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Fall 2019 • Volume 90 • Number 3

During the 2019-2020 academic year, the University of Kentucky is commemorating 70 Years of Integration.

President Singletary greets students in 1975 in front of the Administration Building near the cannon.

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70 Years of Integration

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2019 UK Homecoming: Football, reunions, music, tours and more!

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Leading by example

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Something new under the sun

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Taking the lead: Keeneland and NTRA partner with UK to ensure horses’ safety

It was 70 years ago in 1949 that Lyman T. Johnson challenged the status quo in his landmark court case, which opened the University of Kentucky campus to African-American students.

Homecoming week brings together alumni and students to celebrate everything that embodies the true spirit of the UK experience and its traditions.

Meet the seven newly-elected members on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors.

The UK Solar Car Team, a student-led organization, had record-breaking success during its 20th anniversary at a national competition.

The College of Agriculture, Food and Environment now has two labs staffed by two internationallyrecognized researchers who are focusing on safety in the racing industry.

By Molly Williamson

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Presidential Conversation Pride in Blue UK News Blue Horizons Alumni Engagement

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Wildcat Sports Class Notes In Memoriam Retrospect Quick Take

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Presidential Conversation

Our journey continues One person. One courageous step. Seventy years of a journey that is still unfolding and evolving.

That is the story the University of Kentucky community is commemorating with particular reverence in this issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine and throughout this academic year.

It is the story of an institution intentionally striving to be a community of belonging, even while acknowledging that its evolution has not been a straight line of progress. It has been one of triumphs and trials, opportunities and obstacles.

The journey began with one man who took one step. In 1949, five years before the Supreme Court declared that “separate but equal” was anything but, Lyman T. Johnson’s landmark court case opened the University of Kentucky to African-American students.

It was, by all accounts, a wrenching path. But 30 years later, Johnson was awarded an honorary doctorate from UK. “It’s remarkable,” he wrote, “that so much has changed in the space of 30 years — from the time I forced my way into the university on a court order to the day the university gave me an honorary degree.”

His story reflects Martin Luther King Jr.’s wisdom that “intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.”

Less than a decade later, Doris Y. Wilkinson graduated from the university, becoming one of the first three AfricanAmerican graduates from UK. She went on to earn master’s degrees from Case Western Reserve and Johns Hopkins University. She returned to UK as our first full-time AfricanAmerican female faculty member, becoming a prominent and inspirational figure in sociology. A woman of many “firsts” and accomplishments, Wilkinson flourished and triumphed in the face of adversity. This year, as we commemorate 70 years of integration, the university is awarding her an honorary doctorate of humane letters.

On the issue of race — and what we describe as our journey to create a community of belonging — 70 years of integration calls out to us as a moment of honor; it is also a challenge that reminds us of how much we still must do.

We have made undeniable strides.

This year, Forbes magazine named the University of Kentucky among its Best Employers for Diversity. Forbes’ list, among other factors, recognizes employers who elevate their commitment to attracting and developing diverse talent and who acknowledge diversity as an imperative pillar of success.

Twice, UK has received the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award and was named a Diversity Champion by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. And, earlier this year, UK was declared a “Best of the Best” Top 30 LGBTQ-friendly college by Campus Pride.

But we know much remains to be done. The gap in graduation rates between underrepresented minority students

and others is still too large. While we graduate more underrepresented minority students than any of the state’s public institutions, that gap has persisted. It’s closing, but not quickly enough.

As part of our commitment to access and affordability, we are creating new initiatives to address this issue. For example, through a new program — UK LEADS, which targets financial assistance to students who need it most — we’ve made significant strides in reducing unmet financial need. Of course, there is always more to do.

Now, we are attempting to take the same predictive models that target financial need and apply them to other issues, such as belonging.

We recognize that UK is part of a larger community, and we are committed to honoring our shared history.

Confronted by changing demographic trends in our state and our country with potentially fewer children attending college, we must redouble our efforts to ensure that our campus reflects the diverse world that all of our students will navigate upon graduation.

Moral and educational imperatives drive our fierce resolve to move forward. But we know, too, that the global economy these students will enter is increasingly diverse and interdependent.

To compete and succeed, they must be able to understand that world and embrace it. And, as King’s words reflect, they must develop the knowledge and build the character to traverse it with empathy and purpose. Appreciating and creating relationships across our differences — the essence of grace — is core to learning and growing.

UK’s journey — like those of Lyman T. Johnson and Doris Y. Wilkinson — is one of forward progress in the face of continued challenges. Our history is shaped by stories of transformation and depictions of halting, hard-earned efforts that took years to find success. It is, of course, a journey on which our institution remains firmly fixed.

Our story demands that we acknowledge that progress on this path has not been a straight line. There have been moments where we have, as an institution, not honored our aspirations.

Even as we acknowledge our imperfections — those roads we must still pave, the miles we must still travel, the promise we must still keep — we will continue to work together with determination and compassion to fulfill our purpose as Kentucky’s university. www.ukalumni.net

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Pride in Blue

A warm welcome to our members

Taunya Phillips

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Greetings from the UK Alumni Association!

Please enjoy this first issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine under our new membership model.

If you are seeing this, you are officially a Member of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association or a friend of UK. If you are reading this for the first time, welcome. This is the first issue that all members of the UK Alumni Association can read digitally on our website (www.ukalumni.net/magazine) or on our mobile app (www. ukalumni.net/app).

If you are asking yourself how you became a member of the UK Alumni Association, here is how things have changed.

We continue to honor and serve our current One and Three-year Members. But now, a UK Alumni Association Member is defined as anyone who has completed at least 12 credit hours at UK. An individual who gives $75 or more ($25 or more for students and recent graduates) to any UK fund is considered an Active Member and will receive an enhanced level of Perks & Exclusives, such as the print version of the magazine. And of course, we still have our loyal Life Members who enjoy the highest tier of benefits.

I am very excited to be stepping into the role of president of the UK Alumni Association at a time when we can embrace all of our Big Blue alumni family. It allows the association the opportunity to engage with more alumni than ever before.

While this new membership model is a monumental change for the UK Alumni Association, the University of Kentucky is commemorating another monumental change in history, as well.

It was 70 years ago when the UK campus opened its door to African Americans for the first time. Lyman T. Johnson and nearly 30 other African Americans enrolled in graduate and professional programs.

And now the UK community plans to acknowledge the many ways the university has changed over the past 70 years.

Throughout the 2019-2020 academic year, each campus college and unit — including the UK Alumni Association — will recognize this milestone.

Comedian Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, opened the commemoration when he spoke at Memorial Coliseum on Friday, Aug. 30.

Our annual Lyman T. Johnson African-American Alumni Reception and Awards ceremony will take place at noon on Friday, Oct. 11, at the Bill Gatton Student Center as part of Homecoming Week activities. For updated information about all the Homecoming events, as well as other commemoration activities on campus, visit www.ukhomecoming.com.

Homecoming is a great time to reconnect with old friends and classmates and share memories, while celebrating the amazing multi-faceted growth of our university. One way for me to do this is by participating in the Lyman T. Johnson Alumni Reception and Awards ceremony. When I hear stories about Lyman T. Johnson, I am always inspired by his grit, determination and bravery. I am honored to be a part of the celebration of his life, and the indelible mark that he made on the University of Kentucky 70 years ago, paving the way for me and many other African-American students to achieve our dreams of a University of Kentucky degree.

This will be an important year for the University of Kentucky and the UK Alumni Association, as the association continues to grow out alumni family and community with our new membership model. We hope our new members will become a visible part of the UK alumni family and join us at our events to help commemorate what will be a memorable year for the University of Kentucky.

Go Cats!

Taunya Phillips ’87 EN, ’04 BE UK Alumni Association President

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UK News

2019-2020 UK budget lowers costs for some students The UK Board of Trustees approved a $4.2 billion budget.

Among the highlights of the budget, more than 6,500 UK undergraduate students will see a slight decrease in their tuition in academic year 2019-2020 over last year, and tuition increases for the remaining undergraduate Kentuckians will be the lowest in more than 30 years.

For the seventh year in a row, UK faculty and staff will experience a pay increase.

“This budget clearly reflects the efforts we are making to lower costs and ensure affordable access for students to the outstanding educational experience we provide at Kentucky’s university,” said President Eli Capilouto. “We are making efforts that, in so many ways, lead the country in lowering costs, eliminating unmet financial need, and creating the support necessary to dramatically increase retention and graduation rates. Our budget reflects those efforts and will strengthen them as we seek to meet our most important mission of preparing students for lives of meaning and purpose.”

One highlight of the budget is investing $146 million in financial aid — nearly tripling the amount of such aid since fiscal year 2009-2010. In fall 2018, nearly 90 percent of Kentucky undergraduates received financial aid or scholarships. For these students, out-of-pocket expenses for tuition and mandatory fees in fall 2018, as a result, were $1,219 — about $150 less per semester compared to the previous year. A quarter of resident undergraduate students who complete the FAFSA, the free federal finan-

cial aid form, are from families with a median family income of about $20,000 annually. These students have seen their costs for tuition and mandatory fees go from a net $465 in fall 2016 to a negative $184 in fall 2018, meaning they did not pay anything out of pocket for tuition and mandatory fees.

The budget also allocates nearly $2 million to invest in new diversity faculty hires and establishes a baseline of tuition for UK’s expanded online programs.

“Budgets provide insight into institutional values and priorities. And this budget clearly underscores that our values revolve around our students, our people, and making investments in the infrastructure that supports them,” said UK Board Chairman Britt Brockman. “We are investing in affordable access to an outstanding educational experience for our students, one that positions them for success here and when they graduate. We are investing in the success of our people, with seven straight years of pay raises, and in efforts to further diversify our faculty ranks.

And we are continuing to invest in both the modernization of our campus and the renewal of buildings that are vital to our continued efforts. These are our priorities and they are clearly reflected in where, under President Capilouto’s leadership and with the board’s vision, we are investing and where we are focused as stewards of Kentucky’s university.”

You can review more details about UK’s budget at www.ukalumni.net/20192020budget ■

Forbes ranks UK among best places to work in the state

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UK has been named one of America’s Best-in-State Employers, according to a ranking from Forbes Magazine. The list is a testament to the university’s commitment to the Commonwealth and reinforces its reputation as an employer of high quality.

Forbes released its inaugural list of the Best Employers by State, ranking the university second overall and No. 1 among colleges who made the list.

The ranking was divided into 51 lists: one for each of the 50 states, plus the District of Columbia.

Forbes and Statista created the list based on an independent survey from a sample of more than 80,000 U.S. employees working for companies employing at least 500 people.

Employees received the surveys through a series of anonymous online panels, providing a representative sample of the workforce.

The survey asked employees to rate their willingness to recommend their employer and to also evaluate other employers in their industries. ■

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UK introduces four new deans UK has hired four new deans coming to campus this academic year in the colleges of Communication and Information, Social Work, Education, and Jennifer D. Greer Justin “Jay” Miller UK Libraries.

Jennifer D. Greer has been named dean of the University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information. Greer, a tenured professor with 19 years in academic administration at the University of Alabama and the University of Nevada, has been associate provost at the University of Alabama, a position she’s held since August 2014. In that role, she handled faculty personnel issues, faculty orientation and leadership programs, and oversees several academic support and compliance units in Academic Affairs.

Justin “Jay” Miller has been selected as the next dean of the College of Social Work. Miller has been at the helm of many endeavors in the College of Social Work and was the associate dean for research, an associate professor and director of the Self-Care Lab. He has spent his career committed to improving the lives of children, families and the professionals who serve them.

Julian Vasquez Heilig has been named dean of the UK College of Education.

Vasquez Heilig, an award-winning leader, teacher and researcher, comes to UK from Julian Vasquez Heilig Doug Way California State University, Sacramento, where he was a professor of educational leadership and policy studies and director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership program.

Doug Way has been selected as the next dean of the UK Libraries. Way was associate university librarian for Collections and Research Services at University of Wisconsin-Madison. During his tenure, he supervised a direct staff of 75 full-time employees and an overall budget of $12 million for the university's general libraries system of 14 libraries that supports more than 4 million visitors per year.

In addition, Mary J. Davis has assumed the role of interim dean of the College of Law while Dean David A. Brennen is participating in the American Council on Education Fellows Program. At the end of the Fellowship year, Brennen will return to UK. ■

Capilouto named president of the SEC President Eli Capilouto has been elected president of the Southeastern Conference. He is serving a one-year term after being elected to the post by his peers at the SEC’s annual spring meeting in Destin, Florida. University of Georgia President Jere Morehead will serve as vice president of the SEC. Capilouto became the 12th president of UK July 1, 2011. Under his leadership, the Commonwealth’s flagship and land-grant research university has grown from $2.7 billion to a proposed $4.2 billion in total operations for 2019-2020 and has gained sig-

nificant momentum in fulfilling its multifaceted mission of teaching, research, service and health care.

President Capilouto has led an eight-year, $2.4 billion re-building of the campus and its athletics facilities. Specifically, through his partnership with Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart, UK has invested some $300 million in athletics facility construction, renovation and improvement — including a renovated Kroger Field and new Kentucky Proud baseball stadium that opened this past fall. ■

Gift to Gatton College Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise The UK Board of Trustees formally accepted a $3 million gift from the Joseph W. Craft III Foundation to support the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise, which is housed in the Gatton College of Business and Economics.

The institute is dedicated to understanding the role that markets play in the economy and in society. Its mission is to generate intellectually rigorous research and an open dialogue to discover and understand how free enterprise affects peoples’ lives and the well-being of society.

Craft’s gift will be used to support that mission, as well as fund faculty positions, doctoral fellowships, a research associate and research support, among other things. The institute already has

published research on a broad range of topics, from the impact of educational funding on test scores to the impacts of health insurance reforms on health behaviors.

Craft, a native of Hazard, received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the UK Gatton College of Business and Economics in 1972 and a law degree from the UK College of Law in 1976. He is currently president, CEO and chairman of Alliance Resource Partners LP, the second largest coal producer in the United States.

Craft’s gift supports the institute alongside earlier contributions of $4 million from the Charles Koch Foundation. ■

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Barnhart named Athletic Director of the Year Mitch Barnhart has been named Athletic Director of the Year by the Sports Business Journal. He was selected from among five finalists at the 12th annual Sports Business Awards at the New York Marriott Marquis at Times Square, based on the judging period of March 1, 2018, to Feb. 28, 2019. His fellow finalists were Ray Anderson (Arizona State University), Jennifer Cohen (University of Washington), Blake James (University of Miami) Mitch Barnhart and Jamie Pollard (Iowa State University).

Barnhart is in his 17th year as UK’s athletics director. The program has grown consistently during that time on the strength of Barnhart’s steady hand, sound fiscal management, and tire-

less focus on enriching the lives of student-athletes and creating memorable experiences for fans.

Barnhart’s approach to supporting UK’s 22 teams is simple: set great expectations for success and provide resources to meet those expectations. He has done that by growing UK’s budget and creating revenues to match, with UK’s 2018-2019 budget coming in at $147.7 million.

Barnhart’s impact is also felt well beyond his university and the Commonwealth of Kentucky it represents. He is a leader on both the conference and national level of college athletics. As the longest-tenured athletics director in the Southeastern Conference, he is chairman of SEC ADs. He also completed his third year as a member of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee this spring. And he was recently named chairman of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee for the 2020-2021 season. ■

11 UK students selected for Fulbright Honors The UK Office of Nationally Competitive Awards has announced that seven recent UK graduates and four doctoral students have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program scholarships. Due to individual circumstances, only eight of the UK alumni and students will pursue their Fulbright offers.

The UK recipients are among approximately 2,000 U.S. students who will travel abroad for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected based on academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership

UK among top schools with alumni CEOs of Fortune 100 companies The University of Kentucky is tied for third among colleges and universities for the number of graduates who are CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, according to a report in U.S. News & World Report.

UK currently has two graduates — Sam Hazen, CEO of HCA Healthcare, one of the leading health providers in the country; and Rodney McMullen, CEO of Kroger, the country’s second largest general retailer — who are leading executives of Fortune 100 companies.

Hazen earned a degree in finance from UK in 1982. McMullen earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in accounting from UK in 1981 and 1982 respectively.

Texas A&M leads the ranking with four CEOs on the list. UK is the only other Southeastern Conference university among the Top 15 listed

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potential in their fields. The program operates in more than 140 countries.

