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by Carole Gieseke
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Welcome to the sixties
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hen I began looking for images to illustrate our cover story on Iowa State in the 1960s, I found a lot of interesting things in the University Library’s Archives. I found thick files stored away in President Robert Parks’s papers, files stuffed with correspondence and newspaper clipping about Don Smith, the notorious student body president who pledged to drag Iowa State University kicking and screaming into the 20th century. I found images of Vietnam War protests, though not as many as you would find at Berkeley and the University of Wisconsin. I found photos and documentation about the building of the Iowa State Center, a capital project that not only expanded Iowa State’s ability to host conferences, touring shows, concerts, and athletics events but also changed the way the university managed its private fundraising activities. I found cute pictures of co-eds in their residence halls, pictures of VEISHEA floats and sports teams. What I didn’t find were many images of people of color. As I searched through Bomb after Bomb, the university’s yearbook, I found row upon row of white faces. Entire fraternities, filled with white men. Sororities with only white women. Groups of student leaders and club members, all white. I knew that Iowa State was a predominantly white school in the 1960s, but it didn’t hit home until I looked at all those faces. I wanted to know what it was like for students of color who were on campus at that time, so I started contacting alumni for their recollections. David Ford was an outstanding student from Fort Worth, Texas. When he graduated from high school in 1962, his school was still segregated. He qualified for an engineering co-op, 2
and he was told Iowa State had an excellent engineering program. So, he headed north to Ames. Life in Ames was culturally shocking to Ford. It was not an outright hostile environment, he said, but people were less than friendly to him, and they kept their distance. He struggled academically during his first quarter, ending that session with two Cs and two Bs. But, he said, he knew he had the skills to compete. He could do the work. He’d been valedictorian of his high school graduating class. He adjusted his study habits and worked harder than many of his classmates. He bought his textbooks in advance and studied on his lunch breaks while he was back in Texas working to earn money for the next quarter. By the end of his time at Iowa State, he made the dean’s list. Ford went on to earn advanced degrees at the University of Wisconsin and had a long and successful career as an academician. He continued to break racial barriers everywhere he went. Women, too, found themselves pushing boundaries in the 1960s. They endured restrictive hours and a dress code by which men were not bound, and they encountered professors who did not encourage them in science and technology fields as they did the men. The women we spoke with broke ground for the generations who would attend Iowa State in the 1970s and beyond. My own experience in the 1960s was through the lens of a youngster, watching the Vietnam War unfold on television, seeing the first man walk on the moon, hearing about Woodstock, watching my parents’ shocked reactions to the assassinations of
President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy, and others. When the president was killed in 1963, I was too young to understand the gravity of the change that was about to come, but I remember watching the funeral on TV and seeing the face of his son, who was even younger than I was. It was a different time we lived in. For those alumni who were on campus during the 1960s, I hope you enjoy our coverage of that tumultuous decade. And if you have memories you’d like to share, send them my way. I’d love to read them and share in a future issue of VISIONS.
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The Sixties A decade that forever altered the nation and Iowa State University
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Students protesting the Vietnam War on the Iowa State campus were warned that anyone not moving on would be arrested Photo from ISU Library / Special Collections Department
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stories in this issue – or about other topics of interest to VISIONS readers. Email your letters to: CGIESEKE@IASTATE.EDU. OFFICERS Thomas A. Connop**# Chair ’76 History Dallas, Texas Kathy A. (Sullivan) Peterson**^ Chair-elect ’95 Speech Comm. Aurelia, Iowa Lawrence Cunningham**^ Immediate Past Chair ’02 Liberal Studies Ames, Iowa Timothy R. Quick**# Vice Chair of Finance ’01 Marketing, Intl. Business Clive, Iowa Marc Mores**# Vice Chair of Records ’95 Exercise & Sport Science Parker, Colo. Joan Piscitello**# University Treasurer ’98 MBA Ex-officio/voting West Des Moines, Iowa Jeffery W. Johnson**# Lora and Russ Talbot ISUAA Endowed President & CEO PhD ’14 Education Ex-officio/non-voting Ames, Iowa
Donald A. Hoy**# ’63 Ag. Business Weatherby Lake, Mo. Larry Pithan** ’73 Mech. Engr. Andalusia, Ill.
Kelli Ann Cameron** ’02 Ag. Education Janesville, Wis. Taylor Davis* ’17 Supply Chain Mgmt. Las Vegas, Nev. Marvin DeJear* ’00 Business Mgmt., MBA ’03, PhD ’16 Ed. Leadership Des Moines, Iowa Heather L. (Reid) Duncan**# ’06 Public Service & Admin. in Ag. Kansas City, Mo. Duane M. Fisher**# ’73 Ag Ed., MS ‘80 Mt. Auburn, Iowa Chad Harris** ‘01 Political Science Kansas City, Mo.
I read with interest the article in the summer edition of VISIONS re: The National Institute of Antimicrobial Resistance Research and Education (NIAMRRE). Twenty years ago, I served on a Committee on Drug Use in Food Animals, appointed by the Board on Agriculture and the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council. Our conclusions were published by the National Academy Press in 1999 under the title, “The Use of Drugs in Food Animals, Benefits and Risks.” Some findings and conclusions might be of interest to members of the institute. ISU faculty was active on the national scene and the names should ring bells. George Beran, Dermot Hayes, and, most especially, Harley Moon, who was a member of the NRC Board on Agriculture. I’m sure he was the one who proposed my name for the committee.
Cathy Schmidt**# ’88 Marketing Plymouth, Minn. Gregory Smith**# ’91 Occ. Safety, MPA ’10 Marion, Iowa Martha Smith** ’04 Ag. Business St. Louis, Mo. Amy Burrough Tetmeyer**# ’91 Accounting Johnston, Iowa Dana (Willig) Wilkinson** ’78 Interior Design Bettendorf, Iowa Eric Wittrock**# ’92 Mech. Engr. Urbandale, Iowa Suzanne J. Wyckoff**# ’70 English Riverside, Mo. APPOINTED DIRECTORS Sophia Magill** Office of the President Representative ’05 Pol. Sci. Ames, Iowa
ELECTED DIRECTORS Daniel A. Buhr**# ’95 Elec. Engr. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
ARE ANTIBIOTICS MAKING US SICK?
Michele Appelgate* College Representative ’88 Journ. & Mass Comm. Ames, Iowa Phyllis M. Fevold**^ Non-alumni Representative Ames, Iowa Andrew Larson*** Student Alumni Leadership Council Representative Senior, Forestry LeRoy, Ill. Membership Key: *Annual member **Life member ***Student member
^Business member # 2018 Sustaining Life donor To apply for the Board of Directors, go to isualum.org/ board. The deadline is Nov. 1. Meet the Board: isualum.org/about/board
SISTERS REUNITED
Connie Greig (A) On April 26-28 nearly 150 sisters of the Epsilon Phi Chapter of Alpha Xi Delta Sorority gathered in Ames to celebrate the chapter’s 50th anniversary. Sisters from across the country gathered at the ISU Alumni Center for a luncheon and program featuring a narrative of the founding of the chapter by several charter members. Sisters reminisced over scrapbooks, chapter composites, and sang Alpha Xi Delta songs throughout the weekend. A tour of the former chapter house was hosted by Delta Zeta Sorority. Sisters had a great time exploring the campus and campus town throughout the weekend. Amy Gaffney-Ingalls (L)
’94 graphic design Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Celebrating the return of Brunnier Art Museum
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his summer, the University Museum staff was preparing the Brunnier Art Museum to reopen after a twoyear hiatus for an extensive renovation project. A Beyond The Glass Reopening Gala will be held on Thursday, Sept. 19 starting at 7 p.m. in the Scheman Building. This event, marking the 44th anniversary year of the Brunnier Art Museum’s opening, is free and open to the public. The Gala will showcase the major renovation, preview three world-class exhibitions, and engage attendees about the future of art on the Iowa State campus. 6
The renovation project includes a new all-glass front entrance, expanded exhibition space (the Lori A Jacobson Gallery), modernized collections vault (the Hilsinger Jansen Collections Vault), redesigned office space for the museum, and a new public art installation. The Brunnier Art Museum annually presents national and international art exhibitions of contemporary contexts and historic cultures, serving more than 12,000 students with curriculum connections and 36,000+ ISU students via programs. The Brunnier Art Museum is an artistic and cultural destination museum for the public, attracting tens of thousands of museum visitors to ISU and Ames each year. FALL 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS
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cool things you should KNOW and SHARE about ISU
1: Blowing away the competition: A team of 12 ISU graduate students beat nearly 150 teams from 114 universities in 28 countries in winning the 20th annual Data Mining Cup July 3 in Berlin, Germany. The students developed a mathematical model to detect cases of fraud at self-checkouts in grocery stores. “Often, the top teams in these data mining prediction contests are within the margin of error from each other,” said Stephen Vardeman (’71 math, MS ’73), university professor of statistics and industrial engineering. “But Iowa State’s winners clearly blew the competition away this year.” 2: Proud patents: Iowa State ranks No. 69 in the world in the
number of patents (34) granted in the United States last year, according to a list released June 4 by the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association. 3: Newest student regent is a Cyclone: In June, the
Board of Regents officially welcomed its newest member: Zack
Leist, an ISU junior in agricultural business. Leist will serve as the Board’s student representative. “I hope to use my knowledge and skills to best represent students from Iowa State, Iowa, and UNI,” Leist said. “I am looking forward to this exciting opportunity.” 4: Precious Pew: Geetu Tuteja, assistant professor of
genetics, development and cell biology, has been selected to join the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. She is the first Iowa State researcher to receive this honor. She is one of 22 promising scientists nationwide to receive a four-year, $300,000 grant to conduct biomedical research aimed at advancing human health. Tuteja’s research focuses on human embryo and maternal health. 5: Seeds of success: A film produced by the Iowa State
University Seed Science Center was recently honored with a Telly Award. The six-part documentary Seeds! Diversity of Wonder took home the Silver Telly.
In April, Debra Marquart (MA ’93 English), ISU distinguished professor of English, was named Iowa’s Poet Laureate. In her new role, she plans to hold creative writing seminars across the state and visit schools and libraries to inspire young writers. “I was once a young, creative, dreamy kid growing up in a small town, and I think about how it would have felt to have an artist come to my school,” Marquart said. “One of the joys of being a published writer is that I get to teach and mentor young writers. I pinch myself every day. I’ve taken a very crooked, accidental path through life, and I’ve been very lucky.” Born into a family of lively storytellers, Marquart says she grew up in a home with few books and longed for the days when the bookmobile parked along the curb outside her Catholic school. She can still smell the old paper, leather, and glue that greeted her each time she stepped inside this “sanctuary of books” from her childhood. “I remember having a stack of books VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG FALL 2019
in my arms taller than me and navigating my way down the steps and back to the classroom. When I got home, I’d climb into bed surrounded by all those books and
read,” she said. “To have that experience of sitting down with a book and just losing track of time is such a gift. From the very first time I saw books, I wanted more.” That is the connection Marquart aims to create through her own writing. She encourages the young writers she works with in the classroom, writing workshops, and in her new role as Iowa’s Poet Laureate to think of how this solitary activity extends beyond the keyboard and screen. “What’s truly miraculous about writing is the connection between the intimacy the writer experiences when writing and the intimacy the reader experiences when reading,” Marquart said. “The world feels less lonely when you have that experience. You can have that experience with someone living in another country or someone who lived centuries ago. Writing allows people to speak across the ages.” – Angie Hunt, ISU News Service
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DEBRA MARQUART: IOWA’S POET LAUREATE
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A $3.5 million grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust of Muscatine will bring a state-ofthe-art cryo-transmission electron microscope to Iowa State, helping Amy Andreotti and Dipali Sashital, left to right, advance their studies of structural biology.
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owa State University attracted $469 million of total external funding for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That’s the third highest total for external funding and follows two record years of support. The latest total includes a record $260.9 million of
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Research funding breaks a new record
external support for Iowa State research. External funding includes grants, contracts, gifts, and cooperative agreements from federal, state, and local governments as well as from corporations, nonprofits, and other universities for research, academic support, scholarships, and more.
“The record-high external research funding the university achieved in 2019 directly reflects the value our sponsors place on our faculty’s focused, purposeful approach to research,” said Sarah Nusser (L)(PhD ’90 statistics), Iowa State’s vice president for research.
RESEARCH SEXUAL ORIENTATION BIAS AFFECTS BORROWING Research led by ISU finance professors Hua Sun and Lei Gao discovered that same-sex couples often were more likely to be denied mortgages than heterosexual couples. Same-sex couples also paid marginally more in fees when they did win credit approval. “Lenders can justify higher fees if there is greater risk,” Gao said. “We found nothing to indicate that’s the case. In fact, our findings weakly suggest same-sex borrowers may perform better.” The study was published in the
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April.
RECOGNIZING THE MEANING OF MOUNT RUSHMORE Mount Rushmore is a symbol of freedom for many Americans, but the monument has a more complicated meaning for Native people. Christina Gish Hill, ISU associate professor of anthropology, is part of a research team working with the National Park Service to document the significance of the Black Hills for Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho people
in relationship to Mount Rushmore. “People raised concerns that Mount Rushmore portrays U.S. presidents in an unproblematic way. Some noted that glorifying them without recognizing the challenges posed by U.S. history is a slap in the face. That is really the painful piece for Native people – their painful history with the U.S. government, the theft of the Black Hills, and then having this monument that is not only destructive to such a sacred place, but also glorifies the U.S. in a very uncritical manner.”
