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Capilouto is the 12th president Features ofDr.theEliUniversity of Kentucky.
ON THE COVER
President Eli Capilouto finds
16 second home in Kentucky
Embracing his opportunity to lead UK, Capilouto is proud to be a part of its rich tradition and looks forward to the challenges and successes to come.
By Kelli Elam
Mat Saunders: Digging up adventure in Central America Mat Saunders ’01 AS has made a major archaeological discovery and is building a cultural research center to honor the memory of a fellow archaeologist.
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By Christina Noll
24 Alumni in leadership
UK alumni are fulfilling their civic responsibility: four alums are Kentucky constitutional officers, four in Congress, 13 in the Kentucky Senate and 28 in the House of Representatives. By Linda Perry
26 Ceal Barry: Trailblazer
Ceal Barry ’77 BE was part of the first class of female student-athletes to receive scholarship aid for athletics, defining her basketball career in two parts — before Title IX and aer Title IX. By Kelli Elam
28 The healing power of art
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e arts touch spirits that seek solace and encouragement at the new UK Chandler Hospital.
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Pride In Blue
Welcome fall! Hello, Wildcats! It is with great pride that we bring you the fall 2011 issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine. Fall? How did fall get here so fast? I guess time really does fly when you’re having fun… As you know, we have a new president here at UK. Dr. Eli Capilouto became the 12th president on July 1. He’s our cover story for this issue and I hope you take a few minutes to read it. I had a wonderful conversation with him, and that’s really what it was, a conversation more than an interview. I found him to be sincere and gracious. He is very serious about education and the responsibility of leading the University of Kentucky. As we were wrapping up the conversation, I told him that he has changed my opinion of the University of Alabama-Birmingham. I jokingly (sort of ) explained that prior to meeting him, every time I heard or read “UAB,” I would get slightly ill because all I could think about was the 2004 NCAA Tournament. (Need I say more?) Turns out we were at that game — cheering for different teams, obviously. However, he assures me that he is now a full-fledged member of Big Blue Nation. So, having met President Capilouto, I now have much more pleasant thoughts about UAB. Also in this issue, you will get to know alums Mat Saunders, who leads an adventurous life as an archeologist, and Ceal Barry, who was a member of the women’s basketball team at UK during a defining time in collegiate athletics. We spotlight alumni who serve their constituents. Plus, check out our 2011 Distinguished Service and Burch Award recipients. Finally, I don’t know about you, but I am ready for some Wildcat football! Below is the 2011 schedule. Start making tailgating plans accordingly. I can’t wait! We hope you enjoy this issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine. As always, your feedback is welcome and appreciated. With Pride in Blue
Kelli Elam
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Presidential Conversation New to the Blue About 10 years ago, when my daughter was 13 years old, she insisted I watch with her, the movie, “Gladiator.” I didn’t know why she asked but, looking for a moment to bond with my daughter, I agreed. At the end of the movie, I turned to her and asked, “What was the most important statement that Russell Crowe made to his followers?” She didn’t know, but I persisted and asked again, “Please, as a parent, tell me what you thought was the most important statement.” She said, “Oh, I got it ... On my command, unleash hell.” Aer a short laugh and some time to compose myself, I said, “No. e most important question was when he turned to his followers and asked, ‘Why are we here?’” I asked myself the same question when I decided to uproot my wife and our two dogs from our home in Alabama. And it is the same question I continue to ask our faculty, staff and students every day. A continual assessment of our mission to serve is critical to our beloved institution if we hope to move our university and the Commonwealth toward a better future. My recruitment to the University of Kentucky began more than 10 years ago when I heard President Lee T. Todd, Jr. speak at a national conference on the importance of land-grant institutions. His devotion to UK and his commitment to the Commonwealth immediately signaled to me that UK was not just another university — it was a special place with special people. Before I was announced as the university’s preferred candidate, my wife, Mary Lynne, and I traveled to Lexington to visit UK and the city we now call home. Dressed to blend in, we set out across campus for six hours to discover what it was that people loved about the University of Kentucky. We met students; we spent time at William T. Young Library; and we visited the James W. Stuckert Career Center. e fervor I heard in each person’s voice confirmed that UK is more than an institution — it is a family. Prior to my first day in office, I sat down with nearly 60 faculty from colleges and departments across campus. When I asked what made them proud to be a part of the University of Kentucky, one of the first things they talked about was our incredible student body. Since my arrival, I have had the opportunity to spend time with our new students, and I am proud to say that we have, once
again, recruited the most academically prepared class in our institution’s history. Now that we have settled into Maxwell Place, I have redoubled my effort to understand our institution, community and state. I have met with more of our world-class faculty, spent time with our devoted physical plant staff and identified key community and business leaders who can expand our capacity to serve Lexington and make it a great place to raise a family and start a business. Integrating their insights about the university and where we see ourselves in the future is a key component of my tenure. And, finally, I have been fortunate enough to spend time with the University of Kentucky’s extended family, our alumni and friends who continue to support our mission in a multitude of ways. You are unpaid recruiters who share the countless opportunities UK can offer to the best students in your community. You are volunteer consultants who provide crucial feedback and creative approaches to issues facing our institution and state. You are private fundraisers who generously contribute to the university, both fiscally and in-kind. And you are our extended family with an unparalleled hospitality that has warmed our hearts. At every turn, I grow more enthusiastic and optimistic about the road ahead. By working together with the creative minds at our university, our devoted partners in the community, policy leaders throughout our state and our committed alumni and friends, we will reach our shared aspirations. I will continue to visit you in quarterly editions of Kentucky Alumni magazine. You can also follow our work through my blog, uknow.uky.edu/president, or on UKNow, the university’s official news website, at uknow.uky.edu. I look forward to our future together and seeing you at some of our athletic events or one of our many academic or fine arts programs. Until next time; continue seeing blue, Wildcats!
Eli Capilouto President
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UK News Dean of College of Engineering to resign Thomas Lester, dean of the UK College of Engineering, will resign as dean of the college effective June 30, 2012. Lester, who has served as dean since 1990, is currently the longest serving dean at the university. He has not finalized any future plans at this time. Prior to his current appointment, Lester served as professor and chairman of mechanical engineering at Louisiana State University from 1983 to 1990, and as professor of nuclear engineering at Kansas State University from 1975 to 1983. Lester is a UK Fellow and has made personal contributions to establish and endow the Donald L. and Gertrude L. Lester Professorship in Mechanical Engineering. ■
New dean for the UK College of Medicine Dr. Frederick C. de Beer, longtime University of Kentucky faculty member and current chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine, has accepted the position of dean of the College of Medicine and vice president for Clinical Academic Affairs. He succeeds Dr. Jay Perman who was named president of the University of Maryland in 2010. de Beer received his medical degree from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. His postgraduate education was at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, London. Prior to coming to the United States in 1989, he served as professor of medicine at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. In 1993, he was named chief of the UK Division of Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine. In 2003, he was appointed as the Jack M. Gill Professor and chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine. ■
Compiled from UK websites, UK Public Relations news reports, and Kentucky Alumni magazine staff reporting.
UK buys building to relocate Department of Art UK has purchased a 100,000-squarefoot building to become the new home for the UK Art Department. The university acquired the privately owned former tobacco warehouse, currently known as University Lofts, located adjacent to campus on Bolivar Street. This approach should not only meet the needs of UK’s art students, faculty and staff, but will also save money in necessary renovations to Reynolds Building No. 1. University Lofts has recently been renovated, so it is in much better condition than Reynolds Building No. 1. Although University Lofts will need some modification, it is anticipated that purchasing and converting this building is a more logical, fiscally responsible option. If the project goes as planned, UK students could be painting, sculpting and drawing in the renovated facility as early as the fall of 2013. “The renovations required to accommodate the College of Fine Arts in University Lofts is not very complicated,” says Bob Wiseman, vice president for Facilities Managements. “We intend a wide-open floor plan with institutional HVAC systems and the necessary air exhaust systems for certain fine arts needs, new lighting, modern accessible rest rooms and other amenities that will optimize the space for our art students. “But most importantly,” he says, “the University Lofts building can be a safer building. It is on a well-lit major road
across the street from campus and close to other housing and businesses frequented by students. The building itself has a good roof, windows and exterior walls, sound stairways, solid electrical supply and a good elevator; and it does not have the safety, access and site drainage issues associated with the Reynolds Building.” The building will include class space for an art studio, faculty studios, graduate studios and spaces for advanced undergraduate work. The Barnhart Gallery, the primary exhibition space for students in Reynolds Building No. 1, would also be relocated to the University Lofts structure. Before it can be converted to house UK’s art students and their paintings and sculptures, obligations to leased tenants must be met, says Ben Crutcher, associate vice president for Auxiliary Services. “UK inherited those obligations to the residing tenants, including several leases that will sporadically lapse over the next year,” he says. The University Lofts property also includes on-site parking, as well as an associated 85-space parking lot across Bolivar Street from the Lofts. The addition of proximate parking is a welcome amenity, as the existing Reynolds facility has extremely limited parking. Additionally, University Lofts is located adjacent to existing campus and city transit routes which will further enhance the students’ accessibility. ■
Faculty member elected to UK Board of Trustees Irina Voro, associate professor of piano in the UK College of Fine Arts School of Music, has been elected as faculty representative to the UK Board of Trustees for a three-year term, which will expire June 30, 2014. She fills the seat on the board that was held by Everett McCorvey of the UK College of Fine Arts, whose term ended June 30. Voro is an internationally renowned teacher of the arts and creativity. Winner of an international music performance
prize, she has also performed solo concerti with philharmonic orchestras on four continents and given solo piano recitals in 15 states and 11 countries. Her teaching awards include the U.S. Presidential Administration’s Distinguished Teacher Award, the Kentucky Music Teachers’ Association Teacher of the Year, the UK Provost Award for Outstanding Teaching and a Teacher Who Made a Difference. ■
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Blue Horizons
UK receives its largest research funding award e National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest government funding source for biomedical research in the United States, has awarded $20 million to the University of Kentucky to move research discoveries from the laboratory to bedside more quickly. e five-year funding, awarded through the NIH’s institutional Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) program, is the largest research funding award ever received by UK. It will be used to support research at the UK Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), making it part of a select national biomedical research consortium. e UK center — the only designated CTSA in Kentucky — is led by Dr. Philip Kern, associate provost for clinical and translational science, who will serve as principal investigator of the program. Translational research, referred to as “bench to bedside,” means turning lab findings into preventions, treatments and cures through collaborations across academic units
with interdisciplinary research teams. “Probably the most important research that has been neglected on a national basis is that there are some standards and best practices that just don’t get disseminated and don’t get used as effectively as they should,” says Dr. Michael Karpf, UK executive vice president for Health Affairs. “Figuring out how to change that, how to get physicians, patients and others to comply with what we know are best standards is a critically important issue. at’s going to be something we are going to emphasize in multiple different ways. We’ll emphasize that through the grant and some of the partnerships we’ll develop.” CTSA funding will support infrastructure and the Clinical Research Development and Operations Center at UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital, where patients participate in clinical research studies. It also will be used for educational programs for future investigators, for community engagement, to fund research pilot grants and an informatics program. ■
UK receives grant to help reduce reliance on imported oil e U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Energy issued UK one of eight federal grants to study the reduction of imported oil to the United States. UK received $6.9 million as part of the Obama administration’s comprehensive plan to address rising gas prices, and to fund research and development projects that will support the production of biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products from a variety of biomass sources. UK’s project is to improve the economics for biorefineries by using on-farm processing
to convert biomass to a mixture of butanol, ethanol, acetone and organic acids. e product can then be easily transported to a biorefinery for further processing. e project will integrate input from experts in a variety of disciplines, including plant and soil scientists, horticulturists, chemical engineers, and economists. Principal investigator Sue Nokes, professor in the UK Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department, says the bulk of the grant will be used to study the process of growing switchgrass and miscanthus to create biofuel for farm machinery. ■
Public Health launches national coordinating center The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded a $3.2 million, three-year grant to the UK College of Public Health to create the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research (PHSSR). The grant will help accommodate a growing field that supplies public health officials and policymakers with the data they need to make decisions about how health departments should be financed, staffed and structured. This research is important as state and local health departments across the country face difficult choices due to budget cuts and reductions in staff, programs and services. One goal of the new center is to grow this field of research by coordinating current PHSSR investments, supporting real-world applications, and strengthening the capacity of researchers and practitioners. Another key goal is to determine the future direction of the field’s research initiatives, and translate that research into practice. The National Coordinating Center will also work to increase the visibility of the work and attract other funders to the field. “In this era of health care reform and tight government budgets, now is the ideal time to take a hard look at how valuable public health dollars are being spent and how we can best spend those dollars in the future to ensure the greatest, most positive impact on the population,” says Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield, director of the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research and the Peter B. Bosomworth Professor of Health Services Research and Policy at UK. ■
African American Encyclopedia back on track e Kentucky African American Encyclopedia (KAAE) project, based at the University of Kentucky, has new life thanks to a contribution from philanthropist Tom Brumley, whose interest in the project goes back several years. e KAAE, published by the University Press of Kentucky, will provide a comprehensive volume of re-
search on the black experience in the Commonwealth, including entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements and institutions which have shaped the state’s history since its origins. It is believed that Kentucky could very well be the first state to have an encyclopedia like this one. ■
Compiled from news reports about research at UK. For more information about research taking place at UK, visit www.research.uky.edu
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New Developments
Warren Rosenthal ’47 Seeing blue and making a difference... Founder of national restaurant chains gives in appreciation for what he has received
When students graduate from the University of Kentucky, their career paths oen take them in interesting directions. Certainly that could be said for Warren Rosenthal ’47 BE, who managed to launch a business career with three small diners in Lexington and parlayed them into three Kentucky-based restaurant chains with more than 1,500 locations in 37 states and two other countries. Jerry’s Drive-In, Long John Silver’s Seafood Shoppe and Fazoli’s are more than just names of successful restaurants. ey are part of the modern American vernacular and are known to millions. But perhaps not as well-known is the quiet philanthropy of Rosenthal to many worthy causes including his alma mater. “Warren Rosenthal is a UK alum who has had phenomenal success in business,” observes Mike Richey ’73 ’79 AG, UK vice president for Development. “His extraordinary entrepreneurial accomplishments are exceeded only by his generosity and his heart for helping others in transformational ways. His success story is intriguing, and his volunteerism and philanthropic giving are inspiring.”
in town and I made great friends in my childhood and youth. And the Boy Scouts were an important part of my early teens. Life was most enjoyable.” But when Rosenthal was age 15, his mother died of pneumonia. She was only 38 The Boy Scouts were years old. “From that time on,” he recalls, “it was just my brother, dad, grandma and me.” important to Rosenthal When it came time for Rosenthal to attend as a young teen. college, there was no question about where he would go for his first two years of study. His father and some other townspeople had founded Paducah Junior College several years earlier in 1932. “Many people couldn’t afford to send their children away to school,” he explains. “ere were 300 students there when I attended. Funds were not paid by the city, but were raised in the community and through tuition. “Dad was prepared to pay my way through junior college, but I told him, ‘No. I will pay for it.’ e cost was $90 a semester.”
