Out of the Red After the NFL, Brandon Williams ’16 faced a new opponent: bankruptcy. Page 22 Vision Can we have class outside today? Environmen- tal science students enjoy the environment on a spring day in 2017. Science Hall houses the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies — when it’s not outdoors. Photo by Jeff Miller On Wisconsin 3 AWAY HOME? The choice is yours. For those who left Wisconsin, you took with you the high standards of excellence instilled by UW. But you left behind even more—a state with unmatched educational outcomes, superior healthcare, abundant career opportunities that improve the world, a low cost of living and the very same state spirit that inspired you to begin with. Isn’t it time to come home again to all that? Wisconsin. It’s more you. THINK MAKE HAPPEN IN WISCONSIN InWisconsin.com Contents Volume 119, Number 1 Steve Miller conducts Fifth Quarter in 2017. See page 26. BRYCE RICHTER BRYCE DEPARTMENTS 2 Vision 6 Communications 9 First Person OnCampus 11 News 13 Bygone Eloise Gerry 14 Calculation End of DARE 17 Conversation Erik Iverson 18 Exhibition Hoopes Sisters Illustrations 20 Contender Jo Ann Heckroth Jansen FEATURES OnAlumni 22 A Big Bounce Back An NFL career left Brandon Williams ’16 bankrupt. But he’s 48 News reinvented himself and found success in multiple fields. 49 Conversation Ladee Hubbard By Doug Moe ’79 JEPSEN ERIK 50 Tradition Becoming Bucky 51 Class Notes 26 Keep on a-Rock’n Us, Baby 58 Diversions Steve Miller x’67 reflects on how his time on campus, being 59 Honor Roll Alice Evans an English major, and growing up with a famous godfather 66 Destination Chazen Museum affected his music career. By Joshua M. Miller of Art UW–MADISON LIBRARIES, DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS 30 Bridging Mountains Tara Linhardt ’94 found that Himalayan and Appalachian tunes have a lot in common — and she promotes traditional music in both worlds. By Joan Fischer MA’95 36 A Judge on Trial See page 20. John Becker LLB1890 spoke out against the government during World War I and lost his career in public service when his words were deemed a crime. By Adam Schrager 38 Arctic Watch In Alaska, where glaciers are melting, Fran Ulmer ’69, JD’72 leads a commission tasked with helping U.S. officials decide what to do about climate change. By Andrew Faught Cover Brandon Williams ’16 has found success as 44 Michael Finley: The Sequel a broadcast sports After his NBA career ended in 2010, Michael Finley ’14 took analyst, speaker, From sketchbooks to bookshelves. roles behind the scenes with the Dallas Mavericks and in and author. Photo by See page 18. Hollywood. By Jenny Price ’96 Bryce Richter. On Wisconsin 5 Communications List Love Five Great Sports from a number of decades and Thanks for the List Issue [Winter Plays musical genres, in this case), 2017 On Wisconsin]. I’m keeping As a former UW athletics board and visuals available to us. We this one! member and three-sport high remain amazed by all of the Dave Carlson MS’59, PhD’63 school athlete, I was surprised THE LIST ISSUE exceptional artists who have Carlsbad, California that no women’s sports and no IN REVIEW performed at the UW over the sports other than football or bas- years — the list could truly fill I always read On Wisconsin, but ketball were featured among the a magazine. the Winter 2017 issue was spe- “5 Great Plays in Badger Sports 95total letters, cial. Your lists of notable events, History.” Keep the Koenig/ The REM concert at the Stock activities, and places around Showalter play and showcase Pavilion on May 10, 1985, may campus brought back many more of the UW’s proud and not have made On Wisconsin’s compliments,20 memories for a graduate from diverse athletics history. list of legendary concerts, but it yesteryear. Can I re-enroll? Angela Wellsmith ’98, JD’07 tops ours. It was our first date. DuWayne Herning MS’68 Brookfield, Wisconsin We’ve been happily married for Wausau, Wisconsin corrections6 almost 30 years! Six Things I Learned Catherine Allen Dadlez ’86 [I’m] a long-time resident of Mad- from the List Issue and Paul Dadlez ’88 ison and an enthusiastic partici- 1. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Ella Fitz- Saint Paul pant on a couple of UW advisory gerald, Duke Ellington, Harry committees, but [I’m] not a UW Belafonte, and Itzhak Perlman graduate. For the first time, the all played at Madison? List Issue made me really wish 2. Groucho Marx’s letter is 6 Mistakes We’d Like to Correct Publishing an issue with lists I were. hilarious. 