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Summer 2018 • Volume 89 • Number 2

UK cheerleaders demonstrate their skills while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics.

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UK by the numbers

Think you know the University of Kentucky? We’ve rounded up some key statistics about our beloved alma mater for you.

By Linda Perry

UK blue goes gold

Several UK alumni and our talented UK cheerleaders went to the Winter Olympics, either as a competitor, event commentator for NBC Sports or to demonstrate the physical rigors of the cheer world.

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Rachel Childress ’78 AS: Building on experience

As CEO of Lexington Habitat for Humanity, Rachel Childress guides the nonprofit to build homes and communities for people-in-need.

By Linda Perry

By Gail Hairston

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Clearing Pathways

The UK endowment provides opportunities for students, programs and faculty, and has funded 94 faculty chairs, 216 professorships and countless scholarships.

By Molly Williamson

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Chief Lawrence Weathers ’11 BE: Leading Lexington’s police force

Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers is settling in to his new position as Lexington’s top law enforcement officer, leading about 700 employees.

By Robin Roenker

Photo: Jomo Thompson

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UK celebrated all that its graduating students accomplished up to this point, as they prepare to face the promise of what is yet to come.

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UK cheerleaders

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Hats off to our Class of 2018!

Presidential Conversation Pride in Blue UK News Blue Horizons Wildcat Sports Alumni Engagement

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College View Class Notes In Memoriam Retrospect Quick Take

Stargazing

The UK MacAdam Student Observatory, the third astronomy laboratory on campus since 1905, offers a look at deep space for students, as well as the local community.

By Linda Perry

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Officers Susan V. Mustian ’84 BE - President J. Fritz Skeen ’72 ’73 BE - President-elect Taunya Phillips ’87 EN, ’04 BE - Treasurer Timothy L. Walsh - Secretary District Michelle Bishop Allen ’06 ’10 BE Jeffrey L. Ashley ’89 CI Robert Price Atkinson ’97 CI Dr. William G. Bacon Jr. ’82 ’85 MED Trudy Webb Banta ’63 ’65 ED Heath F. Bowling ’95 BE John S. Cain ’86 BE James E. Cantrell ’76 EN Shane T. Carlin ’95 AFE Rebecca F. Caudill ’72 ’76 ED Andrew M. Cecil ’00 AS William “Bill” M. Corum ’64 BE Elizabeth “Betsy” Coleman Cox ’69 AS D. Michael Coyle ’62 BE, ’65 LAW Robert “Rob” L. Crady III ’94 BE Amanda Mills Cutright ’06 CI Ruth Cecelia Day ’85 BE Erin Endersby ’01 EN Erik N. Evans ’82 BE Robert Michael Gray ’80 ’81 BE Austin H. Hays ’03 BE Vicki S. Hiestand ’93 BE Dr. H. Fred Howard ’79 AS, ’82 DE Dr. Frank Kendrick ’90 ’92 DE Leo M. Labrillazo ’90 FA Susan L. Liszeski ’84 AFE Beatty L. London ’00 BE Thomas K. Mathews ’93 AS Janie McKenzie-Wells ’83 AS, ’86 LAW Herbert A. Miller Jr. ’72 AS, ’76 LAW Grant T. Mills ’09 AS Matthew “Matt” C. Minner ’93 AS Ashley “Tip” Mixson III ’80 BE Sherry Remington Moak ’81 BE Hannah Miner Myers ’93 ED Dr. W. Mark Myers ’87 DE Will L. Nash ’06 AS Tonya B. Parsons ’91 AS Abigail O. Payne ’05 CI Porter G. Peeples Sr. ’68 ED Ronald “Ronnie” M. Perchik ’82 BE Nicholas C. Phelps ’08 BE Charles “Chad” D. Polk ’94 DES Jim A. Richardson ’70 AS, ’72 ED Robert J. Riddle ’11 AFE Sean Riddle ’12 AFE John D. Ryan ’92 ’95 BE Philip Schardein ’02 BE Sharon Lee Sears ’80 CI Mary L. Shelman ’81 EN George B. Spragens ’93 BE R. Michael Stacy ’95 BE Lee H. Stewart ’92 CI Mary “Kekee” Szorcsik ’72 BE Reese S. Terry Jr. ’64 ’66 EN Peggy T. Tudor ’73 ’83 NUR, ’07 ED Quentin R. Tyler ’02 ’05 AFE, ’11 AS Kendra Lorene Wadsworth ’06 ED Rachel Watts Webb ’05 CI Scott Wittich ’75 BE At Large Phillip D. Elder ’86 AFE Dr. Michael H. Huang ’89 AS, ’93 MED Antoine Huffman ’05 CI Jane Cobb Pickering ’74 ED Amelia Brown Wilson ’03 ’06 AFE, ’11 ED Nicholas D. Wilson ’03 AS, ’05 GS

College Michelle McDonald ’84 AFE, ’92 ED

- Agriculture Winn F. Williams ’71 AS - Arts & Sciences James Brownlow Bryant ’67 BE - Business & Economics Jeremy L. Jarvi ’02 CI - Communication & Information Dr. Clifford J. Lowdenback ’99 AS, ’03 DE

- Dentistry Lu Ann Holmes ’79 DES - Design Martha Elizabeth Randolph ’83 BE, ’87 ’92 ED - Education Vacant - Engineering Vacant - Fine Arts Barbara R. Sanders ’72 AS, ’76 ED

- Health Sciences Janis E. Clark ’78 GS, ’85 LAW - Law Dr. Emery A. Wilson ’68 ’72 MED - Medicine Patricia K. Howard ’83 ’90 ’04 NUR - Nursing Lynn Harrelson ’73 PHA - Pharmacy Vacant - Public Health Willis K. Bright Jr. ’66 SW - Social Work Alumni Trustees Dr. Michael A. Christian ’76 AS, ’80 DE Cammie DeShields Grant ’77 LCC, ’79 ED Kelly Sullivan Holland ’93 AS, ’98 ED Appointed Jo Hern Curris ’63 AS, ’75 LAW - Honorary Katie Eiserman ’01 ED - Athletics Thomas W. Harris ’85 AS - University Relations Stan R. Key ’72 ED - Honorary D. Michael Richey ’74 ’79 AFE - Philanthropy Marian Moore Sims ’72 ’76 ED - Honorary Bobby C. Whitaker ’58 CI - Honorary Elizabeth Medley Foster - Student Government Association Vacant - University Senate

Past Presidents George L. Atkins Jr. ’63 BE Richard A. Bean ’69 BE Michael A. Burleson ’74 PHA Bruce K. Davis ’71 LAW Scott E. Davis ’73 BE Marianne Smith Edge ’77 AFE Franklin H. Farris Jr. ’72 BE Dr. Paul E. Fenwick ’52 AFE William G. Francis ’68 AS, ’73 LAW W. P. Friedrich ’71 EN Dan Gipson ’69 EN Brenda B. Gosney ’70 HS, ’75 ED Cammie DeShields Grant ’77 LCC, ’79 ED John R. Guthrie ’63 CI Ann B. Haney ’71 AS Diane M. Massie ’79 CI Robert E. Miller John C. Nichols II ’53 BE Dr. George A. Ochs IV ’74 DE Sandra Bugie Patterson ’68 AS Robert F. Pickard ’57 ’61 EN Paula L. Pope ’73 ’75 ED David B. Ratterman ’68 EN G. David Ravencraft ’59 BE William Schuetze ’72 LAW David L. Shelton ’66 BE J. Tim Skinner ’80 DES James W. Stuckert ’60 EN, ’61 BE Hank B. Thompson Jr. ’71 CI Myra L. Tobin ’62 AFE J. Thomas Tucker ’56 BE Henry R. Wilhoit Jr. ’60 LAW Elaine A. Wilson ’68 SW Richard M. Womack ’53 AFE www.ukalumni.net

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Presidential Conversation

There is us. There is this university.

“There is no vaccination against ignorance, but there is us.

There is this university. And we still have heavy doors to open, unmet obligations to the land and its people. There are still leadership opportunities to advance the Commonwealth, this nation, and our world towards fulfilling its potential, towards meeting its lofty promises.”

These compelling words were penned by University of Kentucky English professor and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Frank X Walker. His poem, “Seedtime in the Commonwealth,” acknowledges “our imperfect past, our opportunity to ‘make ourselves right for the fight today,’” and the promise of this place to seize the “leadership opportunities to advance” those we serve towards their potential.

The words of this poem are now permanently affixed to a wall on a path toward the new Bill Gatton Student Center, challenging us to nurture our community. As members of our alumni family, these words live on in each of you. You embody the promise of this university and the importance of community.

In May, we were proud to add more than 5,000 new graduates to the ranks of the alumni family. These new graduates are instilled with a sense of purpose and shared responsibility of our collective “us.”

During the university’s May Commencement ceremonies, our graduates heard from students who reflect our values. One of those students, Esias Bedingar, came to the University of Kentucky from Chad in 2014 knowing no English. He followed his father, who graduated from the university some 30 years ago.

He enrolled in and completed an English as a Second Language course before beginning his bachelor’s degree in Public Health and minor in neuroscience. As a Chellgren Fellow and Lewis Honors College student, he found a passion for undergraduate research and addressing the detrimental effects of malaria in his home country. He spent his last year studying how cerebral malaria can be a risk factor for future neurodegenerative diseases. Now, he is heading to Harvard University for graduate work before beginning medical school.

Part of the Commencement tradition is the awarding of the university’s highest recognition, the honorary degree. Recipients are community, academic and industry leaders who, in their life’s work, reflect the values of our institution. Among the recipients this spring was Sara Holroyd, professor emeritus of our College of Fine Arts. A child of humble beginnings in the segregated classrooms of Selma, Alabama, Professor Holroyd found her way to the University of Kentucky, and, during her tenure in music education, was one of only two female collegiate choral directors in the United States. After 26 years of service, Professor Holroyd retired in 1987 and embarked on her second career, attending nursing school and becoming a third-shift ER nurse until she retired at 71. Her story inspired our graduates to lead the crowd in a standing ovation.

For one of our student speakers, Elizabeth Foster, Commencement held special meaning. Her grandfather began his college career at the University of Kentucky. But he put his aca-

demic and career goals on hold to serve his country in World War II. He returned to us and earned his degree in our College of Agriculture in 1943. During Commencement, 96-year-old former Navy lieutenant and UK alumnus William J. Foster II watched his granddaughter address her colleagues and celebrate earning her degree from our College of Engineering. Our students again led a standing ovation for Mr. Foster in grateful recognition of his service.

I was touched and inspired that our students and their families found such powerful meaning in the stories of Professor Holroyd and Mr. Foster — rising to their feet as one in admiration and celebration. This is the first time in recent memory — and perhaps ever — that there was a standing ovation for an honoree and attendee. Our graduates, our honorary degree recipients, and this special occasion are powerful reminders of the importance of this place and our work.

“There is us. There is this university.”

Carol Martin “Bill” Gatton believes deeply in the profound importance of our work and the value of the student experience, which is why he provided the lead gift of $20 million on the building that now bears his name. His gift builds on a long tradition of supporting UK students, faculty and staff — generations who will never meet Mr. Gatton but will be served by his generosity. That’s Mr. Gatton’s expressed purpose, to build a bridge for a new generation so that they may cross “chasms deep and wide.”

The common thread binding these stories is an uncommon commitment to serve others. Every day, a life is changed on the University of Kentucky campus. Every day, someone’s trajectory is dramatically and positively altered by our work. Every day, a community is changed for the better by the work of our students, alumni, researchers and clinicians.

After all, there is us. There is this university.

Sincerely,

Eli Capilouto President

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Pride in Blue

Susan V. Mustian

As I reflect upon the past year as your UK Alumni Association president, I am reminded of how thankful I am to be part of the UK family. On a daily basis, I hear about the accomplishments and journeys of our students and alumni and always feel fortunate to have a unique, common bond with such impressive and influential people that bleed blue just like I do. Witnessing the interconnectedness of Big Blue Nation throughout the community, across the country and around the world never ceases to amaze me. I have realized that while every story may be different, the pride we all have in the University of Kentucky is always evident and brings us together.

One moment I like to think back to is the Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this year. It’s difficult to put into words how proud I felt to see UK students and alumni representing both their countries and the University of Kentucky at the pinnacle of world athletic competition. I remember watching the skeleton competition one evening and when I heard the announcers mention a competitor being a graduate from the University of Kentucky, I was ecstatic! As I continued watching, I learned that not only was the competitor, Simi Adeagbo ’03 CI, a UK graduate, she was also representing Nigeria as Nigeria’s first female skeleton athlete. It’s remarkable to see one of our own Wildcats be such a trailblazer for both her country and for females in the sport of skeleton.

I am always impressed by our students at the University of Kentucky, and seeing our UK cheerleading Blue Squad represent the United States in South Korea did not disappoint. As they showcased their talent and spirit in hopes of having the International Olympic Committee implement the sport of cheerleading into future Olympic Games, I was reminded once again how lucky I am to have a connection to a team spearheading such a historical and groundbreaking initiative. Of course, the Olympics would not be complete without hearing the familiar voice of one of our most recognizable alumni, Tom Hammond ’67 AFE, broadcasting the competition.

The great things being done by our alumni extend beyond the world’s largest athletic stage as many alumni continue to stay involved in their local communities. Earlier this year, Lawrence Weathers ’11 BE was named chief of the Lexington Police Department. I have the utmost respect for those who serve in law enforcement, and to have an alumnus lead the men and women who protect the great city of Lexington and home to our university seems befitting.