Since its establishment in 1946 under legislation introduced

by U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the Fulbright Program has given more than 380,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists and scientists the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns. ■

College of Medicine welcomes first class at Northern Kentucky Campus The UK College of Medicine welcomed its inaugural class of 35 medical students who will pursue education at its new Northern Kentucky Campus this fall, marking the college’s continuous expansion and collaboration efforts to better serve the health needs of Kentucky communities.

UK partnered with St. Elizabeth Healthcare, one of the most respected medical providers in the Greater Cincinnati region, along with Northern Kentucky University, to make this expansion possible. The Northern Kentucky site comes one year after the UK College of Medicine opened a campus in Bowling Green, Kentucky, through a partnership with Med Center Health and Western Kentucky University.

“As our footprint across the state of Kentucky grows, we will continue to strive to provide high-quality education and retain well-trained physicians in the Commonwealth,” said Dr. Robert S. DiPaola, dean of the UK College of Medicine. “We are thrilled to see our partnership with St. Elizabeth and Northern Kentucky University officially come to fruition.”

The four-year medical school campus in Northern Kentucky will complement the educational programs offered at the UK College of Medicine’s sites in Lexington, Morehead, and Bowling Green. Onsite faculty will have UK College of Medicine appointments, teach in small groups and provide simulated and standardized patient experiences with livestreamed lectures delivered from the Lexington Campus. ■

Blue Horizons

UK researcher to study ‘memory’ in grapevines Plants use memory at the molecular level to respond to stress in their environment. UK researcher Carlos Rodríguez López has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture, to explore epigenetic memory, continuing research he began while living in Australia.

To survive and thrive, all living things need to cope with changes in their environment. Epigenetic memory is one of the molecular mechanisms that can change gene expression in response to a situation without affecting the actual sequence of genes. Exposed to the same stress more than once, plants handle it better, because they “remember.”

López, assistant horticulture professor in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, is investigating how asexual reproduction using dormant cuttings, which is the way

grapevines are commercially propagated, affects the plant’s epigenetic memory.

“We want to understand what the mechanisms are that erase and maintain the epigenetic memory of a specific environment in plants. In particular, we will be looking at grapevines,” said López, who is the principal investigator on the project.

López’s co-principal investigators are Dario Cantu, associate professor in viticulture and enology at the University of California, Davis; Sharyn Perry, UK professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences; Robert Geneve, UK horticulture professor; and UK extension associate in horticulture, Jeffrey Wheeler.

The team’s work could result in more vibrant Kentucky vineyards and, ultimately, better wines for the consumer. ■

Brent Seales awarded prestigious Mellon Grant Thanks, in large part, to a $2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Brent Seales has the materials access, funding support and technical approach needed to solve the 2,000-year-old mystery within carbonized Herculaneum scrolls.

These papyri are among the most inaccessible of the world’s damaged manuscripts. Buried and burned in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE, the scrolls offer a unique window to the ancient world. Unfortunately, they are too fragile to unroll.

In 2016, Seales, a computer science professor at the helm of the Digital Restoration Initiative, and his dedicated team of staff and student researchers developed the Volume Cartographer, a revolutionary computer program for locating and mapping 2D surfaces within a 3D object. The software pipeline is used with micro-CT to generate extremely high-resolution

images — enabling the ability to read a document without ever needing to physically open it.

Now, the Mellon grant will provide the resources the team needs to virtually unwrap and digitally restore the scrolls. It will also support the electronic compilation and dissemination of the entire Herculaneum collection, which is currently spread across four different institutions: the Bodleian Library at Oxford University, the British Library, the Institut de France and the Biblioteca Nazoinale di Napoli.

“We plan to keep showing the world what can be done, right here at UK,” Seales said. “Overcoming damage incurred during a 2,000-year span is no small challenge. But that’s what we do in Kentucky — conquer the seemingly impossible.” ■

Ethnic and racial disparities in disciplinary practices A UK doctoral graduate’s expansive research on discipline and how it is administered in schools across the United States has been published in the Journal of School Psychology.

Albert Ksinan, who earned his doctorate from the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment last year, is principal investigator on the study and completed the most comprehensive analysis of the topic to date while still at UK. He is lead author on the paper, “National Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Disciplinary Practices: A Contextual Analysis in American Secondary Schools.”

The project analyzed how ethnicity and race are associated with school exclusionary discipline practices, which refer to students being removed from school as a form of punishment. Previous studies have found ethnic and racial disparities in the rates of school disciplinary actions, where ethnic and racial minority students (particularly African-American youth) were found to be overrepresented among students who are disciplined.

The data for the project included the aggregate of all U.S. public middle and high schools collected in 2013-2014 by the U.S. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC).

It is the most comprehensive study thus far to provide estimates of ethnic/racial discrepancies in who gets disciplined for seven ethnic/racial groups (African-American, Asian, Native American, Hawaiian, Hispanic, two or more races, or white), with a dataset including almost 16,000 middle schools and more than 18,000 high schools, representing more than 22 million adolescents.

“The results showed robust evidence of persistent discrepancies in disciplinary practices across ethnic/racial groups, with African-American students and students indicating two or more races found to be at increased risk for being suspended/expelled compared to white Compiled from news reports students in both midabout research at UK. dle and high schools,” For more information about Ksinan said. ■ research taking place at UK, visit www.research.uky.edu www.ukalumni.net

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70 YEARS OF INTEGRATION

t was 70 years ago in 1949 that Lyman T. Johnson, who already earned a master’s degree from the University of Michigan, challenged the status quo in his landmark court case, which opened the University of Kentucky campus to African-American students. That summer, nearly 30 African-American students enrolled in graduate and professional programs at UK. Johnson did not finish his graduate studies at UK, but he was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1979. An educator and civil rights activist, he dedicated his life to fighting against segregation and racial inequalities in Kentucky.

In addition to opening the door for thousands of minority students to attend UK, he led struggles to integrate neighborhoods, swimming pools, schools and restaurants. Johnson was also at the helm of the Louisville chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for six years. A biographer wrote, “Every door marked ‘White Only’ was a challenge and an invitation to be forced open. He never asked whether such doors should be opened, only when and how.”

Johnson’s courage and leadership resulted in the first racially-integrated class at the University of Kentucky.

Today, awards, ceremonies, programs and a residence hall proudly bear his name on the UK campus. The University of Kentucky is increasingly the first choice for students, faculty and staff to pursue their passions and their professional goals. In the

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The University of Kentucky commemorates seven decades of diversity

last two years, Forbes has named UK among the best employers for diversity and INSIGHT into Diversity recognized us as a Diversity Champion two years running. The commemoration this year of the 70 Years of Integration is a reminder that everyone — students, faculty, staff and the community — benefits from increased diversity on campus.

And now, our seven-decade journey — from court-ordered integration to a university that strives to be a supportive community — is the subject of a yearlong examination.

To honor Johnson’s significant first steps and the examples set by many students, faculty and

In March 1949, Lyman Johnson, right, and Kentucky State University President R. B. Atwood, left Federal District Court in Lexington after the court ruled in favor of Johnson's admission to the University of Kentucky.

staff who followed him, the university will host a series of events throughout the 2019-2020 academic year that commemorate UK’s 70 years of integration.

This year of commemoration began with an assembly on the morning of Friday, Aug. 30, 2019, featuring remarks from Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show” on Comedy Central.

In addition to being an accomplished comedian and television personality, Noah is also the author of “Born a Crime,” a nationally-acclaimed autobiography focused on his childhood growing up during apartheid in South Africa. This assembly drew on Noah’s reflections of his life from South Africa to the United States, sharing thoughts on the importance of diversity and social justice dialogues.

The assembly also featured remarks from UK representatives and the granting of an honorary doctorate to UK alumna Doris Wilkinson ’58 SW. In 1967, Wilkinson became the first African-American female alumna appointed to a full-time faculty position at UK. In 1989, she was the first African American elected to the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni. (Porter “P.G.” Peeples ’68 ED will receive an honorary decorate at the UK December Commencement. He has been the president and CEO of Lexington-Fayette County Urban League and has served on numerous community boards.)

The Trevor Noah assembly is one of many events that will be held throughout the academic year by UK colleges and units as the university continues creating a campus where every voice matters.

“UK aspires to be what we call a community of belonging. With that goal always present, we are committed to being a place that welcomes, respects and celebrates all people — regardless of where they are from, what they look like or how they identify,” says President Eli Capilouto. “Our progress on this path has not been a straight line. There are moments where we have fallen short of those aspirations. Our commitment to this ongoing journey — one we make with compassion and determination — is resolute and fundamental to our purpose as Kentucky’s university. We are a place — we are a community — for all people.”

CAMPUS-WIDE COMMEMORATION

The programming that will take place across campus units will not only have impact on students and faculty. Many of

the events slated for the year-long commemoration will be open to alumni and the local community.

“Anniversaries provide an invaluable opportunity to remember our past, recognize our successes, and anticipate the on-going work that lies ahead. Our ‘70 Years of Integration’ commemoration affords us an opportunity to do just that,” says Sonja Feist-Price, vice president of the Office for Institutional Diversity, which is spearheading the planning of many of the year-long events. “We recognize and appreciate the many ways in which our campus has evolved over the past 70 years, and we are excited about the myriad ways we strive to create a community where all of our constituents, irrespective of identity or perspective, feel a sense of belonging and realize how much we matter to each other.”

“We recognize and appreciate the many ways in which our campus has evolved over the past 70 years, and we are excited about the myriad ways we strive to create a community where all of our constituents, irrespective of identity or perspective, feel a sense of belonging and realize how much we matter to each other."

— Sonja Feist-Price One of the important upcoming key events slated on campus this year will be the Lyman T. Johnson Luncheon on Oct. 11.

“Mr. Johnson’s grandson, Imar Hutchins, will serve as our keynote speaker,” says Feist-Price. “The banquet is among our signature events for Homecoming, where we are looking forward to having our alums return to the campus community to see classmates and participate in our events.”

Feist-Price also noted that George Wright ’72 ’74 AS, former president of Prairie View A&M University, is visiting professor in the College of Arts & Sciences Department of History. “He is teaching a course in the fall and spring semesters, and will be sharing his expansive international knowledge about the history of human rights and social justice. Not only will

Dr. Wright share information about his research within our campus community, but throughout the state of Kentucky, as well. We are extremely honored and excited to have Dr. Wright with us throughout this academic year,” she says.

In addition, time and effort is being spent to remember and record African-American alumni who were on the front lines of integrating UK. People are familiar with the name Lyman T. Johnson, but he was not alone in those efforts and others also played a major role in that integration. The Nunn Center Oral History Project is interviewing many others who followed, such as Jim Green ’71 ED of Louisville, the first African-American student-athlete to graduate from UK and was inducted to the UK Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007. These interviews can be heard at kentuckyoralhistory.org Doug Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at UK, says “Having the individuals’ perspectives on history is always important. It’s too easy to create these grand narratives that generalize. But to have specific memories and peoples’ specific experiences, it personalizes history so much. That’s one of the major functions of oral history.

“To hear Lyman Johnson — not read about Lyman Johnson — tell his story about integrating the University of Kentucky is incredible. And we have 10 interviews with Johnson from 10 different oral history projects,” he says.

The Nunn Center is interested in humanizing history, Boyd says. “The center is identifying the gaps in history and figuring how to fill those gaps. What is not being told and what perspective is not being represented? We are very much committed to documenting both diversity and the history of the University of Kentucky.”

UK’s first Inclusive Health Summit provided an opportunity for health care providers, graduate and professional students, and community members to engage in conversations about health disparities and creating inclusive clinical spaces. This summit took place on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019, at the Bill Gatton Student Center.

“The summit was a collaborative effort between UK HealthCare Transform Clinic, the six professional health colleges and the Office of Institutional Diversity,” says Tukea Talbert, assistant operations executive for hospital administration at UK HealthCare. “It was a great opportunity to demonstrate our partnerships and comwww.ukalumni.net

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mitment to an inclusive care environment for all patients.”

Also in September, the College of Arts & Sciences and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky hosted a three-day symposium titled, “Black Studies at 50: A Celebration of the History of African American and Africana Studies at UK.” Anastasia Curwood, associate professor of history and director of African American and Africana Studies, says that this event was free and opened to the public. It began on the evening of Sept. 19 with a panel of alumni from the class of 1968 who organized the Black Student Union and whose activism helped in the development of Black Studies at UK. The closing keynote was given by the historian Nathan Connelly of Johns Hopkins University and one of the hosts of the podcast “Back Story.” Over the course of several days, she says, UK faculty appeared on thematic panels and shared how the areas in which they work have shaped Black Studies and how they will impact the field moving forward.

“We had this conference to commemorate the milestone of offering the first black studies course here at UK, and to acknowledge the work of the students who made it happen. We also looked at the present moment and the future, as we welcomed half a dozen new faculty and inaugurated a new B.A. in African American and Africana Studies,” says Curwood.

UK Homecoming is well known for bringing together former classmates and friends to reminisce at individual college reunions and tailgate. This year, the campus celebration will include special events as a part of the 70 Years of Integration.

“We are happy to continue to discover new ways to engage with all our UK alumni and look forward to partnering with other campus units as we invite all alumni and friends back for our 2019 Homecoming festivities,” says Jill Smith,

JOHN WESLEY HATCH FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENT ADMITTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

John Wesley Hatch was the first African-American student admitted to the University of Kentucky in 1948. But because of the Day Law, he wasn’t allowed to attend classes on the UK campus. Instead, he had to receive his instruction at Kentucky State, and UK professors drove daily to Frankfort to teach him.

After Lyman T. Johnson’s landmark court case, Hatch undertook his third semester at UK but left after that.

(Johnson had been Hatch’s 10thgrade history teacher at Central High School in Louisville.) He continued his education earning bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees. Hatch became an internationally-recognized authority on public health issues and was instrumental in the establishment of one of the two first community health centers in the United States.

interim executive director of the UK Alumni Association.

Special events scheduled for Homecoming Weekend include the NPHC Step Show, Mo-Betta Basketball Game, Mr. & Mrs. Black UK contest and a Black Voices Gospel Choir Brunch.

As if coming full circle, it’s poignant that UK has been able to commission artist Imar Hutchins to create a portrait of his grandfather, Lyman T. Johnson, for the commemoration. Hutchins, formerly an attorney, is a self-taught artist based in Washington. He is known for working in mixed media and collage, often creating portraits that not only include pieces from vintage black magazines but fragments of hate mail, other documents and found

objects. The portrait of his grandfather will hang in the Residence Hall named for Lyman T. Johnson on campus.

“I was fortunate that he lived long enough for me to know him as a young adult. He was my mother’s father. She was Yvonne Johnson Hutchins … He was a great influence on me, and as I got older, I learned more about what he meant to others, not just his family,” he said.

“He always treated everyone as if they were his grandchildren, no matter what your age. He would tell you about all the struggles some people had gone through to make the world the way it is today and how fragile it all was. He talked about how it could all be erased in a moment if we weren’t careful. It’s an honor, privilege and a challenge to do this project for UK.” Hutchins is including Lyman T. Johnson’s portrait in a body of his work entitled “Inheritance,” which will be exhibited first in Washington and then travel to UK for its unveiling during Homecoming. After that, UK is lending the portrait to the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville in January 2020 for the “Inheritance” exhibition, before it returns to campus and is installed permanently in the Lyman T. Johnson Residence Hall on the UK campus.

“Muhammad Ali was one of my grandfather’s students. Ali credited him as one of his early inspirations toward activism and social justice. They remained friends their whole lives,” Hutchins says.

The artist also studied his grandfather’s legacy extensively via Johnson's archived papers.

“My work is all collage, and often I use the hate mail and death threats that my grandfather got as part of my pieces.

From a distance, it will look pretty, but up close, you’ll see it is made up of all these hateful things that you can’t even imagine,” Hutchins says. “You’ll see that it is about transforming hate into love. He was able to do that.” ■

THEY CAME BEFORE: THE LEGACY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN PIONEERS AND TRAILBLAZERS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY In 2015, the UK Alumni Association published “They Came Before: The Legacy of African-American Pioneers and Trailblazers at the University of Kentucky.” Now out of print, the document was a resource which told of the wide array of some of the first African-American students at UK and the positive changes that they brought. Today, readers can enjoy learning of these trailblazers via the online version of the book by visiting www.ukalumni.net/ukpioneers.

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BLACK VOICES GOSPEL CHOIR, 1989

Founded in 1968-1970, the Black Voices Gospel Choir began when a small group of African-American students came together based on their mutual love of gospel music.

This UK student organization started under the direction of Lutischa Coleman-Morton, with the assistance of what was then called the Minority Student Affairs Office. Over the years, the choir has participated in performances such as the National Collegiate Gospel Festival, the Bobby Jones Gospel Explosion, and the Gospel Praise Company Workshop. They were also hosted by the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. at the Ebenezer Baptist Church.

