A KING A CASTLE A TREASURE KANSAS ALUMNI · terparts, the Kansas tribe sends Jayhawks into the world with degrees worth more than a fortune over a lifetime, especially in their potential

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A K I N G � A C A S T L E � A T R E A S U R E

Matt Haug makes academic history

SheerBrilliance

20$42 Million!

The Hall Family Foundation’s June gift is the largest ever at KU.

By Jennifer Jackson Sanner

24Hail Fellow

Scholar Matt Haug made history this spring bywinning three of academe’s most esteemed graduate prizes. What will he do next? Accordingto those who know him, just about anything hesets his exceptional mind to.

By Chris Lazzarino

Cover photograph by Wally Emerson

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Castle on the HillMezzo-soprano Joyce Castle has spent the last 40 years singing in the world’s most prestigiousopera houses. Now she returns to Murphy Hall to share what she’s learned.

By Steven Hill

32Vintage King

They said it couldn’t be done, but Ed King III’s Oregon winery is taking the wine world by storm.

By Jerri Niebaum Clark

CONTENTSKANSAS ALUMNI

CONTENTSEstablished in 1902 as The Graduate Magazine

FEATURES DEPARTMENTS

3 FIRST WORDThe editor’s turn

4 LIFT THE CHORUSLetters from readers

6 ON THE BOULEVARDSchedules of KU eventsand scenes from Commencement.

8 JAYHAWK WALKA modest proposal, an odd rock, a galloping Jayhawk and more

10 HILLTOPICSNews and notes: Meet KU’s new imagemaker

14 SPORTSSoftball’s surprising season, football forecastand Ralph Miller remembered

18 OREAD READERThomas Fox Averill dishes up an appetizingfirst novel

19 OREAD WRITERIs civility overrated in politics? Burdett Loomisthinks so.

36 ASSOCIATION NEWSBoard of Directors election results and more

40 CLASS NOTESProfiles of Hizzoner, anhonorary admiral, an honored doc and more

54 IN MEMORYDeaths in the KU family

56 HAIL TO OLD KUWeather Jay flies the coop

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CITYup the HEAT

’Hawks

S u m m e r 2 0 0 1Shawnee Mission Park

Shawnee Mission, Kansas6-7:30 a.m. Registration7:30 a.m. Shotgun Start

9 a.m.Tot Trot9:30 a.m. Race results

and awards

Ritz Charles, 9000 West 137th Street in Overland Park

(just west of Antioch).5-9 p.m.

Mill Creek Brewing Company4050 Pennsylvania in Westport

5:30-7:30 p.m.

Summertime in Kansas City meansKU celebrations, and this season willfeature three events for Jayhawks ofall ages to rally alumni in the nation’slargest KU community.

Don’t miss the opportunity to win tworound-trip tickets on Southwest Airlines,at each of the summertimeevents!

Jayhawk JogAugust 4

Football KickoffAugust 23

Terry Allen PicnicAugust 5

Airfare provided courtesy of SouthwestAirlines, with fares so low you have the

freedom to fly. Southwest Airlines. ASymbol of Freedom.

For more information about these events, call the AlumniAssociation at 800-584-2957 or log on to www.kualumni.org

As bleak skies signal rain outside, the steamy temperaturerises inside Strong Hall, where two dozen professors inacademic regalia try not to sweat as they prepare for the

University’s 129th Commencement. These are the marshals whoescort the procession of graduates down the Hill. Mapping theirroutes and assignments, of course, is a cartographer, GeorgeMcCleary Jr., professor of geography and a veteran associatemarshal. He begins his instructions to the assembled academicswith a menacing forecast: “We’re supposed to have a dry spelluntil 3 or 3:10,” he says. “That should motivate us to keep moving.”

Grim chuckles sputter from the faculty and one interloper, asentimental editor. Amid the brilliant hoods signifying assortedgraduate degrees, my robe stands out as hoodless solid black.The three velvet faculty stripes on my billowing sleeves arecounterfeit, as I confess to colleagues who innocently ask whereI teach. The University has graciously issued me the robe inthanks for my volunteering to direct traffic in Memorial Stadium.

More important than the fancy robe, however, is the walkdown the Hill, which for me is a rain-delayed celebration. Thisyear’s Commencement marks 20 years since my own KU gradua-tion, when torrents of rain forced the Classof 1981 into the sauna of Allen FieldHouse.

But May 20, 2001, dawns dark andstormy. My husband, still mystified by myreverence for various kinds of anniversaries,can’t resist a comment as he gazes out thewindow. “This is all your fault,” he pro-nounces.

Thankfully, Chancellor Robert E.Hemenway remains unaware of the cursethat clouds the day. At noon he defies theweather, decreeing that at 2:30 p.m. theClass of 2001 will march, soggy or dry.

At precisely 2:30 the trumpets soundfrom the Spencer Library terrace, and themarshals begin the walk. First down theeast sidewalk is University Marshal StephenGrabow, professor of architecture, who car-ries the chancellor’s gleaming, silver-topped mace. In a few shortsteps we’re at the Campanile. As we walk through, I gazeupward briefly in silent thanks for a graduation long past. Onthe other side, I’m awed by the smiling faces, in rows six oreight deep, that line the walk. Hundreds of spectators beam con-gratulations, aiming cameras in our direction. I can’t help butsmile back. This is fun.

As we make our way down the Hill, my marching partner,Hugh Catts, professor of speech-language-hearing, describes thethrill. “It’s like walking the 18th fairway at the Masters,” he says.“Well, at least it’s the closest I’ll ever come.”

As Catts strides toward the green, I walk the red carpet at the Oscars. A friend calls my name and snaps a photo; another

pal hollers, “Hey, you finally got your graduation!” I feel down-right giddy.

And damp. The rain pours as we approach the stadium. Mystreak holds: Storms drenched my high-school and college com-mencements; now even my makeup graduation is all wet.

After trodding through the slick turf on the football field,Catts and I arrive at our assigned sections, 31 and 32. There westand, underneath a golf umbrella, watching the festivities. Mor-tarboard adornments and balloons file by. This year’s trendyaccessory? The cell phone, carried by grads who talk incessantly,tracking seating locations and confirming party plans.

McCleary, walkie-talkie in hand, stops by to alert us that edu-cation grads, blue-tasseled and trailing matching balloons, areheaded our way. No problem. Sure, we’ll take those architectureand social welfare grads, too.

By 3:30 the few umbrellas still bobbing now shield spectatorsfrom the sun, and the ceremony, always a swift finale to the pro-cession, proceeds apace: Award-winners and dignitaries receiveovations, then Hemenway bids farewell to the Class of 2001. Helauds academe’s shared traditions: the costumes, music, solemninvocations and intonations. Then he delivers the line the rest-

less crowd longs to hear: “But only KU hasthe walk!”

The tradition that began in 1924 is anative tribal custom, Hemenway tells thecrowd, alluding to TV’s “Survivor.” Heexplains that, unlike its prime-time coun-terparts, the Kansas tribe sends Jayhawksinto the world with degrees worth morethan a fortune over a lifetime, especially intheir potential to help others. By sendingnew alumni out each year in its time-hon-ored custom, he says, the University growsstronger, binding generations to oneanother and the KU culture they revere.

Moments later, Hemenway confers thedegrees. Arranged by their schools, stu-dents stand en masse, wave to their deans,receive the chancellor’s blessing andscream for all they’re worth.

To complete my personal ceremony, I seek one hand to shake.Chancellor Emeritus Del Shankel conferred my degree 20 yearsago. He grins as I explain my nostalgic mission. Grasping myhand warmly, he assures me, “I remember. I remember.”

After taking part in the KU family’s most cherished tradition, I understand its value more clearly. Like the best family celebra-tions, it’s quirky, even unruly, but it is distinctly ours. Jayhawkswho have prevailed through quiet toil on challenging academicpaths know it makes perfect sense to hurry down a hill towardthe finish line. After grueling work, the celebration should besimple, joyous and, yes, raucous.

My walk was worth the wait. Next time, I swear, I’ll wear a hood.�

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BOARD OF DIRECTORSChair

Janet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow,Washington

Executive Vice ChairRobert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Mission Woods

Executive CommitteeJim Adam, e’56, Overland Park, KansasRobert L. Driscoll, c’61, l’64, Mission WoodsReid Holbrook, c’64, l’66, Overland ParkJanet Martin McKinney, c’74, Port Ludlow,WashingtonCordell D. Meeks Jr., c’64, l’67, Kansas CityDeloris Strickland Pinkard, g’80, EdD’95,Kansas CityCarol Swanson Ritchie, d’54,WichitaLinda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover

Vice ChairsGary Bender, g’64, Scottsdale,Arizona, andColorado Springs, ColoradoMichelle Senecal de Fonseca, b’83, London,EnglandTim S. Dibble, d’74, Issaquah,WashingtonPatricia Weems Gaston, j’81,Annandale,Virginia

Directors to July 2002Lewis D. Gregory, c’75, LeawoodLynwood H. Smith, b’51, m’60, LawrenceLinda Duston Warren, c’66, m’70, Hanover

Directors to July 2003Sidney Ashton Garrett, c’68, d’70, LawrenceDeloris Strickland Pinkard, g’80, EdD’95,Kansas CityDavid R. Rankin, p’63, Phillipsburg

Directors to July 2004A. Drue Jennings, d’68, l’72, LeawoodMary Kay Paige McPhee, d’49, Kansas City,MissouriJohn W. Mize, c’72, Salina

Directors to July 2005Nancy Borel Ellis, d’63, Pinehurst,North CarolinaSydnie Bowling Kampschroeder, c’65,Naperville, IllinoisCraig B. Swenson, e’59, Lee’s Summit,Missouri

Directors to July 2006Jill Sadowsky Docking, c’78, g’84,WichitaMarvin R. Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, LeawoodDavid B.Wescoe, c’76, Mequon,Wisconsin

Honorary MembersGene A. Budig, EdD, Princeton, New JerseyE. Laurence Chalmers Jr., PhD, San Antonio,Texas Archie R. Dykes, EdD, Goodlettsville,Tennessee Delbert M. Shankel, PhD, Lawrence, KansasW. Clarke Wescoe, MD, Mission

KANSAS ALUMNI MAGAZINEPublisher

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Susan Younger, f ’91Managing EditorChris Lazzarino, j’86

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KANSAS ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONThe Alumni Association was established in 1883 forthe purpose of strengthening loyalty, friendship,commitment, and communication among all gradu-ates, former and current students, parents, faculty,staff and all other friends of The University ofKansas. Its members hereby unite into an Associa-tion to achieve unity of purpose and action to servethe best interests of The University and its con-stituencies. The Association is organized exclusivelyfor charitable, educational, and scientific purposes.

Fred B.Williams, President and CEO; KayHenry, Senior Vice President for Administration andHuman Resources; Jennifer Jackson Sanner, j’81,Senior Vice President for Communications; Dwight Parman, Senior Vice President for Finance and Trea-surer ; William S. Green, Senior Vice President forInformation Systems; Sheila Murphy Immel, f ’69,g’84, Senior Vice President for Membership; KirkCerny, c’92, g’98, Senior Vice President for Member-ship Services; Nancy Peine,Vice President forAlumni and Membership Records; Donna Neuner,‘76, Membership Services; Mike Wellman, c‘86,Special Projects and Adams Alumni Center FacilityManager; Bryan E. Greve, Adams Alumni CenterServices and Jayhawk Society Membership; ChrisLazzarino, j’86, Managing Editor, Kansas Alumnimagazine; Susan Younger, f ’91, Art Director;Carolyn Barnes, c’80, Kansas Honors Program;Kelly Kidwell, c’01, Chapter and Constituent Pro-grams; Jennifer Mueller, g’99, Student Programs.

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KANSAS ALUMNIJULY 2001

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Recognition appreciated

I’ve been wanting, for some time now,to tell you how much I enjoyed andappreciated the profile on Kenton Keithin the recent issue of Kansas Alumni[“Former Ambassador Pursues WorldPeace,” issue No. 2].

Your mention of Mr. Keith’s recogni-tion of my late husband’s [Professor CliffKetzel] influence on his choice of careerswas truly satisfying. I quickly collectedthree copies of the article from friendsand shipped them off to our three sons,in Bellevue, Wash.; Austin, Texas; andSunnyvale, Calif. They, too, were gen-uinely pleased to read Mr. Keith’s story.

Weeks later I heard from a friend inMcLean, Va., who has participiated in acouple of Flying Jayhawks trips with me.She wrote that she’d read and loved yourarticle on Mr. Keith.

I’ve long admired [Chris Lazzarino’s]writing skills (“Old Bones to Pick,” No.2, 1999, for example) and will follow[his] career with even greater interesthenceforth.

Thank you for the great job you do.Lesley T. Ketzel, g’70

Lawrence

Short and sweet

What a terrific issue! I hope millionsof people see [issue No. 3], especially inKansas, but also everywhere else.

Congratulations and thanks.John S. Brushwood, assoc.

Lawrence

Fun not shared by all

I shook my head “no” as I read page35 of the May issue of Kansas Alumnimagazine, regarding the Class of ’51reunion.

One prominent Association memberquotes, “We were a fun class … Every-body knew each other. We all mixedwell.”

That fact might have been true ofmajority students. For minority students,however, there was little or no mixing


outside the classrooms with the “fun class.”Nevertheless, my husband, Richard

McClain c’51, g’56, and I still chant, “RockChalk, Jayhawk, KU.”

Gladys Harrison McClain, d’51Gaithersburg, Md.

Comanche’s bright aura

Even before I read the article onComanche [“The Veteran’s Day,” issue No.3], I began thinking of my grandfather,Edward Bevins Huston, late of the 7th Cav-alry. No, not of the Battle of Little Bighorn,but of the Battle of Wounded Knee. Mygrandfather was proud of what he did atWounded Knee and, after I read history, Iwondered why.

I grew up “knowing” that he waswounded at Wounded Knee, but I waswrong. Only when my sister-in-lawobtained his records did I began to piecetogether the truth of his battle action. His“wound” was actually an injury sustainedwhen his sergeant hit him in the head witha rifle butt for refusing an order. The orderwas to chase after and kill fleeing womenand children. Those few soldiers whodemurred were punished on the spot andtold they would be shot if they did notcomply.

Recently I was given a copy of “TheBloodshed at Wounded Knee,” a 1997 his-torical paper written by Jonathan Residefor the U.S. Cavalry Museum at Fort Riley.The focus of the paper is the exchange ofletters between a veteran soldier (mygrandfather) and his 15-year-old girlfriend,Zada Ariel Estes. In her last letter beforethe battle, she captures the failures of thegovernment Indian policy in this pithy sen-tence: “If rations was all they wanted Iwould give them plenty (I mean if I wasboss).”

After the battle, Edward Huston left thearmy and married Zada Ariel Estes shortlyafter her 17th birthday. Edward was 28.They had seven children, bunches ofgrandchildren and uncounted greats andgreat-greats.

As a child in the Depression, the high-light of my week was a trip to JunctionCity to restock staples. Grandmother Zada

Huston usually came with us. When herincome was the $8 per month pension shereceived as the widow of a veteran of theIndian wars, she would have me drop adollar into the tin cup of street beggars inJunction City.

Fort Riley played a part in my life. Onesummer a battery of small artillery waspositioned on one of my father’s fields thathad been leased by the army for summermaneuvers after the crops were harvested.A strange aircraft appeared and actuallylanded adjacent to the artillery. It was anautogyro. As I learned many years later, itwas the only rotary-wing aircraft in thearmy inventory at that date. With 100 per-cent of the army’s rotary-wing assetsparked on our farm, what other field ofenterprise could I seek to enter!

Eventually I became a NASA researchengineer focused on finding ways toimprove rotary-wing aircraft.

When we moved to Lawrence I enteredthe sixth grade. I would go “on the Hill” tolook at Comanche. He was a direct connec-tion to my grandfather. While I have norecord that Edward actually took care ofthe old warhorse, I believe that he musthave done so. When Edward was writingto Zada, he spoke of his duty to keep thehorses “showed.” (Besides being a soldier,he was a blacksmith.)

Today, the latest rotary-wing design tobe ordered into production for the U.S.Army is the Comanche (Boeing-SikorskyRAH-66). Each time I hear the name“Comanche,” I imagine my grandfatherbending over the old warhorse, drivingnails into his latest set of steel shoes.

Robert J. Huston, e’57, g’61Yorktown, Va.

Help Hughes celebration

History and literature will be celebratedand examined at a Langston Hughes cen-tennial celebration planned for Jan. 31 andFeb. 7-10. Hughes, born Feb. 1, 1902, inJoplin, Mo., lived in Lawrence from 1903to 1915.

“When he died in 1967, there wasn’tmuch recognition of his Lawrence connec-tions,” says Maryemma Graham, professor

of English. “This is our opportunity to rec-ognize him, his work and his childhood inLawrence.”

Organizers are seeking financial supportso all events will be free for the public.Anyone who wants to support the sympo-sium is asked to call Heather Hoy, c’93,g’99, of Continuing Education, at 785-864-5823 or [email protected].

Pulitzer Prize-winning author AliceWalker will launch the celebration with anevening of readings and commentary Jan.31 at the Lied Center. The University’s Feb-ruary symposium will include actorsDanny Glover, Ossie Davis and Ruby Deeand former U.S. poet laureate Robert Pin-sky, as well as scholars, authors and biogra-phers.

Complete information is available atwww.kuce.org/hughes.

Calling volunteers

The University swings opens its doorsOct. 6 when it hosts the first UniversityOpen House. The festive day will includefree parking and shuttle buses to scores ofevents for adults and children of all ages.

Alumni are encouraged to attend withtheir families and get the word out tofriends and neighbors.

The University also invites alumni tohelp host this important event as volun-teers. If you would like to help welcomefolks to your alma mater, contact MargeyFrederick, j’69, g’78, at the KU VisitorCenter. She can be reached at 785-864-2341 or [email protected]. A Web sitewith more information is www.open-house.ku.edu.

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Kansas Alumni welcomes letters to the editor. If you would like to comment ona story, please write us. Our address isKansas Alumni, 1266 Oread Avenue,Lawrence, KS 66044-3169.

If you would like to respond via e-mail,the Alumni Association’s address is [email protected], or visitour web site at www.kualumni.org.Letters appearing in the magazinemay be edited for space and clarity.

� Exhibitions“Sum of the Parts: Recent Works on

Paper,” Spencer Museum of Art,through Sept. 2

“Charles Marshall, Artist on Site,”Spencer Museum of Art, throughSept. 9

“Blackbear Bosin: Artist and Collector,”Museum of Anthropology,through Aug. 5

“Plains Indian Beadwork,” Museum ofAnthropology, through Aug. 5

� Lied Center eventsAUGUST24 BeauSoleil with Michael

Doucet, free outdoor concert

� Academic calendarAUGUST23 Fall classes begin

OCTOBER18-21 Fall break

NOVEMBER21-25 Thanksgiving break

DECEMBER13 Last day of classes

14 Stop Day

17-21 Final examinations

� Special eventsAUGUST20 Student Alumni Association’s

Ice Cream Social, AdamsAlumni Center

SEPTEMBER28 Benefit gala for Spencer

Museum of Art, featuring a preview of “Alberto Vargas: TheEsquire Pinups.” Call 785-864-0141 for more information.


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RAIN AND SHINE: Umbrellas protected spectatorsagainst both showers and sun and added even morecolor to the usual array of balloons and fanciful acces-sories at the University’s 129th Commencement May20. For Gina Grad, c’01, Overland Park, and Alison Pre-ston, c’01, sombreros made a statement; for ChancellorRobert E. Hemenway, his signature straw hat comple-mented the traditional ceremonial collar. As always, theevent was a family affair : Adrian Franks, e’01, Alexandria,Va., celebrated his walk with his niece, Maya Garcia.

� FootballSEPTEMBER1 Southwest Missouri State

8 UCLA (Parents’ Day)

15 Wyoming (Band Day)

22 at Colorado

OCTOBER6 at Texas Tech

13 Oklahoma (Homecoming)

20 Missouri

27 at Kansas State

NOVEMBER3 Nebraska

10 at Texas

17 Iowa State

� VolleyballAUGUST25 Alumni game

31 vs. Providence College atCharlotte, N.C., Tournament

SEPTEMBER1 at Charlotte, N.C., Tournament

5 Wichita State

7 vs. Georgia Southern and Mon-tana, Hampton Inn/JayhawkClassic

8 vs. Portland, Hampton Inn/Jayhawk Classic

12 Missouri

15 at Baylor

17 at Missouri-Kansas City

19 Iowa State

22 at Oklahoma

26 at Texas

29 Colorado

� SoccerAUGUST19 Southwest Missouri State

(exhibition)

25 Busch Soccer Club (exhibi-tion)

31 North Texas

SEPTEMBER2 Illinois

7 vs. Nevada-Las Vegas at SanDiego State Invitational

9 vs. San Diego State at SanDiego State Invitational

14 St. Louis

16 Drury

21 vs. Florida State at FSUTournament

23 vs. Central Florida at FSUTournament

28 Oklahoma

30 at Oklahoma State

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REMEMBRANCE: As he described the ways inwhich KU Commencement connects countlessfamilies, Hemenway paid tribute to a family mem-ber lost: Shannon Martin, c’01,Topeka, who hadplanned to walk down the Hill with honors, wasmurdered a week before graduation in Golfito,Costa Rica (see story, p. 13). As Memorial Stadium’svideo board highlighted Martin, the crowd honoredher with a sustained ovation.

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Java jones

Granted, Joseph R. Pearson Hall’s trans-formation from drafty dorm to whiz-

bang classroom building is impressive, butthat hasn’t stopped education students fromfinding at least one nit to pick with their newhome’s vaunted technology:The food stand,which opened in January serving Tazo tea,Starbucks coffee and every Coke productknown to man, lacked some crucial gear.“They wish we had cappuccinos and lattes,” afood stand employee reported soon afterthe grand opening, “but there’s not enoughroom for a machine.”

By spring, discriminating caffeine fiends gottheir wish. Sort of.While the stand’s man-agers didn’t find room for a real espressomaker, they did install a machine that dis-penses frothy java drinks in two flavors (Eng-lish Toffee and French Vanilla) using apowdered mix.Though the steamy beverageresembles the continental coffee in question,the compromise has not been entirely satis-factory. “Most people complain about thehigh sugar content,” says one employee.

Yes, life can be too sweet.

Stairwell to heaven

What’s the rush? Slowdown. Pause and ponder

the Wakarusa Valley, or anythingelse in need of inspection.

That’s our take on the gentlecommentary offered by a smallplaque affixed to a stairwell win-dow in Stauffer-Flint Hall:“ViewFrom The Landing On Loan.”

The almost-anonymous fac-ulty member responsible for the

ethereal lesson reminds us all to appre-ciate our delicate Mount Oread bless-ings—including wise teachers who don’tend their lessons when they leave theclassroom.

JAYHAWK WALK BY HILL & LAZZARINO


Rockchalk Jayhawk,giddyup KU

The fastest Jayhawk ever? Nope, it’s notJim Ryun. Nor would it be Glenn Cun-

ningham, Billy Mills, Nolan Cromwell or GaleSayers. Our fleetest friend of the feather is achestnut thoroughbred with a dashing name:Rockchalk Jayhawk.

True to his heritage, Rockchalk Jayhawk isa champion. He won the $133,450 Reming-ton Park Futurity as a 2-year-old last Novem-ber, boosting his record to three wins, asecond and a third in five starts. He hasn’t hitquite the same stride this spring, runningthird in his 3-year-old debut at Lone StarPark in Texas, then finishing out of the moneyin a $200,000 stakes race, but Stan Wilson,of Coffeyville, who owns “Rock” with hiswife, Corrina, is confident the colt will soonbe back in the winner’s circle.The mar-velously monikered miler has spirit.

“Boy, he fits that name, that’s for sure,”Wilson says. “He’s a handful. He’s just gotmore energy ... He can go forever.”

The Wilsons say they chose the name toencourage their son, Clark, b’01, in his ownblossoming interest in racing. Clark, the firstmember of his family to attend KU, concedesthe ploy worked.

One sure wager, though, is that whenRockchalk Jayhawk retires to stallion duty,future runners named in honor of theirdaddy will carry on the proud tradition.Wouldn’t a four-legged Baby Jay look splended draped in a blanket of roses?

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One last byline

During a 50-year career that started in1945, while he was studying journalism

at KU, esteemed reporter and columnist RayMorgan Jr. covered every Kansas governor inthe latter half of the 20th century, reportedon 30 legislative sessions and chronicled BobDole’s rise from county attorney to U.S. sen-ator. In February the 78-year-old journalistdied of complications from asthma, but notbefore filing one last dispatch for his oldnewspaper, the Kansas City Star. Morgan, ’46,entered KU Medical Center on Friday, Feb.18, wrote his own obituary Saturday anddied peacefully in his sleep Tuesday.

“Classic Dad,” says Scott Morgan, j’79, oneof five Morgan children who followed theirfather’s lead by attending J-school on the Hill.“He wrote his own obituary to make sureeverything got in.”

Known for his love of circuses (and hispenchant for celebrating every holiday on

the calendar) as much as for his passion forpolitics, Morgan had plenty to report. Hissumming-up ran nearly 200 lines.

“Dad always needed an editor, and thiswas no exception,” says Morgan, who recallsthat in childhood the day’s “significantmoment” came at the breakfast table. “ForRay, there was no hiding his emotions.When he’d pick up the morningpaper to see what acopy editor had doneto his story, we’d shud-der.”Was it with sometrepidation, then, thatScott and his siblingstrimmed their father’sfinal story?

“We figured foronce he wouldn’t haveanything to say aboutit,” Morgan says. “Atleast not presently—maybe ondown the road he will.”

Prof presentspetrified parts

Many professors claim they pourheart and soul into their teaching,

but only one can rightly say he’s givenhis gallstone.

Don Steeples, Dean A. McGee distin-guished professor of applied geophysics,in late April had his gallbladder removed.That’s when surgeons discovered a geol-ogist’s pearl: a peach-pit-sized rock ofcholesterol and calcium.When he sawSteeples’ stone, Roger Kaesler, a profes-sor of geology blessed with a bilioussense of humor, didn’t hesitate to featurethe “pseudo-rock” in his Rock of theWeek display case in Lindley Hall.

Kaesler has also featured kidney andbladder stones, proving that geology is, infact, a painful body of knowledge. Andby having the gall to exhibit surgical dis-cards, Kaesler and Steeples demonstrate

yet again that geology professors willleave no stone unturned in

their quest tomotivate the nextgeneration ofrock hunters.


Perfect game

Like a hitter waiting on a fastball, Courtney Wright knew her pitch wouldcome.Wright, the shortstop and leading slugger for the women’s softball

team, was raking the field after a heartbreaking, 2-1 loss to defending nationalchamp Oklahoma in April when longtime boyfriend Mike Castoro requested aconference at home plate.

There he threw her a curve by dropping to one knee, unpocketing a ringand popping the question.

The Tucson,Ariz., junior fielded the pop-up proposal like a pro: She buriedher head in Castoro’s shoulder, started crying

and said yes.“I knew it was going to come, but I

was surprised it came then,” Wright saysof getting her diamond on the diamond.“It was the perfect place, but I think any-place he asked would have been perfect.”