Lawrence has nine siblings, including an older brother, Jack “Goose” Givens ’78 AS, who many of you will remember from the 1978 UK men’s basketball NCAA national championship team.

Goose and other members of the championship team are collaborating with fellow alum Rachel S. Childress ’78 AS, the CEO of Lexington Habitat for Humanity, to help build a home through the Big Blue Build project this fall. The organization helps families earn independence and improve their community.

These are just a few of the ways in which our great alumni stay connected and work together to make a difference in the lives of others. Being part of UK gives all of us such a great platform to be pioneers like Simi or to change a family’s life like Rachel. I encourage all of you to use your platform as a University of Kentucky alum — whether a new graduate or seasoned professional — to be a trailblazer to create change in your community and make a positive impact wherever you go. It has been an honor to be your alumni association president over the past year, and I look forward to hearing even more stories of the President Eli Capilouto greeted a special “guest” achievements that begin at the University of Ken- during UK’s May Commencement. tucky!

Go Big Blue!

Susan V. Mustian

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Photo: Mark Cornelison, UK Public Relations & Marketing

Letter from UK Alumni Association president

IN FISCAL YEAR 2018, MEMBER SUPPORT IMPACTED THE UK FAMILY:

2,400

members received career counseling services

150

scholarships awarded

16 1,000+

alumni events

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VALUABLE PART OF THE WILDCAT WAVE OF IMPACT!

colleges received funding

Great Teachers honored

IN ADDITION, MEMBERS ENABLE THE UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TO: Help raise money for DanceBlue Develop future leaders through student programming Connect students with alumni Keep BBN connected to each other and the university Nurture future generations of Wildcats through the Legacy Initiative program

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UK News

UK HealthCare physicians named to Best Doctors in America Photo: UK Public Relations & Marketing

UK HealthCare has more than 130 physicians practicing medicine at the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital, Kentucky Children’s Hospital, and UK Good Samaritan Hospital who appear on the Best Doctors in America List for 2017-2018 — more than any other hospital in Kentucky. Only 4 percent of doctors in America earn this prestigious honor, decided by impartial peer review.

The experts who are part of the Best Doctors in America database provide the most advanced medical expertise and knowledge to patients with serious conditions — often saving lives in the process by finding the right diagnosis and right treatment.

Go to www.ukalumni.net/doctors to review the list. ■

The UK College of Public Health has been fully reaccredited by the Council on Education for Public Health at the bachelor, master, and doctoral levels for seven years — the maximum length of time possible. The reaccreditation, the first since the launch of an undergraduate program in public health, is a milestone in the story of the college, marking the fulfillment of a promise inherent in its creation.

“The reaccreditation of the College of Public Health by the Council on Education for Public Health is an affirmation of the excellence practiced every day by the faculty, staff, and students of this institution,” said Dean Donna K. Arnett. “It is gratifying to see that our accrediting body recognizes everything that makes the college an exceptional place for public health education and research.” ■

Photo: Justin Sumner

Public Health fully reaccredited

UK College of Public Health participated in National Public Health Week last year.

UK Libraries Special Collections digitizes early Romantics

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American authors comprise approximately 900 items, including Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and William Dean Howells. ■

Photo: ExploreUK

UK Libraries Special Collections Research Center organized and digitized the W. Hugh Peal Manuscript Collection, comprising approximately 7,000 items of original letters and documents of English and American Romantic and early Victorian authors.

The collection is available on the UK digital library ExploreUK. W. Hugh Peal (1898-1984) was a native Kentuckian, a lawyer and UK alumnus. He collected books, manuscripts and letters while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford (where he obtained law degrees in 1924 and 1925) and continued during his law practice in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. His collections, along with his acquisition books and journals, were donated to UK in 1981.

The Peal Manuscript Collection represents one of the strongest holdings of original documents of the early English Romantics in the United States. The core of the manuscript collection centers around the best-known Romantic authors, Charles Lamb (98 letters), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (51 letters), William Wordsworth (37 letters) and Robert Southey (64 letters and 16 manuscripts).

Robert Southey letter to William Wordsworth from the Peal Collection in the UK Libraries Special Collections

Alumnus Bill Gatton’s foundational $20 million gift toward the construction of the 378,000-square-foot student center facility in 2014 made the new $200 million project possible. Officially opened at the end of April, the state-of-the-art facility contains new, sparkling retail and residential dining, a two-story Barnes & Noble bookstore, high-tech office and meeting space for student organizations and staff from across the campus, and living and learning spaces that promise to make the facility what President Eli Capilouto often calls the “living room of the campus.”

Gatton is the university’s largest philanthropic supporter, giving nearly $60 million to UK. “There’s so many worthy organizations that have been the beneficiaries of his goodness,” Capilouto said.

“He’s one of the more special people I’ve met in my lifetime.”

“The University of Kentucky is extremely important to the Commonwealth’s future,” Gatton said. “There is no other insti-

Photo: Hal Morris

UK opens Bill Gatton Student Center

tution or entity better equipped to address the state’s needs, and provide transformational education, leadership and service. UK is the bright hope of Kentucky.” ■

UK named a top school for LGBTQ* students UK is ranked among the top 25 campuses in the nation for LGBTQ* inclusion and safety.

UK received five out of five stars for overall campus climate from Campus Pride Index, a national benchmarking tool for colleges and universities which self-assesses LGBTQ*-friendly policies, programs and practices, conducted by and for LGBTQ* experts in the field of higher education. The index includes more than 235 colleges and universities.

The rating places UK as the only SEC campus to receive five out of five stars. UK and the University of Louisville are the only two schools in Kentucky to receive the five out of five star rating.

“We are incredibly proud of our five-star rating and very aware of the host of campus partners and student leaders who contributed to us receiving this distinction by putting diversity and inclusivity as a major focus in all that they do each day,” said UK Director of LGBTQ* Resources Lance Poston.

The index tool includes 50-plus self-assessment questions, which correspond to eight different LGBTQ*-friendly factors: policy inclusion; support and institutional commitment; academic life; student life; housing; campus safety; counseling and health; and recruitment and retention efforts. ■

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Groundbreaking for Grain and Forage Center of Excellence

UK President Eli Capilouto and College of Agriculture, Food and Environment Dean Nancy Cox (center, front) and others break ground for the Grain and Forage Center of Excellence.

UK and its partners joined together to break ground on the Grain and Forage Center of Excellence, a facility made possible by the renovation and expansion of the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton. The College of Agriculture, Food and Environment facility will serve as the center’s nucleus with faculty and staff based at Princeton and Lexington. The center is expected to be complete in summer 2019.

“UK is inextricably linked to the well-being and the economic development of all 120 Kentucky counties,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “Agriculture is a fundamental component of the Kentucky economy, and the innovation underway at UK’s Research and Education Center in Princeton advances that work. This new center of excellence expands and enhances our capacity to serve as the University for Kentucky.”

The idea for the new center gained support and momentum from the state’s farmers and commodity groups. It became a reality when the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board awarded the university $15 million in July 2016. ■ www.ukalumni.net

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A new model for patient care and education is being launched at the UK College of Dentistry. The college’s new Diagnosis, Wellness and Prevention Clinic, allows patients to seek care for both their oral and overall health needs in a single location. The clinic is led by a team of interprofessional clinician educators, including Dr. Craig Miller, Dr. David Devito and Angie Grubbs, nurse practitioner. It is located on the third floor of the Dental Science Building.

The clinic assists patients in achieving their overall health goals through awareness, education, prevention and implementation of healthy behaviors. In this unique interprofessional setting, faculty and student dentists in the clinic will integrate initial patient care with health assessment, oral diagnosis and medicine as well as wellness concepts, behavioral medicine, urgent dental care and public health policy.

Grubbs will partner with a clinical care coordinator to support patients in behavior modification. These interventions span from bettering oral hygiene to medication compliance to sleep, stress, smoking cessation and weight management. The clinic has the

Photo: UK Public Relations & Marketing

UK Dentistry opens clinic targeting holistic health

ability to provide point-of-care testing. Chairside testing enables staff to make decisions when diagnosing a condition or monitoring a treatment response. This expedited clinical decision-making leads to improved efficiencies and productivity. ■

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WUKY gets new home

The voices are the same, but their location has changed and modernized. WUKY 91.3 FM, UK’s NPR station, started broadcasting in March from its new studios on Spurr Road in Lexington. The facility is a far cry from the station’s old home on the third floor of McVey Hall — studios that were originally built in 1939.

“This is a game-changer for WUKY and the community,” said Tom Godell, WUKY’s general manager. “Not only do we have brand new state-of-the-art broadcast gear, we also have more studio and production space than before, allowing us to produce more news programs, more live music, and more community events.”

WUKY now has more than double the square footage in this new facility, which had been a professional recording studio and living quarters.

The property was acquired by Lexington businesswoman Ann Bakhaus, who in turn, with her son Michael Russell, made a gift of the building to University of Kentucky for the benefit of WUKY and UK’s Opera Theatre program. Opera Theatre will share the recording studio with WUKY. Also, the recording studio can accommodate up to 49 people, which means it can host intimate, live indoor concerts. ■

Agreement keeps UK men’s basketball in Rupp Arena UK and the Lexington Center Corporation have executed a “Right of Use Agreement,” culminating in a new 15-year lease at Rupp Arena. This will ensure that the Kentucky Wildcats men’s basketball team keeps playing at Rupp through the 2033 season.

The agreement is a natural development of a letter of intent which originated in December 2016. The current lease expired at the end of the 2018 season. The agreement also addresses use of Rupp Arena for Big Blue Madness, Blue/White Games, some level of women’s basketball games, as well as Winter and Spring Commencements.

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“We are excited that Rupp Arena will be the home of the Wildcats for another 15 years. It already has been the home of so much history and shared pride for our university and our community,” said UK Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart. “We are gratified by the commitment the Lexington Center has made to continuing to improve the fan experience through upgrades to technology and other amenities. With this agreement signed, we look forward to taking the next proud step in a long tradition of excellence that has defined our basketball program and this historic venue.” ■

Blue Horizons

Grant trains new generation of researchers The UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been awarded a $2 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to train the next generation of dementia researchers. The T32 training grant, “Training in Traditional Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias,” is the first Sanders-Brown Center on Aging training grant dedicated to Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

“We have really fantastic faculty, so our trainees will be exposed to high-caliber mentorship that prepares them for a research career in an area of dire need,” said Elizabeth Head, professor and associate director of education at Sanders-Brown and co-director for the grant. The grant covers mentoring of predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees. Additionally, postdoctorate trainees can opt for an externship to extend their learning at another institution. Predoctoral applicants must come from either the Integrated Biomedical Sciences graduate program or the M.D./Ph.D. program in the College of Medicine.

Trainees are assigned a mentor who guides them through the training process. Each trainee is assigned a second mentor that

reflects the trainee’s research interest and/or exposure to an area they have not yet experienced. Trainees also have the opportunity to network with other UK faculty.

Jenna Gollihue is part of the first class of trainees. Gollihue, who has a doctorate in physiology, has been interested in dementia since her aging and disease class in graduate school.

“As a newcomer, I have a lot to learn about the nuts and bolts of career development in the research field, and my mentor, Chris Norris, has been extremely supportive. He is always encouraging me to seek out new technologies and techniques that I could use in my research and has shared with me his experiences and advice for succeeding in my field,” Gollihue said.

“What I am learning now, I will bring to the next experiment.

All the different things I am learning I will continue to build upon in the search for new knowledge.”

While trainees receive the opportunity to participate in research, they also receive valuable learning experiences in other areas, including the ethics of both basic and clinical research. ■

Prestigious grant for vascular disease The American Heart Association awarded UK and the Baylor College of Medicine research partnership $3.7 million to study aortic disease.

The grant will underwrite the work of the UK-BCM Aortopathy Research Center, which will focus on the impact of sex differences related to aortic diseases. Aortic disease can cause the expansion and rupture of a vessel wall in the chest or abdominal area, leading to potentially deadly internal bleeding.

“The study of vascular disease is a vitally important enterprise, as its prevalence is expected to increase dramatically as our population ages,” said Alan Daugherty, chairman of the Department of Physiology, director of the Saha Cardiovascular Research Center in the College of Medicine and UK associate vice president for research.

Two UK programs will be launched during this partnership.

The first, led by Daugherty, will investigate how sex hormones, including testosterone and estrogens, impact development of thoracic aortic disease in mouse models. Lisa Cassis, professor of pharmacology and nutritional sciences and vice president for research, will lead a team to explore how sex chromosomes affect the development and progression of aortic diseases in both thoracic and abdominal aortas using unique mouse models in which sex chromosomes are manipulated.

In addition to these research projects, the center will support a training program for research fellows led by Nancy Webb, director of nutritional sciences and professor of pharmacology and nutritional sciences. This program will recruit and train basic science and clinical postdoctoral research fellows who will be associated with the three projects. ■

Research for treating blinding disorders, including glaucoma Jakub Famulski, an assistant professor of biology in the UK College of Arts and Sciences, received a grant for over $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the early formation of the anterior segment of the eye. This has the potential to lead to more treatment options with blinding disorders.

The Research Project Grant, “Comprehensive analysis of periocular mesenchyme composition, specification, and function during anterior segment formation,” will be funded by the National Eye Institute over the next five years. Famulski and his team will study the anterior segment of the eye (cornea, iris, ciliary muscle, drainage canals and pupil), which is critical for collecting and projecting light onto the back of the eye.

