c Sciences, is the The Summer School has instructor. awarded faculty grants to develop • "Warrior culture of Japan," sponsored by the Cell Biology and Sponsored by music dept. Umrath Hall creative new additions to the taught by Elizabeth Oyler, Ph.D., Physiology Postdoctoral Society and the curriculum. assistant professor of Japanese Lounge. 935-5581. Neuroscience Postdoctoral Fellows Assoc. Worship Room 928 McDonnell Medical Science "It's very important to language 8c literature in Arts 8c Tuesday, May 1 Bldg. 362-7717. encourage regular faculty Sciences, explores a different 8 p.m. WU Chorus concert. "Requiem" by members to teach courses that world. Whether samurais or Gabriel Faur6. Eric Anthony, dir. Graham Friday, April 20 Friday, April 27 reflect their research interests and imperial army soldiers, warriors Chapel. 935-5581. 11:15 a.m. Catholic Mass. Catholic Student 7:30 a.m. Continuing Medical Education appeal to a wide range of are a core part of Japanese center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. 935-9191. conference. "Pulmonary Update for students," said Mark Rollins, history. Students will identify 1:10 p.m. Muslim Friday prayers. Includes Primary Care Physicians." Cost: $125 director of the Summer School. sources of the perceptions of the sermon and prayer service. Lambert physicians, $100 allied health profession- New classes created from the Japanese warrior over time and lounge, Mallinckrodt Student Center. als (Vincent van Gogh tour and dinner, grant are: investigate the differences On Stage 935-3543. $50). Eric P. Newman Education Center. To register, call 362-6891. • "Topics in English 8c Ameri- between early images of the can literature: Children & samurai and their portrayals in Friday, April 27 7:30 a.m. Continuing Medical Education Friday, April 20 conference. "Update in the Diagnosis and censorship: What we permit our later literature and film. 11:15 a.m. Catholic Mass. Catholic Student Management of Gastroesophageal Reflux children to read & why," is taught In addition to a wide range of 8 p.m. OVATIONS! Series. "War of the center, 6352 Forsyth Blvd. 935-9191. Disease (GERD)." Cost: $125 physicians, by Gerald Early, Ph.D., the Merle courses, the Summer School and Worlds." The SITI Company, M.Y. (Also $50 nurses/allied health professionals April 21, same time, and April 22, 2 p.m.) 1:10 p.m. Muslim Friday prayers. Includes Kling Professor of Modern Letters the College of Arts 8c Sciences sermon and prayer service. Lambert (Vincent van Gogh tour and dinner, $50). Cost: $25. Edison Theatre. 935-6543. Eric P. Newman Education Center. To in English and professor of find new ways to enrich summer lounge, Mallinckrodt Student Center. African 8c Afro-American studies social and cultural life on 935-3543. register, call 362-6891. in Arts 8c Sciences. The course campus. A theater company will Saturday, April 28 examines the issue of censorship, produce two plays and new music who determines what is appropri- and dance events are being Sports 8 a.m. Continuing Medical Education conference. "Non-invasive Imaging in the ate for children to read, balancing planned for the Hilltop this And more... Management of Patients With Coronary the civil liberty of free speech summer. The popular Holmes Thursday, April 26 Artery Disease." Cost: $75 (includes against concern about what Jazz Series also will continue. A breakfast and lunch). Eric P. Newman children are exposed to, etc. calendar of events will be Education Center. To register, call 4 p.m. Women's Softball vs. MacMurray Tuesday, April 25 • Itai Sened, Ph.D., associate published in May, listing these College, Jacksonville, III. Softball Field. 362-6891. 935-5220. 10:30 a.m. Preferred supplier/supplier professor of political science in and other events. diversity fair. Francis Gym (also April 25, 11 a.m. International Writers Center Arts & Sciences, will teach reading. "A Day of Readings." Assia To register for a class or for Eric P. Newman Education Center, same "Learning by playing games in more information about Summer Tuesday, May 1 time). 935-5649. Djebar, Algerian novelist; Ingo Schulze, German writer and Lavinia Greenlaw, economics and politics." This School, call 935-6720 or visit the 3 p.m. Men's baseball vs. Webster U. Kelly 4 p.m. Town hall meeting. John Russell, British poet. West Campus Conference course covers basic and more Summer School Web site: http:// Field. 935-5220. assoc. dean of graduate studies. Co- Center, 7425 Forsyth Blvd. 935-5576. sophisticated game theory www.artsci.wustl.edu/summer. 6 RECORD WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