A Kentucky native
A top secret Army cryptographer
Rosenthal is a fourth generation Kentuckian and a child of the Great Depression. He spent his early life in Paducah. His greatgrandfather was a riverboat captain and had settled there. His grandfather ran a grocery store and a cigar factory. And his father had a wholesale dry goods business. “Paducah was a wonderful place to grow up,” Rosenthal remembers fondly. “It was a little town of 35,000 people and there was no need to lock our doors night or day. I could ride my bike anywhere
Aer finishing two years of college, Rosenthal volunteered for service in the U.S. Army. e year was 1943 and World War II was raging. He trained at Camp Lee, Va., and was then assigned to the signal corps as a cryptographer. He spent 33 months in India assigned to Gen. Joseph Stilwell’s headquarters. “I had a great experience with Stilwell,” Rosenthal reflects. “I was his top secret communicator night and day. I coded and decoded messages all the time. Of course, I couldn’t talk about the content
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of those messages with anybody. And at a certain point, I began getting communiqués about something called ‘the Manhattan Project.’ I didn’t know what that was until later when the atomic bombs were dropped.” Rosenthal didn’t receive clearance to return home until several months aer the war ended. “I got the coded message myself that I was being ordered back to the states. It said I was to return by ‘first available water.’ But when I decoded it,” he says with a grin, “I wrote ‘first available air.’” “Even by plane, it still took six or seven days to get back to the U.S. since we couldn’t fly overnight for security reasons. We therefore had to hop-skip through several countries on the way home. I finally landed in West Palm Beach, Fla., in February of 1946.”
A veteran establishing a life and a career One of the first things Rosenthal did when he returned to civilian life was to travel back to Virginia where he had completed his Army training. During that time, a local family there had invited the young enlisted men to their home for meals and fellowship. Rosenthal visited the family again and became reacquainted with their daughter, Betty Markhoff. Several months later, they were married in August 1946. Aer returning from the war, Rosenthal also wanted to continue his education. He enrolled at the University of Kentucky and graduated with a degree in commerce in 1947. His plan was to return to Paducah and go into business with his father. “In those days, you did what your father told you,” he chuckles. “And he told me to come back home and work with him. He wanted to open small department stores in communities of 6,000 to 8,000. But three months aer I went back home, he died at age 50 of pancreatic cancer. I had no desire to stay in Paducah aer his death.” At first, Rosenthal thought he would accept a job in New York, N.Y. He and Betty Rosenthal traveled to New York to investigate the possibility. He was offered a large salary for his first year of
This is Jerry’s Drive-In on Limestone in Lexington, Ky., circa 1960. Note the curb service speakers in the lower left corner.
work and a full partnership in the second year with an even larger salary. e business was a manufacturer’s agency for men’s and children’s hosiery. “e owner was 64 years old and wanted someone to carry on the business,” Rosenthal relates. “I would have to spend six Warren Rosen months of the year on the thal and his wife, Betty, enjoying the ra road and the other six ces at Keenela nd. months in New York. Even with the kind of salary he was offering, we wouldn’t be able to live in the city. I would have to commute maybe an hour each way every day. I just couldn’t fathom committing to that kind of life. I told Betty we were going back to Kentucky.” Rosenthal had another job possibility in Louisville selling life insurance. He and his wife bought train tickets to take them from New York to Louisville with an overnight stop in Lexington. ey wanted to visit friends in Lexington, one of whom had rented them an apartment while Rosenthal was a student at the University of Kentucky. “Jerry Lederer loved young people and we had become good friends,” he remembers. “I stopped by his office to say hello and he asked me where I was going. I told him my plan was to sell life insurance. He said, ‘Don’t do that. Come into business with me.’”
The start of something big Rosenthal accepted his older friend’s offer, and over time, bought one-third of his business with the option to purchase the remainder upon his friend’s death. Lederer was in the restaurant business.
New Developments “He had one tan porcelain building with eight stools on South Limestone Street facing the UK campus where McDonald’s is located today,” Rosenthal remembers. “It was called Jerry’s and sold 15-cent hamburgers. He also had two five-cent hamburger stands called White Taverns.” Rosenthal brought innovation to the restaurants which quickly resulted in success. “I introduced curb service in Lexington,” he relates. “I had observed curb service in Paducah. We tried it out at South Lime and then at the location on Main Street across from Henry Clay High School and finally at the location at the Beltline and North Broadway. It was a success. By this time, all the restaurants were called Jerry’s, and with the popularity of curb service, I then added Drive-In to the name.” He also brought other new practices to the business which were working elsewhere in the country, including the doubledecker hamburger which he dubbed the Fat Boy, later changing its name to the J-Boy. Rosenthal and Lederer started franchising and other Jerry’s Drive-Ins began opening around central Kentucky. As competition from a larger similar restaurant chain became fierce, Rosenthal decided to begin advertising on television, a new medium at the time.
Foray into fast food
“Jerry’s Drive-Ins were a hit for many years, and then came fastfood competition including McDonald’s and, yes — Kentucky Fried Chicken,” Rosenthal recalls. “ey pushed food out a window and the customer took it. ey had no carpet, no background music, no bottomless coffee cup, such as we offered at Jerry’s. I knew we had to get into the fast-food business. “Jerry retired in 1957 and when he died a few years later, I bought the remainder of the business. At that time there were 74 units including franchises. In the fast-food market, there were plenty of hamburger and chicken operations, but no fish. So we came up with Long John Silver’s,” he says. “We first had to decide which fish to offer. A salesman wanted us to buy cod, but I didn’t want cod because my mother had given me cod liver oil when I was a child and it tasted terrible,” says Rosenthal. “e salesman boiled some cod and had me taste it and to my surprise there was no taste. He even had me taste the water used to boil the fish and it had no taste, either. We selected cod and then came up with the distinctive batter.” In 1969, Long John Silver’s opened in Lexington on Southland Drive next to the railroad overpass. e start-up operation was a test to see if fast-food fish would be accepted. Business was brisk from the beginning. Rosenthal rememThe colonel bers that even freight trains would stop Lederer and Rosenthal were acby the restaurant to allow the men on quainted with Harland Sanders. Rosenthal behind the counter at Jerry’s. board to come in and get carryout. “He walked into our office in 1956,” Rosenthal recalls. “He At the end of the first year of operawas not known as colonel then, nor did he wear tion, the fledgling fast-food restaurant had been a wonderful sucwhite. He had a restaurant in Corbin and he said to cess. Rosenthal recalls, “We couldn’t start building more Long Jerry, ‘I’ve got it all ready to franchise, except for the Johns fast enough.” As the popularity of the new chain increased, boxes such as the ones you use. How do you do your he began buying national TV advertising. Eventually, Long John boxes?’ he wanted to know. Silver’s grew to 1,500 units. “We were consuming all the cod that “I told him how we positioned the food in the Iceland and Alaska could sell us,” Rosenthal shares. box. ‘We put the roll in the back corner, the With the success of Long John Silver’s, he began to look for ancoleslaw in front of that with a wooden spoon and other fast-food option. “Nobody was doing Italian,” he explains. paper napkin, fries on the bottom, chicken or sand“We decided on fast-food pasta and pizza, and to prepare for this, wich on top, then we put the lid down and seal it with we put in a full-service restaurant first to gain a background and a piece of tape,’” he says. knowledge of Italian cuisine. We actually opened three full-service “Harland couldn’t understand so we suggested he go to Italian restaurants called Florenz, and then we launched Fazoli’s. I our Jerry’s on New Circle Road,” Rosenthal continues. “I pulled that name out of the air and it caught on quickly,” he says. called our manager and told him a man named Sanders “In 1989, we had several Fazoli’s restaurants going when a group would be coming, and that he should show him how we prefrom New York wanted to buy the company. By that time I had pare our boxes. The manager couldn’t believe what I was had two open-heart surgeries and I was ready to sell,” Rosenthal saying — that I wanted him to show our kitchen to a confides. competitor. I had to repeat it several times.” At the time of the sale, Jerrico Inc., included over 1,500 Long Rosenthal laughs, “Finally I said to the man- John Silver’s Seafood Shoppes in 37 states and two other counager, ‘Harland is an old man — 65 years tries, over 60 Jerry’s full-service family coffee shop restaurants and old — what difference can it make?’” five Fazoli’s fast-food Italian restaurants. All this had grown from three small restaurants in 1948.
Awards Rosenthal has received many awards throughout the years including the foodservice industry’s premier honor, the Gold Plate Award. It was presented to him in 1975 by the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association in recognition of his standardsetting leadership and accomplishments as a foodservice operator, as well as his civic and community contributions. In 1983, the president of Iceland presented him with the Icelandic Order of the Falcon, the highest award given to anyone other than heads of state and royalty. And in 2010, Rosenthal was inducted into the Kentucky Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. He has also been named to the UK Gatton College of Business & Economics Hall of Fame, and has received honorary doctorates from the University of Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky University and Transylvania University.
Retirement pursuits Soon aer retiring as chairman of the board of Jerrico Inc., Rosenthal entered into a venture with two friends to develop Renfro Valley Entertainment Center, a country music venue in southern Kentucky. In retirement, he has also spent time restoring the historic Kentucky horse farm he bought in 1981 known as Patchen Wilkes, famed for the extraordinary white oroughbreds it has produced. Rosenthal has also devoted much of his time in recent years to philanthropic causes in central Kentucky and beyond.
Philanthropy “I generally give to children’s charities and education,” he shares. “And being a graduate of the University of Kentucky, I’ve always had a high regard for my alma mater. I have a love for the university. It’s been good to me. And I’ve always felt that I should give in appreciation for what I’ve received.” Mike Richey notes that Warren Rosenthal’s commitment to his alma mater is extensive. “Warren has helped us in many ways with his astute business sense,” Richey observes. “He has served as chairman of the University of Kentucky Development Council for a number of years and has helped us structure the various levels of the UK Fellows Society. He has likewise been a part of shaping the university’s annual giving program. Currently, he is chairing the Schmidt Vocal Arts Center renovation initiative which will help boost our opera program.”
Photos in this article are from the personal archives of Warren Rosenthal. Content is provided by the UK Office of Development. www.uky.edu/Development
Terry Mobley ’65 ED AS, longtime UK chief development officer and retired vice president for Institutional Advancement, notes, “Warren Rosenthal has been an integral part of the fundraising program at the University of Kentucky for the past 35 years. roughout that time, we were fortunate to have volunteers and donors who would come and go — but Warren came and stayed. I could always call upon Warren for advice or help and he would be there for the university. Whatever success the fundraising program has had at UK, Warren has been a part of it.” Mobley continues, “Warren has also had a breadth and depth of support for the university which is extraordinary. His philanthropy has included the Gatton College of Business & Economics, which is his UK college of graduation. He has also given to the W. T. Young Library, UK HealthCare and the new hospital, the opera program, the arts programs, the restoration of the Main Building and many other areas of the university. He and Betty are also huge UK athletics fans. ey’re season ticket holders for both UK basketball and football and rarely miss a game. Warren has an appreciation for the academic mission of the university and the athletic program as well. “And his passion is the Child Development Center,” Mobley comments further. “Behind the exterior of a highly successful corporate giant is a very sensitive, generous person. Like the late W. T. Young (’39 EN), Warren truly understands the pleasure of giving. We are grateful for all he has done for the University of Kentucky.”
Warren Rosenthal visits with one of his famed white Thoroughbreds, “White Fox,” named for his friend, W.T. Young, who was known as “The Gray Fox.”
President Capilouto finds second home in Kentucky By Kelli Elam
r. Eli Capilouto, University of Kentucky president, admits he doesn’t fall in love easily. However, he readily admits to falling in love rather quickly with Kentucky. Since he was named UK’s 12th president, Capilouto, a native of Montgomery, Ala., has come to think of Kentucky as his second home.
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“My wife (Dr. Mary Lynne Capilouto) and I have had an opportunity to see some of the state and get to know some of its people,” Capilouto said. “And it’s been wonderful. It really reminds us of our home state of Alabama — the people, their compassion, their willingness to work hard. I fell in love with another state for very familiar reasons.”