Deficiencies in these tissues are considered anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD) blinding disorders, and the tissues are also a critical regulator of intraocular pressure, a major indicator for glaucoma.

Famulski and his team will use the embryos of zebrafish to study the very early development of these critical visual components. ■ Compiled from news reports about research at UK. For more information about research taking place at UK, visit www.research.uky.edu

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UK cheerleaders and alumni participate in 2018 Winter Olympic events

By Gail Hairston

This year, several UK alumni and our talented UK cheerleaders had the opportunity to be involved with the Winter Olympics, either as a competitor, an event commentator for NBC Sports or by demonstrating the physical rigors of the cheer world to viewers all over the planet. It’s our pleasure to share some of their Olympic-size Big Blue stories.

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Photo: UK Athletics

The Blue Squad has won 23 Universal Cheerleading Assocation National Championships.

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nstead of cheering for the blue and white this past February, the University of Kentucky cheerleading Blue Squad took a brief hiatus to cheer for the red, white and blue at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The team barely had time to catch a collective breath after winning the school’s 23rd Universal Cheerleaders Association National Cheerleading Championship before they were packing their bags again, this time for a trip halfway around the world to Pyeongchang, South Korea.

One can imagine that along the way the team practiced chanting U-S-A, U-S-A, U-S-A to replace their time-honored, C-AT-S, CATS, CATS, CATS! Their Head Cheerleading Coach Jomo Thompson busily fine-tuned the routine that had just won the team a national championship so that his squad of champions could represent the United States at the world’s oldest and most elite athletic competition.

In November 2017, USA Cheer announced that UK’s Blue Squad would represent the United States in the 2018 Winter Olympics. A brief three months later, in January 2018, the team won the school’s 23rd Universal Cheerleaders Association

National Championship title, completing a perfect trifecta after championship titles in 2016 and 2017. Through all these accomplishments, Thompson has remained focused on coaching his team and blocking the outside distractions.

“Well before competing at nationals, we didn’t talk about the Olympics,” Thompson said. “Our focus was winning the national championship. We had a lot of emails from different media organizations that wanted to talk about the Olympics, and I really tried to put that in the background because I didn’t want the team thinking ahead.”

Once UK brought home the gold in the national championship, the team turned to the world stage. They adopted their temporary title, Team USA Cheer.

“We wanted to make sure we represented the United States in the best way that we could and do a really good job,” Thompson said.

When USA Cheer announced that UK would represent the USA, its executive director Lauri Harris said, “We are proud to send the University of Kentucky to represent the United States of America.

The cheerleaders from the University of

Kentucky have engaged crowds, elevated spirit for generations, and won 23 national championships. We are excited to have them show their talent and spirit on the world stage.”

Team USA Cheer was part of a seven-country delegation invited by the Korea Cheerleading Association, the Gangwon Province and the Pyeongchang 2018 Organizing Committee to provide crowd support at the Olympic Games. Teams from Norway, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, South Korea and the Netherlands appeared with the Team USA Cheer at different events and venues throughout the weeklong tour, supporting athletes from all countries and supporting cheerleading in its push to become an Olympic sport.

Karl Olson, secretary general of the International Cheer Union, told the world’s press, “We are pleased to see cheerleading teams of the top Winter Olympic countries represented at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. This will be an excellent and significant opportunity internationally to showcase the sport of cheer and its talented athletes.”

The cheerleading squads performed at awards ceremonies, Olympic venues, www.ukalumni.net

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Simidele “Simi” Adeagbo ’03 CI “Why not me? Why not now?”

Those questions floated through the mind and heart of UK alumna Simidele “Simi” Adeagbo in the months before the 2018 Winter Olympics.

She couldn’t find an answer that satisfied her, so she flew headfirst down a slippery slope — literally.

Adeagbo first touched a skeleton bobsled in September 2017. She had never

Photo: Nancie Battaglia Photography

“We’re very fortunate that the University of Kentucky represented USA Cheer in the first step of the endeavor for cheerleading to become an Olympic sport. I hope it does, and I can look back 20 years from now and say we played a small part in that,” Thompson said.

But for Thompson, the best part of the whole experience was watching his team grow as individuals.

“Some of my team had never left the United States or even southeastern Kentucky. For them to be exposed to a different culture, to see how other people in other parts of the world live, it was such a great experience. It truly broadened the horizons of everyone who made the trip.

“I’m grateful my team had the opportunity to participate in the Olympic experience. It was a great honor, and a testament to our program and our heritage of excellence.”

Photo: Candice Ward Photography

street parades, closing ceremonies and, of course, a competitive exhibition.

“We performed almost every day,” said Thompson. “But we were also able to do some sightseeing. We visited palaces and participated in the Fire Festival.”

The Fire Festival is a national holiday celebrated on the first full moon of the Korean lunar calendar.

Team USA Cheer competed with the other nations’ teams in an exhibition cheerleading competition. The hope was that with a strong performance, the International Olympic Committee will consider implementing the sport of cheerleading into future Olympic Games. Cheerleading was granted provisional status, meaning that it is under consideration for becoming an Olympic sport.

The global nature of cheerleading is probably a surprise to many who previously considered it as American as a bald eagle. But considering the impact social media has on the world, especially college-age young adults, no one should be surprised.

Kelsey LaCroix, a senior cheerleader on the Blue Squad from South Elgin, Illinois, explained why the teams from Norway, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, Canada and the Netherlands shared some of the same moves.

“Social media plays a big role — YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat — getting more people involved. People interested in cheerleading — we all follow each other on social media,” LaCroix said.

Coach Thompson did not hold back when asked about the pressure his team faced while preparing for the Olympics.

“I felt … the whole weight of the country on us,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we put a good foot forward and were good ambassadors, not just for the University of Kentucky, but for the United States, as well.”

Once in South Korea, the team and Thompson relaxed, especially with the other cheerleaders. He said his team took a leadership role among the other teams, teaching them cheerleading skills they learned and learning from the other teams.

“I was impressed and humbled by the impact Kentucky cheerleading has around the world. I saw it become the universal language between the teams. For the most part, we didn’t speak their languages, and they didn’t understand ours. Yet, with the universal language of hand gestures, they all learned from each other.

heard of the skeleton sport but she was curious. With outstretched arms tucked tight to the body, Olympic skeleton athletes hurtle (helmeted) head first down a frozen track on a small sled at speeds hovering around 80 mph.

The sleds measure about 31 to 47 inches long, 13 to 15 inches wide and 3 to 8 inches in height, all dependent on the size of the athlete.

To summarize, skeleton athletes travel above interstate speed limits, on ice, downhill, headfirst on a sled smaller than the average throw rug, bouncing about six inches above an instantaneous face-lift.

Intrigued and committed, 36-year-old Adeagbo began what could be one of the most impressive comeback stories in sports history.

Adeagbo was born in Toronto to Nigerian parents and lived in Nigeria for a while.

She grew up in the United States and Canada and eventually made her way to UK. While earning both a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a master’s degree in communications in 2003, Adeagbo began breaking records on the UK track and field team. She became a four time All-American and, until recently, was the holder of the school record in the indoor and outdoor triple jump. She was also an Academic All-American and Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar, and an exceptional NCAA and Southeastern Conference scorer.

She brought all that drive and commit-

ment to her new passion and earned a spot on the Nigerian 2018 Olympic skeleton team. Adeagbo made history three ways in Pyeongchang: as Nigeria’s first female skeleton athlete, Africa’s first female skeleton Olympian, and the first black female skeleton Olympian.

After lying down on a skeleton sled for the first time in September, Adeagbo finished her trailblazing Olympic debut in the women’s skeleton with the third best start time and 20th place overall. She had become one of the best in the world at a sport she mastered in less than six months.

“It feels amazing to be an Olympian,” Adeagbo said, “but this journey is about the bigger significance of what I’m doing — showing a future generation of athletes what’s possible and showing people that it’s up to you to create your future.”

the world reporting or serving as “point guard” on Olympic speed skating, figure skating, ice dancing, basketball, and track and field.

The 2018 Winter Olympics was special, however. It had the texture of a homecoming and was actually his third visit to South Korea. He began his Olympic broadcasting career at the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul for NBC “where I broadcast men’s and women’s basketball with the incomparable Al McGuire.”

His Summer Olympics coverage includes every victorious race Usain Bolt ran in three consecutive Summer Olympic Games.

Twelve Olympic Games — including four winter competitions — later, Hammond was returning to South Korea.

Hammond, a 1967 graduate of the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, resumed a familiar seat for the 2018 Winter Olympics, calling the ice skating competition in Pyeongchang. Joined by former Olympian Joey Cheek, Hammond was also the lead commentator for speed skating for NBC Sports.

Hammond said he has a special place in his heart for the Winter Olympics because he feels they are unique.

“In the winter, there are a lot of sports that one doesn’t normally follow, which gives it a rather exotic feel,” he said.

The Lexington native was excited to bring speed skating to the television audience this year because it is a sport with tradition and speed.

“Long track (as opposed to short track)

Kentucky pride was shining at several venues at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. But the most familiar star to U.S. locals was NBC Sports commentator Tom Hammond.

Hammond’s distinctive voice echoed once again in living rooms around the country as NBC Sports broadcast the Olympic Games.

One of UK's most recognizable alumni, Hammond had no trouble packing for the trip. In his 34-year career, he has traveled

Photo: NBC Sports

Tom Hammond ’67 AFE

speed skating is one of only six sports to have appeared in every Winter Olympic Games,” Hammond said. “During the sprint races, the skaters reach between 30 and 40 miles an hour, skating on a 400-meter oval!”

Hammond says the Olympics are about much more than competition.

The Olympics are viewed by many as an event that unites the whole world. The 2018 Pyeongchang games were in an abnormally bright spotlight, in large part because North Korea and South Korea competed as one team, in effect, putting only one face to the world. The North Korean cheerleading squad, Army of Beauties, cheered alongside the University of Kentucky cheerleading squad in Pyeongchang.

“The Olympics, to me, are the top of the sporting world,” Hammond said.

“What else brings the planet together in this way?

“The Olympics don’t always succeed in promoting peaceful competition between people from all over the globe — it doesn’t always succeed in bringing the world together — but it’s the closest thing we have.

It’s always great to be a part of something this important,” Hammond said.

While the Olympics have a special place in Hammond’s heart, Olympic coverage is not his sole claim to broadcasting fame.

Hammond caught his big break as a sports broadcaster in a place familiar to many Kentuckians — on the Thoroughbred racetrack. He freely admits that he owes a lot to the horse racing industry.

In 1984, Hammond signed a limited weekend contract with NBC to cover the inaugural Breeder’s Cup horse race. By the time Monday rolled around, he was negotiating, was offered and accepted a long-term contract with NBC Sports.

From 2001 to 2016, Hammond served as co-host for coverage of the Kentucky Derby. He also covered the NFL and Notre Dame football, as well as the NBA and college basketball.

Along with his duties at NBC, Hammond serves on the board of directors for Thursday’s Child. Thursday’s Child is a Lexington-based, nonprofit organization that aids in the adoption of special needs children.

Hammond is a member of the Kentucky Athletic Hall of Fame and the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni. In May, UK awarded him an honorary doctorate. ■ www.ukalumni.net

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Even if you really are UK’s No. 1 fan, do you know these stats about your alma mater?

BY LINDA PERRY

138 145 YEARS UK has prepared

students to become teachers, starting in 1880 at the Normal School within the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, later becoming UK and establishing the College of Education in 1923

HOT DOGS

13 competitors tried to eat in three minutes during the first annual Alpha Phi sorority hot dog eating contest on Valentine’s Day, with Christian Alvarez of Phi Delta Theta fraternity as the victor, downing more than six hot dogs

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Hispanic SCHOLARS recruited to UK since 2011, placing UK among the top public universities in the country with these students

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placed end to end, that the College of Arts & book colSciences, UK’s larglection of the UK Libraries est college (also 36 minors, OF MULCH distributed on would stretch (from Lex18 Ph.D. programs, and 19 campus by the PPD Grounds ington almost to Hershey, academic departments) Deparment through SepPennsylvania) tember of last year, in part to dress over 10,000 annuals, HOURS nursgrown from seed, plugs, cuting students tings and division of existing spend in cliniplants cal patient

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by Utilities and Energy Management Division produce 51,000 tons of cooling for buildings each year, and pump 80,000 gallons per minute of water through 37 miles of underground chilled water piping

6,566,454

Number of CONTACTS the UK Cooperative Extension Service had with Kentuckians last year

920

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according to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals Rankings

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that have taken part in the College of Education Next Generation Leadership Academy, which brings together a network of students, teachers, leaders, and communities committed to upgrading educational systems to deepen the learning experience of every student

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of material recycled in 2017 through the UK Recycling Department (paper, aluminum cans, glass, light Number of Colbulbs, batlege of Health teries, yard Sciences waste, tires, STUDENTS etc.)