Average values are recorded at 10-minute, 60-minute and Trails Day 24-hour intervals. It also provides maximum and Family event April 28 minimum values. Precipitation open to the public is recorded in 0.01-inch — from Page 1 increments as frequently as one-second intervals. celebrate the season and the While many people assume region's natural and historical all of the research at Tyson is culture. Those attending are biological in nature, researchers bound to enjoy a beautiful from the earth and planetary natural area and learn some- sciences department in Arts & thing new about the natural Sciences, School of Engineering world and the place Tyson holds and Applied Science, School of in the region's history." Art and other University The 2,000 acres that consti- departments regularly use the tute Tyson Research Center have site. For instance, first-year experienced a diverse and graduate student Mike Keller interesting history, spanning will be showing on Trails Day from the last Ice Age to present. artwork he created at Tyson. The area has been used by early Keller was the recipient of a Native Americans, farmers, Crescent Hills research grant miners, railroads, timber (the whole region was known harvesters, the U.S. military and as Crescent Hills earlier in the St. Louis County Parks before its century) that enabled his work present use as a biological field there. Stan Strembicki, station and research center. professor of art, also will One of its newest features, display photographs on available to participants at Tyson Trails Day. Trails Day, is the new Tyson Other University faculty and Research Center Weather students participating in Trails Station, which Larson manages. Day include biology graduate Installed in October 2000, the students Corey Anderson and 33-foot tall tower is situated in a Doug Creer, who will conduct large, relatively flat field so that the snake walk, and Richard W. Hail* today gone tomorrow Sophomore Jessica Walker, a religious studies major in Arts & trees do not interfere with wind Coles, Ph.D., former Tyson Sciences, takes the plunge and gets more than 10 inches of her hair cut by stylist Robert Baker at currents, solar radiation or other director, who will conduct the the Locks of Love charity event Monday in Mallinckrodt Center. More than 60 students and commu- weather measurements. The area bird-watching hikes. nity members volunteered to have their hair cut during the three-hour event. The hair will be donated is typical of the research center Jonathan B. Losos, Ph.D., to Locks of Love, a nonprofit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged and its oak-hickory forest with associate professor of biology children with medical hair loss. The event was sponsored by the St. Louis Hillel at Washington interspersed grassy areas. The in Arts & Sciences and director University and co-sponsored by several student groups. weather station is 570 feet above of Tyson Research Center, sea level. Friends of Washington University Tyson Research He rode a bicycle everywhere He corresponded with Max Born The weather station model is Center and the Tyson Field into his 80s, out of concern for and Albert Einstein. based on a Campbell Scientific Hohenemser Science the pollution automobiles cause. At 82, in a letter to his Inc. Datalogger, Program, ■ from Page 1 "He cross-country skied every granddaughter Lisa Hohenemser, "the Cadillac of which winter until he reached 91," he wrote: weather Directions annually helicopter to be flown was a Peters said. "When he would visit "With the spring winds and instrumenta- reaches out to model Hohenemser and Flettner my house, he'd often check on my higher temperatures arriving, I tions," according To get to Tyson Research Center: thousands of developed. It reached an altitude furnace to make it more efficient will get busy on the windmill. I to Larson. area school- of several thousand feet and flew for the winter. Efficiency and also have a lot of fun with my Before coming • Take Interstate 44 west; children and for nearly an hour. By the war's exactitude were very important study of the foundations of to the University • Exit and make a right at Antire teachers, are end, 20 helicopters bearing to him." quantum physics. I don't want to last spring, he Road (Exit #269), approximately hosting Hohenemser's design and During the decade following go to heaven before I have not had been field seven miles west of the 1-44/1-270 the event. analysis and Flettner's vision had the 1973 oil embargo, understood completely what station manager interchange; Other been successfully flown. Hohenemser wrote a column on makes the universe tick." for 14 years at participants At war's end, Hohenemser was energy policy for Environment He received many prestigious the San Dimas • The research center is on the right include the discovered by an American magazine, in which he explored honors, including the Grover E. Experimental For more information on the event, Missouri engineer, who took his reports on all kinds of alternative energy. Bell Award from the Institute of Forest in call Joyce Duncan at 935-8430. Department of the design of the Flettner Since 1980, Hohenemser Aeronautical Sciences and the southern Conservation, helicopter and had them conducted research at Tyson Alexander Klemin Award from California's San Saint Louis Zoo, Route 