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UK Alumni Association Executive Director Stan Key ’72 ED, left, welcomes Dr. Eli Capilouto to campus during a reception hosted by the association.
ful things anyone can do is be a parent. “It overshadows everything else,” he said. Capilouto talks of “dreaming big.” He added that those dreams are best when shared. “It’s wonderful to share your dreams with someone who understands. My wife and I are both administrators — sometimes at the end of the day, we don’t even have to say anything, we just look at each other and understand. It’s good to be able to share that with someone,” he said. Capilouto received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Alabama in 1971,
earned a dental degree in 1975 and a master’s degree in epidemiology from UAB in 1985. In 1991, he received his doctorate in health policy and management from the Harvard University School of Public Health. While at Harvard, he was a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Dental Scholars Award, a National Center for Health Services Research Fellowship, and the Charles Wilinksy Award for academic achievement. He has served on numerous national advisory boards and committees and has also served as referee and editor for
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It took a very special place to get the Capiloutos out of Alabama. Kentucky was that place. Capilouto, 61, officially took office on July 1, succeeding President Lee T. Todd, Jr., who retired aer 10 years. He came to Lexington from the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB) where he had served as provost since 2005. Previously, he served as dean of the School of Public Health. Capilouto calls himself the “accidental administrator,” having gone from being a faculty member at the UAB College of Dentistry to serving as department chairman for three weeks, to interim dean to dean, and then provost. e importance of education in Capilouto’s life is certainly no accident. His commitment to education can be traced back to his grandfather, a Turkish immigrant, who settled in Montgomery in the 1900s. His grandfather instilled the value of an education in his children, and they, in turn, instilled it in his grandchildren. Capilouto’s father attended college and became a dentist — a career path his son followed. “roughout my childhood my father always told me to get an education,” he said. “My father, and one other sibling, attended college. I never met my grandfather, but I hope that he would be proud. I would love to know what his expectations were for his family. If I could have supper with three people who are no longer living, one would definitely be my grandfather.” Capilouto married the former Mary Lynne Hartselle in 1978. She is the former dean of the College of Dentistry at UAB. Dr. Mary Lynne Capilouto shares her husband’s commitment to education. “He (Eli) wants UK to be the best it can be in terms of providing an education to the students because we’ve seen what education has done for our lives and other’s lives and how it improves the quality of life,” she said. e Capiloutos have instilled that same value for education in their daughter, Emily, who is in graduate school at UAB. “Education has always been part of our lives,” President Capilouto said. “Our daughter took the money she received for her Bat Mitzvah and created a scholarship in Montgomery for (international) students. I contribute to that scholarship. We were immigrants, so it’s very important to us.” He added that one of the most meaning-
Alumni gathered at the King Alumni House to meet the new university president.
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Dr. Eli Capilouto, pictured above with his daughter, Emily, and wife, Dr. Mary Lynne Capilouto, became UK’s 12th president on July 1.
many professionals journals. As provost at UAB, Capilouto served as the chief academic officer for a university with 11 schools and colleges, 17,543 students and $460 million in annual external research. Capilouto worked closely with administrators, faculty, staff and students to advance new initiatives in innovative teaching and learning, research and service in support of the university’s strategic plan. He also held the rank of professor. Capilouto wasn’t looking to leave UAB, but he was intrigued about the possibility of becoming UK’s president. However, he wasn’t encouraged aer the first phone call. “Aer the first (phone) interview, I called my wife and told her I was disappointed because I didn’t think it went well,” he said. “She assured me that it would be okay. And I said, ‘But you don’t understand, I really like those people.’” Capilouto added that prior to learning he had, in fact, gotten the job, he found himself cheering for the Wildcats during the NCAA Tournament. Even though he might not have origi-
nally planned on one day being a university president, now that he is president of the University of Kentucky, Capilouto embraces the opportunity. “My daughter says, ‘You’re just you,’” Capilouto said. “I do recognize the seriousness of the position. It’s inspiring to think about all the things that are possible. It really is incredible to be afforded this opportunity to serve. It all starts with people — and it’s great to see the reach of UK across this state.” Kentucky, like his home state of Alabama, faces many challenges today. e state also knows the hard work and sacrifice needed to move forward in education, research and healthcare. e state’s flagship university is an integral part of the progress, something Capilouto knows well. “e university means so much to the people of Kentucky,” he said. “It’s an awesome responsibility. e first part of that responsibility is to ensure people have access to degrees, not just college, but to degrees.” Capilouto says it’s critical to the success of the state and university to attract the best and brightest students, faculty, and staff.
“It’s critically important that we retain these students,” he said of the state’s top students. “Other states will go aer them, hoping they become future citizens. We need them here.” Capilouto also sees facilities, state funding, and maintaining a balance among the university’s various departments as vitally important moving forward. He added that a continued commitment to research is vital, as well. “If you are born today, your life span is probably 30 years more than it was 50 or 75 years ago,” he said. “at is all because of research, a result of discovery. Some of the greatest discoveries have come since 1900 and we have research to thank.” Capilouto is proud to be a part of the rich tradition of the University of Kentucky and looks forward to the challenges and successes to come. When asked what he would like people to say about his tenure as UK’s president, Capilouto replied, “We did our best to educate the next generation of citizens.” ■
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Mat Saunders:
UK alum recently uncovered a major discovery in archaeology B y C h r i s t i n a N o l l at Saunders ’01 AS has never had to run for his life while being chased through a cave by a 10-ton boulder, and he didn’t mention having a tremendous fear of snakes, but his career — at least to some — is right up there with the adventures of Indiana Jones starring Harrison Ford. Just like Jones in the movies, Saunders spends part of his time teaching and part of his time excavating ancient ruins. To be more specific, Saunders oversees excavations at a Maya archaeological site in the country of Belize. When he’s not in Central America, he teaches anthropology, world religions, history and mythology at Davidson Day School, a private K-12 college preparatory school in Davidson, N.C. ere he arranges summer trips to Belize for select Davidson Day students and other students from across the country and the world. Just this past summer, Saunders and his students continued excavations at Cahal Pech Maya ruins site in western Belize, where their research has been based for the last six years. ere they made what Saunders calls the most amazing discovery of his career: an elaborate burial tomb. Within the tomb, they discovered four individuals along with decorative jade ornaments, 10 complete ceramic vessels and more. Two of the items were extremely monumental for the entire Maya civilization. First was the discovery of three bone rings carved with Maya hieroglyphics naming a king of Cahal Pech, offering a tremendous breakthrough in the decipherment of language which will unlock other texts in the Maya
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world. e other was a conch shell still aer Weinberg called him one night and stained with the residue of the paint it once said that he wanted to apply to the Belize held. is offers the first concrete evidence Valley Archaeological Reconnaissance that conch shells were used to hold paint. Project field school and recommended But Saunders wasn’t always excavating Saunders go with him. “Once in Belize, ancient tombs. His adventurous lifestyle all Doug and I found our way into the top tier started at the University of Kentucky. of the field school and charmed the direcSaunders transferred to UK from the fortors with our Kentucky-fried demeanor,” mer Ashland Community College in 1997 he jokes. “We were asked back the next with the intention of studying biology. I grew year as staff and five years later we had up in a household that loved UK sports,” he more excavation experience than most says. “And UK’s reputation in the Biology De- post-docs.” partment was also a huge draw.” Weinberg completed the archaeologiAfter taking a few courses in anthropol- cal survey of a controversial hydroelecogy, he decided that was more the path tric dam site which ended up destroying he wanted to take with his life. That’s thousands of acres of wildlife habitat where Saunders met Doug Weinberg, a and hundreds of Maya sites. Tragically, a fellow student in the Anthropology Defew months after he finished the projpartment. They worked together from ect, Weinberg died from a pulmonary 2000-04, excavating some of the most im- embolism. He was only 29. “That day I portant Maya sites in Belize. “Doug and I lost my best friend but found the motiwere great friends before working in Bevation to achieve everything I have,” says lize together but the several years in BeSaunders. lize made us like inseparable brothers,” says Saunders. Saunders credits his career path to his friendship with Weinberg, as well. “It was all because of Doug really,” he says. “e truth of the matter was, I had a great deal of interest in the Maya but I had no true loyalty until I went to the field school with Doug in 2000,” he explains. Doug Weinberg and Saunders visited the site of Palenque in He ended up in Belize Chiapas, Mexico, in 2001.
Due to the amazing finds Saunders and his team made this summer, final decisions were made to build the Douglas M. Weinberg Cultural Research Center on the site at Cahal Pech. e 36,000-square-foot research facility will help lower cost for students, create jobs for archaeologists, and develop the local economy and tourism. e center will also be a way for Weinberg’s legacy to live into the future. “All of this will happen while we are writing the history of prehistoric Belize,” Saunders says. “is project will hopefully set a standard for site preservation and archaeological research across the globe and the cool thing is we are starting it as a high-school driven program.” While the immediate goal is to complete the research facility, Saunders long-term goals are to advance the field of archaeology and site preservation to a point that it has never seen. “I want to perfect a formula that will promote archaeology and create job opportunities for students like Doug and me,” he says. “Ultimately my dream is to provide two students in the Anthropology Department at UK with the financial assistance to carry out their archaeological research each summer in Belize.” Weinberg’s legacy will also live on through Saunders own work. “I still love the thrill of the dig,” he says. “I’m very privileged to work at some of the most exciting ancient Maya sites in Mesoamerica and it never gets old.” So what does Indiana Jones — or Mat Saunders — do when he’s not teaching or excavating at ancient sites in South America? He enjoys spending time with his wife, Priscilla, and their two children, Owen and Sophie. He is excited to be able to share his experiences with his family. “Doug and I were fortunate enough to have the international experience in our 20s; it changed our lives but I wish it would have happened sooner,” he says. “I love the fact that I’m raising my own kids in another country and sharing the experience with hundreds of high school students. It has an enormous impact on kids.” Indeed, Saunders is making a tremendous impact on the archaeological world and students of archaeology. And, it’s safe to say, we are all looking forward to the sequel. ■
Saunders, far right and Jaime Awe, director of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, foreground, along with other archaeologists, planned excavations in 2010.
A conch shell found at Cahal Pech shows signs of residue from the paint it once held centuries ago.
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Alumni in leadership These distinguished UK alumni are serving their constituents.
Congress Mitch McConnell, Louisville: ’67 LAW, represents Kentucky and is the Senate Republican Leader
Albert “Ben” Chandler III, Versailles: ’83 AS, ’86 LAW, represents the 6th Congressional District
Senate
Hal Rogers, Somerset: ’62 AS, ’64 LAW, represents the 5th Congressional District
Ed Whitfield, Hopkinsville: ’65 BE, ’69 LAW, represents the 1st Congressional District
House of Representatives
State constitutional officers Steven L. Beshear, Lexington: ’66 AS, ’68 LAW Governor
Daniel Mongiardo, Bulan: ’86 MED Lieutenant Governor
Richie Farmer, Frankfort: ’95 AG Commissioner of Agriculture
Todd Hollenbach, St. Matthews: ’82 AS State Treasurer
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Walter Blevins Jr., West Liberty: ’76 DE, represents District 27 in Boyd, Elliot, Fleming, Lawrence & Rowan counties
Robert “Bob” J. Leeper,Paducah: ’78 Paducah Community College,* represents District 2 in Ballard, Marshall & McCracken counties
Robert Stivers, Manchester: ’84 BE, represents District 25 in Clay, Knox, Lee, Magoffin, Owsley & Wolfe counties
Joe R. Bowen, Owensboro: ’72 BE, represents District 8 in Daviess & McLean counties
Dennis L. Parrett, Elizabethtown: ’81 AG, represents District 10 in Hardin & Jefferson counties
John “Jack” Westwood, Elsmere: ’66 AS, represents District 23 in Kenton County
Tom Buford, Nicholasville: ’71 BE, represents District 22 in Boyle, Fayette, Garrard & Jessamine counties
Jerry P. Rhoads, Madisonville: ’66 LAW, represents District 6 in Hopkins, Muhlenberg & Ohio counties
David L. Williams, Burkesville: ’75 AS, represents District 16 in Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Wayne & Whitley counties
Julian Carroll, Frankfort: ’54 AS, ’56 LAW, represents District 7 in Anderson, Fayette, Franklin & Woodford counties
Brandon Smith, Hazard: ’04 AS, represents District 30 in Bell, Harlan, Leslie & Perry counties
Ernie Harris, Crestwood: ’69 BE, represents District 26 in Carroll, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham & Trimble counties
Kathy W. Stein, Lexington: ’83 LAW, represents District 13 in Fayette County
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House of Representatives Dwight D. Butler, Harned: ’82 Elizabethtown Community College,* represents District 18 in Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Hancock, & Hardin counties
Joni L. Jenkins, Shively: ’80 CIS, represents District 44 in Jefferson County
Will Coursey, Benton: attended UK ’00 - ’01, represents District 6 in Lyon, Marshall & McCracken counties
omas R. Kerr, Taylor Mill: ’72 BE, represents District 64 in Kenton County
Carl Rollins, Midway: ’75 BE, ’03 ED, represents District 56 in Fayette, Franklin & Woodford counties Steven Rudy, W. Paducah: ’97 Paducah Community College,* represents District 1 in Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman & McCracken counties
Jesse Crenshaw, Lexington: ’74 LAW, represents District 77 in Fayette County
Stan Lee, Lexington: ’83 BE, ’88 LAW, represents District 45 in Fayette County
Arnold Simpson, Covington: ’77 LAW, represents District 65 in Kenton County
Robert R. Damron, Nicholasville: ’76 ’84 BE, represents District 39 in Fayette & Jessamine counties
David W. Osborne, Prospect: ’86 AG, represents District 59 in Jefferson & Oldham counties
Rita H. Smart, Richmond: ’92 ED, represents District 81 in Madison County
Mitchel “Mike” Denham Jr., Maysville: ’72 AG, represents District 70 in Bracken, Fleming & Mason counties
Sannie L. Overly, Paris: ’89 EN, represents District 72 in Bath, Bourbon, Fayette & Nicholas counties
John Will Stacy, West Liberty: ’83 ’84 Hazard Community College,* represents District 71 in Menifee, Morgan, Rowan & Wolfe counties
Bob M. DeWeese, Louisville: ’57 AS, represents District 48 in Jefferson County
Ruth Ann Palumbo, Lexington: ’72 ED, represents District 76 in Fayette County
Greg Stumbo, Prestonsburg: ’73 AS, represents District 95 in Floyd County
Jim Glenn, Owensboro: ’01 ED, represents District 13 in Daviess County
Tanya G. Pullin, South Shore: ’80 AG, ’86 LAW, represents District 98 in Boyd & Greenup counties
John Tilley, Hopkinsville: ’91 CIS, represents District 8 in Christian & Trigg counties
Sara Beth Gregory, Monticello: ’03 AS, ’07 LAW, represents District 52 in McCreary, Pulaski & Wayne counties
Ryan Quarles, Georgetown: ’05 ’06 AG, ’06 GS, ’10 LAW, represents District 62 in Fayette & Scott counties
David A. Watkins, Henderson: ’63 Henderson Community College, represents District 11 in Henderson County
W. Keith Hall, Phelps: attended UK ’78 - ’80, represents District 93 in Pike County
Steven Riggs, Louisville: ’81 BE, represents District 31 in Jefferson County
Susan Westrom, Lexington: ’93 ’95 SW, represents District 79 in Fayette County
* e Community College system was part of UK until 1999.