Castoro, a Tucson firefighter, traveledto Lawrence with only the sketchiest of

game plans.“I knew I would do it; I justdidn’t know how,” he says.“When I found

out they were playing, it kind of popped intomy head. I wanted to keep it on the field,because softball is such an important part

of her life. Everything timed out perfect,just as I imagined it.”

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In a move intended to “usher in a newera in the public outreach and publicrelations for the University of Kansas,”

Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway in Mayappointed former White House aide JanetMurguia as KU’s first executive vice chan-cellor for university relations.

Murguia, c’82, j’82, l’85, served asdeputy assistant to President Bill Clintonand later was his administration’s directorof legislative affairs. She also served asdeputy campaign manager of Vice Presi-dent Al Gore’s 2000 bid for the presidency.

In her new job, which started July 1,Murguia will oversee all aspects of theUniversity’s external relations, includinggovernmental and public affairs. She willhelp coordinate KU’s planning and mar-keting efforts with those of the AlumniAssociation and the Athletics Corpora-tion, and will also work closely with theEndowment Association.

As the chief architect of the Univer-sity’s attempts to recruit students and gen-erate publicity, she is expected to bringunity to a public relations effort thatrecently has drawn criticism from somequarters for its effectiveness in telling theUniversity’s story.

“There might be the feeling that thefull message of KU is not getting out,”Murguia says. “We need to be more strate-gic and do a better job of coordinatingthat information.”

Murguia will also be charged withsmoothing the rocky relationship betweenKU and the Kansas Legislature. It’s a roleshe seems ideally suited for, according toHemenway.

“Few people bring to the table thecombination of communications exper-tise, governmental relations experience,and knowledge of Kansas and higher edu-cation that Janet Murguia has,” he said.

“Her abilities as a strategist and a managerare nothing less than superb.”

As President Clinton’s director of leg-islative affairs, Murguia served as the chiefliaison between the White House andCongress. She advised the president onstrategy and legislation and managed astaff of 25 from her office in the WestWing. As deputy director of the Gore-Lieberman campaign, Murguia served ascampaign spokesperson, handling inter-views with radio, print and TV mediaoutlets. She also directed constituencyoutreach, serving as the primary liaisonbetween Gore and national interestgroups.

At KU, Murguia completed a bachelor’sdegree in journalism in addition todegrees in Spanish and law.

To serve and promoteAlumna and Kansas City native Janet Murguia comeshome to lead the University’s public relations efforts

DISCOVERYBEING THERE, ONLINEIN A FAMOUS NEW YORKER car-toon of the early ’90s, a dog seated at acomputer enlightens a cat on the bravenew world of chat rooms and e-mail.“On the Internet,” confides the shrewdcanine,“no one knows you’re a dog.”

Behind the humor lurks a seriousidea that intrigues Tracy Russo, assistantprofessor of communication studies:how we create and perceive “presence”online.

Russo, PhD’95, recently won one of30 PEW National Fellowships forCarnegie Scholars for her research intohow students in online classes graspwhat is, she admits, an elusive concept.

“Wedon’t reallyunderstandthe notionof pres-ence,except tosay thatmost peo-ple willrecountthat some-times in an

online context—a group meeting or anonline class—some people seem to bemore there, more immediate orsalient,” Russo says.“Some people justcome across as more real or humanonline.”

Using transcripts of an online classshe teaches at KU, Russo will studyhow people form judgments aboutanother’s character based on theirexperiences with them online. Shehopes to eventually create a scale toquantify presence.That in turn couldlead to more effective online communi-cation, by identifying specific communi-cation behaviors that people can adoptto boost their own presence online.


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IMAGE MAKER: As the first executive vice chan-cellor for university relations, Janet Murguia will havechief responsibility for improving KU’s image aroundthe state and nation. “I look forward to coming homeand telling KU’s story,” says Murguia, who grew up inKansas City, Kan.

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REPORT CARDNEW LIFE SPAN LEADERSTEVE WARREN, a researcher andeducator in early childhood develop-ment, will become director of theSchiefelbusch Institute for Life SpanStudies Aug. 1.

Warren, c’74, g’75, PhD’77, is anational leader in developmental disabil-ities; in June he started a yearlong termas president of theAmerican Associa-tion on MentalRetardation. Hecame to KU fromVanderbilt Universi-ty in 1999 to directthe institute’s Men-tal RetardationResearch Center. He will continue thatrole when he begins his new job.

The Life Span Institute conductsresearch, service and training programsthat take an interdisciplinary approachto human developmental problems. Lastyear it generated $14.4 million inresearch income, more than any otherKU center or institute.

“My two predecessors, DickSchiefelbusch and Steve Schroeder, havebuilt an exceptional organization and Iam steward of that,” says Warren.

While he will continue Life Span’straditional mission, he also sees thegrowing collaboration amongresearchers in the social and life sci-ences as a golden opportunity for theinstitute, which routinely links scientistsfrom diverse fields. He plans to empha-size the institute’s strength in bio-behavioral research and development.

“The future of human developmentalresearch is in the marriage of biologyand behavior,” he says. “We have agood chance to be a major player and make a big-time contribution inthat area.”


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The state’s political leaders have beenunanimous in their enthusiasm for theappointment: Gov. Bill Graves, Sen. PatRoberts and Sen. Sam Brownback allpraised Murguia and the restructuring,which creates a new executive vice chan-cellor position on the same organizationallevel as the provost of the Lawrence cam-pus and the executive vice chancellor ofKU Medical Center. That approach tomanaging the University’s public imagewas first suggested in 1996 by a task forceon re-engineering the University.

Murguia grew up in Kansas City, Kan.,as one of seven children. (Two siblings,her brother Carlos Murguia, j’79, l’82, and her twin sister, Mary Murguia, j’82,c’82, l’85, are the nation’s first brother-sis-ter duo to become federal judges.) Shesaid she is “especially happy” to be return-ing home. “I believe strongly in the mis-sion of higher education, and I am veryexcited about the opportunity to serveand promote a nationally known institu-tion like KU.”�

Cross-country trek honors grad killed bydrunk driver

On Aug. 4, 2000, just 10 daysbefore he was to begin studying

at the Illinois College of Optometryin Chicago, Casey Beaver helpedboyhood friend and former room-mate Bobby Nichols move into ahouse near Memorial Stadium. ThenBeaver, c’99, headed off with twoother KU friends to float the ElkRiver in southwestern Missouri.

They never made it. As Beaverdrove south on U.S. Highway 71near Neosho, Mo., Vencen Gilmete,a local man cited at least six timesfor drunk driving, sped north inBeaver’s lane, sideswiping a van andrunning two cars off the road beforecolliding with Beaver. Both driverswere killed. Beaver’s passengers,John Paul Greenwood, c’99, andKahn Dulohery, j’00, were injured.

Gilmete’s multiple convictions hadearned him a five-year prison sentence in1999, but he spent less than six monthsin jail. At the time of the crash, he wasserving the remainder of his five-year sen-tence on probation. His license wasrevoked until 2009. None of that kepthim from getting behind the wheel thatnight, when, according to Beaver’s family,Gilmete’s blood alcohol level was .268,nearly three times the legal threshold forintoxication.

“You try to imagine why someone likethat is even free, let alone on the road,”says Nichols, who declined Beaver’s invi-tation to join the trip because of a priorengagement. “It hurts even more to knowthe problem could have been eradicatedlong ago. There are good laws out therethat need to be enforced. I mean, howmany chances do you get?”

Now Nichols, e’01, and another child-hood friend of Beaver’s, David Dearth,Parsons senior, are making a trip of theirown to honor their friend’s memory. Thetwo are bicycling from Eugene, Ore., to

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BIKE MESSENGERS: David Dearth and Bobby Nicholsare bicycling cross-country to raise awareness about thetragic consequences of drunk driving.Their KU roommate,Casey Beaver, was killed by a drunk driver on Aug. 4, 2000.

Washington, D.C., to raise awarenessof the tragic consequences of drink-ing and driving. They will speak atrallies organized by Mothers AgainstDrunk Driving in large cities on theirroute, and to anyone who will listenin the many small towns along theway.

“When people hear Casey’s story, theyask why this has to happen,” says Dearth.“I want to tell them it doesn’t have to, thatwe can change this. We can live in a timewhen there’s no drinking and driving.”

The three friends, who grew up play-ing baseball in Parsons and renewed theirfriendships at KU, had planned to take abicycle trip together when they finishedcollege. Now the trip has become amemorial with a higher purpose: Toremind people that drunk driving takes ahuman toll.

“We want to show that Casey was not a statistic, that he was a human beingwith a bright future, a bright young manwho was going to optometry school, hada girlfriend, liked to play baseball,”Nichols says. Adds Dearth, “We’re tryingto make something positive out of some-thing negative.”

Casey’s parents, Dennis and LindaBeaver, this year lobbied the Kansas Legis-lature for more stringent drunk drivinglaws; they hope the bicycle tour will helprally national support for Casey’s Law, a

vehicle immobilization lawdesigned to make it harderfor people with multipleDWI’s to keep driving aftertheir licenses have beenrevoked. The Beavers haveasked Nichols and Dearth toencourage local communitiesto adopt the law and workfor better enforcement of

existing penal-ties. They alsoplan to attendthe pair’s finalstop, at theWhite House,July 9. Therethey hope tooutline Casey’sLaw for Presi-dent Bush.

“Simplytaking adrunk driver’slicense doesabsolutely

nothing,” says Dennis Beaver. “If we getthe vehicle out of their hands, I think wehave a lot better chance of accomplishingsomething.”

The bicyclists raised $16,000 for theirtrip through private donations, and localand national retailers have chipped in todonate bikes, equipment, food and a sup-port van that will accompany the pair. Allleftover funds will be donated to MADD.

The Beavers hope that by spreadingthe word about their son, Nichols andDearth will help save lives. “We’re hopingthat when someone gets in their car afterthey’ve been drinking, they’ll rememberCasey’s story and they won’t make thatfatal decision to drive,” says DennisBeaver. “If we help just one family it’sworth it.”

Nichols agrees.“We’re just going to come through

and speak from our hearts,” he says.“We’re not trying to lecture them, we’retrying to challenge them: ‘Hey, this issomething you can choose not to do.’ Ifone kid listens, then we’ve accomplishedsomething.”�


CLASS CREDITFULBRIGHT FELLOWSTHE FULBRIGHT EXCHANGEprogram rewarded three KU studentsthis spring, granting fellowships forEuropean study to two graduatingseniors and funding the final project of an Ethiopian exchange student whoused his Fulbright Fellowship to attend KU.

Genetics major Sean Patrick Gor-don, c’01, and psychology major NikkiRenee Horne, c’01, received grants fortravel, tuition and living expenses forthe 2001-’02 academic year. Gordonwill study in a new international molec-ular biology program sponsored by MaxPlanck Institute for Biophysical Chem-

istry and theGeorg-August Uni-versity inGoettingen,Germany.Horne willconductneuropsy-chologicalresearch onmultiplesclerosis

treatment and rehabilitation at the Cen-tre de Neuropsychologie et du Langage inParis.

KU graduate student Pelle Danabo, aFulbright Fellow in his last year of U.S.study, was one of four students nation-ally to receive the Kenneth HollandAward, which grants $2,500 to help fel-lows conduct innovative projects oncethey return home. Danabo will open acybercafe to help Ethiopian studentsand scholars gain fuller access to theWorld Wide Web as they prepare tostudy in the U.S. His project will alsoconnect Fulbright candidates, alumniand participants in Ethiopia and providelinks to Fulbright Web sites.

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ROAD RALLY: David Dearth and BridgetMorrisey, Ottawa sophomore, review a maptracing the cyclists' route as Lawrence support-ers sign a petition for Casey’s Law. Below: “I’vegot the rest of my life to work on this,” DennisBeaver told about 100 people gathered atSouth Park. “I’m not going to go away.”

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REPORTSTUDENT REMEMBEREDAt the Com-mencement cere-mony whereSHANNONMARTIN hadplanned to cele-brate the com-pletion of adistinguishedundergraduate career, the Topekasenior was instead remembered with amoment of silence as her pictureappeared briefly on Memorial Stadium’svideo screen. Martin, set to graduateMay 20 with honors in biodiversity,ecology and evolutionary biology, wasmurdered a week earlier while on aresearch trip to Golfito, Costa Rica. Shewas 23.

Martin had finished her final examsin time to schedule a weeklong trip toCosta Rica to collect fern samples for a research study she hoped to publish.She was stabbed while walking homefrom a discotheque near her host family’s home.

One of about 45 KU students whostudied in Golfito last year as part ofKU’s study-abroad program, Martin wasresearching photosynthesis in a little-studied fern, a promising line of inquirythat marked her as “a rising star” inevolutionary biology, according to Pro-fessor Craig Martin, her adviser.

While Martin was not enrolled inthe study-abroad program at the timeof her visit, her death—the first homi-cide of a student on University busi-ness—raised questions about the safetyof KU’s Golfito program, begun in1992. University officials promised a fullreview of KU’s study-abroad operationthere, while also announcing that theupcoming summer program would con-tinue as planned.

ROCK CHALK REVIEWMILESTONES, MONEY AND OTHER MATTERS� WHEN THE LONGEST WRAP-UP SESSION in history was gaveled to a closeMay 8, the Legislature delivered better-than-expected funding news to the state’s sixRegents universities. Despite a projected $206 million shortfall in state revenues, KUearned a 4.02 percent budget increase for fiscal 2002. Lawmakers preserved apromised a 6 percent faculty pay raise and restored cuts to the University’s base bud-get earlier proposed by Gov. Bill Graves to help fund the salary hike.The popular two-for-one technology fee, given up for dead more than once during the contentioussession, survived with reduced state support. Instead of matching every $1 collectedfrom student technology fees with $2, the state will now contribute a straight dollar-for-dollar match.“On balance, I believe higher education fared well,” Chancellor RobertE. Hemenway said.“I was pleased to see the governor and the leadership of both theHouse and Senate join together to invest in KU and higher education.”

� A $5.35 MILLION NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH GRANT willsupport research in reproductive biology at KU Medical Center, underwriting fourresearch projects at the Center for Reproductive Sciences.This is the second five-yeargrant for the center, which was founded with a $2 million NIH grant in 1996 to con-duct research relating to fertility, pregnancy and cancer of the reproductive organs.

� THREE ART STUDENTS RECEIVED COMMENDATIONS from the Univer-sity for their courageous attempt to rescue a man from the Kansas River in April.Andrew Baumann,Adrian, Mo., sophomore; Nick Erker,Wellington freshman; and JasonHoffman,Vassar sophomore, were sketching near the Bowersock dam with classmatesin “Introduction to Drawing” when a surge of water from the dam tumbled fishermanGeorge Weber into the river. Hoffman swam to Weber and returned him to shore,with Erker’s help. Erker and Hoffman performed CPR until emergency crews arrived.Weber was rescuscitated but died later that night at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

� THE WILLIAM T. KEMPER FOUNDATION PLEDGED $690,000 to supportfive KU programs: $300,000 will buy computers and other electronic equipment forthe recently opened Theo and Alfred M. Landon Center on Aging at KU Medical Cen-ter; $250,000 will renew for five years the William T. Kemper Fellowships for TeachingExcellence.The School of Business Multicultural Scholars Program, the Hall Center forthe Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art will share the remaining funds.

� THE FIFTH ANNUAL WHEAT STATE WHIRLWIND introduced 43 facultyand staff to more than 20 Kansas communities in May. Stops included the Wolf CreekNuclear Plant in Burlington and the Kansas Oil Museum.“We’re focusing on resourcesin Kansas this year,” said Linda Robinson, tour director.“We try to visit with people insites that may not be typical tour stops, but that do give us a picture of the state’s richheritage and diversity.”

� THE SELF FACULTY SCHOLARS for 2001-’04 are Kenneth R. Peterson, associ-ate professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, and Teruna J. Siahaan, associateprofessor of pharmaceutical chemistry. Each will receive $50,000 annually for threeyears to finance their research.


Sure, preseason pre-dictions that theKU softball team

would finish near thebottom of the Big 12stung. But coach TracyBunge admits that evenshe had no sense ofwhat she might see in2001. Not only did herJayhawks have a disap-pointing season in 2000,going 5-13 in the con-ference and 30-32 over-all, but they lost theirtop two pitchers.

“Honestly, I don’tthink I had any expecta-tions for the year,” saysBunge, ’87. “We fearedwe didn’t have enoughpitching. That was thebig question. I was opti-mistic, but we reallydidn’t know. I also knewwe were better battersthan we had shown lastyear, and they would benefit from anotheryear, but again, you never know for sure.”

But Bunge and assistant coaches JulieWright and Aaron Clopton, d’00, didn’tlet on about their doubts, and wererewarded with a memorable season. Thesoftball team proved to be the most pleas-ant surprise of KU’s spring sports season,finishing tied for third in the Big 12 witha 10-8 conference record, and 32-27overall. And KU only narrowly missed outon an invitation to the NCAA Tourna-ment. Texas Tech, which KU tied for thirdin the conference, was one of three Big 12teams invited.

Regardless, the season was sweet.“In our second game, at a tournament

in New Mexico, we were down 6-0 and

we came back to win,” says junior centerfielder Shelly Musser, one of four Jay-hawks to bat over .300 for the season.“We believed in ourselves. We had a lot ofenthusiasm. But that win did somethingmore. It really made the belief we had inourselves real.”

The Jayhawks raised their team battingaverage to .280, after hitting .228 in2000. As for pitching, freshman sensationKara Pierce, of Mesa, Ariz., went 22-11with a 1.91 ERA and was named the Big12 freshman of the year.

Pierce was never even the No. 1 starterin high school, but Bunge, herself an All-America KU pitcher in 1986, saw anangle that every other coach and recruiterhad missed. Pierce’s pitches lacked speed

BY CHRIS LAZZARINOSPORTS

WHEN HE HEARD the Rock ChalkChant at the 1993 Final Four, Al Bohl,then athletics director at Toledo, becamea secret Jayhawk.

“When the Jayhawk fans start intothat chant,” Bohl says,“their pride justmoves you. I had a feeling of envy.”

Bohl need hide his Rock Chalk spiritno longer, since he was named June 28as the University’s 13th athletics direc-tor (his hiring came as Kansas Alumniwas going to press; complete coveragewill follow in issue No. 5).

Bohl replacesBob Frederick,d’62, g’64,EdD’84, whoresigned in Aprilfollowing atumultuous yearthat includedthe eliminationof two men’svarsity sports.He comes to

KU from Fresno State, where the foot-ball team made consecutive bowlappearances and all football games butone were sold out last season.

He wants the same for KU.“We have another 20,000 seats we

need to fill at football games,” Bohl says.“We’re going to build an environmentwhere those will go to the first peoplewho get in line to buy them. Only51,000 can get in.That’s the attitude wehave to create.”

Bohl pledged his support for footballcoach Terry Allen and said he was“extremely proud” to be working withmen’s basketball coach Roy Williams.

Yet Bohl also emphasized the impor-tance of success in all sports, as well ashis “tremendous commitment” to fiscalmanagement, academics and diversity.

“I really believe,” Chancellor RobertE. Hemenway says,“that we’re starting anew and exciting era in KU athletics.”

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SOFTBALL SURPRISE: KU’s softball team was picked to finish ninthamong 10 teams in the Big 12. But the Jayhawks proved to be tougher thanexpected, ending the season tied for third in the conference and nearly land-ing a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

A big hitDespite dire predictions, softball team rallies behinda new pitcher, revitalized hitting and unwavering belief

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but had good movement. And with thecollege pitching rubber 3 feet farther fromthe plate, she might flourish.

Bunge’s insight was perfect.“Kara always had a good drop ball,”

Bunge says, “but with that extra 3 feet, itdrops off the table. And her rise ball risesabove the batter. There’s a lot of thingsyou can teach, but you can’t teach goodball movement. Kara has that.”

KU loses only one senior, outfielderErin Garvey, who had her best season.She hit .308 and played every game.

“Erin saw a real need for someone tostep up and say, ‘Follow me.’ She did that,and they listened,” Bunge says. “This teamhad great chemistry. It was so much fun,and it can be even better. Third place isprobably as good as we could have hopedfor this year. Third place isn’t going to begood enough next year.”�

Allen hopes changes inplayers, coaches add tolore of memorable upsets

Center Mike Wellman, captain of the1978 KU football team, had just

tasted one of the biggest victories of hiscollege career: Kansas 28, UCLA 24.What impressed Wellman even more thanthe score, though, was the crowd inMemorial Stadium, a lively 35,362.

“Hey, I wish you’d say something aboutthe crowd support,” Wellman told theLawrence Journal-World after the Sept.28, 1978, upset of the No. 8-ranked Bru-ins. “It was very, very inspiring. Thecrowd was a big factor. It was a great liftfor the team.”

Twenty-three years later, UCLA, andKU’s home football crowds, are on Well-man’s mind again.

Wellman, c’86, the Association’s direc-tor of special projects and Adams AlumniCenter facility manager, now has his eyeon Sept. 8. That’s when UCLA returns toLawrence for the first time since KU’sbiggest (and only) victory of 1978.

“You know, I look at that kind ofgame,” Wellman says, “and I see it as

proof that anybody can be beaten by any-body on any given Saturday. It was anexciting game. A good game. We hit hard,made big plays, stuffed ’em when we hadto. That was a great day for us, and ourhome crowd was a big part of that.”

When the Bruins return this season,they’ll be facing a new-look KU team thatcould be unexpectedly tough.

The first question for coach Terry Allento answer during fall practice: Who willbe the starting quarterback?

Moments after the final scrimmage ofspring practice, Allen said sophomore

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BOHL CAN BE CERTAIN that soft-ball coach Tracy Bunge will comeknocking on the door. She might evenknock it down.

“The need for a stadium is critical,”Bunge says.“We have the worst facilityin the conference.”

Bunge says she was assured whenshe took over as KU’s softball coachthat a new stadium would be in placewithin five years. She just finished herfifth season and is no closer to seeing anew field. KU’s softball diamond, southof Allen Field House, is situated withthe batter facing west—an extremerarity in softball and baseball. Battersface the afternoon sun and hit into theconstant southwest wind.

“If you go sit in our stands, you getdirt blown in your face the wholetime,” Bunge says.“We need to turnthe field to put home plate where cen-ter field is now, and we need to build astadium that is fan-friendly.”

Bunge estimates a new stadiumwould cost $3 to $4 million.

THE MAUI INVITATIONAL, oneof the country’s prominent early-sea-son men’s basketball tournaments, willfeature KU, Duke and UCLA, as well asSeton Hall, South Carolina, Ball State,Houston and host Chaminade.

The three-day, eight-team tourna-ment is scheduled for Nov. 19-21. KUlast played in the tropical tourney inNovember 1996, beating LSU, Califor-nia and Virginia on its way to a 34-2record.The Jayhawks also played inMaui in 1987, going 1-2 to begin thedream season that ended with the 83-79 victory over Oklahoma for theNCAA Tournament championship.

GIVE ME THE BALL: Redshirt freshman MarioKinsey is the strongest passer among KU quarterbacks,but sophomore Zach Dyer enters fall practice as thefavorite to be named the starter for KU’s Sept. 1opener against Southwest Missouri.

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“Mario has the strongest arm in thegroup,” Allen says. “He just has to have alittle more experience. He maybe tries tomake too many things happen.”

Whether Dyer or Kinsey wins the job,or there’s a surprising challenger such asredshirt freshman Kevin Long, Allen saidspring drills eased his concerns aboutreplacing Dylen Smith.

“The success of our football team cor-relates to the success we have at quarter-back,” Allen says. “And there is definitelyhope at the quarterback position.”

The receivers are KU’s strength: Harri-son Hill, Termaine Fulton, Roger Ross,Byron Gasaway, J.T. Thompson and DerikMills combined for 107 receptions and1,545 yards last season. Sophomore Reg-gie Duncan will replace David Winbushas the featured running back, and he hasdisplayed flashes of talent that make himan exciting prospect.

Like the quarterback position, though,there is much to be decided on specialteams and defense.

The kicking game, though troubledthroughout last season, lost the startingkicker and punter. Redshirt freshmanChris Tyrrell is the current favorite topunt, and as many as four newcomerswill compete for the kicking job.

The defense returns plenty of stars—inclucing tackle Nate Dwyer, linebackersAlgie Atkinson and Marcus Rogers, andcornerback Quincy Roe, but new defen-sive coordinator and assistant head coachTom Hayes promises many changes. Notonly are some newcomers going to chal-lenge returning starters at some positions,but Hayes also instituted a new schemewith four down linemen and three line-backers, called the “43.”

“We’ve come a long way since dayone,” Hayes said after spring practice.“The overall intensity was really good. Butare we there yet? I don’t think so.”

Seven new assistant coaches joinedAllen’s staff, including Hayes, Rip Scherer(running backs, co-offensive coordinator),Sam Pittman (offensive line), ClarenceJames (wide receivers), Clint Bowen, d’96,

(tight ends), Travis Jones (defensive line)and Johnny Barr (linebackers). The onlytwo assistants returning from last seasonare quarterbacks coach Jay Johnson andTim Burke, who moves from the sec-ondary to coaching defensive ends. Andeven Allen’s role is changing, as hepromises call his own plays as he did dur-ing his successful tenure at NorthernIowa.

Though UCLA looms Sept. 8, the Jayhawks will focus on Sept. 1, when they host Southwest Missouri State. It iscertain that last year’s season-opening lossto Southern Methodist, which set the tone for a frustrating season, will not beforgotten.

“To lose [to SMU] the way we did kind of set us up for failure,” Allen says.“I think there’s a sense of urgency outthere for all of us. Going through four los-ing seasons, there’s definitely a sense ofurgency, for coaches and players.”

Should KU get past Southwest Mis-souri, the UCLA game could be a thriller.And Wellman won’t be alone in hopingthat fans contribute to a spirited environ-ment, just as they did on that memorableSeptember afternoon 23 years ago.

“I’m hoping we put it to them like wedid back then,” Wellman says. “We needsome big wins this year, and a goodcrowd absolutely helps the playersachieve that. No doubt the crowd was a big part of it last time we beat UCLAhere.”�

Hall of Fame coach Millerremembered as final linkto basketball’s origins

Ralph Miller, d’42, a two-sport KU starwho went on to become a Hall of

Fame college basketball coach, died May15 at his Black Butte Ranch, Ore., home.He was 82.

Hailed by the New York Times as “oneof the final active links between collegebasketball and its roots,” Miller played forcoach Forrest C. “Phog” Allen in the late1930s and early ’40s, lettering three times


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PITCHER PETE SMART and volley-ball outside hitter Amy Myatt werenamed the senior scholar-athletes of the year.

Smart, a 6-7 left-hander, was 9-4 forthe baseball team while pursuing hismaster’s in business administration witha 3.62 GPA. He was twice named Big 12pitcher of the week and signed a profes-sional contract with the MilwaukeeBrewers.

Smart, b’00, reported to his Class Aassignment in Beloit,Wis., the day afterCommencement. He finished his careerranked in the top 10 in all-time Kansascareer victories, strikeouts and inningspitched.