66 State published in English, exposing Research Center on a wind the American Helicopter Society. Gabriel Mountains. Park, Wild Canid Survival and him to American aeronautics turbine he designed based on his He received the Spirit of St. Louis "It's a critical component of Research Center, the World experts. pioneering helicopter work. He Medal from the American field research at Tyson because Bird Sanctuary, Museum of Hohenemser and his family collected data, trying to prove Society of Mechanical Engineers the many projects here are Transport, Missouri Mycologi- came to the United States in 1947. that a properly designed helicop- in 1985. reliant on weather data, which cal Society, North American He weighed offers from Flettner, ter-type rotor, with its helicopter- Hohenemser is survived by can be an indicator of when Butterfly Association Society who also left Germany after the type mechanical controls, is more his daughter, Veronica trees flower, for instance, or and Webster Groves Nature war, and St. Louis' James suitable for wind turbines than Sutherland, a mathematics when hibernating animals such 1 Study Society. McDonnell, who also was involved commonly used propeller-type teacher in Salt Lake City, and his as snakes are ready to come out, For more information on in helicopter development. rotors controlled by electronics son, Christoph Hohenemser, Larson said. the event, call Joyce Duncan at Hohenemser chose McDonnell, — highly vulnerable to lightning professor of physics and environ- Every second, the weather 935-8430. To learn more about serving 18 years at McDonnell storm. mental science and technology at station samples air temperature the Tyson Research Center Douglas Corp. as chief aerody- Even in areas of high average Clark University and 1963 in degrees Celsius, relative visit: http://www.biology. namics engineer of its helicopter wind speeds, wind turbines are physics doctoral graduate of humidity, wind speed and wustl.edu/tyson. division before joining the not yet a clear economic alterna- Washington University. direction and solar radiation. University in 1966 as professor of tive. For example, the electroni- aerospace engineering. cally controlled turbines on the Hohenemser was Peters' California mountain passes are mentor and master's thesis beset by frequent failures that adviser in the 1970s. Peters keep them offline. Thus, im- Employment recalled that Hohenemser was a provements in wind turbine hearty man who took massive designs are important, and use of Use the World Wide Web to obtain complete job descriptions. Go to https://hr.wusll.edu/(Hilltop) or http://medicine.wustl.edu/wumshr (Medical). amounts of vitamin C and drank mechanical controls remains only raw, unpasteurized milk, promising. Research Assistant Senior Compliance Research Assistant Catalog Librarian the medical school's Hilltop 010140 Auditor 010229-30 010268 010290 Office of Human which he had to purchase in In his later years, he delved Resources at 362-7196. 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Police Service Aide This is a partial list of (part time) 011434 Sciences Writer Senior Prospect Librarian/Subject 010265 positions at the School Chancellor's Charity Cup, for the "We encourage everyone to 010108 Researcher 010213 Librarian 010288 Administrative Partners in of Medicine. Coordinator 011439 student group that raises the most join us at the carnival," Johnson Mechanic Associate Director of Purchasing and Education W/Parents Employees: Contact money for Make a Difference (Bargaining Unit Foundation Relations Receiving Assistant said. "It's going to be a lot of fun." Processor 010267 Employee) 010111-2 010227 010289 record.wustl.edu WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS April 20, 2001 7 Notables School of Business recognizes four alumni, Olin Foundation

BY ROBERT BATTERSON administration (EMBA) degree in 1985. Since 1997, he has been The Olin School honored chairman of Famous-Barr Co., four alumni and the John the St. Louis-based "division of M. Olin Foundation at its The May Department Stores Co. 15th annual Distinguished with annual sales of $1.3 billion Alumni dinner Tuesday at the and 43 stores in seven states. Ritz-Carlton in Clayton. Danahy rose through various William W. Canfield, John F. positions in computer services, Danahy, Alvin Goldfarb, and Cuba moved to a corporate position in Wadlington Jr. received Distin- St. Louis in 1980, and was guished Alumni awards for having promoted to senior vice president attained distinction in their careers. in 1984. The Olin Foundation received the Alvin Goldfarb left the Dean's Medal for exceptional business school in 1937 to work dedication and service to the in his father's St. Louis-based Outstanding ntentOrS Five faculty members were honored with the annual Outstanding Faculty school. Stuart I. Greenbaum, Ph.D., garment-manufacturing business. Mentor Awards, presented by the Graduate Student Senate Tuesday in a ceremony in Holmes dean