JAMES GREEN

PORTER “P. G.” PEEPLES YOUNGEST DIRECTOR OF URBAN LEAGUE

Porter “P.G.” Peeples ’68 ED was only 22 years old when he was named the director of the Lexington chapter of the Urban League, becoming the youngest director in the United States.

DORIS WILKINSON

FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN FEMALE TO BE FULL-TIME UK FACULTY MEMBER Doris Wilkinson ’58 SW was the first African American elected to the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN CAPTAIN OF UK TRACK TEAM James “Jim” Green ’71 ED was the first African-American student-athlete to graduate from UK and at one time was the world’s fastest human.

ZIRL A. PALMER UK TRUSTEE

In 1972, Zirl A. Palmer became the first African American to become a member of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, named to the board by Gov. Wendell Ford. He was a graduate of Bluefield State College and Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy.

Palmer was the first African American to own a Rexall franchise in the United States, opening his drugstore at Fifth and Race streets in Lexington in the early 1950s.

EDYTHE JONES HAYES UK TRUSTEE

ELAINE ADAMS WILSON

PAST PRESIDENT OF THE UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION Elaine Adams Wilson ’68 SW of Somerset was elected president of the UK Alumni Association for 2014-2015, the first black UK alumna to hold this office. Beginning her term, she said, “Having this opportunity to serve the university and the alumni association is one of the greatest honors of my life. I have long appreciated the University of Kentucky and have long felt that coming to this university literally changed my life. … It is my opinion that being a person of color in this position will help people in our Commonwealth and beyond to know and understand there is an opportunity at our university for all people, no matter who they are or where they come from.” Wilson also served as a member of the UK Board of Trustees for six years from 1999 to 2005.

Edythe Jones Hayes ’53 ED was the first AfricanAmerican woman on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees. By the age of 18, Hayes had graduated from both high school and college. She was an educator who began teaching in Lexington’s Carver Elementary School in 1953. Later, Hayes became director of the adult education program and was named assistant superintendent in 1972. A Lexington middle school was named for her in 2004.

LYMAN T. JOHNSON AFRICAN AMERICAN ALUMNI GROUP

As a constituent group of the UK Alumni Association, the Lyman T. Johnson African American Alumni Group supports, promotes and initiates activities, programs, strategies and services which address the unique needs of, and foster the inclusion of, African American alumni in all aspects of UK life.

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SCHEDULE

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UK HOMECOMING

OCTOBER 2019 06

DANCEBLUE 5K

2 P.M.

SUN

Kroger Field • 1540 University Dr.

07

ROYALTY SHOWCASE

7 P.M.

08

TRIVIA NIGHT

6 P.M.

MO BETTA ALUMNI VS. STUDENT BASKETBALL GAME

7 P.M.

MON

TUES

Bill Gatton Student Center Ballroom • 160 Avenue of Champions Homecoming candidates will participate in a showcase style event. Students will be given the opportunity to meet those that have been selected for the Homecoming Court.

The purpose of this showcase is for the members of the Homecoming Court to publicly display their speaking skills, poise, and public presentation of talent. The event will consist of a question/answer segment, talent showcase segment, and more. At this event, undergraduate students and graduate students will be given the code to be able to cast their vote.

The voting process will take place for 24 hours. These votes will go towards the final selection process of the official Homecoming King and Queen. Even though the Homecoming King and Queen will be revealed during the Homecoming game, there will be a series of awards presented that are based on the scoring of a judging panel.

Cats Den • Bill Gatton Student Center • 160 Avenue of Champions

Seaton Center • 1210 University Dr.

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MR. AND MS. BLACK UK

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CLASS OF 1969 & GOLDEN WILDCAT SOCIETY REUNION REGISTRATION

WED

THURS

Location TBD The Mr. and Ms. Black UK Scholarship Pageant was first implemented at the University of Kentucky in the late 1980s by the Mu Epsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. It later became a collaborative event with the Black Student Union and the NPHC. This scholarship pageant is not only an opportunity for educational development and advancement, but also an opportunity for minority students to showcase their talents and represent the diversity at the University of Kentucky in a positive light. The Mr. and Ms. Black UK Pageant offers a chance to celebrate the minority culture and presence on campus.

NOON - 5 P.M.*

The Campbell House Lexington • 1375 S. Broadway Welcome to Lexington! Attendees are asked to stop

by The Campbell House Lexington to pick up all event tickets, nametag and itinerary. *Note: If you are unable to stop by during the times listed above, all materials will be transported to future events.

To register, visit www.ukalumni.net/golden

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CLASS OF 1969 & GOLDEN WILDCAT SOCIETY REUNION EARLYBIRD CAMPUS BUS TOUR

3 - 4:30 P.M.

University of Kentucky Get a seated tour of all the changes to campus since 1969. Bus will leave from The Campbell House Lexington.

To register, visit www.ukalumni.net/golden

5 - 7 P.M. CLASS OF 1969 & GOLDEN WILDCAT SOCIETY REUNION WELCOME RECEPTION The Campbell House Lexington Paddock Room • 1375 S. Broadway Enjoy an early evening reception as a welcome event and a fun way to kick off the Class of 1969 50 Year Reunion.

FRI

8 - 10 A.M. CLASS OF 1969 & GOLDEN WILDCAT SOCIETY REUNION BREAKFAST Kroger Field Woodford Reserve Club • 1540 University Dr. (Program starts at 8:45 a.m.)

Enjoy a delicious breakfast and recognition celebration at one of the most iconic locations on campus.

Members of the Class of 1969 will receive their pins and be inducted into the Golden Wildcat Society. After the ceremony, enjoy a time of reminiscing with fellow Golden Wildcats, views from the Woodford Reserve Lounge and exclusive Kroger Field tours.

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSE

8 - 11 A.M.

Hilton Downtown Lexington • 369 W. Vine St.

GATTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS CLASS OF 1969 TOUR

10:30 A.M.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING CLASS OF 1969 TOUR AND LUNCH

10:30 A.M.

550 S. Limestone

351 Ralph G. Anderson Building Lunch starts at noon

11 A.M. COLLEGE OF NURSING ALUMNI ASSOCIATION (CONAA) HOMECOMING LUNCHEON Hilary J. Boone Center • 500 Rose St. Celebrate class anniversaries, shop the vendors & the silent auction, network and make new friends with nursing alumni, current faculty, staff and students.

NOON

Bill Gatton Student Center • 160 Avenue of Champions Celebrate with the Lyman T. Johnson AfricanAmerican Alumni Group as it honors outstanding alumni and students at this special event.

To register, visit www.ukalumni.net/ LTJHomecomingCelebration

COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES LUNCH AND OPEN HOUSE

NOON

Charles T. Wethington Building • 900 S. Limestone 1:30 -3:30 p.m. Tours of Charles T. Wethington Building

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE CLASS OF 1969 DINNER

To register, visitwww.ukalumni.net/golden

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LYMAN T. JOHNSON AFRICAN-AMERICAN ALUMNI GROUP AWARDS LUNCH

5:30 P.M.

Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse • 101 W. Vine St. Cost: $65 Join your classmates for a fun dinner to reminisce about your time at the College of Medicine.

To register, contact Kristin Shattuck at kristin.shattuck@uky.edu.

GATTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS WOMEN BUSINESS LEADERS REUNION

6 P.M.

550 South Limestone

COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY RECEPTION

6:30 - 8:30 P.M.

Kroger Field, Recruiting Room

BIG BLUE MADNESS BASKETBALL GAME

7 P.M.

GIANNI SCHICCHI AND SUOR ANGELICA PRESENTED BY UK OPERA

7 P.M.

Rupp Arena • 430 W. Vine St. Join the Big Blue Nation in cheering on your 20192020 Kentucky basketball teams in this inter-squad scrimmage as the teams gear up for the year.

Singletary Center for the Arts • 405 Rose St. The University of Kentucky Opera Theatre program presents an evening featuring two contrasting Giacomo Puccini operas: the comedy “Gianni Schicchi” and tragic melodrama “Suor Angelica.”

The show runs from Oct. 11 - 13. Tickets are discounted to $30 exclusively for UK alumni through the Singletary Center for the Arts ticket office. Call 859-257-4929 to purchase your tickets.

Visit www.singletarycenter.com for more information.

To register, visit www.ukalumni.net/2019conluncheon.

BIG BLUE DAY AT KEENELAND

11 A.M.

Keeneland • 4201 Versailles Rd. Show your Wildcat pride and wear blue to the track for Big Blue Day at Keeneland! UK students, alumni, faculty and staff receive free general admission and access to reserved Grandstand seating with valid UK IDs. Enjoy appearances by the UK Wildcat mascot, cheerleaders and band. And keep your eye on Keeneland Bugler Steve Buttleman, who has been known to lead fans in the UK fight song, “On! On! U of K.”

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2019 NATIONAL PAN-HELLENIC COUNCIL 7:30 P.M. HOMECOMING STEP SHOW

UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HOMECOMING TAILGATE TENT PARTY

Bill Gatton Student Center Grand Ballrooms 160 Avenue of Champions The Annual Homecoming Step Show is a treasured tradition that allows for friendly competition between the organizations within the National Pan-Hellenic Council. It offers an opportunity for undergraduates to reconnect with alumni members and a chance to provide programming that highlights the AfricanAmerican student experience. It is also a chance for members in these organizations to celebrate and share traditions of African-influenced heritage, African-American culture, stepping, strolling, chanting and performance with Greek and nonGreek students alike.

2.5 HOURS PRIOR TO KICK-OFF

Tobacco Research and Development Center Lawn • 1401 University Ave. Get ready to cheer at our Tailgate Tent Party as the Cats take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. Enjoy tailgate food along with exciting games, entertainment, giveaways and performances by the UK Cheerleaders and Pep Band.

• College of Communication & Information Homecoming Tailgate • College of Dentistry Homecoming Tailgate • College of Design Homecoming Tailgate • College of Education Homecoming Tailgate • College of Health Sciences Homecoming Tailgate • College of Medicine Homecoming Tailgate

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COLLEGE OF PHARMACY CLASS OF 1989 & 1990 BREAKFAST

• Gatton College of Business and Economics Homecoming Tailgate

8:30 - 10:30 A.M.

• PrideCats Homecoming Tailgate

King Alumni House • 400 Rose St.

UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HOMECOMING BRUNCH

9:30 A.M.

10 A.M.

King Alumni House • 400 Rose St. (Departs from and returns to King Alumni House) Sit back and relax as you view campus that has undergone a major transformation! Board a campus bus as we tour campus and make stops at the W.T. Young Library and the Wildcat Alumni Plaza.

Room location TBD • 550 S. Limestone

2 HOURS PRIOR TO KICK-OFF

ARKANSAS VS. UK HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME

TBD

Kroger Field • 1540 University Dr. It’s Hogs vs. Cats as UK takes on Arkansas in this SEC matchup for the 2019 Homecoming game!

11 A.M.

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CLASS OF 1969 & GOLDEN WILDCAT 8 - 10 A.M. SOCIETY REUNION FAREWELL BREAKFAST

SUN The Campbell House Lexington • 1375 S. Broadway

*Note: If game time is changed, this event may be cancelled.

GATTON COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS ALL YEARS’ REUNION BRUNCH AND RECEPTION

COLLEGE OF PHARMACY HOMECOMING TAILGATE

Corner of Nicholasville Rd. & Farm Rd. (Next to Gluck Research Building) Join us in a big ol' tent with good food and lots of laughs.

This year we'll honor the Classes of 1974, 1989/1990, and 2009. We also look forward to hosting the Class of 2019 for their Zero Year Reunion.

4445 McCracken Pike • Frankfort, KY 40601 A thoughtful and curated look into Castle and Key Distillery. Explore the historic property including the iconic Castle, Springhouse, warehouses, and gardens. Your experience will be predominantly outside, exploring areas of various terrain. Please be conscious of the weather and wear appropriate outerwear and footwear. Closed toe shoes with no heel are required.

CAMPUS BUS TOUR

2 HOURS PRIOR TO KICK-OFF

Tobacco Research and Development Center Lawn 2 • 1401 University Ave. Join us two hours prior to kickoff for complimentary food and beverages as the Cats prepare to take on the Arkansas Razorbacks. Contact Alyssa Thornton via email with questions or RSVP at alyssa.thornton@uky.edu.

King Alumni House • 400 Rose St. Begin a full day of Homecoming events by joining fellow Wildcats for brunch at the King Alumni House. Enjoy a meal as you mix and mingle with fellow UK alumni and friends.

COLLEGE OF MEDICINE CLASS OF 1969 CASTLE & KEY DISTILLERY TOUR

COLLEGE OF LAW HOMECOMING TAILGATE

4 HOURS PRIOR TO KICK-OFF

Say goodbye to fellow alumni during breakfast at The Campbell House Lexington. This event is free to attend.

Food and drinks are available for purchase on site. Join us for one final event to wrap up the festivities of 2019 Homecoming.

To register, visit www.ukalumni.net/golden.

GOSPEL BRUNCH HOSTED BY UK BLACK VOICES GOSPEL CHOIR

10:30 A.M.

UK Law School • 620 S. Limestone Join the UK Black Voices Gospel Choir for a Gospel Brunch commemorating UK’s 70 Years of Integration and celebrating 50 years of Black Voices.

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To purchase tickets visit www.ukalumni.net/ BVGospelBrunch.

CLASS OF 1969 &

GOLDEN WILDCAT SOCIETY REUNION WEEKEND OCTOBER 10 – 13, 2019 REGISTRATION Thursday, Oct. 10 Noon - 5 p.m.

The Campbell House Lexington 1375 S. Broadway

INDUCTION BREAKFAST Friday, Oct.11 8 - 10 a.m.

Program starts at 8:45 a.m.

Kroger Field Woodford Reserve Club 1540 University Dr.

EARLY BIRD CAMPUS BUS TOUR

WELCOME RECEPTION

Thursday, Oct. 10 3 - 4:30 p.m.

Thursday, Oct. 10 5 – 7 p.m.

Tour leaves from The Campbell House Lexington 1375 S. Broadway

The Campbell House Lexington Paddock Room 1375 S. Broadway

LYMAN T. JOHNSON AFRICAN-AMERICAN ALUMNI GROUP AWARDS LUNCH

RACING AND LUNCH AT KEENELAND

Friday, Oct.11 Noon

Friday, Oct.11 Noon - 5 p.m.

Bill Gatton Student Center 160 Avenue of Champions

Keeneland Phoenix Room 4201 Versailles Rd.

BIG BLUE MADNESS BASKETBALL GAME

2019 NATIONAL PANHELLENIC COUNCIL HOMECOMING STEP SHOW

UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HOMECOMING BRUNCH

Friday, Oct.11 7 p.m.

Friday, Oct.11 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 12 9:30 a.m.

Rupp Arena 430 W Vine St.

Bill Gatton Student Center 160 Avenue of Champions

King Alumni House 400 Rose St.

UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HOMECOMING TAILGATE TENT PARTY Saturday, Oct. 12 2.5 hours prior to kick-off Tobacco Research and Development Center Lawn 1401 University Dr.

ARKANSAS VS. UK HOMECOMING FOOTBALL GAME Saturday, Oct. 12 Time: TBD Kroger Field 1540 University Dr.

FAREWELL BREAKFAST Sunday, Oct. 13 8 - 10 a.m.

The Campbell House Lexington 1375 S. Broadway

CAMPUS BUS TOUR Saturday, Oct. 12 11 a.m.

Departs and returns at King Alumni House 400 Rose St.

GOSPEL BRUNCH HOSTED BY UK BLACK VOICES GOSPEL CHOIR Sunday, Oct. 13 10:30 a.m.

UK Law School 620 S. Limestone

Free bus transporation will be provided to all events. This schedule is subject to change.

Visit www.ukalumni.net/golden or call 800-269-2586 or 859-257-8905 for the most current information. www.ukalumni.net

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Please welcome the following “firsttimers” who were recently elected to the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors. They are dedicated to helping the association carry out its mission.

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JONELL TOBIN of West Liberty earned a bachelor’s degree in business education in 1968 and a master’s degree in education in 1970, both from the UK College of Education, and a doctorate in vocational education in 1995 from the UK Graduate School. She was also a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority. Tobin retired from Morehead State University in 2014 where she served as director of MSU at West Liberty, a comprehensive adult education center with testing and training programs, which she organized and developed in 1987. Tobin was in the 1988 class of Leadership Kentucky (LKy), elected to its board in 1990, a trustee for the LKy Alumni Association and serves on the LKy Regional Council for the Eastern region of Kentucky.