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InBrief ■ Business is booming In August, the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business launched three new graduate programs designed to help business professionals gain skills that will help them move up in their companies: the master of business analytics (an interdisciplinary program including courses in computer science, computer engineering, statistics, and industrial engineering), the master of real estate development (a coursework-only degree sponsored in conjunction with the College of Design), and the Ivy Executive MBA (EMBA). ■ CyRide goes electric CyRide, the ISU campus/Ames community bus system, has been awarded a $1.66 million grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration Lowor No-Emission Grant program. The program funds the deployment of transit buses and infrastructure that use advanced propulsion technologies. CyRide will use the funds to purchase battery electric buses to replace diesel
buses that have exceeded their useful life, as well as battery chargers/dispensers and facility modifications to support this technology. ■ A Smart Start for at-risk freshmen A new program launched this fall will assure immediate academic intervention for first-year students who didn’t automatically qualify for admission: a group of about 200 undergraduates who often need extra support in their crucial first months on campus. Participation in Smart Start will be required for Iowa State freshmen admitted despite a Regents Admissions Index score less than the 245 that guarantees acceptance to any of Iowa’s three state Regent universities. “Research shows they’re the students at greatest risk for attrition,” said Phil Caffrey (’80 psychology, MS ’94 education), director of admissions operations and policy. Students who weren’t automatically admitted are more likely to struggle immediately. That’s why early intervention is key. “The best way to help somebody get out of an academic hole is
NEWS SPECIES THREATENED BY CLIMATE CHANGE Climate change is outpacing the ability of birds and other species to adapt to their changing environment. That’s the conclusion made by an international team of scientists that included Fredric Janzen, ISU professor of ecology, evolution, and organismal biology. The team’s recent paper in the academic journal Science Communications evaluated more than 10,000 published scientific studies. The analysis concludes that animals can respond to climate change, but those VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG FALL 2019
responses generally don’t allow species to cope with the rapid pace of rising temperatures. Janzen contributed data from his research on turtles along the Mississippi River.
TEENS DON’T ALWAYS TURN TO SOCIAL MEDIA Technology is so pervasive it may seem as if teens spend more time on social networking sites than in real conversations with friends. New research challenges that assumption and finds some teens, especially when they feel lonely, prefer
to help them not dig the hole in the first place,” Caffrey said. ■ New faces around Iowa State • Carolann Jensen (L)(’86 public service & admin in ag / intl ag), chief operations officer for the Iowa Finance Authority, Des Moines, became the state relations officer for Iowa State on Aug. 26. • James Morris has been named chief research officer at the Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory. • Rick Sanders became president of the ISU Research Park on June 1. He came to Iowa State from the Story County Board of Supervisors, where he’d served since 2010. He succeeds Steve Carter (L)(’76 pol sci), who retired in December after leading the park for 18 years. • Donald Hackmann is new School of Education director and the inaugural Frances S. and Arthur L. Wallace Professor in the College of Human Sciences.
face-to-face interactions over social media. The findings are encouraging, given that 80 percent of teens say they constantly feel lonely, said Rui Chen, associate professor of information systems in Iowa State’s Ivy College of Business. The study, published in the journal Information and Management, offers a deeper understanding of why some teens use social media when they’re lonely, and found a striking difference based on gender. Chen says girls tended to interact directly with friends, while boys in the study defaulted to Facebook. 9
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he turbulent decade of the 1960s changed much about American politics, culture, and society. In many ways, the Iowa State University community reflected the triumphs, trials, and tragedies that occurred at the national level. Nationally, the 1960s began in hope. As President John F. Kennedy noted in his inaugural address on Jan. 21, 1961, “The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace…and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed.” The teaming vitality and restless energy of the Greatest Generation saw limitless horizons before them: a world where advancements in agricultural technology would feed the world, where we would solve the vexing problems of Civil Rights, where we would win
The teaming vitality and restless energy of the Greatest Generation saw limitless horizons before them. a War on Poverty in our country, and one where the United States set for itself perhaps the most audacious goal in the history of humanity – landing a human being on the moon and bringing him safely back to earth. Yet, so many of the hopes and dreams that seemed so achievable in January 1961 were soon dashed and tarnished by an unpopular war in Vietnam, political violence and assassination, and the realization that some goals were simply unattainable. Thus, the promise of progress and common cause that so captivated the country in 1961 proved uneven, and the nation left the decade politically divided and uncertain of its future. A new name and a national tragedy For Iowa State, the long 1960s* began with a significant transition in the history of the institution. On July 4,
1959, Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts officially became Iowa State University of Science and Technology. Linda Murray Emmerson (A)(’59 general science) was a member of the last class to graduate from Iowa State College. “We always felt we were special,” she says. Alice Peterson Hudson (L)(’63 chemistry) arrived on campus the fall after the name changed. “I don’t remember Iowa State as a college,” she said. “I just remember going to a football game in Tallahassee shortly after we graduated and moved to Florida, and we were singing the fight song. And they, of course, had to change the words of the fight song from ISC to ISU and make it rhyme. Half the people were singing one way, and half the people were singing it the other way.” Though the name change didn’t necessarily resonate with many students of the time, one event in the early 1960s will forever be imprinted in the memories of the students who were on campus. “One thing that I’ll never, ever, ever forget was my first final exam, which
TIMELINE • Oct. 4: Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik, an unmanned satellite, into space
• Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the Iowa State campus
• Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks on campus • Nov. 8: John F. Kennedy elected U.S. president
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• July 4: Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts officially becomes Iowa State University of Science and Technology • Official names of academic divisions become: College of Agriculture, College of Engineering, College of Home Economics, College of Sciences and Humanities, College of Veterinary Medicine
• The Green Gander discontinues publication; it began in 1915
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was English 101, in the old English Office Building,” Dennis Gathmann (L)(’67 zoology) said. “Thirty minutes before I walked over there from Alumni Hall, we heard on the radio that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. It was Nov. 22, 1963. I walked over to my English exam, and I remember my professor had a teeny, tiny transistor radio. He said, ‘I’ll keep you posted on how the president is doing.’ He gave us our blue books … we weren’t in it 10 minutes, and he dropped that transistor radio and just started sobbing. He said, ‘Our president is gone.’ We couldn’t believe it. The entire Iowa State University just stopped.”
“We heard on the radio that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. It was Nov. 22, 1963. I walked over to my English exam, and I remember my professor had a teeny, tiny transistor radio. He said, ‘I’ll keep you posted on how the president is doing.’ He gave us our blue books … we weren’t in it 10 minutes, and he dropped that transistor radio and just started sobbing. He said, ‘Our president is gone.’” – DENNIS GATHMANN Carol Marlow McGarvey (L)(’67 home ec journalism) remembers, “It was right at the end of my first quarter, so only three months after coming there, that’s when the JFK assassination took place, which was huge,
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as you can imagine. I had gotten a ride home to Perry after my final. I remember my dad was home and I ran in and said, ‘Dad, the president’s been shot,’ and he says, ‘No, what are you talking about? That’s not true.’ And I said, ‘Turn on TV! Turn on TV!’ And there was Walter Cronkite.” When students came back for the winter quarter, there was a different feeling on campus. “The difference was we had a whole new perspective, and we’d lost our innocence,” Gathmann said. Markers of change While the university’s name change and more academic programs reflected a pre-existing reality of an institution possessing an international reputation in agriculture, science, and technology along with offering greater opportunities for students, these things came at a cost that the students themselves understood and noted. Even though total enrollment did not reach the 10,000 mark until 1961, the editors of the 1960 ISU Bomb yearbook found their institution to be “an impersonal adventure… a name among names… sometimes a number.” A number of the most beloved icons of the Old College passed with the coming of the new decade. In 1964, “the Gables,” which had been built in 1879, served as the home for ISU’s first presidents, and one of the oldest buildings on campus, was torn down to make way for the new Buchanan Hall. The Green Gander was among the university’s most treasured student publications. It had begun in 1915 as a satirical tri-annual
publication (with the slogan “Every man’s got at least one good laugh coming. Maybe you’ll find yours here.”) that poked fun at both student life and at students themselves. When the campus was small, the jokes about “Prof C from Chemistry” were easy to understand, but as the campus grew more “impersonal,” the humor was lost on many. A series of poor editorial decisions and unprofessional content (including “pin up” style photos of Gander Girls) in the late-1950s affronted the sensibilities of the administration, parents, and townspeople and doomed the magazine. Even a shift to become more issue-oriented could not save the Gander, and it ceased publication in the autumn of 1960. “The Green Gander, succumbing to arguments that the campus humor magazine was passé, took a shot in fall 1959 as a magazine with serious content,” Tom Emmerson (A) (’60 technical journalism, MS ’63 history) said. “Reaction to the sudden switch was radical. Students paid their quarter, and within 20
• Jan. 21: John F. Kennedy inauguration
• During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
• Nov. 22: John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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• Planning begins for the Iowa State Center, and C.Y. Stephens is designated the national chairman of the fundraising campaign • Iowa State student enrollment reaches 10,000
• A comprehensive plan for protecting Iowa State students in case of nuclear attack is developed • Women’s hours are extended. Week night hours are now until midnight (except freshmen, 10:30 p.m.); weekend hours for all women are extended until 1 a.m.
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Construction of the Iowa State Center, 1970. Hilton Coliseum was the second building to occupy the Iowa State Center; the first was Stephens Auditorium.
A sign of things to come: 1966 Iowa State Center construction sign
steps from purchase, were expressing puzzlement, if not outrage. I know, because I was one of those pedaling the Gander that day.” After the Green Gander ceased publication, Emmerson – a professor emeritus of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication – remembers that campus humor was driven underground. “Mad Magazine-type spoofs of the ‘Ames Purity League’ persisted – at least in student circles where ‘in loco parentis’ was the tip of an iceberg of agitation (and worse) that included Don Smith; the Vietnam War; the assassinations of JFK and RFK and Dr. Martin Luther King; and the long, hot summers of violent protest in major American cities,” Emmerson said. “Maybe I am stretching things, but could it be that the Gander’s demise was a marker [of things to come]? Expanding the sciences In many ways, ISC had been operating like a
university since the late 1890s, but there was more to the transformation of the college to a university than merely a new name. While ISU continued its international reputation for leadership in agriculture, coming out of the Second World War the science and technological departments increasingly took center stage. The Department of Nuclear Engineering, along with components and issues related to nuclear power, were indicative of this shift. “[Soviet premier Nikita] Kruschev came [in 1959], and I was there,” Hudson said. “We were the first class after Sputnik went up, and so there was a huge focus on STEM. They started accelerated classes in math and science, and started the honors program. It was a very intense STEM focus.” In 1960 the Department of Nuclear Engineering was established with both undergraduate and graduate majors, and plans were made to establish a nuclear reactor off campus for research purposes. The presence of Ames Lab, combined with an ongoing nuclear energy research program, put ISU on the front lines of the Cold War and placed Ames on the list of cities for a Soviet nuclear strike. In 1962, ISU responded to this reality by formulating a comprehensive campus plan in case of nuclear war. While these kinds of plans seem foolish half a century later, the threat of nuclear escalation and nuclear war were very near in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The crowning achievement of nuclear research at ISU came on Feb. 17, 1965 when
• Feb. 21: Malcom X assassinated
the $4.5 million nuclear reactor went “critical” and brought the institution one of the largest reactors in the country and ensured that the university would stay on the cutting edge of science in the new age. While the institution’s emphasis on the hard sciences may have grabbed headlines in the media, Iowa State was now a university, and that meant creating a broad curriculum that offered both graduate and undergraduate majors across the curriculum. In keeping with this new reality, the university added undergraduate majors in English, speech, and modern languages in the early 1960s. Increased demand for all levels of education led to the founding of a College of Education in 1968. ISU also worked to increase its role in the state as a whole. While extension services flourished, the university added a Center for Industrial Research and Service in 1963 with the expressed charge of enhancing industry in Iowa. Many perceived this growth in curriculum as a positive thing. But, new majors and programs opened rapidly, often without good reference to the curriculum as a whole, and this led to curriculum revisions on a bi-annual or even annual basis, which frustrated both students and faculty. These administrative issues, combined with students flocking to new majors and old in unprecedented numbers, meant significant challenges for the university. A growing campus While Iowa State had seen a great building expansion in the 15 years since the end of World War II, the 1960s saw an even more robust building program. One of the most important additions to the new university was the Iowa
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• James H. Hilton retires; W. Robert Parks becomes president of Iowa State University
• A no-hours policy for senior women goes into effect • Student enrollment surpasses 15,000
• Controversial Don Smith elected president of the Government of the Student Body
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While Iowa State had seen a great building expansion in the 15 years since the end of World War II, the 1960s saw an even more robust building program. One of the most important additions to the new university was the Iowa State Center. State Center. President James Hilton perceived the buildings that would make up this vast complex as a beautiful gateway to the eastern entry of campus. The president had proposed the idea to the faculty in 1954 and worked to organize the nonprofit Iowa State College Foundation in 1958 to raise the funds necessary to build the massive structures. Prior to this time, fundraising was conducted by the Alumni Achievement Fund. The Iowa State Center campaign’s first donation was a gift of $2.00 from an unknown donor, but the second contribution was a $1 million donation from ISU alum Clifford Y. Stephens. Stephens believed that an understanding of and an appreciation for the fine arts was necessary for a life well-lived, and in 1961 he took up the mantle of chair of the fund-raising campaign for the Iowa State Center. Tragically, an automobile accident in 1964 meant that Stephens would not live to see the opening of the great 2,700+ seat auditorium that bears his name in the autumn of 1969. Nevertheless, Stephens’s work laid the foundation for the construction of Hilton Coliseum (1970), Fisher Theater (1971), a new football
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The 1959 football team was known as the “Dirty Thirty.” The team is shown here wearing new travel blazers.