of the Olin School, presented In 1940, he founded Worths Lounge. Recipients were (left-right) David A. Balota, professor and associate chair of psychology; the awards. stores, offering moderately priced Stanton H. Braude, lecturer in biology; Michael L. Gross, professor of chemistry; Robert Hegel, professor and chair of comparative literature; and Fiona Marshall, associate professor of anthropol- Through its $15 million women's apparel as women ogy, all in Arts & Sciences. The awards honor those whose dedication and commitment to excel- challenge grant in 1987, the Olin increasingly entered the work lence in graduate training has made a significant contribution to the quality of life of students. Foundation not only gave the force. In 1979, Goldfarb and his University's business school its wife, Jeanette, a University social name but also played a major role work alumna, were founding in its move into the top ranks of sponsors of the University's sclerosis, Thrombosis and Petit Boulevard," which opened at business schools worldwide. The Scholars in Business scholarship Vascular Biology Award for Basic the Saint Louis Art Museum in gift assured the school's financial program. The first University- Of note Science and Clinical Research. A February (Rizzoli Press). She will stability, allowed it to excel in associated structure to bear the plaque and a $1,500 honorarium deliver a symposium paper this Michelle Purdy, senior in Arts recruiting high-quality faculty Goldfarb name was the Alvin and will be presented May 12 during spring in conjunction with that 8c Sciences and former and students, enriched doctoral Jeanette Goldfarb House, home the Second Conference on exhibition and will give three president of the Student Union, and executive programs, and of the Hillel Foundation. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and additional public lectures on the recently received the Women's helped establish the Business, Goldfarb later provided the Vascular Biology, sponsored by show. Child's review of Stephen Society Leadership Award for Law and Economics Center as naming gifts to the University for the American Heart Association's Eisenman's book "Gauguin's 2001. This student award well as what is now the Center for the Jeanette Goldfarb Plant Council on Arteriosclerosis, Skirt" will appear in the journal honors a woman who has Experiential Learning. In 1996, Growth Facility; the Alvin Thrombosis and Vascular Pacific Review (Vol. 22, no. 4) excelled academically, made the foundation also endowed a Goldfarb Auditorium; Alvin Biology, the North American in May.... significant contributions to the John M. Olin Distinguished Goldfarb Hall; and the Alvin Vascular Biology Organization University community, reached Professorship of Business, Law, Goldfarb Professorship of and the National Heart, Lung and out in community service and and Economics. Computational Biology. Blood Institute.... exhibited exceptional potential William W. Canfield, who Cuba Wadlington Jr. earned Speaking of for leadership earned an MBA in 1962, is chief a B.S. in 1972. He is president and Gowri Krishna, senior in Eric Mumford, Ph.D., assistant executive officer and chairman of chief executive officer of Williams Arts & Sciences, was recently professor in the School of TALX, a $42 million application Gas Pipeline Co. and executive selected by the Center for To press Architecture, spoke on "GAM service company based in vice president of Williams Inc., Study of Values in College and the Institutionalization of Maryland Heights. The firm the nation's largest transporter of Elizabeth C. Childs, Ph.D., Student Development as a Modern Architecture" at the provides human resource and natural gas. Wadlington joined associate professor of art history student essay award-winner Department of Art History at the payroll employee self-service the company in 1979 as director in Arts & Sciences, recently for her piece "Summer in the University of Missouri-Columbia solutions. His focus, people skills of regulatory affairs, worked his published several essays concern- Gray: Politics, Stereotypes, and April 9. He also spoke on CIAM and technical aptitude have way through the ranks and was ing Gauguin and exoticism. Her a Slap in the Face," published last November at the University brought him success throughout named CEO last year. Wadlington essay "The Colonial Lens: in the Journal of College and of Illinois. his career. Canfield worked for has met many challenges Gauguin, Primitivism and Character. The $500 prize is several years as a systems throughout his career, including Photography in the fin-de-siecle" funded through the John engineer at IBM before joining overseeing the design and appeared in the anthology Notable guidelines Templeton Foundation.... TALX in 1991. There he initiated construction of the Kern River "Policing the Boundaries of Send your full name, title(s), Kenneth M. Ludmerer, the "Work Number for Everyone," Project, a $1 billion, seven-year