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volunteer law and accounting students prepared for free in 2017 through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program, saving clients over $100,000 in preparation fees and receiving $497,960 in federal refunds and $45,120 in state refunds

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rolled in the first cohort at the new Fort Sam Houston COMPLETE COSsatellite campus in Texas as TUMES used in the Opera part of a UK is one of only eight insti- Theatre’s 2018 March propartnership duction of “Show Boat,” one tutions in the country with between the full complement of liberal of the largest productions it’s the U.S. arts, engineering, profession- produced, with each costume Army’s having a least four pieces, al, agricultural and medical Master of (not including accessories, colleges and discipline on Social Work shoes, sock, gloves, hats, one contiguous campus Program and the UK College jewelry, etc.) and over 100 of Social Work petticoats

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tronic databases, 1.6 million electronic books accessible both on- and off-campus, large collection of e-journals, 242,000 maps, and numerous state, national, and international newspapers

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Number of UK Alumni Association CLUBS around the country, grown from the original club in Lexington started 129 years ago in 1889 by Joseph H. Kastle

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Number of College of Pharmacy staff (Jason Mitchell) and alums (Ross A. Turner ’14 PHA) who DRESSED UP and performed as the UK Wildcat

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Rachel S. Childress '78 AS: Building on experience UK alumna is CEO of Lexington Habitat for Humanity

Photo: Mark Cornelison, UK Public Relations & Marketing

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ike the career paths of so many other individuals, the road traveled by Rachel Smith Childress ’78

AS to her present position leading Lexington

Habitat for Humanity (HFH) took twists and turns. Along the way she learned valuable lessons that serve her today in her capacity as CEO of the nonprofit, ecumenical Christian organization that builds homes, communities and hope for people-in-need with the support of community partners.

“I have grown into a much ‘bigger-picture’ thinker over the years. I prefer that, now, than when I was younger and my detailed-oriented personality was very helpful to me while doing social services work with food stamp distribution, for example,” she says.

Childress grew up in Louisville and was drawn to the University of Kentucky for an undergraduate degree in a service-related area.

“UK was a way to be away from my home but also have easy access to it, giving me a degree of independence,” says Childress. “I started off in pre-med and changed my major Summer 2018

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several times but was able to graduate in three years. I got to the point where I realized I had to declare a major. I enjoyed sociology, and I had more classes in that than anything else.

I like to joke and say that sociology prepares you for everything and nothing.”

Joking aside, her sociology degree did prepare her for a successful career and she points to her involvement with the UK Honors Program as a pivotal developmental aspect.

“It gave me the ability to think analytically and critically and look at broader cultures around the world and in our own country to meet needs. We have to get out of the ruts we’ve been in to do things differently if we are going to conquer age-old problems that we are only making a dent in,” Childress says.

Upon graduation, she took state exams for positions in social service areas. Until 1989, she worked in a variety of positions, including in the Cabinet for Human Resources with food stamp cases and Aid to Families with Dependent Children in Lexington’s Winburn area, where today Habitat for Humanity serves many families. She also worked in

Frankfort with the first cheese giveaway; helped implement able housing. They must have the ability to pay an affordable Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, which dealt with mortgage and the willingness to partner, which means they office accessibility; and then disaster programming with the go through 18 weeks of homeowner education and perform Department of Military Affairs, Disaster and Emergency sweat equity on their own home or that of others,” says Services.

Childress.

She later worked for SCT in Lexington, a company that She says that her regular work days are occupied with tellproduced software for government. After wearing seving the Habitat story, community engagement, internal meeteral hats in that organization for ings, and visiting work sites, including "...I was first attracted to the or- the soon-to-be-opened new ReStore. seven years, she became registrar and director of student/academic ganization because of the ministry But she had a life-changing experience services/financial aid at Lexington 2015 when she participated in a that it performs by helping families in Theological Seminary, where she Global Village trip to Malawi, Africa. further honed her professional skills earn independence and improving “That was amazing. Habitat’s focus over 10 years. (She earned a masthere is orphans and vulnerable the community." ter’s degree there in 1994.) In 2006, — Rachel Childress groups. AIDS and HIV in those counChildress went from being a family tries has left so many children without mentor volunteer at Lexington HFH to being its associate parents or only one parent who struggles ... after sourcing executive director and a year later became its chief executive clean water and sanitation, the organization starts to work in officer. local villages to determine which families are most in need “Many years earlier, I was first attracted to the organiof having new structures for housing,” says Childress. “That zation because of the ministry that it performs by helping big picture approach made me realize this was something I families earn independence and improving the community,” had to do.” she says.

She says pictures do not do this challenge proper justice.

HFH is well-known for building homes by leveraging the “I made mortar and laid home-made brick we created from construction work of volunteers for those who might not the earth right there on the job site. It was an incredible otherwise be able to gain entry into the housing market. In experience,” Childress says.

Lexington, HFH spearheads about 12 homebuyer projects a Returning to the United States was something of a culture year. But there are many more facets to HFH other than the shock, she says. “When I came home, acclimating was hard. hammer and nails image typically seen in the media. PeoThe disparity there and the juxtaposition of how I live here ple are needed behind the scenes to perform regular office ... my bedroom is the size of two of their houses. It puts work and help at the ReStore, for example. The ReStore things in perspective,” she says. facility, a place that accepts building supplies, paint, furniture Childress, who was married to the late Basil D. Childress and accessories for resale in the community, also generates ’84 BE and has two daughters, Delaney Childress ’15 BE income for HFH. The ReStore location on Southland Drive and Julianna Reagan, adds that about half the families the has been so successful that a second location on Winchester Lexington HFH serves are refugees, primarily from Africa.

Road is now opening.

“That trip really helped me understand what those families Childress says HFH also has the Love Your Neighborhood went through. It also gives us the energy to do what we do Home Repair Program, which helps low-income homeownevery day when it’s frustrating to ask for money or help and ers make needed repairs so they can live in a safe, healthy to fight systems. You realize this is why we do it — for these and affordable home. The organization holds its annual little children everywhere, not just in Lexington.” fundraising Shamrock Shuffle 3K — a walk, shuffle or run Looking forward to celebrating Lexington HFH’s 30th — in March for St. Patrick’s Day. The University of Kenanniversary, she reflects on her own goal as part of that tucky has a campus chapter of HFH for students and alumni milestone. “My goal for the coming year would be to find volunteers, often partnering with the UK Interfraternity creative ways to serve families and to continue to get the Council and the UK PanHellenic Council. community involved so that we can continue to serve where Lexington HFH (www.lexhabitat.org) is celebrating 30 there is the greatest need, such as expanding our repair years of work in the local community, Childress says, and program, building different kinds of homes and increasing not by coincidence, this also dovetails with construction of energy efficiency,” she says. one of the next homes by the 2018 Big Blue Build scheduled Childress says living her faith is important and her work for August, with homebuyer Antoinette Screetch. This proj- needs to feed her core. For her, she says, that core is her ect is being promoted by Jack “Goose” Givens and other faith and loving her neighbors. “I’m very troubled by our members of the UK basketball 1978 NCAA championship world and the desire people have to shut others out. I think team, and she hopes lots of people will support it. we should be opening our arms to embrace one another, “Potential homeowners like Antoinette go through a denever to push people away,” she says. “Faith and family tailed application process based on need for quality, affordneeds to be fuel for all of that.” ■ www.ukalumni.net

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CLEARING PATHWAYS

By Molly Williamson

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Photo: Derrick Meads, UK College of Engineering

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s he sells coffee, shakes and fries, junior Jordan Nicoulin cannot help but run through his finances in his head. Working two nights a week at Sonic Drive-In and every Saturday at a coffee shop will give the Lexington father enough money to pay for his 3-yearold son’s weekly care with a little left for groceries.

But working three days while attending the University of Kentucky does not give the 21-year-old much time to fund his own tuition. As a mechanical engineering major and math minor, he knew that he would likely have to spend 5 years in school, preparing for his dream job at Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas Inc. But Nicoulin is trying to condense his program to 4 years by taking 18 credit hours a semester. He is projected to graduate in May 2019 and plans to intern this summer at Hitachi.

“I graduate in May, and that fall, my son starts school,” Nicoulin says. “I knew I wanted to be out of school by the time he started so that I could focus on his schooling and on building a better future for us. I didn’t want to be paying loans for the next 20 or 30 years, when I could be saving for his education and for my retirement.”

Nicoulin is the perfect example of an endowment at work, says Eric N. Monday, UK’s executive vice president for finance and administration. Nicoulin’s tuition is fully paid by the T.W. Lewis Endowed Scholarship and William T. and Edith H. Harmon Endowed Scholarship, allowing him to focus on his studies and family.

Monday says the UK endowment is a collection of donated funds that work together to generate income for the university.

To ensure the long-term viability of the endowment, the university only spends the earnings from each fund. The principal gift is never spent. It is invested to maximize the income it generates.

Since its inception, it has provided opportunities for students, programs and faculty, funding 94 faculty chairs, 216 professorships and countless scholarships. Most of the endowed funds are designated, meaning they have a specific purpose. Donors may create a scholarship, fund research, and further the arts at UK or support health care, athletics or Extension programs.

The possibilities are endless, but the funds are not, says Monday.

Currently, the endowment is about $1.4 billion, making UK part of an elite group. Only 15 other public universities in the country have an endowment of more than $1 billion, but for an enterprise like UK, that fund is still too small, Monday says.

Only 1.3 percent of the university’s budget comes from its endowment, which is not enough to help the university achieve its strategic plan. Also, most of the institution’s scholarships are not endowed, but funded through the university’s annual budget.

Monday says UK is tackling the problems that plague Kentuckians. It accomplishes those goals by recruiting talented faculty and researchers, stocking classrooms and laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment and attracting the top students in the state and nation. A larger endowment provides stability

Jordan Nicoulin, junior at the University of Kentucky

and also better positions Kentucky nationally. Reliable longterm support from an endowment could enable UK to increase student aid, make commitments to senior faculty, initiate pioneering research, develop stronger teaching programs, invest in new technologies, laboratories and other physical assets.

“The sole focus of our new research building is to overcome health disparities in Kentucky,” Monday says. “If we can do that, we will overcome health disparities in the United States and beyond.”

UK’s goal is to grow its endowment to $2 billion, which could generate an additional $24 million annually to be used in support of the university’s strategic initiatives, Monday says.

For example, $24 million could fully fund over 100 Principal Investigator (PI) researchers’ salaries and benefits, which is enough to completely fill Research Building 2 and a future Research Building 3. Those PIs could bring in another $100 million in external research dollars to fund cutting-edge research and create new knowledge.

Only 22.7 percent of adults ages 25 or older in the Commonwealth have at least a bachelor’s degree, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

For undergraduate student success, an additional $24 million from the endowment could enable the university to provide 1,000 more full-tuition scholarships (250 additional students every single year in perpetuity) according to Monday. Distributed another way, $24 million could fund need-based financial awards to reduce unmet need to a manageable $5,000 annually for nearly all UK undergraduates. www.ukalumni.net

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“Funding should not be a limitation, particularly for students who come from more challenged households where there is a higher amount of unmet financial need,” Monday says. “The endowment also gives us an opportunity to attack some of those challenges. By increasing the endowment, we have a great opportunity to diminish roadblocks for our students.”

For example, this year, UK reported the highest fallto-spring retention ratio in decades. The figure tracks the percentage of first-year students who completed their first semester and continued for a second semester. Provost David W. Blackwell announced in March that 93.7 percent of first-year students from the fall returned in the spring.

“Funding provides opportunities,” Monday says. “Opportunities yield outcomes and outcomes yield economic development. The endowment allows us to teach more, graduate more and research more.”

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Funding provides opportunities.

Opportunities yield outcomes and outcomes yield economic development.

— Eric Monday

“UK has always had generous donors, people who get great fulfillment from giving and improving UK,” Monday says. The university was founded with donor support and has continued to progress thanks to private gifts.

“The endowment is an opportunity to bet on the place that bet on you,” Monday says. “It is an opportunity to give back to an institution that people believe is doing great things and could do even better things.”

Growing the endowment is especially important right now, according to Monday. In the last 10 years, state funding for UK has decreased by more than $70 million. Growth in the endowment is critical for the university to fund scholarships, programs, and the recruitment and retention of exceptional faculty — ideally — for the life of the university.

But ensuring the endowment’s longevity and continued growth requires planning, Monday says. The investment

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committee has a measured, diversified investment approach, which largely shelters it from a turbulent market, making UK a good investment.

The challenge with having mostly designated funds in the endowment is that it limits UK’s ability to grow, says Monday. As a result, it can’t be as responsive to institutional needs, including offering more student scholarships or hiring more faculty and researchers in a growing area.

“We always want to be better and to do more,” Monday says. “Greatness is graduating 6,000 students, being greater is graduating 7,000, 8,000, 10,000 students a year. Endowment earnings allow people to make a greater difference forever.”

Jordan Nicoulin is grateful his scholarship donors invested in him because it allowed him to have a richer collegiate experience. He is active in the Lewis Honors College, joined the Scholars in Engineering and Management Program and is getting ready to study in Costa Rica this spring. He learned the value of community service from Tom Lewis, when he spoke at the dedication of the Lewis Honors College, and is eager to make a difference wherever he goes.

“I could probably have still gone to UK without scholarships, but it would have been a lot harder,” Nicoulin says.

“A lady in my class works 40 hours a week to pay for her schooling, and she is taking 20 credit hours so she can get out faster. I almost felt guilty that I had a full-tuition scholarship, but I know lots of people who have been helped by scholarships. Scholarships give students a chance they wouldn’t have had otherwise. I appreciate all my donors have done for my son and me.” ■

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ERIC MONDAY For most people, crunching numbers and analyzing endowment returns would be mind-boggling.

But Eric Monday comes alive when discussing the University of Kentucky’s financial future. He can see the opportunities available and wants to partner with donors to make UK’s strategic plan and vision a reality.