Tobin is a Life Member, a UK Fellow, and a member of the UK Women in Philanthropy.

She has three daughters: Lisa Keeton Randle ’93 AFE, Lori Keeton ’97 ED, ’97 CI, and Kara Clay Keeton Frederick ’96 ’99 BE.

BECKY “LYNN” STRUTT SPADACCINI of Melbourne,

of Shelbyville attended UK from 1994 to 2001, when she received her doctorate of pharmacy degree, summa cum laude, from the UK College of Pharmacy. She was a member of Chi Omega sorority and the Rho Chi pharmacy honor society. From 2001 to 2016, Henderson was employed by Kroger as a staff pharmacist. She works with the Hospital Improvement Innovation Network to promote quality improvement and patient safety in hospitals across the Commonwealth.

She is a member of the Kentucky Pharmacists Association and the Kentucky Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Henderson serves on the Painted Stone Elementary PTO board and the Shelbyville Country Club swim team board. Her husband, Steven M. Henderson ’97 ’99 EN, ’07 LAW, practices construction law in the Louisville office of Stites & Harbison PLLC. She and her husband are Life Members and have a daughter, Clara.

Florida, earned her bachelor’s degree in human development and family relations from the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment in 1981. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. She worked for Brevard Public Schools (BPS) as a teacher, assistant principal, principal, district director of Title I and Early Childhood, and district director of Elementary Programs. Spadaccini earned her master’s degree in educational leadership, as well as a doctorate in educational research, technology and leadership from the University of Central Florida (UCF). She has also worked as an adjunct professor at UCF. Spadaccini has served on the board of Space Coast Children’s Home Society of Florida; and also Space Coast United Soccer Board and its executive board as treasurer. She and her husband, Dave Spadaccini, have a son, Jack, age 17. Spadaccini is a Life Member of the UK Alumni Association.

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FINE ARTS

PUBLIC HEALTH

R. BRIAN PERKINS of Aus-

CATHY CRUM BELL of Lex-

JOEL W. LOVAN of Lexing-

DR. KEITH R. KNAPP of La-

tin, Texas, earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the UK College of Engineering in 1997. He was a candidate for SGA vice president, a research assistant and a teaching assistant. He moved to Austin to start his career as a water resources engineer at HDR Engineering.

After 17 years, he accepted the role of integrated water supply practice lead at Black & Veatch, where he has led a group of water supply planners and engineers in solving drought-related water issues for the last four years.

Beginning around 2007, he gathered a group of fellow UK alumni in Austin with the intent of starting a Kentucky alumni club in Central Texas. In 2011, the Central Texas UK Alumni Club was formed, and Perkins served as its first president. The club has established a scholarship for local high school students to attend UK. He also served as the vice president, and later the president, of the Austin Area Southeastern Conference Alumni Club. He has a 12-year-old daughter, Lily.

ington earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the UK College of Education in 1976. She was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and was a cheerleader for the Wildcats.

She earned her Rank 1 in early childhood education in 1982, her administration/ supervision certification in 1984 and principal certification in 1989. Bell’s teaching career led her into administration, serving as principal of Ashland Elementary, and in 1997 opening the Veterans Park Elementary school in Fayette County. She received the Principal of the Year Award in 1996, and both the Service to Education Award by the Fayette County School Administrators Association and the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Award in 1998. She and her husband, Robert “Jake” Bell ’03 ED, are Life Members of the UK Alumni Association and UK Fellows.

ton is a 1977 graduate of the UK College of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree in music education. He earned a master’s degree from Georgetown College in 1988. Lovan was a band director in the Fayette County Public School System from 1980 until he retired in 2009 and played bass trombone with the Lexington Philharmonic since 1977. Before his teaching career in the public schools, Lovan played on the Norwegian Cruise Lines and taught trombone students at Asbury College. He currently teaches private trombone students in his studio.

Lovan is a Life Member of the UK Alumni Association, and he has been a member of The Club at UK’s Spindletop Hall since 1985. He has served as co-president alongside his wife for two terms of the UK Alumni Band. He and his wife have coordinated the UK Alumni Pep Band since its inception in 1993. He is married to Tracy Demaree Lovan ’84 ED, and they have a son, William, who will graduate this year from UK.

Grange received a bachelor’s degree from the UK College of Arts and Sciences in 1978 and a doctorate in gerontology from the UK College of Public Health in 2005. Knapp also holds a master’s degree from Xavier University and is a certified nursing home administrator and Fellow of the American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA). He recently joined the UK College of Public Health faculty as associate professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy and is moving to Lexington. He is the former CEO of Christian Care Communities. Knapp was honored in 2006 as the national ACHCA Administrator of the Year and in 2016 as the UK College of Public Health Outstanding Alumnus of the Year. He is also past president of the Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club. He is married to Jane Wilson Knapp ’77 ED, and they have three grown children: Kyle Knapp ’03 FA, Kathryn Knapp Broaddus ’05 CI, ’06 BE and Kerry Knapp Cayse ’08 FA. www.ukalumni.net

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UK Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award recipients

Photo: Tim Webb

The University of Kenof the UK Alumni Assotucky Alumni Association ciation and a UK Fellow.

Distinguished Service Paul Karem resides Awards are presented annuin Louisville and is a ally to honor and recognize Life Member of the UK those who have provided Alumni Association and a extraordinary service to the UK Fellow. He helped see university and the associtwo projects to fruition, ation. The 2019 recipients the first a statue on UK’s were honored during the recampus to honor the first cent UK Alumni Association African-American athletes Board of Directors Summer in the SEC. The second Workshop in Lexington. was serving as executive Trudy Webb Banta producer and tirelessly resides in Indianapolis and working more than 5 ½ graduated from the Universiyears to make the docuty of Kentucky in 1963 with mentary “Black in Blue,” From left to right are Trudy Webb Banta, Winn Williams, a bachelor’s degree in educadirected

by UK alumnus Paul Karem and Willis Bright. tion and a master’s degree in Paul Wagner, featuring the education in 1965. She is the retired vice chancellor and professor stories of UK’s first African-American football players. Karem of higher education emerita from Indiana University-Purdue has been involved with Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club University Indianapolis. Banta was inducted into the University events, helping introduce the current football coaching staff to of Kentucky Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni the greater Louisville alumni and the Louisville club board. He in 2005. She is a former member of the UK Alumni Association was instrumental in former UK football player Wilbur Hackett Board of Directors, having served on the Executive Committee, receiving the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club All-American was chairwoman of the Diversity and Group Development Com- Award, the club’s highest honor. He is a former football letterman mittee and served on the Hall of Distinguished Alumni Nominat- and former president of the K-Club, where he has been a meming Committee and the Scholarship and Great Teacher commitber for 30 years. In his professional life, he is a veteran of the tees. She is a member of the Wildcat Society and UK Women & mortgage lending industry, working at multiple banks and selling Philanthropy Network. Professionally, she earned a doctorate in his own mortgage company to a regional bank. He is also an aueducation from the University of Tennessee and is a pioneer in thor of “Above the Fray,” a book on customer service. the field of outcomes assessment in higher education. She foundWinn F. Williams resides in Marietta, South Carolina, and ed the Center for Assessment Research and Development at the graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1971 with a bachUniversity of Tennessee. A recipient of 15 national awards for elor’s degree in sociology. He is a Municipal Court judge for the her work, she is the author or editor of 20 books and more than city of Greer, South Carolina. His jurisdiction includes Greenville 400 chapters, articles and reports. and Spartan counties. Williams is a member of the UK Alumni Willis K. Bright resides in Indianapolis and graduated from Association Board of Directors. He serves on the Scholarship the University of Kentucky in 1966 with a bachelor’s degree in and Great Teacher Committee and previously served on the social work. He was the first African-American student to reAlumni Service Awards and Budget, Finance and Investments ceive the Sullivan Award. Bright dedicated his career to youth committees. He has also been involved with the Nation’s Capital development and African-American participation in the political Region and Upstate South Carolina UK Alumni Clubs, having process in Indiana. His family established the Bright Family Fund served as president and vice president in the Washington D.C. for Youth Development in the UK School of Social Work. He club. He is also a charter member of the UK College of Arts is a member of the UK Alumni Association Board of Direcand Sciences Dean’s Development Council, serves as a mentor to tors. Bright chaired the Class of 1966 Golden Wildcat Reunion College of Arts and Sciences students, and participates in college committee, served on the UK Alumni Association’s Executive nights, send-off and student recruitment events. He also tutors Director Search Committee, is a member of the College of Soelementary school children and is an active volunteer with the cial Work Hall of Fame and was on the college’s advisory board.

Special Olympics and outreach programs in the Cliffs CommuHe has served on the Nominating for Board, Scholarship, Great nities. He is a Life Member of the UK Alumni Association and a Teacher, Communications, Diversity and Group Development UK Fellow. ■ committees. Bright is a Wildcat Society member, a Life Member

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New officers of the UK Alumni Association The Unifrom the UK versity of College of Kentucky Education.

Alumni AsMyers has a sociation second bacheannounced lor’s degree in its 2019-2020 interior design board of diand has a rectors’ offidouble mascers during its ter’s degree in annual Sumeducation and mer Workeducation adshop. This ministration. year’s officers Taunya A. Phillips She served Hannah Miner Myers Mary L. Shelman are Taunya A. eight years on Phillips, president; Hannah Miner Myers, president-elect; and the Madisonville City Council and is serving her second term Mary Shelman, treasurer. The new slate took office July 1, 2019, on the Hopkins County Fiscal Court as a magistrate for District and will serve until June 30, 2020.

Seven. Myers is employed by Murray State University as an adTaunya A. Phillips of Lexington has been elected president junct professor of education on the regional campus in Madiof the UK Alumni Association. She earned a bachelor’s degree sonville. She is active in the Hopkins County UK Alumni Club. in chemical engineering from the UK College of Engineering in Mary L. Shelman of Belmont, Massachusetts, was elect1987 and an MBA from the UK Gatton College of Business & ed treasurer of the UK Alumni Association. She graduated in Economics in 2004. She is serving her second three-year term 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering with high on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors. Phillips has distinction. She held engineering and marketing positions with held committee leadership positions with the association, inTexaco before attending Harvard Business School, where she cluding chairwoman of Nominating for Board and Diversity & completed an MBA and was awarded a dean’s doctoral fellowGroup Development, and vice-chairwoman of Nominating for ship for further research in economics and marketing at Harvard Board. She is the senior associate director of New Ventures & University. Shelman has spent the last 30 years in the global Alliances in the UK Office of Technology Commercialization. agribusiness and food industry. She is the former director of the Hannah Miner Myers of Madisonville has been elected Harvard Business School Agribusiness Program and was chairpresident-elect of the UK Alumni Association. She graduated woman of the board of RiceTec Inc. ■ in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in middle school education

Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award recipient

Photo: Tim Webb

Preston C. Worley of Lexington was named the 2019 Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award recipient by the UK Alumni Association. The award is presented annually to honor and recognize a young alumna or alumnus who is an active member of the association and has worked on behalf of young people through the university, the Watch a video of Preston Worley's speech at www.ukalumni.net/ youngalumniaward.

association, their alumni club or in the local community. The award is named for a longtime UK administrator who spent the better part of his life in service to UK students.

Worley graduated from the UK College of Arts and Sciences in 2007 with a bachelor’s degree in history and in 2010 from the UK College of Law. He is an associate at McBrayer McGinnis Leslie & Kirkland PLLC and is a 2019 Kentucky Super Lawyer Rising Star in Real Estate. Worley has been involved with DanceBlue as both a graduate and student. He served as

chairman of the Golden Matrix Fund Advisory Council and as a board member of the UK Children’s Hospital Executive Development Council.

He currently serves as the council member representing the 7th District on the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council. Worley is a former member of the Downtown Lexington Corp. board, Coaches for the Kids board, and former general counsel for the Lexington History Museum. ■

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Thank you, outgoing members of our board of directors!

Left to right are Rebecca F. Caudill of Winchester; Elizabeth "Betsy" Coleman Cox of Whitefish, Montana; Sherry Remington Moak of Louisville; Ruth Cecilia Day of Jasksonville Beach, Florida; and Will L. Nash of Lexington. Not in attendance were Dr. William G. Bacon Jr. of Ewing; Michael A. Hamilton of Lexington; Matthew C. Minner of Lexington; and Martha E. Randolph of Lexington.

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UK Alumni Association bestows club awards

Club Award Winners 2018-2019 The mission of the UK Alumni Association is to engage, connect, serve and celebrate alumni and friends of the university.

Its clubs serve a critical role in achieving this mission by bringing together alumni in their local communities to demonstrate their love and support for their alma mater through a variety of events and activities throughout the year. Some of these events include game watch parties, group outings, social and professional networking events, service projects, book awards, scholarship fundraising, Student Send-Offs and more.

The UK Alumni Association recognized many of its clubs at the Distinguished Service Awards and Club Awards dinner during the association’s annual Summer Workshop at the Hilton Lexington/Downtown.

Awards were given to in-state and out-of-state alumni clubs in the following six categories — Alumni Engagement, Scholarship, Service, Student Recruitment, New and Creative Program and Most Improved — as determined by the Past Presidents’ Advisory Council. ■

The following clubs were recognized during the dinner for outstanding contributions in one or more categories: In-state Awards: Greater Ashland: Student Recruitment Big Sandy: Student Recruitment Christian County: Alumni Engagement, Scholarship, Student Recruitment Clark County: Scholarship Cumberland Valley East: New and Creative Program, Service, Student Recruitment Fayette County: Alumni Engagement, New and Creative Program, Scholarship, Service Fulton County: Alumni Engagement, Scholarship, Service Hardin County: Most Improved, Service

Greater Louisville: Alumni Engagement, Scholarship, Student Recruitment

Central Texas: Alumni Engagement, Most Improved

Central Virginia: Service Mason County: Alumni Charlotte: Alumni Engagement Engagement, New and Creative Chattanooga: Service Program Chicagoland: Alumni McCracken County: Engagement, Scholarship, Scholarship, Service Service, Student Recruitment Northern Kentucky/ Dallas/Fort Worth: Greater Cincinnati: Alumni Scholarship Engagement, Scholarship, Student Recruitment Greater Dayton: Scholarship, Service, Student Recruitment Out-of-state Awards: Greater Houston: Scholarship, Greater Atlanta: Alumni Service Engagement, Scholarship, Jacksonville: Scholarship Student Recruitment

New York City: Alumni Engagement, Scholarship Northern Alabama: Alumni Engagement, Most Improved Pacific Northwest: Alumni Engagement San Diego: Service Sarasota/Suncoast: Alumni Engagement, Scholarship South Florida: New and Creative Program, Service Tampa Bay: Scholarship Upstate SC: Alumni Engagement

Greater Birmingham: Service, Greater Nashville: Alumni Engagement, Scholarship, Student Recruitment Service, Student Recruitment Central Indiana: Scholarship Nation’s Capital Region: Central Ohio: Student Service Recruitment www.ukalumni.net

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Fancy hats were everywhere at the Jacksonville UK Alumni Club Derby Party in May. Sporting their picks are, left to right, Nicole Blackwelder, Amy Vincent and Lissa Scott.

Members of the Houston UK Alumni Club had a great turnout for one of its Game Watch Parties this spring.

Members of the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club issued annual Book Awards at the Cabbage Patch Settlement House to deserving students, shown here with their books.

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The Kentucky Derby was the backdrop for the Northern Alabama UK Alumni Club in May, as members of the club and friends showed off their Derby finery.

The Central Virginia UK Alumni Club celebrated its 21st birthday with a party. Eight members in the photo were actually present at the first club’s Game Watch Party on Feb 14, 1998.

Three incoming UK students were honored at the Dallas-Ft. Worth UK Alumni Club Student Send-off tailgate event before the FC Dallas soccer game. Left to right are Mayson Spillman, Aryanna Gomez and Alexandria Davis.

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An End to Opioid Deaths.

This is What’s Possible.

by Kristie Colón

T

he opioid epidemic has taken hundreds of thousands of lives and devastated millions more. This problem has engaged the passion, knowledge, and persistence of our researchers and pharmacists who work on a daily basis to help people with opioid use disorder.