Myatt, d’01, a four-year letterwinner,had a 3.82 GPA. She set the schoolrecord last season by averaging 4.57 killsa game, and was the first player inschool history to record more than 400kills in back-to-back seasons.

KU BASEBALL had another disap-pointing season at 26-30, but foundhope for next season by finishing on afive-game winning streak. KU beat Texas-Pan American, 6-4, to win seven of itslast eight games.

“It was a tough win because of allthe emotion,” coach Bobby Randall said,“and it was a good way to finish off theseason.”

Shortstop John Nelson, who had 31steals, was drafted in the eighth roundby the St. Louis Cardinals. Pitcher DougLantz was taken in the 14th round bythe Cleveland Indians and catcher BrentDel Chiaro was taken in the 41st roundby the Anaheim Angels. Four of KU’ssignees were also drafted. Smart signedbefore the baseball draft.

and serving as a starter on the 1940NCAA Tournament runner-up team. Adedicated student of the game, he wasknown to discuss strategy with James Nai-smith, the inventor of basketball, whenthe retired professor visited the athleticsdepartment.

Miller also lettered three times in foot-ball, where he started three seasons atquarterback.

Miller began his coaching career atWichita East High School, and in 1951launched his long college career at Wichita State. He became head coach atIowa in 1964, and moved on to OregonState in 1970. He retired in 1989 with thebest record among active coaches; his 657victories then ranked seventh amongmajor-college coaches, placing Miller inthe elite company of Adolph Rupp, c’23;Henry Iba; Ed Diddle; Phog Allen, ’09;Ray Meyer; and John Wooden. In his 38-year career Miller posted only three losingseasons.

His teams, many of them small butquick, were remembered for pressuredefense and crisp passing. His 1969-’70Iowa Hawkeyes went 14-0 in the Big 10and averaged 102.9 points—still a leaguerecord. His Oregon State teams won four

Pac 10 Conference championshipsand made eight trips to the NCAATournament. His 1981 Oregon Stateteam was ranked No. 1 for nineweeks.

In all, Miller coached five teamsthat reached the top 10; won titlesin the Missouri Valley Conference,the Big 10 and Pac 10; went to theNCAA Tournament nine times andto the National Inivitational Tourna-ment six times. He was votednational Coach of the Year in 1981and 1982.

“He was really a good guy,”recalled George Wine, Iowa’s sportsinformation director during Miller’slast two years at the school. “Heloved to play bridge, he loved toplay golf. He loved to drink scotchand talk basketball. He had anopen-door policy. You could walk inoff the street and talk to him as long

as you talked basketball. Of course, hedid most of the talking.”

Interviewed toward the end of hiscoaching career, Miller said, “There reallyhasn’t been time to become nostalgic, butI suppose it will be the end of an era. I’mthe oldest guy still coaching among agroup of us who went to college in the’30s, when the game of basketball as weknow it today evolved.

“If I had to sum up my career, I’d say Iwas a pretty good teacher. It was moreenjoyable years ago because there was apurity to the game.”

The Chanute native starred in high-school athletics, too, earning 12 letters infive sports at Chanute High School. “Any-time conversations turn to the greatesthigh school athlete in Kansas history, youhave to include Ralph Miller,” said BillMayer, j’49, contributing editor for theLawrence Journal-World. “He was brilliantin football, basketball, tennis, golf andwas a tremendous track performer.

“He was a widely admired and respect-ed individual as a family man and citizen.When they talk about ‘the greatest’ in thisor that, Ralph Miller’s name leaps to thefore in many categories.”�

—Steven Hill

SPORTS

JUNIOR ANDREA BULAT won theBig 12 javelin championship with a 158-foot throw. Senior Andy Tate finishedthird in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.Sophomore T.J. Hackler, a walk-on foot-ball receiver who joined the track teamless than a month before the conferencemeet, placed fourth in the men’s highjump. Hackler won the state high-jumptitle while at Olathe East H.S. ...

Center Eric Chenowith was selectedin the second round of the NBA draftby the New York Knicks. Guard KennyGregory, who had hoped to go in thesecond round, was not drafted. ...

Juniors Rodrigo Echagaray andQuentin Blakeney were named Big 12champions at No. 2 and 3 singles, andfour teammates were named runners-up.The honors were bittersweet, as themen’s tennis program was discontinuedbecause of financial problems, along withmen’s swimming. ...

Freshman guard Michael Lee willwear No. 25.The last men’s basketballplayer to wear No. 25 was Danny Man-ning, c’92.Though Manning’s jersey isretired, the number, in accordance withKU policy, is not. ... Manning’s KU coach,Larry Brown, who guided the Philadel-phia 76ers to the NBA Finals, wasnamed the league’s Coach of the Year.When he accepted the award in apacked Philadelphia ballroom, Browncited his coach at North Carolina, DeanSmith, d’53, when he said,“Coach Smithwould never accept an award like this inthis kind of setting. He would neverbring attention to himself.” Minuteslater, Smith surprised Brown by appear-ing at his side ... Brown’s 76ers will facethe Utah Jazz in an exhibition game Oct.18 in Allen Field House ...

Former KU QB Dylen Smith signedwith Saskatchewan of the CFL ... Sept. 8and Sept. 15 football games againstUCLA and Wyoming will be broadcastregionally with 11:30 a.m. kickoffs.

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The Hopi Indians sorevered the chile pepperthat they incorporated it

into their kachina rituals, inwhich masked dancers whoembody the spirits of mythicalancestors dance or challengebystanders to footraces. “Thetsil kachina,” writes ThomasFox Averill, c’71, g’74, in hisfirst novel, The Secrets of theTsil Café, “is the one who stuffsred pepper in the mouths ofrunners overtaken in a race.”

For Wes Hingler, the heroof Averill’s pungent coming-of-age tale, the tsil kachina alsoseems the perfect totem for hisfather, Robert Hingler, avisionary, uncompromisingcook “who loved spice andheat, and gladly stuffed pep-pers into the mouths of son,wife, family, and customers.”

Growing up in the kitchenof the Tsil Café, his father’sKansas City restaurant, Weswatches and learns as Robertcooks with the unyielding zealof a purist, using only new-world ingredients—thosefound in the Americas whenColumbus arrived—cooked inthe spicy style of his nativeNew Mexico.

Upstairs, in the familykitchen, Wes’ mother, MariaTito Hingler, runs her cateringbusiness, Buen AppeTito. WhileRobert obeys his own uncon-ventional standards, expectingdiners to adapt or else, Mariaprides herself on delivering tra-ditional Italian fare preparedexactly as customers want it.

Food is a uniting passionfor Robert and Maria, but theircontrasting culinary styleshighlight the tensions in thehousehold: new world vs. old,heat vs. warmth, rigorous ide-alism vs. generous adaptability.As Wes grows up buffeted byhis parents’ passions—forfood, for each other and, he

increasingly discovers, for oth-ers—he struggles to carvesome private space for himselfunder the perpetual gaze ofemployees, customers and vis-iting relatives. As he begins tounravel the secrets of the TsilCafé (which aren’t restrictedentirely to ingredients andculinary techniques), Wesworks hard to keep a fewsecrets himself, running hisown race to establish an iden-tity outside the long shadow ofhis volatile father.

Averill’s eventful plot fol-lows the basic recipe for com-ing-of-age novels: Boy withquirky parents rebels againstunconventional upbringing,then realizes he’s strongerbecause of it. But Averill spicesthis old stew by investing foodwith a rich cultural contextrarely found in fiction. Food isthe common currency bywhich his characters honortheir cultural heritage andbuild their social identity. They

use it to establish masculinity,woo lovers, and nurture chil-dren. Food tears them apartand draws them back together.

The novel’s sumptuouslydetailed fictive world is builtfrom the mouthwatering tastesand smells its abundantlyrecounted meals evoke. TheTsil Café menu and accompa-nying recipes, detailing thepreparation of exotic new-world ingredients such asquinoa, gooseberries, bisontongue and marigold honey,are poems in themselves.

That may ultimately be themost memorable aspect of TheSecrets of the Tsil Café: Thisbold feast of a book, a treat foradventurous readers andadventurous eaters alike,leaves one hungry and wishingthat such a place as the Tsilreally existed on 39th Street inKansas City, rather than onlyin the superbly drawn fictionalworld of Thomas FoxAverill.�


BY STEVEN HILLOREAD READER

Secrets of the Tsil Caféby Thomas Fox AverillBlueHen/Putnam $23.95

A readable feastThomas Fox Averill’s bold, spicy first novel affectionately details the lives, loves and meals of a boy and his quirky Kansas City clan

Excerpt from Secrets of the Tsil CaféThe Habanero, a two-inch Chinese lantern, shines orange in the garden, a little bell that

clangs in the mouth and vibrates the skull. In late summer and fall, my father kept a basket ofhome-grown habaneros on the bar of the Tsil Café. ...

“How hot?” the uninitiated might ask.“Not very,” he’d say, and he’d pluck one from the basket, hold it by the stem above his head,

and lower it to his mouth. “How sweet it is,” he’d say, and bite off the bottom.He never suffered from this macho display, or he never let a customer see his pain. His eyes

would light up, his lips part in a smile, and he’d hand the habanero over. “Go ahead,” he’d say,“the next bite is yours.”

The guy might take it, the second third of it or so, and begin to chew, hesitate as the searingheat burned from tongue to throat. Finally, his sinuses would catch fire, and his nose might run.Some sneezed in uncontrollable fits. Some spat the habanero on the bar. Some gasped for water,the semi-aficionados begged for salt. But all of them, and everyone watching, would slap myfather on the back in admiration. In those moments, he forgot his irritation. He was the tsil hero.

Bicker, bicker, bicker. To most Amer-icans, that’s precisely what mostpoliticians do most of the time.

Especially in legislative bodies, whether inTopeka, St. Paul or Washington, D.C. Tobe fair, a lot of so-called partisan bicker-ing does occur, and in our C-SPAN soci-ety, we can observe it almost any hour ofthe day or night. We yearn for some“golden age” of good will, when a fewbipartisan belts of bourbon in the eveningset right what might have been said in theheat of battle a few hours earlier.

To be sure, Senate leaders LyndonJohnson (D-Texas) and Everett Dirksen(R-Ill.) knocked back more than an occa-sional bourbon and branch water in theU.S. Senate of the 1950s, then the mostexclusive men’s club in the country. Forall its surface civility, the Senate was oftenill-suited for representation or delibera-tion, given its dominance by the leg-endary Conservative Coalition ofRepublicans and Southern Democrats.

The Senate is unique in American poli-tics. In a system that requires majorities toovercome many obstacles to work theirwill, the Senate is indisputably the leastmajoritarian, least representative legisla-tive body (state or national) in the UnitedStates. All other bodies must conform tothe principle of “one-person, one vote.”But the Constitution dictates that eachstate—whether Wyoming or California—is entitled to two senators.

In recent years, neither Republicansnor Democrats have held large enoughmajorities to halt “extended debate” (fili-busters) or to overcome a process thatworks systematically to thwart the actionsof a firm, if narrow, majority. Despite itsself-proclaimed status as “the world’sgreatest deliberative body,” the Senateoften looks anything but. Senators feelfree to obstruct the process and play hard-

ball as they posture on principle, whileclinging to self-interest. Such conduct ledthe Pew Charitable Trusts to ask me toaddress the question of how civility (or itsabsence) affects the Senate in an era ofgrowing partisanship and continuingdivided government.

Helped immensely by Kansas senatorsSam Brownback, l’83, and Pat Roberts, aswell as former Senate Majority Leader BobDole, ’45, I worked through KU’s DoleInstitute for Public Service and PublicPolicy to assemble a topflight conferencein July 1999 in Washington. Mixing lead-ing Senate scholars with veteran CapitolHill staffers, the conference explored theimportance of civility, especially as itshaped the Senate’s ability to deliberateeffectively.

In January 2001, Esteemed Colleagues:Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate(Brookings Press) revealed the scholars’conclusion: Civility, although importantand useful for any legislature, scarcelydetermines whether productive delibera-tion occurs. Likewise, the Senate’s capaci-ty to represent concerns of small statesand minority interests may be as much aproblem as a virtue. In sum, civility is notan end in itself.

Highly contentious legislatures, such asthe British House of Commons, can bemost effective. But the U.S. Senate, evenwith elevated levels of partisan voting,finds it difficult to combine contentious-ness with deliberation. Given the replace-ment of deliberative centrists like JohnChaffee (R-R.I.) by deal-making centristslike John Breaux (D-La.), the Senate sendsthe message that deliberation born ofcivility is less possible than political com-promise among position-takers, whichrequires only a minimum of civil discus-sion. Indeed, staffers do much of theheavy lifting after the principals have

agreed on the core elements of the deal.Ironically, such deal-making in an open,televised era does little to build trust in analready distrusted Congress.

Two other contemporary culprits shareblame: First is the enhanced ideologicalextremism of both parties in Congress.Senate Republican Leader Trent Lott is noNewt Gingrich, but many senators andrepresentatives act in similar, highly parti-san, ways. At the same time, high levels ofindividualism encourage legislators topress their own positions.

Even more important than partisanshipand individualism however, is a lack oftrust—both within the society and onCapitol Hill. In a society that incarceratesmore and more of its citizens, encourageslitigation for resolving disputes, andbuilds increasing numbers of gated com-munities, there is little sense that trustwill grow much stronger.

As Walt Kelley, the creator of the Pogocomic strip put it, “We have met theenemy, and it is us.” As a representativebody of a diverse and divided nation, theSenate reflects the strains in society, andcreating trust requires more than a fewsips of bourbon and branch water.�

—Loomis, professor of political science,is working on his forthcoming book,

The Industry of Politics.

For argument’s sakeA legislative scholar studies whether true deliberationsuffers amid partisan posturing in the U.S. Senate

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Anticipation wafted throughthe air as crowds huggedbalconies four stories highin the School of Nursing’ssparkling atrium. Neon red,

blue and gold balloons danced as a jazzcombo grooved and University leadersgrinned, eager to announce momentousnews. Equally eager to hear the scoopwere hundreds of KU Medical Center faculty and staff, some in hospital scrubsand booties.

Finally, just after 2 p.m. June 19, amid fanfare befitting a historic moment,Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway andDonald J. Hall, chairman of the HallFamily Foundation and Hallmark CardsInc., announced the foundation’s record-setting $42 million commitment to theUniversity. The five-year grant is thelargest private gift in the history ofKansas higher education and the mostgenerous bestowed by the foundation,one of Kansas City’s most trusted bene-factors and a longtime KU donor.

Programs on three KU campuses willbenefit from the record gift (see sidebar):

—$29.5 million for the life sciences,$27 million of which will fund a newresearch building at KU Medical Centerin Kansas City, Kan;

—$7 million for the humanities,including $3 million to remodel theexisting Hall Center for the Humanitiesor to construct a new home for the center;

—$5 million toward a new building atKU’s Edwards Campus in Overland Park,the first phase of expansion on the grow-ing suburban campus;

—$500,000 to the School of Businessto establish a professorship in honor ofProfessor Emeritus O. Maurice Joy.

The gift’s jaw-dropping size encour-ages leaders of KU’s upcoming fund-rais-ing campaign, to be announced this fall.Forrest Hoglund, e’56, former Jayhawkthird baseman who is now an energyindustry leader and chair of the KU cam-paign, clearly had his eye on numbers ashe presided over the Hall ceremony.


Recalling the then-record $7 millionpledge he and his wife, Sally RoneyHoglund, c’56, made to the Medical Center late last year, Hoglund teased theassembled faithful as he began the pro-gram. “Being an old baseball player, Iknow that records are made to be bro-ken,” he said.

But Hoglund also marveled at thebreadth of the Hall foundation’s pledge,hailing it as a “Renaissance gift” thatwould change the University.

Hemenway, clearly heartened by such a resounding endorsement of KU and itsrole as Kansas City’s research university,said the gift “makes us humble andreminds us what we’re doing. This is notjust about receiving and spending money.It affirms the value of what the Universitydoes. It touches so many areas of ourwork to make lives better.

“This serves as a challenge to us tocontinue to serve the people of Kansasand the people of Kansas City.”

In accepting KU’s thanks and praise,Don Hall returned the compliments,recalling the leadership of past chancellorsand the foundation’s long relationshipwith KU (see sidebar). “Since the days ofFranklin Murphy and Clarke Wescoe, KUchancellors have helped the Hall FamilyFoundation understand the importance ofhigher education to our community andthis region,” he said. The decision to sup-port research in the life sciences as well as

broad programs across the humanities, hesaid, evidenced the foundation’s beliefthat “the knowledge to fulfill the basicneeds of the future must be provided byhigher education. We applaud BobHemenway and the University’s commit-ment toward this goal.”

The foundation’s private gift also trig-gers public support—a partnership laud-ed by Clay Blair, b’65, EdD’69, chair ofKansas Board of Regents, who thankedthe Hall foundation for providing profes-sorships in the life sciences, humanitiesand business. Income from these

endowed professorships, he explained,will be matched by the state through theKansas Partnership for Faculty of Distinc-tion program established in 2000 by theKansas Legislature.

Thanking the foundation on behalf ofthe Medical Center was Executive ViceChancellor Donald Hagen. As he gazedup to the staff members lining the bal-conies in the atrium, the former U.S.Navy surgeon general recalled ship decksfull of cheering sailors. This moment wasno less joyous, he said. He celebrated theHall foundation’s vote of confidence in the

$42 million!THE HALL FAMILY FOUNDATION AFFIRMS KU’S MISSION WITH THE LARGEST GIFT

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Donald J. Hall, chairman of Kansas City’s Hall Family Foundation and Hallmark Cards Inc.,with Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway.

Medical Center by naming the many fac-ulty members past and present whoselandmark research in cancer, kidney dis-ease, Parkinson’s disease, liver disease,AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease and many otherareas had led to such an investment. Afterthe ceremony, Hagen explained that hefelt compelled to publicly thank facultybecause of the philosophy that has guidedhim in his six years at the Medical Cen-ter’s helm. “People ask, ‘How will we dothis? Where will the money come from?’And I tell them, ‘It’s not about themoney. It’s about the people. If you findthe best people, the money will come.’”

David Shulenburger, provost of theLawrence campus, echoed Hagen as he

praised the foundation’s support for pro-grams and professorships on theLawrence campus, particularly the busi-ness professorship named for Maurice Joy.

“The faculty who work for an institu-tion make it great,” he said. “Maurice Joyis respected for his outstanding teachingability and his years of service as a wiseand trusted adviser.” Joy was the originaland only recipient of the Joyce C. HallDistinguished Professorship in Business,established in 1980 by the Hall Family Foundation.

Shulenburger also marveled at the“profound impact” of the Hall commit-ment to the Edwards Campus, which hasgrown to serve 2,100 students, mostlyworking professionals in the Kansas Cityarea. The $5 million from the foundationwill help build the first structure in aplanned $71 million expansion towardthe University’s goal of serving 6,000 stu-dents in Overland Park. “This gift willmake the term ‘Edwards Campus’ more ofa reality,” Shulenburger said.

As the ceremony drew to a close,before the jazz combo struck up againand the crowds returned to the temptinghors d’oeuvre tables, baseball stats manHoglund urged the KU faithful to heedthe Hall challenge and notch more biggifts in the record book. Clearly heintends to preside over more parties.�

When they care enough

The Hall family and its foundation havelong supported the University. Some

of their gifts include:

� 1957: $180,000 to build the Hall Laboratory of Mammalian Genetics atSnow Hall

� 1980: $150,000 for an addition to Summerfield Hall, home of the School of Business

� 1980: $374,000 for business professorships

� 1984: $500,000 for humanities professorships and libraries

� 1985: $3 million for humanities professorships and programs

� 1994: $150,000 toward the construc-tion of the new Edwards Campus inOverland Park, formerly the KU Regents Center

� 1994 to 2000: $252,000 for programsin the Hall Center for the Humanities

� 1996: $2.6 million for a professorshipin molecular medicine at KU Medical Center

� 2001: $42 million for construction and programs to serve the life sciencesand the arts on the Medical Center,Edwards and Lawrence campuses.�

—JJS


Maurice Joy, professor emeritus of finance, andWilliam Fuerst, dean of business.

The Hall Family Foun-dation pledge is

remarkable not only forits size but also for its reachacross numerous areaswithin the arts and sciences.The following summarydescribes how the gift bene-fits KU:

$29.5 MILLION FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES

� $27 million for a new research buildingat KU Medical Center to house the KUBrain Research Institute, the Institute forGenetic Medicine and the Center for Pro-teomics. Researchers will explore illnessessuch as Parkinson’s disease, heart disease,epilepsy, stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, someforms of cancer, and numerous other dis-orders. Scientistsalso will study thenew science ofprotein structuresand how these canbe used to predictand treat disease.

As part of amammoth, citywideinitiative, KU facultywill collaborate with other organizations aspart of the Kansas City Life Sciences Initia-tive. Other partners include MidwestResearch Institute, Children’s Mercy Hospi-tal, the University of Missouri-Kansas Cityand the Stowers Institute for MedicalResearch, funded by $1.1 billion in securi-ties committed by American Centurymutual funds founder Jim Stowers and hiswife,Virginia.

� $1.5 million for the Internal Pilot andBridging Research Program, which providesseed money for researchers to collect thenew data so vital to writing successful pro-posals to the National Institutes of Health.

� $500,000 for a Lawrence campus pro-fessorship in molecular biosciences, part of the department’s plan to hire 20 newprofessors over the next decade.

� $500,000 for a professorship in theHiguchi Biosciences Center on theLawrence campus.The center anchorsKU’s research in genomics, the study ofgenes and chromosomes.

Interest earned on both professorshipfunds will be eligible for matching supportfrom the state of Kansas through theKansas Partnership for Faculty of Distinc-tion Program.

$7 MILLION FOR THE HUMANITIES

� $3 million forremodeling orconstruction ofthe Hall Centerfor the Humani-ties.The center is housed in the formerWatkins Home for Nurses, a 1930s-eraresidence hall just south of Watson Library.The building needs to be modernized toaccommodate telecommunications equip-

ment, more meeting space,wheel-chair accessibility andadditional faculty offices.

The center was founded in1976 and named for Joyceand Elizabeth Hall in 1985. Itserves the public, students andeducators through facultyenrichment programs, lectureseries, seminars and fellow-ships in several disciplines,

including art, art history, American historyand literature.

� $2.5 million for a challenge grant toestablish humanities professorships.TheHall Family Foundation will match dollarfor dollar other private contributions toattract and retain the most accomplishedhumanities professors.

� $1 million to endow the center’s sym-posia, lectures or fellowships.The pledge will help thecenter meet a $500,000challenge grant from theNational Endowmentfor the Humanities.When fulfilled, the chal-lenge grant will endow$2.5 million for outreachprograms.

� $500,000 for the Joyce and ElizabethHall Distinguished Professorship in thehumanities. Interest earned on the profes-sorship fund will be eligible for matchingsupport from the state of Kansas throughthe Kansas Partnership for Faculty of Dis-tinction Program.

$5 MILLION FOR THE EDWARDSCAMPUS

� This gift toward Phase I of the EdwardsCampus expansion will support construc-tion of a 55,000-square-foot building onthe existing property at 126th Street andQuivira Road in Overland Park.The $16million building will feature a 240-seatauditorium, 20 classrooms, 30 facultyoffices andcampusadministra-tive offices.The campusmaster plancalls forthree addi-tional build-ings and aninvestmentof $71 million to accommodate new acad-emic programs, a new library and a pro-posed School of Information Technology.

$500,000 FOR THE O. MAURICEJOY PROFESSORSHIP

� Joy, professor emeritus of finance, taughtKU business classes for 30 years until hisretirement in 1998.The professorship willbe awarded every three years to an out-standing faculty member. Interest earnedon the professorship fund will be eligiblefor matching support from the state ofKansas through the Kansas Partnership forFaculty of Distinction Program.�

—JJS

‘Renaissance gift’ in review

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NO ONE HAS EVER WON THREE TOP GRADUATE PRIZES—UNTIL NOW.MEET MATT HAUG, ONE OF ACADEME’S BRIGHTEST RISING STARS.

Stories need tension. Bad guys and brokendreams usually do the trick, as do, say,treachery and tragedy, mixed or straightup. Lacking a strong opposing force, thetrap from which our hero must emergeenlightened and triumphant, we face thepeculiar challenges of a character piece, in

which the hero himself is everything.Which pretty much sums up Matt Haug. The hero. He has the boyishly lean frame of a young man who

rides his bicycle everywhere and hasn’t developed afondness for beer. He smiles easily, but his friendliness is not a silliness; much remains in reserve, which is also hinted at by a soft, whispered laugh that somehowsays the humor or irony of the moment is both sharedand private.

For the needs of our story, it’s good that Haug pre-sents Paul Newman’s cool blue eyes and Gary Cooper’seasy physicality, because, despite the fact that he isunstained by the dark complications that would splen-didly serve a dramatic structure, Matt Haug is going tocarry the piece, and he’s not even going to emergeenlightened.

He arrived enlightened.As for triumphant, he’s got that one licked, too.This past spring, Topeka native Haug, c’00, c’00,

completed an apparently unprecedented sweep of threeof the country’s most important graduate fellowships—the Mellon and Javits fellowships in the humanities, andthe National Science Foundation fellowship in science,worth a combined $213,500—and the triple thrillinstantly launched him to academic stardom.

Haug not only bagged three of the biggest graduate-study prizes, his KU faculty mentors noted with glee,but he did it in both the humanities and the sciences.

“It’s the combination,” says Jack Bricke, professor ofphilosophy, “that’s so startling.”

Startling might be the word Haug would choose, too.Not for the accomplishment, but for the attention. Asfame shoved its demanding, demeaning ways into hisintrospective life, the reluctant 23-year-old scrambled for cover.

He acted too late. Seems our unblemished herowould face some complications after all.

It was Aristotle who first outlined the framework ofdrama’s three-act formula, but therein lies our complica-tion. Aristotle doesn’t make his entrance yet.

After walking down the Hill in May 2000, Haug, anhonors graduate in both philosophy and mathematics,put off his natural transition to graduate school, for rea-sons romantic and realistic.

His girlfriend, Laurelin Evanhoe, c’01, herself an hon-ors graduate in ecology and evolutionary biology, wasn’tscheduled to graduate until this past May, and theyhoped they could pursue graduate studies together—ornearly so. “We were aiming,” Evanhoe says, “for the same coast.”

Haug also planned to apply for important graduate fellowships that would provide financial support andopen doors. Applying for prestigious national fellow-ships takes time, effort and thought. Last fall, he appliedfor three: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Human-

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lowship in humani-ties and social sciences,

and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research

Fellowship for science.In early March he found

out he won the Javits, worth about$18,000 annually for four years,plus annual $10,000 payments tothe graduate school of his choice.

Two weeks later, Haug was noti-fied that he won the National Sci-ence Foundation Fellowship, equallyas rich as the Javits, though good forthree years instead of four.

Two weeks after that, the MellonFellowship, which pays a $17,500stipend for nine months of study,gave the same reply: Yes.