Get involved! Interested in supporting the University of Kentucky in Frankfort? e University of Kentucky Advocacy Network (UKAN) engages, informs and provides opportunities for alumni to communicate with members of the Kentucky General Assembly and other elected officials regarding issues of importance to UK and higher education. Visit www.uky.edu/government for more information on how to join.
Brent Yonts, Greenville: ’75 LAW, represents District 15 in Christian, Hopkins & Muhlenberg counties
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Ceal Barry:Trailblazer
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By Kelli Elam
Ceal Barry returned to campus to receive the 2011 Susan B. Feamster Trailblazer Award. The award is named for Sue Feamster, right, the first women’s Athletics director at UK. After graduating from UK, Barry went on to have a very successful coaching career.
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hen Ceal Barry BS ’77 returned to campus to receive the 2011 Susan B. Feamster Trailblazer Award, she was amazed at how so many things were the same as she remembered from her time as a student. While campus landmarks such as the Seaton Center, Kirwan-Blanding Dorm Complex, the White Hall Classroom Building and many others were as Barry remembered, her time at UK was one of major change. Barry is Associate Athletic Director for Student Services at the University of Colorado. She came to UK from Assumption High School in Louisville and was a four-year letter-earner in women’s basketball from 1973-77. She played three years under Coach Feamster and one under Coach Debbie Yow. During her senior season, Barry was a guard on the team that upset No. 2 Tennessee Tech in Memorial Coliseum. Her basketball career at UK can be defined in two parts — before Title IX and after Title IX. (Title IX is a law passed in 1972 that requires gender equity for men and women in every education program that receives federal funding.) She was part of the first class of female student-athletes to receive scholarship aid for athletics. “Even then, I knew what it meant,” Barry said of the significance of the Title IX legislation. “For women to finally receive athletic scholarships, we were all aware of the importance of it. I felt it was an honor to be a part of it at UK.” During her freshman and sophomore seasons, women’s basketball was part of the recreation department housed at the Seaton Center. Beginning in 1973, with the phasing in of legislation to equalize women’s colligate sports, Barry’s experience as a basketball player at UK changed greatly. Barry recalls working for Feamster, who was UK's first women's athletics director and former women's basketball coach, at the Seaton Center in the Women’s Athletics Office. For away games, players would go to the campus motor pool and get state cars to make the trips. “My junior and seniors years, we had charter buses, uniforms with our names on them — those were the type of changes that we noticed,” she said. “I think our selfesteem increased as athletes with more re-
sources. We knew we deserved it. Title IX made it possible.” Barry said most people today probably couldn’t imagine a time prior to the legislation. “It really was a different era,” she said. “e popularity of women’s sports has increased so much across the country, and certainly at UK. (UK Athletics Director) Mitch Barnhart has done a fantastic job here. My time at Kentucky was wonderful, under both scenarios.” Barry said working as a student for Feamster helped shape her career path, but also was a factor in her earning an accounting degree at UK. “She really pushed me to think bigger. She gave me a job as a student worker for 20 hours a week. She was just a huge influence on my life. I’m so appreciative and grateful for that,” says Barry. Barry retired from coaching aer 22 seasons leading the Buffalo program with an impressive resume that includes 427 victories, the most by any coach at the school, 12 NCAA tournament appearances, including six Sweet 16 and three Elite Eight appearances, 13 20-win seasons, four conference championships and numerous Coach of the Year honors. She also was an assistant coach for the 1996 Olympic Gold Medal women’s basketball team. Her coaching career began shortly aer graduation at the University of Cincinnati. “Sue called UC on my behalf,” she said. “I had the opportunity to go for a master’s degree or coach. I decided to go to Cincinnati. at was the beginning of my coaching career.”
Barry was a graduate assistant at Cincinnati for two seasons and was head coach from 1979-83, compiling a record of 83-42 before moving on to Colorado. She was hired to lead the then Lady-Buffs into the Big Eight Conference (now the Big 12) that officially started league play her first season at the helm. Barry became the 24th coach in women’s NCAA history to reach 500 career wins. Barry said when she first arrived at Colorado, basketball wasn’t all that popular. But within a few seasons, her teams were playing in a sold-out arena. “We won,” she said. “at’s really the simple reason why people came to our games. When you win, they come. And we were very fortunate to win a lot of games.” Barry says she misses the interaction with players as a coach, but doesn’t miss the “wear and tear” of traveling and recruiting. During her recent visit to campus, not only did she enjoy seeing the familiar places and buildings, she was impressed by the changes as well. “It was amazing to see buildings such as the Young Library and the Cra Center,” she said. I also got to attend practice with (UK women’s basketball coach) Matthew Mitchell. He couldn’t have been nicer and I was so impressed by the way he runs practice. He’s a terrific coach and I know the program is in great hands.” Barry hopes it won’t be as long before her next visit to campus. “It was great to be back. I had a huge smile on my face the entire time.” ■
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The healing power of art The opening of the UK Chandler Hospital Pavilion has brought colorful, unique works of art to the attention of all those who visit the facility. It is clear that the art displayed was chosen with a purpose and its beauty helps to re-humanize medicine. The UK Arts in HealthCare program is supported solely by private funds. Art glass is also showcased in the Myra Leigh Tobin Chapel. The theme of the glass in the chapel conveys the sense of hope and inspiration provided by springtime in Kentucky. It was chosen by UK alumna and philanthropist Myra Leigh Tobin, who received a bachelor’s degree in home economics in 1962. Artists: Tony Higdon and Erika Strecker Title: “Mending Light,” 2011 Hand blown glass, stainless steel and diffused LED lights
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Association News e UK Alumni Association honored the outstanding service of six individuals with the 2011 Distinguished Service Award at its annual Board of Directors Summer Workshop. e award recipients are John T. “Pete” Flaugher, Franklin, Tenn.; Turner LaMaster, Alabaster, Ala.; Peggy Meszaros, Blacksburg, Va.; William P. Perdue Jr., Dacula, Ga.; Patricia “Patsy” Brantley Todd, Lexington; and Elaine Wilson, Somerset. John T. “Pete” Flaugher ’59 BE has held three terms on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors, and served on the Budget/Investment Committee. He’s been involved with the Greater Nashville UK Alumni Club for over 10 years. In 2006, the Flaughers established the John T. and Paula B. Flaugher Scholarship Fund, producing over $2,000 in scholarship awards annually. Flaugher is the former senior vice president of Franklin National Bank, retired from Fih ird Bank and he is currently an The 2011 Distinguished Service Award recipients are, left to right, back row: Turner LaMaster, owner/partner of Capitol City Scaffolding Peggy Meszaros, John Flaugher, and Elaine Wilson. In the front row are William Perdue and Patsy Todd. & Equipment Co. Inc. He and his wife, nual Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club Student Send-off. Perdue Paula Buchanan Flaugher ’62 ED reside in Franklin, Tenn. is a former partner of Re/Max Greater Atlanta real estate group, Turner LaMaster ’73 BE has a history of service to the UK where he has served as president of the Re/Max Broker/Owners Alumni Association that dates back over 30 years to the formaCouncil and director of the Gwinnett Board of Realtors. He and tion of the Birmingham UK Alumni Club. He has served in his wife, Marty, live in Dacula, Ga. every leadership position and is a member of the UK Alumni Patricia “Patsy” Brantley Todd ’68 AG has participated in nuAssociation Board of Directors. He has helped to organize merous alumni receptions, programs and events with her husDerby parties, worked the UK booth at college fairs, coordiband, the former UK President Lee Todd. She has been very nated club trips, and led fundraisers for the club scholarship involved in student recruitment and life on campus; shown unfund. LaMaster has chaired planning committees and coordiwavering support for UK faculty, researchers and staff; has a parnated annual university functions such as hosting coaches for ticular love for the UK band, vocal music department, Opera SEC Media days and other visiting university dignitaries. LaMaster and his wife, Gina, live in Alabaster, Ala. eatre and UK Symphony Orchestra; and has helped to raise Peggy Meszaros ’72 ED is in her third term on the UK funds for colleges and programs across the university, most visibly Alumni Association Board of Directors, having served on nuas co-chair of the Women and Philanthropy Network and the merous committee. She previously was dean of the UK College UK Undergraduate Advisory Board. She also serves on multiple of Home Economics. Meszaros was awarded the Outstanding boards and committees in the Lexington community. Patsy and Lee Todd reside in Lexington. Alumnus Award from the UK College of Human EnvironmenElaine Wilson ’68 SW has held various roles as a member of tal Sciences in 1995, inducted into the UK Human Environthe UK Alumni Association, including serving as chairwoman mental Sciences Hall of Fame in 2002, and the UK Alumni of the Diversity and Group Development Committee and a Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 1995. She is currently the William E. Lavery Professor of Human Development member of the Executive Committee. She is a past president of the Lake Cumberland UK Alumni Club. She has also served at Virginia Tech and director of the Center for Information Technology Impacts on Children, Youth and Families. She lives her alma mater as a member of the Social Work Advisory in Blacksburg, Va. Board, Friends of Music Donor, and was a UK Board of William P. Perdue Jr. ’65 EN, ’68 BE served two years as presi- Trustee Member from 1999-2005. Wilson was an associate fadent of the Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club and continues to cility director at Oakwood Training Center and the director for cultural diversity at Somerset Community College. During serve on the club’s board of directors. He also served nine years her career she has served on numerous boards and committees. on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is involved in student recruitment at college fairs, as well as the anShe lives in Somerset. ■
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2011 UK Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award winners
dent and helped institute the UK Book Award and UK Counselor’s Dinner/Reception. Ochs has been practicing dentistry for over 30 years. Brenda Gosney ’70 HS, ’75 ED of Alexandria has previously served on the board of directors of the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club for over 20 years and has held the offices of president and secretary. She retired as CEO of HealthSouth Northern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital. Stan Key ’72 ED of Lexington is the director of UK Alumni Affairs and serves as executive director and secretary of the UK Alumni Association. ■
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Guiding the association in 2011-12 are Cammie DeShields Grant, president; George Ochs, president-elect; Brenda Gosney, treasurer; and Stan Key, secretary. e new officers will serve until June 30, 2012. Cammie DeShields Grant ’79 ED of Winchester has been involved with the Clark County UK Alumni Club, serving in various capacities, including as a member of its board of directors, vice president and president. She is employed by the Clark County Board of Education as a speech/language pathologist. George Ochs ’74 DE of Louisville has served the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club as president, secretary and vice presi-
The 2011-2012 UK Alumni Association Board of Directors officers were announced at the Summer Workshop in June. They are, left to right, Stan Key (secretary and executive director), Brenda Gosney (treasurer), Cammie Grant (president), and George Ochs (president-elect).
Wilson is 2011 Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award recipient
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2011-12 UK Alumni Association officers named
Amelia Brown Wilson ’03 AG, ’06 ’11 ED of Lexington is the recipient of the 2011 Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award for her work on behalf of young people through the association, UK and the community. She has served on the Fayette County UK Alumni Club Board of Directors and has been president of the Fayette County Young Alumni Club. She was elected to the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors in 2009 and serves on the Scholarship/Great Teacher Awards Committee. She is director of Student Services at Mid-Continent University. ■
New campus landmark: Wildcat Alumni Plaza embraced by the entire university family. This new campus landmark will stand as a rallying point for students to show their pride in the university and to remind alumni of memories of their time on campus. The completed sculpture is expected to be approximately 7-feet tall (including A prototype of the bronze Wildcat sculpture for the new Wildcat the base) and 9Alumni Plaza feet long. ■ www.ukalumni.net
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The University of Kentucky is about to have a new “must visit” location for meeting up with friends and snapping memorable photos, connecting students, alumni, and families to the university. We are excited to announce that the UK Alumni Association is creating a new campus landmark with the focal point being a bronze sculpture of a Wildcat, the University of Kentucky’s mascot. Wildcat Alumni Plaza and the bronze Wildcat sculpture will be constructed across the street from Memorial Coliseum near Stoll Field with an expected completion date of spring 2012. The sculpture, located at a prime entryway to campus, will be a symbol of tradition
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Association News UK Alumni Association changes process for board of directors voting
Past President Bob Pickard, board member Scott Wittich and Past President Diane Massie prepare to honor the Distinguished Service Award recipients.
e Board of Directors of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association plays a critical role in the success of the association. At the January 15, 2011, board meeting the process was changed for electing future members to the board of directors. is change was largely brought about in response to a goal in the strategic plan that calls for a plan to identify, assess and develop talent for leadership continuity. Other factors leading to the change were the decline in member voting participation over the years and finding that most other alumni associations around the country conduct their elections in this way. e new process will involve a slate of nominees presented to the board of directors for election at the association’s annual meeting in June, instead of elections by ballot voting. e new process was a decision reached aer two years of discussions by board committees. is will help take the UK Alumni Association into the future with strong and
able leaders. e Nominating Committee encourages nominations for these positions using the Nomination Form at right. David Ratterman, chairman of the Nominating Committee, points out that UK is fortunate to have an extraordinary reservoir of extremely talented alumni, but oen, this reservoir is largely untapped. “Candidates will be vetted for their interest, qualifications, and availability, and then nominated and elected by the current board. is will also allow us to continue to focus on the diversity goals of the association,” Ratterman says. Cammie Grant, current association president, notes that the new process is partially being driven by the beneficial experiences of the past presidents of the association. “is puts the voting in the hands of individuals who have previously demonstrated they are most committed to the success of our organization,” she says. is is important, she adds, because district voting participation
Board members have unique access at board meetings to guest speakers from academics and athletics, such as former football coach Rich Brooks.