Alumnus Trish Freeman, PhD and Jeff Talbert, PhD professors in the UK College of Pharmacy, are part of the multidisciplinary team that played a crucial role in securing the $87 million HEAL grant and will be helping leading initiatives to address the opioid use disorder epidemic in Kentucky. Led by Dr. Sharon Walsh director of UK’s Center on Drug and Alcohol Research, the team will collaborate with state and community partners to implement evidence-based interventions to save lives and help people achieve recovery, reduce harm, and inform our nation on what evidence-based strategies will help us heal from the opioid crisis. Our goal: decrease the number of opioid deaths by 40% in four years in 16 Kentucky counties.

Many UK College of Pharmacy faculty, including Freeman, helped construct the law that now allows naloxone dispensing by pharmacists. To date, Freeman and others from the College have trained over 2,600 pharmacists and student pharmacists on the proper administration and dispensing of naloxone.

“Pharmacists are highly educated, and grossly underutilized in majority of practice settings,” said Freeman. “When we looked at the opioid epidemic, we saw our community pharmacists as an untapped resource. It’s estimated that 90% of the population lives within five miles of a pharmacy. We know we’re accessible; and we can utilize this accessibility to improve patient care.”

The College of Pharmacy’s Institute for Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy (IPOP), directed by Jeff Talbert, analyzes naloxone dispensing data to understand the impact of this and other policy interventions aimed at mitigating the opioid overdose crisis.

When we looked at the opioid epidemic, we saw pharmacists as an untapped resource that could be part of a solution.

Well before the pursuit of the grant, Freeman and other Kentucky pharmacists already played a key role in the response to the opioid crisis.

The UK College of Pharmacy’s Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Practice (CAPP), in collaboration with key pharmacy stakeholder organizations in Kentucky, led the state’s efforts in pharmacist-initiated naloxone dispensing.

Naloxone is a life-saving drug used to treat overdose and is available at Kentucky pharmacies without a prescription. Kentucky was one of the first states to see the rampant abuse of oxycodone and our pharmacists realized they could be part of a solution.

Talbert will serve as co-director of the Data, Informatics and Biostatistics Core, coordinating data integration and data harmonization for the HEAL grant. Freeman will lead interventions designed to reduce the supply of excess opioids through increased disposal of unused medications; identify and reduce risky prescribing and dispensing behaviors among prescribers and pharmacists; and promote increased use of the opioid overdose reversal agent naloxone.

When asked about the impact of the grant, Kip Guy, dean of the College of Pharmacy noted, “The HEAL grant puts the resources

Trish Freeman and Jeff Talbert, PhD professors in the UK College of Pharmacy, are fighting to decrease opioid deaths in Kentucky.

needed to develop effective population interventions for the opioid epidemic into the hands of those with a demonstrated track record of addressing the problem. Successes in Kentucky demonstrate the necessity of including pharmacists in interprofessional public health interventions. We are the major point of contact for many of the people in Kentucky. Our front-line researchers are committed to solving not only Kentucky’s pressing healthcare problems but doing so in ways that can be utilized across the globe. At the College of Pharmacy, we encourage innovative discovery and collaborative research, knowing that we all have a role in improving patient outcomes.”

By 2025, it is estimated that Kentucky will experience close to a 30% shortfall in primary care provider adequacy as reported in the Health Resources and Service Administration’s Healthcare Workforce Analysis.

This means our community pharmacists will continue to play a key role working with other practitioners to address health needs in the Commonwealth, including helping prevent deaths from opioid use. www.ukalumni.net

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Something new under the sun

Photo: UK Solar Car Team

The University of Kentucky Solar Car Team, a student-led organization since 1999 in the College of Engineering, had record-breaking success at a national competition — earning their highest finish since 2009 and providing a fitting end on their 20th anniversary.

In July, the team competed and placed third in the Formula Sun Grand Prix, held at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin, Texas. The race brought together 18 college teams who were challenged to design, build and race solar-powered cars, attempting to complete as many laps as possible in three days. UK finished 153 laps, with its fastest lap clocking in at 3 minutes and 48 seconds. The team and its car, Gato del Sol VI, shattered the previous record held by Iowa State University by an impressive 42 seconds.

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Keeneland and NTRA partner with UK to ensure horses’ safety

by Molly Williamson

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or the Keeneland Association and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Charities, investing in two new University of Kentucky laboratories was a simple decision. Safety–of both the horse and human athletes–is a primary concern for the horse industry, especially with recent events at Santa Anita Park, a racetrack in Southern California.

As the epicenter of the horse industry, Kentucky-based equine organizations want to be at the forefront of equine safety, and UK has taken the lead. In the last four years, UK has recruited two internationally-recognized researchers to establish laboratories focused on safety. As the Keeneland Endowed Chair in Equine Veterinary Science, Scott Stanley '88 AFE, '92 MED is leading a new commercial testing laboratory in connection with the U.S. Equestrian Federation that will focus on developing tests to detect performance-enhancing drugs in show and race horses. Michael “Mick” Peterson is creating the NTRA Charities Equine Surfaces and Safety Laboratory that will better inform racetrack superintendents about how to monitor and adjust the racetrack composition to ensure the horses and jockeys are safe no matter the weather conditions.

Both labs are housed in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

The endowed position will be supplemented by Keeneland’s recent $1.3 million gift, which will further Stanley’s research. Peterson’s lab will be supported by NTRA’s recent $100,000 gift, money the organization set aside long ago for surface safety research.

Hiring Stanley and Peterson is a move horse industry leaders say shows the commitment UK has to the future

of the horse industry and its economic impact on the state. It also solidifies UK’s place as a leader in equine research.

“The most important thing to Keeneland is the health and well-being of its equine athletes,” says Bill Thomason ’77 ’78 BE, president and chief executive officer of Keeneland.

“To protect the health and well-being of our athletes and the integrity of the sport, we need vital research that will impact a broad range of equine competition. As the horse capital of the world, Central Kentucky should lead those efforts, and we are proud to partner with the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Gluck Equine Research Center to develop this center of excellence in equine drug research and testing.”

Nearly 55 percent of all North American thoroughbreds are sired by Kentucky stallions, and 37.4 percent of North American thoroughbreds come from Kentucky, according to the Kentucky Equine Education Project. The horse industry is an economic driver, providing an estimated annual $3 billion impact and 80,000 direct and indirect jobs, according to the 2012 Kentucky Equine Survey conducted by UK Ag Equine Programs.

“The UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment is committed to our signature equine industry in all ways,” Dean Nancy Cox says.

“In particular, we are dedicated to all aspects of safety in our sport.

These gifts allow us to do important research to assist thoroughbred racing and to create a pipeline of experts to serve racetrack safety and to monitor equine pharmacology.”

DETECTING PERFORMANCEENHANCING DRUGS In May, Keeneland committed an additional $1.3 million to support the Keeneland Endowed Chair in Equine Veterinary Science, increasing the position’s fund to $3 million to provide more funds for equine medicine research, including pharmacology and toxicology. Stanley, a two-time UK graduate, was awarded the position in 2019.

An internationally recognized researcher, Stanley’s research focuses on equine pharmacology and toxicology. He is creating an Equine Biological Passport that will follow horses throughout their careers. Similar to a medical record, the passport logs the results of each drug test performed on a horse, so each horse has a comprehensive pharmacology history on file.

It is also an indirect means of detecting future drugs that were inappropriately used in racehorses and show horses, Stanley says.

Stanley’s lab will also develop more sophisticated drug tests. Currently, horses can be given a drug–slow release compounds–that continues to affect a horse’s performance long after the drug stops showing up in modern tests. Stanley's anti-doping research will develop more comprehensive tests that can detect drugs that were given to a horse months ago.

“The endowment allows us to establish long-term funding,” Stanley says.

“With a grant, once the study is over, the funding is gone. The endowment allows us to work toward the future, not just focus on one program. We can anticipate the industry’s needs and study future compounds. It also allows us to purchase the equipment and materials we need.” www.ukalumni.net

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Formerly a professor at University of California-Davis, Stanley returned to Lexington because it allowed him to be a part of collaborative research that studied all aspects of horse health and well-being. It also gave him more direct communication with people in the industry, including breeders, racetrack superintendents, jockey organizations and auction houses.

Stanley’s ability to interact with people at all levels of the racing industry is what enhances his research, Thomason says. He is innovative in the lab but he can communicate his findings to, and work with, people in the field.

“Dr. Stanley’s addition shows the commitment the University of Kentucky has to advancing the horse industry,” Thomason says. “We have worked with Dr. Stanley throughout his career and seen how his research has improved the safety of horses worldwide. His work is a natural fit with all of the other agricultural advances UK has.

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“UK is at the forefront of jockey safety, concussion protocols, immunology, disease and racetrack safety,” he says. “Its multifaceted approach to equine health and safety is critical to us, not only as a racing facility, but also as one of the largest thoroughbred sales facilities in the world.”

Kentucky horses are the most sought after in the world, because of their sires, pedigrees and the way they have been raised, Thomason says. Keeneland sells horses to entities in more than 25 different countries, many of whom compete at the highest level and retire to sire foals all over the world.

ENSURING RACETRACKS’ SAFETY Adding labs like Stanley’s and Peterson’s contribute to the global sustainability of the horse industry, says Steve Koch ’99 ’02 AFE, former executive director of the NTRA and now senior vice president of racing for the Stronach Group. He helped coordinate the $100,000 gift from the NTRA to

his alma mater to support surface safety research.

“We produce a lot of wonderful horses in Kentucky, but without a market to sell them, Kentucky’s signature industry would not thrive,” Koch says. “The research Dr. Stanley and Dr. Peterson are doing is good for the horses, good for the jockeys, good for the Commonwealth and good for the industry.”

Racetrack safety is an especially hot topic after the Santa Anita deaths. Some of the problems stemmed from the racetrack’s inability to get current data about the racetrack’s composition and to make changes accordingly, says Alex Waldrop, NTRA president and chief executive officer.

“Track conditions change hour by hour, moment by moment because of the weather,” Waldrop says. “A racetrack superintendent once told me that if we could run races inside a temperature-controlled building, we would have no problems. But we have to account for the sun, wind, rain and humidity by monitoring the track surface to deter-

examines blood work and X-rays, so the superintendents can diagnose and address the problems.

“But, if we do not have the right people monitoring these sensors, the research is useless,” Peterson says. “We need people who can interpret the data, determine what information is relevant and then make adjustments to the track.”

His research will help people working at horse racetracks, as well as those who maintain arenas for sport horses. The NTRA gift is allowing him to expand his efforts, include more students in his research and enhance his training efforts.

“We wanted to enable undergraduate and graduate students to benefit from Dr. Peterson’s leadership and knowledge, so they can become better researchers and racetrack superintendents,” Koch says. “It is a workforce development issue. We are a small industry with only a handful of racetrack superintendents. We need qualified, educated people operating our tracks and machinery. This research will dramatically improve the caliber of our racetrack operations.”

It also provides reassurance at a time the industry needs it, Waldrop says.

“The single biggest vulnerability we have in thoroughbred racing is our susceptibility to horse injury and fatality,” Waldrop says. “We want to reassure the public that we are doing everything we can to keep our horses and jockeys safe. Collecting and analyzing this data is instrumental to ensuring surface safety, and we are glad that we can jump-start this data collection and analysis effort.

“Improving the safety of our athletes in horse racing is critical to the growth and sustainability of our industry, and it is fitting that UK is leading these advances since the university is located in the heart of Central Kentucky, where so many of the world’s thoroughbreds are bred and raised,” Waldrop says. “This gift is not just an investment in UK, it is an investment in the economic health of the state of Kentucky. We are proud to partner with UK in this effort.”

The Keeneland and NTRA gifts both benefit Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign, UK’s comprehensive campaign focused on increasing opportunities for student success, funding innovative research, improving health care, strengthening our alumni network and supporting our athletic programs.

Publicly announced in September 2018, the campaign aims to raise $2.1 billion, and UK has already surpassed the halfway point. As of June 30, 2019, UK had raised $1.2 billion for Kentucky Can. ▉

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mine if it is consistent and has the proper amount of water retention to protect the safety of the horses and jockeys.”

Track composition is Peterson’s specialty. Before arriving at UK in 2016, he directed the Racing Surfaces Testing Laboratory and has tested racetracks at 70 different facilities around the world. The industry-funded lab–which moved with Peterson to Lexington–examines racetrack surfaces, informing everything from design, safety and maintenance of natural and synthetic surfaces to the track’s impact on designing jockey helmets, horseshoes and sensors that can assist in providing a consistent surface for horses and riders.

Using the renovated 4,000 squarefoot space in the NTRA lab, Peterson is studying the layers in a racetrack– how they are impacted by maintenance equipment, how they retain moisture and how they can be engineered and maintained to ensure horses’ safety. He is examining dirt, synthetic and turf tracks and developing sensors that can give racetrack superintendents information about the racetrack’s surface.

“The new sensors will measure and help the racetrack superintendents control the consistency of the track,” says Peterson, director of UK Agriculture Equine Programs and professor in the department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering. “We want to give more information to the superintendents, similar to how a doctor

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Junior receiver Lynn Bowden Jr. (1) led UK in receptions (67), receiving yards (745) and touchdown catches (five) last season. He also returned two punts for scores.

the team with 84 tackles and seven tackles for loss while adding one sack. Sophomore linebackers DeAndre Square (35 tackles) and Chris Oats (27 tackles) also return, while senior lineman Calvin Taylor added 26 tackles and six tackles for loss. The UK defense also gets back sophomore lineman Joshua Paschal, who missed most of last season after battling cancer.

Punter Max Duff gave UK a huge boost in the kicking game, averaging 44.78 yards on 60 punts with 30 punts downed inside the 20 yard line and getting none blocked. ■

The Kentucky offense will be bolstered by the return of linemen Drake Jackson (52) and Logan Stenberg, right, who will be blocking for senior A.J. Rose (10), who ran for 472 yards and five touchdowns last year.

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What can the Wildcats do for an encore?

The Kentucky football team is coming off its best season in more than 40 years, finally defeating Florida, winning 10 games and beating Penn State in the VRBO Citrus Bowl on Jan. 1.

Now the Wildcats want to show that 2018 was not a fluke. And despite the loss of five draft picks and 16 starters, Coach Mark Stoops’ bunch still has plenty of returners and newcomers ready to show what they can do.

Kentucky returns four starters each on offense and defense and 10 overall along with 43 lettermen to follow last year’s 10-3 squad.

Junior quarterback Terry Wilson is coming off a season where he was 180-of-268 passing for 1,889 yards and 11 touchdowns.

He also ran for 742 yards and four more scores in his first season playing Division I football.

His favorite target was junior Lynn Bowden Jr., who was UK’s most explosive playmaker. Bowden caught 67 balls for 745 yards and five touchdowns. Of his five returned punts, two went for touchdowns, helping UK to a win at Missouri and against Penn State. He averaged 29.3 yards per punt return and averaged 21.3 yards per kickoff return.

In the backfield, senior A.J. Rose and a stable of backs look to fill the void left by all-time leading rusher Benny Snell Jr. Rose ran for 472 yards and five touchdowns, averaging 6.2 yards per carry. He also caught eight passes for 82 yards and another touchdown. Redshirt freshman Kavosiey Smoke ran four times for 45 yards in his limited action, but is expected to contribute heavily in the UK backfield this fall.

Among the other receivers, junior Josh Ali had 10 catches for 115 yards and a touchdown and Isaiah Epps had eight catches for 76 yards.

Senior guard Logan Stenberg, who was named a preseason Second-Team All-American by the Sporting News, leads an offensive line that returns center Drake Jackson and sees the return of tackle Landon Young, who missed last season with a knee injury. Stenberg has played in 38 career games, starting the last 26 for the Wildcats.

On defense, which lost alltime sack leader Josh Allen, senior linebacker Kash Daniel returns after placing third on

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UK student-athletes excel in the classroom UK student-athletes are doing more than winning on the field. They are also earning academic accolades. There were 65 Wildcats who earned a place on the 2019 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll, while 99 made the SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll.

The SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2018 summer, 2018 fall and 2019 spring terms. UK had eight men’s golfers on the list, tying for the most in the league in that sport. Softball had 12 honorees, tying for third among league schools. UK also had 15 in baseball, four in women’s golf, one in men’s tennis, four in women’s tennis, nine in men’s track and field, and 12 in women’s track and field.

Among other criteria, students must have a 3.0 GPA or above

for either the preceding academic year (two semesters or three quarters) or have a cumulative 3.0 GPA or above at the nominating institution.

For the First-Year Academic Honor Roll, Kentucky was second overall for having the most student-athletes on the list. UK had the most honorees in the sports of men’s cross country and softball. UK was second in men’s basketball and women’s basketball. Wildcat teams were third in baseball, women’s cross country, men’s golf, women’s soccer and men’s tennis.