Barbara Schowen, professor ofchemistry and director of the KUHonors Program, says no KU stu-dent has ever won all three.“And whether there’s ever beenanother student in the UnitedStates who fits the demands


of all three,” she says, “well, I would findthat probably rather doubtful.”

Says Stan Lombardo, professor of clas-sics and Haug’s mentor in the prestigiousUniversity Scholars program, “I have tosay, he’s the best I’ve seen. No kidding.”

Cue Aristotle.The Lawrence Journal-World on April

9 hailed Haug as “Aristotle-like” in aheadline. The story elaborated: “... Haug,described by some as a sort of Aristotleand Isaac Newton combined, has wonthree of the nation’s most respected andsought-after fellowships.”

So who compared Matt Haug, bright ashe is, to Aristotle and Newton? We don’tknow. The newspaper’s reference was nei-ther explained nor attributed, and nobodyhas fessed up. Too bad, too. The role ofbad guy has yet to be cast.

“Matt didn’t remark on it, but I sawhim get embarrassed,” says Bricke, whotaught Haug in three courses, including arigorous philosophy of mind seminar lastspring. “He came into the seminar andsomebody made some remark. It was

something like, ‘Here comes Aristotle.’You could see that he cringed.”

A recent New York Times Magazinearticle offered tips on “How to Raise aGenius.” Avoid calling the child a genius,for one thing, but parents also should notexpect the child to be popular. “Combat-ing social isolation,” the article stated,“may be the greatest challenge for raisingexceptionally intelligent kids.”

Melissa Haug, Matt’s mother, says shenever faced such unappealing tradeoffswith her only child. He didn’t learn toread particularly early, she says, and hewas never a circus act. He didn’t play vir-tuoso piano before he could ride a skate-board and he didn’t whip chessgrandmasters during recess. “He isn’t typical of what you might think of as anegghead kid,” she says. “He’s just so normal.”

It was Haug’s second-grade teacherwho first suggested that he be placed inthe gifted-student class.

“I know I loved that,” Haug says. “Idon’t ever remember thinking, ‘Oh, wow,this is my big break.’ Of course, you’renot going to think something like that at

that age, but I think I just sort of alwaysgrew up loving learning and loving theprocess. It was just sort of a given: This iswhat I have to do. This is who I am.”

That’s exactly how his mother remem-bers it, too. Melissa Haug says shereturned to Washburn University whenMatt entered kindergarten, and she thinkshe probably understood very early thathis parents valued education. She is alsocareful to say that whatever inspirationcame from them only intensified the pas-sions already within the boy.

“He just loved to learn, from gradeschool on,” Melissa Haug says. “He istruly a gifted child, to me, because hewanted to learn everything about every-thing. He listened and learned.”

Haug played golf almost every day injunior high, but found he didn’t have ataste for the competition and never joinedhis school team. He played soccer atShawnee Heights High School, and hedeveloped broad tastes in music. He madegood friends, with whom he is still close.He hikes and bikes and confesses a fond-ness for the campy cartoon superheroSpace Ghost.

Melissa Haug says she can rememberonly one bad incident of her son beingteased for being so smart. It was in gradeschool, “just a little problem one yearwhen the kids kind of made fun of himand turned on him,” but they talked itthrough. Haug says “there werealways a few people thatsort of gave me grief forbeing smart, but I just try tostay away from those people. Ididn’t really let it bother me.”

But news of his fellowships sweep—and the accompanying references to Aris-totle and Newton—brought back thechildhood nonsense he thought he haddisposed of so long ago.

“I walked into my philosophy semi-nar, and they had written Aristotle Jr. onmy nameplate,” Haug says. “It’s a littleembarrassing.”

That’s it. So much for complication.Yes, our story lacks tension. But isn’t it

refreshing to spend a few minutes in thecompany of a delightful young man whoearns our attention not for antics, but forachievement, sincerity and humility?

“When we’re studying, I’ll raise an idea to talk over, and he’ll do the same for me,” Evanhoe says. “Basically,we teach each other.”


Roll credits:Richard Cole, recently retired professor

of philosophy: “Matt was in the top 1 per-cent of graduate students I’ve ever known.When he was an undergraduate.”

Mabel Rice, University distinguishedprofessor of speech-language-hearing: “Iwould put Matt with that special kind ofcombination of intellectual talents thatone sees in the most outstanding studentsat places like M.I.T. and Harvard. He is anextraordinarily capable young man in avery low-key kind of fashion.”

Stan Lombardo: “Matt can go to thevery top of his field. Matt can have aninternational reputation. He is sweet andunassuming, but at the same time hedoesn’t give away anything. He is veryself-possessed. He’s definitely an old soul.He’s been around the cycle a few times.He’s getting to be very refined. It gives megreat hope. It really does.”

Girlfriend: “Phenomenally goofy.”Mom: “He’s just this perfect child to

me. And he always was. He came to meblessed, I think. He knew I was new atthis, I knew he was new at this, and wejust grew up together.”

While he was waiting to hearnews of his fellowship applications,Haug wasn’t exactly sitting aroundwatching Space Ghost. He filled

his spring semester with a course on German readings and Bricke’s philosophyof mind seminar. Highlights of the semi-nar, Bricke says, were weeklong visits bythe three authors studied most closely by the group.

Bricke recalls advising two of them

to take special notice of Haug, and to “draw Matt out.” He cautioned that Haugwould be “streets ahead” of most studentsin the class, but might not offer his owninsights. “He’ll let others talk, if theyplease,” Bricke recalls advising the visit-ing scholars.

Bricke laughs gently as he describesthe result:

“The visitors to whom I recommendedthis said it was good advice, because theywere able to ask him for his views aboutthis, that or the other, and then, in a per-fectly lucid way, no stammering or stutter-ing, he was able to set out the problemshe had seen in their work, the limitationshe saw in this, that or the other argument.And these are world-class philosophershe’s telling this to …”

Says Evanhoe flatly, “The boy’s mind isphenomenal.”

When Haug arrived at KU, he was aphysics major, a subject he had beendrawn to in high school. “As a freshman, Iguess I was interested in sort of the bigpicture, cosmology, how the universe wasformed, the big bang. And also quantumphysics. Toward the end of high school Idid readings in the popular books onthat, and was just intrigued by the crazynature of it all, the paradoxes that areinvolved. Then I kind of discovered thatmy interests in physics actually were morephilosophical.”

So he settled into a double major, hon-ors philosophy and honors mathematics.Along the way he also learned the funda-mentals of translating Chinese and Greekinto English, “sort of for fun.” He studiedlinguistics, chaos theory, Spanish, Ger-man, Eastern civilization, set theory and

even William Faulkner.He dabbled in Zen, volunteered as a

math teacher for sixth-graders in KansasCity, Kan., organized health-awarenessspeakers (including sessions on alternativemedicines) for his scholarship hall, took17 or 18 hours every semester for fouryears, never missed a summer-school ses-sion, and won the Universitywide PhilipWhitcomb essay contest for a paper aboutthe evolution debate raging in Kansas.

“It wasn’t just sort of grousing aboutwhat the Board of Education said,” Brickeexplains. “What he did was to take that asa sort of jumping off point to discuss thenature of science, the character of truth inscience, and what it means to say thatsomething is a matter of theory … thesort of stuff that those who were joiningin the newspaper controversies wouldhave done well to read.”

Roger Martin, g’73, a science andresearch columnist based at the KU Cen-ter for Research, where Haug works as astudent assistant, wrote in a column thathe once asked Haug, “Are you happy?”Haug replied, “I’d say so, but in manyways, I don’t think that’s a very interestingor important question.”

The more interesting question, Haugexplained, would be: “Is happiness whatwe should be striving for? Why not good-ness? Or wisdom?” As for his own epi-taph, offered at Martin’s request, Haugresponded, “Several words pop into myhead. Seek. Doubt. Don’t know.”

Haug and Evanhoe visited Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and quicklyagreed it would be their home. Haug wasaccepted warmly into one of the world’smost elite philosophy of science pro-grams, where he’ll first use the MellonFellowship, and then turn to the NSF Fel-lowship, which won’t expire for five years.Evanhoe also found a home at Cornell,where she will work as a research assis-tant in the department of applied ecologywhile preparing her own grad-schoolapplication. And, Haug was sure to notewhen he phoned home during their visit,Ithaca is the home of Moosewood Cafe, avegetarian restaurant whose cookbook haslong been on Melissa Haug’s kitchen shelf.

She’ll visit soon.“He’s such a cute kid. I just think he’s

a doll.”Hey, even Aristotle had a mother.�

HAUG COMPLETED AN UNPRECEDENTED SWEEP

OF THREE OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST IMPORTANT

GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS—AND THE TRIPLE

THRILL INSTANTLY LAUNCHED HIM TO

ACADEMIC STARDOM.


She has been here so many times:stage center, arms outstretched,the brilliant red hair andturquoise gown glittering underthe lights, the smile as bright as

the Great White Way and growingbrighter as applause rains like flowers.

She has been here at the MetropolitanOpera and the New York City Opera. Shehas been here at Glimmerglass and SantaFe and L’Opera de Montreal. At too manyopera houses and concert halls to count,across the United States, Europe, Israeland Canada, renowned mezzo-sopranoJoyce Malicky Castle, f’61, has been here,

onstage. In an accomplished career span-ning five decades, she has mastered thetraditional repertoire for her voice whilealso seeking American, German andFrench contemporary roles, always look-ing for the next big role, she will tellyou—always searching, studying, prepar-ing—because the role is everything.

But on a warm April night at the LiedCenter, the Kansas native seems a naturalin a part seemingly written for this stage,this audience: Local girl makes good.

“How many people are from Baldwin,”she asks. Raucous applause answers. Shecasts an I-told-you-so look at baritone

Kurt Ollman and pianist Scott Dunn, hermusical partners for a night devoted tothe concert music of Leonard Bernstein.

Baldwin City has supported her sinceher father, George Malicky, a former base-ball player and oil pipeline worker whostill calls the small town home, moved hisfamily there in the 1950s, Castle tells heraudience. The same goes for KU, whereshe began preparing for a life on the stagewith a theatre and voice major designedespecially for her.

Then the classic tale takes a twist.“I was proud to be at KU, and I have

been a proud alum,” she announces,

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pausing a beat for effect. “And I am proudto be joining the faculty this fall.”

Better yet: Local girl makes good, thencomes home.

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Castle’s August debut in her newrole as artist-in-residence (she willgive studio instruction as a tenured

professor, with a reduced teaching loadthat leaves time for continued performing)comes at a time of significant change forthe School of Fine Arts and its voice andopera programs.

The recent $10 million renovation ofMurphy Hall dedicates the Black Box The-atre for voice and opera students, estab-lishing much-needed rehearsal space. Newhires in several key positions promise anew administrative look this fall. Tim VanLeer, executive director of El Camino Col-lege Center for the Arts in Torrance, Calif.,becomes director of the Lied Center;Delores Ringer, associate professor of the-atre, takes over University Theatre; andLawrence Mallett, interim dean of theHixson-Lied College of Fine and Perform-ing Arts at the University of Nebraska,becomes chair of music and dance. In theopera program alone, three of the five fac-ulty members are new arrivals: sopranoPamela Hinchman, tenor Genaro Mendezand Castle.

“We are enormously thrilled to be get-ting Joyce,” says Professor John Stephens,the voice division director who led thedrive to bring Castle to KU. “She has sungwith the finest opera houses in the world

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and has had—still has—a major, majorcareer. She’s a big catch for us.”

But not the only catch, he’s quick to add.

“We have five big catches. She may bethe biggest, but we have a group of fivetalented people who want to work to-gether to build the program. I know that’sone reason Joyce wanted to come here.”

This diva is more craftsman than primadonna, it seems.

“When I think back I’m just amazed athow easy this search was,” says Toni-Marie Montgomery, dean of fine arts. “Wethink of the diva stereotype, that nothingis good enough. But Joyce is very down-to-earth. She made no great demands.”

Credit for landing such a high profileaddition to the faculty goes to Stephens,who met Castle in 1984, when he starredopposite her in Houston Grand Opera’s“Sweeney Todd.”

“It was really John who convinced herthat this could work and convinced her toapply,” Montgomery says. Once that hap-pened, the dean quickly challenged the

University to seize theday. “I said to theprovost, ‘Here’s an oppor-tunity to hire a womanwho’s performed every-where in the world, analumna who’s ready togive back to studentswhile still performing.’And I remember him say-ing, ‘Are you talkingabout the Joyce Castle?We’ll work it out.’”

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It’s an interesting voy-age, to come back fullcircle to one’s starting

point,” says Castle, whowill split her timebetween Lawrence andNew York City—betweenthe town that sent her onher way and the citywhere she finally arrived.

She came to MountOread in 1957 alreadyknowing she wanted to sing and act. She’dalways known it. “I reallynever made a decisionabout what I wanted todo; I never knew anythingelse. I was always singingand acting in little plays,making up things. It was

just there.”Her mother, Ethel Reed Malicky,

’64, who died in March, encouragedher theatrical aspirations.

“She was my first piano teacher,and she was monumental,” Castlesays. “She wanted to teach music,but her parents considered that too

iffy. But music was always her love.”Castle wanted to combine singing

and acting, but no KU degreeoffered that option. She changedthat.

“Lewin Goff, the head of Uni-versity Theatre, got togetherwith Thomas Gorton, the finearts dean, and they created anew major with me in mind. Iwas thrilled, of course.”

The result was the theatre and voicedegree, one of the first in the country tocombine singing and acting, saysStephens. “There was a division betweentheatre types and singers: Those peopleact, we sing,” he says. “She wanted hertraining to be both. Even though she wasstill very young, she realized that it wasimportant to develop all her talents. Itwas prophetic.”

After leaving KU, Castle earned a mas-ter’s degree at Eastman School of Music inRochester, N.Y. She received grants totravel and study, eventually landing a spotin the Western Opera Theatre, San Fran-cisco Opera’s traveling troupe. She movedto Paris in 1976. “I was doing some won-derful roles there, but I hadn’t really hit

Castle performs “Arias and Barcarolles,” the concert music of LeonardBernstein, at the Lied Center in April (pp. 28 and 29).

Above: In rehearsal for the Lied Center show with baritone Kurt Ollmann and pianists Scott Dunn and Professor Jack Winerock.

Below, left to right: As Claire Zakanassian in "The Visit of the Old Lady";Mrs. Lovett in “Sweeney Todd”; and Meg in “Brigadoon”. “I look for awonderful role," Castle says. "That’s what fires me.”


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my prime,” Castle recalls.Her big break came in 1983, when

she auditioned for Beverly Sills at theNew York City Opera. She got the job and landed an agent. Two years later shewas hired by the Metropolitan Opera, perhaps the most visible opera companyin the world.

Through it all, Castlemaintained her ties tothe University, returningfrom time to time to con-duct master classes andserve on the Theatre andFilm Professional Advi-sory Board. “I always askhow the theatre andvoice major is doing,”she says, “and I’m alwayshappy to hear it’s stillgoing strong.”

And growing stronger,now that Castle is back,eager to share what sheknows with youngsingers. “Since I’ve beenin the business 30 years,one would hope I havesomething to tell them,”she says, laughing.

Stephens agrees. “Forsomeone to sustain sucha high level of artistic

ability they have to know something. Butwhat will make her an excellent teacher isthat she has worked so hard to become aconsummate artist. She has worked toimprove her skills—voice, breath, focus,diction, languages, the panoply of things avocal artist must master.”

Talented artists don’t always make tal-

ented teachers, Stephens admits. But Cas-tle, he says, can connect with students.He recalls a master class in which shetransfixed normally restless students bysimply talking about what music means toher. “What I remember is her amazingability to draw people to her, just byrevealing where she’s coming from as aperson and an artist. At a certain pointyou want to pass it on to the next genera-tion, out of respect for the business andlove for the art form. Joyce has that desireto give something back.”

For her part, Castle says she’s eager toenter a new phase of her career, whereshe can be more choosy about rolesinstead of filling a whole season withengagements. The creative give-and-takeof teaching appeals to her as well. “Theysay that when you teach you become astudent, too,” she says. “I know that whenI share my experiences with young singersI’ll learn a lot about my own performingby watching their development. The lifeof a singer is really one of studying, con-

stantly studying.”And she looks forward to coming

home to a place to which she’s still devoted. Living and traveling in theworld’s great cities hasn’t changed that.“I’m still a Kansan,” she says. “I knowthere’s a lot more to this place than tornadoes.”�

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Ed King III with the product and plush surroundings of his Oregon winery.


As he nears his 80th birthday,multimillionaire Ed King Jr.regrets that his childrenmissed one of his life’s rich-est experiences: riding a

pony down a dusty Kansas farm road to aone-room grammar school near DodgeCity. “I had an hour in the morning andanother hour in the afternoon to medi-tate,” says King, whose well-spent thinktime ultimately led to a lucrative trade inaircraft electronics.

Now King Jr. and his eldest son, EdKing III, c’72, have replanted the familyfortune into a farming industry that isrich in every sense. On a fertile hillside insouthwestern Oregon—about 22 milesdown a winding road from Eugene—theyhave built a winery fit for, well, a King.

The crown of their 820-acre propertyis a chateau that spans the hilltop, dip-ping underground to supply a perfect cli-mate for aging wines and rising into twinturrets that offer stunning views of theLorane Valley. Begun in 1992, the110,000-square-foot winery houses astate-of-the-art bottling line that turns out100,000 cases a year, making King Estatea top Oregon producer.

As president of King Estate, King IIIlikes the notion of bringing his familyback to the farm. “I remember my grand-father (Edd King the first, with an old-style spelling) as a ramrod-straight man in

suspenders walking through the wheat.He was probably seeing his 65th crop …He’d been through the dust bowl and thegrasshopper plagues. These were peoplewho had a sense of dignity and humorand decency, and they treated each otherwith respect.”

King III has blended all of the above athis winery, where he mixes the feel of anold family farm with sparkling equipmentand the newest technologies. ChristinePascal Roth, executive director of the Oregon Wine Advisory Board, says theKings have set an industry standard byshowing that the good stuff doesn’t have

to stay small. “A lot of people think yousacrifice quality for size,” she says. “Fromthe start they did size and quality at thesame time.”

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King Estate wines have won compli-ments from the pickiest palates.Tasters from Food & Wine, Epi-

curean, Bon Appétit, The New YorkTimes and The Wall Street Journal haveheartily recommended wines from KingEstate and its other label, Lorane Valley.The Quarterly Review of Wines in spring1997 called King Estate “the Robert Mon-

A ROBUST ENDEAVOR WITH AN ACCENT ON QUALITY AND JUST A HINT OF KANSAS

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Vintage King


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davi and E. & J. Gallo of Oregon” andproclaimed its Pinot Gris “the best in thecountry … rivaling its Alsace [in France]brethren.” The Taster’s Guild in Februarynamed King Estate its “winery of theyear,” and Wine Spectator magazine inMarch gave two King Estate vintagesscores above 90 on its elite 100-pointscale.

King III anticipates more accolades.“The winemakers believe our 2000s aregoing to be off the charts,” he says.

This is exactly what he and his dadhad in mind.

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Their venture into viticulture beganover dinner about 10 years ago,when son mentioned to dad that

he’d bought some land with grapevineson it. The purchase was part of theyounger King’s other industry: His timbercompany, Frontier Resources, owns about40,000 acres and mills pine lumber nearPendleton, in Oregon’s northeastern quarter.

A country boy at heart—like hisgrandpa and six generations of farmersbefore him—King III had long soughtoutdoor occupations. After earning hisEnglish degree at KU in 1972, he startedlaw school but took a semester break tobuild stone walls and chop wood in theOzarks. He finished his law degree at theUniversity of Missouri, married, then

packed his books and boots for Alaska.“It was far away,” he explains, “and it wasdifferent from anything I had done.”

To heighten the adventure, he and hiswife built a log cabin north of Anchorage.“I could catch salmon from the neighbor-hood stream,” he recalls. In town heworked as assistant municipal attorney forthe Matanuska-Susitna borough. Thework made him wish for a businessdegree; the cabin made him wish forwarmer winters. In 1979 Eugene, Ore.,filled both wishes. He earned an MBA atthe University of Oregon and bought acountry home on 180 acres. Nowdivorced, King still lives on the propertywith the youngest of his three sons.

His father, meanwhile, retired in 1985when he sold his firm, King Radio, to theBendix Division of Allied Signal. Begun in1959, King Radio had become a world-wide supplier of aircraft radar equipment,autopilots and other electronics. A pilothimself for 40 years, King Jr. provided thenavigation, flight control and communica-tions equipment that in 1986 helped theRutan Brothers circle the globe withoutrefueling: Their Voyager aircraft at theSmithsonian Air and Space Museum inWashington, D.C., bears the King name.

So it was with an entrepreneurial earthat the old engineer heard his son speakof grapes: “I said, ‘Let’s start a winery sowe can pick the grapes and use them,’”recalls King Jr.

For the audacious Kings, picking a fewgrapes from an old orchard wasn’tenough. Much more fun was establishinga world-class winery where critics said itwouldn’t work. Director of ViticultureBrad Biehl joined the project at the start,when King III found some south-facingslopes for sale by a tired cattle farmer.Trouble was, the land was too high; Ore-gon planters preferred the lower eleva-tions in valleys farther north. “Everybodysaid you can’t do this down here,” recallsBiehl, a viticulture graduate of the Univer-sity of California-Davis who interned inFrance for five years. “Well, when some-one said it wouldn’t work, Ed said, ‘We’llshow them.’ That’s their family character.If somebody says it can’t be done, they do it.”

And they do it fast—and big. Con-struction and planting began together.King III recalls the 1993 harvest, whenthe grapes ripened before the buildinghad its roof —and before he had approvalfrom the U.S. government. “I had signedcontracts for a quarter-million dollars’worth of fruit,” King says. “We werehooking up tanks and still didn’t have alicense from ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco andFirearms).”

He smiles; of course the triumph was a thrill. “We made it, and we had wine. If we had waited it would have beenanother year before we were anything but an office and some empty tanks.”

Native Kansan Ed King Jr. joined his son in building the innovative King Estate winery in Oregon.


King Estate wasted no time expanding,building sales from about 400 cases thefirst year to 5,000 the next, then quadru-pling, tripling and doubling until settlingat about 100,000 cases. “I don’t think weneed to be any bigger,” King III says, “butwe still have a lot of work to do in mar-keting. We’re not a household word yet.”

The winery’s primary products are itsred Pinot Noir, a rising favorite amongNorthwestern vintners, and Pinot Gris, adry white wine more popular in Europethan the United States. Oregon shares itslatitude with pinot-popular France, andsince the 1980s a few Oregon vintages ofPinot Gris have raised tasters’ eyebrows.King III sampled some himself a decadeago and liked the crisp, lemony-cool taste.But he couldn’t stock his cellar. “I wentback to the store for more and the guysaid, ‘Sorry, that was our case for theyear,’” he recalls.

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When the Kings began building,most Oregon wineries pro-duced a few thousand cases.

Sales were small and regional, and manyof the cottage industries were strugglingto survive. Biting into profits was a pestcalled phylloxera, a wood louse on theloose. Phylloxera-resistant vines can begrafted from separate roots and stems, but when he first broke ground King IIIcouldn’t find good grafts. “Almost all of Oregon is planted on its own roots,” he says.

So King grew a grafting lab, LoraneGrapevines, where trial and error pro-duced a rootstock better than anything hecould buy. Vines from the 10,000-square-foot greenhouse have spread through Ore-gon and beyond. “I just sent enough PinotGris bud wood to California for 500,000plants,” King III says. “You can look for alot more Pinot Gris in the future.”

King Estate also rooted itself firmlyinto the business with a rapid-growthsales plan. Its first market was restau-rants—expensive ones with sparklingglasses, fancy food and well-ironed linens.“You’re less inclined to buy a new wine offthe shelf,” King III says, “than whensomebody presents it on a restaurant winelist and says, ‘This is good. Try it.’”

A sales team dispersed to pop corkswith some of the nation’s best chefs.

Resulting were cookbooks that pairedKing Estate wines with fare by culinaryartists such as Alice Waters of Berkeley,Calif.; Charlie Trotter of Chicago; andDick Cingolani of Florida. The cookbookinspired a PBS television series called NewAmerican Cuisine, underwritten by theKing family.

The Kings also spared no expensespreading the word online. Their Website, www.kingestate.com, is a virtualexcursion to King Estate, with interactivemaps and tours, recipes, reviews, scads ofhistorical information and, of course, ashopping cart.

The wines now sell in 50 states and are consumed on cruise lines, airlines andin parts of Europe. “King Estate is winerich and fully capitalized,” The QuarterlyReview of Wines reported, “and no win-ery has done more promotionally for Oregon.”

Indeed, as King Estate rose to promi-nence, so did all of Oregon’s wineries. Thestate now licenses 167 wineries, morethan twice the number in 1990. Saleshave grown 250 percent in a decade andare quickly approaching a million casessold annually. Oregon is the nation’sfourth largest U.S. producer of wine—after California, Washington and NewYork—but is second only to California innumber of wineries. About half of Ore-gon’s wineries bottle Pinot Gris. “For Ore-gon,” King III predicts, “Pinot Gris maybecome known as our white wine.”

King III has recruitedadvice and sup-port from numer-ous relatives,among them his sis-ter, Mary MichelleThies, c’76, and hisbrother, William. Theirmother died in 1978,and their father remar-ried; step-siblings,cousins, aunts, uncles andothers make the board ofdirectors a virtual plankfrom their family tree.

King Jr., chairman of the board, andhis wife, Carolyn, built a summer houseon the estate: In winter they live in Care-free, Ariz. At home on the farm, the cou-ple are known for rolling up their sleeves.“They have their own jet,” notes Mary

Bellando, tasting room manager, “but Edand Carolyn drive their minivan up to thecottage bringing weed killer and a rake,ready for some yard work ...

“They are the most humble, generousand giving people.”

Such comments echo through thecompany and inevitably bring theyounger King’s memories back to Kansas.In fact, shaking hands with a fellow Jay-hawk, King III is eager to reminisce aboutElizabeth Schultz, Chancellors Clubteaching professor of English, and Huckle-berry Finn—his favorite teacher and hisfavorite book. He wants to talk about hislaw professors and his business professorsand the ethics they taught. And that topicconnects his past to his present.

“It isn’t just about profits,” he says. “It’salso about having a product you can beproud of and about doing the right thingby the people you’re selling to and thepeople you’re working with. I think beinga just company is something of greatvalue. And I think that’s a Kansas thing.”

He never rode a pony to school, butKing III learned his father’s lessonswell.�

—Niebaum Clark, j’88, former assistanteditor of Kansas Alumni, lives in

Vancouver, Wash.


The Alumni Association’snational Board of Directorswill welcome three new

members July 1, based on theoutcome of spring balloting bydues-paying Association mem-bers. The three are Jill SadowskyDocking, Wichita; Marvin R. Mot-ley, Leawood; and David B.Wescoe, Mequon, Wis.

Election results wereannounced at the Board’s May 18-19 meeting, during which thedirectors elected officers for the2001-02 year.