3. Alumni Park is full of hidden of facts increases the poten- Jane Coleman FOR UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN–MADISON ALUMNI AND FRIENDS tial for error, so thanks to all Madison secrets, and I can’t wait to WINTER 2017 see it. who wrote in to inform us of what we got wrong. We offer Enjoyed the last issue of On Wis- 4. Wow! The UW–Madison no excuses for our inability consin so much that I now have firsts are stunning — I’m so to count (see first item). 349 reasons to love the UW. proud of my university. Kenneth Becker ’49 5. I love that our university has 1. “12 Custom Confec- Lodi, Wisconsin a sense of humor — what tions” should have funny pranks. been 13. 6. Babcock ice cream flavors — 2. In “10 Things Aldo Leo- pold Used in the Field,” OnWisconsin_Cover_WINTER_2017.indd 1 More Frozen yum! 10/13/17 8:55 AM Landmarks Ben Raznick Johnson ’08 an eagle-eyed reader 4. “8 Lions of the When we published a map of 58 Denver pointed out that the cover Lecture Hall” mentioned features in Antarctica named for for Handbook of Birds of Professor Juda Shohet, UW–Madison faculty, staff, and Legendary Concerts Eastern North America who actually goes by his students, we knew it couldn’t In reading your list “11 Legend- appeared alongside the middle name, Leon. possibly be complete. Given the ary Concerts,” I was curious to interior pages for A Field 5. Also in “Lions,” Grace long history of Badgers doing learn what criteria you used to Guide to the Birds and vice Wahba has actually research and exploration on the make your selection and why the versa. The UW Archives taught for 50 years, continent, it seemed there had November 7, 1952, Homecoming has since clarified the not 47. to be more. We hoped readers concert featuring Sarah Vaughan, label on the photo that led 6. “11 Legendary Con- could help fill in the gaps, and sure Stan Kenton, and Nat King Cole to this error, proving that certs” reported that enough, we heard from scientists, was not included. That event was we take your corrections the Marian Anderson along with the friends and family certainly a memorable one for seriously. concert in the Wisconsin members of those who also made those of us who were students at 3. The author of The Union Theater occurred their marks. Here are some land- the UW in the early 1950s. Wisconsin Capitol, fea- on April 23, 1940, two marks we missed: Evert Wallenfeldt ’54 tured in Diversions, is weeks after she was • Brandwein Nunataks West Melbourne, Florida not Madison resident denied use of Constitu- • Frostman Glacier Michael J. Edmonds tion Hall in Washington, • Gruendler Glacier Editor’s Note: JD’85, but Michael DC. That denial actually • Lazzara Ledge As you might guess, the danger Edmonds, director of occurred in April 1939 • Sponholz Peak of making a list issue is that we programs and outreach and led to her famous • Sternberg Peak would unavoidably leave some at the Wisconsin State concert on the steps of • Whiting Peak things out due to space, seeking Historical Society. the Lincoln Memorial. a variety of content (concerts 6 On Wisconsin SPRING 2018 LOST AND FOUND The List Issue featured four University Archives images in search Two Who Got Away of captions. Readers answered the call and helped identify three In “Two Who Got Away,” John of them, with the first image (below) generating the most replies. Allen states that Milton Fried- man was one of two Nobel Prize winners who slipped through the university’s fingers. All we need to do is examine the Bureau of Labor Statistics graph of family income for the last 40 years to see what Fried- man’s trickle-down theories have done for the bulk of us. [The United States is] third in the world for income inequality. Three cheers for Dean Sellery’s having saved the university from a big black eye. Calvin Smith MA’60 Orland Park, Illinois Snow Days The dueling knights were part of an event sponsored by the I enjoyed reading “4 Snowiest Society for Creative Anachronism, according to alumni. Memories Snow Days” in your Winter 2017 varied as to what year the image was captured, but responses edition, but I was sad that one of narrowed the time frame to the late 1970s or early 1980s. the snowiest days wasn’t men- tioned. On December 3, 1990, This photo was likely taken out- Madison hunkered down under side Sellery Hall in fall 1973, wrote a massive storm that dumped 17 Larry Classen ’77, JD’80, noting, inches of snow over a 12- to 13- “Streaking was a rather popular hour period, resulting in Chan- cultural phenomenon at that time, cellor Donna Shalala canceling as was anti-Nixon sentiment. I classes mid-morning. I remember have no recollection of whether a great number of us taking caf- eteria trays and jubilantly traying this was organized in any way or down the Liz Waters hill through how we learned about it.