The 2018-2019 First-Year Academic Honor Roll is based on grades from the 2018 summer and fall terms, along with the 2019 spring term. A student-athlete must have a 3.0 GPA for the entire year to earn a place on the honor roll. ■

UK Athletics finishes 14th in Directors’ Cup The University of Kentucky Athletics Department put the finishing touches on another chapter in the greatest run of comprehensive success in school history by finishing 14th in final 2018-2019 Learfield IMG Directors’ Cup standings.

“We have seen outstanding individual and team success this season,” Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart said. “This success is worth celebrating, but it’s also motivation for us because we know we can achieve so much more. We are already looking forward to the 2019-2020 season, when we will continue to pursue our goal of establishing UK among the elite athletics departments in America.”

The finish is third highest among Southeastern Conference schools and the third best in school history, behind finishes of 10th in 2016-2017 and 11th in 2014-2015. UK Athletics also extended its streak of top-30 finishes to eight. Nine of the 11 best finishes in school history have come under Barnhart, including the six best finishes in school history all coming in the last seven years.

The Directors’ Cup measures competitive success for all Division-I schools. For each NCAA-sanctioned sport, schools are awarded points based on NCAA championship participation.

This year, 17 of UK’s 22 teams reached postseason play and scored points toward UK’s final Directors’ Cup tally.

Five UK teams posted top-10 national finishes: men’s soccer (fifth), men’s basketball (fifth), rifle (fifth), volleyball (ninth) and softball (ninth). Finishing just outside the top 10 were football (11th), gymnastics (13th), women’s outdoor track and field (14th) and women’s swimming and diving (15th).

UK’s goal, set as part of Barnhart’s Elite 1-3-5 initiative, is to finish in the top five of Directors' Cup standings by the year 2022. Elite 1-3-5 also calls for each UK team to win a conference or national championship by the year 2022 and to continue the department’s streak of 14 consecutive semesters with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. ■

Kentucky volleyball ranked No. 7 in preseason For the second year running, the Kentucky volleyball team has been tabbed a preseason top-10 team, slotting in at No. 7 in the American Volleyball Coaches’ Association preseason top-25.

Kentucky is one of three teams from the Southeastern Conference that are ranked in the initial poll, joining Florida (10) and Tennessee (19). Both Mizzou and South Carolina received votes.

UK is scheduled to play six games this season against teams that are in the preseason poll including two against No. 10 Florida, and once vs. No. 14 USC, No. 17 Purdue, No. 19 Tennessee and No. 25 Louisville.

There are six other matches that the Wildcats will play this season in addition to the six against ranked teams. Those matches feature UK facing Mizzou and South Carolina twice, Utah and Northern Iowa.

The SEC joins the Big 10 as the only two leagues to have mul-

tiple teams ranked inside the top-10.

In other volleyball news, the squad was honored with the 2018-2019 AVCA Academic Award.

The award, which was initiated in the 1992-1993 academic year, honors collegiate and high school volleyball teams that displayed excellence in the classroom during the school year by maintaining at least a 3.30 cumulative team GPA on a 4.0 scale or a 4.10 cumulative team GPA on a 5.0 scale.

The AVCA Team Academic Award is the single largest award offered by quantity of schools, players and coaches honored.

Since the 2000-2001 season, the number of recipients has increased every single year but two, while more than doubling the total over the last eight academic years. Since the award’s inception in 1993, the amount of award winners has increased from 62 to its current number of 1,126. ■ www.ukalumni.net

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rtress White ’09 AS was attracted to being a writer when she was in high school in Wilbraham, Massachusetts, a small town near Springfield. Her parents had a bookshelf that she also considered her first little library.

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level … were James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” and Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” I read them when I was very young, and the things I didn’t understand I skipped over,” she says.

“What resonated with me, though, was that these were stories of African Americans that I could identify with. I believe that’s where my interest in storytelling began.

She started to jot her own thoughts on paper and received encouragement from a high school English teacher after she wrote a story about two ballet dancers — one black like herself and the other white. “He gave the story an A, and said I should keep writing,” she says.

White wanted to pen feature stories for Vogue magazine and become editor. She dabbled with poetry in

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college but didn’t become serious until she became friends with local poets in Boston after graduating with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and minor in political science from the University of Massachusetts. “I began working on my poetry more seriously,” White says.

Her efforts paid off.

White was named the 2018 Trio Award recipient for her collection of poems, “My Afmerica,” published

by Trio House Press. She wanted the poems in this collection to show the humanity of African-American family life beyond what can sometimes be terrifying headlines.

She is also the author of “Fast Fat Girls in Pink Hot Pants,” published in 2012 by Aldabra Press. Over the years, her individual poems have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Review and Pleiades, among others. She also writes nonfiction, and those pieces have been carried by Tupelo Quarterly and The Hopkins Review.

She currently teaches workshops at Rosemont College in the MFA creative writing program in Philadelphia. For the last two years, through the National Endowment for the Humanities, she has been the visiting assistant professor of American cultural studies at Albright College in Reading, Pennsylvania.

White says that her early association with the Boston area writers led her to visualize herself as a New York writer. Once in the Big Apple, she began working as a temporary copyeditor at Conde Nast publications and pursued short story writing. This led to teaching freshman English at Long Island University. She went on to earn a master’s degree in creative writing and American literature from New York University. Later, she moved to Atlanta and taught creative writing at Clark-Atlanta

University and continued to publish in multiple genres.

Her attraction to UK for a doctorate degree was the result of a yearning to write literary criticism and evolve as a literary historian. “The writing bug was just running rampant. I was genre hungry,” White says.

She says the overall package was best for her at UK, and she heard from others who were highly complimentary about the program in the UK English Department. “They mentioned there was support for students at UK, and it provided a way to have community there,” White says. “I liked Lexington and enjoyed meeting the faculty.”

After earning her doctorate in English from the UK College of Arts and Sciences in 2009, she taught as tenure-track then tenured faculty for 10 years at Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee. While there and working as a poet, essayist, and literary critic, she received the Mary Hambidge Distinguished Fellowship from the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts for her nonfiction, and the Mona Van Duyn Scholarship in poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She also received a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellowship from the Appalachian College Association. She was a finalist for the 2014 Knightville Poetry Contest and was nominated for a 2014 and 2015 Pushcart Prize in Poetry.

When her husband took a job in Philadelphia, they relocated and White began as visiting assistant professor at Albright College.

White says her two poetry collections showcase a larger narrative than each contains individually.

“What I write about is race, family and region. These elements are reoccurring in my work,” she says.

“They were very important in ‘Fast Fat Girls,’ but in ‘My Afmerica,’ I

expand the notion of family to talk about national family.”

She says that what began as an exploration of her own family became more poignant when she started thinking of a “national family” needing to be aware of each other’s lives and how violent incidents affect us all.

“There were so many things going on around the country when I started writing these poems, as well as going on in my own life. I am in an interracial marriage, we have a transracial family composition, and this country continues to battle with race history,” she says. “I started to accrue these stories that were happening to us as a family as these larger racial discussions were going on around the nation. So, I have poems about that, and I also have poems about hate crimes that started to take place pre and post-Ferguson.” She notes that she continues to use her art as a call to recognize and respect national familial ties in her forthcoming essay collection, “Survivor’s Guilt: Essays on Race and American Cultural Identity,” available in spring 2020.

She says that due to today’s technology, where information is shared quickly on social media platforms, “Sometimes it’s difficult to coerce students into reading multiple, longer works cover-to-cover … but a collection of poetry or even a poem can be isolated and analyzed for its own merit and context. It’s a genre that lends itself to a close examination of important ideas, themes, and histories in a short period of time.”

White says her active family life prevents her from having a set routine when it comes to writing. Sometimes she has days when she can fully focus on her passion and other times she might go for days on end without pursuing an idea. But it works for her.

“I definitely find time to write when I am moved to do so,” she says. ■ www.ukalumni.net

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Before 1960 Don S. Sturgill ’55 LAW was posthumously inducted in the UK Law Alumni Association Hall of Fame. He was appointed Kentucky’s first commissioner of Public Safety. Sturgill also served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force, worked on the presidential campaign for John F. Kennedy and became and accomplished equine attorney.

Louis A. Michaels ’58 ED was posthumously inducted into the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame. He played in the National Football League for 13 seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Baltimore Colts and Green Bay Packers. He was an All-American at Kentucky in 1956 and 1957 and was the 1957 SEC Player of the Year.

1960s William E. Seale ’63 AS, ’69 ’75 AFE lives in Annapolis, Maryland, and is a partner in the ProFunds Group, the parent of ProShare Advisors LLC and ProFund Advisors LLC. He was named to a sixyear term on the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Board of Trustees.

Robert T. Yahng ’67 LAW was inducted into the UK Law Alumni Association Hall of Fame. He is a social science teacher at the Salesian College Preparatory High School in Richmond, California. In his career, Yahng was a captain in the U.S. Air Force, then joined Baker & McKenzie, where he founded the firm’s Taipei office and assisted with the startup of its Shanghai office.

Stephen G. Greiner ’68 ED is president of West Liberty University in West Virginia. He was inducted into the Weir High School Hall of Fame. Greiner was previously president and CEO of Hazard Community and Technical College.

T. Milton Skeeters ’68 DE was named a Hardin County Schools Distinguished Alumni. He is a retired dentist living in Radcliff. He was in private practice for more than 20 years, spent 22 years in the U.S. Army Reserves and retired in 2001 as a lieutenant colonel. Skeeters was also a professor in the UK College of Dentistry for 19 years.

Donald C. Slack ’68 ’75 EN is the Cecil H. Miller Jr. and Cecil H. Miller Sr. Families Dean’s Chair for Excellence in Agriculture and Life Sciences and professor of watershed management and eco-hydrology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He was awarded the Honorary Doctorate, “Doctor Honoris Causa,” by Chapingo Autonomous University in Texcoco de Mora, Mexico.

1970s J. Daniel Kemp ’70 LAW is an attorney in an of-counsel position at Ison Horton & Cavanah LLP in Hopkinsville.

He was elected chairman of the Murray State University Board of Regents.

George A. Smith ’70 AS, ’73 LAW is a partner at Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn &

Dial LLC in the firm’s Atlanta office. He was named a 2019 Georgia Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers Magazine.

Deborah Baker Reed ’74 ’92 ’96 NUR, ’93 PH lives in Harrodsburg and is a professor in the UK College of Nursing, a UK Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor and chairwoman of the Good Samaritan Foundation Community Health Nursing.

She created the Farm Dinner Theater intervention with the goal of getting more farmers to think about occupational health, safety and disease prevention on the farm.

Gary T. Henry ’75 ’78 AS is dean of the University of Delaware College of Education and Human Development in Newark. He was previously the Patricia and H. Rodes Hart Chair, professor of public policy and education, and director of graduate studies in the Vanderbilt University Peabody College Department of Leadership Policy and Organizations.

Thomas N. Kerrick ’77 BE, ’80 LAW is a partner at Kerrick Bachert PSC in Bowling Green. He was named president-elect of the Kentucky Bar Association.

Subbash C. Sharma ’79 ’83 AS is a professor emeritus in the Southern Illinois University Department of Economics in Carbondale. He was appointed to the Southern Illinois University Board of Trustees by Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

Paula J. Shives ’79 LAW is chairwoman of the board of directors for Lifespace Communities, which is based in West Des Moines, Iowa, and operates 12 retirement communities across seven states. She retired as senior vice president, secretary and general counsel for Darden Restaurants, Inc., the owner and operator of several restaurant chains.

1980s Catherine Marcum Waits ’80 ’96 NUR is an advanced practice registered nurse at the Kentucky North Central District Health Department in Shelbyville. She received the 2019 American Association of Nurse Practitioners Kentucky Award for Nurse Practitioner Excellence.

Kim Rowse Brouwer ’81 ’83 PHA is associate dean for research and graduate education and the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor in the University of North Carolina Eshelman School of Pharmacy Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics in Chapel Hill.

She was named the UNC Office of Technology Commercialization Inventor of the Year.

George T. Justice ’81 EN is vice president of electric operations at Ameren Illinois in Collinsville, Illinois. He was previously senior director, division operations at the company.

Mary Cowdrey Noble ’81 LAW was inducted into the UK Law Alumni Association

Hall of Fame. She is a retired justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court, Fifth District.

She had been in private practice before being appointed domestic relations commissioner for the Third Division of Fayette Circuit Court and elected as Fayette Circuit judge for the Fifth Division of Fayette Circuit Court.

Donald B. Kupper ’81 PHA is president of DV Kupper Consulting in Louisville. He was installed as the 142nd president of the Kentucky Pharmacist Association. He will serve one year as president and then take over as the chairman of the group’s board of directors for 2020-2021. Kupper is one of four pharmacists who will have served as president for both the Kentucky Pharmacists Association and the Kentucky Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

Dan M. Rose ’81 BE, ’84 LAW is a partner at Rose Camenisch Mains PLLC in Lexington.

James D. Bolin ’82 ’88 AS is a professor of history in the Murray State University College of Humanities and Fine Arts in Murray. He has written a biography of former Kentucky basketball coach Adolph Rupp, “Adolph Rupp and the Rise of Kentucky Basketball.”

James L. Boone ’82 BE is head basketball coach at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. He was previously

head coach at Delta State University.

Anthony G. Sudduth ’82 BE is CEO of Southwest Health System Inc. in Cortez, Colorado. He had been the company’s interim CEO and was previously chief financial officer for Trios Health.

Laurie Hines Cummins ’83 EN is vice president of program and systems advisory for Lone Star Analysis in Dallas. She was previously a director of the system advisory line of Lone Star’s business.

Sonia J. Luna ’83 AS is executive director of the University of California Los Angeles California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI). She oversees the administrative and financial operations at the institute and works closely with the director in formulating the strategy and direction of CNSI. Luna is also interim CFO of UCLA Extension.

Andrew P. Molls ’83 AS lives in North Royalton, Ohio, and is the Cuyahoga County administrator of infrastructure and operations and interim chief technology officer. He had been the county’s administrator of infrastructure and operations.

James F. Norton ’83 AS is dean of the Marian University School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis. He is also a professor of English, teaches the college’s humanities and honors programs, as well as the First Year Experience project, in which he oversees academic curriculum.

Nontombi Naomi Tutu ’84 GS is missioner for racial and economic equity at the Kairos West Community Center for the Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville, North Carolina.

David E. Chalk ’85 MED is president of Mercy Clinic Four Rivers, which is headquartered in St. Louis and has 40 clinics in 14 towns.

Teresa Trimble Hail ’85 AS, ’89 ED is president of D.C. Trimble Inc. General Contractors in Somerset. She was chosen as chairwoman of the 2019 Leadership Kentucky Board of Directors.

Michele Rehm ’85 CI is director of marketing for Allied Payment Network Inc., a payment platform company for financial services, business and technology, headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Walter J. Roark ’85 EN lives in Hartselle, Alabama, and received a Hardin County Schools Distinguished Alumni award. He is a Missile Defense Agency technical, engineering, advisory, and management support quality and mission assurance contract technical lead for a.i. solutions, which is headquartered in Lanham, Maryland.

Celeste Phillips Warren ’85 CI is vice president of human resources and global diversity at the Inclusion Center of Excellence for Merck & Co. Inc. in Philadelphia. She was named a corporate board trustee for RWJBarnabas Health. www.ukalumni.net

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Class Notes Troy M. Cox ’86 BE was appointed as an independent member of the Zymeworks Inc. Board of Directors, a biotechnology company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was previously president, CEO and on the board of directors of Foundation Medicine Inc. Jerry L. Flint ’86 ’90 AFE is vice president of engagement and outreach for the National Pork Board in Des Moines, Iowa. He was previously with Corteva Agriscience, where he held positions specifically linked to global business management, sustainability, external relations, regulatory approvals and product research and development.

George P. Simpkins ’86 BE is chief financial officer of Green Plains and Green Plains Partners LP in Omaha, Nebraska. He had been the company’s chief development officer.

Pamela Sasse Whitten ’86 CI is president of Kennesaw State University, which has campuses in Kennesaw and Marietta, Georgia. She was named to the Atlanta Business Journal’s Power 100, a list compiling the most influential and important leaders across metro Atlanta. She had been vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of Georgia.

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Kathie Stromile Golden ’87 AS is provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena. She was previously the school’s director of international programs and a special assistant to the president’s office.

Lisa M. Johnson ’87 BE is owner of HR Know-How LLC, a consulting firm in Bardstown. She has written the book “Imagination@Work,” which explores ways to improve interpersonal relationships in the workplace.