As the executive vice president for finance and administration, Monday oversees the university’s more than $3.7 billion budget. He manages all aspects of UK’s facilities, financial planning, human resources, university financial services, information technology, institutional equity, public safety, auxiliary services, audit, real estate, transportation, risk management, Bill Gatton Student Center, and the Coldstream Research campus. He believes strongly that high quality operations in those areas directly support the university’s goals in student retention and graduation, research and health care.

During his tenure at UK, Monday has aggressively sought public-private partnerships in housing, dining and operation of the bookstore to better support students, as well as a significant expansion of financial wellness programs.

A deep commitment to the success of students is why Monday has spent more than 20 years in higher education.

He wants to provide more students access to a college education and increase the imprint UK will make on the community. He knows that no university is more tied to its state’s success than UK or is better positioned to further research, health care, public service and outreach to the Commonwealth’s 120 counties.

Before coming to UK in December 2012, Monday worked for his alma mater, Louisiana State University. He worked at LSU for more than 15 years, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting, master’s degree in public administration and doctoral degree in human resource education and workforce development, writing his dissertation on whether students’ financial knowledge affected their retention.

Formerly the LSU student body president, Monday held multiple positions in finance, student life, student services and emergency operations. During his time at LSU, he advanced to vice chancellor for finance and administration and chief financial officer.

Monday was named LSU’s Master of Public Administration Alumnus of the Year and one of Baton Rouge Business Report’s Forty Under 40. He writes a weekly blog, “The Monday Blog,” hosts a monthly discussion with students called “Monday on Mondays” and was a featured guest on UK’s “Campus Walk” video series, where he showed viewers around the Bill Gatton Student Center.

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CHIEF LAWRENCE WEATHERS Leading Lexington's Police Force

By Robin Roenker

Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers ’11 BE is settling in to his new position as Lexington’s top law enforcement officer. Hired in early March, Weathers, 54, is not a new face on the force, however.

A career officer, Weathers retired from the Lexington Police Department in 2016 after 27 years of service, having advanced to assistant chief after experience in an array of sectors, from patrol and special operations to narcotics control and the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program.

Following his retirement from the city force, Weathers served nearly two years as director of law enforcement at Fayette County Public Schools — until the chief position opened and the Lexington Police Department needed him back.

“My goal is to help people understand that the police department is not there just to take people to jail,” said Weathers, a Lexington native whose nine siblings include older brother Jack “Goose” Givens of UK men’s basketball 1978 NCAA Championship fame.

“We also have to be involved in the community, to try to keep bad things from happening.”

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SERVING THE COMMUNITY Soft-spoken and humble, he is quick to point to his mother, who raised Weathers and his siblings as a single parent, as the foundation of his family’s success. Like him, several of Weathers’ siblings found careers in crime prevention and community service.

His older sister, Paulette Givens, was a 30-year veteran with Fayette County Public Schools law enforcement. One brother was a corrections officer. Two other brothers joined the military. “We all grew up not wanting to do anything to embarrass our mom,” Weathers said recently, sitting at a conference table in his office at the Lexington Police Department’s downtown headquarters.

At a press conference to announce his new position, Weathers told a Lexington Herald-Leader reporter that he’d made it a point to “go through

life doing what my mother told me to do: be respectful and nice, be kind to everybody, keep your word, keep your promises. And it’s like she said, ‘If you do that, everything will be great.’”

Growing up in a household with many siblings, Weathers had to put himself through college. After graduating from Bryan Station High School, he worked part-time jobs at McDonald’s and Long John Silver’s, as well as a local hardware store to pay tuition, where he took classes toward a business degree between 1981 and 1985.

But when he was roughly 25 years old, an ad in the Kentucky Kernel caught his attention. The Lexington Police Department was hiring and the job came with benefits, which was what initially sold him on the idea. “I had never thought about joining the force until then. I’d never held a gun.

Never driven a car fast. It was all new to me,” he said. Weathers answered the ad along with roughly 1,300 other applicants who crammed into the UK Whitehall Classroom Building for the initial screening exam — and was one of 13 from that group to be hired.

After decades of successful policing — working with the narcotics division was “eye-opening,” he said, and serving as a DARE officer was a highlight, since it let him work one-on-one with kids in the community — Weathers returned to UK to complete his degree in business administration in 2011.

He followed with training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, and a master’s degree in criminal justice from Eastern Kentucky University in 2015.

Now, he’s poised to lead Lexington’s roughly 700 sworn and civilian police employees in a direction that, he hopes, will continue the agency’s emphasis on community-focused policing.

“People talk about community policing like it’s something new. But it’s not,” Weathers said. “To me, that’s what policing is supposed to be about.”

The role of the police department, Weathers emphasized, is serving on the front lines to get help where it’s needed in the community. “You have to know the people you are working for. And

you have to get them to trust you,” he said. “I used to teach a course for new officers, and I would ask them, ‘Do you think we are social workers?’ They’d say, ‘No, we’re not.’ And I said, ‘Yes you are. And you’ve got to embrace that role,” Weathers said.

“I want our officers to be problem solvers,” Weathers continued. “My job is prevention. We’ve got to address issues not just from a law enforcement perspective, but from a social perspective. If I see somebody out on the street who’s homeless and suffering from mental illness and I just take him to jail, I’m not really preventing anything.”

With that mindset as his driving force, Weathers wants to continue to build strong partnerships between the Lexington Police Department and area social service providers — including the Hope Center, the Catholic Action Center and other faith-based ministries — to help provide services to those in need as a means of helping prevent crimes before they happen.

As a father of three — he has a daughter, Jordan, who’s 25; along with a 14-year-old son, Benjamin; and a 12-year-old daughter, Emery, with his wife of 15 years, Melinda, a former victims’ advocate for the Lexington Police Department — Weathers has a deeply personal interest in making sure Lexington is a safe place for families to live and raise their children.

And, while still new to the job as chief, Weathers’ transition has been smoothed by the close-knit, longtime working relationships he has with many members of his senior staff there, including Assistant Chief Ron Compton, who has served alongside and known Weathers for 29 years.

“Chief Weathers is a very grounded individual and as community-minded as any public servant could possibly be,” Compton said. “He deeply cares for Lexington, its citizens, the police department, and all its employees. There is a great deal of respect for him within the police department, and everyone here is excited to have him as our new chief of police.” ■ www.ukalumni.net

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HATS OFF TO OUR CLASS OF 2018!

UK celebrated the accomplishments of its graduating students during the largest Commencement ever held by the university. Doctoral, master’s and baccalaureate degree recipients were recognized together, based on their colleges, over four ceremonies during the first weekend in May. More than 3,500 students participated in the ceremonies. Overall, 3,735 undergraduate and 1,568 graduate and professional degree candidates had their degrees approved by the UK Board of Trustees. Honorary degrees were given to Tom Hammond, sports broadcaster; Geoffrey Manley, expert in neurotrauma; Sara Holroyd, a professor in the UK School of Music from 1962 to 1987; and Debra Hensley, former Lexington councilwoman and activist. www.ukalumni.net

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UK observatory is important laboratory for astronomy students Not readily visible from street level, the MacAdam Student Observatory situated atop the Rose Street UK Parking Garage No. 2 makes distant stars and planets visible for study by astronomy faculty and students, along with the general public.

Opened in 2008, the observatory was named after a $250,000 gift from Keith and Phyllis MacAdam initiated the building of the facility and was matched by the Research Challenge Trust fund. (Keith MacAdam joined the UK Department of Physics and Astronomy in 1977 and was also chairman of the department. He passed away in 2016.)

Because of its location, this building-within-a-building is sometimes overlooked as passers-by go about their daily routines in the center of campus.

However, those in-the-know make use of its technology daily.

“We have about 800 students in Astronomy 191 and 192 who use the building regularly. We also have some advanced undergraduate students who help with observing and research projects to confirm planetary transits and exoplanets. In addition, about 30

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800 to 900 local people come to the ing structure can be controlled at night observatory for one of our public talks so as not to interfere with visibility during the year,” says Timothy Knauwhile observing through the telescope. er, director of the MacAdam Student “Every year campus gets a little bit Observatory and staff astronomer brighter and being able to control the in the Department of Physics and lighting rolled back the clock three or Astronomy. “We have our groupies. four years,” Knauer adds.

These are people who virtually come “Sometimes we have a lot of people every month for showing up for our SkyTalks. family weekend, May is usually a and when it’s realbig month for ly nice weather, we us because high can get 150 to 200 school teachers people that come give their students by. Then, we have a last chance of to expand out on extra credit. There the deck with porare parents who table telescopes,” Kentucky State College opened its first home-school their observatory in 1905 close to where McVey he says.

Hall is today. kids who come Except for the very often, too. time span between “The location was chosen because it the mid-1960s to 2008, UK had an would take up little space on campus. observatory to further the education In fact, the building takes up about 12 of students interested in the universe parking spaces. It’s on the Cat Path, beyond Earth. so it’s patrolled about once an hour by The earliest observatory was built UK Police, is pretty safe and centrally around 1905 near the first unit of Kaslocated on campus for students,” says tle Hall. It was a wooden structure, and Knauer. at that time, was thought to be “out in Lighting on the top deck of the park- the country,” according to a remark by

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Professor H. H. Downing, the sliding dome for use on its who was director of the campus. observatory from 1913 to Today, the MacAdam 1957.

Student Observatory helps inThat observatory had an dividuals from all walks of life 8-inch, second-hand telechange their perspective upon scope of a refracting type seeing the beauty of space. that could enlarge objects up “For most people who to 600 times. The univerhave never looked through sity had paid $1,000 for it. a telescope before, nothing The building to house the compares to the image of Sattelescope was small, yet urn because the rings are so large enough to also house obvious, especially when we the Astronomy Department UK erected a new observatory near Woodland and Hilltop see them tipped open about until 1928. The facility was avenues in 1936. as much as they can be right adequate, but as campus now,” says Knauer. “Your brain fills began to grow, other buildin the missing bits, and it looks like a er and away from the city. The univerings were erected and outside lighting model hanging there. It’s easily recogsity sought bids and the building was increased, it became more difficult to nizable compared to deep sky objects opened in 1931. successfully observe the sky from the The building contained one equatori- that appear like little fuzzy things.”

For more information about monthly ally mounted 8-inch refractor telescope.

A 20-inch reflector telescope was later SkyTalks, visit pa.as.uky.edu/obseradded. This allowed students and the vatory. ■ public to see craters and mountains on the moon, various planets, comets and stars.

In addition, a photographic attachment allowed the user to take photographs while observing the sky.

This observatory was adequate until the late Dr. H.H. Downing and an unidentified 1950s and once woman watch as a barefoot country boy again, the growth visited the UK observatory in 1936. of UK observatory, particularly after McVey (Cooperstown was Hall was constructed next door. The nearby) and the observatory was eventually dismantled. city of Lexing(Today, there is a fire hydrant in the ex- ton impacted the act spot where the original observatory visibility needed had been, says Knauer.) for successful asThe second observatory that was tronomy study by built on campus was located away from students. By 1965, what was then central campus. This the observatory more out-of-the-way site was near the was dismantled, corner of Woodland and Hilltop aveand it was reportnues on the Experiment Stationfarm. ed that Eastern (This is near where Blanding Tower is Kentucky UniRonald Nolan Gordon, an unidentified woman, and J. C. Eavens today.) President McVey said it would versity received (head of the Math Department) are in the UK observatory that be a good location because it was quiet- the telescope and was demolished in 1965. www.ukalumni.net

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Kentucky rifle brings home second national title

By Hal Morris

Photos: Elliott Hess, UK Athletics

Kentucky’s rifle team has been among the best in the country for 25 years.

Now the Wildcats can call themselves national champions for the second time.

UK, seeded fourth, edged No. 1 West

Virginia by nine points to win the 2018 NCAA Championship this past March in Charleston, South Carolina.

Henrik Larsen, freshman from Norway, was NCAA Shooter of the Year and Freshman of the Year, setting an NCAA record for highest smallbore average (592.23) at the NCAA Championship and being named All-American in smallbore, air rifle and combined.

“We’d been shooting well the whole season and to be able to compete at the

highest level when it really matters was fun,” Larsen says. “And to be able to win, that’s amazing.”

Junior Hannah Carr of Versailles earned her sixth career All-American honor, receiving third team All-American honors in combined and second team in smallbore.

Assistant Coach Rena Goodwin was named NCAA Assistant Coach of the Year.

“When Henrik did ‘Henrik stuff ’ on that first relay and shot a 592, there’s a lot of alpha dogs that now wanted to beat that number and they pushed a little too hard and made mistakes,” UK Coach Harry Mullins ’87 BE says. “That was kind of the hope — if Hannah and Henrik can do what they normally do, that can put us in an advantageous situation.”

Carr believes UK’s success, and the way the team goes about its business, should have a rollover effect in the coming years.

“I think this year set a precedent, and the people coming in see that,” she says. “I

think culturally as a team we’ve changed.

There are certain standards that we hold against each other and this competing mindset. We had a team dynamic we had not had the past couple of years. So it was great to see how the culture had changed the past three years and to see the results of that this year.”

Mullins says he is proud of how the team shook off early struggles due to illness and injury to come together at the end.

“People were able to step up and close in the ranks, and I think that built a lot of confidence in the team,” he says. “But we talked about being consistent throughout the course of the year. The pressure of the championships a lot of times, we call it the beast. The beast eats at some more than others. We kind of were at an advantage because we took the philosophy we were just going to do what we’ve been doing all year.