Modernity: Antimodernism and department(s), phone M.D., professor of medicine in an automated, self-service undertaking featuring the first Artistic Experience" (University number and degree(s), along employment-verification system pipeline constructed directly out the School of Medicine, of Toronto Press, 2001), edited by with a description of your recently received the Johns holding employment and salary of the Rocky Mountains crossing Lynda Jessup. Child's essay noteworthy activity, to records for more than 40 million into southern California. He was Hopkins University Distin- "Seeking the Studio of the South: Notables, c/o Jessica Roberts, guished Alumnus Award for people, about one-fourth of the also significantly involved in the Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Avant- Campus Box 1070, or e-mail his career as a physician, nation's work force. development of an Alaskan gas Garde Identity" appeared in the [email protected]. historian and writer, as well as John F. Danahy earned an pipeline in the late '70s and catalog to the exhibition "Vincent For more information, call his leadership in the medical executive master of business early '80s. Van Gogh and the Painters of the 935-5293. field and his philanthropic generosity.... Washington University Olin School appoints director has received a National Arts & Sciences Council honors 10 Institutes of Health grant to support summer undergradu- University students honored 10 • Carla Bossola — lecturer, of European Programs in London ate research fellowships for 10 favorite professors and teaching Italian; students majoring in engi- assistants at the annual Arts & • Kathleen Cook — academic London Careers Service, Britain's The Olin School of Business has neering, math, physics or Sciences Council's Faculty Awards coordinator, anthropology; largest higher education careers appointed Nicholas S. Hugh other physical sciences. The Recognition Ceremony April 10. • Jill Hampton — lecturer, service. With a master's degree in director of European Programs, four-year, $325,000 grant will Recipients were chosen from English; management science from based in London. allow students to participate about 75 nominations and then • Brody Johnson —teaching Imperial College at London Hugh will develop and in biomedical research with ranked by a four-member panel assistant, mathematics; University and a bachelor's supervise internships and small- selected mentors in numerous specially appointed to bestow • Annamaria Pileggi — senior degree in natural sciences from group consulting projects for scientific fields.... the honors. artist in residence, performing undergraduate and graduate St. Johns College at Cambridge, Jay W. Heinecke, M.D., Award winners are: arts; Hugh possesses a strong back- business students. He will also professor of medicine and • Jami Ake — lecturer, English; • Susan Rollins — assistant ground in business and science. coordinate Olin's academic molecular biology and • Susheela Athreya — teaching dean and academic coordinator, From 1987-96, he was managing programs in pharmacology in the School of assistant, human evolution; Arts & Sciences; director for Instant X-Rays Pic, the United Medicine, recently received the • Barbara Baumgartner — • Jeff Smith — assistant which specializes in radiology Kingdom, 2001 Jeffery M. Hoeg Arterio- lecturer, women's studies; professor, performing arts. which and neurology medical services. include international study tours Lewis named director of law school's Legal Research and Writing program for under- graduate, After a national search, Jo Ellen classes for D.C., firms of Tucker, Flyer & Lewis earned a law degree from graduate and D. Lewis, J.D., senior lecturer first-year Lewis and Morrison & Foerster. Georgetown University Law executive in law, has been named director students, She is a member of the bars in Center, where she served as Hugh: New UK program of the School of Law's Legal developed a Maryland, Missouri and the executive editor of the school's director business Research and Writing (LRW) Web site for District of Columbia. American Criminal Law Review students. In program. her LRW Nationally recognized for her and as a head tutor for first-year addition, Hugh will provide Lewis has taught in the course and work in LRW, Lewis has made law students. Previously, she liaison support to the business program for six years. In addition stressed the numerous presentations on earned master's and bachelor's school's international programs to teaching two LRW sections of practical pedagogical approaches to legal degrees in education from the in other European locations. first-year students, Lewis will hire aspects of research and writing, ethics in University of Missouri-Columbia. Hugh served most recently as and mentor new LRW faculty Lewis: Director of legal research legal writing and oral presenta- During law school, Lewis served as LRW program project leader to launch a new and work directly with the four and writing. tions based on legal research. She an intern for Montgomery recruitment division for Angela other full-time faculty who Before is serving on the planning County (Md.) Circuit Court Judge Mortimer Pic in London. He teach LRW. joining the law school, she committee for this fall's Central Irma S. Raker and as an intern and previously served as deputy During the past few years, specialized in commercial real Region LRW/Lawyering Skills speechwriter for former U.S. Sen. director for the University of Lewis has expanded research estate law at the Washington, Conference in Chicago. Thomas F. Eagleton. \