Stephanie C. Bell ’88 CI is vice president for government affairs in Kentucky at Windstream in Lexington. She was previously deputy executive director for external affairs for the Kentucky Public Service Commission.

Keven G. Moore ’88 CI is services director, risk management for Roeding Insurance in the company’s Lexington office.

Daniel J. Connell ’89 ED is assistant vice president of regional education and outreach at Morehead State University in Morehead. He was named the Morehead-Rowan County Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year.

Carol Giltner Gallagher ’89 PHA is a partner focused on making biopharma investments at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, at the Menlo Park, California, office. She was appointed to the board of directors of Turning Point Therapeutics Inc. Laura M. Knoth ’89 AFE is a co-owner of M&L Farms in Grand Rivers and executive director of the Kentucky Corn Growers Association and Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association. She was elected director of the Farm Credit Mid-America Board of Directors.

Elizabeth Zachem Woodward ’89 AS, ’94 BE is director of forensic accounting and litigation support at Dean Dorton Allen Ford PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office.

She was elected president of the Kentucky Society of Certified Public Accountants.

1990s Kristin E. Haskins ’92 ’95 AS is interim executive director of The Arboretum at Flagstaff in Arizona. She had been director of research at The Arboretum.

Thomas J. Meade ’92 EN is senior vice president and chief technical officer for Lexmark International Inc. in Lexington. He had been vice president of firmware and software at the company.

Michael T. Rawls ’92 EN was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the U.S. Air Force.

He had been a colonel and commander of the 435th Air Ground Operations Wing and the 435th Air Expeditionary Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany.

LaStacia Hahn Dalton ’93 BE is CFO at Zeon Chemicals LP in Louisville. She was named the Plastics News 2019 CFO of the Year.

Douglas A. Henderson ’93 LAW is a partner at King & Spalding LLP on the toxic and environmental torts team in the firm’s Atlanta office. He was previously with the firm Troutman Sanders LLP. Matthew C. Minner ’93 AS is an attorney at Hare Wynn Newell & Newton LLP in the firm’s Lexington office. He was listed on the Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America for the third straight year. Minner earned his law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law. J. Kathleen Tracy ’93 AS is an associate professor of epidemiology and public health, director of the Clinical Translational Research and Informatics Center, and director of Preventive Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. She was named an American Council on Education Fellow for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Andrew J. Mikovch ’94 BE is a designated certified financial planner, accredited wealth management advisor and certified trust and financial advisor working with

U.S. Bank as a vice president and trust officer for the Private Client Group in Bowling Green.

Allen W. Waugerman ’94 EN is president and chief executive officer of Lexmark International Inc. in Lexington. He had been Lexmark’s senior vice president and chief technology officer.

Nicole M. Heumphreus ’95 CI is a colonel in the U.S. Army and director of operations for the Security Assistance Command Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. She was added to the UK Army ROTC Wall of Honor.

Sean K. Stewart ’95 AS is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army

Reserves and geographic information systems specialist at the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, North Carolina. He was the first Signal Corps officer selected as the deputy district commander for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, for a one-year tour of duty.

Carol Beth Martin ’96 AS, ’03 GS was appointed acting commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Alcohol Beverage Control in Frankfort. She had been the ABC’s malt beverage administrator.

Mandala Wilson Decker ’97 LAW, ’02 LAW is a member at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s Louisville office.

She was selected to Managing Intellectual Property magazine’s Top 250 Women in IP

list for the fifth time. She was also named one of the magazine’s 2019 IP Stars.

Marianne W. Lewis ’97 BE is dean of the University of Cincinnati Carl H. Linder College of Business. She had been dean and professor of management at the City University of London Cass Business School.

Talina R. Mathews ’97 ’01 BE is a commissioner for the Kentucky Public Service Commission in Frankfort. She was appointed to the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Board of Directors. She serves on NARUC’s Committee on Electricity and Committee on Critical Infrastructure, as well as Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Management.

Bryan W. Wender ’97 AFE is the U.S. National Parks Service chief of natural resource management for New River Gorge National River, Bluestone National Scenic River and Gauley River National Recreation Area in southern West Virginia. He is headquartered in Harper’s Ferry.

Karen L. White ’97 EN is president and CEO of the Northwest Minnesota Foundation in Bemidji. She had been the foundation’s chief strategy officer.

Catrena Bowman-Thomas ’98 AFE, ’09 GS is executive director of the Northern Kentucky Community Action Commission in Covington.

UK alumna Kelly Craft confirmed as US ambassador to United Nations Kelly Knight Craft ’85 AS, from Glasgow, Kentucky, has been confirmed as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. She previously was the U.S. ambassador to Canada.

In her new role, Craft will serve as the country’s chief representative at the U.N. General Assembly, as well as on the U.N. Security Council. On Aug. 3, she was confirmed 56-34, ending a more than seven-month vacancy in the key diplomatic position.

Craft is no stranger to the U.N. In 2007, she was appointed by President George W. Bush as a U.S. alternate delegate to the United Nations. She advised the American ambassador on a range of issues, including U.S. engagement in Africa — a hallmark of the Bush administration’s foreign policy legacy. Craft also addressed the General Assembly on the enormous investment the United States was making in fighting HIV and malaria.

During her time at UK, Craft was passionate about foreign policy and international relations. She tailored her studies toward her career aspirations by creating her own major. In 1985, Craft graduated with a bachelor's degree in topical studies with an emphasis in international law. Topical studies, housed in the College of Arts and Sciences, offers academic flexibility and allows students to cut across departmental and college lines to construct meaningful programs.

Craft, a former member of the UK Board of Trustees, leads a variety of charitable endeavors. She heads Kelly G. Knight LLC, a Lexington-based business advisory firm. Craft has been on the Salvation Army Board of Directors and on the board of the Center for Rural Development, a nonprofit dedicated to economic progress in rural Kentucky. She is also the co-founder of the Craft Academy for Science and Mathematics at Morehead State University.

Craft replaces former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who left the U.N. post at the end of 2018.

In her confirmation hearing, Craft vowed to continue the efforts of Haley — to push for reform at the world body and to fight against anti-Israel resolutions and actions by the United Nations and its affiliated agencies. www.ukalumni.net

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Internships grow skills UK students broaden their classroom experences through internships and gain valuable resume-building experiences.

Brennan Dodds, an accounting junior from Milford, Ohio, interned Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, with Cedar Fair’s corporate office. Amanda Schagane Brennan said he was drawn to UK because of the Social Enterprise pathway in the business college and the new dorms. He learned about the Cedar Fair Internal Audit internship through Handshake, UK’s online career management platform. “I learned a lot about Sarbanes-Oxley and how the controls apply to different types of companies,” he said. “Cedar Fair parks have many aspects — games, merchandise, food and beverage, rides, security, warehouse — so I gained experience with multiple industries all at once.

I would say the best benefit of an internship, especially in a business field, is learning what type of industry or sector you enjoy the most.”

Abbi Woodcock, a junior from Bowling Green, Kentucky, completed a summer internship with the FBI Louisville Field Office.

She learned about the internship through the Center for Personal Development with the Lewis Honors College. “Not only did I have to fill out the application and detail my experiences, complete a resume, and meet the general requirements, but I also had to pass all of the FBI employment background investigation requirements and be able to receive a Top Secret security clearance,” said Woodcock.

She developed skills in leadership, critical thinking and interpersonal dimensions. She encourages others who have an interest in this line of work to explore the FBI internship, too.

For the parents of college-aged students, here are tips to share with them about pursuing internships:

• Attend college career fairs in the fall to secure a spring or summer internship. The recruiting cycle is typically one to two semesters in advance. The UK James W. Stuckert Career Center’s website (www.uky.edu/CareerCenter) has a list of all career fairs and recruiting events on campus.

• Invest in professional interview attire. A business suit and dress shoes are expected for career fair attendance and interviews. The Stuckert Career Center and the UK Student Government Association offer Wildcat Wardrobe, a collection of professional business attire that has been donated to UK that is free and available to students (www.uky.edu/careercenter/wildcat-wardrobe-career-closet).

• Encourage your student to visit the Stuckert Career Center or one of the college-based career offices to refine their resume, discuss career fair prep, and schedule mock interviews.

If your organization hosts interns, sign up for campus career fairs and post your internship opportunities in Handshake. For more information, visit www.uky.edu/careercenter/employers.

UK Alumni Association members are eligible for two complimentary appointments per year with an alumni career counselor. Call 1-888-9UKCATS (852287) to schedule an appointment. Visit www.ukalumni.net/ career to learn more about resume critiques, virtual networking events and other Alumni Career Services. To post a job opening, employers may visit www.ukalumni.net/employers.

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Steven B. Chumbley ’98 ED is head coach of the Western Kentucky University cross country and track and field programs in Bowling Green.

He had been the head cross country and track and field coach at Radford University.

Scottie B. Day ’98 AS, ’02 MED is physician-in-chief of UK HealthCare Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Lexington and chairman of the Department of Pediatrics.

Michael M. Jones ’98 BE is president, Milacron Advanced Plastics Corp. Processing Technologies Americas and Europe business, a division of Milacron Holdings Corp., which is headquartered in Cincinnati.

Carrie Skees Prater ’98 ED is principal at Meadow View Elementary School in Bardstown. She had been an instructional coach at New Haven School.

Constance L. Wolfe ’98 ED lives in Haslett, Michigan, and is an independent education consultant.

She received the Michigan State University International Studies and Programs Homer Higbee International Education Award for her volunteer work with Community Volunteers for International Programs.

Paula Preusz Lemons ’99 MED is an associate professor in the University of Georgia Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Athens. She received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and was nomi-

nated by the National Science Foundation.

2000s Byron E. Darnall ’00 ED is principal at Franklin-Simpson High School in Franklin. He had been principal at Potter Gray Elementary School.

Timothy J. Cooper ’01 ED is the head golf professional at Deerwood Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida. He earned his Class A membership to the Professional Golf Association.

Cooper is also president of the North Florida chapter of the Professional Golf Association.

Claire Pomeroy ’00 BE is president and CEO of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation, which supports medical research through recognition of research excellence, education and advocacy and is located in New York. She was inducted into the Gatton College of Business and Economics Hall of Fame and was named to the Haemonetics Corp. Board of Directors.

Patrick C. Gallagher ’01 AFE is an attorney and partner at Duane Morris LLP in Boca Raton, Florida. He was appointed to the board of directors of Give Back for Special Equestrians, a nonprofit providing therapeutic horseback riding scholarships for disabled children and veterans through its partner stables in Florida, New York and Colorado.

Brent Hutchinson ’01 AFE is executive director of the Hindman Settlement School in Hindman. He was selected as part of the second class of Obama Foundation Fellows and will join a two-year, nonresidential program that brings together 20 leaders representing 10 countries and five continents who are creating transformational change on many of the world’s most pressing problems.

Rana Johnson ’01 CI is associate vice president for inclusive excellence and strategic initiatives at Indiana State University in Terra Haute.

She had been chief diversity and inclusion officer at Unity College.

Daniel M. McHale ’01 BE is an assistant men’s basketball coach at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

He had been head coach at Eastern Kentucky University.

Shannon Yeand Raines ’01 BE is a wealth advisor with Settle Wealth Advisors in Owensboro, a division of J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons LLC. Jeremy L. Jarvi ’02 CI is regional development officer for the American Red Cross Kentucky Region in Louisville. He was named a 40 Under 40 by Louisville Business First.

Christa McAlpin Marrillia ’03 BE is vice president and chief marketing officer at Keeneland Association in Lexington.

Jennifer Chavez Cooper ’04 ED is an eighth-grade U.S. sistory teacher at Pacetti Bay Middle School in St. Augustine, Florida. She was named

a finalist for St. Johns County, Florida, Teacher of the Year.

Cooper earned her master’s degree in education from Georgetown College in 2011.

Jason C. Hadley ’04 AFE is general manager of Homewood Suites by Hilton in Lexington.

He was previously assistant general manager for Hyatt Hotels Corp.

Aaron B. House ’04 AS, ’09 MED is a surgeon for Baptist Health Medical Group General Surgery in Corbin.

Kathleen Moran Luchtefeld ’04 LAW is general manager of Good Foods Co-op in Lexington. She had been the company’s interim general manager.

James E. McMillin ’04 ’05 ED is chief of high schools for Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington. He had been principal at Bryan Station High School.

Donald C. Storm ’04 BE is vice president of financial planning and analysis, as well as head of purchasing for Churchill Downs Inc. in Louisville. He was previously chief financial officer of Legends Hospitality.

Matthew S. Madding ’06 ED is superintendent of Graves County Schools in Mayfield. He had been principal at Graves County High School.

Jill Norris Hill ’07 ED is principal at Cassidy Elementary School in Lexington. She had been the professional growth and effectiveness coach at Breckenridge Elementary.

Thomas S. Lefler ’08 BE is director of absolute return for Raytheon Co., a technology and innovation company specializing in defense, security and civil markets in Waltham, Massachusetts. He was named one of Chief Investment Officers’ 2019 NextGens.

Ryan A. Milauskas ’09 AFE is vice president of commercial lending at Heritage Bank in Hopkinsville. He earned his graduate degree from the Graduate School of Banking at Louisiana State University.

Sue Ann Painter ’09 NUR is executive director of the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses in South Charleston.

Richard W. Trollinger ’09 ED is senior philanthropy advisor at Centre College in Danville. He received the Danville-Boyle County Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Citizen Award.

2010s Lisa Scites Allen ’10 ED lives in Bardstown and is dean of the Campbellsville University School of Education. She had been the school’s interim dean, associate professor of education and chairwoman of the school’s graduate programs.

Alexandra Luke Castle ’10 EN is head distiller at Old Dominick Distillery in Memphis, Tennessee.

Jamie C. Ward ’11 PH is health education coordinator in the UK College of Medicine Department of Surgery in Lexington. She received a third place award in the Berea

College Loyal Jones Appalachian Center Appalachian Narratives of our Time contest for her essay “An Appalachian Upbringing.”

Sierra J. Enlow ’10 ’12 AFE is a consultant in the economic incentives practice of McGuire Sponsel, a tax and consulting firm in the company’s Louisville office. She was previously economic development manager at Louisville Forward.

Samuel M. Nicaise ’10 EN is a senior technical development engineer working on laser diodes and physics at nLight Inc., which develops, designs and produces innovative laser technologies and products and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Chad M. Reese ’10 AS is the activism policy manager for the Institute for Justice in Arlington, Virginia. He received a Foundations of Conservative Policymaking Fellowship, part of the program on civil society, education and work from R Street, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization.

Christine E. Herren ’11 FA, ’15 AFE is the cofounder of First Generation Women Achievers of the Bluegrass in Lexington, a nonprofit organization that awards scholarships to women who are first in their family to graduate from college.

Tatum E. Dale ’12 AFE is Lexington District director www.ukalumni.net

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Cassidy A. Herrington ’12 CI is host of “Morning Edition” on Blue Ridge Public Radio in Asheville, North Carolina.

She was previously a reporter and host for National Public Radio stations in Illinois and Indiana. Herrington also co-hosts a podcast called “Skillet,” about the intersection of food and memory.

Sarah E. Sanders ’12 BE lives in New York and is co-founder and co-CEO of Native, an agtech startup helping local farmers meet the demand for local, traceable food. She received the inaugural Gatton College of Business and Economics

Distinguished Young Alumni Award.

Blake E. Owens ’13 AFE is a trooper with Kentucky State Police Post 16 in Henderson and is assigned to Daviess and Hancock counties. He was named the KSP Post-Level Trooper of the Year.

Shane C. Swezey ’14 FA is a board-certified music therapist and music teacher at Oak Park School in Sarasota, Florida. He was a Florida Department of Education Teacher of the Year finalist.

Angela Geter Fugerson ’15 PH was appointed chief health officer for the city of Atlanta by Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.

She was previously a research fellow for the Centers for

Laura Rives Moore ’04 CI of Greenwood, Indiana, represented UK when she visited Machu Picchu this spring. Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley. Moore is president of the Central Indiana UK Alumni Club.

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Disease Control and Prevention and has published more than 25 articles and presented at numerous national and international scientific meetings.

Shaun M. Albrechtson ’17 FA is executive director of the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center in Sandy Springs.

He was previously assistant cultural director for programming for the Parker Arts, Culture & Events Center.

Katie E. Lowe ’17 FA is a sound engineer at Florida Repertory Theater in Fort Myers, Florida.

Alivia M. Conkwright ’18 BE is director of tourism for the Muhlenberg County Tourism Commission, part of the

Greater Muhlenberg County Chamber of Commerce in Greenville.