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for board elections shrank from 34 percent in 2001 to 12 percent in 2010. Past president of the association, Diane Massie, says she is confident that this method for handling elections will be successful because members of the board are typically the most familiar with the talents of potential nominees. “e current board is a large group of geographically and demographically balanced individuals representing a wide cross section of professional expertise,” she says. Scott Davis, past president of the association, says the new process will encourage self-nomination from individuals who do not live near an active club but who want to share a commitment to UK. “e association can identify and cultivate alumni with special skills, knowledge and perspectives who are not club members,” he says. Ratterman agrees wholeheartedly. “Board
Past President Scott Davis, left, greets Brooke Asbell, District 18 board member.
membership affords unique access to university departments and top leaders of the university through association presentations at every meeting. It makes you very proud to listen to these deans and departments heads, who have devoted their lives to be of service to students and their academic calling, and see firsthand how that impacts the university community and how UK strives to make it all work.”
Want to nominate a qualified individual for the board? Perhaps yourself ? Please fill out the form on the next page and return it by fax or mail. Or complete the online form at www.ukalumni.net.
Board of Directors Nomination Form e Nominating for Board of Directors Committee of the UK Alumni Association is accepting nominations. e goal of the Nominating for Board of Directors Committee is to identify individuals with special talents, skills, perspective and experience to assist the Alumni Association in carrying out its mission. Please complete the one page form to nominate an individual or self-nominate for the Board of Directors. Date: ______________________________ Nominee First Name ____________________________ M.I. __________ Last Name __________________________________________ Maiden Name ______________________________________________________________________________________________ City ______________________ State ____________ Zip Code ____________ Phone ________________________________ College ____________________________ Degree(s) ________________________________________ Year(s) ______________ Email Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________ UK related reference (s) (Optional) ______________________________________________________________________________ University and/or UK Alumni Association Volunteer Activities: (Do NOT submit resume) ____________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Professional/Work Experience: __________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Volunteer Activities: __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Summarize the qualities you bring to the Board of Directors: ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Nominator Name ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Email Address ______________________________________________________________________________________________
Office Use Only District __________________ Membership: Annual through ____________ or Life ____________ Email to: nculp@email.uky.edu Fax to: (859) 323 – 1063 Mail to: UK Alumni Association, King Alumni House, Lexington, KY 40506-0019 www.ukalumni.net
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All events and details are subject to change. Please check www.ukhomecoming.com for up-to-date information. Monday, October 17
Saturday, October 22
Homecoming Pep Rally (Haggin Field, 8 - 10 p.m.) Help us kick off Homecoming Week! Appearances by former players, cheerleaders, band, and other activities
Homecoming Breakfast (King Alumni House, 8:00 – 9:30 a.m.) Start the day off with delicious breakfast with fellow UK alumni and families featuring fruit, scrambled eggs, bacon, pastries, biscuits and gravy, and more.
Thursday, October 20 Reinventing Yourself for Your Next Career (King Alumni House, 6 - 8 p.m.) Considering a career change? Join fellow alumni for appetizers and networking and hear from a panel of alumni who have made successful transitions.
Friday, October 21 seeblue. Day at Keeneland & Racing (Keeneland Entertainment Center, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Keeneland Race Course, Noon - 5 p.m.) Wildcats, join us for festivities throughout the day! General admission is FREE for UK students, faculty, staff and UK Alumni Association members (with I.D.). Purchase a commemorative UK/Keeneland 75th Anniversary hat and have it signed by a former football Wildcat. Proceeds benefit DanceBlue. e first 200 UK Alumni Association members who show their membership card at the UK Alumni Association table inside the North Terrace will receive a free gi. Wear blue to the track and stick around and catch all the racing action. Homecoming Parade Watch Party (Downtown, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.) Join fellow alumni downtown to watch the 2011 UK Homecoming parade! UK Alumni Association members who stop by the gathering spot will receive a free gi!
College of Engineering Alumni Breakfast (Raymond Student Commons of the Ralph G. Anderson Building, 8:30 – 10 a.m.) All College of Engineering alumni and friends are invited to attend a Homecoming breakfast and visit our Pathway of Innovation! Catch up with old friends and reminisce about your experiences in the College of Engineering. Classes Without Quizzes (W.T. Young Library Auditorium, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.) Go back to class, reminisce of your days as a UK student, and learn something new along the way in one of two classes (TBD). UK Alumni Association Lunch (King Alumni House, 11:45 a.m. – 1 p.m.) Enjoy a complimentary light lunch and mix and mingle with staff, officers, and board of directors of the UK Alumni Association. Campus Bus Tour (Tour departs from and returns to the King Alumni House, 12:30 – 2 p.m.) View the changes on UK’s campus during this bus tour, with stops at the Main Building, W.T. Young Library, and the UK Bookstore. *Please note if the game time is changed, this event may be cancelled.
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Class of 1961 & Golden Wildcat Society Reunion Make plans to return to campus Oct. 20-23 as we induct the Class of 1961 into the Golden Wildcat Society, as well as celebrate our existing members. Don’t miss this opportunity to see the changes on campus, catch up with former classmates and make new friends. For a complete listing of Reunion activities and events, visit www.ukalumni.net/golden. Book a room at the Crowne Plaza Lexington – The Campbell House by Sept. 20 and receive a discount when you ask for the “Golden Wildcat Reunion” rate. Call 859-255-4281 to make a reservation.
Tailgate Tent Party (Commonwealth Stadium lot, 2 1/2 hours prior to kickoff ) Enjoy tailgate food courtesy of O’Charleys along with exciting games, entertainment, face painting, giveaways, and performances by the UK cheerleaders, mascot, and pep band. Jacksonville State vs. UK Football Game (Commonwealth Stadium, TBD) It’s Cats versus Gamecocks as UK takes on Jacksonville State in the 2011 Homecoming game!
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Farewell Breakfast (Crowne Plaza Hotel To find more information Lexington – e about specific events in Campbell House, your college, check 8 – 10 a.m.) www.ukhomecoming.com Say goodbye to new for details. friends and former classmates during breakfast at the Crowne Plaza.
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Alumni Clubs 1) The Greater Ashland UK Alumni Club held a Student Send-o for 17 UK students at the Boyd County Fairgrounds. 2) Members of the Chattanooga UK Alumni Club attended an annual Kentucky Derby Party at the home of Jane and Bill Pickering on Lookout Mountain. 3) Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club member George Ochs, left, and Louisville Alabama Alumni Club President Chris McRae attended a joint fundraiser in Louisville to help Alabama tornado victims. 4) Members of three UK Alumni Clubs held a joint dinner on June 2 at The 18th Hole restaurant at Bright Leaf Golf Course in Harrodsburg. Pictured are Jim Jacobus, president of the Danville/Boyle County UK Alumni Club, Deidre Skaggs, UK Special Collections and guest speaker at the event, Elizabeth Springate, president of the Mercer County UK Alumni Club and Tanya Cook, president of the Anderson County UK Alumni Club.
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Former UK President Lee T. Todd, Jr., joined (l to r) former Dean Kay Hoffman, Audrey Tayse Haynes and Dean Ike Adams at a special event sponsored by the UK College of Social Work. Currently a senior vice president at YMCA of the USA, Haynes is an alumna of the College of Social Work and a former White House aide to President Bill Clinton.
Dean Michael Tick of the UK College of Fine Arts presented the College of Fine Arts Distinguished Alumni Award to Steve Armstrong at the college’s awards ceremony this spring. Pictured (l to r): Hunter Stamps, ceramics professor in the Department of Art and creator of the sculpture presented to the winner; Steve Armstrong, Department of Art alumnus; Arturo Sandoval, Department of Art faculty, who nominated Armstrong; and Dean Michael Tick.
Mammoth Cave Ag & HES Alumni President Joe Duncan ’73 AG (back right) and his family posed for a snapshot with Coach Joker Phillips ’89 CIS at the Alumni Summer Event.
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Class Notes Before 1960 Information in Class Notes is compiled from previously published items in newspapers and other media outlets, as well as items submitted by individual alumni.
Kentucky Alumni magazine welcomes news of your recent accomplishments and transitions. Please write to us at Class Notes UK Alumni Association King Alumni House Lexington, KY 40506-0119; Fax us at 859-323-1063; Email us at ukalumni@uky.edu or submit your information in the online community at www.ukalumni.net keyword: class Please be advised that due to space constraints and the length of time between issues, your submission to Class Notes might not appear for several issues. We look forward to hearing from you! COLLEGE INDEX Agriculture — AG Arts & Sciences — AS Business & Economics — BE Communications & Information Studies — CIS Dentistry — DE Design — DES Education — ED Engineering — EN Fine Arts — FA The Graduate School — GS Health Sciences — HS Law — LAW Medicine — MED Nursing — NUR Pharmacy — PHA Public Health — PH Social Work — SW
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Robert M. Bookbinder ’47 ED retired as superintendent of the East Stroudsburg Area School District in East Stroudsburg, Pa. He spent 40 years in public education as a teacher, elementary school principal, secondary school principal, director of curriculum and instruction, assistant superintendent and professor. Bookbinder served as a first lieutenant with the 86th Blackhawk Infantry Division in Europe and the Pacific during World War II and was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. He has authored 20 published titles, including “e 86th Black Hawk Division of World War II” and “Bookbinder’s Book of School Humor and Laughter.” Bookbinder entered the University of Kentucky in 1940 and was the university’s 1941 Welterweight Boxing Champion. He was an active member of the university’s Advanced ROTC company called to active military duty in 1943. Following his separation from the military, he returned to UK to complete his degree. Bookbinder now resides in Pompano Beach, Fla.
1960s Carroll J. Falcon ’65 ’67 AG retired as provost and vice president for academic affairs from Nicholls State University in Louisiana. He joined the Nicholls faculty in 1967 as a professor of animal science and held positions of department head and dean of the College of Life Sciences and Technology during his tenure. During his career, he also served as senior vice president and academic officer in the University of Louisiana System. He currently resides in ibodaux, La.
C. Edward Glasscock ’66 EN, ’69 LAW is a business lawyer and chairman emeritus of Frost Brown Todd in Louisville, where he has been a managing and co-managing member for 31 years. He received an honorary degree from Bellarmine University in Louisville in May 2011. Glasscock is past chairman of Bellarmine’s board of trustees and has also been involved with the Louisville Arena Authority, the Louisville Medical Center Development Corp., the Bridges Coalition, the Kentucky Center for the Arts and the University of Louisville Athletic Board. Terence Hunt ’67 CIS is deputy bureau chief in Washington for e Associated Press. He was formerly an assistant bureau chief. Hunt has covered the White House for 25 years, reporting from 90 countries and every state in the United States. He has won the Merriman Smith Award for presidential reporting and in 1999 he received the AP Gramling Journalism Award. Hunt joined the AP Washington staff aer assignments in Louisville and Providence, R.I. He has been inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame and the Society of Professional Journalists Hall of Fame, DC Pro chapter. He is also a past president of the White House Correspondents’ Association. Hunt lives in Kensington, Md. Avo Kiviranna ’68 AG is Equine Studies division chair at Midway College. His previous experience includes 10 years as assistant professor of equine science at the State University of New York at Delhi. Kiviranna’s tenure as a county cooperative Extension agent, executive director of the Amer-
ican Morgan Horse Association Inc., and as a consulting manager to a commercial oroughbred breeding operation in New York that he started, all complement his prior administrative experience gained as a Navy data analysis officer. All of his experience culminated in the establishment of his 14year-long business venture as a traveling remedial practical horseman helping owners and their horses. Kiviranna says, “I’m pleased to be back in a higher education setting where I can work with students on a daily basis to help shape their horsemanship skills as they work toward careers in the equine industry.” Richard R. Conley ’69 AS, ’74 EN is a professor of physics at Ashland Community and Technical College. He received the college’s 2011 Gussler Family Endowed Chair in Science and Mathematics Award. Conley began teaching full time at the college in 1977, and he currently teaches physics and math and advises pre-engineering students. He is chairman of the college’s Physical Science Committee and a member of the Developmental Math Committee. Marva M. Gay ’69 ’70 AS is a managing attorney of the public law practice group of the office of the Harris County Attorney in Houston, Texas, where she has worked since 1995. She is on the board of the health law section of the Houston Bar Association and a past board member of the Animal Law Section. Ron Sheets ’69 BE is the former president of the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives. He received the Paul Revere Award from the Na-
tional Rural Electric Cooperative Association for his grassroots advocacy efforts. Sheets retired in 2010 aer 29 years of service to Kentucky’s electric cooperatives, for which he received many awards. C. Oran Little, former dean of the UK College of Agriculture, has described Sheets as, “a tremendous force for rural Kentucky and rural education.”