“We’d been in the silver mining business (referencing UK’s eight runner-up trophies) and our rival at West Virginia has all the gold. So we’re trying to flip that, let us take some gold for a while and let them take some silver.” ■

Harry Mullins ’87 BE: Leading UK rifle to the top Harry Mullins ’87 BE has seen the full evolution of the UK rifle program.

A three-time Southeastern Conference champion as a student, he took over the UK rifle program in 1987 and turned the Wildcats into one of the top programs in the country.

In March, Mullins led UK to its second national title, the other coming in 2011.

“Winning anywhere is great,” Mullins says, “but as an alumnus, winning at UK means more. When you come and you embrace the culture, the department, the university and everything else, regardless of what school it is and you truly make yourself the best, that’s a special place in your heart whether you win champ or not.”

“And knowing that is where your formative years were spent, it’s special as well.”

Under Mullins, the program finished in the top three 13 times in 23 tournaments, including eight runner-up finishes.

Aside from UK’s two titles, Mullins has been named Great American Rifle Conference (GRAC) Coach of the Year four times (1994, 2001, 2007, 2009), led UK to four GARC Tournament tiles (2001, 2002, 2004, 2009) and six regular season titles (2004, 2007, 2009, 2011-2013).

Junior Hannah Carr, whose father shot

at UK with Mullins, calls him a second dad. “Our relationship is definitely coach and student, but we don’t always just talk about shooting. There’s more to life than just shooting,” she says. “And then sometimes you need your coach to be another eye in the sky and let you know what’s going on.”

Mullins credits the program’s success to the UK Athletics Department as a whole, from the administration down to the trainers, academic counselors and fellow student-athletes.

“At the end of the day when they announce the winner, they don’t announce University of Kentucky rifle, they announce University of Kentucky,” he says.

“All 500 of us (student-athletes) wear the same name, and that’s a tremendous pride factor to be able to bring that home.” ■ www.ukalumni.net

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Alumni Engagement

Members of the Las Vegas UK Alumni Club were out in full force during the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament.

Antoine Huffman presented the MVP trophy on behalf of the Greater Nashville UK Alumni Club to Alyssa Rice at the SEC Tournament after the UK women’s basketball team’s last game.

The Pacific Northwest UK Alumni Club had a good crowd at one of its Game Watch Parties in March — including a favorite fourlegged friend.

The Arizona UK Alumni Club showed school spirit during an NCAA Tournament Game Watch Party.

The Jacksonville UK Alumni Club gathered at Buffalo Wild Wings to cheer on the Cats during the UK/Buffalo NCAA Tournament game. www.ukalumni.net

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Alumni Engagement

The UK Alumni Association held a Grad Gathering event at Rupp Arena during UK’s May Commencement weekend. Graduates and their families were treated to free refreshments, a free gift for the new graduate and provided with an opportunity for Commencement photographs.

Senior Week was kicked off with students stopping by the UK Alumni Association and picking up their Jostens official class ring.

The UK Alumni Association honored the Class of 2018’s contributions to UK with a free celebration exclusively for graduating student leaders. The Senior Toast: Graduating Student Leaders Appreciation Dinner recognized students who have made contributions to the UK community and beyond during their time on campus. The seniors posed for a photo with the guest speaker and UK Board of Trustees member Cammie DeShields Grant and UK Alumni Association President Susan Mustian on the stairs of The Club at UK’s Spindletop Hall where the event was held.

The Upstate SC UK Alumni Club held its Kentucky Derby Party at SIP Tasting Room and Rooftop Lounge in Greenville. Members enjoyed a buffet and the club held a silent auction with net proceeds from the event benefiting the club’s scholarship fund. Pictured, left to right are Patricia Allen, Marcia Brabender and Chip Broome.

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There was plenty of good food to go around for everyone at the Spring Football Tailgate Party in April at the E.S. Good Barn Lawn in conjunction with the annual Blue-White game at Kroger Field.

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Photo: Meredith Weber

Meet our new Alumni Ambassadors!

Front row, left to right are Sarah Khandani of Lexington; Morgan Cornelius of Pineville; McKaylee Copher of Lexington; and Jessica Waters of Dayton, Ohio. Back row, left to right are Alex Francke of Lexington; Michael Regard of Lexington; William Jackson III of Houston, Texas; William Reedy of Corbin; Ross Boggess of Lexington; Michaela Taylor of Schamburg, Illinois and Amy Langford of Hickman. Not available for the photo were Lauren Hamlin of Lexington and Susie Smith of Lexington.

As a partnership between the University of Kentucky Alumni Association and the Office of the President, our new Alumni Ambassador program is ready to take flight with the naming of 13 deserving University of Kentucky students.

The Alumni Ambassadors will act as official hosts for the University of Kentucky, serve the campus community, network with alumni and advance the philanthropic dialogue at UK. You might meet one of our ambassadors at a UK Alumni Association board meeting or other campus events throughout the year. Each individual chosen 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 as juniors or seniors. â–

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The University of Kentucky Alumni Association has reserved a limited number of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn for our loyal fans who are able to make the trip. Game day bus transportation to and from the Hilton Garden Inn and Kyle Field will be available for an additional fee.

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College View

The College of Arts & Sciences held an alumni reception in Washington earlier this year when the American Historical Association meeting was taking place. Left to right are history graduate student and Robert S. Lipman Fellow Cody Foster, reception hosts Dan Crowe ’95 ’98 and Leslee Gilbert ’95 ’98, Department of History Chairwoman Karen Petrone and history graduate student Corinne Gressang ’15.

The College of Dentistry held its 9th Annual Barrels & Kegs and Silent Auction Fundraiser in February, welcoming 250 alumni, students, faculty and friends. Attending, from left, are Dr. Bill Lee ’81 DE, Dr. Alexandra Arnold ’18 DE and Dr. Fred Arnold ’82 AS, ’84 DE.

The College of Design held its “Inclusion by Design” event that featured a lively discussion with alumni about diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Left to right are Randall Vaughn ’84 DES, Cynthia Johnson ’94 ’10 DES, Veronica Polinedrio ’11 FA ’12 DES and Josue Tejeda.

The Gatton College of Business and Economics inducted three exceptional alumni into the college’s Hall of Fame in February. Left to right: Thomas W. Shaver ’62, senior automotive executive (ret.), General Motors, Saturn, Volkswagen, J.D. Power and Associates; Jill Ackerman Jones ’87, executive vice president/ president, North America, CCSA and IMEA Regions & Global Travel Retail, Brown-Forman Corp.; and William W. “Bill” Thomason ’77, president and CEO, Keeneland Association.

The College of Education held a celebratory reception for its newest elementary education alumni who completed their degrees and graduated in the December 2017 Commencement ceremony. Left to right are Emily Crout, Hannah Worrell, Morgan McCutchen, Jennifer Carter and Lauren Cobb.

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The College of Agriculture, Food and Environment inducted five new members into its Hall of Distinguished Alumni. They are Alice Baesler ’63 AFE of Lexington (farm advocate); George Duncan ’61 ’64 ’79 EN of Lexington (engineer); Jewell Deene Ellis ’51 AFE, ’57 ED of Danville (family and consumer scientist); William E. Seale ’63 AS, ’69 ’75 AFE of Annapolis, Maryland (economist); and the late Dallas Milton Shuffett ’49 ’51 ’56 AFE (economist and tobacco specialist). Left to right are George Duncan, Alice Baesler, Jewell Deene Ellis and William E. Seale.

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Working on a mission to Mars

ake Ingram ’15 EN has always dreamed of helping someone get into space. Now that

dream is his reality.

“I have always been enthralled by space. One of my earliest memories as a kid was watching the Space Shuttle launch in Florida,” he says.

“It was a nighttime launch and from there, it really stuck.

“The first thing I wanted to be when I grew up was an astronaut, of course, and at some point I realized that was probably not in the cards. I thought, ‘What’s the next best thing in that progression?’

“If I can’t fly the spaceship, I definitely want to build it. That got me started down this path of being an engineer and working in the aerospace industry.”

Ingram has followed that path all the way to California as an engineer with rocket and spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX. He says he didn’t have to travel too far to find the right university for his training. The Nicholasville native says once he visited UK he knew it was the perfect fit.

“I knew I wanted to be an engineer. I applied to maybe 11 or 12 schools, and when I got on campus for a visit, I knew this was going to be the place for me,” he says. “I got to talk with some of the engineering professors and that made the biggest difference to me. I got a little insight into what it was going to be like to be a student there.

That personal touch helped me get a realistic expectation of what it was like to be a student, and that is exactly what I wanted.”

Ingram threw himself into a full campus experience at UK, which he says helped put him where he is today.

He was a tour guide at the UK Visitor Center and active in his fraternity, but counts student government as his most important extracurricular activity.

“I was in the Student Senate for a couple of years and vice president of the Student Government Association. I also served on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors,” he says.

It is that time on the board that made Ingram proud to be able to continue his UK affiliation.

“It got me excited to be an alum, which is a funny thing to say because I was having a blast in school. But it was encouraging to see so many alumni passionate about the university,” he says. “I got a little taste of that as a student rep on the board, and I was excited to be a part of that.”

Ingram was SGA president his senior year and was on the UK Board of Trustees.

“That was a phenomenal experience. It got me out of the classroom and research labs. My experience at UK prepared me to be able to work with world-class talent,” he says. “Going to UK can get you to wherever you want to go. That’s been my experience, and I feel that it can be true for any student.”

After graduating from the UK College of Engineering with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, Ingram went to work at Lockheed Martin for a couple of years working on fighter

jets before landing at SpaceX in California. The company designs, manufactures and launches rockets into space.

He’s specifically focused on the engines of Falcon 9, the world’s first orbital class rocket capable of reflight.

“The first stop is Mars, but from there, the universe is for the taking,” he says.

“For me, to be a part of something that literally has never been done before, that’s what gets me so excited.”

Ingram says he is amazed he is getting his chance to live his dream of helping to send people into space.

“I was having a fantastic experience at Lockheed Martin doing meaningful work preparing U.S. war fighters to be successful in the field and keep us safe. But SpaceX called, and it was really just an opportunity I couldn’t pass up,” he says. “It’s mindblowing for me to imagine I get to work on something like this. I was really grateful to get to start working on this mission.

“We are literally pushing the boundaries of the human race.

The first stop is Mars. But from there, the universe is there for the taking. For me to be a part of what has literally never been done before is what gets me so excited.

“I’m doing exactly what I want to be doing at this point in my career,” he says. ■

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COLLEGE INDEX

Agriculture, Food & Environment — AFE Arts & Sciences — AS Business & Economics — BE Communication & Information — CI Dentistry — DE Design — DES Education — ED Engineering — EN Fine Arts — FA The Graduate School — GS Health Sciences — HS Law — LAW Medicine — MED Nursing — NUR Pharmacy — PHA Public Health — PH Social Work — SW

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1960s Carl S. Menzies ’65 AFE is the retired director of research at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo. He received the 2018 American Sheep Industry Wool Excellence Award.

John S. Tapp ’68 ’70 ’81 EN lives in Powell, Tennessee, and is a retired civil engineer. He was named vice chairman of the U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge Site Specific Advisory Board Environmental Management/Stewardship Committee.

Samuel D. Fritz ’69 MED is medical director of Madison County Emergency Medical Services in Richmond. He received the Kentucky Ambulance Providers Association Presidential Award for his years of service.

Steven L. Hicks ’69 FA retired as professor of art and chairman of the Oklahoma Baptist University Division of Art and Design in Shawnee.

Judith Seibert Jennings ’69 ’70 ’75 AS lives in Louisville and is the retired director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She received the organization’s 2017 Sallie Bingham Award.

1970s Barry K. Allen ’70 BE is operating partner at Providence Equity Partners LLC, which is headquartered in Rhode Island.

Bruce Telfeyan ’70 AS lives in Bellevue, Nebraska, and is a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force and commissioner of the American Meteorological Society Scientific and Technological Activities Commission.

president of the Kentucky Cattleman’s Association.

Sandra L. Helton ’71 AS lives in Chicago and is a director for OptiNose, a pharmaceutical company focused on patients treated by ear, nose, throat and allergy specialists, headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania.

Paul F. Threadgill ’75 ’79 AS is a professor of biology in the Maryville College Division of Natural Sciences in Tennessee.

Joseph W. Foran ’74 BE is founder, chairman of the board of directors, chief executive officer and secretary of Matadors Resources Co., an energy company headquartered in Dallas.

Marc D. Shapiro ’74 MED is a neuroradiologist and owner of Neuro Imaging Winter Park in Winter Park, Florida. He was inducted into the International Association of HealthCare Professionals with his publication in The Leading Physicians of the World.

Susan R. Tomasky ’74 AS is lead independent director at Andeavor, an independent petroleum refiner and marketer headquartered in San Antonio.

She is the retired president of AEP Transmission, a division of American Electric Power Co. Inc. Robert H. Foree ’75 AFE, ’77 ED, ’91 LAW is an attorney and owner and operator of Old Homestead Farm in New Castle. He was elected

Gregory C. Stafford ’75 AS is general manager of the Texas A&M Hotel and Conference Center in College Station. He was previously general manager of the Logan Hotel and Spa in Philadelphia.

Steven D. White ’75 MED retired as a doctor at Henry County Medical Center in New Castle after a 42-year career.