stadium (1975), and the Scheman Building (1975). While university alumni and friends worked to fulfill President Hilton’s and Stephens’s dream of an impressive fine arts complex, ISU turned to the state to secure funding for academic buildings and residence halls. Throughout the 1960s, enrollment grew faster than anyone could have predicted, and the student body rose by nearly 5,000 students between 1962 and 1966 alone. Undergraduates represented only part of ISU’s growth; graduate enrollment growth at Iowa State doubled the national average. To meet the growing numbers of students, ISU built no fewer than seven new undergraduate residence halls between 1965 and 1971
(Knapp-Storms, Wallace-Wilson, and Maple-Willow-Larch). New classroom buildings were added to the growing campus; agronomy and animal science buildings and an air-conditioned library addition were only a few of the new structures needed for a college that, as the 1963 Bomb put it, enlarged “classes, classrooms, and its academic program.” By the middle years of the decade, the “need” that the institution saw in 1963 became a reality and the 1966 Bomb noted sardonically that ISU was a “university in transition.” Rallying around the teams Of course, a robust student life full of activities continued to thrive and grow across the decade as enrollment grew to almost 20,000
• April 4: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr assassinated • June 5: Sen. Robert Kennedy assassinated
• Jan. 30: Tet Offensive • July 20: Apollo 11 Moon landing and first moon walk • Aug. 15-18: Woodstock music festival
• April 30: Nixon announces the expansion of the war into Cambodia • May 4: Four students at Kent State are shot by National Guardsmen during protest
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• Black athletes at Iowa State submit a protest letter known as the Eight Grievances
• The first Black Cultural Affairs Week is held on campus • C.Y. Stephens Auditorium opens in the new Iowa State Center
• The Black Cultural Center is dedicated •Guest hours are approved for members of the opposite sex in the residence halls • A “March for Concern” is incorporated into this year’s VEISHEA parade
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by 1970, but the days of a close-knit campus rapidly faded into the past. Students found that they could be anonymous if they wished, never knowing anyone outside their close circle of friends. This anonymity led to what the students perceived as an increasing apathy among a growing part of the student body who chose not to become involved in activities or the life of the university. Then as now, students were focused on the activities and successes of ISU football. In 1959 the Cyclones amassed a 7-3 record. It was not only the best record for the Cyclones in more than 20 years, but the “dirty thirty” won ISU’s first homecoming game since 1953 by thrashing Kansas State 26-0. The 1960 fall campaign saw Coach Clay Stapleton’s team post another 7-3 record, the best two-year stretch in the history of the institution. These two years seemed to herald good things to come. In 1961 and again in 1966, additions were made to Clyde Williams Field that increased seating to 35,000. But, sadly, Stapleton’s teams struggled to get above five wins after 1961, and the glory days of John Majors belonged to the 1970s. Glen Anderson’s Cyclone basketball team was a solid team in the Big 8, and with stars like Don Smith (now Zaid Abdul-Aziz) and Bill Cain, the old Armory was always full for home games. (And, according to Cain, ISU almost succeeded in recruiting the legendary Julius Erving in 1967.)
dent Religious Council. This was an interfaith group that worked for understanding and fellowship among students of all religious traditions. In the winter quarter of 1960, the group chose to focus on practical issues of religion and faith rather than on theological ones for the first time in its 25-year history. The featured speaker that year was no less a figure than the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who addressed the well-attended convocation on “The Moral Challenges of a New Age.” Dr. King’s “New Age” was reflected in many ways across ISU’s campus. The regimented and regular patterns of student life could be seen shifting as early as 1962. That autumn, ROTC, which had been compulsory for all students in their first two years since the founding of the program in 1919, became voluntary. But female alumni can easily look back at that time and recall unequal expectations, both academically and socially. Linda Emmerson remembers that in her first year on campus, freshman women had to be in their dorms by 9 o’clock on week nights. As an architecture major, she had to negotiate with her house mother to be allowed later hours at the lab, just to keep up with the men
in her classes (she was the only woman). “We just accepted it in those days,” she said. “Girls had these early hours,” McGarvey says. “Men did not have hours.” Even the dress code was different for men and women. Women had to wear skirts to class and to dinner in the cafeteria. “Women couldn’t wear pants unless it was below zero,” McGarvey said. “We had kneehigh socks in virtually every color.” “When you look at the yearbook, all the engineers are men,” Hudson says. Growing up, she continued, “There were not many role models; most of the women were farm wives, school teachers, secretaries, and nurses.”
“When you look at the yearbook, all the engineers are men. [Growing up,] there were not many role models; most of the women were farm wives, school teachers, secretaries, and nurses.” – ALICE PETERSON HUDSON Hudson graduated in 1963 with a degree in chemistry. She said it was “somewhat audacious” for a woman at the time. Co-eds in Maple Hall, 1967
The “dirty thirty” won ISU’s first homecoming game since 1953 by thrashing Kansas State 26-0. “I remember how terrible our football team was,” Steve Dapper (’69 indust admin) said. “But we had good basketball and great wrestling.” A shifting culture While ISU students loved their Cyclones, from the beginning of the decade they were keenly aware of the world around them and the challenges that confronted them in their time. One of the most robust student groups at the beginning of the decade was the Stu-
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Iowa State presidents James H. Hilton and W. Robert Parks, together at the dedication of Hilton Coliseum.
“Iowa State was very fortunate at that time with leadership, from Hilton to Parks.” – GENE LANGE
1960s officer education, Army ROTC
“I expended a lot of ink in my junior year as an associate editor of the Daily, raging against ‘in loco parentis,’ which was applied to women but not men,” Kathy Jacobson Saccopoulos (’66 tech journalism, MS ’74) said. “I give myself some credit for at least getting the curfew for women loosened, allowing women to stay out until midnight – as long as they declared they were going to the library. It was a silly requirement, because there was no signing in at the other end. I argued that the curfew gave men an unfair academic advantage because they had greater access to the library.”
“I argued that the curfew gave men an unfair academic advantage because they had greater access to the library.” – KATHY JACOBSON SACCOPOULOS
As the decade progressed, rules for student conduct were increasingly relaxed as the institution allowed for increased “visiting hours” for women in 1962, and then no restrictions on women over 21 years of age in 1967. “Women’s notions of going to college
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changed a bit from just getting a husband to learning how to do something,” Linda Emmerson said. “We didn’t all want to be in home ec.” A growing sense of individualism on campus was reflected in the Bomb yearbooks from the early 1960s. The 1962 edition noted
Government of the Student Body president Richard Thoreson presents car keys to President James H. Hilton and his wife, Lois, during VEISHEA 1965. Thoreson (A)(’66 economics) went on to receive a PhD at Harvard University.
how the college experience allowed them to grow in “unsymmetrical” ways, and yet that the “pattern formation is a continuous process …differing from the growth of a rose or a crystal; these follow rules; one’s own pattern follows no rules but those he himself chooses. Each pattern is unique.” In 1964, the Bomb’s editors noted that each student was “One of the masses…one alone, yet special – an individual...” A smooth leadership transition For Iowa State, the history of the long 1960s breaks in 1965 with the end of James Hilton’s presidency and the beginning of Robert Parks’s years in office. This growing level of individualism among the students and their desire to have a greater voice in their own education and student experience continued to bloom as the decade moved on. At the mid-point in this decade of transformation, ISU changed presidents. James Hilton, who had guided the institution from college to university, retired, and W. Robert Parks replaced him. As events proved, it would have been difficult to find a better successor. Parks possessed great skill at personnel management and a deep well of patience, which would be sorely tested in the first five years of his presidency. “It was a very smooth transition,” Gathmann said. “President Hilton was really loved by everybody. I was really thrilled to be under his leadership and guidance as the president. It was a different time then. When the ‘changing of the guard’ came, it was so smooth! I’ll never forget that. President Parks was every bit as gracious and open, and he was very active like President Hilton was.”
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The front page of the April 8, 1967 edition of the Iowa State Daily featured nothing but news about the Don Smith controversy.
Parks,” she said. “There was some issue on campus, some guy was supposedly tracking girls. One night I’d been at the library, studying with a friend, and we were walking back to the dorms. Between the Union and the Knoll, there’s a creek bed and it’s very dark. And this imposing, tall figure came up behind us and we started walking quickly, and he said, ‘Girls, it’s okay. I’m President Robert Parks and I know that there’s concern on campus. I’m heading to the Knoll; I’ll just walk you down the hill and to your dorm,’ and he did. He did! What kind of a president does that? We always liked him so much. He was very accessible.” Parks’s “new humanism” was a call for ISU to “widen and diversify” and to create “unity among the disciplines” in a common concern “for the human and the humane.” While Robert Parks’s vision of a new humanism would largely be carried forward throughout the 21 years of his presidency, he suddenly found himself facing a number of direct challenges to the status quo that half a century later seem mundane, but at the time were perceived as both shocking and inappropriate. 40 days of Don Smith One of the first of these came in 1967 when Don Smith (no relation to the star basketball player of the same decade) was elected as president of the student body. Smith styled himself as a fire-brand, a radical, and a self-
Don Smith promised to “lead Iowa State kicking and screaming into the 21st century.” Gene Lange was on campus from 1965 to 1969. “One of most important things about Iowa State was Robert Parks. He was always accessible to me; he seemed to be accessible to student leaders and to students generally. He was always around; he always was interested. I would say the school today owes him a great deal of gratitude and accolades. He was tremendous. Iowa State was very fortunate at that time with leadership, from Hilton to Parks.” Parks’s inaugural address expressed a new
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and revolutionary vision for the university as he tried to put its irrepressible growth into context. The new president perceived – as did many at the time, from politicians and social critics to science fiction authors – that scientific and technological advances were coming too rapidly for society to understand, let alone integrate into society. Parks sought to bridge the gap between progress and humanity. McGarvey remembers President Parks in a personal way. “I have a lovely story about President
styled revolutionary. While he affected a Bohemian lifestyle, he was really the son of two ISU grads and from an affluent background. Using his position as president of the student body, the “left-wing, bearded, sockless” revolutionary as the Des Moines Register characterized him, brought forward a Students’ Bill of Rights that centered on student conduct and living arrangements. As with many so-called “sixty’s radicals” there was more style to Smith than substance. His only weapon was shock value, and when
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this wore thin, he found himself in trouble. He lacked the support of the majority of the student body, and when his own questionable behavior was brought to light, impeachment proceedings were threatened against him. Smith quickly resigned his post. Leaving Iowa and the university behind him, popular legend of the time claimed that he got on his motorcycle and headed west. “If I recall, he was the first SDS [Students for Democratic Society] member elected to student body president,” Lange said. “That was very unique. You had a pretty tranquil campus, but it had this undercurrent of concern and protest. I didn’t know him, but few people did. People weren’t overly concerned about student government. But this was an extremely left-wing group.” McGarvey remembers Smith’s famous promise to “lead us kicking and screaming into the 21st century.” “He was just so different,” she says. “He had a beard. He didn’t wear socks! It was just not normal.”
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The Smith controversy made national news. A photographer and reporter from Life magazine did a story on the “liberal revolution” that was occurring at a cow college that had elected a hippie as its student body president, according to the April 9, 1967 Iowa State Daily. President Parks, however, did not simply ignore the Smith situation, nor the student demands. He met directly with students in an open meeting over the Bill of Rights, explaining why he supported some of the provisions and could not support others. The fact that most students did not support Smith’s actions in the first place, combined with the president’s honest, gentle, and wise manner, easily defused the situation. In an Oct. 1, 1997 interview with Mike Swan (L)(’79 journalism and mass comm, MS ’98), who wrote his master’s thesis about the era, Smith himself praised President Parks for the handling of the situation, particularly his refusal to get involved in order to let students resolve the problem.
“That 40-day tenure of Don Smith is one people still talk about today,” said Swan. Swan had returned to campus for his graduate degree and had the opportunity to conduct interviews with 24 key players from the mid1960s controversy, including President Parks and Smith. “They both told me there was a mutual respect between them,” he said. But as the decade wore on, Parks found himself confronted with overreactions to real and/or perceived events on campus from legislators and alums fearing that ISU would become “the Berkeley of the Midwest,” and even a Story County Grand Jury who claimed in 1968 that “frequent reports of student radicals and other activities using campus media to pulpiteer, sensationalize, and otherwise promote illicit sex, drug use, draft evasion, defamation of our country and our leaders, demands the attention of this report.” Iowa State and the civil rights movement In these last years of the 1960s, ISU often
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Iowa State’s Black Cultural Center staff and students
“To say the least, it was culture shock, coming from a segregated environment in high school and going to Ames. I remember my first day of orientation, all the freshman engineers were gathered in this big auditorium. I looked around and it looked like I was the only black face.” – DAVID FORD
seemed caught between internal strife within and overreactions to that strife from without, and things only became more challenging as the decade drew to a close. The civil rights movement that had so deeply impacted the country in the late 1950s and 1960s came home to ISU as well. In 1963 the university had established a Human Relations Committee with the intent of helping to diversify the campus. Progress toward making the campus more diverse was too rapid for some and too slow for others, but it was sure. The work was greatly enhanced by the hiring of William Bell, who had been athletic director at North Carolina A&T at Greensboro. Increasing the African-American community on campus meant that issues of race relations would take center stage. Nobody knows better than the African-American students of the day that Iowa State was predominantly white, just like the state of Iowa. Though no data on race and ethnicity was kept in the mid-1960s, it is believed that fewer than 100 of Iowa State’s
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12,000 students were black. David Ford (A)(’67 industrial engineering) came from Fort Worth, Texas. “To say the least, it was culture shock, coming from a segregated environment in high school and going to Ames,” he says. “I remember my first day of orientation; all the freshman engineers were gathered in this big auditorium. I looked around and it looked like I was the only black face.” In his classes, he said, nobody ever sat next to him. “People were cordial, they were friendly, but I was really on my own,” he said. “I had to sink or swim.” Ford succeeded. After a shaky first quarter, he made the dean’s list, graduated in five years, and scored a perfect 4.0 in his last year. He went on to earn master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin, spending his career as a professor on college campuses. He looks back on his time at Iowa State fondly. “I’m a pretty good survivor. I could survive anything, any place,” Ford said. “I really enjoyed VEISHEA. I had a best friend in school, and we had a pretty good time. We’d go to some of the fraternity parties, the sorority parties. There were places in the Union we hung out and played cards. I have a lot of fond memories of Iowa State during my time there. I got a darn good education.” In 1968 a group of African-American athletes submitted a protest letter known as the Eight Grievances to the president, calling for among other things the hiring of African-American coaches, increased recruiting of African-American athletes, and the
removal of coaches and trainers who would not work with African-American students. African-American students formed the Black Student Organization (BSO) and sought a place to gather to air their concerns and as a place to assemble. Parks agreed with their wishes, and while the Board of Regents would not commit state funds to the project, private monies were soon secured and a house was purchased on Welch Avenue. The Black Cultural Center was dedicated on Sept. 27, 1970, the same day that George Washington Carver Hall was dedicated on campus. 1960s athlete Zaid Abdul-Aziz, known as Don Smith during his collegiate years, had a unique perspective on the AfricanAmerican students’ concerns. He was, himself, African-American, having grown up in the predominantly black Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., and he came to Iowa State to play basketball. His success on the court, he said, made his time at Iowa State different from that of other black students. “I was very understanding of the message of the Black Student Organization,” he said. “I kind of backed them in a way, but it was hard for me to feel some of the racism that was going on in Ames because… I was Don Smith and everybody loved me. Other brothers were having a hard time. They were a minority at Iowa State. It was easier for me. I felt that I wasn’t doing enough to support them.” In 1968 Iowa State established a pilot program to increase minority enrollment. The university presented career days in inner-city areas to recruit black students and attempted to make the campus more hospitable for those who did come to Ames. As the decade ended, it seemed that the university had navigated the challenges of enrollment growth, broadening the curriculum, meeting student unrest, and diversifying the student body; and by some measures this was true. ISU had seen student demonstrations on campus, but they were peaceful, and any significant acts of violence and destruction of property had been avoided. But in the spring of 1970, a series of seemingly unrelated events combined to inflame passions and bring forward serious challenges to the very fabric of the institution that tested
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students, faculty, administration, the Ames community, and the state of Iowa. It began on April 10 with a bar fight in the Red Ram, a downtown Ames bar, between three students: two-time national wrestling champion Chuck Jean and his friend Larry Munger on one side and Roosevelt Roby, an African-American student on the other. Who said what to whom and how much of what was said was influenced by alcohol will always remain a mystery, but a fight broke out between the three, with Roby hitting Jean over the head with a beer mug and opening a wound that required 40 stitches to close. Charges were filed and arrests were made. Roby, however, resisted arrest with the help of friends, and a war of words between the leadership of the BSO and the local authorities erupted.