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From the first day students arrive at the School of Law, Mark Smith, J.D, '86, associate dean for student services, strives to get to know each one individually. He introduces himself at the welcoming assembly; he wanders the halls, checking in with students as they change classes; he talks to them about what kinds of fields they are interested in. And, when the time comes, he takes the mystery out of getting interviews and parlaying an interview into a job offer. "Dean Smith is absolutely wonderful," said Emily Kaplansky, J.D. '00. "I talked to him throughout law school about everything — my classes, my job search. "He is very comforting because he is so accessible and because he gives students the tools to find a job and succeed. He put me in touch with several alumni who were helpful, and he Mark Smith, J.D. '86, associate dean for student services at the School of Law, talks with student Kate put the interview in perspective LeBar. Smith worked five years at the St. Louis firm Bryan Cave before returning to the University.

And so he returned to the University, this time as assistant dean of students handling Providing the tools for success admissions, financial aid and the career center. by comparing it to a first date. He committees, and they tend to go very important to them." "It was weird because I'd been As the law school's took the fear aspect out of the to the same law schools they've At Southwest High School, to law school here, and now my whole process." always gone to." Smith was the only student former professors were my associate dean for Dorsey D. Ellis Jr., J.D., the Although Smith meets initial to receive the Harvard Book colleagues," Smith said. "At that William R. Orthwein Distin- resistance from some employers, award, given by the St. Louis point, I was 31 and single. My life student services, guished Professor of Law, said, he and his data have consistently Harvard Club. was much more similar to the "From the moment he was hired convinced more and more firms "Manuel Ponte, the Harvard students than to the faculty." Mark Smith, (in 1991), Mark really made the to recruit at the University. alumnus who presented me the Smith has never lost that office of assistant dean of students Ellis said Smith's efforts are award, strongly encouraged me perspective. He always looks at J.D. '86, has a accessible to students, and he has paying off. to apply to Harvard," Smith things from the students' point of always vigorously advocated for "That office has really turned said. "His own family had come view. As assistant dean of students, proactive students." Ellis, who was dean around in terms of effectiveness from Portugal, and he was the he advocated for the students' even from 1987-98 and hired Smith, and students' perception of first to go to college, so this if that was sometimes in conflict mentoring style added: "Mark still has a very effectiveness," Ellis said. started me thinking that maybe with what the faculty wanted, student-oriented attitude. He's When Smith moved to the I could apply. Ellis said. very approachable." Kaplansky said, "Dean Smith is Since Smith was appointed very good at keeping up with the associate dean of student services "I talked to him throughout law school about students. People who need help BY DEB ARONSON in 1998, he has focused on don't always walk into career improving the career services everything — my classes, my job search. He is very services, so he gets out and talks to students receive. comforting because he is so accessible and because students wherever he finds them." "Career services historically has been a weak spot, even when I he gives students the tools to find a job ... He took 'Colonel'Smith was a student," Smith said. "We're the fear aspect out of the whole process." Smith's St. Louis bonds run trying hard to change that, and to deep. His wife, Lisa Braun, is also a give students specific advice about EMILY KAPLANSKY St. Louis native and is associate what they should do. general counsel at the University. Mark Smith, J.D. '86 "For example, students need to The couple and their two sons — start thinking of interviews as a Career Services Office three years "Most kids at my school, if their third child is due in July — University positions: Associate dean presentation and concentrate on ago, one New York