Paul M. Colombani ’76 MED is chairman of the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital Department of Surgery, professor of surgery, pediatrics and oncology, and the Robert Garrett Professor (emeritus) of Pediatric Surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. He was honored as Best in Medicine by the American Health Council.

Ellen Francis Zornes ’76 ED is director of the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce in Columbia.

She is a retired teacher, principal and district coordinator of Adair County Schools.

Adele C. Barry ’77 BE was named to the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2018. She is senior associate athletic director for internal operations at the University of Colorado in Boulder and is in her 12th

year as the department’s senior woman’s administrator.

Harold J. Haering ’77 AS, ’81 DE is dean of the Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine–Illinois in Downers Grove.

Jeffrey B. Clark ’78 AS retired as the Kankakee County Clerk in Bourbonnais, Illinois, after more than a 32-year career.

John M. Thomson ’78 ’84 is president of Northwest State Community College in Archbold, Ohio. He was previously president of Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus.

Guy M. Thompson ’79 AFE is east regional vice president of Advanced Disposal Services Inc. in Ponte Vedra, Florida.

Ray H. Witte ’79 AS, ’82 ’91 ED is dean of the University of Toledo Judith Herb College of Education in Ohio.

He was previously a professor and chairman of the Miami University Department of Educational Psychology.

1980s Steven R. Armstrong ’80 CI is senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at MSC Industrial Supply Co. Inc. in Melville, New York.

Gregory B. Daniel ’80 AFE is interim dean of the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is also professor of radiology and head of the Virginia Tech Department of Animal Clinical Sciences.

Raymond E. Hammerschmidt ’80 AFE is a professor of plant, soil and microbial sciences in the Department of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences in the Michigan State University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in East Lansing.

Jan E. McKell ’81 BE is executive director of the South Central Tennessee Workforce Alliance in Spring Hill. She was appointed to the Maury Regional Medical Center Board of Trustees.

Jeffry N. Quinn ’81 EN, ’84 LAW is president and chief executive officer at Tronox Ltd. in Stamford, Connecticut.

He is also a member of the company’s board of directors.

John F. Vincent ’81 AS, ’84 LAW lives in Ashland and was appointed as the 32nd Judicial Circuit Court, Division II judge by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin.

Curt S. Godin ’82 AS, ’83 PHA is senior principal toxicologist at Smithers Avanza in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Mark E. Hall ’82 EN is field manager for the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Black Rock Field Office in Winnemucca, Nevada. He was previously the acting field manager and assistant field manager for the Black Rock Field Office.

Stephen E. Macadam ’82 EN is president and chief executive officer of EnPro Industries Inc. in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Greg W. Caudill ’83 BE is president of Farmer’s National Bank in Danville. He

was re-elected to the Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati Board of Directors.

Thomas J. Davis ’83 EN lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is area manager of planning and design for S&ME Inc., which is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Davis’ management area covers Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia.

James M. Peffer ’83 AS, ’86 LAW is executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Conduent Inc., a business process services company headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. He had been general counsel and secretary at Xerox.

Karl N. Truman ’83 BE is an attorney and owner of the Karl Truman Law Office, which has offices in Jeffersonville, Indiana, and Louisville.

He earned his law degree from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Bill J. Mabry ’84 LAW is an operator at Buckley King, which is headquartered in Cleveland, in the firm’s Louisville office.

Donald A. Brice ’85 AS is vice president and principal geologist at Aecom Technical Services Inc. in Cincinnati.

Kelly A. Carter ’85 ED was named interim chairwoman of the Missouri University of Science Technology Department of Teacher Education and Certification in Rolla, Missouri. She had served as interim director of the school’s teacher education program.

Jeffrey D. Fehlis ’85 BE is executive vice president of the south region for the American Cancer Society in Dallas. He had been managing director, global sales, at Delta Airlines.

Paul C. Varga ’85 BE is chief executive officer at Brown-Forman Inc. in Louisville. He was previously president and chief executive officer of the company’s Brown-Forman Beverages subsidiary.

Thomas D. Kmetz ’85 HS retired as president of Norton Children’s Hospital in Louisville, a division of Norton Healthcare Inc. Wanda P. Beckley ’86 ’89 SW is director of the Jessamine DUI and Substance Abuse Program in Nicholasville.

ReDonna K. Chandler ’86 AS, ’89 ’93 ED is director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse AIDS Research Program in Silver Spring, Maryland, part of the National Institutes of Health.

Bradley A. Patrick ’86 BE is chief people and communications officer at Valvoline Inc. in Lexington.

John K. Romines ’86 AFE lives in Wyoming, Minnesota, and is vice president of seed sales at Winfield United, Land O’Lakes Inc. He is the 2017 Innovator in Residence speaker at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls.

Allen R. Bond ’87 MED is medical director of radiology at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Cynthiana. He had been medical director of radiology at Kings Daughter’s Hospital www.ukalumni.net

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SPRING INTO SUMMER You Belong Here!

Through June 15, 2018, The Club at UK’s Spindletop Hall is offering:

ONE THIRD OFF THE INITIATION FEE A $250 savings for a Family Resident Membership with 6 months’ dues paid in advance

OR

TWO THIRDS OFF THE INITIATION FEE A $500 savings for a Family Resident Membership with 12 months’ dues paid in advance

Life Members of the UK Alumni Association can join The Club at UK’s Spindletop Hall at any time with No Initiation Fee. Incredibly affordable Young Alumni/Student Memberships are available to STAT Members of the UK Alumni Association.

Are you UK Faculty or Staff?

You can PAYROLL DEDUCT your dues, rather than paying 6 MONTHS up front. Please inquire.

MEMBERS ENJOY: 3 Heated Pools plus a Baby Pool 8 Tennis Courts 7 Pickleball Courts 2 Chipping & Putting Greens Roxie’s Member Dining with Veranda The Spectacular Spindletop Hall Mansion Access to Lexington’s Legacy Trail Basketball & Volleyball Courts Summer Tiki Bar and Grill Special Club Events Expansive Grounds Summer Camps Picnic Areas Dining Privileges at The Boone Center

Please call 859-255-2777 or email membership@spindletophall.org for an application and more information. Also, visit our website at www.spindletophall.org.

Homecoming and Golden Wildcat Reunion

SAVE THE DATE

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY

Homecoming & Golden Wildcat Reunion OCTOBER 18-21, 2018

The Class of 1968 is invited back to reminisce with former classmates Oct. 18-21. All Golden Wildcats (Class of 1968 and prior years) are invited to participate in the various activities.

Festivities will be all week, including the Homecoming football game vs. Vanderbilt on Oct. 20.

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Jill Ackerman Jones ’87 BE is executive vice president/ president North America and Latin America regions, at Brown-Forman Inc. in Louisville. She also serves on Brown-Forman’s Executive Leadership Team.

Christopher H. Manning ’87 AFE is a landscape architect and partner at Human Nature Inc., a planning/design studio in Cincinnati. He was named to the American Society of Landscape Architects Council of Fellows.

Stephen D. Lynn ’87 AS is the city attorney for Owensboro. He earned his law degree at the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Kim H. Oatman ’87 EN is assistant vice president of facilities at Morehead State University in Morehead. He was previously branch manager at Civil Design Inc. Ginny L. Creasman ’88 ’92 PHA is director of the Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System in Michigan. She was previously director of the Aleda E. Lutz VA Medical Center.

David A. Wright ’88 PHA is the owner of Butterfield Pharmacy & Medical Supplies in Fort Pierce, Florida. He was named to the Board of Pharmacy by Florida Gov. Rick Scott.

Douglas S. Johnson ’89 CI is vice president of marketing and sales for Clark Material Handling Co. in Lexington.

Kevin T. Stevens ’89 BE is the dean of the Loyola

University Chicago Quinlan School of Business in Chicago. He was named to Crain’s Chicago Business Who’s Who in Chicago Business.

1990s John R. Crockett ’90 LAW is general counsel, chief compliance officer and corporate secretary at Louisville Gas and Electric Co. and Kentucky Utilities Co. in Louisville. He was previously chairman of Frost Brown Todd LLC. Brian J. Ettensohn ’90 FA is the School of Fine Arts coordinator at Henderson County High School in Henderson.

Christopher B. McCoy ’90 DES is an architect and owner of McCoy Architects LLC in Lexington.

Brent M. Cooper ’91 AS is president and chief executive officer of the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce in Fort Mitchell. He has volunteered to help with the capital campaign for the nonprofit group Children Inc. Brian S. Mason ’91 ’09 FA is a professor of percussion and coordinator of the Percussion Program in the Morehead State University Caudill College of Arts, Humanities and Social Studies. He was named the 2018 Kentucky Music Educators Association College/ University Teacher of the Year.

John C. Tilley ’91 CI is secretary of the Kentucky Justice and Safety Cabinet in Frankfort.

Melissa Dell Bellew ’92 LAW is chief executive officer of the Penobscot Bay YMCA in Rockport, Maine. She was previously district executive director of the Capital District YMCA in New York.

of Neuroscience in the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington.

He had been the Cleveland Clinic Morris R. and Ruth V. Graham Endowed Chair Professor and Vice Chair of Neurosciences and professor of molecular medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

Robert S. Stafford ’92 ED is superintendent of Owen County Public Schools in Owenton. He was named Owen County Chamber of Commerce 2017 Business Person of the Year.

Jeffrey D. Blankenship ’94 AFE is an associate professor in the Hobart and William Smith Colleges Department of Art and Architecture in Geneva, New York.

DeNeia Best Thomas ’92 ’96 ’05 ED is chief of staff at West Virginia State University in Institute. She had been associate provost, vice president for institutional effectiveness and a professor of psychology at Kentucky State University.

Karen Chandler ’93 EN is vice president, operations of Laredo Petroleum Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had been the company’s director-operations, technology and planning.

Paula L. Hume ’93 BE is a certified public accountant and director at Barnes Dennig & Co. Ltd. in Cincinnati.

Justin M. Marriott ’93 ’95 BE is founder and managing director of Marriott & Co., a boutique investment banking firm in Richmond, Virginia.

Daniel P. Murphy ’93 AS, ’98 LAW is assistant dean of community engagement and diversity at the UK College of Law. Riqiang Yan ’93 MED is chairman of the Department

Patricia Blain Dunaway ’94 EN is office executive at Michael Baker International Inc. in the firm’s Louisville office.

She had been state highway engineer for the Kentucky Department of Transportation.

Patrick R. Hughes ’94 LAW is a partner at Dressman Benzinger Lavelle PSC in Crestview Hills. He is a committee chairman for the capital campaign for the nonprofit group Children, Inc. Chad Polk ’94 DES is president and chief executive officer of Creative Design Professionals Architecture LLC, an award-winning architecture firm in Nashville, Tennessee.

He also serves as secretary for the American Institute of Architects/Tennessee Society.

Ricky L. Jones ’95 ’97 AS is a professor and chairman of the University of Louisville Pan-African Studies Department. He is also an author and hosts the radio program, “Ricky Jones Show,” and is a www.ukalumni.net

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New grad tips May brought another round of talented graduates across the stage to receive their University of Kentucky diplomas. Each year over 6,700 students graduate from UK. They are eager for the next phase of their lives. We turned to our UK alumni to share words of encouragement and advice: What gems do you wish someone Caroline Francis would have shared with you as a new graduate?

Mary Shelman, agriculture and food industry thought leader, suggested that graduates, “Play to your strengths, be open to new opportunities and proactively make decisions about your life rather than being swept along by the crowd. A successful and fulfilling life is determined not by the destination, but by the quality of the journey. Life is a process of discovery. It is important to be proactive in the process, recognizing decision points and making deliberate choices. Success is up to you.”

Jeff Ashley, founder and senior consultant with Ashley Rountree and Associates, philanthropy consultants, recommended the following: “UK prepared me in a lot of ways for my career, but probably not in ways that I fully realized until many years later. At first, I thought that my degree, my GPA and my ‘experience’ would be the most important things to discuss and highlight — and no doubt they were critically important, but I quickly found that additional skill sets and attributes were just as, and sometimes even more, important.

“The simple ability to communicate clearly and effectively is an asset that I probably under-estimated initially in terms of importance. But I had those skills, and they were honed by my time in class, interacting with faculty and other students, and engaging in other extracurricular activities offered at UK that I was able to take advantage of.

“The understanding of the impact of personal relationships formed at UK and made available through the broad and deep network of alumni was incredibly impactful. In one of my first interviews, about 80 percent of the time was spent talking with the interviewer about his time at UK — we had a connection, a builtin relationship that I didn’t fully realize would be an asset for me. I ended up getting that job, by the way.”

Will Nash, executive director of New Site Development for New Leaders, a New York-based education nonprofit focused on principal and teacher professional development, recently served with a panel of alumni for the UK Alumni Association’s student mentoring 3D (Dine, Discover and Decide) event. He encouraged students who attended to, “Get comfortable shaking hands with people, looking them in the eye and networking. Say yes to opportunities while you have the chance to build your career. Additionally, there is a positive correlation between humility and success. The more humility you have, the more success you will have.”

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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contributing columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal and Louisville Eccentric Observer.

William H. St. Clair ’95 MED is a radiation oncologist at UK HealthCare Radiation Medicine Clinic in Lexington.

Scott P. Novak ’96 ’00 AS is a principal associate at Abt Associates, a global research firm located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was previously senior researcher at Battelle Memorial Institute.

David S. Asbery ’96 MED is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Asbery and Associates OB-GYN LLC, which has locations in Mt. Vernon and Nashville, both in Illinois. He also is a member of the Rend Lake College Board of Trustees.