1970s Helen M. Lewis ’70 AS is a sociologist, scholar, community organizer, educator and activist in Appalachia. She has worked extensively throughout the region as director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College, director of Appalshop’s Appalachian History Film Project and director of the Highlander Research and Education Center. One of the founding members of the Appalachian Studies Association, she is oen referred to as the “Grandmother of Appalachian Studies” for her many contributions to the people of Appalachia. Lewis has published nine books and currently resides in Morganton, Ga. Linda Pierce Russell ’70 AS is the director of financial advisors with Webster Rogers in Florence, S.C. She is active in Florence Women in Philanthropy, Florence Rotary Club and McLeod Health Foundation. Russell received the Mary Dean Brewer Award from Girl Scouts of Eastern South Carolina where she is a long-time volunteer. Deanna Hudson Marcum ’71 CIS is an associate librarian for library services at the Library of Congress and has received the Melvil Dewey Medal from the American Library Associa-
tion. In 2010 she received an honorary doctorate in humane letters from North Carolina State University. Previously Marcum was dean of the School of Library and Information Science at e Catholic University of America. She was subsequently president of the Council on Library Resources and president of the Commission on Preservation and Access. In addition, Marcum has served as co-dean of the Frye Leadership Institute. Winn F. Williams ’71 AS is the program manager of contract services at the Department of Energy for Systematic Management Services, Washington, D.C. He was previously the director of operations for USIS, Falls Church, Va. Williams has served at the senior management level in federal law enforcement for 30 years including with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). His career highlights include being honored with the President’s Council on Integrity and Efficiency Award for Excellence, the U.S. Attorney’s Award for Excellence, the Department of Homeland Security Gold Medal and Secretary’s Excellence Award and TSA’s Gold and Silver Medals. Williams is a fourth generation UK graduate, Life Member of the UK Alumni Assocation, UK Fellow and current president of the Kentucky Society of Washington, D.C. In Spring 2011, he married Gwen Woods. E. Charles Healey ’72 ’73 HS is a professor of speech-language pathology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
where he has taught for the past 33 years. During his career, he has received a distinguished teaching award, the honors of the Nebraska Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Kentucky, and is an American Speech-Language Hearing Association (ASHA) Fellow. Healey is currently an ASHA board-recognized specialist in fluency disorders and an associate editor for the Journal of Fluency Disorders. Turner Gravitt Jr. ’73 AG is director of corporate events, member relations and government affairs at Southern States Cooperative Inc. He lives in Montpelier, Va. Chuck W. Swanson ’73 AS is owner of Swanson Contemporary Gallery in Phoenix Hill and owned the former Swanson Reed Gallery on Bardstown Road in Louisville, which closed aer 23 years. In addition to owning the galleries, Swanson has lectured on art at Bellarmine University and Western Kentucky University. Bruce W. Wood ’73 ’75 AG is a research leader at Southeastern Fruit and Tree Nut Research Laboratory in Byron, Ga. e lab is part of the Agricultural Research Service, which is the research department of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Buckner Hinkle Jr. ’74 LAW is a member of the legal services team at Stites and Harbison in Louisville. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Associated General Contractors of Kentucky.
Jimmie L. Yeiser ’74 ’76 AG is a professor of forestry at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. He has held the T.L.L. Temple Chair in the university’s Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture for almost 12 years and is director of the university’s Forest Resources Institute. Yeiser was named the 2011-12 Stephen F. Austin State University Regents Professor. Previously, he worked at the University of Arkansas at Monticello and the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. Gerald N. Glickman ’75 AS is a professor and chairman of the Department of Endodontics and director of Graduate Endodontics at Baylor College of Dentistry. He is also presidentelect of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). Glickman was a founding member on the ADEA Commission of Change and Innovation in Dental Education and has chaired and served as councilor for the ADEA Section on Endodontics and the ADEA Section on Graduate and Postgraduate Education. Steve P. Langford ’75 BE retired as vice president and general manager of WAVE-TV in Louisville. He began his television career with the Louisville NBC affiliate as a local account executive in 1978. He also was vice president and general manager of WFIE-TV in Evansville, Ind., during his career. Langford implemented the Leadership Scholars Program in partnership with Papa John’s International Inc. and has served on several community boards, including the UK Alumni Association.
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Class Notes James M. Woods ’75 AS received the Fellowship Award at the 2011 annual meeting of the Kentucky Dental Association for his outstanding contribution to dentistry in Kentucky. He is the owner of Bluegrass Orthodontics and has practiced orthodontics in Paducah for 31 years. Woods is married to Vicki Smith Woods ’79 HS and his daughter, McKenzie E. Woods ’11 AS completed her second year of dental school at the UK College of Dentistry. Al Yager ’76 EN is part owner and vice president of Yager Materials LLC, a family-owned business established in 1914. He is also chairman of the board of the Kentucky Association of Highway Contractors. He lives in Owensboro. Reggie A. Webb ’77 AS is vice president for enrollment management at Bridgewater College in Virginia. He also serves on the President’s Council, the college’s senior leadership body.
Previously, Webb served as the director of signature projects for the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia (UVA). Prior to that, he was the associate director of admissions for the Darden Graduate School of Business at UVA. Before joining UVA, Webb served as associate director of admissions and financial aid at Virginia Military Institute. James L. Grubbs ’78 BE is president and CEO of United Bank & Trust Co. He has more than 30 years of experience in the banking industry and was previously senior vice president for MainSource Bank. He lives in Louisville. Glenn A. Stith ’78 AG is a senior associate with e Context Network. His leadership expertise includes executive roles as vice president of strategic accounts, vice president of U.S. branded business for national seed brands, crop protection brands and biotech trait brands
— both for Monsanto, and as global business lead for Seminis Vegetable Seeds. Stith resides in Iowa. Amanda L. Storment ’78 CIS is vice president of public relations and media for the Kentucky State Fair Board. In the past, she was press secretary to then-U.S. Rep. Carroll Hubbard and then-Kentucky Lt. Gov. Martha Layne Collins, who later became governor. She has over 30 years of experience in public and government relations, media, advertising and marketing. Carol Woodward ’78 BE is a commercial credit manager with TIB Bank in Naples, Fla. Mary Beth Miller Gulick ’79 BE is a senior credit analyst with Your Community Bank in New Albany, Ind. She has 21 years of lender support experience. She also serves as a volunteer tutor with the Every 1 Reads program.
1980s Neil Bordy ’81 LAW is a partner in the Louisville law firm Seiller Waterman LLC. He has worked with law partner, David Cantor, for nearly 30 years and held positions at several other firms in the Louisville area. Mark H. Horrell ’81 AS is a geology professor at Northwest Florida State College where he teaches earth science and physical geology. Previously he taught at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy where he founded the Scientific Visualization Classroom. Horrell has also worked with the Paleogeographic Atlas Project and Amoco Oil Co. as an exploration geologist. He lives in Niceville, Fla. John C. Merchant ’82 LAW is a partner in the Cincinnati, Ohio, law firm of Peck Shaffer and Williams. He is also the chairman of the Morehead State University Board of Regents
UK grad named chairman of federal committee Brady J. Deaton ’66 AG, ’68 GS has been named chairman of the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), a key federal administrative post, by President Barack Obama. Deaton is the chancellor at the University of Missouri (MU). He will continue in his leadership role at the university while serving at BIFAD. e primary role of BIFAD is to draw on scientific knowledge and capacity of U.S. higher education institutions, especially those with land-grant missions, to advise and serve the country’s international assistance efforts via the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administrator. e board will address the scientific and educational foundations of agricultural, food and resource problems that continue to plague many parts of the world. “is is an excellent opportunity to draw on my academic and administrative background to make a difference in the well-being of the neediest people of the world,” Deaton says. In addition to an extensive administrative background at MU, Deaton has conducted extensive research and program development work encompassing economic development at home and abroad. He has been nationally recognized for his efforts to promote global education and international understanding, beginning with his service as a Peace Corps volunteer in ailand. In addition to his work on
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many boards, he has consulted with the Kellogg Foundation, National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Food and Agricultural Science at the University of Florida. roughout the course of his career, he has developed and led international technical assistance programs in Haiti and Zambia in support of USAID programs and conducted research in Grenada and Kenya on agricultural development and nutritional impacts of food aid programs. He also led workshops on public finance and university funding strategies in Russia and Estonia following the collapse of the Soviet Union. His work with the International Nutrition Commission Service resulted in a co-authored teachers’ manual for international training programs on food, nutrition and agriculture. He has also lectured on agricultural trade and rural economic development issues in Japan at the request of the Japan International Agriculture Council.
where he previously served as vice-chairman and is in his second six-year term on the board. Craig D. Smith ’82 EN is vice president of worldwide sales for Virtify Inc., a leading provider of structured content management soware for the life sciences industry. Over the past 15 years, Smith has held executive and advisory positions with companies focused on pioneering the content management industry. He lives in Western Springs, Ill. James A. Wright ’82 AS, ’86 MED is a physician with Baptist Medical Associates in Louisville. He was previously with Jeffersontown Family Practice. Mukund S. Kulkarni ’83 BE is chancellor at Penn State-Harrisburg. He was previously senior associate dean for academic affairs at the college. Mark Mederson ’83 CIS graduated with his master’s degree in mass communication from Texas State University in May 2011. He has been accepted to the Ph.D. program in mass communication at the University of Wisconsin. Duane Nickell ’83 AS teaches science at Franklin Central High School in Indiana, where he has taught for 11 years. Prior to that he worked at Broad Ripple High School for 10 years and Decatur Central High School for five years. He was credited by graduating high school seniors as being critical to their academic success at a recent academic honors program. Penny F. Owens ’83 BE is financial controller at LHP Soware in Columbus, Ind. She
has over 25 years of finance and accounting experience. Mary L. Pate ’83 BE is a partner in the litigation department at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP at the firm’s Kalamazoo, Mich., office. She is a member of the Society for Human Resources Management and the Kalamazoo Human Resources Management Association. Pate earned a law degree, cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law and an M.B.A. from the University of Alaska. She lives in Kalamazoo. John T. Countzler ’84 BE is CEO of Muhlenberg Community Hospital in Greenville. He was previously a financial and budget accountant at Owensboro Municipal Utilities and was formerly the chief financial officer at Owensboro Medical Health System. Stewart K. McKenzie ’84 EN is director of business development, enterprise solutions, for Trulte, a fuel cell and hydrogen fuel cartridge company in Columbia, S.C. He was previously with PhotoChemical Inc., and also worked for FMC Corp., Union Carbide Corp., and DSM. Judy D. Short ’85 NUR is Foundation Professor of Nursing and chairwoman of the Department of Baccalaureate and Graduate Nursing at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU). She began her professional career in obstetrical nursing and joined the EKU faculty in 1987. Short is a member of American Nurses Association, Kentucky Nurses Association and the international honor society of nursing, Sigma eta Tau. She
has served as an on-site evaluator for the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and a program evaluator for the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission. At EKU she has chaired the Graduate Committee and Athletics Committee, been a member of the Faculty Senate, and currently serves on the Regional Stewardship Faculty Advisory Committee and the Foundation Professor Selection Committee. Edward Stumpp ’85 LAW is a shareholder in the health law practice group at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck in the firm’s Los Angeles, Calif., office. Most recently, he was special counsel at Sedgwick LLP and previously he was partner with K&R Law Group LLP. Stumpp has also served in the United States Marine Corps, working under the Staff Judge Advocate’s Offices as a trial attorney in criminal defense. Madison R. Bennett ’86 BE is a financial planner with e Glenview Trust Co. in Louisville. She was previously a tax specialist with Deming Malone Livesay and Ostroff certified public accountants. Andrea Brown Schell ’87 BE is vice president of underwriting for national accounts at WellPoint. She most recently served as regional vice president of underwriting for WellPoint’s Ohio local market. She lives in Fort omas. Rebecca Barker Vest ’88 BE is vice president, purchasing, Renault-Nissan Purchasing Organization where she oversees manufacturing operations in
the United States and Mexico. She joined Nissan in 2009 from Toyota where, during her 22 year tenure, she held positions of increasing responsibility in purchasing and engineering/cost planning. Michael A. Flannery ’89 CIS is professor and associate director for historical collections at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has published extensively in medical history and bioethics, winning the prestigious Edward Kremers Award in 2001 from the American Institute of the History of Pharmacy. Flannery also received the Publications Award of the Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences for his book “Civil War Pharmacy: A History of Drugs, Drug Supply and Provision, and erapeutics for the Union and Confederacy.” He is also the author of numerous articles on Civil War medicine and pharmacy. Robert B. Stanton ’89 PHA is director of the Office of Experiential Learning at the School of Pharmacy at Marshall University. He was previously regional clinical director with Comprehensive Pharmacy Services, a national independent pharmacy services provider. He lives in Huntington, W.Va.
1990s Steven R. Chicurel ’90 FA is a professor of theatre at the University of Central Florida. He was awarded a competitive sabbatical for the fall 2011 semester to inventory and catalog the personal library of pioneer in voice and pedagogy, Jo Estill. Chicurel gave papers in Barcelona, Spain, and Rome, Italy, during summer 2011.
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Class Notes Nancy Stanley Clark ’91 MED is a vascular surgeon with offices in Baltimore and Prince Frederick, Md. In addition to her medical degree, she earned a law degree from the University of Maryland. Clark resides in Annapolis, Md., with her husband.
fairs for the Jefferson Health System in Radnor, Pa. Shamash has formerly held positions as a senior consultant with Capital BlueCross, as department counsel for the Pennsylvania Insurance Department and as legislative assistant to a U.S. congressman. He lives in Mechanicsburg.
Mark Weiser Russell ’91 AS received a commission from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. He teaches social studies at Morton Middle School in Lexington and has taught German during summer sessions at Clemson University.
Michael K. Cundall ’96 AS is director of the honors program at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He was previously the assistant director of the Louisiana Scholars’ College at Northwestern State University. Prior to that, Cundall served as assistant dean of the Honors College at Arkansas State University, during which time he also developed and directed a minor in cognitive science. He has been recognized by the University of Cincinnati, where he received his Ph.D., as a Charles Phelps Ta Fellow.
Paul Daruwala ’92 PHA is vice president of marketing at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. He was previously with Merck & Co. He lives in Lexington, Mass. John W. Hudson III ’93 BE is vice president, group brand director, vodkas for Brown-Forman. He was previously with E & J Gallo Winery in Modesto, Calif., and had been group director of fine wines and Chambord at Brown-Forman. He lives in Louisville. Todd A. Shamash ’94 AS is a deputy chief of staff to the governor of Pennsylvania. He most recently served as senior counsel and director of government af-
Maretno Agus Harjoto ’98 ’02 BE joined the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, Calif., in 2007. He previously served as a finance faculty member at San Jose University. Harjoto has published in academic and practitioner journals and his work on whisper number, Wall
Street analysts’ true number for earnings per share, received media coverage by Business Week and CFO online magazines.