Student protestors marching in the VEISHEA parade as part of an anti-war protest following the shooting at Kent State, spring 1970
to be tougher on the protests and on these types of protesters. The bombing of City Hall Swan remembers that this tumultuous period was also marked by two other Ames events that, again, people still talk about today. Around the time of the Chuck JeanRoosevelt Roby incident, on April 27, 1970,
Vietnam War protest/sit-in, 1970
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an explosive device in municipal judge John L. McKinney’s garage shocked the community. But its impact was soon overshadowed some three weeks later by the single most destructive act in the history of Ames: the bombing of City Hall. After continuing the hearing, the judge went to his home in north Ames to celebrate his birthday. After the party, McKinney recalled (in 1998), he had just helped put his kids to bed and was putting their toys in the
garage when he discovered what he thought was a bomb. During that 1998 interview with Swan, McKinney produced a Polaroid photo of the device, which he kept in his office desk. It was obviously a homemade bomb. It consisted of a gallon cannister with a dry cell battery on top, held together with masking tape and connected to a magnesium strip inside the can. A travel alarm had also been taped to the top of the container, which had been filled with chemicals of some kind. He recalled the device was taken to a vacant field 100 yards from his home. Somewhere in the process, police fired five shots into the can to see if it would go off. It didn’t. McKinney declared a mistrial on April 28, 1970, due to the event. Later that summer, another trial for Roby was officiated by alternate municipal judge Donald Payer (L)(’52 general science). Meanwhile, wrestler Chuck Jean had already pleaded guilty to charges of fighting and had been fined $50 in April. On May 22, 1970, the blast at City Hall occurred shortly after 9 a.m., shattering virtually all the windows. The explosion was caused by dynamite that had been placed below ground level in a window well on the south side of the two-story building. The blast tore bars loose from the basement jail and blew the door off a cell. No one was killed, but two persons were seriously injured, including a prisoner being held in the municipal jail. A state trooper lost an eye, and flying glass injured seven others. At least a dozen Ames businesses reported damage as a result of the explosion. Nearly 200 windows were broken at the Sheldon Munn Hotel, located a half block away. The blast was felt for some 20 blocks. Iowa Gov. Robert Ray flew in by helicopter almost immediately. Judge McKinney, who was upstairs in his chambers putting on his judicial robe
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Campus shenanigans and lifelong friendships Despite its recognition as a tumultuous decade, life on campus in the 1960s generated many happy memories for students of that time. VISIONS talked to alumni about VEISHEA, dorm life, fraternities and sororities, panty raids…and, oh, yeah, classes.
“Our fraternity (Alpha Kappa Lambda ) built
floats every year for VEISHEA. We went to football games in the old stadium, and we always wore coats and ties to the football games. I had great instructors. For as many students as the faculty saw, I always felt that I had a pretty personal link. But without a doubt, the activities were as important as the classes. Probably one of the reasons I did not do well in organic chemistry is that I was spending way too much time in various student activities.” Rob Denson (L) ’70 pol sci, MS 72 education Ankeny, Iowa
“I remember this big panty raid. I was a
freshman in 1960-61, domiciled in Freeman Hall. I can’t remember the housemother’s name, but she really was a peach. She let me out, it must have been after 9, so I could run to the Daily office and get a camera and film. On the way back, I could hear the mob getting closer, an eerie, demented ululating. I got to the door of my dorm and turned to start taking photos. When the mob got too close, she pulled me inside. Afterwards, there was a big debate in the department when the administration demanded we Daily people turn over all pictures so the ringleaders could be identified and punished. I can’t remember, though, whether we did or not. In any case, panty raids were a thing of the past when the next year rolled around.” Kathy Jacobson Saccopoulos ’66 tech journ, MS ’74 Vrilissia, Greece
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cial. I lived there for four years. I have fond memories of our serenades (to sororities and residence halls). Our Varieties skits, our VEISHEA floats, our Stars over VEISHEA production, all of that I will never forget. It was such a brotherhood and it continues that way. My lifelong friendships with people I lived with in Alumni Hall are incredible. Two things that are just so unusual: Five of us who graduated together in ’67-’68 still get together, along with our wives, whom we all
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met at Iowa State. We meet every fall for a week somewhere in the United States. “I have so many stories from Alumni Hall! Once we rolled a 10-foot snowball. Now, can you imagine, at Iowa State, many of us were engineers. We figured that snowball weighed a little over a ton and a half! We rolled it in our front yard after a snowstorm. We set up a campaign to guess when the snowball would melt. You had to get to the day, the hour, and the minute. To enter the contest, it cost you a dime. We gave all the money to the March of Dimes in the spring of 1964.” Dennis Gathmann (L) ’67 zoology Mattoon, Illinois
“I have a lot of fond memories of Iowa
State. I really enjoyed VEISHEA – the Stars Over VEISHEA shows, the way the fraternities and sororities decorated their front lawns. It was really crazy! I joined marching band and orchestra; I wanted to keep up my music since I wasn’t going to be majoring in that. The marching band had a chance to travel with the football team. I was also in ROTC.” David L. Ford Jr (A) ’67 indust engr Dallas, Texas
“Most people didn’t have cars, which was
a problem on Sunday nights when the dorms didn’t serve food service. So, we either had to walk somewhere or order pizza or, as one friend reminded me, we got really good at making ‘dinner’ in our popcorn popper.” Carol Marlow McGarvey (L) ’67 home ec journ Des Moines, Iowa
“I believe that ISU was not only welcoming,
but actively recruiting foreign students as vehicles of cultural enrichment. I had written to half a dozen Midwest universities, and ISU had sent me a very simple application form and responded with acceptance before other application forms arrived – so, having no preferences, I came to ISU – and have no
reason to regret it. The student population during my five years in Ames averaged about 12,000, with about 150 foreign students in residence, mostly graduate students – and mostly, if not all, male. “My interaction with ‘town’ people was minimal but such as it was made me feel welcome. I still remember with gratitude Larry Larson who ran the West Street Grocery out of the location that later became Dugan's Deli, who would allow me toward the end of the month to write checks for greater than the amount due, and hold them until my monthly check would arrive a week or more later.” Christos Saccopoulos ’66 architecture, MArch ’74 Vrilissia, Greece
“VEISHEA was my main activity. I started
as a freshman, and in my senior year I was a co-chair. Oh, it probably set me up for life in terms of experience, leadership, working with people, working with committees, advisers, students, the whole gamut. I look back at it as one of my better achievements at that time. I mean, it was a big business. We had a big budget for the time, we coordinated all the various houses, all the various colleges, we worked very closely with the administration. It was a full-time thing. I certainly liked that better than going to class. I found it very exciting. I still look back on it very favorably. It was a good event. People came from all over the state. It was very ’60s and very Iowa and very Iowa State.” Gene Lange ’69 history & mod lang Alexandria, Va.
“I remember the camaraderie and the
people I met. I remember the Beach House, which was a great bar – I ended up bartending there – on Beach Street by the railroad tracks. I remember a lot of different classes and great professors. It was a great place for me to grow up and meet people.” G. Steven Dapper ’69 indust admin Dallas, Texas
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“As a 14-year-old, I was sitting in the Central Junior High auditorium when the building shook due to the bombing of Ames City Hall. After school, we rode our bikes downtown and saw all the shattered glass.” – MIKE SWAN when the bomb went off, revealed to the press on the day of the blast a possible connection that could have been alarming. He said that officials at City Hall had received a bomb threat two days earlier – on the day of the Roby-Charles Knox trial on resisting due process. Knox was identified as head of the Black Panthers in Des Moines. They were found not guilty. The perpetrators of the bomb were never found. “These things stir up a lot of emotion, as I grew up in Ames and can remember many of the happenings in person or in media accounts,” Swan said. “As a 14-year-old, I was sitting in the Central Junior High auditorium when the building shook due to the bombing of Ames City Hall. Later that day, from the gym windows, I saw Governor Ray’s helicopter land in the practice field adjacent to
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the school. After school, we rode our bikes downtown and saw all the shattered glass.” The Vietnam War heats up Into the middle of this volatile situation, President Richard Nixon announced on national television on April 30, 1970 that the United States had invaded Cambodia. “There was a lot of pressure about where we were headed,” Lange remembers. Male students, particularly, lived with constant fear of being drafted. “Nineteen sixty-nine was the first year of the lottery,” Lange said. “In my fraternity, we must have had everybody in the house crammed into the small TV room watching our numbers coming up. My number was 188, and I think they got to 180.”
