No 5, 2015 I $5 Lost and Refound Biodiversity Institute researcher’s Philippine finds shed new light on a scientific mystery 100 years in the making I THE WHEEL TURNS 60 I ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION ISSUE 5, 2015 | i Contents | Issue 5, 2015 22 36 30 22 30 36 True Detectives Local Revival Where Everybody Knows A century ago, Edward Taylor By salvaging what they can and Your Name penetrated unexplored using materials new and Sixty years aer it opened on Philippine jungles to write reclaimed, design-build rm Mount Oread’s eastern slope, the book on that country’s Struct/Restruct is leading a the iconic near-campus amphibians and reptiles. Now, vintage-modern renaissance in gathering spot and Jayhawk retracing the controversial the historic East Lawrence shrine known as e Wheel zoologist’s steps with modern neighborhood. just keeps rolling, rolling, methods, Rafe Brown is rolling. Wangburger, anyone? rewriting our understanding By Heather Biele of the global biodiversity hot By Chris Lazzarino spot—and of Taylor’s contributions to science. By Steven Hill Cover photograph by Steve Puppe Established in 1902 as e Graduate Magazine Volume 113, No. 5, 2015 ISSUE 5, 2015 | 1 Step up your sock game! Upgrade your membership this fall and receive an exclusive pair of socks featuring the great tradition of our beloved Jayhawk—all seven historical versions. Upgrade by Nov. 30 using the option most convenient for you: • Online at kualumni.org/sockgame • By phone at 800.584.2957 • In person at the Adams Alumni Center • Mail a check with “Sock Game” in the memo line Socks are available in medium (fits women’s shoe size 5-10) and www.kualumni.org large (fits men’s shoe size 10-13) Step up your sock game! 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Non-member issue price: $7 68 In Memory Deaths in the KU family Letters to the Editor: 72 Rock Chalk Review Exhibition, book show Wendell Castle then Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. Our and now; opera singer takes top prizes. address is Kansas Alumni magazine, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045-3169. Email responses may be sent to the Alumni Association, [email protected]. 76 KU 150 Letters appearing in the magazine may be edited for space Scenes from the sesquicentennial Socks are available in medium and clarity. For letters published, we’ll send a free gift of KU (fits women’s shoe size 5-10) and Campus Playing Cards, a $5 value. www.kualumni.org large (fits men’s shoe size 10-13) ISSUE 5, 2015 | 3 by Jennifer Jackson Sanner First Word Chancellors Archie Dykes, Del Shankel, Bernadette Gray-Little, Gene Budig and Robert Hemenway all converged on the Hill in September 2010. “While this book is not an omnibus history such as Grin’s,” they write, “it does oer a good deal of insight about the changes that have occurred in this large and complex institution and the historical circumstances that have contributed to them.“ In his introduction, Rury chronicles the Univer- sity’s dramatic growth over a brief and pivotal time span from a “somewhat bucolic college” to an international research university. He provides the backdrop for the essays that follow. KU’s transformation was at times tumultuous ur magazine crew has worked together for a good many and painful, as Bill Tuttle, professor emeritus of American studies, Oyears, so of course we have developed our own insider explains in his chapter on student activism. In addition to civil language full of jargon and abbreviations, along with slang and rights and antiwar protests, students demanded greater rights and nicknames not t to print. Our frequent conversations about freedom on campus and a voice in KU government. As Kathryn University history usually include a mention of “Grin,” as in, Nemeth Tuttle, associate vice provost emerita, describes in her “What does Grin say about the post-World War II overcrowd- chapter, “A Seat at the Table,” a new form of campus government ing on campus?” or “Check with Grin on when KU’s May Day emerged from upheaval. “Shared governance was born at the celebrations ended.” University of Kansas, and in 1968 KU students wielded greater Our resident sage is Cliord S. Grin, KU professor of history authority than at any other university in the United States,” from 1959 to 1996. ough he died only a year aer his retire- writes Nemeth Tuttle, g’72, PhD’96. ment, he lives on through his authoritative book, e University of roughout KU’s history, Jayhawks have made their voices Kansas: A History, published in 1974, nine years aer KU’s heard. In 1883, only 10 years aer the University presented centennial. Relying on University Archives, e Graduate its rst diploma (see KU 150, p. 76), graduates formed the self- Magazine (precursor to Kansas Alumni) and numerous other governing Alumni Association to advocate for their alma mater sources, Grin wrote the detailed history of KU’s rst 100 years and help ensure that future generations would benet from the that has become our daily reliable reference. life-changing KU experience. As we recall the extraordinary Now, thanks to a team of faculty and sta members, led by leadership of Chancellor Robert Hemenway, who died July 31 (see professors John Rury and Kim Cary Warren; the University Press Hilltopics, p. 10), we also remember his gratitude to KU’s excep- of Kansas; and the KU 150 sesquicentennial committee, the past tionally loyal alumni, whom he oen credited for helping li their half-century is documented in Transforming the University of alma mater to prominence as an international research university. Kansas: A History, 1965-2015, which includes a foreword by “It makes a huge dierence for those of us who are on the Hill Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little. Each chapter includes an essay every day to know that we’ve got alumni out there who truly care on pivotal aspects of the University: about the kind of job • the eight chancellors who have guided KU we’re doing,” he told • Kansas government and politics Transforming the Kansas Alumni when • continuity and change in liberal education University of Kansas: he announced his • KU’s international dimensions A History, 1965-2015 retirement in 2009. • the research mission Edited by John Rury For Chancellor • student activism and Kim Cary Bob—and legions • student government and services of Jayhawks past, Warren • Jayhawk athletics present and future— As editors Rury and Warren explain in their preface,“In this The University Press we will li the way, we hope to lend a bit more coherence to the wide diversity of of Kansas, $34.95 chorus ever people, events and circumstances” included in the past 50 years. onward. ISSUE 5, 2015 | 5 On the Boulevard SPENCER RESEARCH LIBRARY (3) LIBRARY SPENCER RESEARCH Scoop Club, 1909 Jayhawker hen Harry Kemp left New York City in 1906, his unconven- Wtional journey to Lawrence made the front page of the New York Tribune. The article detailed the adventures of a young poet who traveled thousands of miles—under a freight car with just 3 cents in his pocket—to attend the University of Kansas. The Kansas City Star also picked up the story and dubbed him the “Tramp Poet.” Kemp, who wanted to study German and Latin, decided to attend KU after reading Professor W.H. Carruth’s books on German grammar and composition. Upon arriving in Lawrence, Kemp sought out Carruth, who was so impressed with the young man he invited him to attend the University the next day. (For more KU history, visit blogs.lib.ku.edu/spencer.) Exhibitions 23 “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” “KU 150: Celebrating 150 Years of Leadership, Scholar- 26 KU Symphony Orchestra ship and Tradition at the with Benjamin Beilman, University of Kansas,” violin Watson Library, through 29 Paul Taylor Dance December Company