Janet Martin McKinney, PortLudlow, Wash., will chair theAssociation. After serving this yearas executive vice chair, McKinneysucceeds Reid F. Holbrook, Over-land Park. The newexecutive vice chairis Robert L. Driscoll,Mission Woods.

The Board alsore-elected four vicechairs: Gary Bender,Scottsdale, Ariz.;Michelle Senecal deFonseca, London,England; Tim S. Dib-ble, Issaquah, Wash.;and Patricia WeemsGaston, Annandale,Va. Dibble begins hissecond one-yearterm; Bender, deFonseca and Gastonwill serve their thirdand final years as vice chairs.

Other alumni volunteers were electedto serve on the Board of Governors,which oversees the Adams Alumni Center,and the board of the Kansas MemorialUnion Corp.

Sidney Ashton Gar-rett, Lawrence, will con-tinue in her second yearas chair of the Board ofGovernors. Elected totheir second five-yearterms on the boardwere Nancy SchnelliHambleton, Lawrence,and Cordell D. MeeksJr., Kansas City, Kan.

The new alumni rep-resentative to the Union board is SandraFalwell Garrett, Eudora.

Docking, c’78, g’84, is vice president ofinvestments for A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.in Wichita.

Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, is assistant vice

president of human resources operationssupporting the Sprint global marketsgroup.

Wescoe, c’76, is vice president and anexecutive officer of Northwestern MutualLife in Milwaukee, and president ofNorthwestern Mutual Investment Ser-

vices.McKinney, c’74, recently

retired from her position as pres-ident of Martin Tractor Co. ofTopeka, her hometown.

Holbrook, c’64, l’66, is a part-ner in the Kansas City, Kan., lawfirm of Holbrook, Heaven &Osborn.

Driscoll, c’61, l’64, is a part-ner in the Kansas City, Mo., lawfirm of Stinson, Mag & Fizzell.

Bender, g’64, is a sportsbroadcaster for the St. LouisRams and the Phoenix Suns.

De Fonseca, b’83, is vicepresident of business develop-ment for Hostmark.

Dibble, d’74, manages com-puting services for The BoeingCo.

Gaston, j’81, is national editorof the Washington Post.

Garrett, c’68, d’70, is presi-dent of Brown Cargo Van Inc.

Hambleton, ’50, is a memberof the Endacott Society, theAssociation’s program for retired

KU faculty and staff.Meeks, c’64, l’67, is a judge on the

Wyandotte County District Court.Garrett, f’58, recently retired from her

career as a senior designer with HallmarkCards Inc.�

Kidwell is Association’sKansas City connection

Kelly Kidwell, the Association’s newassistant director of chapter and con-

stituent programs, graduated in May witha degree in ancient history, but she is newto neither the Association nor its missionof reaching out to alumni.

Kidwell, c’01, worked at the Adams


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Alumni leadershipMembers select new directors for Association’s board,while new officers prepare for 2001-2002 terms

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The Alumni Association’s nationalBoard of Directors will welcomethree new members July 1, based

on the outcome of spring balloting bydues-paying Association members. Thethree are Jill Sadowsky Docking, Wichita;Marvin R. Motley, Leawood; and David B.Wescoe, Mequon, Wis.

Election results were announced at theBoard’s May 18-19 meeting, during whichthe directors elected officers for the 2001-02 year.

Janet Martin McKinney, Port Ludlow,Wash., will chair the Association. Afterserving this year as executive vice chair,McKinney succeeds Reid F. Holbrook,Overland Park. The new executive vicechair is Robert L. Driscoll, MissionWoods.

The Board also re-elected four vicechairs: Gary Bender, Scottsdale, Ariz.;Michelle Senecal de Fonseca, London,

England; Tim S. Dibble, Issaquah, Wash.;and Patricia Weems Gaston, Annandale,Va. Dibble begins his second one-yearterm; Bender, de Fonseca and Gaston willserve their third and final years as vicechairs.

Other alumni volunteers were electedto serve on the Board of Governors,

which oversees the Adams Alumni Center,and the board of the Kansas MemorialUnion Corp.

Sidney Ashton Garrett, Lawrence, willcontinue in her second year as chair ofthe Board of Governors. Elected to theirsecond five-year terms on the board wereNancy Schnelli Hambleton, Lawrence,and Cordell D. Meeks Jr., Kansas City,Kan.

The new alumni representative to theUnion board is Sandra Falwell Garrett,Eudora.

Docking, c’78, g’84, is vice president ofinvestments for A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc.in Wichita.

Motley, c’77, l’80, g’81, is assistant vicepresident of human resources operationssupporting the Sprint global marketsgroup.

Wescoe, c’76, is vice president and anexecutive officer of Northwestern MutualLife in Milwaukee, and president ofNorthwestern Mutual Investment Ser-vices.

McKinney, c’74, recently retired fromher position as president of Martin TractorCo. of Topeka, her hometown.

Holbrook, c’64, l’66, is a partner in theKansas City, Kan., law firm of Holbrook,Heaven & Osborn.

Driscoll, c’61, l’64, is a partner in theKansas City, Mo., law firm of Stinson,Mag & Fizzell.

Bender, g’64, is a sports broadcaster forthe St. Louis Rams and the Phoenix Suns.

De Fonseca, b’83, is vice president ofbusiness development for Hostmark.

Dibble, d’74, manages computing ser-vices for The Boeing Co.

Gaston, j’81, is national editor of theWashington Post.

Garrett, c’68, d’70, is president ofBrown Cargo Van Inc.

Hambleton, ’50, is a member of theEndacott Society, the Association’s pro-gram for retired KU faculty and staff.

Meeks, c’64, l’67, is a judge on theWyandotte County District Court.

Garrett, f’58, recently retired from hercareer as a senior designer with HallmarkCards Inc.�

Kidwell is Association’sKansas City connection

Kelly Kidwell, the Association’s newassistant director of chapter and con-

stituent programs, graduated in May witha degree in ancient history, but she is newto neither the Association nor its missionof reaching out to alumni.

Kidwell, c’01, worked at the AdamsAlumni Center for two years while attend-ing KU, first in The Learned Club andlater as a first-floor receptionist. Alwaysready with a cheerful smile and kindcomment, Kidwell made a good impres-sion on countless alumni she encounteredin her part-time work in the Center.

Lucky for us, the good impressionwent both ways.

“I wanted to work here,” Kidwell saysof her career goals. “I didn’t know howthat would ever be, but I wanted to workhere.”

Kidwell assumes leadership of theAssociation’s critical mission in KansasCity, by far the largest nest for Jayhawkalumni. She plans on helping the Associa-tion’s Kansas City chapter grow instrength and prominence, and she willhelp guide important events such as theRock Chalk Ball, Jayhawk Jog and annualfootball kickoff celebrations.

And she plans to do even more.“We need to really take advantage of

the KU population in Kansas City,” shesays. “About 25 percent of our degree-holders are there. There’s too much therewith not enough going on.”

Immediately after joining the Associa-tion (again) in May, Kidwell cloisteredherself in her office amid piles of files. Asshe sorted through the history, plans anddreams for alumni events in Kansas City,she quickly realized that a busy summerawaited her.

The Jayhawk Jog is scheduled for Aug.4 in Shawnee Mission Park, followedimmediately by the Terry Allen PicnicAug. 5 at the Ritz Charles in OverlandPark. The Terry Allen Football Kickoff is

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Aug. 23 at Mill Creek Brewery in West-port.

Even as the summer events demandher constant attention, meetings alreadyhave begun for the annual Jayhawk black-tie bash, Rock Chalk Ball, set for Feb. 1.

As she becomes settled in her role asthe Association’s Kansas City staff liaison,Kidwell will also assume national respon-sibilities, helping to lighten the travel loadfor the administrative staff members whovisit chapters around the country, Fred B.Williams, Association president and CEO,and Kirk Cerny, c’92, g’98, senior vicepresident for membership services.

“We know Kelly from the excellent ser-vice she has already given to the Associa-tion,” Williams says, “so we’re certain ourKansas City alumni are going to enjoygetting to know her and working with heroften. We have no doubt that she is goingto make KU’s presence in Kansas City, andacross the country, as strong as it possiblycan be.”

Though she is currently based at theAdams Alumni Center in Lawrence, Kid-well, a third-generation Jayhawk fromHorton who now lives in Overland Park,will soon move to the Association’s newoffice near the Edwards Campus in Over-land Park. The office is expected to becompleted soon; until then, Kidwell canbe reached in Lawrence at 800-584-2957,or 785-864-4760. She is eager to hearfrom any Kansas City-area alumni whowant to participate in one of the sched-uled events or would like to offer ideasabout new ones.

“Everything I’m being asked to do,”Kidwell says, “comes down to this: Makeour ties in Kansas City stronger.”

Kidwell enjoys reading and playingTrivial Pursuit, and she takes particularpleasure in discovering classic old moviesthat she hasn’t yet seen. (Hint: Don’t getin a movie-trivia guessing game with her.)

But she also has a taste for fasterbrands of adventure—such as the two

plane tickets to Spain she won in a rafflewhile attending her first Big 12 alumnistaff conference at Baylor University inWaco, Texas.

A sure sign of Jayhawk luck tocome.�

Staff quarters get new lookbefitting computer age

Three years after completing extensiverenovations of the Adams Alumni

Center’s first and second floors, similarchanges are underway for the third floor,home to the Association’s staff offices.

During the project, expected to becompleted in September, all Associationstaff members will work in temporaryoffices created on the second floor.Although Association staff will use cellphones from the temporary workspace, allphone numbers and e-mail addresses willremain unchanged.

The renovations will leave almost noaspect of the third floor unchanged,except for the layout of some administra-tive offices lining the exterior walls.

The Association’s staff offices weredesigned before computers became anintegral part of every employee’s duties;with desktop computing taking over, justas it has in almost every office in thecountry, it is important that the Associa-tion design work areas that reflect thechanging times.

“Our goals are for the offices to keeppace with the demands technology hasplaced upon us,” says Mike Wellman,c’86, director of special projects andAdams Alumni Center facility manager.“We need to make this organization asefficient as possible.”

Changes will include a reconfiguredreception area and a redesigned centerportion of the floor, which will nowhouse the Associaton’s records depart-ment. Records staff had worked in thenortheast corner of the floor; that spacehas been redesigned to accommodatemembership services staff, who had beenscattered in offices throughout the thirdfloor.


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READY FOR A WALK: Before marching in the Commencement procession, Distinguished ServiceCitation honoree Henry Bloch (left), founder of H&R Block Inc., joined his wife, Marion, graduating grand-son Brian, c’01, and Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway in Strong Hall.

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Less glamorous but no less critical is aproject to replace heating, ventilation andair conditioning plumbing throughout thebuilding. Aged pipes that distribute hotwater for the heating system causedextensive damage to some second-floormeeting rooms last winter.

The plumbing and third-floor renova-tions will cost about $750,000, paid forwith a mix of Alumni Association andEndowment Association funds.

“We need to be good stewards of thisplace,” Wellman says. “That was some-thing the Board directed us to do from thebeginning. We are proud of the AdamsAlumni Center, and we need to continueto be proud of it. Renovations are neces-sary to maintain a busy building.”

Wellman says his Adams Alumni Cen-ter staff have already endured a hecticsummer, overseeing the plumbing projectwhile also planning to move 32 employ-ees into temporary workspaces on thesecond floor. They also lugged every sin-gle file, photograph and piece of KUmemorabilia into basement storage areas,and hauled out endless barrels of trash asstaff members cleaned out offices, desksand file cabinets.

Building staff will continue to worklong, hard hours during the third-floorrenovation, but they, like the rest of the

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GO LONG: Redshirt freshman Kevin Long, 6-5 and210 pounds, is a longshot to be KU’s starting quarter-back this season, but he is considered a talentedprospect.

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July21� Dallas Chapter: Student Send-off

24� Chicago Chapter: Cubs outing

26� Hutchinson Chapter: Terry Allen

dinner

28� Los Angeles: Engineering Professional

Society with Dean Carl Locke

31� Dodge City Chapter: Terry Allen

dinner

August4� Kansas City: Jayhawk Jog

� Tampa Chapter: Tampa Bay Mutinysoccer game

5� Kansas City: Terry Allen Picnic

9� Wichita Chapter: Terry Allen dinner

11� Dallas Chapter: Rangers outing

20� Lawrence: Student Alumni Assoc-

iation Ice Cream Social

23� Kansas City Chapter: Terry Allen

Football Kickoff, Mill Creek Brewery

September7-8� Lawrence: Chapter leaders conference

22� Frontrange Chapter: KU at CU

pregame rally, Regal Harvest House

September10 El Dorado12 McPherson17 Parsons18 Ottawa19 Wellington24 Sedgwick Co. (Derby H.S.)26 Lawrence

October3 Arkansas City4 Hays10 Southern Johnson Co.16 Salina17 Hutchinson23 Johnson County (Blue Valley)24 Shawnee Mission25 Topeka29 Manhattan30 Wichita

Chapters & Professional Societies

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Alumni Events

1920sRobert Woodbury, c’24, g’28, PhD’31, is aprofessor emeritus of health sciences at theUniversity of Tennessee. He lives in Memphis.

1930sMarjorie Houston Banister, c’38, continuesto make her home in Portland, Ore.

Monti Belot Jr., c’35, g’38, m’40, is retired inLawrence, where he practiced medicine formany years.

Sol Bobrov, c’32, and his wife, Madolyn, cele-brated their 55th anniversary recently.They livein Skokie, Ill.

Jane Marshall Campbell, c’37, lives inBerryville,Va., where she’s retired.

Lawrence Geeslin, c’31, c’32, m’34, is retiredin Jacksonville, Fla.

Walter Howard, e’37, is retired in Monterey,Calif.

Harold Knowles, PhD’32, is retired from theUniversity of Florida, where he was chairman ofphysical sciences for many years.

Margaret Fogelberg McHugh, c’33, cele-brated her 90th birthday earlier this year with afamily party in Wichita, where she lives.

Katherine Schiller Mulanax, n’36, makesher home in Manhattan.

Elizabeth Wiggins Sanders, c’38, is a resi-dent of Warrensburg, Mo.

1940J.W.“Bill” Greene, d’40, retired assistantvice president of American States Insurance,makes his home in Satellite Beach, Fla..

Vincent Rethman, e’40, and his wife, Rose-mary, divide their time between homes inVenice, Fla., and Westlake, Ohio.

Grace DeTar Talkington, d’40, makes herhome in Dallas.

1942Leo Martell, e’42, is president of Martell &Associates in Kansas City.

Hugh Mathewson, c’42, m’44, professoremeritus of anesthesiology at KU Medical Cen-ter, also is medical director of respiratory careeducation and a member of the nurse anesthe-sia education faculty. He lives in Overland Park.

1947Maxine Johnson Ruhl, n’47, continues tomake her home in Fort Scott.

1948Donald Dorge, c’48, and his wife, Bette, livein Lake Forest, Ill., where he’s retired.

Sibio Naccarato, e’48, a retired surety man-ager for Commercial Union Insurance, makeshis home in Chesterfield, Mo.


Lyle von Riesen, c’48, g’50, PhD’55, lives inFort Collins, Colo. He’s a professor emeritus atthe University of Nebraska Medical Center inOmaha.

1949James Bouska, c’49, l’52, works as a residentagent at Metcalf Marketing in Overland Park,where he and Doraen Lindquist Bouska,c’47, s’59, make their home.

Robert, e’49, and Anne Shaeffer Coshow,c’49, live in Tucson, Ariz.

William Myers, c’49, g’55, PhD’58, is a retiredprofessor of microbiology in Bel Air, Md., wherehe and Barbara Johnson Myers, c’49, c’51,make their home.

1950Glenn Anschutz, e’50, teaches civil engineer-ing at KU, and Margaret Gartner Anschutz,n’53, g’83, is a parish nurse at Faith LutheranChurch.They live in Topeka.

Billy Bryant, p’50, retired after 36 years withS&S Drug in Beloit. He and his wife, Leone,enjoy traveling.

James, c’50, g’54, g’77, and Sara PringleFevurly, d’62, make their home in Leaven-worth.

Lowell Hager, g’50, is CEO of Chirazyme inUrbana, Ill.

1951Eugene Balloun, b’51, l’54, was honoredrecently by the Johnson County Bar Associationwith the Justinian Award in recognition of his“integrity, service to the community, service tothe legal profession and warmth, friendliness andcamaraderie.” He’s a partner in Shook, Hardy &Bacon in Overland Park.

John Forney, c’51, is a retired dentist in Engle-wood, Colo., where he and Eleanor KotheForney, c’57, make their home.

Robert Strobel, e’51, former director of plantservices at St.Thomas Hospital, lives in Hender-sonville,Tenn., with Louise Hemphill Stro-bel, d’52.

Lois Walker, c’51, d’54, works as an artist,writer, teacher and sculptor in Amityville, N.Y.

1952Chloe Warner Childers, d’52, recently wona gold medal at the National Senior Olympics asa member of the Colorado women’s softballteam. She lives in Greeley.

Norman Marvin, p’52, m’56, is minister ofteaching at Emmanuel Family Outreach Centerin Shawnee.

1953Donald Cooper, m’53, is emeritus director ofthe health center at Oklahoma State Universityin Stillwater.

Norma Birzer Keenan, d’53, makes herhome in Victoria.

Ronald Krause, m’53, and his wife, Marjorie,continue to make their home in Wichita.

Ronald Thomas, c’53, l’56, is a retired attor-ney in Baxter Springs.

William Turner, e’53, a retired engineer,makes his home in Kansas City.

1954Kenneth Dam, b’54, recently was appointedby President George W. Bush as deputy secre-tary of the treasury. Kenneth lives in Chicago,where he’s a professor of American and foreignlaw at the University of Chicago. He served asdeputy secretary of state during the administra-tion of President Ronald Reagan.

Glen Davis, e’54, is retired from a career withthe Corps of Engineers. He and his wife,Catherine, ’78, live in Leawood.

Donald McClelland, c’54, lives in San Marino,Calif., with his wife, Donna. He’s working on thedesign and page layout of two books about theculture of ancient Peru.

Miriam Martin Meyer, g’54, a retired labora-tory coordinator and microbiologist, lives inBowling Green, Ohio, with her husband, Nor-man, PhD’56.

Helmut Sauer, g’54, is a professor at Universi-tat Dortmund in Dortmund, Germany.

1955Hal Berkley, b’55, a former banker, makes hishome in Tescott.

Terry Fiske, c’55, l’60, recently conducted a13-week seminar for senior honor students atthe University of Denver law school. He lives inCastle Rock and is a commercial arbitrator forthe American Arbitration Association.

Geraldine Walterscheid Liebert, p’55,works as a staff pharmacist at Plaza Pharmacy inCoffeyville.

Barbara Thomas, c’55, makes her home in Houston.

1956Lawrence Goudie, e’56, manages programsfor Sverdrup Technology at Edwards AFB, Calif.He lives in San Bernardino.

Robert Wilson, e’56, g’86, lives in RoelandPark, where he’s retired from a career withBlack & Veatch.

1957James Carson, c’57, is retired in PagosaSprings, Colo.

Richard Fanolio, f ’57, retired from a 42-yearcareer with Hallmark Cards, where he was amaster artist and art director. He lives inShawnee Mission.

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William Hurley, e’57, a retired geophysicist,makes his home in Metairie, La.

Jesse McNellis, c’57, g’59, lives in Lawrencewith Frances Hara McNellis, d’59.

Mary Lou Petrie, ’57, a former special edu-cation teacher, lives in Covina, Calif. She visitedthe British Isles earlier this year.

Gary Rohrer, c’57, l’60, practices law in Lex-ington, Ky., where he and Lee Ann UrbanRohrer, j’56, make their home.

Edward Sarcione, PhD’57, is a professoremeritus at the State University of New York-Buffalo. He lives in Hamburg with DoloresCommons Sarcione, d’53.

Ann Templin, c’57, g’60, lives in Lawrence,where she’s retired after a career as a researchassociate at the University of California-Berkeley.

1958True Cousins, e’58, works for Central TexasConsulting in Huntsville.

John Dealy, e’58, is a professor of chemicalengineering at McGill University in Montreal.

Edward Fording Jr., e’58, is president of theSynthetic Organic Chemical ManufacturersAssociation in Washington, D.C. He and hiswife, Jean, live in Alexandria,Va.

Albert Steegmann Jr., c’58, lives in NorthTonawanda, N.Y., and is a professor of anthro-pology at State Univeristy of New York-Buffalo.

Fred Williams, e’58, g’60, works as a techni-cal manager for Alcoa. He and Anne ProctorWilliams, d’58, live in Victoria,Texas.

1959Alan Armstrong, c’59, g’63, PhD’66, is retiredin Seneca, S.C., where he and Barbara Bech-tel Armstrong, c’61, g’66, make their home.

Gordon Dickerson, m’59, retired two yearsago after a 35-year career in anesthesiology. Helives in Medford, Ore.

Martha Friedmeyer, c’59, volunteers in Clin-ton, Mo., and recently traveled to Germany.

Marcia Scott Groth, c’59, d’62, works aschief data architect for the Kansas SRS in To-peka, where she and her husband,William, live.

Derele Knepper, ’59, recently completed a term as president of the Clay Center Lions Club.

Fred Lutz, e’59, e’60, works for Lutz, Daily & Brain, a consulting engineering firm in Overland Park.

James McLean, g’59, PhD’65, makes hishome in Pittsboro, N.C. He’s former senior sci-entist at KU’s Bureau of Child Research.

Jim Moore, p’59, c’62, m’66, received a Distin-guished Service Award last year from the Flori-da Society of Anesthesiologists. He lives inChristmas.

Carol Garinger Mueller, c’59, makes herhome in Escondido, Calif., with her husband,Edward, ’59.

Somasherkhar Munavalli, g’59, is senior sci-entist at Geo Centers and an adjunct professorat Towson University. He lives in Bel Air, Md.,with his wife, Malati.

David Snavely, g’59, works as an industrymanager in Rosslyn,Va. He lives in Rockville, Md.

Wendell Wiens, m’59, traveled to Costa Ricalast year with an ecology class from Bethel Col-lege in Newton, where he’s a retired surgeon.

1960Beverly Barr, e’60, makes his home in Sara-toga, Calif., where he’s retired from a careerwith TRW.

Orley Lake, e’60, g’67, is chief engineer atLockheed Martin in Evergreen, Colo.

Linda Winkle Lynch, d’60, makes her homein Des Peres, Mo.

Larry McKown, j’60, is first vice president ofStifel Nicolaus & Co. in Wichita.

Leon Miller, a’60, has an architecture practicein Duncanville,Texas. He lives in Dallas.

Sarah Shaffer Peckham, j’60, coordinatesalumni affairs and development for RockhurstHigh School in Kansas City.

Elaine Johnson Tatham, g’60, EdD’71, ownsETC Institute, a national marketing research firmin Olathe.

James Westhoff, e’60, is president of Labora-tory Environment Support Systems in Phoenix.He lives in Scottsdale.

James Williams Jr., b’60, a retired lieutenantcolonel in the U.S. Air Force, makes his home inRiverside, Calif.

1961Mary Martin Aldrich, c’61, g’64, works as amicrobiologist at the National Cancer Institutein Bethesda, Md. She lives in Takoma Park withher husband, Charles, c’61.

Kent “Mike” Berkley, b’61, l’64, is presidentof Bennington State Bank in Salina, where he lives.

Nancy Topham Chadwick, c’61, recentlywas elected to the board of directors of thePalomar College Foundation. She lives inOceanside, Calif., with her husband, Lawson.

Barbara Herzog Coupe, c’61, makes herhome in Bailey, Colo., with her husband, David,e’61, g’63.

Sandra Robertson Romer, c’61, is retired inOverland Park from a career as a researchchemist with the Bayer Corp.

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1966Robert Dixon, g’66, PhD’70, is a professor ofphysics at Haskell Indian Nations University inLawrence.

Roy Guenther, d’66, f ’68, chairs the musicdepartment at George Washington University inWashington, D.C. He and Eileen MorrisGuenther, c’70, f ’70, live in Vienna,Va.

Charles Metzler, c’66, PhD’71, is vice presi-dent of business operations at Becton DickinsonBiosciences in San Jose, Calif.

Donald Racy, g’66, a retired mathematicsteacher, makes his home in Lawrence.

Marilyn MontfoortRoelse, d’66, teachesEnglish at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix.

Larry Simpson, c’66, g’69, PhD’71, directs the radiation physics division at HahnemannUniversity Hospital in Philadelphia. He and Sara Frandle Simpson, d’66, live in Cinnaminson, N.J.

Gerald Strohmeyer, g’66, practices medicinewith BroMenn Healthcare in Normal, Ill.

Harry Wilson, b’66, serves as mayor ofGrandview, Mo., where he owns Harry WilsonInsurance Agency.

Larry Winn, c’66, l’68, is a shareholder inPolsinelli,White,Vardeman & Shalton in Over-land Park.

Carolyn Christensen Wise, d’66, is a retiredteacher. She lives in Linwood.

1967Kathleen Butterfield, g’67, l’86, practices law with the U.S. Department of Labor in Kansas City.

Craig Beach, b’67, recently became chieffinancial officer at Friendly Works in Lenexa.He and Nancy Kubitzki Beach, d’67, live inLaurie, Mo.

Brian Beatty, c’67, a retired IBM systems and network engineer, makes his home inSpokane,Wash.

Larry Borger, g’67, works as a real-estateagent for Coldwell Banker. He lives in Littleton, Colo.

Kenneth Derrington, c’67, m’71, practicesmedicine with Stone Castle Family Practice inCamdenton, Mo., where he and Olive, n’81,make their home.

Michael Fearnow, b’67, is president of Finan-cial Broker Relations in Montgomery,Texas.

James Huntington, j’67, g’70, recentlybecame president and CEO of Tasco World-wide, a manufacturer of telescopes and otheroptics. He and Terrie Webb Huntington,c’71, live in Mission Hills.

Stephen Lake, c’67, is senior veterinarypathologist with Bayer in Stilwell.

Paul Lee, c’67, practices medicine at theOsteopathic Center in Durango, Colo.

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1962Joseph Fischer, e’62, manages corporate rela-tions for the Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy in Cambridge.

Phillip Frick, c’62, practices law with Foulston& Siefkin in Wichita.

Man Sik Kang, ’62, is a professor of physiol-ogy and biophysics at Seoul National Universityin Seoul, South Korea.

Jack Keim, c’62, works as a program assistantat KU. He and Karen Sue Keim, ’87, live inLawrence.

1963Richard Currie, c’63, is a professor of English at the College of Staten Island in Staten Island, N.Y.

Dennis Goode, c’63, does research on insulinsecretion at the University of Maryland, wherehe’s a professor of biology. He and his wife,Judith, live in College Park.

Charles Hammond, b’63, l’66, is an agentwith Pyro-Tron Inc. in Overland Park.

Rita Wright Johnson, d’63, a retired teacher,makes her home in Heathsville,Va.

Vaden McDonald, c’63, is retired in StoneMountain, Ga., where he lives with CarolSpickelmier McDonald, d’65.

Ralph McGill, s’63, does mental health coun-seling in Little Rock, Ark., where he and his wife,Molly Lim, s’80, s’81, make their home.