“Nineteen sixty-nine was the first year of the lottery. In my fraternity, we must have had everybody in the house crammed into the small TV room watching our numbers coming up. My number was 188, and I think they got to 180.” – GENE LANGE
“The war was not going well, and we were all nervous,” Gathmann said. “Under President Kennedy, we had student deferments in the draft. After that, you could maintain your student deferment if you carried a full load of 16 or more quarter hours. Otherwise you’d be drafted. You also had to maintain a B average. Academically, that added pressure.” Across the country, student reaction to the president’s address and the widening of the war in Southeast Asia was immediate and, in some cases, violent. Protests swept the nation’s campuses from Harvard to Stanford. Student strikes took place, and angry demonstrations filled central campuses across the country. The most famous example, of course, took place on May 4, 1970 at Kent State in Kent, Ohio, where National Guardsmen fired into a crowd of unarmed protesters, killing four and wounding 13. The film of American soldiers shooting down unarmed American civilians, which the nation saw on its television sets that May evening, was more terrifying than even the most horrible war footage from Southeast Asia. In the wake of the incident at Kent State, more than 220 colleges and universities were temporarily closed in the coming weeks to prevent further outbreaks of violence. For Iowa State, already in the middle of a
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difficult situation because of the Roby case, Kent State could not have come at a worse moment because VEISHEA festivities opened on Wednesday, May 6. In the midst of the protests and violence sweeping the country, the VEISHEA Central Committee planned a “March of Concern” to follow the end of the Saturday morning parade. Agitators who sought to incite violence at the march supposedly appeared in town to organize their followers, and a very real fear gripped the ISU community that something very bad could well happen. “This was the number-one fear,” said Robert Denson (L)(’70 political science, MS ’72). “I was working in the dean of students’ office at the time. The war protestors wanted to block Lincoln Way. So, what we decided to do was that I would help run all the protests, help them get exactly what they wanted… and to keep them off Lincoln Way. We were successful. We got Army tents put up on central campus…we brought in the anti-war speakers they wanted, and basically we became the organization to help them accomplish what they wanted to do.” Fortunately for everyone involved – except, possibly, for those few who actually wanted the protest to become violent – the university, city, and state had leaders who kept their heads in the time of crisis. Gov. Ray refused to call out the National Guard, Ames Police Chief Arnie Siedelman ordered his officers to de-escalate situations that they might find rather than escalate them, and President Parks let the march go forward. Cool heads diffuse protests Looking back on these events from a distance of 50 years, Parks’s actions that weekend seem all the more extraordinary. I can remember watching the vast throng of over 5,000 marchers file past the window of Science I (where my father had his office), headed for downtown. There were students, of course, but my mother and father pointed out faculty, university staff, local clergy, and Ames citizens among the marchers. The group was calm and the demonstration peaceful. Many returned to Central Campus to hear a slate of speakers address the crowd, and
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“I know you are concerned, deeply concerned, about what has happened at Kent State and recent developments in Southeast Asia. I am concerned, too. Bringing peace is the most important problem facing us. As president, I want to say you are going about it in the right way.” – ISU PRESIDENT ROBERT PARKS, AT A VIETNAM WAR PROTEST IN MAY 1970
key among them was Robert Parks. Parks put himself at personal risk to deliver his remarks in front of roughly 4,000 people – some of whom wanted a violent outcome from the day’s events – and gave what was perhaps the finest public address of his long presidency. His remarks were short and to the point, and the president concluded with: “I am glad this rally is being held for peace,” he said. “I know you are concerned, deeply concerned, about what has happened at Kent State and recent developments in Southeast Asia. I am concerned, too. Bringing peace is the most important problem facing us. As president, I want to say you are going about it in the right way . . . If the university is not concerned with deep human problems such as bringing peace, then what should it be concerned with?” At the conclusion of his remarks the crowd gave Parks a standing ovation, and violence was avoided. The institution could breathe a sigh of relief that VEISHEA had come and gone peacefully. Finally, a normalcy returned to campus and with it the end of the academic year and a long decade. While there would be
other protests in the 1970s and threats would again be made and harsh words would again be spoken, no other issues in the 50 years since have been so volatile or were so threatening to the fabric of the institution than those eight weeks in April and May 1970. The end of the long decade The long 1960s began with high hopes and aspirations that the torch of the United States had passed to the Greatest Generation – who were firm in their belief that they could solve any problem before them – and ended in the midst of some of the most challenging times that the nation had ever faced. The war raged on in Southeast Asia, but with Apollo 11, America had put a man on the moon. For Iowa State, it was a decade that saw unparalleled growth in curriculum, programs, building, and enrollment. The institution transitioned from college to university at the beginning of the decade, and that significant transition was rapidly followed with Iowa State embracing the “new humanism” of Robert Parks, who would go on to be the university’s longest-serving president. In these long years, ISU faced issues of radicalism and apathy, supported its Cyclones through thick and thin (mostly thin), and it left behind many cherished traditions that were rapidly forgotten. The mid-sized State College where many students, faculty, and staff knew each other at some level was gone. What replaced it was a powerful Research I university that would carry ISU forward into the 1970s and beyond. Douglas Biggs (L)(’82 history, MA ’86) is a professor of history at the University of Nebraska at Kearney Additional content provided by Carole Gieseke and Michael Swan
CALL FOR MEMORIES What are your memories of the long 1960s? Send us your stories! The ISU Alumni Association will share a selection of these stories in an upcoming issue of VISIONS and through digital media. Email cgieseke@iastate.edu or send to VISIONS magazine • Iowa State University Alumni Association • 429 Alumni Lane • Ames, IA 50011-1403
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Detroy Green
Professor emeritus of agronomy Posthumous award “The students we were teaching in Agronomy 114 (introductor y agronomy) were not necessarily inspired to learn about agronomy. This was a mandator y course for students in the College of Agriculture. Through the patience, the wisdom, the passion, and the humor of Dr. Green, we were able to…lead these introductor y agronomy students to be engaged in learning agronomy. It was a wondrous thing to see…. Dr. Green and his wife, Marilyn, made us feel at home... as we worked and learned how to be teachers. An agronomy professor once told me, ‘Ever y graduate student became a part of Detroy’s family.’ We all thank you for that.” – BRIAN FOSTER** (MS ’86 agronomy)
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Barb Licklider**
’74 zoology, MS ’81 ed admin, PhD ’86 University professor emerita of educational leadership & policy studies Boone, Iowa “I’ve always said it’s not hard to be inspirational when you have the best students in the world.” – BARB LICKLITER
Connie Hargrave* PhD ’93 curriculum & instructional technology Associate professor, School of Education, Center for Technology in Learning & Teaching; former director, Science Bound Ames, Iowa
“So often, students of color are overlooked, left behind. We don’t expect much from them academically, and often we anticipate negative things from them. I saw Science Bound as an opportunity to assist students, to show them a vision, to help them create their own vision, imagine the possibilities, and then show themselves, show their families, and show all of us how great they can be. When I look around the state of Iowa and I look at young people of color, I see an amazing pool of untapped potential for innovation and creativity.” – CONNIE HARGRAVE
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Jessica Van Winkle* ’01 finance, MBA ’09 University EAB student success coordinator; former academic adviser for Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Civil, Construction & Environmental Engineering Ankeny, Iowa
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Chris Rehmann
Associate professor of civil, construction & environmental engineering Ames, Iowa “One of the great things about Chris is he takes you for who you are; he accepts you and welcomes you, even if you’re odd and have your quirks. Even if you’re the kid that’s sitting in the back of the classroom and you’re particularly shy and don’t want to share your answer, you know you’re going to share your answer when he gets his mischievous smile.” – LAUREN SCHWAB (’13 civil engr, MS ’16)
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’68 anthropology, MS ’76 Adjunct instructor, Department of Anthropology; former administrative academic adviser, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Madrid, Iowa “ Nancy continues to impact students at Iowa “Nancy State through the lessons she taught me and all the advisers she worked with during her career at Iowa State. I am just one student who benefited from Nancy’s influence. She has had a ver y real and direct impact on the success of countless students over her tenure at Iowa State. There are many alumni of Iowa State who would not have graduated if not for the care, concern, and sometimes tough love of Nancy. Nancy.” – EMILY OLSON* (MEd ’03)
The ISU Alumni Association established the Faculty-Staff Inspiration Award in 2011 as a way for former students to recognize current or former ISU faculty or staff members who had a significant influence in their lives as students at ISU. The award is funded by Nancy (’72 food science) and Richard (’72 agriculture, MS ’77) Degner (L). READ more about these inspirational faculty and staff or NOMINATE someone for the 2020 award online at www.isualum.org/inspiration. The nomination deadline is Dec. 1. * ANNUAL MEMBER OF THE ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ** LIFE MEMBER OF THE ISU ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ONLY ISU DEGREES ARE LISTED
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Peace, love & Iowa State Talk about an adventure! Being a student on the Iowa State campus in the 1960s left a profound and lasting impression on the Cyclones everywhere who experienced that turbulent and aspirational decade. From the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the Vietnam War, students in the 1960s were faced with a changing world. But they also reveled in new-found independence, grooved to the music of The Beatles, shaped their careers, and made lifelong friends. By Carole Gieseke • Photos by Jim Heemstra
The student journalist
For Carol Marlow McGarvey, a 1960s ISU education prepared her for a career in journalism (and, also, what to do in case of a panty raid) Ask Carol Marlow McGarvey what she remembers about being a student at Iowa State in the 1960s and she’ll hand you a neatly typed, two-page document outlining those memories. With her name and contact information at the top. She is, after all, a trained journalist. McGarvey (L)(’67 home ec journalism) arrived at Iowa State in the fall of 1963, fresh out of Perry, Iowa’s high school journalism program that had prepared her to further hone her skills in writing, editing, photography, and design. Her dad was the circulation manager for the Des Moines Register and Tribune, so McGarvey already had a bit of printer’s ink in her blood. “I was an illegal paper boy for years,” she said. “Girls were not allowed, so I used my little brother’s name.” It was a good experience, she said. She learned how to deal with people, learned how to count back change (something kids today, she said, cannot do), and learned how cold it could be in Iowa at 5 a.m. on Sunday morning. She decided that she was interested in the world of journalism, but she definitely didn’t want a career in newspaper delivery.
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At Iowa State, McGarvey became involved with The Iowa Homemaker, a magazine that had been launched by the home economics division in 1921. She became layout editor, choosing artwork, editing stories, and writing headlines. “It was invaluable experience,” she said. “We were acting as managers, selecting stories, assigning stories, deciding what kind of pictures to use. It was just wonderful experience for us. It was considered a job. We had some fabulous instructors; we learned so much.” McGarvey lived in Lyon Hall for four years, first because she was assigned to that dormitory but later because it was the closest place she could live to the press building, Hamilton Hall. “I lived with same core of people all four years,” she said. “Some of my very best friends still today I met my very first day at Iowa State. A number of us have remained really close.” She remembers bringing three old-school “devices” to college: a manual typewriter, a record player, and a hair dryer with a big hood. No televisions, no microwaves, and certainly no cell phones back in those days. And most
students did not have cars on campus. “My dorm had about 125 girls in it,” she said. “And 124 of us were in one rec room with one TV when the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, Feb. 9, 1964. The only reason that one girl was missing was she had a boyfriend who had a TV. The rest of us were all there. That was a big deal.” She remembers attending big-name music concerts at The Armory: the Kingston Trio, Peter, Paul and Mary, and the Beach Boys. There was no food service on Sunday evenings, so McGarvey and her dorm-mates “got good at making dinner in a popcorn popper.” “We just enjoyed hanging out,” she said. “It was just a good time to be there.” One of McGarvey’s more vivid memories was of a panty raid in Lyon Hall. “I lived in what we called the ‘garden level,’ she said. “Our windows were at ground level. When there were impending panty raids coming, our house mother, Mrs. Stark, called a meeting and – specifically for those of us on the garden level – she told us if someone breaks in your window, ‘plug in your iron and sear as necessary.’ I remember thinking, ‘I don’t know if I could sear somebody with my FALL 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS
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iron! And, lordy, what if they grabbed my iron and seared me back?’ Fortunately, no one ever popped in.” During the last quarter of her senior year, McGarvey was hired by the Des Moines Register to work on the Sunday women’s section. When she graduated (on a Saturday), she went to work fulltime for the Register (on a Monday). Her newspaper career spanned 33 years. While she was there, she also taught basic VISIONS WWW.ISUALUM.ORG FALL 2019
reporting at Drake University School of Journalism, rushing from her full-time job to teach night classes. “I could say ‘today at the Register, this was a problem, and this was how it was solved, and you’ll see that tomorrow morning,’” she said. “I think they appreciated that immediacy.” After leaving the Register, McGarvey wrote for Better Homes & Gardens books and magazines. For the last 18 years, she’s
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The research guy
Ten things you need to know about Joe Ford Joe Ford (L)(’66 an sci, PhD ’72) is such a humble guy that when VISIONS contacted him to schedule an interview for the magazine, he questioned whether we might have the wrong Joe Ford. We did not. He was highly recommended by folks in the Honors Program for his commitment to undergraduate honors student research and for the extraordinary connection he had with his faculty mentor. Ford returned to Iowa State for his PhD before launching a successful career with the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center in Nebraska. Today he lives in Maryville, Mo., where he is a volunteer extraordinaire. Here are a few more things you should know about Joe: 1. As an 18-year-old, Ford did not know you could have a career in research. The first-generation college student grew up on a small farm in Orient, Iowa, and he assumed he’d go back to the farm after getting an Iowa State degree in agriculture. It was his introduction to research, he said, that set him on his career path.
had to be fed and watered before 9 a.m., seven days a week, and he didn’t care if you had an occasional hangover. The pay? $1.50 an hour. (But better, Ford says, than working in food service for 85 cents an hour.) 4. Ford fully embraced Iowa State’s Honors Program. It allowed him to do undergraduate research, he says. “Basically, what I am is due to that experience.”
8. After working with so many rats, pigs ultimately became Ford’s career. He worked at U.S Meat Animal Research Center in Clay Center, Neb., from 1974 until his retirement in 2009.
5. The men of Helser Hall, where Ford lived, were known for their dominance in the Ugly Man on Campus competition, held during VEISHEA. The guys won the contest three years running. “That was our claim to fame,” he said. Ford’s contribution to keeping the streak alive was making a necklace out of dead rat heads.
9. Today, Ford lives in Maryville, Mo., in a modest home filled with pig paraphernalia. (“My mother couldn’t walk by a pig without buying it for me,” he says.) He chose Maryville for its proximity to his children and grandchildren, but he says he’s been “pleasantly surprised” by the community. He is a self-described “volunteer nut,” spending his days hauling boxes for the local food pantry, cooking meals for low-income families, and “fixing thing that need to be fixed” at the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum. His real passion is volunteering for Habitat for Humanity and other organizations that build homes and schools around the world. “I don’t have great skills,” he says, “but I’ve learned that if you’re the only person there, you’re the most qualified.”
2. Robert Melampy, a professor in the Zoology Department at Iowa State from 1949 to 1974, was Ford’s mentor. Melampy, Ford says, was “old-school. He was pretty structured. But he opened a lot of doors for me. He introduced me to research.”
6. In an era filled with dread about going to the Vietnam war, Ford actually volunteered for the draft. And then he got lucky. He spent two years as a veterinary technician at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington, D.C., working mostly with dogs and monkeys. “For a guy who liked animals, it was a great job,” he said. Despite some close calls and lost paperwork, he was never sent to Vietnam.
3. At the end of his sophomore year, Ford went to work as a “scrub boy” in Melampy’s lab in Curtiss Hall. That summer, he remembers, “I took quantitative analysis and fed rats.” Melampy was emphatic that the rats
7. Ford returned to Iowa State in 1969 and began a PhD program with a renewed thirst for knowledge and research. Working again with Prof. Melampy, he conducted research on reproductive biology. Upon graduation
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The basketball legend
Zaid Abdul-Aziz on culture shock, English 101, and homemade pumpkin pie What are the odds that two of the most well-known men on the Iowa State campus in the mid-1960s would both be named Don Smith? But while the infamous Don Smith who brought national attention to Iowa State by running for student body president on an ultra-liberal platform has mostly faded into the history books, the Don Smith who wowed the crowds at the Armory is still among the best basketball players in Cyclone history. When he completed his ISU career in 1968, Smith (known as Zaid AbdulAziz since the mid-1970s when he converted to Islam) had broken nearly every major school record. He led the Big Eight Conference in scoring his final two seasons. His 1,642 career points and 1,025 career rebounds still land him in the upper ranks of Iowa State’s all-time records. After being selected as the fifth pick in the first round of the NBA draft in 1968, Abdul-Aziz had a 10-year professional basketball career. He retired from basketball in 1978. In 1998, he was inducted into the second class of Iowa State’s Athletics Hall of Fame, and his basketball jersey (#35) now hangs from the rafters of Hilton Coliseum. Following his basketball career, Abdul-Aziz (’69 sociology) has worked as a chemical dependency professional, and he’s written two books. He’s married, with six grown children and nine grandchildren. And he has a lasting affinity for the Iowa State Cyclones. His experiences as one of the few African American students on a mostly-white campus in the 1960s were both eye-opening and humbling. We caught up with Abdul-Aziz via phone at his home in Seattle. The following interview has been edited and condensed. What were your first impressions of Ames, Iowa?