firm came to they went to college, stayed in live in the Holly Hills neighbor- for student services; chair of the what points to cover. Legal the law school to recruit, and no state, and my counselors hood of south St. Louis, and Smith Committee on University Policy and employers have check sheets, and Washington, D.C., firms were discouraged me. They kept is the president of their neighbor- Practice Affecting Students With they grade you on specific recruiting here. Now, between pointing out that no one from hood association. He is also active Disabilities qualities. You can't just say you are five and 10 NewYork/D.C. firms, Southwest ever even applied in the Harvard Club of St. Louis smart and work hard; you have to a Boston firm and a Portland to Harvard." and serves, fittingly, as chair of its Education: A.B. cum laude, Harvard give specific examples." firm regularly visit campus, Still, with his family's book award committee. University, 1982; J. D„ Washington He may be friendly, but Smith Smith said. The number of encouragement, Smith applied In 1999, Gov. Mel Carnahan University, 1986 can also be tenacious, as when he governmental agencies has and was accepted at Harvard. appointed Smith to the Board of Family: Married in 1994 in Graham networks nationwide with legal increased as well. He enjoyed his four years in Police Commissioners for the City Chapel to Lisa Braun; two sons, employers to educate them about To better serve students, the Cambridge, Mass. of St. Louis. The group, essentially William, 5, and Michael, 3 Washington University law school also doubled the number "Harvard was a great volunteers, meets every other week students. of professional staff members in experience for me," Smith said. and handles all issues that arise in "I am basically the Career Services Office "It opened my eyes to so many running the police department, selling the law between 1998-2000, from two new things." including hiring and firing. Smith school to to four. But there was never any has ridden with police officers in employers," Smith The added guidance is paying question in Smith's mind that all nine districts to learn more said. "I'm using off. In the early '90s, only about he'd return to St. Louis. "I about their jobs and what should data to convince 50 percent of University law always knew this is where I be done to make things better. He lawyers that our students had jobs lined up at wanted to be," he said. even has his own bulletproof vest. students are as graduation. Now it's more than After graduating from the Smith's laconic, thoughtful and good as those at 80 percent. While part of that School of Law, Smith worked modest attitude earns him respect other schools they might be due to the strong five years at the St. Louis firm and appreciation from students recruit from. I'm economy, Smith is certainly Bryan Cave, paid off his law and police officers. not a natural partly responsible for the school debts and bought "Mark has a big collegial heart salesman, but I'm improvement. a house. and lots of common sense," said good at it because "That's my parents' influ- Eddie Roth, police board presi- I believe in what Lifelong St. Louisan ence," Smith said. "They never dent. "He's a real consensus I'm doing." Like many of the students he borrowed for anything except to builder because of his quiet, However, helps guide, Smith was the first buy a home. I made double reasoned, intelligent approach. His Smith notes it's in his family to pursue higher payments on my loans, and having navigated both the blue- not always an education. Although his parents every bonus I got I put toward collar world of south St. Louis and easy sell. hadn't gone to college and his my loans. I was lucky. I got a the patrician halls of Harvard has "Law firms are father hadn't finished high good job that helped me pay it enabled him to relate to people on not quick to school, there was never any back. I didn't do anything all kinds of levels." change, and question that Smith and his frivolous, and I kept my Of his work on the police public-interest younger sister and brother debt down." board, Smith said, "It's very time- employers and would go to college. By 1991, Smith was ready to intensive, but very rewarding governmental Smith, who had always been re-examine his life. "I liked the work. I really feel like I'm making a agencies often interested in government and work I was doing at Bryan Cave, difference. have limited politics, also fully intended to go but I didn't love it," he said. "It "Besides, the police officers call Mark Smith and wife Lisa Braun enjoy a recent budgets," he said. to law school. was a very demanding lifestyle, me 'Colonel Smith,'" he added vacation to Disney's Animal Kingdom with their "Hiring tends to "I had great parents," Smith and I knew I eventually wanted with a grin. "That's even better two sons, William (left) and Michael. happen in said. "Family and education were to marry and have kids." than being called 'Dean.'"