Former Student Philip A. Stauffer Todd completed a doctorate in mass communications at the University of Oklahoma Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication in Norman. His dissertation, “War — What is it Good For? Applying a Millian Security Principles Protocol to New York Times Coverage of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq,” proposed a new utilitarian media ethics model and tested it against sample war coverage.

He serves on the board of the Oklahoma Society of Professional Journalists Professional Chapter.

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In Memoriam William M. Hannah ’41 Van Nuys, Calif.

Robert W. Willmott ’42 Lexington, Ky. Fellow James T. Noland ’43 Birmingham, Ala.

Anne Overstreet Riddell ’43 Asheville, N.C. Lloyd L. Bucy ’43 San Luis Obispo, Calif.

Life Member James H. Stewart ’45 Vero Beach, Fla.

Richard C. Turrell ’45 Louisville, Ky. Joseph T. Conforti ’46 Orlando, Fla.

Alice Owsley Morris ’46 Carol Stream, Ill.

Joseph A. Boyd ’47 Vero Beach, Fla. Fellow Eleanor Van Arsdell Warren ’47 Nicholasville, Ky. Orman R. Wright Jr. ’47 Frankfort, Ky. Life Member Dorothy Smith Cowan ’48 Cordova, Tenn.

Mary Monague Russell ’50 Pawleys Island, S.C. Fellow George F. White ’50 Danville, Ky. James Howard Allen ’51 Tallahassee, Fla. John P. Bailey ’51 Portsmouth, Ohio Arlie Chaney ’51 Hodgenville, Ky. Robert L. Donohew ’51 Sarasota, Fla. Fellow

Paul W. Mills ’54 Greensburg, Ky.

Thomas E. Todd ’54 Monroe, N.C. William B. Halcomb ’55 Hazard, Ky. Audrey Brenneman Spivey ’55 Lexington, Ky. Life Member Robert B. Burrow ’56 Franklin, Tenn.

Thomas G. Carroll ’56 Fayetteville, Ark.

Joya Jordan ’56 Castle Rock, Colo.

Life Member

Lloyd W. Jenkins ’51 Homosassa, Fla.

John O. Marsh ’56 Cynthiana, Ky. Life Member

John E. Layton ’51 Georgetown, Ky.

Frederick A. Meyer Jr. ’56 Frankfort, Ky.

Louisa Wilson Lovett ’51 Glenwood Springs, Colo.

Ema Broaddus Niles ’56 Lexington, Ky.

Lawas L. McClure ’51 Huntington,W.Va.

David L. Moberly ’51 Seattle, Wash.

William M. Page ’56 Lexington, Ky.

Katherine McClanahan Andrews ’57 Lexington, Ky.

Joseph A. Muth ’51 Naples, Fla.

Vera Scott Dawson ’57 Versailles, Ky.

James M. Donovan Jr. ’48 Woodbridge, Va.

Ralph E. Smith ’51 Burlington, Ky. Life Member

Donne O’Donnell Harmon ’48 Louisville, Ky.

C. Waitman Taylor Jr. ’51 Owensboro, Ky.

Mary Farmer Leary ’48 Atlanta, Ga. Life Member

Jack Ballantine ’52 Louisville, Ky. Fellow

Emery Flanders Mayes ’48 Cheyenne, Wyo.

Harold R. Black ’52 Lexington, Ky.

William H. Brown ’58 Bagdad, Ky.

Cecillia F. Meers ’48 Cleveland, Ohio

Thelma Mattox Creech ’52 Cumberland, Ky.

Robert F. Goodlett ’58 Springfield, Ky.

Donald O. Spillman ’48 Versailles, Ky.

Mary Cochran Davis ’52 Lexington, Ky.

Robert C. Mulligan ’58 Springfield, Ky.

Eugene S. Wiggins Jr. ’48 Richmond, Ky.

Martin Dawahare ’52 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Max M. Smith ’58 Frankfort, Ky.

Lawrence J. Fleischer ’49 Tampa, Fla. Betty W. Morton ’49 Hazard, Ky. Clarence H. Short ’49 Louisville, Ky. John R. Warren ’49 Saint Paul, Minn.

Fellow Charles A. Dorroh ’50 Hopkinsville, Ky.

Wilfred H. Duncan Jr. ’52 Russellville, Ky. Life Member John B. Morris ’52 Princeton, Ky. William T. Soper ’52 Frederick, Md. Mary Elsse Stevens ’52 Lexington, Ky.

Charles W. Finnell ’50 Lexington, Ky.

William J. Wilson ’52 Potomac, Md.

Nancy Campbell Allocco ’54 Long Valley, N.J.

Harold L. Hall ’53 Naples, Fla.

Clair O. Langebrake ’50 Waverly, Ohio

Janet Clarke Hurd ’54 Boones Mill, Va.

Ida De Moss Durham ’50 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

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Donald R. Russell ’50 Pawleys Island, S.C. Fellow

Fall 2019

Robert M. Huffaker ’57 Boulder, Colo.

Fellow Thomas A. Keuper ’57 Union, Ky. Robert T. Buchholz ’58 Arlington, Texas

Ellsworth L. Taylor ’58 Lexington, Ky.

Bobby E. Baldwin ’59 Richmond, Ky. William K. Burkhart ’59 Lexington, Ky. Fellow Mary Baumstark Fischbein ’59 Wilmore, Ky. David A. Frederickson Jr. ’59 Saint Matthews, Ky.

Stuart K. Harris ’59 Northbrook, Ill.

Russell G. Mobley ’59 Lexington, Ky.

Joseph Y. Roberson ’59 Maineville, Ohio

Kline D. Shipp ’59 Dry Ridge, Ky.

Kenneth W. Walker ’59 Lexington, Ky. Ray B. White ’59 Bowling Green, Ky.

Ernestine Williams Duncan ’60 Bowling Green, Ky. James E. Kraus Jr. ’60 Metairie, La.

Paul E. Stanley ’60 Campbellsville, Ky.

Zelbie Trogden ’60 Dana Point, Calif.

Life Member

Rochelle Stephens Williams ’60 Berea, Ky. Norma Porter Blankenship ’61 Randleman, N.C.

Gerald H. Bullock ’62 Tucker, Ga.

Marion Dempsey ’61 Mount Sterling, Ky.

Carolyn Clark Host ’61 Lexington, Ky.

Donald B. Maloney ’61 Northbrook, Ill.

David B. Routledge ’61 Frankfort, Ky.

Mary Freid Cambron ’62 Hendersonville, Tenn.

John R. Dickerson ’63 Ventura, Calif.

Gilbert R. Edwards ’63 Lexington, Ky.

Cecil T. Henderson ’63 Hopkinsville, Ky.

Jacky Q. Wilson ’63 Franklin, Ky. E. M. Cope ’64 Logan, W.Va. Life Member Gary D. Farley ’64 Atlanta, Ga.

Nancy Williams Marlowe ’64 Gainesville, Ga.

Jimmie J. McKinley ’64 Longview, Texas Life Member Patricia L. Owens ’64 Denver, Colo.

Betty Lacy Swan ’64 Louisville, Ky.

Judy Mitchell Tincher ’64 Lexington, Ky.

Jerry Anderson ’65 Versailles, Ky.

Ben G. Lenhart ’65 Louisville, Ky.

Charles W. Bruce ’66 Stillwater, Okla.

Dan Burg ’66 Owensboro, Ky.

William J. Wallace ’66 Colorado Springs, Colo.

Richard D. Cole ’67 Lexington, Ky.

Edward L. Fister ’67 Morganfield, Ky.

Stephen H. Gehring ’67 Watertown, S.D.

Thomas W. Glynn ’67 Bonita, Calif.

Harold C. Johnson Jr. ’67 Bridgewater, N.J. James L. Miles ’67 Gold Hill, N.C.

Ronald L. Miller ’67 Charleston, S.C.

James R. Sellers ’67 Pendergrass, Ga.

Dennie M. Skaggs ’67 Hebron, Ky.

Donald B. Wilder ’67 Baxter, Ky. Life Member

Joyce A. Cloutier ’68 Bowling Green, Ky.

John M. Compton ’68 Lexington, Ky.

Frederick M. Higgins ’68 Bowling Green, Ky.

Jeffrey R. Scott ’68 Columbia, S.C.

Henry A. Stivers ’68 Nicholasville, Ky.

John P. Broderson ’69 Frankfort, Ky. Fellow Mary W. Kasper ’69 Severna Park, Md.

Carol Dayton Mayer ’69 Bingham, Ill.

Norma J. Miller ’69 Bowling Green, Ky.

Kathy Wainman Pratt ’69 Bowling Green, Ky.

Susan H. Freer ’70 Jackson, Mich.

William W. Hewlett ’70 Murray, Ky. Fellow Doralyn B. Hurt ’70 Murfreesboro, Tenn.

James T. McClure ’70 Lexington, Ky.

James K Price ’70 Thelma, Ky.

Thangamuthy Rangaswamy ’70 Louisville, Ky.

Linda Pierce Russell ’70 Florence, S.C.

Jan S. Sumner ’70 Ormond Beach, Fla.

Gerald L. Varland ’70 Cincinnati, Ohio

Barbara Bays Geralds ’71 Lexington, Ky.

Cathy Gullett ’71 Paintsville, Ky.

Michael L. Luscher ’71 Frankfort, Ky. Cathy Mansfield Martin ’71 Winchester, Ky.

James L. Connor ’72 Highlands, Texas

Patricia Justice Perry ’72 Louisville, Ky.

Ronald L. Seeling ’72 Prosper, Texas

Vincent E. Ziegler ’72 Ft Mitchell, Ky. Life Member

Billie K. Broaddus ’73 Lancaster, Ky. Life Member

Charles R. Harrison ’73 Sikeston, Mo.

Paul Townsend ’73 Prospect, Ky.

Carol Black Wilcher ’73 Somerset, Ky.

Mary D. Withers ’73 Versailles, Ky.

Janice Burdette Blythe ’74 Berea, Ky. Fellow Jacob “Pete” Cline III ’74 Middlesboro, Ky. Fellow G. Anthony Fredrick ’74 Crestview Hills, Ky. Mary Ransbottom Spencer ’74 Lexington, Ky.

Wayde F. Walker ’75 Lexington, Ky.

Lee C. Agee ’76 Louisville, Ky.

Gary L. Criswell ’76 Lexington, Ky.

William A. Bausch ’79 Springfield, Ky.

Daniel R. Bellack ’79 Charleston, S.C.

Debra A. Doss ’79 Lexington, Ky.

Bruce H. Jensen ’79 Lexington, Ky.

Starr A. Byarlay ’80 Versailles, Ky.

M. Lee Ellison ’80 Owensboro, Ky.

Susan Knudsen Jacobs ’80 Versailles, Ky. Ronald L. Pepper ’80 Louisville, Ky.

M. E. Tichenor Jr. ’80 Calhoun, Ky.

Robert M. Brooks ’81 Louisville, Ky.

Robert A. McNeese ’81 Pawleys Island, S.C.

John H. Parsons ’81 Mount Vernon, Ky.

Forest L. Ramsey II ’81 Lexington, Ky.

Tommye Owens Bell ’83 Wilmore, Ky.

Phyllis A. Breeze ’84 Lexington, Ky.

Marion Scott Kenkel ’83 Florence, Ky.

Marcus T. McEllistrem ’84 Lexington, Ky.

Laura Morrison ’84 Frankfort, Ky.

Lisa Hardy Brooks ’85 Goodlettsville, Tenn.

Life Member

Vicki Berini Brashear ’78 Winchester, Ky.

John J. Piecoro Jr. ’78 Lexington, Ky. Fellow

John L. Greatbatch ’85 Paris, Ky.

Ronald H. Harper ’86 Osteen, Fla.

Mike Kenton ’86 Lexington, Ky.

Matthew J. Perrone ’86 Marietta, Ga.

John L. Ulmer ’88 Brookfield, Wis.

Brett K. Frederick ’89 Owensboro, Ky.

Steve A. Walker ’89 Georgetown, Ky.

Kendall Bolden Womble ’93 Franklin, Tenn.

Sherry R. Stockton ’94 Monticello, Ky.

D. W. Williams ’94 Winchester, Ky. Fellow

Nancy K. West ’78 Whitley City, Ky.

Timothy L. Hamblin ’98 Williamsburg, Ky.

David A. Yates ’76 Louisville, Ky.

Marcia Morris Blacker ’77 Lexington, Ky.

John D. Culp ’77 Long Beach, Calif.

Kevin R. Foster ’77 Denver, N.C.

Daniel K. Newberg ’77 Lexington, Ky.

Jane L. Newberry ’77 Bainbridge Island, Wash.

Gerald W. Perritt ’77 Dade City, Fla.

Rhonda C. Quick ’98 Tucson, Ariz.

David R. French ’00 Georgetown, Ky.

Tong Xiao ’01 Newark, Calif.

Ben N. Murphy ’05 Lexington, Ky.

Bethany Lynet Anderson ’06 Lexington, Ky.

John J. Evans ’13 Gray, Ky.

Shelby Michelle Hilton ’17 Saint Petersburg, Fla.

David B. Mudry ’18 Miamisburg, Ohio

Former students and friends Tom Adams Jr. Lexington, Ky.

Thomas J. Allocco Long Valley, N.J.

Charles T. Ambrose Lexington, Ky. Fellow Reginald Elliott Lexington, Ky. Jayron Dee Jones Lexington, Ky.

Arline Florence Lexington, Ky. Fellow Richard Livingston Getty Lexington, Ky.

Barbara S. Graves Lexington, Ky.

Jane Ecton Lange Lexington, Ky. Fellow Jared R. Lorenzen Fort Thomas, Ky.

Edgar M. MacDonald Lexington, Ky.

Fred Macleery Lexington, Ky.

Mary Howk Owen Leesburg, Va.

Linda Halley Rector Lexington, Ky. Fellow Henry Sandidge II Nicholasville, Ky. Fellow Winifred Sturgill Skaggs Lexington, Ky. Dan D. Stewart Jr. Lexington, Ky. Fellow Alfred B. Vimont Lexington, Ky. Henry R. Waits Lexington, Ky. Fellow www.ukalumni.net

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Retrospect

Members of Alpha Delta Pi social sorority welcome fall rushees with a cheerful song in 1982.

56 years ago…

UK students watched the ticker tape from the Associated Press at the Kentucky Kernel as President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas, is announced on Nov. 22, 1963.

78 years ago…

James Pearson, Dan Denny, Paul Cavise and an unidentified man examine mechanics atop the new central heating plant in 1941.

Would any of the 1909 squad members have guessed that the UK football team in 2019 would be playing in a state-ofthe-art facility such as Kroger Field, with a capacity for 61,000 Wildcat fans?

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Photo: Sara-Elizabeth Bush

Meet our 2019-2020 UK Alumni Ambassadors!

The start of a new academic year brings with it a new group of UK Alumni Ambassadors. These UK students, in conjunction with a partnership between the UK Alumni Association and the Office of the President, act as official hosts for the University of Kentucky, serve the campus community, network with alumni and advance the philanthropic dialogue at UK. They are likely to be helping out during one of our events, either on campus or out of town. Each student had to meet criteria such as a GPA of 3.0 or higher, full-time enrollment and the ability to devote 5-10 hours or more each week to group duties while maintaining high academic achievement.

UK Alumni Association President Taunya Phillips and UK President Eli Capilouto (front) welcomed this year’s Alumni Ambassadors to campus at Maxwell Place. (left to right) Row 1: Saisindhu Marella of Frankfort, Callie Hicks of Midway, Cameron Asher of Manchester, Caitlyn McFadden of Chicago and Kennedy Sabharwal of Lexington. Row 2: Morgan Cornelius of Pineville, Peyton Bartley of Paintsville, Jack Sheroan of Lexington, Kathryn Comer of Louisville, Rachel Wagers of Lexington and Abbey Bruser of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Row 3: Kamryn Stewart of Lexington, McKaylee Copher of Lexington, Christopher Ubert of Cleveland, Carly Coleman of Columbus, Ohio, Nicholas Joseph of Lexington and Allison Silvestrini of O’Fallon, Illinois. Not available for the photo were Brittany Shirley of Lucas and Montrea’ale L. Jones of Hopkinsville. ■

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WHO CAN EMPOWER THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS?

We are investing in our future. By increasing our scholarship endowment, we ensure the University of Kentucky attracts the brightest students and frees them to focus in the classroom and expand their learning through research, service and internships. These funds unleash boundless opportunities for our students so they can graduate to transform the Commonwealth and beyond.

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For those who give everything they have, every day. The dedication, care and expertise of everyone on the UK HealthCare team is proof of The Power of Advanced Medicine.

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