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many white people in my area. When I got to Iowa, I was kind of shocked, but it was more cultural than racial. I liked doo-wop; they were playing Herman’s Hermits. (Laughs.) Brooklyn had over two million people back then. Living in the rural Midwest, I could hear grass grow. New York is very up-beat, an urban center. Going to Ames threw me off a lot. Did you feel safe? Welcomed?
I felt like a fish out of water. Like any person, I missed my home. I missed my roots. But I got very fortunate. Enrolling for my classes, I met a woman. Her name was Mrs. [Dorothy] Erskine; she worked at the Union. She helped me fill out the paperwork. She told me to take two difficult courses and take two easy courses. She said, “If you do that, you’ll graduate on time.” When I was feeling homesick, I would go to Mrs. Erskine and say. “Mrs. Erskine, I’m going back to New York.” Sometimes I would say, “I’m sick of these Iowa people.” She said, “Donald, you’re not here for these people. You’re here to get an education and play basketball.” She said, “Come over, I just made you a pumpkin pie, meatloaf, and mashed potatoes.” I said, “Mrs. Erskine, I’ll be right over.” She kind of cooled me out. If it wasn’t for her, as well as Hank Whitney [a standout Cyclone basketball player from Brooklyn, N.Y.], I wouldn’t have made it. What are some of your memories of Iowa State, apart from playing basketball?
When I got to Ames, I was 6 foot 6 ½ inches but I only weighed about 197 pounds. I was very skinny. That summer that I went to school there I started eating, and I was eating the great corn, spinach, beef, and everything. When the season started in September my freshman year, I grew to 6-foot-9 and 235 pounds. I grew a couple of inches and put on almost 40 pounds! Just from the good food. Iowa has best food I ever tasted.
The sixties were something else. John Kennedy was assassinated [when I was in high school], Robert Kennedy was assassinated, Malcolm X was assassinated, Dr. King was assassinated. So, on campus, like any other place, we were going on a roller coaster ride of ups and downs. Every week something else would happen. There were relatively few AfricanAmerican students at Iowa State in the 1960s. Did you have any issues being a minority?
In high school, I thought I was a good student. Most of the tests were multiple choice. In Iowa, we got the blue book and had to write a theme. In English 101 Mr. [Samuel] Rogal – I’ll never forget him – he said, “We will write six themes, 500 words. Any questions?” I asked what was a theme. I’d never written a theme in my whole life. Kids in the class already knew about the blue book, but I didn’t. I flunked English 101. Big time, I flunked it. I took from that that I had to study and learn. I didn’t get caught up in the racial stuff because I had to study. Fast forward to now: I have a book out now, Darkness to Sunlight, my autobiography [written in 2007]. This book is very popular, what can I say? If you give a young kid a chance to work hard, they’ll make something out of themselves. I sent Mr. Rogal a copy of my book. I said, “Thanks for being tough on me when I was a kid.” [He also recently published a children’s book titled Legends.] Was it different for black athletes?
I was very understanding of the message of the Black Student Organization, and I kind of backed them in a way, but it was hard for me to feel some of the racism that was going on in Ames because everybody knew Don Smith. Because I was Don Smith, and the crowds at the Armory, they loved me. Other brothers who were away from their home were having a hard time. They were a minority at Iowa State. It was easier for me. They formed this Black Student FALL 2019 WWW.ISUALUM.ORG VISIONS
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Organization. I felt that I wasn’t doing enough to support them. I regret that. Everybody knew me on campus. Maybe I wasn’t getting the same type of attitude that my friends were getting.
my senior year. And when I came out of the game, I got another standing ovation. Every time, the people gave me a standing ovation! People in Ames welcomed me.
You were extremely successful as a player.
What’s something about your collegiate career that people may not know about you?
Toward the end of my junior year, something amazing happened to me in Ames. The announcer would say, “Starting at center, number 35, Don Smith,” and when I ran out on the court they gave me a standing ovation. There were 7,000 or so people at the Armory, and guess how long it lasted? About a minute. I got that from my junior year all the way through
This was great for Iowa State. It’s a historical thing, and a lot of people don’t know it. The dunk shot was banned in collegiate basketball. I was involved in the banning of the dunk shot! Henry Iba, he was the Oklahoma State coach. This is what happened: I got a rebound; I threw it down to a Peruvian player named Raul Duarte. He went in to make the layup, and
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he missed the shot. I came down and goaltended the ball … and dunked it. Henry Iba gets up off the bench, says, “That’s goal-tending, ref! That’s goal-tending!” They gave Iba a technical. He said, “I want to make sure the dunk is banned.” He was on the NCAA rules committee, and the next year they banned it. It was banned for seven or eight years. Most historians don’t know this started at Iowa State. [Editor’s note: An article from The Sporting News confirms this account, saying, “One spectacular play by Don Smith might have motivated Coach Henry Iba of Oklahoma State into predicting that the basketball rules makers would outlaw the dunk shot and eventually raise the basket.”]
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ISU senior Modeste Kenne can dance, drive a school bus, program a computer, and lend a helping hand
hile growing up in Douala, Cameroon, Modeste Kenne dreamed of becoming a computer engineer, even though he had few opportunities to use a computer. His family had their own device, but its use was restricted to weekends, and even then, just for a short amount of time. When Kenne was in middle school, he used what little accessibility he was allotted to research how computers work. Through his explorations, he learned how to create IP addresses – a unique series of numbers that identify a device on the Internet or a local network – which ultimately helped him unearth another passion: providing access to free education for impoverished children, especially in Africa. “We did not have many educational resources in Cameroon, and our school libraries couldn’t afford the books or supplies we needed,” Kenne said. “I helped my friends by setting up specific IP addresses on their phones so that they could have free access to the internet. We then used this very 36
slow internet connection to learn about topics we were interested in.” Kenne knew that to accomplish his goals and develop a more robust skillset, he needed to attend a university with a quality engineering program, which is why a few years after he began making the internet accessible to his friends, he came to Iowa State to pursue a degree in computer engineering. Now a senior, Kenne has a list of commitments that would make one think he doesn’t have time to sleep. Mornings find him driving a school bus. Afternoons and evenings, he focuses on his studies. Overnight, he works as a nurse assistant at an assisted living facility. Kenne, who’s a recipient of the VerHeul Family Scholarship in Engineering, is also involved with Iowa State’s African Student Association, in which he enjoys dancing for the annual “African Night,” and is part of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program. Through this program, he focuses on his research goal of identifying issues that occur when building a network of smart devices and designing a platform that can handle
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these issues: What might occur if your washing machine, microwave, baby monitor, and smart TV could all communicate? What might happen if a hacker could intercept the communication and gain access to one of those devices? Kenne plans to find out. This past summer, as part of the National Science Foundation’s Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, Kenne worked on a project related to the Internet of Things – inter-connected, “smart” devices that promise to greatly improve the quality and productivity of our lives and of society – specifically focused on devices used by elderly people in nursing homes or assisted living facilities. As for the future, Kenne hopes to pursue a doctorate in computer engineering and eventually return to Cameroon to do what he has aspired to since middle school: use what he’s learned through his computer engineering studies to improve the lives of other people.
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Honors& Awards Celebrate these extraordinary alumni and friends who enhance the advancement of Iowa State University
Awards will be presented at the 88th Annual Honors & Awards Ceremony, 1:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, 2019, Benton Auditorium, Scheman Building The awards ceremony is sponsored by the ISU Alumni Association and is open to the public. A reception, sponsored by Ana Hays McCracken (L)(’84 fash merch) and Ed McCracken (L) (’66 elect engr), will follow the ceremony.
ISU A LUMNI ASSOCI ATION Alumni Medal Craig Denny** ’71 civil engr, MS ’73 soil engr Senior consultant, Terracon Lenexa, Kan.
Outstanding Young Alumni Award Annice Fisher MEd ’06 CEO/founder, The BEE FREE Woman & Developing Capacity Coaching Chicago, Ill.
Julie Larson** MS ’84, higher ed Retired chief of staff & development director, ISU Alumni Association Ames, Iowa
Jessica Kinser* ’05 English & pol sci, MPA ’07 City administrator, City of Marshalltown Marshalltown, Iowa
Alumni Service Award Ken Bonus** ’85 const engr West Des Moines, Iowa
Alumni Merit Award by the ISUAA Club of Chicago Jay Pleggenkuhle** ’90 landscape architecture Owner, Stonerose Landscapes Henderson, Nev.
Lindsey Shirley** ’01 fam & cons sciences ed; PhD ’07 Assoc provost, Univ. Outreach & Engagement; assoc director, Oregon State Univ. Extension Service Corvallis, Ore.
James A. Hopson Alumni Volunteer Award Ben Zelle** ’14 ag business/ mgmt info systems Territory customer support manager, John Deere Prairie Village, Kan.
Max Porter** ’65 civil engr, MS ’68, PhD ’74 Professor emeritus, Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
Impact Award ISU Agricultural Business Club Ames, Iowa
COLLEGE AWA R DS AGR ICU LTU R E A ND LIFE SCIENCE S Floyd Andre Award Steven S. Berger** ’86 ag business Farmer, Dennis D. Berger & Son, Inc. Wellman, Iowa
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George Washington Carver Distinguished Service Award Diane F. Birt* Distinguished professor, ISU Dept. of Food Science & Human Nutrition Ames, Iowa
Outstanding Young Professional Award Kelly D. Norris* ’08 horticulture, MS ’11 Director of horticulture & education, Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden Des Moines, Iowa
Henry A. Wallace Award Dhamu Thamodaran PhD ’83 ag econ Executive VP, chief strategy & hedging officer, Smithfield Foods Virginia Beach, Va.
Michael R. Taylor ’03 ag studies, entrepreneurial studies minor Co-founder, Midwest Growth Partners Adel, Iowa
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I V Y BUSINE SS John D. DeVries Service Award Mary Livingston ’73 indust admin Retired region VP, AT&T Red Bank, N.J. Citation of Achievement Kevin Prien** ’84 accounting Regional managing partner – central region, RSM US, LLP West Des Moines, Iowa Michelle Book ’83 accounting President & CEO, Food Bank of Iowa Des Moines, Iowa Jan Van Ekeren* ’81 indust admin, MBA ’90 Retired deputy CEO, Bank of Ayudhya Seabeck, Wash. Russ and Ann Gerdin Award Kingland Systems Corporation Ames, Iowa DE SIGN Christian Petersen Design Award James P. Cramer Founder & chairman emeritus, Design Intelligence & the Design Futures Council; former CEO, The American Institute of Architects Atlanta, Ga. Design Achievement Award Bethany Wilcoxon ’08 comm & reg planning, grad certificate ’09 geographic info systems Senior advisor, McClure Des Moines, IA J. Jade Liska** ’94 landscape architecture Deputy director of aviation, planning & engr division, Kansas City Aviation Dept. Kansas City, Mo. John Likens ’08 graphic design Multidisciplinary director and designer with a focus on film and television; currently creative director of Method Studios New York, N.Y. Rob Reinders ’77 architecture VP of design & project mgmt, Marriott International Washington, D.C. & Frankfurt, Germany
ENGINEER ING Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering Brian Anderson PhD ’02, chem engr Senior director of drug products, AbbVie Libertyville, Ill. Maria Westfall** ’77 chem engr Global quality & business transformation leader, health division, 3M Company Woodbury, Minn. Young Alumni Award Michael Anctil** MS 2006 civil engr, PhD 2008 ’08 chem engr Associate director of engr, Merck & Company Elkton, Va. HUM A N SCIENCE S Alumni Achievement Award Margaret A. Fitzgerald PhD ’97 human dev & family studies Professor & dean, College of Human Development and Education, North Dakota State Univ Fargo, N.D. Retia Scott Walker* PhD ’82 education Retired VP, academic outreach & public service, University of Kentucky Lexington, Ky. Outstanding Young Professional Award Susana Hernández PhD ’13 education Associate prof & dept chair, Kemen School of Education & Human Development, California State University Fresno, Calif. Virgil S. Lagomarcino Laureate Award Larry H. Ebbers ** PhD ’71, education University Professor Emeritus, ISU School of Education Ames, Iowa LIBER A L A RTS & SCIENCE S Citation of Merit Award Yoon-Shik Lee MA ’82 pol sci Professor emeritus, Soongsil University Seoul, Korea
Carrie Chapman Catt Public Engagement Award Vanessa Baker-Latimer MPA ’89 pol sci Housing coordinator, city of Ames Ames, Iowa Dean's Arts and Humanities Award Dennis Babcock ’70 speech comm Founder & executive producer, The Daniel Group Minneapolis, Minn. Distinguished Service Award Dianne Bystrom* Director emerita, Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women & Politics Plattsmouth, Neb. John V. Atanasoff Discovery Award Gordon M. Shepherd ’55 zoology Professor, Yale University Medical School Hamden, Conn. V ETER INA RY MEDICINE William P. Switzer Award in Veterinary Medicine Lora and Russ Talbot** Honorary alumni ’17 Retired Belmond, Iowa John Henry Greve** ISU professor emeritus Ames, Iowa Stange Award for Meritorious Service Dr. Bruce Stewart-Brown** ’80 an sci, DVM ’85 Senior VP of food safety, quality, & live operations, Perdue Farms Salisbury, Md. Outstanding Young Alumni Award Dr. Tamara Hancock DVM ’11 Coordinator of curriculum & student outcomes / assistant teaching professor, Univ of Missouri College of Veterinary Medicine Columbia, Mo. Lorraine J. Hoffman Graduate Alumni Award Xiang-Jin Meng PhD ’95 microbiology, immunology & preventive med University distinguished professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & Univ Blacksburg, Va.