Mary Warburton Norfleet, d’63, g’65, is aclinical professor of psychiatry and behavioralsciences at the Stanford University medicalschool. She lives in Palo Alto, Calif.

Janice Jensen Reaster, n’63, recently became a nurse care manager in the workers’compensation claim center of The Hartford inOver-land Park.

Roy Voth, s’63, is a self-employed clinical socialworker in El Dorado.

John Woodward Sr., g’63, teaches at St. MaryCollege Outfront in Leavenworth. He lives inLansing.

1964Vicki Allen Barham, d’64, is director ofalumni and friends at UMKC. She and her hus-band, Peter, c’64, g’66, live in Fairway.

Gretchen Miller Buchanan, c’64, is a micro-biologist and an assistant supervisor at KU Med-ical Center. She and her husband, Robert, g’71,PhD’72, live in Prairie Village.

Larry McCallister, d’64, g’86, is a commoditystandardization specialist at the General Ser-vices Administration in Kansas City.

Stephen McCammon, c’64, recently joinedCommunity Bank in Prairie Village as executivevice president.

Cordell Meeks Jr., c’64, l’67, received the2001 Distinguished Alumnus Award from theKU School of Law last spring. He and MaryAnn Sutherland Meeks, c’67, live in Kansas City.

Barbara Biel Nicholas, c’64, enjoys crochet-ing, reading, painting and drawing. She and herhusband, Paul, e’63, g’64, live in Arvada, Colo.

Susan Whitley Peters, c’64, directs the Uni-versity of Maryland’s International Career Cen-ter in Gmuend, Germany.

Scott Rodkey, c’64, PhD’68, is a professor ofpathology at the University of Texas-Houston.

Caroline Logan Salaty, c’64, c’65, works as amedical technologist at Lawrence MemorialHospital. She and her husband, Tamerlan, e’63,g’68, live in Lawrence.

Harry Seelig, g’64, PhD’69, is an associateprofessor at the University of Massachusetts. Helives in Amherst.

Karen Darby Sullivan, c’64, a retired medicaltechnologist and clinical microbiologist, makesher home in Yorktown, Ind.

Denise Storck Troyer, c’64, g’65, keeps busyin retirement with volunteer work. She and herhusband, Glen, live in Lake Jackson,Texas.

Janice Wheaton, c’64, is assistant dean of stu-dents and director of campus information assis-tance and orientation at the University ofWisconsin-Madison.

Robert Williams, l’64, practices law and ispresident of the law firm of Williams & Swee inBloomington, Ill., where he and Mary McCam-mon Williams, f ’61, make their home.

1965Paul, d’65, and Marcia Hahn Anderson,d’63, make their home in Salina.

James Barnes, g’65, PhD’68, is executivedirector of the Medical Technology Manage-ment Institute in Milwaukee,Wis. He lives inBrookfield.

Gloria Farha Flentje, c’65, joined Boeing lastyear as chief counsel of the Wichita facility.

Gary Gradinger, b’65, is CEO of Golden Star,an international producer of textile productsand services. He lives in Fairway.

Michael Miner, c’65, m’69, PhD’75, chairsthe department of neurosurgery at The OhioState University in Columbus. He lives in Worthington.

Bruce Smith, b’65, recently became vice pres-ident of manufacturing at Cooper Tire & Rubber.He lives in Belden, Miss.

Dean Testa, e’65, is chief of the bureau ofconstruction and maintenance at the KansasDepartment of Transportation in Topeka.

Judy Voth, n’65, works as a nurse at St. Luke’sRegional Medical Center in Boise, Idaho.

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Roderick McCallum, c’67, PhD’70, is associ-ate dean for research at Texas A&M College ofMedicine in College Station.

Ann Schroeder Porter, d’67, lives in GrandForks, N.D., where she’s principal of Lewis &Clark Elementary School.

James Thompson, g’67, EdD’72, recentlyretired as superintendent of schools forGrapevine-Colleyville ISD in Colleyville,Texas.

Terry Wages, b’67, is executive vice presidentof Freedom Family in Topeka.

Judith Hansen Walton, d’67, works as acounselor at Doherty High School in ColoradoSprings, Colo.

1968Charles Alfonso, j’68, directs purchasing andasset management for Digital Access in Lang-horne, Pa.

Janice Brown, c’68, g’70, coordinates infectioncontrol at Mission St. Joseph’s in Asheville, N.C.

Raymond Carter, c’68, is vice president of investments at Robert Baird & Co. in Rockford, Ill.

Jennifer Nilsson Erck, d’68, g’70, teachesthird grade in Schaumburg, Ill. She and her hus-band, Wayne, d’68, g’70, live in Elgin. He’s prin-cipal of Lake Zurich High School.

Carolyn Hadley, c’68, directs maternal and fetal medicine at Crozer Chester MedicalCenter in Upland, Pa.

Robert Nelson, c’68, g’69, PhD’84, is seniortechnical adviser for the U.S. Department ofEnergy in Richland,Wash. He and Lois AdamsNelson, c’78, also have a consulting business,Research Reactor Safety Analysis Services, inKennewick, where they live.

Paul Perez, c’68, is vice president and secre-tary of Lufkin Industries in Lufkin,Texas.

Dennis Pruitt, j’68, recently became creativedirector of VML in Kansas City.

Jack Salyer, c’68, l’75, is a senior administrativejudge of the U.S. Merits Systems ProtectionBoard in Denver. He lives in Littleton.

Mary Anne Totten, c’68, m’72, practicesmedicine with Primary Health Care in Parkers-burg,W.Va.

1969Vivian Williams Addam, c’69, recentlybecame a partner in Shook Hardy & Bacon’snational products liability litigation divison inLondon.

Alan Alderson, b’69, a partner in the firm ofAlderson, Alderson,Weiler, Conklin, Burghart &Crow, recently received the E. Newton VickersAward for professionalism from the Topeka BarAssociation.

Jennifer Hayes never liked her hus-band’s childhood nickname, butwhen he ran for mayor in his home-

town last spring, it helped him winthe election. Many older residents didn’tknow Ken Hayes, the 34-year-old manon their doorstep asking for their vote.But they remembered when he reintro-duced himself as “Kenny.”

While Kenny became Ken in college,Baldwin City, the sleepy little communityHayes couldn’t wait to leave after highschool, transformed into a burgeoningtown with new homes sprouting in for-mer farm fields and a host of fast-foodrestaurants.

Hayes, c’89, hopes to find a balancebetween preserving the best of small-town life and helping Baldwin reach itseconomic potential. He describes it as acity on the verge of becoming somethinggreat. “It’s been discovered and it’s goingto grow,” he says. “It’s still a wonderfulplace to live and if we make the rightdecisions, it will continue to be that.”

His boyhood friends characterized lifein Baldwin as a prison, but Hayes says healways viewed it as Mayberry, a quiettown where nothing much happened.Like most kids, he wanted to get out andsee the world. “It never dawned on methat I’d come back here,” he says.

But memories of small-town life drewHayes back three years ago when hedecided to raise a family. Qualities thatmade Baldwin boring to a teen suddenlybecame selling points to a parent.

Hayes never considered himself apolitician, though he majored in politicalscience at KU. He believed the older gen-eration ran Baldwin. When he becameupset over land-use issues, he decided tospeak out by writing letters to the localnewspaper. Eventually people urged himto run. The result was the election of anew mayor and three new city councilmembers—all younger candidates who,like Hayes, ran on platforms for change.

“You can be a complainer and sit onthe sidelines or you can get involved anddo something,” Hayes says.

When retiredteacher Mary Plankheard her formersocial studies stu-dent was runningfor mayor, she wasproud. He was her first student to beelected to office. “I was just excited thathe wanted to run,” she says. ““He alwaysseemed interested in what we weredoing. I guess the classes weren’t entirelylost on him.”

He faces challenges, from the city’saging electric plant to complaints aboutstray dogs. The most difficult aspect,however, is what Hayes calls “politics at apersonal level.” In most cases he knowsthe people his decisions will affect. “Itmakes it 10 times more difficult. I thinkI’m a good mayor because I can makedecisions and still look people in the faceand say this is why we did this.”

Although his community is no longera sleepy Mayberry, Hayes says he wouldstill encourage new graduates to followtheir passions outside Baldwin City. “Ithink they’ll have a much better apprecia-tion for what they have here if they goout and see the world first.”�

—Cohen, j’91, is a free-lance writerin Baldwin City.

BY STACY SMITH COHENPROFILE

YOUNG MAYOR REVERES ‘MAYBERRY’ MEMORIES

MR. MAYOR: 34-year-oldKen Hayes led a youthmovement in Baldwin poli-tics, based on platforms ofchanges and involvement byyounger citizens.

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Orville Kolterman, c’69, lives in Poway, Calif.,and is senior vice president of clinical affairs atAmylin Pharmaceuticals in San Diego.

Stephen Lucas, c’69, g’73, is vice president of Louis Dreyfus Corp. in Wilton, Conn. He lives in Trumbull.

Jeffrey Stone, c’69, practices surgery withLowell Oral Surgery Associates in Lowell, Mass.He lives in North Andover.

Ronald Strong, s’69, has a therapy and con-sultation practice in Topeka.

Kyle Vann, e’69, is CEO of Entergy-Kochin Houston.

Brent Waldron, b’69, g’71, works as a manag-ing partner at Coates, Reid & Waldron, a real-estate firm in Aspen, Colo.

1970Robert Axline Jr., e’70, g’72, PhD’74, managesradar analysis at Sandia National Laboratories,and Terry Ryan Axline, d’70, g’73, coordinatesresearch and marketing at Albuquerque Biologi-cal Park in Albuquerque, N.M.

Marilyn Baltz, c’70, is vice president ofresearch and development at Sigma Diagnosticsin St. Louis. She lives in Millstradt, Ill.

Carolyn Bauer Andrade, c’69, is an assistantdirector of clinical research at Quintiles inKansas City.

Arden Carr, e’69, makes his home in Lenexa.

William Coates Jr., c’69, l’72, practices lawwith Holman Hansen Colville & Coates inOverland Park.

Diana Thompson Dale, c’69, lives in Denver with her husband, Jack. She’s writing abook about the search for her uncle, a fighterpilot who disappeared over Italy during WorldWar II.

Connie Carney Erickson, d’69, g’71, ownsDoor County Realty in Fish Creek,Wis. She andher husband, Robert, live in Egg Harbor.

Richard Grote, e’69, manages research anddevelopment for the home products division ofHewlett Packard in Cupertino, Calif. He lives inPalo Alto.

Robert Holder, e’69, leads a procurementteam at Los Alamos National Laboratory in LosAlamos, N.M.

Jessica Shellman Kirk, d’69, g’70, teachesschool in Blue Valley. She lives in Roeland Park.

Camille Ebaugh Kluge, d’69, is president ofthe Wichita Area Technical College.

Richard “Doug” Barrows, e’70, teachesnaval science at Terry Parker High School inJacksonville, Fla.

Diane Bottorff, n’70, g’87, teaches nursing atBaker University’s Stormont-Vail campus inTopeka.Jay Cooper, j’70, recently became an Internetsales specialist for Clear Channel Communica-tions in Tampa, Fla. He lives in Riverview with hiswife,Valerie.Constance Finch, c’70, directs regulatoryaffairs for BD Diagnostic Systems in Mont-gomery Village, Md.

Edward Flentje, PhD’70, is a professor anddirector of the Hugo Wall School of Urban andPublic Affairs at Wichita State University.

Edna Brooks Hobbs, g’70, a retired teacher,continues to make her home in Wichita.

Paula Hauser Leffel, f ’70, a self-employedartist, makes her home in Mission Hills with herhusband, Russell, c’70, l’73. He practices law inShawnee Mission.

Edith Lord, c’70, is a professor of micro-biology and immunology at the University ofRochester in Rochester, N.Y.

James Oppy, l’70, lives in Oak Hill,Va., and issenior vice president of Corporate Risk Interna-tional in Fairfax.

Leanne Benda Pike, d’70, teaches with USD220 in Ashland, where she and her husband,Losson, l’71, make their home. He’s a self-employed attorney.

Robert Ryan, c’70, m’74, is a captain for Con-tinental Airlines. He lives in Agana, Guam.

Terry Satterlee, c’70, practices environmentallaw with Lathrop & Gage in Kansas City.

Mark Scott, c’70, g’76, g’79, teaches history at Pepperdine University and California StateUniversity-Northridge. He lives in Ojai andwrote Bravo, Amerikanski!, a biography of UnitedPress war correspondent Ann Stringer.

June Mitchell Sexton, c’70, is a technicalsupervisor for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment in Topeka. She lives in Tecumseh.

Donald Williams, e’70, works as a communi-cations engineer for the Federal AviationAdministration. He lives in Roanoke,Texas.

1971Charlotte Hardy Andrezik, s’71, has a pri-vate psychiatric practice in Oklahoma City.

Linda Denton Baum, c’71, is an associateprofessor of immunology at the Chicago Med-ical School. She lives in Deerfield, Ill., with herhusband, Robert, c’71.

Pamela Miller Berg, f ’71, serves as a region-al field representative for Navajo Missions. Shelives in Madison,Wis.


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Patrick Cantwell, d’71, directs preventativehealth care for Unicity in Wichita.

Alan Davis, c’71, is senior manager for Zim-merman & Associates in Hales Corners,Wis.He lives in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Hugo Fernandez, PhD’71, lives in St. Peters-burg, Fla., and is chief medical researcher and aprofessor of neurology, physiology and bio-physics at the University of South Florida in Bay Pines.

Mark Grissom, c’71, works as an analyst forJaycor in Colorado Springs.

Larson Hanson, d’71, lives in West Bloom-field, Mich.

Mary MacKinnon Jepsen, c’71, j’71, worksas an occupational therapist at Queen of PeaceHospital in Mitchell, S.D. She lives in Huron.

Linda Loney, c’71, is chief of pediatrics atMassachusetts Hospital School in Canton.

Louise Ewing Poehlman, c’71, lives in Tucson, Ariz., where she works for the schooldistrict.

Joachim Saffert, g’71, works for the Max-Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Garching,Germany.

Neil Stempleman, j’71, is Washington copychief for Bridge News in Washington, D.C.

1972Mark Anderson, c’72, m’75, has a privateneurosurgery practice in Irvine, Calif.

Anne Elder Coady, d’72, teaches third gradefor USD 407 in Russell.

Evan Douple, PhD’72, is a board director ofthe National Research Council in Washington,D.C. He lives in Reston,Va.

Michael Engel, e’72, lives in Hays, where he’svice president of operations at Midwest Energy.

Amy Fulton, c’72, is a professor of pathologyand oncology at the University of Maryland-Baltimore.

Jackson Harrell, PhD’72, is president ofThe Harrell Group in Dallas.

Wynne Jennings, b’72, g’74, serves as chairman of On Demand Technologies inShawnee Mission.

Gerald Johnson, e’72, is executive vice president of Shafer, Kline & Warren in Overland Park.

Richard Kovich, e’72, lives in Wichita, wherehe’s a group engineer for Learjet.

Michael Meredith, c’72, is an associate pro-fessor at Oregon Health Sciences University inPortland, and Hannah Johnson Meredith,d’72, is a dental hygienist at Lake Oswego Den-tal Centre.

Kathleen Newlin Pyke, d’72, does substituteteaching in Hays.

When it came time tonominate a Kansasphysician for the

American Medical Association’snew “Pride in the ProfessionAwards,” the choices were many.But Jerry Slaughter, executivedirector of the Kansas MedicalSociety, says the choice also wasobvious: Linda Duston Warren,of Hanover.

The AMA agreed, selectingWarren, c’66, m’70, as one of sixinaugural recipients of thenational award that honorsphysicians who bring pride totheir profession and promote theart and science of medicine andthe betterment of public health.

“She’s totally committed as aphysician, she’s very humble and modest,she is a patient advocate from the groundup and she’s got a great sense of humor,”Slaughter says. “I think she exemplifiesthe traits that we’d all like to see in our physicians.”

Warren, a member of the AlumniAssociation’s Board of Directors and thefirst woman president of the Kansas Med-ical Society, is the only primary-carephysician in Hanover, a north-centralKansas town with a population of 654.The Washington, D.C., ballroom whereshe accepted the honor, Warren told heraudience at the March ceremony, had abigger population than her hometown.

Warren told her national colleaguesthat despite occasional struggles with the“fish-bowl phenomenon,” practicingmedicine in a small Kansas town “pro-motes trust and understanding of not justa physician and patient, but two humanbeings with feelings, loves, successes, fail-ures, laughter and tears, all visiblethrough the course of years.”

Warren also told her colleagues thather personal story is less about her deci-sion to return to Washington County tolaunch her practice in 1971, and moreabout why she chose to stay.

“Living in the rural area allowed me tobe the type of physician, wife and mother

I wanted to be,”she says. “Had I been living in a metropolitanarea and attend-ing my children’sevents, I would not have been able topractice full-time medicine. We are com-mitted to going to all of our kids’ activi-ties. If they looked up in the stands andwe weren’t there, they knew there wassomebody who needed us more thanthey did.”

Warren’s husband, Roger, c’54, m’57,is Hanover’s surgeon, and she oftenserves as the anesthetist. The schedulecan be frantic, but the Warrens havealways made time for their family. Theyoungest of their four children, Rachael,studied drama at Illinois Wesleyan Uni-versity, earned a master’s degree at Har-vard University and has since been actingacross the Northeast.

Her parents have missed only oneshow.

“Please don’t think I’m patting myselfon the back, because I’m not,” Warrensays. “Rachael brings our family a differ-ent perspective, being in the arts. Whenwe leave we have to hire somebody tocover our practice, but it’s worth it. It’s ahoot. It’s so much fun.”�

BY CHRIS LAZZARINOPROFILE

SMALL-TOWN DOCTOR WINS BIG-TIME HONOR

DOCTOR MOM: LindaWarren, Hanover’s busyphysician, says small-townmedicine allows her to tendboth of her priorities—herfamily and her patients.


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Jeanne Gorman Rau, c’72, l’78, practices law with McAnany,Van Cleave & Phillips inKansas City.

Linda Greenwell Robinson, d’72, g’76,directs KU’s Wheat State Whirlwind Tour. Sheand her husband, Scott, c’79, m’83, live inLawrence, where he’s president and CEO ofLawrence Emergency Medicine Associates.

Jerry Shay, PhD’72, is a professor at the Uni-versity of Texas Southwestern Medical Centerin Dallas.

Lawrence Tenopir, d’72, g’78, l’82, practiceslaw with Tenopir & Huerter in Topeka.

Kathryn Warren, c’72, wrote The Big Casino,which was published earlier this year. She livesin Chestnut Hill, Mass.

1973John Brazelton, j’73, is chief of the videoproduction branch of the U.S. Air Force in Los Angeles.

David Dillon, b’73, lives in Cincinnati, wherehe’s president of the Kroger Co.

Douglas Donor, c’73, works as a technicaladvisor for the U.S. Environmental ProtectionAgency in Philadelphia. He lives in Marlton, N.J.

Roberta Skinner Gray, m’73, directs pedi-atric nephrology for the Carolinas HealthcareSystem in Charlotte, N.C.

Lewis Heaven Jr., c’73, l’77, is vice presidentof Holbrook, Heaven & Osborn in Merriam.

Gregory Justis, c’73, l’76, practices law inPetoskey, Mich., where he’s prosecuting attorneyfor the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.

Andrew Masters Jr., c’73, manages realestate for Hines in New York City. He lives inMontclair, N.J.

James Merrill, j’73, g’76, PhD’82, is presidentof Applied Marketing Research in Merriam.

James Mixson, c’73, lives in Leawood and is a clinical associate professor of otorhinolaryn-gology at the KU Medical Center.

Court Saunders, c’73, directs grain sciencefor DuPont Specialty Grains in Johnston, Iowa.

Eldon Schriock, c’73, practices medicine atSan Francisco Fertility Centers. He and Eliza-beth Verchota Schriock, c’73, live in Mill Valley.

Neil Shortlidge, c’73, l’76, practices law withStinson, Mag & Fizzell in Leawood.

Marilyn Smith, c’73, is a research assistantprofessor at KU Medical Center in Kansas City.She lives in Lawrence.

Mary Ann Bowen Williams, d’73, works asan office specialist in the KU School of Educa-tion. She and her husband, John, ’80, live inLawrence.

John Wilson, c’73, m’78, practices medicinewith the Klamath Pediatric Clinic in KlamathFalls, Ore.

1974Mary Centner Brothers, m’74, chairs thedepartment of family practice at Trinity LutheranHospital. She lives in Lansing.

Deborah Davies, c’74, is CEO of the Arc ofAtlantic County in Somers Point, N.J.

Dennis Fillmore, c’74, has a dental practice inAlbuquerque, N.M.

Susan Geiss, c’74, d’77, teaches for USD 290in Ottawa.

Jon Jamison, c’74, c’75, manages marketing forAbbot Laboratories in Abbott Park, Ill. He andhis wife,Vicki, live in Libertyville with their chil-dren, Allison, 13, and Joshua, 10.

Anthony Kam, a’74, is a principal at AnthonyK.S. Kam. He and Diana Javellana Kam, c’69,live in El Cajon, Calif., where she’s a teacher.

Robert Millay Jr., PhD’74, works as a systemsservices representative for IBM in Dallas.

Barbara Nohinek, c’74, m’78, has a privatepractice with Infectious Disease Associates inFort Wayne, Ind., where she and her husband,

Christopher Zee-Cheng, m’78, make their home.

Doreen Wilhelm Northrup, c’74, c’75, p’91,supervises the IV room at Cox Medical CenterSouth in Springfield, Mo. She lives in Ozark.

Kevin Nunnink, c’74, g’75, is president of Inte-gra, which has offices in New York City,West-wood and Chicago. He lives in ShawneeMission.

Lynn Smiley, c’74, lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.,with her husband, Peter Gilligan, PhD’78.She’s vice president of antiviral clinic research atGlaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle.

Dennis Woodling, e’74, is deputy director ofengineering for the city of Alpharetta, Ga.

1975Douglas Ballou, j’75, recently joined the man-agement team at Callahan Creek, an integratedmarketing firm in Lawrence. He commutes fromWeatherby Lake, Mo.

Patricia Grunder Berger, c’75, is a professorat the University of California-Davis. She lives inWinters.

Dennis Cantrell, e’75, a partner in the Wichi-ta firm of MKEC Engineering Consultants, makeshis home in Olathe.

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David Decker, g’75, PhD’77, recently becamedean of the management school at the NewYork Institute of Technology in Old Westbury.

Dennis Deen, PhD’75, is a professor at theUniversity of California’s Brain Tumor ResearchCenter in San Francisco. He lives in Petaluma.

David Elkouri, b’75, l’78, owns Express Petro-leum in Wichita.

Craig Haines, j’75, lives in Wichita, where heowns Hainesey-Boy Inc.

Brita Horowitz, s’75, is a social worker inKansas City.

Paul King, f ’75, manages graphic design forRiver City Studio in Kansas City.

Martin McCool, b’75, is an inventory man-ager for Russell Stover Candies in Kansas City.

Warren Meslch, e’75, lives in Fort Collins,Colo., where he’s president of the EngineeringCompany.

Verner Nellsch, c’75, m’78, owns the Livingston Women’s Clinic in Livingston,Texas.

Charlotte Rublee, f ’75, is an academic adviser at Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Mass.

Jay Schukman, m’75, lives in Richmond,Va.,where he’s medical director for Trigen BlueCross Blue Shield. Nancy Westphal Schuk-man, g’77, is a special education teacher forthe Henrico County Public Schools.

Franklin Taylor, l’75, practices law with Nor-ton, Hubbard, Ruzicka & Kreamer and is presi-dent and CEO of the Olathe Chamber ofCommerce.

John Whitehead, c’75, lives in Herington,where he’s a physician with Herington FamilyPractice.

Michael Wormington, c’75, g’79, directsRNA biology at PTC Therapeutics in SouthPlainfield, N.J. He lives in Bridgewater.

Judith Zillner, n’75, is an investment executivewith Berthel Fisher & Co. in Overland Park.

1976Warren Burge, p’76, directs pharmacy ser-vices at Preferred Health Systems in Wichita,where he lives with his wife, Janelle.

Joel Colbert, g’76, EdD’77, is assistant dean ofeducation at California State University-Carson.

Garth Fromme, j’76, recently was promotedto senior vice president of retail banking at Bannister Bank & Trust. He lives in Kansas City.

Jimmie Grassi Sr., e’76, works as a projectengineer for Black & Veatch in Overland Park.

Diane DeFever Klingman, c’76, m’79,recently was elected to the board of PreferredHealth Systems. She lives in Wichita.

Randy Kovach, d’76, is a senior account exec-utive with ALK Associates in Princeton, N.J.

Mike Stout puts his pantson one leg at a time, justlike everybody else. But

only 28 people have ever put onofficial Admiral Windwagon Smith pants.

For 10 straight days in the mid-dle of May, Stout, l’61, put onthose pants—and the rest of theadmiral’s uniform—to serve as theambassador of Wichita’s River Fes-tival. The first River Festival was asingle-day event in 1972. Today’s10-day festival features more than80 events, draws hundreds ofthousands of participants and gen-erates more than $17 million.

“Mike was definitely one of thepeople who helped form the RiverFestival,” says Jim Remsberg, e’57,himself a former Admiral Wind-wagon Smith. “When choosing theadmiral this year, we had the desire tocelebrate the 30th anniversary by recog-nizing someone like Mike.”

Although it was the 30th year of thefestival, it was the 28th year organizerschose an Admiral Windwagon Smith,who reigns over the festival and servesthroughout the year. Stout, 63, a partnerwith Foulston & Siefkin, where he hasworked since 1963, remembers attendingthe first River Festival; a few years laterhe was asked to help the fledgling festivalget established as an annual event. As anattorney, Stout helped establish thebylaws and create sponsor agreements.

He remained active in organizing thefestival for about 10 years, including astint as board president and numerouscommittee roles. He again got involvedabout four years ago, this time with long-range planning. But none of those rolescan compare with being Admiral Wind-wagon Smith.

Stout attended 78 events in 10 days,ranging from the festival’s opening-dayparade that drew a crowd of 150,000 to asandcastle building contest.

“It was a full-time job for 10 days,”Stout says. “It was every day and nearlyall day. I saw 20 minutes of a whole lot of

events, and Ishook hands witha lot of 5-year-olds.”

The admiral’sornately decor-ated red coat, hat,pants and cow-boy boots, as well as the sword on hisside, make him a popular attraction atthe events. “Everyone wanted me to show them the sword,” Stout says. “I hadto quit wearing it pretty early into thefestival, though. It was awkward to wear,and it had a sharp point. But the kids stillliked pushing on the coat buttons andlooking at the big belt buckle.”

Temperatures reached 90 degrees several times during the festival, and thered coat is heavy, the hat is wool and the boots hurt his feet. Despite the sweat,Stout was a proud, albeit exhausted,admiral.

“It was worth the time and the effort,”he says. “The festival is very weather-dependent, and I was lucky to be admiralduring such a great year for thefestival.”�

—Schnyder is a free-lance writerin Wichita.