Meetings & Events based out of St. Louis, Mo. She is dedicated to MAC’s Cisco Systems account and works specifically on their federal trade shows.
Sherry L. Robinson ’98 AS is a professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University where she has worked for 18 years. She is also executive assistant to the provost for policy and process. Robinson is the author of “My Secrets Cry Aloud” and is working on her second novel, “I Lay Me Down.” She lives in Richmond.
J. Peter Cassidy III ’00 LAW is a partner at the law firm Quintairos Prieto Wood and Boyer in Louisville.
Sarah J. Waskey ’98 BE is an audit supervisor with Welenken CPAs in Louisville. She was named the 2010 New Member of the Year by the St. Matthews Area Business Association, where she is also a member of the board of directors. Waskey is involved with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Real Estate Management, Kentucky Chapter 59. She also serves on the board of directors of Community Coordinated Child Care.
Shay G. Howard ’00 LAW is a real estate professional with Zeitlin & Co. working with buyers, sellers and investors in residential real estate. Howard lives in Franklin, Tenn.
2000s Jennifer Carter ’00 CIS is an event planner with MAC
Todd E. Crowley ’00 CIS is a senior applications analyst with the E.W. Scripps Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to that, he was an IT manager for the company.
Holly Dunn Pendleton ’00 BE co-founded the nonprofit Holly’s House in Evansville, Ind., which opened in 2008 offering victims of crimes a comfortable, confidential environment from which to report them. She was the recipient of the 2006 Jefferson Award for Community Service, sponsored by the Courier & Press. She was also
George Schrader exemplifies meaning of lifelong service Giving back to the community and serving others has been a mark of the life of George Schrader ’53 BE, ’55 LAW, now living in Huntsville, Ala. Schrader, a retired U.S. Air Force JAG with 22 years of service, was recently named to the Alabama Senior Citizen Hall of Fame. The selection process was completed by a committee appointed by the Alabama secretary of state’s office. Schrader spent 37 years in Montgomery, Ala., and also served on the faculty of Auburn University, where he was director of judicial studies aer retiring from the military. He also received the Auburn Alumni Association Community Service Award in 2000. In addition, he has been an adjunct professor of law at Jones School of Law in Montgomery.
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Other awards have been bestowed upon Schrader, including the Senior Achievement Award in 2009 and the Sons of the American Legion Bronze Good Citizenship Medal in 2010. Schrader graduated from Lexington’s Lafayette High School. He and his wife, Biddie, have been married for 34 years
one of five honorees of the 2006 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting a Community. She currently works as an inspirational speaker and victims advocate. Calvin M. Taylor ’00 FA is a noted pianist, composer and recording artist. He has toured the world, playing in North and South America, Europe and the Far East. Some of his best known publications include, “Spirituals for Piano” and “Keyboard Kids Piano Series.” He lives in Woodland, Wash. Thad R. Carter ’01 DE is lead dentist at Aspen Dental in Lexington. Previously he was with Commonwealth Dental Center. G. David McClure Jr. ’01 LAW is an attorney with Mid-
dleton Reutlinger in Louisville. He advises clients developing and marketing products regulated under the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. Katrina Howard O’Leary ’01 BE is vice president of client services at River Road Asset Management LLC in Louisville. Previously she was director of business development and client service at Opus Capital Management in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has also held positions at New York Life Investment Management. Jenny Martin Stansfield ’01 BE is a partner at the law firm Martin Snow LLP in Macon, Ga. Jessica D. Vincent ’01 CIS was promoted to account supervisor of Fry Hammond Barr in its Tampa, Fla., office. She has been with the agency since 2009.
Kelsey Kirkpatrick Starks ’02 CIS is a news anchor and reporter for WHAS Channel 11 in Louisville. She was chosen by readers of Kentucky Living Magazine as Kentucky TV personality of the year in 2011. Before joining WHAS, Starks worked for stations in New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., Washington, D.C., and Charleston, S.C. Sara L. Chou ’03 AS, ’07 MED is a hospitalist at Greenview Regional Hospital in Bowling Green, Ky. Amy L. Schardein ’03 CIS is a children’s librarian and early childhood specialist at the Kenton County Public Library’s Mongan branch. She was named Librarian of the Year by the SouthWest Ohio/Northern Kentucky region.
Ali B. Shaw ’03 CIS is coowner of M2-Maximum Media, a public relations firm in Louisville. She was formerly public relations and marketing director for the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Ben Spalding ’03 FA is choral director at Centerville High School in Ohio. While a student, he toured with UK’s contemporary a cappella group, and after graduation he also sang with the semiprofessional group Five-By-Tuesday. Spalding taught chorus at Northwest High School and Winton Woods. He is married to Kylene Claucherty Spalding ’04 ’05 HS.
Join us on the road this season! Announcing our new athletic travel partner The UK Alumni Association is pleased to announce our new athletic travel partner, All Seasons Travel. A block of rooms has been reserved at each away football game this season. For information on rates, terms and conditions, visit www.ukalumni.net/athletictravel. Reservations can be made by calling 1-800-362-2779 and indicating that you are with the Kentucky alumni block. September 1 – @ Western Kentucky, Nashville, Tenn. October 8 - @ South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. October 1 - @ LSU, Baton Rouge, La. November 12 - @ Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. November 19 - @ Georgia, Athens, Ga.
2011 Tailgates Saturday, October 8 – Kentucky vs. South Carolina Saturday, October 22 – Jacksonville State vs. Kentucky Seawell’s (Homecoming) Commonwealth Stadium 1125 Rosewood Dr. • Columbia, S.C. 29201 (Outside Gate 4, between the Green and Red Lots) (right across from Williams-Brice Stadium) Visit www.ukhomecoming.com for more details. Visit www.ukalumni.net/2011tailgates for more details. Saturday, November 12 – Kentucky vs. Vanderbilt Regions Bank Parking Lot 3021 West End Ave. • Nashville, Tenn. 37203 Visit www.ukalumni.net/2011tailgates for more details. www.ukalumni.net
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Class Notes Julie Good ’04 DES is the director of the Historic Beaufort Foundation in Beaufort, S.C. She was previously the executive director of the nonprofit Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation in Lexington. Good is excited to be in Beaufort, South Carolina’s oldest city. “So far I’ve found people really interested and engaged. People here think about preservation at the beginning,” she told e Island Packet. Anna Flynn Grahn ’04 AS is a microbiology lab manager at Coldstream Laboratories Inc. in Lexington. In December 2010 she became certified as a registered microbiologist in pharmaceutical and medical device microbiology with the National Registry of Certified Microbiologists. Wesley J. Sheeley ’04 AS has accepted a Fellowship position in the Child and Family erapy Clinic of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He recently completed his Ph.D. through the University of Cincinnati in school psychology. He also completed a Fellowship at the Boys Town Center for Behavioral Health. Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber ’05 FA is assistant professor of music at Pennsylvania State University at Altoona. Her recent engagements include appearances with the Cincinnati Opera, Rome Festival Opera, Annapolis Chorale and the Bach Concert Series in Baltimore, Md. Her scholarly work includes articles in e Journal of Singing, e Operal Journal, American Music and Music Research Forum. Alicia Yarletts Dingle ’05 NUR is a nurse with Norton
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Healthcare in Louisville and was a 2010 finalist for Nurse of the Year. She was also recognized for the achievement of completing the Nursing Clinical Advancement Program. She is married to Scott L. Dingle ’02 AG, a financial advisor with Ameriprise Financial. e couple lives in Prospect. James “Jamie” Emmons ’05 AG is chief of staff to Lexington Mayor Jim Gray. He was recently awarded the prestigious Pollie Award for the Local Campaign Manager of the Year bestowed by the American Association of Political Consultants in Washington, D.C. Prior to his current position, Emmons served as legislative aid to Speaker of the House Greg Stumbo. Following his graduation from UK, he worked with his father, Dale Emmons, as a political consultant in the firm of Emmons and Company. He is married to Kari Smith Emmons ’05 DES and is the son of Marilyn Emmons McGhee ’81 LAW. Scott D. Kretzer ’05 FA is a freelance percussionist and teacher of applied percussion at Adrian College in Adrian, Mich. He also runs a private studio through the Toledo School for the Arts and regularly performs with bands and orchestras. Kretzer has taught jazz drum set at the University of Toledo and applied percussion at Siena Heights University.
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J. Derrick Riley ’05 FA is an artist specializing in woodcut prints. His work has been shown in numerous national and international shows including a pair of 2010 exhibitions at the Contemporary Museum of Art in St. Louis, Mo. He was the subject of an art documentary filmed by Kentucky Educational Television that earned several national and international Emmy Awards. Riley has taught printmaking, drawing and art professions at UK and was a printmaking professor at Asbury College. He lives in Lexington. Richard Svindland ’05 EN is the engineering director for California American Water in Sacramento, Calif. He was a principal in a civil engineering firm in Georgia, where he headed its water and wastewater operations. Svindland worked extensively in Kentucky and was named 2003 Civil Engineer of the Year in Industry by the Kentucky section of the American Society of Engineers. Rebecca Trout Fryxell ’06 GS is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California. She was a runner-up for the 2010 Entomological Society of America’s President Prize. In addition, she has received the Isely-Dupont Entomology Scholarship, the Joseph H. Camin Fellowship and was a member of the 2007 Linnaean Games National Championship team. She lives in Davis, Calif. Jonathon C. Lee ’07 AS is practicing law at his own firm in Harlan. “It’s always been my goal to come back to Harlan County and make my home here,” Lee told the Harlan Daily Enterprise. “It has been a dream come true for me.” While in law school, he was a
law clerk for Harlan Circuit Court Judge Russell Alfred and later worked with local attorney Otis Doan. Emily Lykins ’07 ’10 AS is a therapist with adolescents and adults at Living Pathways in Richmond, Ind. She completed her Ph.D. in clinical psychology at UK and her predoctoral internship at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. Denisha L. Ballew ’08 FA is a soprano, singing with the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra and the UT Opera eatre. In the past she has performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and spent six weeks with the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. While a student at UK, Ballew was selected for two European tours with the American Spiritual Ensemble. Sameera Savarala ’08 AS works as an environmental consultant to the Chicago Department of Environment for the Chicago Conservation Corps. She attended the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development in New York, N.Y., as a youth delegate. Sameera previously worked with the Chicago Department of Transportation. In 2009, Aspen Institute recognized her as an Aspen Environment Forum Scholar. Suzette Sewell Scheuermann ’09 NUR is chairwoman of the Lindsey Wilson College Division of Nursing. “I am excited about the opportunity to lead this program,” she told representatives at Lindsey Wilson College. Scheuermann has over 20 years working in the profession.
CAREER CORNER
Job search questions Q: Coming out of this recession, what lessons are learned?
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: We now know there is no such thing as a stable, “safe” career or employer. According to human resource consultant and UK alumnus Wallace Herndon, “When a lot of people lose their jobs they look for the very same type of job again. Oen those jobs no longer exist. Evaluate your skills and start applying them to different positions or Caroline Francis other types of businesses. If you are unemployed, particularly for a long period of time, it is imperative to keep your skills fresh or obtain new skills through classes, certifications or seminars. Since the bulk of the growth in our economy is going to be created with jobs that don’t yet exist, think creatively about how you fit in. Oen people who volunteer for new projects, take on a new responsibility, and try to learn new things on the job have a better chance of landing a new position.”
Q: Key pointers when updating a resume? A: Your goal is to catch the employer’s attention in the first one-third of your resume. Keep the resume to two pages or less, with recent and relevant information. Consider adding a Professional Summary to the beginning of your resume. e typical Objective Statement does not convey what you bring to the table. Replace your objective statement with an illustrative summary, inserting a headline above the summary to communicate your intention, such as Public Relations & Marketing Manager. You could also substitute the title of the position you are seeking in place of your headline. Include bulleted Core Competencies (one or two word statements, for example, Contract Negotiation) in the first one-third of your resume. This gives a quick review of the remaining portion of your resume. Load this and your professional summary with keywords from the target industry. The job description is a good place to locate buzzwords. Use the company’s own terminology and prove that you are a “good fit.” — Caroline Francis, Ed.S., NCCC, UK alumni career counselor Career Counseling: All UK alumni can receive one individual session with an alumni career counselor. Members of the UK Alumni Association are entitled to four sessions with an alumni career counselor. Counseling sessions can be conducted in person, over the phone, through email or via Skype. Call 1-888-9-UKCATS (852287) to schedule an appointment. Other Career Resources: Visit www.ukalumni.net/career to discover career resources 24/7. Watch a career event video or search the Career Cat blog for a specific topic. Alumni career services and programs are made available through the University of Kentucky Alumni Association and in part by a special gi from the Jane I. Morris Endowment. www.ukalumni.net
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In Memoriam Z. W. Pique ’32 Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. H. James Templin ’33 Petoskey, Mich., Life Member Catherine Culton ompson ’35 Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Frances Kerr Barnes ’36 Abilene, Texas Ben T. Cooper ’36 Louisville, Ky. Isabella Nadelstein Fine ’36 Evansville, Ind. Hallie Downing Meyers ’36 Lexington, Ky. Mary Gillig Tucker ’36 Paris, Ky. Donna Robinson Hill ’37 Dallas, Texas Eleanor Randolph Fowler ’38 Frankfort, Ky. Mary Smith Gorman ’39 Indianapolis, Ind. Ada Dougherty Refbord ’39 Lexington, Ky., Life Member William R. Adams ’40 Cleveland, Ohio Patricia Parker Hansen ’40 Plantation, Fla. Albert B. Hoskins ’40 Louisville, Ky., Life Member Dorothy “Do” Young Postle ’40 Walnut Creek, Calif. John C. Doerr ’41 Kings Mountain, N.C. Fred L. Lewis Jr. ’41 Harlan, Ky. William N. Lipscomb Jr. ’41 Cambridge, Mass. Berthus B. McInteer ’41 Los Alamos, N.M. James E. Burdette ’42 Knoxville, Tenn. Lillian M. Dahlstrom ’42 Bellevue, Wash., Life Member James W. Harris ’42 Louisville, Ky. Martha B. O’Nan ’42 Pleasureville, Ky., Life Member Trilby McKeehan Lynch ’43 Huntington, W.Va. Ruby B. Schwab ’43 New Haven, Conn.