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FROM THE PRESIDENT
The ISUAA is COMMITTED to engaging Cyclones everywhere Founded in 1878 by the first graduating class of Iowa State, the first 26 alumni made two important commitments: stay connected to each other and stay connected to Iowa State. For 141 years now, your Alumni Association board and staff remain committed to these two foundational principles. (Side note: My dad used to say, “Live by principles, not values. Values change; principles don’t. You see, Wayne,* one plus one will always equal two, but the value of a dollar fluctuates.” At 56, I’ve never forgotten the impact that saying has on my thinking…and living.) Over time, the ISUAA also has added the following commitments to its principles: • Be of service to Iowa State and Iowa Staters • Serve as the independent voice of Cyclones everywhere • Connect students early with what it means to be Iowa State alumni and lifelong partners with their alma mater • Assist in advancing the mission of Iowa State and the value of one’s ISU degree(s) • Facilitate the engagement of Iowa State alumni and friends in ways that are meaningful and responsive to their needs, experiences, and life stages As this issue of VISIONS seeks to share just a slice of the life of our university from the 1960s, it is no secret that Iowa State has sought to be diverse, inclusive, welcoming, proactive, and progressive since day one. Has it always gotten it right? No. But it has never shied away from its responsibility to be accessible and affordable. Here are just a few examples: • Accepted, first, the tenets of the Morrill Act • Enrolled women in its first class of students 40
• Educated and employed George Washington Carver • Encouraged the work of Carrie Chapman Catt, who helped gain women the right to vote • Recruited and allowed Jack Trice to be a student-athlete, as well as to go on to name its stadium in Jack’s honor as a memorial to him and his sacrifice (This stadium, today, is the only NCAA, Division 1 stadium in the country to be named for an African American.) • Established the first home economics and veterinary colleges
Let’s do all we can to meet people where they are, hear their stories, and respect their perspectives. Let’s work together to ensure no Iowa Stater feels like a spectator; rather, encourage them to be a participant. This list could go on, but also know we need to look toward the future. I would encourage Cyclones everywhere to work with the Association and university in our efforts to ensure all alumni, students, friends, and ISU employees find their connection to Iowa State. Let’s do all we can to meet people where they are, hear their stories, and respect their perspectives. Let’s work together to ensure no Iowa Stater feels like a spectator; rather, encourage them to be a participant. If they felt in any way, disenfranchised, marginalized, exploited, or invisible, help us know their stories.
Work to right those mistakes, and join with President Wintersteen to welcome all members of Cyclone Nation into the fold. Such actions will help us all ensure a brighter future for Iowa State and all members of the Cyclone family — current and future. In closing, please know that your board of directors, on Feb. 9, 2018, enshrined this commitment of full inclusion in its diversity statement. That statement reads as follows: The ISUAA values diversity and inclusion. The ISUAA welcomes all, recognizes and values differences, and seeks alternative perspectives in all it does. In order to facilitate a lifetime connection, the ISUAA will strengthen its efforts to be as diverse and inclusive as possible to ensure the full opportunity for participation by all alumni, students, and friends. Furthermore, the ISUAA supports Iowa State University’s efforts to enhance and cultivate the ISU experience where faculty, staff, students, and visitors are safe and feel welcomed, supported, included, and valued by the university and each other. This isn’t a new journey, but it is one that is better informed, deeply important, and highly desired. And remember, when you’re a Cyclone, you’re never that far from home! Yours for Iowa State,
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Jeff Johnson ** Lora and Russ Talbot ISUAA Endowed President and CEO PhD ’14 education *My middle name is Wayne, and that’s what my father always called me.
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CA M PA I G N P R O F I L E S
‘Why I give’ ISU launched its $1.1 billion campaign, Forever True, For Iowa State, in fall 2016. For the ISU Alumni Association, the campaign will help position the Association to better serve and showcase Iowa State and Cyclones everywhere. Meet these donors who are contributing to the Alumni Association’s campaign priorities. K. Dwayne & Lori Vande Krol** Dwayne: ’93 accounting Lori: ’93 mathematics Daughters: Emma, Josie, Reese Urbandale, Iowa Pledged $25,000 to the following endowments: VISIONS Magazine, Alumni Clubs, Legacy Program, SALC, Young Alumni Programs, and Eggerling Staff Development
Strengthening the connections “The ISU Alumni Association has positively impacted our lives in countless ways for the past 30 years. When we were students at ISU, the ISUAA provided us with opportunities to get involved in the Student Alumni Association [now Student Alumni Leadership Council], where we developed important leadership and management skills while also building lifelong friendships. As alumni, the ISUAA has provided us with opportunities to give back – and to stay connected to our fellow Cyclones – through involvement on the Board of Directors, the Cardinal & Gold Gala, and other programs. We have received so much satisfaction from these opportunities to volunteer our time and efforts for an organization that has given so much to us. So, when the opportunity arose to provide financial support to ISUAA programs that would offer the same experiences to ISU students and alumni that we have enjoyed for so many years, we knew we wanted to take advantage of it. As with our prior experiences with the ISUAA, our involvement with the Forever True campaign has served to strengthen our connection to the university and our fellow Cyclones.”
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Die-hard Cyclones “We are firm believers in the concept of ‘giving back.’ Iowa State University played a major role in defining who we are and our careers. Not only did we benefit from the education we received in the classrooms on campus, we also benefited from the many relationships we established through participation in student activities and the Greek system. By financially supporting ISU, we hope to give other students the same opportunities afforded each of us as well as our three children. All of us are die-hard Cyclones. Go, State!!”
Craig & Barb Foss** Craig: ’71 indust engr Barb: ’71 elem ed Fairfield, Iowa Pledged $25,000 to the Student Leadership Programs Endowment and the Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives Endowment
A forever family “We grew up in Minnesota and came to Iowa because of Iowa State. We never intended for Iowa to be ‘home.’ Thanks to the opportunities our Iowa State experience provided, Iowa has been home for over 40 years. Our children attended Iowa State and now our grandchildren cheer for Cy! We believe in the mission of the
land-grant university and want others to have the opportunities and experiences provided by the university. Iowa State provides more than an education. It provides a forever family no matter where you live by being members of the Alumni Association. Now we realize that it’s not how much, how often, or to whom we give. Giving is our way to give something back. Giving to scholarships and the Legacy Program helps others be a part of the Iowa State family. We hope our contributions make a difference for someone’s educational journey and supports the Iowa State spirit for generations to come. We are Forever True. Go, Cyclones.” Julie & Scott Rosin** Julie: ’78 home ec ed, MS ’81 Scott: ’79 phys ed, MS ’84 Ankeny, Iowa Committed $25,000 to the Legacy Program Endowment * Annual member of the ISU Alumni Association ** Life member of the ISU Alumni Association
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Top Jobs Kirt Walker (L)(’85 mgmt) has been named the CEO-Elect of Nationwide. He has served the insurance and financial services organization for 33 years, most recently as president and chief operating officer. He is a board member for the American Council of Life Insurers, the Association of Ohio Life Insurance Companies, and the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters. A former Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center deputy was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in April. Since 2015, Paul Waugh (L)(’83 metallurgical engr) served as AFNWC’s deputy director for its Air-Delivered Capabilities Directorate, where he enabled the center to acquire and sustain air-delivered nuclear weapon systems in support of the nation’s nuclear deterrence operations. Pope Francis has selected Father William M. Joensen (L)(’82 zoology), a priest in the Archdiocese of Dubuque, Iowa, as the 10th bishop of the capital city diocese. Joensen is an Iowa State Cyclone, a philosophy professor, and a self-described “Iowa guy.” The ISU grad attended medical school before being called to the priesthood.
Alumni Bookshelf Lisa Jones Jochim, (A)(’84 elem ed) recently published her first children’s picture book. After teaching for 15 years and then living in the Netherlands for five years, she discovered a love of writing. Her book, Excuse Me Sir, Do You Bark English? is about her chocolate lab who finds himself 42
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easure, Inc., a graphic design business located in Iowa State’s Research Park, recently earned an important distinction that is the first of its kind in the state of Iowa: designation as an LGBT Business Enterprise by the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC). “I’m extremely proud to stand up and be the first to represent Iowa’s rich and diverse LGBT-owned business community in this capacity,” Chad Johnston (’96 graphic design), Measure’s owner and president, said. Measure, Inc. is celebrating its 10th year in business – a business specializing in both interactive and traditional media that continues to grow and thrive, with clients ranging from Bayer CropScience and Meredith Corporation to MasterChef and Reader's Digest. “To be a part of the diversity conversation and to help all of us overcome the challenges the LGBT business community still faces, it is important to be visible,” Johnston says. “Being visible also gets to the core of what we do and how we do it. Being visible is about building relaAmes, Iowa tionships with and for our clients.” #CyclonesEverywhere
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READ MORE CYCLONE STORIES AT ISUALUM.ORG/CYCLONESEVERYWHERE on the wrong side of the fence in a country where he doesn’t bark the right language. He barks English and everyone around him barks Dutch. (How will he ever make it home?) Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy (A)(’81 journ & mass comm) has published a memoir, Many Hands Make Light Work. The book tells the story of a family of nine children growing up in a Midwest college town during the turbulent ’60s and ’70s. McCarthy grew up as the sixth of those nine children. Now a journalist whose work appears in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and newspapers and websites across the country, she shares this upbeat, story of how the unwieldy and exuberant Stritzel clan turned challenges into opportunities, and along the way built a family for the ages.
titled Beachcomber’s Report. The book comprises four parts, through which the poet explores aspects of our common humanity, delves into individual fortunes and misfortunes, reveals the irony underlying many an endeavor, and revels in the “etymological vagaries that propelled Greek concepts into English.” Russell King (A)(’71 aero engr), Lakewood, Ill., is the author of several books, including Have You Seen My 18 Wheeler?, a children’s interactive travel picture book, and Russell Builds a Bridge - What Do Civil Engineers Do, Anyway?, an educational book about how civil engineers are involved in infrastructure construction.
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Hops in space Alumni Honors Hadley Wickham (PhD ’08 statistics) has received the COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) award, given annually to any statistician in the world who is 40 years or younger and who has made an intellectual contribution to the profession. The recipient of the prize exemplifies the present and the future of our profession: an emphasis on computing, data science, graphical analysis, and data visualization. Anna Segner (A)(MFA ’19 integrated studio arts) won the Leysens Family Award for Best of Emerging Iowa Artists at the 2019 Des Moines Arts Festival. Segner was one of nine emerging artists, including four from Iowa State, selected to exhibit their work June 28-30 at the festival in downtown Des Moines. In addition to a $1,000 cash prize, she will be invited to exhibit in the professional artists’ category at next year’s festival.
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unique partnership this summer between the Science Center of Iowa, ISU’s Make to Innovate program, and Twisted Vine Brewery resulted in what may be the first truly space-age beer. To celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the Apollo moon landing on July 20, Twisted Vine brewers teamed up with Iowa State to brew 320 gallons of the Van Allen Belt IPA with hops that had actually been flown into near-space conditions. The beer made its debut July 19 at the Science Center of Iowa’s “Mixology Night” and at its August “Big Blast” fundraiser. The special IPA was also available at Twisted Vine’s taproom in West Des Moines. The hops were flown in a balloon launched by aerospace engineering students, rising to about 110,000 feet before parachuting back to earth. The hops were a mix of Falconer’s Flight and Millenium, two of nearly 100 varieties of hops available for use in the brewing process. Key players in the hoppy space brew project were Paul M. Galloway (A)(’93 family resource mgmt & cons sci), Brian Sabus (’89 biology, MS ’91 entomology), and Steve Becker (A)(’93 mech engr), at Twisted Vine; Matthew Nelson (’02 elect engr, MS ’16 comp engr), an aerospace engineering assistant teaching professor at Iowa State; and Colleen Hjort-Frederiksen and Dan Hoy, with the Science Center of Iowa. Also pictured at Twisted Vine is Rob Ware.
For more than 40 years, Linda (Murray) Emmerson (A)(’59 general science) has been creating art by cutting paper. An exhibition of her scherenschnitte was on display at the Unitarian Church in Ames last summer. Much of her work features scenes from the Iowa State campus.
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Lamb is new marketing and communications specialist Meghan Lamb (A) joined the Alumni Association staff in July 2019 after graduating from the University of Northern Iowa with a degree in interactive digital studies and completing a media operations internship with McGraw Hill Higher Education. In her role as marketing and communications specialist, she works with the Association’s broadcast email initiatives for student and alumni outreach; maintains the online alumni directory; creates and maintains online forms and event registrations; provides customer service to isualum.org website users; and is responsible for online alumni records management, data management, and website and digital marketing analytics.
Scott Dahl: Forever a Cyclone After 20 years with the ISU Alumni Association, Scott Dahl (L)(’90 marketing), assistant vice president for membership and member services, announced in July that he was leaving Iowa State to work in a similar role at the University of Missouri Alumni Association. “It has been an honor to serve this great university, this great Alumni Association, and this great staff,” Dahl said. “I feel like I’m leaving the Association in great shape and with great direction.” Scott joined the staff in 1999. In his role, he worked with all aspects of member recruitment and administration, member services, and database management. He was also involved in the Council of Alumni Association Marketing and Membership Professionals at a national leadership level for many years. He is married to Lisa Lorenzen (L)(’89 ag genetics, PhD ’94); the couple has one daughter. “For Lisa, Isabel, and me, Iowa State will always be our home,” he said. “We’ll always bleed cardinal and gold, and we’ll continue to proudly wear our Cyclone gear wherever we go. We may be leaving Iowa State University, but Iowa State will never leave us.”