BY MELINDA SCHNYDERPROFILE

STOUT TAKES FESTIVAL HELM AS ADMIRAL SMITH

ADMIRABLE ADMIRAL:Mike Stout’s years of serviceto the Wichita River Festivalwere recognized with hisbeing named “Admiral Wind-wagon Smith,” the festival’sceremonial leader.



John Lightfoot, c’76, m’79, practices medicinewith N.W. Family Physicians in ArlingtonHeights, Ill. He lives in Schaumburg.

Debra Wenrich Macy, p’76, is a pharmacistat Via Christi-St. Francis in Wichita.

Kevin Preston, c’76, has a private practice ingastroenterology in Sioux City, Iowa.

Rhoads Stevens, c’76, is an ophthalmologistin Honolulu.

1977Joanne Schmidt Applegate, p’77, works asa clinical pharmacist at Wesley Medical Centerin Wichita.

Chris Haller, c’77, m’80, is chief of surgicalservices for the VA Eastern Kansas Health CareSystem in Leavenworth.

Jeffrey Jordan, c’77, g’79, lives in Littleton,Colo. He’s an environmental scientist with Pacif-ic Western Technologies in Denver.

Richard Lockton, e’77, is general manager ofYork International-Natkin Service in Riverside,Mo. He and his wife, Amy, live in Leawood.

Meredith Marden, d’77, teaches third gradeat Peiffer Elementary School in Littleton, Colo.She lives in Lakewood.

Greg Michels, p’77, is a pharmacist at Wal-Mart in Emporia.

Peter Ochs, b’77, lives in Wichita, where he’spresident of Boggs Sign.

Robbin Reynolds, j’77, is president of SoundProducts, an audio communications dealershipin Lenexa.

Laura Cook Stewart, d’77, serves as a spe-cial agent in the U.S. Food & Drug Administra-tion’s office of criminal investigations in Lenexa.She lives in Olathe.

MARRIEDDeborah Kruskop, c’77, and ChristopherBrodbeck, ’78, Jan. 20.They live in Holton.

1978Richard “Jeff” Ayesh, c’78, works as a sales-man for Merck & Co. He and Patti HobsonAyesh, p’79, live in Wichita with their daughter,Sara, 5.

Rick Chambers, b’78, is president of MultipleServices Equipment Co. in Mission.

Howard Collinson, c’78, directs the artmuseum at the University of Iowa. He lives inIowa City.

Jeffrey DeGasperi, a’78, a’79, is vice presidentof Rafael Architects in Kansas City.

Kent Erickson, c’78, m’83, practices medicinewith Clay Center Family Physicians in Clay Center.

Randall Fehdrau, c’78, manages the labora-tory at Duke Medical Center in Durham, N.C.

Steven Francesconi, p’78, directs govern-ment affairs for Sangstat Medical Corp. inAtlanta.

Alan Freund, g’78, is vice president and chieffinancial officer of ACN Energy in McLean,Va.

Candice Hart, c’78, received a master’s inlibrary and information science last year fromDominican University. She and her husband,Craig Dunn, d’78, d’79, live in St. Paul, Minn.,and he’s executive director of Very Special ArtsMinnesota in Minneapolis.

Jan Davidson Helfer, d’78, g’80, recentlybecame president and CEO of VNA Plus, ahome health company, in Kansas City.

Deonarine Jaggernauth, e’78, g’79, is asenior engineer and environmental specialistwith Petrotrin in Trinidad,West Indies.

Frank Komin, e’78, recently became generalmanager of Occidental Petroleum. He lives inHuntington Beach, Calif.

Catherine Bodin Mackie, c’78, is a staffcounselor at Care and Counseling. She lives inChesterfield, Mo.

Michael Sarras, g’78, lives in Kansas City,where he’s retired from Bank Midwest.

1979Kenneth Cook, c’79, m’83, is a managing partner in Radiology Associates in CorpusChristi,Texas.

Stephen Coon, c’79, m’83, practices medicinewith Radiology & Nuclear Medicine in Topeka.

Mark Mustoe, c’79, directs operations forCox Communications in Atlanta.

Lucynda Raben, c’79, owns a dental practicein Wichita.

James White, c’79, is president and CEO ofEntomos in Gainesville, Fla.

1980Joel Alberts, c’80, is a geological adviser forDevon Energy Production in Edmond, Okla.

Brian Bagby, b’80, lives in Plano,Texas, andworks as vice president of sales and marketingfor PMJ in Grand Prairie.

Susan Owens Bloom, d’80, g’87, teachesreading and is a literacy coach for the Buhlerschool district. She and her husband, Jim, j’80,g’83, live in Hutchinson with their daughters,Ashley, 15;Whitney, 12; and Lindsey, 9. Jim ispublisher of the Hutchinson News.

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Alma Isaacs Collins, n’80, suffered the lossof her husband, James, last year. She lives inHutchinson.

Su-Er Wu Huskey, PhD’80, is a seniorresearch fellow for Merck Research Laboratoryin Rahway, N.J. She and her husband, William,PhD’85, live in Westfield.

Cheri Jones Johnson, e’80, g’82, a retiredchemical engineer, makes her home in West-minster, Calif., with her husband, Mike, e’82.

Ed Kuklenski, b’80, is senior vice president ofChild Health Corp. of America. He lives inPrairie Village.

Jeff Lindenbaum, c’80, chairs the radiologydepartment at Preakness Radiological Associ-ates in Wayne, N.J. He and his wife, JoanSorenson, c’80, live in Morris Plains with theirsons, Benjamin, 10, and David, 6.

Mark Matese, c’80, directs juvenile affairs forthe U.S. Department of Justice Immigration andNaturalization Services in Washington, D.C.Cathy Davis Matese, d’80, teaches eighth-grade English at Benton Middle School in Man-assas,Va., where they live.

Jason Meschke, b’80, g’82, recently becamepresident and chief operating officer of EFLAssociates, an executive search firm. He lives inOverland Park.

Gus Meyer, e’80, is president of Rau Con-struction in Overland Park.

Kirk Nelson, c’80, practices medicine at St.Anthony’s Hospital in St. Louis. He lives inChesterfield.

Winifred Pinet, c’80, g’82, works forSycamore Associates in Detroit, Mich. She livesin Grosse Pointe.

Charles Pugh, PhD’80, is a self-employedwriter in Madison,Wis.

David Rebein, l’80, practices law with Foul-ston & Siefkin in Dodge City.

Johnna Boothe Roberts, PhD’80, is an envi-ronmental scientist with Jacobson Helgoth Con-sultants in Omaha, Neb.

Michael Webb, c’80, lives in Wellesley, Mass.,and is CEO of Epixmedical in Cambridge.

1981Robert Brown Jr., c’81, directs marketing atDaniel Measurement and Control in Houston.

Harry Callicotte, e’81, practices law withHDC & Associates in Radcliff, Ky.

Sarah Smull Hatfield, b’81, g’83, works forCommerce Bank in Kansas City.

Melodie Funk Henderson, c’81, directsintellectual property at Genaissance Pharma-ceuticals in New Haven, Conn. She and herhusband, Steven, c’80, live in Hamden.

George Pollock Jr., c’81, j’82, edits copy anddesigns pages for the Newport News DailyPress in Newport News,Va.

BY DIANA LAMBDIN MEYER

This year, an anticipated 3 mil-lion people will pack their bagsand head to Yellowstone

National Park, the oldest and mostpopular of the nation’s parks. It’s esti-mated that one-third of all Americanswill visit Yellowstone during their life-time, but a lifetime wouldn’t be longenough to enjoy the beauty andsplendor of the park, according toPhyllis Riggs McCormick, f’45.

Nearly every year since 1985,McCormick has driven 1,350 milesfrom Kansas City to work in one of13 stores in Yellowstone. There shelives in a modest dormitory andworks five days a week selling T-shirts, jewelry and other souvenirs totourists from around the world.

“It’s kind of a long way to drive fora minimum-wage job,” McCormicksays. It’s not the money that drawsher, but the beauty of Yellowstone andthe camaraderie of the nearly 1,000 col-lege students, retirees and others whowork for Hamilton Stores, an 80-year-oldfamily business, one of only two conces-sionaires in Yellowstone.

McCormick first visited Yellowstone in1975 with her sister, Patty Riggs KostLewallen, c’42, and their children. Afterretiring as an occupational therapist withthe Kansas City, Mo., school district,McCormick applied for jobs at Yellow-stone, Alaska’s Denali National Park andthe Grand Canyon, among other parks.Within minutes of mailing her acceptanceletter to Yellowstone, she had a telephonejob offer for Denali, but Yellowstone washer first choice.

“I felt like I had died and gone toheaven, and still do each time I arrive outthere,” McCormick says.

McCormick’s sister first joined her in1986. On their days off, the two hike,backpack, fish and look for bears inremote areas of the park most peoplenever see.

When they began their careers at Yel-lowstone, the two sisters had no radio ortelevision in their quarters. Now satellite

brings TV to thepark, but thedorms have noInternet, most cel-lular phones aren’tin range and it’s 110 miles one way to thenearest Wal-Mart in Boseman, Mont.

The women have seen Yellowstone atits best and worst. For seven years,McCormick arrived in April with asmuch as 22 feet of snow still on theground and only the roofline of her storevisible. When fires consumed much ofthe park’s 3,500 square miles in 1988,the stores operated by flashlight afterpower lines were destroyed. For weeks,the smoke and flames creeped closer tothe dormitories, until finally all employ-ees were evacuated. McCormick admitsshe was “scared spitless.”

But she keeps going back because ofthe beauty, because of her friends—andbecause she still can.

“The national parks are such a won-derful gift to our society,” she says. “It’sthe one thing we get our money’s worthout of when we pay our taxes.”�

—Meyer is a free-lance writer in Parkville, Mo.

PROFILE

MccCORMICK FINDS CAREER IN YELLOWSTONE

WORKING VACATION:A summer job in Yellowstonehas been a tradition for Phyllis Riggs McCormick sincethe mid-1980s.



CLASS NOTES

Joaquin Santos, m’81, practices medicine atthe Wichita Clinic.

Karl Schletzbaum, e’81, g’86, is an aero-space safety engineer for the Federal AviationAdministration. He lives in Overland Park.

Brian Torres, e’81, works for SamsonResources in Perryton,Texas, where Janel Bul-lock Torres, d’81, teaches kindergarten at Vic-tory Christian Academy.

1982Clare Kyriacou Bodner, j’82, is an accountexecutive with AOL/Time Warner. She lives inScottsdale, Ariz.

Michael Boehm, b’82, lives in Lenexa, wherehe’s vice president of the business bankinggroup at Commerce Bank.

Edwin Cooley, e’82, is a market manager forTXU Energy Services in Dallas.

Robert LaGarde, PhD’82, is a psychologistwith the Richland,Wash., school district. He livesin Kennewick.

Karl Sieg, c’82, m’86, has a psychiatric practicein Naples, Fla.

James Spencer, c’82, is a division vice presi-dent at Waste Connections in Wichita, andAngela Nitcher Spencer, ’84, is a nurse atWesley Hospital.

Margaret Kremers Telthorst, c’82, makesher home in Auburn with her husband,Robert, c’83. He’s an attorney with Telthorst &Noll in Topeka.

1983Anton Andersen, b’83, is a director andshareholder in McAnany,Van Cleave & Phillips inKansas City.

Bill Davis, b’83, manages solution sales forDigital Consulting and Software Services. Heand Julie Jones Davis, j’84, live in Sugar Land,Texas, with their children, Lindsey, 11, andMichael, 9

Lisa McGlone, c’83, has a dental practice in Houston.

Grace Willing Sadler, j’83, manages commu-nications for the Greater Shreveport Chamberof Commerce. She and her husband, Jim, live inBossier City, La., with their daughter, Ellie, 1.

Steven Walton, l’83, is president of CypressCapital in Cypress,Texas.

BORN TO:William, ’83, and Nika Jerkovich Cum-mings, c’86, l’90, son,William James, Aug. 30 inWichita, where he joins two brothers, Joseph, 7,and Christopher, 2.

1984Devon Cadwell Bazata, j’84, edits publica-tions for Princeton University’s McCarter The-atre in Princeton, N.J.

Timothy Davis, c’84, owns Unique Homes, areal estate, consumer escrow and title companyin Aurora, Colo.

Jerri Flynn Hanus, e’84, is a principal engi-neer with Procter & Gamble in Mason, Ohio.She and her husband, Daniel, live in Cincinnatiwith their children, Andrew, 5, and Zachary, 2.

Robert Wilkin, b’84, lives in Lenexa and isgeneral manager of Heritage Park Golf Coursein Olathe.

BORN TO:Rick, p’84, and Gayle Newman Acheson,p’94, son, Alec Richard, Feb. 24 in OverlandPark.They live in Lecompton.

Lisa Vardeman O’Connor, c’84, j’84, andRobert, daughter, Allison Kate, March 3 in Hous-ton, where she joins a brother, Matthew, 5, and asister, Megan, 2.

1985Lori Elliott Bartle, j’85, teaches writing inCreighton University’s journalism department.She lives in Omaha, Neb.

Clinton Robinson, e’85, g’92, a vice presidentwith Black & Veatch, makes his home in Over-land Park.

Todd Thompson, b’85, is a division managerfor Xpedx in Colorado Springs, Colo.

BORN TO:Jon Gilchrist, b’85, l’88, and Linda, son, JonPatrick, Jan. 24 in Leawood, where he joins twosisters,Tate, 6, and Aubrey, 3. Jon works formetal Warehouse in Overland Park.

Margaret O’Rourke Nowak, j’85, andDaniel, son, James Henry, Dec. 4 in Alplaus, N.Y.,where he joins two brothers, Anthony, 5, andJoseph, 2.

1986Janet Arndt, l’86, is assistant director of cen-tral research for the Kansas Court of Appeals.She lives in Lawrence.

Gerald Callejo, e’86, works for Jeppesen,where he’s product manager. He lives in Littleton, Colo.

Richard Couch, PhD’86, a principal in Tobin-world 11, makes his home in Brentwood, Calif.

Richard Ferraro, g’86, PhD’89, is an associateprofessor of psychology at the University ofNorth Dakota-Grand Forks.

Shawn Hunter, b’86, g’88, is president of thePhoenix Coyotes of the National HockeyLeague.

Clifford Leiker Jr., b’86, g’89, lives in Olathe, where he’s chief managing officer of CJL Financial.

1987Greg Ash, b’87, l’91, recently was elected apartner of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne. Hecommutes to Overland Park from Lawrence.

Cristina Catt, f ’87, sings professionally withTapestry, an ensemble based in Boston. She livesin Cambridge.

Alison Hart Cirenza, j’87, works as a free-lance consultant in the magazine industry. Shelives in Essex Falls, N.J.

Jose, ’87, and Kelly Morgan Colomer, c’87,live in Palos Verdes, Calif., with Zoe, 2, and Nicolas, 1.

Rebecca Haddock Finn, j’87, lives in Roswell,Ga., with her husband,Timothy, and their chil-dren, Jessica, Everett and Aidan.

Laurian Casson Lytle, g’87, PhD’93, is astock analyst with Invista Capital Management.She lives in Ankeny, Iowa.

Rebecca Hill Pollmiller, g’87, vice presidentof Brian Pollmiller & Associates, lives in Lenexawith her husband, Brian.

MARRIEDMark Henderson, b’87, and SusanSchmidt, j’96, Sept. 2 in Lawrence, where they both work for PackerWare.

BORN TO:Carey Craig, c’87, and Marilyn, daughter,Natalie Marie, March 18 in Cheney, where shejoins two brothers, Miles, 6, and Jared, 3. Careymanages recruitment for the human resourcesdepartment at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita.

1988Paul Dietz, c’88, g’00, works as a financial riskmanager with Minnesota Power in Duluth.

Robert Gronke, PhD’88, is senior scientist atBiogen in Cambridge, Mass.

Kathy Hagen, e’88, manages structural engi-neering for Bibb & Associates. She lives inLenexa.

Stephen Hughes, c’88, supervises accountsand is a vice president of the Hughes Group inSt. Louis.

Ann Kaplan, f ’88, is a territory representativefor Hallmark Cards in Madison,Wis.

Mark Klimiuk, c’88, lives in Monument, Colo.,with Gwendolyn Glass Klimiuk, ’90, andtheir sons, John, 2, and Andrew, 1. Mark is a divi-sion manager for Boeing/Autometric in Col-orado Springs.

Melissa Larson, c’88, m’94, works as a pedi-atric anesthesiologist at Colorado AnesthesiaConsultants in Denver.

Susan Auer Mitchell, c’88, l’94, practices law with the U.S. Army JAG Corps in Fort Irwin, Calif.

Deborah Anderson, j’89, c’90, g’93, directsthe Kansas Film Commission in Topeka.

Daniel Houston, c’89, manages projects forAngelou Economics. He lives in Austin,Texas.

Susan Hull Hudson, g’89, and her daughter,Stacey, f ’90, celebrated Susan’s 65th birthdayearlier this year by walking more than 60 milesin the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Challenge.Susan lives in Callao,Va., and Stacey lives inWashington, D.C., where she’s an art directorfor Burson Marsteller.

Kim Keller Meeds, b’89, is a homemaker inOverland Park, where she lives with her hus-band, Frank, ’90. He’s a pilot for TWA.

Thomas Rietz, c’89, is president of CanterraHomes in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Kristin Smith, c’89, coordinates graphics forACTV in Irving,Texas. She lives in Carrollton.

Larry West, PhD’89, chairs the department ofcomputer and math science at Columbia Col-lege in Columbia, Mo.

BORN TO:Carrie Mar Howard, c’89, and William,daughter, Emily Lena, Oct. 25 in Lewisville,Texas.

Derek, b’89, and Julie Chadwell Locke,s’93, s’97, daughter, Hope Christina, Sept. 13 inSmyrna, Ga., where she joins a sister, Zoe, 2.

Bradley, ’89, and Renee RaychaudhuriRettele, d’93, g’97, son, Mason David, Feb. 21in Lawrence, where he joins a sister, Delaney, 2.Bradley owns M&M Baking, and Renee is a phys-ical therapist at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

1990Sean Goodale, b’90, g’01, directs finances forPhysician Resources of Kansas. He and Kim-berly Young Goodale, j’91, live in OverlandPark with their sons, Blake, 4, and Keaton, 1.

Erin Hartshorn, b’90, is a controller atResources Connection in Santa Ana, Calif. Shelives in Irvine.

Deborah Head Holinger, c’90, a captain inthe U.S. Air Force, serves at Robins AFB, Ga. Shelives in Kathleen.

Patricia Walton Linhardt, c’90, m’96, prac-tices medicine at the Wichita Clinic.

Melanie Dick McMullen, l’90, recently joinedthe Overland Park law firm of Lathrop & Gage.

David Murphy, j’90, is a vice president anddirect marketing director at ICON PromotionalMarketing in Clearwater, Fla.

Daniel Redler, c’90, manages customer mar-keting for Coca-Cola in Atlanta.

Michael Snell, p’90, and his wife,Tammy, ownCole Camp Pharmacy in Cole Camp, Mo.,where they live with their children, Brianna, 11,and Cameron, 4.

Kevin Toller, c’90, m’94, practices ophthamal-ogy at Grand Lake Eye Care in Grove, Okla.

Shuping Ye, g’90, PhD’92, works as a softwareconsultant for IBM Global Services in Atlanta.

BORN TO:Patrick, b’90, and Kathleen Kurzak Kauf-man, assoc., son, Christian William, Nov. 3 inOverland Park, where he joins a brother, Brian,4, and a sister, Emily, 3.

1991John Gill, e’91, a’92, recently became secretaryof CRS Engineering and Design Consultants inBirmingham, Ala.

Kathryn Driscoll Hollrah, c’91, n’93, andher husband, Scott, m’94, live in Mission Hillswith their son, Benjamin, 1.

Jordan Lerner, e’91, recently joined Hender-son Engineers in Overland Park as a senior elec-trical engineer. He commutes from Lawrence.

MARRIEDMark Lapoint, d’91, g’97, and Jill Hilton,d’92, Jan. 13 in Lawrence, where they live. Markis vice president of sales for Security-Shred in


CLASS NOTES

John Montgomery, j’88, g’91, edits and pub-lishes the Hays Daily News in Hays, where heand Dia Noel Montgomery, j’91, c’91, maketheir home.

Michael, l’88, and Susan Roffman Norton,l’89, live in Omaha, Neb., with their sons, Justin,4, and Seth, 1.

Timothy Shmidl, b’88, does financial planningwith Prism Financial Group in Overland Park.

Krista Thacker, b’88, is a human resourcesbusiness partner in Via Christie Health Systems.She lives in Wichita.

BORN TO:Charles Knapp, c’88, and Chelle, son, JoshuaPerry, Oct. 20 in Augusta, where he joins abrother, Michael, 2.

Sally Streff Buzbee, j’88, and John, c’89,j’89, daughter, Margaret Ann, Jan. 8 in Riyadh,Saudi Arabia. John is a political officer in the U.SEmbassy, and the family will move to Washing-ton, D.C., when his tour ends later this summer.

1989Kimberly Casillo Anacona, b’89, makes herhome in Overland Park with her husband,Michael, b’90.


Lenexa, and Jill teaches French and Spanish atWest Junior High School in Lawrence.

BORN TO:Barry Moore, c’91, and Rhonda, son, LoganDayle, Oct. 30 in Redmond,Wash., where Barryis a branch manager for Sprint.

Nancy Anderson Sullivan, n’91, g’97, andPatrick, son, Brody Patrick, March 16 inLawrence, where he joins a sister, Ella, 2.

Matthew, j’91, and Paula Birbeck Taylor,j’92, son, Ryan Patrick, Jan. 19 in Holton, whereMatthew and Paula work at Denison StateBank.

Geoffrey, e’91, and Mary Heil Wehrman,e’92, son, Joshua, Sept. 11 in Minneapolis, wherehe joins two brothers, Andrew, 5, and Curtis, 3.

1992Brad Berkley, b’92, is executive vice presidentof NovoLink in Dallas.

Michael Peck Jr., e’92, is vice president ofUSBX in Santa Monica, Calif. He and LaurieKeplin Peck, d’93, live in Los Angeles withtheir son, Nathaniel.

William Singer, PhD’92, lives in Garland,Texas, and is a post-doctoral researcher in thepharmacology department at the University ofTexas Southwestern Medical Center.

David Staker, b’92, l’95, practices law and isan investment adviser at Prairie Capital Manage-ment in Kansas City, where he and ChristinaDunn Staker, c’96, make their home.

Joseph Stark, c’92, is senior vice president ofMixed Signals Technology in Culver City, Calif.

BORN TO:Kimberly Knoffloch Garrett, b’92, andSean, daughter, Katherine Elizabeth, Feb. 21 inOverland Park, where she joins a brother, Jor-dan, 2.

Scott, j’92, g’00, and Mendi Stauffer Hanna,j’94, son, Cole Scott, April 3 in Shawnee.

Amy Mills Hoffman, d’92, and Patrick, son,Matthew Scott, March 3 in Arlington,Texas,where he joins two brothers, Reagan, 4, andBryce, 3.

Laura Meriwether Kirk, j’92, and Donald,son, Luke Joseph, March 31 in Columbus, wherehe joins a brother, Nate.

1993Steven Ammerman, j’93, works as a weekend anchor and reporter at WTEN inAlbany, N.Y.

Vincent Sollars, c’93, g’00, is a postdoctoralfellow at the Kimmel Cancer Center in Philadel-phia. He lives in Berlin, N.J.

Mark Suckow, g’93, co-owns Batteries Plus.He lives in Lenexa.

BORN TO:Thomas, c’94, and Amy Sutherland Volini,c’94, daughter, Emma Louise, Dec. 20 in Over-land Park, where he’s a vice president withTrammell Crow.

1995Manuel Lopez, j’95, works as associate editorof the Business Journal in Kansas City.

Cho In Ma, b’95, is a computer engineer forErnst & Young in Belleville, N.J.

Christine Manley, g’95, makes her home inPortland, Maine.

Barbara Gelb Novorr, s’95, is a medicalsocial worker at Baptist Medical Center in LittleRock, Ark., where she and her husband, Jeffrey,live with their sons, Benjamin and Jonathan.

Dana Roberts, g’95, works as a long-termcare specialist with Eli Lilly & Co. He and hiswife, Susan Hickman, g’95, PhD’98, live in Port-land, Ore.

Daniel Staker, e’95, is a regional partner forH.D.R. Management Consultants in Kansas City.He and his wife, Katherine, live in Fairway withtheir son, John, 1.

Cisley Owen Thummel, c’95, and Rob, ’01,celebrated their first anniversary April 15. She’san online training developer for Sprint, and he’sassistant controller at KLT.They live in Olathe.

MARRIEDTimothy Calvert, b’95, and Melodi Wolf,j’97, Dec. 16 in Kansas City, where he works forDeloitte Consulting and she works for Sprint.

BORN TO:Justin, b’95, and Jean Pinne Anderson, c’96,son, Johnathon Falley, March 12 in Lawrence,where Justin is a dentist with Nossaman,Wilker-son & Associates.

1996Philip Ast, b’96, manages industrial accountsfor Georgia Pacific. He lives in Castle Rock,Colo.

Jeremy Bezdek, b’96, and his wife, Emily, livein Naperville, Ill. He’s an account manager atKoch Industries in Woodridge.

Lambro Bourodimos, PhD’96, works as aGerman-French translator for ASMFA in Peseux,Switzerland.

Steele Brown, c’96, recently joined the Busi-ness Journal in Kansas City as a telecommunica-tions reporter.

Robert Lewis, g’96, l’00, practices law withChelepis & Associates in Overland Park.

Michelle Melnik, j’96, recently was promotedto senior account executive at KilgannonMcReynolds in Atlanta.

CLASS NOTES

MARRIEDJeanne Melland, c’93, to Stephen Davison,Jan. 20 in Las Vegas. Jeanne is program managerfor XO Communications in Reston,Va., andStephen manages network planning for Quest in Arlington.They live in Reston.

BORN TO:Christine Kaiser Chapo, c’93, and her husband, Paul, daughter, Grace Elizabeth, Dec. 1in Kirkwood, Mo.

Stephanie Kieltyka Mohr, c’93, and Jason,c’94, son, Joseph Michael, Feb. 13 in Fairway,where he joins a sister, Hailey, 2.

Katherine Peterson Schellin, d’93, andDarrin, son, Ryan August, Sept. 8 in Chesterfield, Mo.

William, b’93, and Keri Beightel Sifford,’95, daughter, Ryley Nicole, Feb. 17 in OverlandPark.William is an e-business group managerwith Spring Products Group in New Century.

Lance, e’93, g’84, and Jennifer ThompsonJohnson, c’94, daughter, Emma Rebecca, Dec.13 in Lawrence. Lance is president of the Peridi-an Group, and Jennifer coordinates events atKU’s Kansas Union.

1994Angela Carlton, b’94, h’96, is a medical tech-nologist at Health Midwest. She lives in GrainValley, Mo.

Patricia Borowitz Case, b’94, recently waspromoted to assistant vice president of smallbusiness banking at Commerce Bank in KansasCity. She commutes from Lawrence.