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Kathleen Hagan Feuss ’44 Mason, Ohio Mary Kendall House ’45 Norman, Okla. Patty Lane Toms ’45 Deltaville, Va., Life Member Alice Spencer Newell ’46 Winchester, Ky. Mary ornton Poe ’46 Dry Ridge, Ky., Life Member Kyle P. Scott ’46 Jupiter, Fla. Taylor L. Davidson ’47 Frankfort, Ky. Joseph T. Maupin ’47 Freeport, Ill. Darrell E. Ward ’47 Mayslick, Ky. James L. Wyatt ’47 Boca Raton, Fla., Life Member, Fellow Lewis G. Bondurant ’48 Louisville, Ky. William H. Chambers ’48 San Marcos, Calif. Cornell C. Clarke ’48 Sun City Center, Fla., Life Member Charles A. Harris ’48 Paris, Ky., Life Member Charles W. Ketron ’48 Elizabethtown, Ky., Life Member Caswell P. Lane ’48 Mt. Sterling, Ky., Life Member Donald L. Sallee ’48 Lexington, Ky., Life Member Donald B. Towles ’48 Louisville, Ky., Fellow Fred B. Wachs Jr. ’48 Lexington, Ky., Life Member omas O. Youtsey Jr. ’48 Fort Mitchell, Ky., Life Member Patsy Allen Baldwin ’49 Paris, Ky. John M. Barstow ’49 New Providence, N.J. Grover N. Jones ’49 Lexington, Ky. William T. Latta ’49 Henderson, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Martha Schubert Vimont ’49 Lexington, Ky.
Marvin M. Allen ’50 Bardstown, Ky. Jesse Bryant Jr. ’50 New York, N.Y. John D. Feehan ’50 Fogelsville, Pa. Jim Ford ’50 Louisville, Ky., Life Member Rolla B. Hendrickson ’50 Lake Park, Ga. Ora Manning Jr. ’50 Corbin, Ky. Henry S. McLimore ’50 Carmel, Ind. Clion A. Rice ’50 Frankfort, Ky. Isaac P. Rouse ’50 Midway, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Harold M. Wilson ’50 Georgetown, Ky. Joseph I. Rouben ’51 Louisville, Ky., Fellow Tom R. Smith ’51 Lexington, Ky., Life Member F. Kent Campbell ’52 Bowling Green, Ky. Russell H. Cook ’52 Anderson, S.C. Ann L. Hayden ’52 Cross Hill, S.C., Life Member, Fellow Ruth Swi Gioiosa ’54 Saint Helena Island, S.C. Isabel Cash Grott ’54 Lexington, Ky., Life Member Sally M. Dunlap ’55 Naples, Fla. Paul R. Eggum ’56 Nicholasville, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Dewey H. Newman Jr. ’56 Lexington, Ky. George F. Scarborough ’56 Pensacola, Fla., Life Member Douglass W. Witt ’56 Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Jack L. Caudill ’58 Lexington, Ky. Harold E. Frazier ’58 Kennesaw, Ga.
Violet W. Rose ’58 Charlottesville, Va. Gene B. ornhill ’58 Maysville, Ky. Robert N. Voshell ’58 Silverhill, Ala. Leonard S. Hardin ’59 Springfield, Ky. Carolyn Lee Lalley ’59 Florence, Ky. Sarah Yelton Leighty ’59 Melbourne, Fla., Life Member Herbert F. Scharff ’59 Chicago, Ill. Nannie Letton Steele ’59 Lexington, Ky. John H. Ellis ’60 Georgetown, Ky. George R. Buchanan ’61 Lebanon, Tenn. David C. Cowherd ’61 Washington Township, Ohio Darrell M. Lloyd ’61 Fremont, Calif. Donald E. Burris ’63 Rockledge, Fla. Carl B. Deatherage ’63 Adams, Tenn. Barney L. Keith ’63 Sylacauga, Ala. Claire R. McCann ’63 Lexington, Ky. John C. Mitchell ’63 Rockport, Texas Robert C. Dunnell ’64 Natchez, Miss. Penny Beatty Trumbo ’64 Lexington, Ky. Patty Foley Overhults ’65 Lexington, Ky., Fellow Richard J. Schantz ’65 Rochester, N.Y. Lee McReynolds Fitzpatrick ’66 Lexington, Ky. Rondle L. Nelson ’66 Georgetown, Texas, Life Member Nanette S. Bauer ’67 Louisville, Ky. Paul E. Braden ’67 Corbin, Ky. William C. Hopkins ’67 Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Fellow
In Memoriam Clarke J. Potter ’67 Louisville, Ky. Susan Talbert See ’67 Stillwater, Minn. Cecile Driskell McBrayer ’68 Lawrenceburg, Ky. Kip P. Farrington ’69 West Palm Beach, Fla. Paul B. Johnson ’69 Lexington, Ky. Cindy Shoupe Parke ’69 Findlay, Ohio, Life Member Joanne Warinner Sawyer ’69 Lexington, Ky., Fellow Charles R. Ubelhart III ’69 Alexandria, Va. Charles G. Grigsby ’70 Lexington, Ky. Rosalind Parnes ’70 Louisville, Ky. Sylvia Dapson Atkinson ’71 Lexington, Ky. Katheryn A. Patterson ’71 Lexington, Ky. Richard E. Trayner ’71 Orange Park, Fla., Life Member Joseph L. Wiley ’71 Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., Life Member Deborah Campbell Hume ’74 Dayton, Ohio Martha Davis Stiglitz ’74 Louisville, Ky. Baird R. Faulkner ’75 Nashville, Tenn. Julian J. Howard III ’76 Lexington, Ky. James N. Rohrer ’77 Princeton, Ky., Life Member Danny R. Smith ’77 Hughesville, Md. Charles B. Conley ’78 Louisville, Ky. Margaret Mobley Wathen ’78 Lexington, Ky. Carolyn Dishman Bell ’79 Lexington, Ky. William K. Ellis ’80 Northport, Fla. Leroy W. Rowland ’80 Versailles, Ky., Life Member Deborah Sims-Minor ’80 Parksville, Ky.
Kenneth W. Greene ’81 Lexington, Ky. Edet F. Udoh ’81 Jamaica, N.Y. Rudy A. Bisciotti ’83 Columbus, Ohio Robert M. Bird II ’85 Louisville, Ky. Wesley T. Combs ’85 Milwaukee, Wis. Joseph K. Cecil ’86 Lexington, Ky. Mary E. Hoskins ’86 Cranston, R.I. Paul N. Ingram ’86 Sarasota, Fla. David F. Matthews ’87 Bridgeport, W.Va. Kimberly D. Schreifer ’88 Lexington, Ky., Fellow David M. Helm ’89 Houston, Texas Milan A. Berge ’90 Soldiers Grove, Wis. Jessica Johnson Frazier ’90 Charlotte, N.C. Brace T. Stai ’95 Ashland, Ky. Marye Stone Dahlman ’96 Lexington, Ky. Keren Poulter ’04 Richmond, Ky. Jonathan L. McIntyre ’09 Lexington, Ky. Richard eyken Jr. ’10 Lexington, Ky.
Former Students and Friends Jan Brown Bailey Lexington, Ky. W. H. Buchanan Gallatin, Tenn. Mildred Murray Campbell Wilmore, Ky. S. Frank Dawahare Jr. Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Henry R. Dorton Elizabethtown, Ky. May Fouts Downer Lexington, Ky.
elma omas Gray Madisonville, Ky., Fellow Jane Montgomery Holder Columbus, Ga. Betty Priestley Holland Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Life Member, Fellow Laura Myers Johnson Harrodsburg, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Pyddney K. Jones Lexington, Ky. Delia Marks Kessinger Naples, Fla. George G. King Lake Forest, Fla., Life Member Baylor Landrum Jr. Louisville, Ky.
Joann Walker Lindeman Charleston ,W.Va. Joseph H. Murphy Jr. Lexington, Ky., Life Member, Fellow Terrence W. Nudd Lexington, Ky., Life Member Emma Taylor Peddicord Lexington, Ky. William L. Shadoan Wickliffe, Ky. Betty Stevens Smith Lexington, Ky., Life Member Mary F. Van Meter Louisville, Ky., Life Member Dorothy N. Webb Bellevue, Ky.
In Memoriam Charles M. Moore Jr., 74, of Bowling Green, Ky., former president of the UK Alumni Association, passed away May 28, 2011. He was chairman of Charles M. Moore Insurance. Moore, a graduate of College High, received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business & Economics in 1959. He was a member and past president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He was a past president of both the local and state associations of e Independent Insurance Agents of Kentucky and also served as state national director of this group. He was a licensed insurance consultant. Moore was named one of five Outstanding Businessmen in Kentucky in 1970 by the Jaycees. A proud supporter of the University of Kentucky, he served as the president of the UK Alumni Association in 2002-2003 and continued to serve on the board of directors until his death. He served for many years as the treasurer of the Warren County UK Alumni Club. He also received
the UK Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award in 2004. Moore was very active in his community, including the Rotary Club, Bowling Green Jaycees and Habitat for Humanity. Moore was also very involved in the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce for many years. Most recently he received the Herb Smith Lifetime Achievement Award which recognizes individuals who have significantly impacted the South Central Kentucky region and its economic advancement. Survivors include his wife, Shelby Greer Moore, and three daughters, Elizabeth Moore Bollinger, Hollie Moore Sowell and Ann Moore Puckett. www.ukalumni.net
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University of Kentucky President A.B. Kirwan congratulates the newly crowned 1968 Homecoming Queen, Marsha Jackson.
A banner and float during the 1959 Homecoming parade welcomed alumni to the festivities.
Members of the UK Blue and White Orchestra posed for a postcard in 1931.
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omas G. Barnes, UK Extension professor and wildlife Extension specialist in the Department of Forestry, has written “How to Find and Photograph Kentucky Wildflowers.” is book is a wonderful guide on finding, appreciating and photographing wildflowers, but it goes even beyond that. Barnes, who has illustrated and written several volumes on the natural beauty of Kentucky and the United States, has aimed this book at those who want to elevate their photography from taking documentary snapshots to making artistic flower portraits. In addition, it is the only book of its kind dedicated solely to Kentucky wildlife photography, covering the technical aspects of taking both landscape and close-up shots, processing images and creating a range of professional images and tones. Author and photographer Barnes has spent three decades honing his wildlife photography skills throughout the Bluegrass State and has authored more than 50 scientific research articles, 60 cooperative Extension publications, and 100 magazine articles. In “How to Find and Photograph Kentucky Wildflowers” he shares his vast knowledge on creating the most beautiful wildflower portraits.
Douglas A. Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at UK, is the author of “Crawfish Bottom: Recovering a Lost Kentucky Community.” is book presents an oral history of a forgotten neighborhood in northern Frankfort. Crawfish Bottom was located on 50 acres of swampy land along the Kentucky River and had a reputation for vice, violence, moral corruption, and unsanitary conditions. A former Frankfort police officer described Crawfish Bottom residents as a “rough class of people, who didn’t mind killing or being killed.” ose issues made it a target for urban renewal projects that replaced the neighborhood with the city’s Capital Plaza in the mid-1960s. Boyd’s book traces the evolution of the controversial community that ultimately saw 400 families displaced. Using oral histories, he provides a record of a vanished neighborhood and demonstrates how this type of study enhances the historical record. is book weaves together history, folklore and geography to engage the reader on a journey through this erased community. Boyd is also a coeditor of “Community Memories: A Glimpse of African American Life in Frankfort, Kentucky.” e University Press of Kentucky www.kentuckypress.com
Acclaim Press www.acclaimpress.com Sherry Chandler ’72 AS is the author of a book of poetry titled “Wearing a New Eden.” e book goes back to the 1700s and explores some of the history of Kentucky, using the voices of several generations of a family, including Rebecca Boone and her daughters and friends. Wind Publications www.amazon.com Elizabeth Coleman Cox ’69 AS has included 104 breakfast recipes served at her bed-and-breakfast retreat, from egg dishes to pancakes and pastries, in her book “Good Montana Morning: Recipes from Good Medicine Lodge in Whitefish, Montana.” Good Medicine Lodge www.goodmedicinelodge.com
Leslie Michelson Halpern ’82 AS is the author of “Passionate About eir Work: 151 Celebrities, Artists and Experts on Creativity,” which looks at the creative process from start to finish through quotes and anecdotes of filmmakers, actors, writers, singers and others in the performing and literary arts. BearManor Media bearmanormedia.bizland.com John “Lucky” Meisenheimer ’83 MED, a dermatologist in Florida, has written “e Immune,” billed as a science fiction thriller with political intrigue. His first book was “Lucky’s Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos.” e Immune www.theimmune.com
Carol Scott-Conner ’88 MED has written “A Few Small Moments,” a collection of short stories that explores the relationships between surgeons, patients, surgical colleagues, professors and students in the surgical area of a teaching hospital. Rachel Lord Press www.amazon.com Robert Sharp ’66 ’69 AG has written “Greystone’s Secret: Suspenseful Tale of Efforts to Address Soundness of oroughbred Race Horses,” a novel that mixes some factual data about oroughbred breakdowns throughout the story of an equestrian family. CreateSpace www.amazon.com
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