Marvin DeJear (A)(’00 business mgmt, MBA ’03, PhD ’16 ed leadership) of Des Moines is the newest member of the ISU Alumni Association Board of Directors, filling the unexpired term of Jeff Grayer (L)(’05 lib stds). DeJear is the director of the Evelyn K. Davis Center for Working Families at Des Moines Area Community College. His community service includes Back to School Iowa, blood drives, and clothing drives. He serves on the Polk County Early Childhood Board, the Future Ready Iowa task force, the State Minority and Unemployment Disparity Committee, the State Access to Justice Committee, and the State Two-Generation Committee. At Iowa State, Marvin was president of Omega Psi Phi fraternity, and he currently serves as adviser to the organization. 46
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Distinguished Awards Ceremony is online If you missed the April 26 Distinguished Awards Ceremony at Iowa State, you can still experience the event at https://youtu. be/1CzEy8iGnhM. Honorees included Gary Griswold (L)(’67 chem engr), DeRionne
Pollard (L)(’93 English, MS ’95), Jonathan Rich (L)(’77 chemistry, ’10 hon doctorate), Debbie Ivy (L), and Labh and Tahira Hira (L).
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ASSOCIATION NEWS CYCLONE CENTRAL TAILGATES AT THE ISU ALUMNI CENTER
See you at Cyclone Central Celebrate the Cyclones and show your pride! Cyclone Central Tailgates are hosted by the ISU Alumni Association before each home football game. Admission is free to everyone. Enjoy giveaways, kids’ games, shopping, food and drink, and entertainment for all ages. The ISU Alumni Center (429 Alumni Lane, adjacent to Lots A2/A3) opens three hours prior to kickoff and closes 30 minutes prior to kickoff. For food & drink: Catered meals are available for $15/ISUAA member and $20/ nonmember. To order a catered meal, register in advance at www.isualum.org/ cyclonecentral. Food trucks and a cash bar will also be available.
For entertainment & Shopping: The Cyclone Central Tailgate Step Show will be held before each game’s kickoff on the east side of the ISU Alumni Center. The KASI Cyclone Tailgate Show will broadcast LIVE from the Newlin Terrace, and guest appearances are often made by Cyclone “celebrities”. A selection of Alumni Store merchandise and exclusive gameday specials will be available for purchase.
Oct. 26 (Homecoming): Cyclones vs. Oklahoma State Catered by Pizza Ranch Nov. 16: Cyclones vs. Texas Catered by Christiani’s VIP Catering Nov. 23: Cyclones vs. Kansas Catered by West Ames Hy-Vee
2019 SCHEDULE Sept. 14: Cyclones vs. Iowa Catered by Pizza Ranch Sept. 21: Cyclones vs. Louisiana-Monroe Catered by Christiani’s VIP Catering Oct. 5: Cyclones vs. TCU Catered by ISU Catering
Watch for it Cyclones everywhere will gather this fall to watch their favorite football team on the small screen. Find gamewatch “cytes” for communities across the country by using our national directory at isualum.org/gamewatch. Don’t see an established location near you? Contact Brenden Welch (A) (’15 supply chain mgmt) about getting one started in your area (bmwelch@iastate.edu).
at Homecoming 2019 SEE YOU ON CAMPUS Come home to Iowa State for Homecoming 2019, Oct. 20-26. Activities will include: • Homecoming Parade (Sunday, Oct. 20) • Honors & Awards (Friday, Oct. 25) • Reunions (Class of 1969, Alumni Band, Greek Alumni Alliance, ISU Choir) 48
• Friday evening happy hour, pep rally, and Yell Like Hell finals at the Alumni Center • Homecoming Cyclone Central Tailgate (Saturday, Oct. 26) • Cyclone football vs Oklahoma State
CAN’T MAKE IT BACK TO AMES? Even if you can’t be here in person, here are some ways to celebrate Iowa State’s Homecoming 2019 where you live: • New! Show us your Cardinal-&-Golddecorated office for a chance to win a prize • Watch us live! Several events will be livestreamed • Download Homecoming-themed desktop wallpaper • If you met your significant other at ISU, participate in our Cyclone Sweethearts contest
For details, go to www.isualum.org/ homecoming
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CATCH CYCLONE FEVER! AT THE 2020 CARDINAL & GOLD GALA Get ready for a sparkly Cardinal & Gold Gala! Cyclones everywhere will come together under the glittering disco ball to celebrate Iowa State and to support student and alumni programming and firstgeneration scholarships.
October Table Host Special Round up your friends and reserve your table of 10 by Oct. 31 and save $100!
February 14, 2020 at 6 p.m. Prairie Meadows Hotel & Casino, Altoona, IA
Individual registration opens Jan. 1 Go to isualum.org/gala to reserve your tickets, or contact Chelsea Trowbridge at ctrow@iastate.edu, (515) 294-2584
Co-chairs Jay (’90 aero engr, MS ’93) and Karen Heldt-Chapman (’92 mgmt)(L) Daryl and Karyl Henze (A)
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here’s a fire in JaQuan Bailey’s belly. It burned when he stepped foot into Dallas’ sprawling AT&T Stadium for 2019 Big 12 media day and got his first notions of what it could feel like to play there in December. It burns when he thinks about helping mold Iowa State’s defensive line into the nation’s best — a quest that means spending hours in the film and training rooms with his identical twin brother and teammate, Joshua. Bailey’s pursuit of perfection is tireless, but he wants success for his brother more than almost anything else. It burns not just for his twin but for his mother, sister, and family members, who make regular pilgrimages to Ames from Jacksonville, Fla., to see JaQuan and Josh play. They have always been Bailey’s biggest fans and encouraged him to get his college degree. Seeing their smiles is what gives Bailey life. It burned on a September 2017 night in Jack Trice Stadium, after the Cyclone defense opened its game against Texas with a three-and-out. As the crowd roared, Bailey excitedly somersalted across the field. Nine plays later, the Longhorns found pay dirt thanks to the 15-yard excessive celebration penalty. There were many things that would go on to make that 17-7 loss go down in infamy — including the fact that it was the last-ever appearance by quarterback Jacob Park, who threw three interceptions. But it was Bailey’s costly mistake that weighed on defensive line coach Eli Rasheed. “He’s boisterous; that’s just who he is,” Rasheed says of his six-foot two-inch starting end. “But there’s a time and a place for that, and I think he’s figuring out the right time and place to express that. On the football field is not the right time and place.” Bailey is the first to admit that he was immature when he arrived in Ames. In fact, “very immature” is his exact choice of words. “I came from a situation where it’s a dog-eat-dog world and you don’t really care about the next person,” Bailey says. “I’m a testimony to what [head coach Matt] Campbell preaches: Leave this program a better man than when you came through the doors. I’ve grown to be a better teammate and my play has reflected that. That’s all thanks to Coach Campbell and his staff.” Indeed, Bailey’s play has spoken louder and louder as Bailey has worked to quiet his boister. He spent the summer racking up accolades — including preseason all-Big 12 honors and a spot on the watch list for the Nagurski Trophy, which is presented to the nation’s most outstanding defensive player. In 2018, he led the Cyclones and ranked fourth in the Big 12 in sacks. He enters the 2019 season just one sack shy from becoming ISU’s all-time record-holder. But ask Bailey about writing his name in the ISU record books and he just shrugs. “I’m more about the team,” he says. “Breaking records means nothing if Iowa State never meets its full potential. It’s bigger than me.” “Potentially, he’s going to be one of the most decorated football players to leave this university, and he’s never satisfied,” Rasheed says. “He’s always striving to get
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PASSION PLAY
JaQuan Bailey looks to end his Cyclone career on an emotional high
Sports by Kate Bruns
KBRUNS@IASTATE.EDU
JIM HEEMSTRA
better, and as long as he keeps that edge he’s going to be just fine in his future. He’s really honest with himself. He takes coaching and tries to apply it right away. He’s really perfected his craft to become one of the better players in the country, but it’s never about JaQuan Bailey. He is very humble, has very realistic goals, and is a ‘team above self’ person.” Entering his senior season, Bailey says his most memorable moments at Iowa State are the most humbling ones. His first game as a Cyclone was a loss to Northern Iowa, which he says taught him more than almost anything. “I’m a person that doesn’t really care about the highest of the highs,” Bailey says. “I’m a person who never forgets about the lowest of the lows. That’s the chip I still have.” Knocking that chip off his shoulder in 2019, Bailey says, starts with staying level-headed and being consistent every day. He knows his teammates will continue to look to him to make plays as they have before, but leading by example when it comes to his emotions is his real opportunity to make a difference. “He’s doing the work behind the scenes,” Rasheed says. “I think as he goes through the season and solidifies himself as a playmaker his leadership will get there. But he knows he’s gotta prove it.” “I have learned that it’s way better to celebrate as a team than as an individual,” Bailey says. “I love the game, because it’s about making plays and celebrating with my teammates in the locker room.” Indeed, making plays on the football field and celebrating in the locker room might be the two things JaQuan Bailey does best. And if he does them right in 2019, he might just solidify his status as one of the game’s ultimate players.
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Calendar Cyclones Everywhere:
Greater Des Moines
Sept. 13: 1858 Fan Club Golf Challenge, Bright Grandview Golf Oct. 3: Find the Wine Corn Maze Nov. 27: ISU Neighborhood Tree at Festival of Trees & Lights (through 12/1) Save the date! Cardinal & Gold Gala, Feb. 14, 2020 at Prairie Meadows
Cyclones Everywhere Sept. 28: Texas-sized tailgate, Dallas-Fort Worth Nov. 9: Twin Cities gamewatch
At the ISU Alumni Center Sept. 12-13: Young Alumni Council fall meeting Sept. 13: ISUAA Loyal Leaders Celebration Weekend Sept. 14: Cyclone Central Tailgate Sept. 21: Cyclone Central Tailgate Oct. 5: Cyclone Central Tailgate Oct. 24: ISUAA Board of Directors fall meeting Oct. 26: Cyclone Central Tailgate
Homecoming 2019
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Oct. 20: Homecoming Parade, downtown Ames Oct. 25: 50-year Gold Medal Ceremony: Class of 1969 Oct. 25: Honors & Awards Lunch & Ceremony Oct. 25: Friday Night Celebration & Pep Rally Oct. 25: Alumni Band Reunion Oct. 25: Homecoming ExCYtement in the Streets, Mass Campaniling, Pancakes & Fireworks Oct. 25: Homecoming CYlent Auction Oct. 25: Greek Alumni Alliance All-Greek Reunion Oct. 26: Cyclone Central Tailgate Oct. 26: Football vs. Oklahoma State Oct. 27: ISU Choir Reunion
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Sept. 26: Department of Computer Science 50th Anniversary Celebration (through 9/28) Sept. 30: CALS Week (through 10/4) 54
Oct. 11-13: Cyclone Family Weekend Oct. 26: Animal Science Chuckwagon Breakfast Oct. 26: FSHN, Sigma Alpha & Ag Bus Club Tailgates Dec. 20: Graduate commencement Dec. 21: Undergraduate commencement
Careers Sept. 18: Engineering Career Fair Sept. 24: Engineering Career Fair Sept. 25: Fall Business, Industry & Technology Career Fair Sept. 25: People to People Career Fair Oct. 8: CALS Fall Career Day
Cyclone Athletics Sept. 14: Football vs Iowa Sept. 21: Football vs Louisiana-Monroe Sept. 28: Football at Baylor Oct. 5: Football vs TCU Oct. 12: Football at West Virginia Oct. 19: Football at Texas Tech Oct. 26: Football vs Oklahoma State Nov. 9: Football at Oklahoma Nov. 16: Football vs Texas Nov. 23: Football vs Kansas Nov. 30: Football at Kansas State
Arts and entertainment Now through Oct. 4: ReACT: Civility & the Land-Grant Mission in the 21st Century, Petersen Museum Now through Nov. 1: Timeless: Love & Romance in the Victorian Era, Farm House Sept. 19: Brunnier Art Museum Reopening Gala Sept. 19: Artists in Iowa: The First Century, Brunnier (through 12/20) Sept. 19: Contemporary & Iowa Pottery, Brunnier (through 12/20) Oct. 2: Cirque Mei, Stephens Oct. 7: The Kingdom Choir, Stephens Oct. 19: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Stephens Oct. 27: The “Bells of Iowa State” Gala Anniversary Concert Oct. 28: ReACT: Aging by Design, Petersen Museum (through 11/22) Dec. 3: Canadian Brass, Stephens Dec. 22: A Magical Cirque Christmas, Stephens Jan. 17: The Color Purple, Stephens Jan 17-18: Madrigal Dinners
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Oct. 25: Honors & Awards Lunch & Ceremony Dec. 1: Nomination deadline for Iowa STATEment Makers, Wallace E. Barron, and Faculty-Staff Inspiration Awards
Alumni Travel
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Sept. 15-23: Great Pacific Northwest Sept. 17-28: Romance of the Duoro River Sept. 20 – Oct. 4: Provincial French Countryside Sept. 21-29: Normandy: 75th Anniversary of D-Day Sept. 22-27: Great Trains & Grand Canyons Sept. 29 – Oct. 15: Across Spain & Portugal Oct. 8-19: Fall Foliage of Canada & New England Oct. 16-22: California Rail Discovery Oct. 16-25: Sketches of Sicily Oct. 17-28: Mediterranean Legends Oct. 26 – Nov. 3: Normandy: 75th Anniversary of D-Day Nov. 3-11: Cosmopolitan Havens Dec. 11-19: Holiday Markets Dec. 28 – Jan. 2: New Year’s Eve on Cloud 9 Jan. 3-22: Sunny Islands & Andes Jan. 14-28: Egypt & the Eternal Nile Jan. 18-28: Costa Rica’s Natural Heritage Jan. 23 – Feb. 7: Safari: Kenya & Tanzania Jan. 27 – Feb. 11: Patagonian Frontiers
Lifelong learning Nov. 6: “Rock On” in Retirement Symposium Dec. 12: OLLI at ISU winter open house Jan. 14: OLLI at ISU first day of winter classes
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