Debra Churchill, c’94, diects consumer analy-sis services at Ruf Strategic Solutions in Olathe.

Mary Jane Coplen, PHD’94, teaches psychol-ogy at Hutchinson Community College.

Aaron Kropf, p’94, manages the pharmacy atOsco Drug in Sedalia, Mo., where he and hiswife, Lori, live with their son, Derek, 1.

Allison Lippert, j’94, edits copy for the DesMoines Register in Des Moines, Iowa.

Jeffrey Mayo, j’94, manages contracts for Voic-eStream Wireless in Bellevue,Wash.

Alan Michels, e’94, is a project manager atLHE in Lenexa. He lives in Olathe.

William Scantlin, a’94, works for Daley & Jal-boot Architects in Bryn Mawr, Pa.

Annie Simonich, j’94, manages advertisingsales for Cable One in Gulfport, Miss.

Sophie Xuefu Song, PhD’94, practices medi-cine at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Lockhart Walker, c’94, coordinates accountsat MMG Wordwide in Kansas City.


Bourke Hutchinson, c’00, is a police officerwith the Ottawa Police Department.

Kristine Kuhn, c’00, studies medicine at theUniversity of Colorado. She lives in Denver.

Jason Lukasek, g’00, manages accounts forInvitrogen. He lives in Cedar Hill, Mo.

Jackson Martin, c’00, directs policy andresearch for the Virginia Democratic Caucus inRichmond,Va.

Jeffrey Starnes, ’00, is a national accountexecutive for AT&T Broadband Media Servicesin Los Angeles. He lives in Studio City.

Elizabeth Traiger, c’00, studies statistics atOxford University in England.

Heather Woodson, j’00, coordinatesaccounts at Kuhn and Wittenborn Advertising inKansas City.

2001Ahmad Khan, ’01, recently joined Delich Roth& Goodwillie in Kansas City as a designer anddetailer.

Tracie Mann, ’01, teaches at Century Schoolin Lawrence.

Khemarat Suthiwan, c’01, works as a Webdeveloper for BMS Corp. in Denver.

AssociatesArchie Dykes, former KU chancellor, chairsthe board of PepsiAmericas. He and NancyHaun Dykes, assoc., make their home inNashville,Tenn.

Alan, j’96, g’99, and Maria AbatjoglouStearns, c’99, celebrated their first anniversaryJune 17.They live in Cambridge, Mass.

MARRIEDShelley Box, c’96, and Dale Webb, Nov. 4 inLawrence. She’s a child care specialist with theJohnson County Health Department in Olathe,and he works for E&R Construction inWellsville.They live in Baldwin.

1997Teresa Veazey Heying, j’97, recently becamecurator of education at Wichita State Univer-sity’s Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art.Jo Anne Horton, f ’97, teaches elementarymusic for the Goddard school district. She livesin Wichita.Lolly Robinson Knopp, c’97, is an associatescientist at Midwest Research Institute in Kansas City.

Brit Laurent, b’97, works as a team leader atCerner in Kansas City.

BORN TO:Thomas, b’97, and Michelle Santoyo Bem-berger, c’97, daughter, Maya Elizabeth, Feb. 25in Cape Coral, Fla.

Ryan, g’97, and Cindy Paulino Kelly, g’97,son,Thatcher Ryan, Feb. 15 in Tampa, Fla.

1998Andrew George, b’98, coordinates opera-tions for the Countrywide Tradition Golf tour-nament in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Jessica Gibson, j’98, recently was promotedto annual fund officer at the Museum of theArts in Boston. She lives in Hyde Park.

Sean Herrington, m’98, and his wife, Angie,live in Salina with their children,Tyler, 10,Taite, 7,Timeri, 5, and Trevor, 1.

Chris Howell, b’98, is a business banking officer for Emprise Bank in Wichita.

Sara K. Jacobsen, b’98, g’00, scored second-highest in the state in the November 2000 sit-ting of the Kansas CPA exam. Sara lives inLeawood, and works for lFFT and Associates inOverland Park.

Nicole Mehring Schmidt, e’98, works as animplementation engineer in Coleville, Calif.,where she and her husband, Zachary, e’97,make their home. He’s a captain in the U.S.Marine Corps.

Jason Simpson, a’98, recently became anarchitectural intern at Ellerbe Becket in Kansas City.

MARRIEDKristel Thalmann, d’98, and MichaelLewis, d’98, Dec. 16 in Lawrence, where theylive. She manages ticket operations at the

Kansas Speedway, and he teaches at SouthwestJunior High School.

BORN TO:Douglas, g’98, and Tracy Hepler Ahrens,c’98, daughter, Lillith Michelle, Dec. 30 in Middle-town, Del.

1999Hualin Chen, g’99, works as a software engi-neer for Black & Veatch in Overland Park.

Shannon, c’99, and Jeanne Grant Conner,’01, celebrated their first anniversary June 30.They live in Olathe. He’s a consultant withApplied Communications Group, and she teach-es in the Turner School District.

Ashley Hock, c’99, j’00, directs business devel-opment for SearchHound.com in Kansas City.

Stacey Harris Lamer, e’99, is an environ-mental engineer with Delich, Roth & Goodwilliein Kansas City. She commutes from Lawrence,where she lives with her husband, Chad, c’01.

Tracie Lewis, c’99, h’00, works as a medicaltechnologist at KU Medical Center in KansasCity.

Jennifer Mueller, g’99, the Alumni Associa-tion’s director of student programs, received theOutstanding Alumnae Service Award at the2001 Greek Recognition Night.

Sarah Nichols, j’99, recently became anaccount executive at Morningstar Communica-tions in Kansas City.

Stephen Oliva, PhD’99, has been promotedto positional director at Sprint in Irvine, Calif. Helives in Foothill Ranch.

Amy Schmidt, c’99, recently became an earlyintervention specialist with Morris County Arc.She lives in Whitehouse Station, N.J.

Marion Kincaid Wilson, s’99, is a socialworker and case manager at the Kansas Rehabil-itation Hospital in Topeka.

2000Lindsay Borum, c’00, is an administrativeassistant with MMG Worldwide in Kansas City.

Kristel Cosner, e’00, works as an electricalengineer at Intel in Chandler, Ariz. She lives inPhoenix.

Brian Friedman, d’00, lives in San Diego andworks for Magdalena Ecke Family YMCA inEncinitas.

Jennifer Harrell, e’00, recently became a staff engineer with Delich Roth & Goodwillie inBonner Springs.

Michael Henry, c’00, is global markets strategy manager for SBC Communications inDes Plaines, Ill. He lives in Valley Park, Mo.

James Hicks, g’00, retired last fall after 20years with the U.S. Army Reserve. He’s a nursepractitioner in Manhattan.

CLASS NOTES

School Codes Letters that follownames in Kansas Alumni indicate the schoolfrom which alumni earned degrees. Numbersshow their class years.

a School of Architecture and UrbanDesign

b School of Businessc College of Liberal Arts and

Sciencesd School of Educatione School of Engineeringf School of Fine Artsg Master’s Degreeh School of Allied Healthj School of Journalisml School of Lawm School of Medicinen School of Nursingp School of Pharmacys School of Social WelfareDE Doctor of EngineeringDMA Doctor of Musical ArtsEdD Doctor of EducationPhD Doctor of Philosophy(no letter) Former studentassoc. Associate member of the

Alumni Association


1920sConstance Ingalls Barnes, c’25, 97, April25 in Pontiac, Mich. She lived in Waterford andwas retired head librarian at Cranbrook Acade-my of Art Library. She is survived by a daughter,Jeannot Barnes Seymour, f ’53; a son; two grand-children; and a great-grandchild.

Edith Tobler Elam Franklin, ’27, 95,March 1 in Lawrence, were she was retiredafter a retail career in Kansas City. She is sur-vived by a daughter, Edith Elam Black, c’50, g’74;seven grandchildren; and five great-grand-children.

Dorothy Stone Haren, c’29, 93, March 6 in Overland Park. She is survived by her son,C.W. “Tod,” c’55; a daughter, Gail HarenMcMichael, c’61; six grandchildren; and ninegreat-grandchildren.

Dorothy Shaad, c’29, m’44, 91, April 3 inKansas City, where she had practiced ophthal-mology at the KU Medical Center. She is sur-vived by three brothers, Paul, e’33; George,e’35; and David, e’44.

1930sCollins Carlyle, b’37, 87, Feb. 25 in KansasCity, where he owned Carlyle Anderson Sales.He is survived by three daughters, Constance,d’73, g’92; Kay, c’74; and Tandy Carlyle Leinwet-ter, d’77.

Philip Cartmell, e’36, 86, Feb. 15 in MissionViejo, Calif. He lived in Prairie Village, where hehad been a councilman and had worked forMontgomery Ward, Gustin-Bacon Manu-facutring and J.C. Nichols. Survivors include hiswife, Alene Compton Cartmell, ’38; a daughter,Julianne Cartmell George, c’65; seven grandchil-dren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Mary Noyes Grovier, ’32, 91, Feb. 23 inOverland Park. She had lived in Hutchinson andin Alexandria, La. Surviving are a son; a daughter,Jayne Grovier Ireland, ’54; a brother, GeorgeNoyes Jr., ’34; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

Max Horn, ’36, 87, April 24 in Hays. He livedin Russell, where he was president and directorof Home State Bank. Surviving are his wife,Whilmetta, assoc.; and a son,William, d’77.

John Huscher, ’36, 86, March 2 in KansasCity. He had a long career with Park LawnFuneral Home and is survived by his wife,Gladys, a son, three daughters, 12 grandchildrenand six great-grandchildren.

John Mize, c’30, 92, April 15 in Atchison,where he was retired board chairman of Blish-Mize and was active in civic affairs. He issurvived by a son, John, c’61; a daughter, Court-ney Mize Laurie, d’92; a stepson, David Arthurs,j’52; four grandchildren; nine stepgrandchildren;16 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

Howard Pankratz, e’35, 88, May 19 inLawrence. He had been a senior projects engi-neer for Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Okla.,and is survived by his wife, Dorothea SandersPankratz, ’36; a daughter, Mary Pankratz Nichols,c’72; a son, Howard, j’67; a brother; two grand-children; and two great-grandchildren.

Virginia Bowers Ralston, c’30, g’32, 93,March 16 in Wichita, where she was a retiredEnglish teacher. She is survived by two sons; twodaughters, one of whom is Virginia Ralston Hat-field, s’68; a sister ; 13 grandchildren; and eightgreat-grandchildren.

Logan “Jack” Shuss, c’38, l’40, 85, April 14in Kansas City. He practiced law in Parsons formore than 50 years. Surviving are his wife, Mari-an Ruth Shuss, assoc.; two sons, John, c’72, m’75,and David, c’76, m’79; a daughter, Melinda ShussHoffman, d’73; a sister, Althea Shuss Vratil, c’44;and seven grandchildren.

1940sWilliam Buzick, c’42, 80, Dec. 28 in Fresno,Calif. He had owned Shasta Water Co., whichwas the first company to offer soft drinks incans, and later he was CEO and board chairmanof Sara Lee. He also had been dean of businessat Fresno State University. He is survived by hiswife, Mary Lee, a son and a daughter.

Bailey Chaney, c’48, April 3 in Houston,Texas, where he was a retired labor relationsofficer with NASA. He is survived by his wife,Virginia Foreman Chaney, ’49; a son; and agrandson.

John Crary, c’40, m’43, 82, April 30 inTopeka, where he practiced medicine. He is survived by two sons; a daughter ; three step-daughters; a sister, Ruth Crary Mercer, d’39;nine grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter.

Jo Ann Everett Douglas, ’46, 77, May 14 in Lawrence, where she worked in the KUEndowment Association’s loan department. Amemorial has been established with the KUEndowment Association. She is survived by herhusband,William, e’46; two sons,William, e’78,g’81, and Bruce, d’82; two daughters, Margaret,e’94, and Nancy Douglas Wallace, b’82; twobrothers; and a grandchild.

Margaret Hagstrom Dunlap, ’41, Sept. 2 inDallas, where she was an artist. She is survivedby two daughters, a son, 13 grandchildren and agreat-granddaughter.

Edith Thompson Gray, ’41, 85, May 17 inAlbany, Calif. A memorial has been establishedwith the KU Endowment Association. She is sur-vived by a son, David, c’62, g’65, and two grand-children.

June Streeper Hardman, d’42, 81, May 17in Salina. She is survived by two sons, one ofwhom is Eric, e’76; a daughter, Judy HardmanRapp, d’70; and six grandchildren.

Wanda Horosko Harper, d’41, g’70, 81,March 5 in Tonganoxie. She lived in Kansas Cityand was a retired job counselor with the KansasJob Service.Two daughters, a sister, two grand-children and two great-granddaughters survive.

Mark Lesslie, c’48, April 28 in Overland Park,where he worked in the real-estate business. Heis survived by his wife, Charlotte; a son, Kevin,b’74; three daughters, Cheryl Lesslie Scott, c’75,Jennie Lesslie Newman, c’79, and ElizabethLesslie Koenig, b’86; a brother; and nine grand-children.

William McIntosh, b’47, 80, April 22 in ClayCenter, where he was retired president of Peo-ples National Bank. He is survived by his wife,Lavone; two daughters, one of whom is HeatherMcIntosh Dreith, j’78; a son, Laird, c’71 c’71; asister ; and three grandchildren.

Prescott Ripley, ’44, 94, 78, April 30 inLawrence, where he was a 20-year volunteerwith Audio Reader. He is survived by his wife,Janice Howe Ripley, c’55; three daughters;three stepdaughters; a stepson; and sevengrandchildren.

C.D. “Chuck” Robertson, ’49, 75, March 14in Atchison. He was retired president of Con-rad-American, a manufacturer of grain storagefacilities and ancilliary devices. He is survived byhis wife, Donna, a daughter, two stepdaughters, astepson, four grandchildren and five stepgrand-children.

William Southern, ’41, 82, March 20 inWichita. He lived in Ellinwood and was an insur-ance agent for John Hancock and Transamericainsurance companies for more than 50 years.He is survived by his wife, Helen; a son,WilliamJr., e’68, g’70; two daughters, Nancy, f ’70, s’78,and Joan Southern Pivonka, c’70; four grandchil-dren; and two great-grandchildren.

Donald Strohmeyer, d’48, g’49, 80, March30 in Hanover. He lived in Axtell, where he hadbeen postmaster and principal of St. Michael’sCatholic Grade School. He is survived by hiswife, Jackie Schafer Strohmeyer, ’48; four sons,two of whom are Donald, d’71, and Daniel,d’73, g’76; a daughter ; and 14 grandchildren.

1950sJohn Domoney, ’50, 74, March 17 in Downs,where he co-owned Domoney Furniture andFuneral Home. He is survived by his wife, MelbaWhiting Domoney, c’48; three sons, Darcy, b’75,l’81, Duff, b’77, and Dewey, c’79; a brother;seven grandchildren; and two stepgrandchildren.

Dean Hawley, e’50, 75, April 16 in Tulsa,Okla., where he was retired from Natkin & Co.Surviving are his wife, Gayle DeFord Hawley, ’53;three sons; his mother; two brothers, one ofwhom is Dale, ’51; and 10 grandchildren.

William Hoadley, c’53, m’56, 69, April 1 inLeawood. He practiced medicine at ResearchMedical Center and had taught at KU Medical

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Center. He is survived by his wife, Hazel, twosons, a daughter, his parents, a sister and eightgrandchildren.

Leland Keller, PhD’58, 78, March 10 in Pitts-burg, where he was a professor emeritus atPittsburg State University. He is survived by hiswife, Eileen Ebel Keller, ’54; two sons; a daugh-ter ; a brother; and three grandchildren.

Thomas McGrath, j’58, 64, April 30 in Leawood. He was vice president of McGrathDental Supply and founder of the AmericanDental Cooperative Association. Surviving arethree daughters, one of whom is Ann, c’91;and three brothers, one of whom is Donald, c’51.

Bonnie Vanskike McGowan, g’59, 78, April17 in Olathe, where she was a retired readingteacher. Surviving are her husband, Charles; twosons; two stepsons, one of whom is MichaelMcGowan, d’79; a stepdaughter ; a brother; andseven grandchildren.

Vada Reida Nixon, d’53, 71, April 18. Shelived in Salina, where she was a retired teacher.Surviving are a son; a daughter ; a brother, EllisReida, c’51, g’55; and a grandchild.

Vernon Pistora, ’51, 75, April 4 in Lawrence.He is survived by his wife, Carol LindgrenAnderson, assoc.; a daughter ; three sons; a step-son; four sisters; a brother; three grandchildren;and two stepgrandchildren.

Norma Fenn White, c’55, 67, March 23 inOverland Park. She is survived by her husband,Thomas, b’51; two daughters, Brenda, c’87, andSondra White Troup, c’89, g’92; a son, Bryan,c’91, l’94; a sister ; and four grandchildren.

Robert Zimmerman, e’52, 72, March 4 inGravois Mills, Mo. He was retired executive vicepresident with Wilcox and is survived by hiswife, Marion Lawson Zimmerman, assoc.; threesons; a daughter ; nine grandchildren; and agreat-grandchild.

Henry Zoller, c’51, 72, March 12 in LongBeach, Calif. He lived in Denver and hadworked in the oil and gas industry. Surviving arethree sons; two daughters; a brother, David,m’63; and seven grandchildren.

1960sJohn Harrington, j’67, 56, March 21 ofinjuries suffered in an automobile accident nearLawrence. He lived in Kansas City and is sur-vived by his wife, Patty Burrell, f ’77; a son; adaughter ; his mother; a brother, David, c’68; anda sister.

Virginia Buttolph Jenks, c’67, Dec. 20 in Sun City, Ariz. Among survivors are her husband, Leon, ’55; a son; a daughter ; and two grandsons.

John “Greg” Long, ’64, 59, April 21 inWichita. He is survived by two sons, one ofwhom is Jeffrey, c’85; a daughter, Jody Long

Adams, d’91; a brother; two sisters; and sixgrandchildren.

Ethel Reed Malicky, ’64, 91, March 20 inBaldwin, where she was a retired teacher. She issurvived by her husband, George; two daugh-ters, Joyce Malicky Castle, f ’61, and GeorgannMalicky Raney, ’54; a son; five grandchildren; andseven great-grandchildren.

Ruth Irvin McLean, g’65, g’68, 88, March 2 in Lake Quivira, where she was a retiredteacher and school counselor. Surviving are two daughters, one of whom is Sally McLeanHart, d’60; a son, Robert, c’61; a brother; sixgrandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

Elwin Lee Miller, e’60, 68, April 15 in Topeka,where he was a retired engineer. He is survivedby his wife, Carolyn; three sons, two of whomare Bradley, b’85, and Dana, e’87, g’90; twobrothers; a sister, Dorothy, n’58; and sevengrandchildren.

Robert Radcliffe, b’63, 61, April 12 in KansasCity. A memorial has been established with theKU Endowment Association. He is survived by ason,William, c’94; and a brother, Dean, c’64.

Patricia Deam Stubbs, f ’64, 59, April 29 in Overland Park, where she was an interiordesigner. She is survived by her husband,Gary, a’64; a son, Clifford, b’88, l’91; a daughter,Kari Stubbs Goheen, d’91, g’95; and four grandchildren.

Dorothy Spahr Zafer, d’68, g’70, 89, April 3in Overland Park. She had taught at Easton HighSchool and been a funeral director at Quisen-berry Funeral Home in Tonganoxie. Survivingare a son, Calvin, c’71; four stepsons, one ofwhom is Ghany Zafer, c’93; two daughters; twobrothers, one of whom is Charles Spahr, e’34; asister ; and nine grandchildren.

1970sLloyd Otto Elliott, ’70, 52, April 27 in Tope-ka, where he managed computer operations forthe Shawnee County Courthouse. He is sur-vived by his wife, Linda; two sons, one of whomis Brian, e’94; and a grandson.

Michael Kokoruda, ’70, 56, April 7 in Kansas City, where he worked at the WyandotteCounty Courthouse. He is survived by his wife,Bridget; three sons; three brothers, two ofwhom are Thomas, d’68, l’72, and Russell, d’74,g’81, g’97; and a sister, Deborah Kokoruda Nelson, g’86.

1980sRuth McPeak James, ’87, 76, March 5 inLeawood, where she was a homemaker. She issurvived by her husband, Stephen, a daughter,two sons, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Jim O’Shea, ’85, 42, April 20 in Roeland Park,where he was a self-employed salesman. He issurvived by his wife, Mary; his parents, Jim and

Anne O’Shea, s’85; two brothers, Randall, b’73,and Tim, j’77; and three sisters, two of whomare Karen O’Shea White, j’75, and Janine O’SheaGilliam, c’78.

The University CommunityFrancis Gilgin, g’80, f ’88, 78, Feb. 3 inTonganoxie, where he was founder and presi-dent of the Tonganoxie Community Theatre. Healso had been a cockpit crew member for TWAand had taught philosophy and logic at KU andat Kansas City Kansas Community College. Amemorial has been established with the KUEndowment Association. He is survived by hiswife, Patricia Lewin Gilgin, h’81, g’93; two daugh-ters, one of whom is Elizabeth Gilgin Menardi,p’87, and a grandchild.

Sydney Schroeder, m’44, 83, March 9 inLawrence, where he had been director of stu-dent mental health at KU from 1963 until 1983.Earlier he had practiced medicine in Liberty, Mo.A memorial has been established with the KUEndowment Association. He is survived by hiswife, Margaret Loomis Schroeder, assoc.; threedaughters, Jane Schroeder DeSouza, f ’73, AnnSchroeder Porter, d’67, and Virginia SchroederDowell, n’76; a son; a brother; a sister ; andseven grandchildren.

Miriam Stewart-Green, assoc., 85, Dec. 16in Lawrence, where she was a longtime KU pro-fessor of voice. A memorial has been estab-lished with the KU Endowment Association.Survivors include her husband, Robert, assoc.;and two daughters.

Wade Stinson, b’51, 74, March 11 in Dia-mondhead, Miss. He had been director of ath-letics at KU from 1964 until 1972 and later waspresident and CEO of United Missouri Bank ofSt. Louis. Among survivors are his wife,VirginiaCoppedge Stinson, j’50; two sons,Wade, c’76,m’79, and David, c’78; a daughter, Nancy StinsonBlue, c’80; a brother, Robert, b’56; and ninegrandchildren.

Paul Wilson, c’37, g’38, 87, April 22 inLawrence, where he had been the John M. andJohn L. Kane Distinguished Professor of Law atKU. A law professorship was established in hisname at KU in 1998, and a memorial has beenestablished with the KU Endowment Associa-tion. He is survived by his wife, Harriet StephensWilson, c’40; three daughters, two of whom are Betsy Wilson Marvin, c’64, g’95, and MaryWilson Orbin, c’67; a son, David, c’76, g’86; abrother; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

AssociatesPaul Williams, 80, April 9 in Lawrence. Hewas a retired chief warrant officer in the U.S.Army and later worked for McCord Corp. He issurvived by his wife, Betty; a son, Fred, assoc.;four brothers; two sisters; and a grandson.

He’s been rained on,chased by blowing leaves, bent atodd angles by the relentless prairie wind and

frozen in blocks of ice. He napped under a shady tree onpleasant afternoons, donned skis and a stocking cap for snowydays and trudged through the summer heat dripping sweat.

After 30 years of fearless forecasting, the University DailyKansan’s plucky prognosticator finally can mop his brow, fold uphis umbrella, pack away his parka and stop worrying about theweather—whether he likes it or not.

The Daily Kansan rolled out a redesigned format in its sum-mer issues, and editors and designers weren’t keen on keeping acartoon bird on their clutter-free front page.

Weather Jay is out of work.He debuted Jan. 19, 1971, wearing skis and a smile. Created

by staff cartoonist David Sokoloff, f’74, who also had a popularcomic strip in the UDK called “Griff & the Unicorn,” WeatherJay was, from the start, cute as a button. But that didn’t countfor much in those days.

“It was the early ’70s,” Sokoloff says from his Chicago home.“We had things going on. The anti-war movement, things likethat. The appearance of a strange little bird on the left-hand sideof the paper was sort of taken for granted.”

Sokoloff retrieves a scrapbookand wanders down memorylane. He finds a sketch thatmakes him laugh.

“This one indicated theweather was warm. Weather

Jay is just sitting there … withthose peculiar shoes with buckles on them, like he’s a pilgrim.”

Weather Jay was blowingin the wind after the mid-1970s, appearing one

semester and disappearing thenext. He lost his gig, seemingly for good, in the early 1980s, butwas rescued in fall 1994 by designer Noah Musser, f’97.

Musser scanned Weather Jays from newspapers stored at Uni-versity Archives because Sokoloff’s originals were nowhere to be

foundin theKansan morgue.He colorized the linedrawings and mixed andmatched a few existing fea-tures to create a larger catalog.Otherwise, the birds were true toSokoloff’s vision.

“I loved Weather Jay from when I read the Kansan when Iwas young,” Musser says, “so I chose to be as historically accu-rate as possible.”

Weather Jay lasted seven years after his reintroduction, buthe’s now been replaced by “a seven-day forecast provided by theKU Atmospheric Sciences Department.” Which sounds officialand accurate and reliable. And the redesigned Kansan looks ter-rific and proud and new, which in itself pays tribute to the tradi-tion of newspaper excellence at KU.

But ... well, we already miss Weather Jay, just like we miss thelocal TV weather guy who picked up a few extra bucks by host-ing the bowling show on Saturday. You know the guy. He was onevery station in every town in America. Now he’s been replacedby “certified meteorologists” whose “live Doppler radar” can tellus everything except when to take the roast out of the oven.

Maybe Weather Jay and Bowling-Show Guy are making thebest of their retirements. Maybe they’re sipping piña coladastogether, relaxing on a beach in a paradise where sameness isabhorred, quirkiness is treasured andumbrellas are un-necessary.

We just hopethey rememberedto pack their pil-grim shoes.�

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Bye, bye, BirdieThe Daily Kansan’s Weather Jay gets fired. Again.

BY CHRIS LAZZARIN0HAIL TO OLD KU

David Sokoloff ’s originalweather bird debuted

Jan 19, 1971.

The Kansas Alumni Association invites nominations for the University’s highesthonor, the Distinguished Service Citation.

Since 1941 the University of Kansas and its Alumni Associationhave bestowed the Distinguished Service Citation upon nearly340 alumni and honorary alumni. Recipients are selected fromnominations submitted to the Alumni Association and reviewedby a special Selection Committee. Distinguished Service Citationrecipients are honored by the Alumni Association in the springand participate in Commencement as honored guests.

Nominations may come from any source and should include arecent résumé of the candidate’s service history, including career,published works, previous honors and service to the world,nation, state, community and University. Letters of support mayalso be included. The deadline for nominations for the 2002awards is Sept. 30, 2001.

Send nominations for the 2002 awards to Fred B. Williams atthe Kansas Alumni Association, 1266 Oread Avenue, Lawrence,KS 66044-3169.

A KING A CASTLE A TREASURE KANSAS ALUMNI · terparts, the Kansas tribe sends Jayhawks into the world with degrees worth more than a fortune over a lifetime, especially in their potential

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