Paul C. Looney ’96 EN was appointed deputy secretary for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet

by Secretary Greg Thomas in Frankfort. He was previously executive director of the Office of Project Development.

Chad C. Street ’96 DE, ’01 MED is an oral and maxillofacial surgeon and owner and president of East Kentucky Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in Pikeville. He was named to the board of directors of Community Trust Bank, a subsidiary of Community Trust Bancorp.

Christopher R. Carter ’97 BE is a certified public accountant and shareholder of Stiles Carter and Associates in Elizabethtown. He was named to the Central Kentucky Com-

munity Foundation Board of Directors.

Stacey Harris Church ’97 BE is the general manager of the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville. She had been assistant director at the Fort Worth Convention Center and Will Rogers Memorial Center.

Colleen S. Frazer ’97 ’04 EN is director of X-ray diffractometry and X-ray reflectometry services at Covalent Metrology in Santa Clara, California. She was previously an X-ray diffractometry and X-ray reflectometry services senior scientist at EAG Laboratories.

Brian M. Johnson ’97 LAW is an attorney and member at Dickinson Wright PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office.

He was named a 2018 Kentucky Super Lawyer for Business Litigation.

Daniel T. Koehn ’97 ’13 FA lives in Wilmore and is an adjunct voice teacher at Eastern Kentucky University and Transylvania University.

Montie L. Manning ’97 CI is director of the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library in Plainfield, Indiana. He was previously director of the Alexandria-Monroe Township Library.

Larry H. Filer ’98 ’99 BE is associate vice president for entrepreneurship and economic development at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He had been an associate professor and chairman of the school’s Department of Economics.

Todd T. Tucker ’98 ’99 FA is band director and head of the Fine Arts Department

at Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio.

Jennifer M. Blatz ’99 AS is president and chief executive officer at Strive Together, a nonprofit organization located in Cincinnati.

Amy Owens Brennan ’99 CI is media events manager at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. She is responsible for developing and supporting media events, including attractions and other new product openings and seasonal offerings.

2000s Jaclyn Holt van Nes ’00 AS, ’04 MED is medical director of women’s specialty care and director of the University of Tennessee Medical Center Obstetrics and Gynecology Simulation in Knoxville. She is also assistant professor in the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine.

Improvement Innovation Network, a contract through Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that promotes quality improvement and patient safety in hospitals across the nation. Henderson’s duties include monitoring in-patient adverse drug events, promoting antibiotic stewardship, and reducing readmissions through community collaboration in participating Kentucky hospitals.

Michael A. Masick ’01 AS is director of strategy and corporate development at Brown-Forman Inc. in Louisville. He had been vice president, director of global business strategy and analysis for Jack Daniel’s family of brands.

Sheryl Fern Stahl ’01 CI is director of the Frances-Henry Library at the Jack H. Skirball Campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles.

Deborah L. Williamson ’00 AS is acting deputy commissioner for the Department of Workplace Standards in Frankfort.

Lindsay Caldwell Walker ’01 ’02 EN is a transportation engineer at Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. in the firm’s Lexington office.

John A. Barber ’01 EN was appointed state highway engineer for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet Department of Highways in Frankfort by Secretary Greg Thomas. He had been the department’s deputy state highway engineer.

Todd S. Jones ’02 BE lives in Paducah and was appointed Circuit Court judge for the 2nd Judicial Circuit, Division 1. He was previously assistant McCracken County attorney.

Emily Custer Henderson ’01 PHA lives in Shelbyville and is a pharmacist consultant for the Kentucky Hospital Association. She works with the Hospital

Ashley D. Lyles ’02 AS is the founder and president of Sparkle Bright Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Chicago that raises funds to defeat brain cancer and provides moments, experiences, gifts and other acts of kindness to brain tumor patients. She was previously an attorney at Sudekum Cassidy & Shulruff Chtd.

Bryan E. Marshall ’02 CI is editor and general manager of the Grant County News in Williamstown.

Joel D. Traut ’02 BE is director, real estate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP in New York. He was previously region manager at GE Capital Real Estate.

Eileen R. Dunnington ’03 AS is executive director of the Primate Rescue Center Inc. in Nicholasville.

Joshua L. Morehead ’03 AFE is director of education and community outreach for the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center in his native Paducah. He is actively involved with the arts in the community and has served as a volunteer on several boards and committees that focus on the arts and civic interests.

Morehead is currently a member of Leadership Paducah Class 31.

Katie A. Shannon ’03 FA is an artist and associate professor of art at Ohio State University at Mansfield.

Melinda Timberlake Sunderland ’03 LAW is a shareholder and managing director of the Louisville office of Morgan & Pottinger PSC. Matthew R. Walter ’03 LAW is a partner at Helton Walter and Noelker Attorneys at Law in Danville. He was appointed director of the First Federal Savings Bank of Kentucky Board of Directors.

Jonathan R. Anderson ’04 BE is provost and vice president for academic affairs at Middle Georgia State University in Macon. He was previous-

ly professor of management and deputy provost at the University of West Georgia.

Nathan R. Myers ’05 ED is assistant provost of international initiatives at Youngstown State University in Ohio.

Jennifer L. Reed ’05 AS is director of the Huron County Department of Job and Family Services in Norwalk, Ohio.

She had been an assistant prosecutor in Erie and Lucas counties.

Wil R. Schroder ’05 ED is an attorney at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in the firm’s Covington office. He received the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law Outstanding Young Alumnus Award.

Paul J. Purcell ’06 BE is a loan officer at Central Kentucky Ag Credit in the Danville office. He was previously chief finance officer for Garrard County Schools.

Molly E. Vice ’06 AFE is director of Nashville Health Care Council Leadership Health Care, an initiative of the council dedicated to nurturing the talents of the next generation of health care industry leaders in Nashville, Tennessee. She had been the council’s director of events and sponsorship fulfillment.

Landon T. Marston ’07 EN, ’08 BE is an assistant professor of engineering in the Kansas State University Department of Civil Engineering in Manhattan.

Nick A. Finan ’08 AS lives in Park Hills and is the freight brokerage and operations manager for Service First Logistics’ Ohio operations. www.ukalumni.net

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Class Notes Cheryl R. Hopson ’08 AS is an assistant professor of African-American studies in the Western Kentucky University Department of Diversity and Community Studies in Bowling Green. She specializes in 20th century African-American and American literature and culture, Third Wave feminism and generational black feminisms.

Brian S. Conlon ’09 AFE is facilities manager at Three Chimneys Farm in Lexington.

Henry M. Harned ’09 ’10 AS, ’14 GS is coordinator of the Start Talking program, a drug use prevention program directed at children that was started by Ohio Gov. John Kasick. He lives in New Albany, Ohio.

Patrick D. Lloyd ’09 ED is a physical therapist assistant with Performance Physical Therapy in Nicholasville.

He was named the Somerset Community College Physical Therapist Assistant Program 2017 Outstanding Clinical Educator.

Samantha L. Miller ’09 LAW is a partner at Mackenzie Hughes LLP in Syracuse, New York.

Zachary D. Schmitt ’09 BE is chief financial officer at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Astoria, Oregon.

He had been chief financial officer at Red Bud Regional Hospital in Illinois.

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bethtown, Glasgow, Louisville and New Albany, Indiana.

Tyler A. Teuscher ’09 BE is an analyst in the Dayton Power and Light Co. regulatory operations department in Dayton, Ohio.

Zachary M. VanVactor ’09 AS is an attorney at Stites & Harbison PLLC in the firm’s offices in Louisville and Jeffersonville, Indiana. He was one of 24 people selected for the Leadership Kentucky Elevate Kentucky Class of 2018. VanVactor earned his law degree from Tulane University School of Law. Amanda J. Waterstrat ’09 MED is an associate professor of biology at Somerset Community College in Somerset. She graduated from the Council of Postsecondary Education’s Leadership Institute for early career and underrepresented minority faculty who aspire to leadership position.

2010s Regan C. Love ’10 FA is director of the Salvation Army School of Performing Arts in Naples, Florida.

Robert E. Pelosi ’11 EN is a shareholder, client representative and manager, engineering group of OHM Advisors in Nashville, Tennessee.

Rob Riddle ’11 AFE is a partner in New Albany Realty in Ohio. He is in the 2018 Class of 30 Under 30 by Realtor Magazine for stellar traits in customer service, community involvement and business acumen. He specializes in raw land and rural properties.

Benjamin M. Stiers ’11 F is an instructional assistant professor in the Illinois State University College of Fine Arts School of Music in Normal and serves as assistant director of athletic bands and percussion. He received an Outstanding University Teaching Award from Illinois State University.

Jeanette M. Tesmer ’12 FA is executive director at the Gateway Regional Arts Center in Mt. Sterling. She was named to the Morehead State Public Radio Community Advisory Board.

Kevin M. Hart ’13 BE is the owner of Kevin Hart State Farm Insurance and Financial Services in Louisville.

Karen N. Rignall ’13 AS is an assistant professor of community and leadership development in the Department of Community and Leadership in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

She was named a Whiting Foundation Whiting Public Engagement Fellow.

Samuel E. Pollom ’13 LAW is vice president, director of operations and compliance officer at WealthSouth, a division of Farmer’s National Bank in Danville.

Cathryn Barlekamp Allison ’14 BE is a senior tax accountant at Haskell & White LLP, which has offices in San Diego and Irvine, California.

She had been a staff accountant at the firm.

Rachel M. Sims ’14 ’16 HS is a speech language patholo-

gist at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Bill Wilkerson Center in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sean D. Piatt ’15 FA is a band teacher and director of bands at West Jessamine High School in Nicholasville.

Sarah R. Harris ’16 CI is a public relations coordinator in the Corporate Communications Department of BBR Music Group in Nashville, Tennessee.

Amanda Olix Loomis ’16 DES is an interior designer at SWBR Inc. in Rochester, New York. She was previously an interior design consultant at The Home Depot.

Katlyn J. Spalding ’16 BE is a senior account assistant at Flood Bumstead McCready & McCarthy, an entertainment business management firm in Nashville, Tennessee.

Xiurui Cui ’17 AFE is the University of Tennessee Extension area farm management specialist for Benton, Cheatham, Dickson, Henry, Houston, Humphreys, Montgomery, Robertson, Steward and Sumner counties and is based in Clarksville.

Former Students Mary Armstrong Hammond is executive director of the Paducah Convention and Visitors Bureau in Paducah.

She received the Paducah Area Chamber of Commerce Summit Award for her work promoting Paducah.

Sandy Shores Jan. 2 – 13, 2019

Panama to Paradise April 1 – 17, 2019

Israel, Land of Cultural Treasures Feb. 9 – 18, 2019

The Galapagos Islands Feb. 20 – 27, 2019

Sailing the Windward Islands Feb. 26 – March 5, 2019

TRAVELING WILDCATS 2019 TOURS Book your trip today by visiting www.ukalumni.net/travel

Great Trains & Grand Canyons March 17 – 22, 2019

Dutch Waterways April 8 – 16, 2019

The Masters Tournament April 11 - 19, 2019

California Rail Discovery April 24 - 30, 2019

Celtic Lands April 27 – May 6, 2019

Normandy & Gems of the Seine May 7 – 18, 2019

Apulia: Undiscovered Italy May 15 – 23, 2019

Springtime in Provence, Burgundy, Beaujolais May 15 – 23, 2019

Rivieras and Islands: France, Italy, Spain May 29 – June 6, 2019

National Parks & Lodges of the Old West June 5 – 14, 2019

Awe of Alaska June 12 – 19, 2019

Edinburgh June 17 – 25, 2019

Arctic Expedition under the Midnight Sun June 21 – July 1, 2019

Gaelic Glory June 26 – July 5, 2019

Gems of the Danube July 7 – 18, 2019

Colorado Rockies, Rails & Western National Parks July 14 – 22, 2019

Cruise the Rhine: Amsterdam to Basel July 22 – 30, 2019

Northern Frontiers on the Marina July 22 – Aug. 4, 2019

Canadian Maritimes Aug. 1 – 11, 2019

Inspiring Italy Sept. 1 – 12, 2019

Island Life Ancient Greece Sept. 5 – 13, 2019

North Atlantic Quest Sept. 10 – 27, 2019

Travel the world in the company of fellow UK alumni and friends.

Flavors of Northern Italy Sept. 14 – 22, 2019

Classic New England Oct. 3 - 11, 2019

Fall Foliage of Canada & New England on the Riviera Oct. 8 – 19, 2019

Book your 2019 Traveling Wildcats trip today! www.ukalumni.net

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In Memoriam Hazel C. Arnold ’46 Frankfort, Ky. Fellow

Donald L. Armstrong ’53 Shelbyville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Martha Barclay Giel ’63 Saint Petersburg, Fla. Fellow

Dorotha S. Oatts ’46 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Ellis Bishop ’53 Burkesville, Ky.

Elizabeth M. Atinay ’64 Lexington, Ky.

Margaret Cook Casey ’54 Waddy, Ky.

Harold L. Halfhill ’65 Richmond, Ky.

Bruce R. Frantz ’74 Louisville, Ky. Life Member

Mildred Stratton Chapman ’54 Hartford City, Ind.

S. Thomas Lo ’65 Palo Alto, Calif.

Daniel S. Berger ’75 Greenville, Ohio

Richard V. McDougall ’65 Lexington, Ky.

James R. Houtz ’75 Georgetown, Ky.

Mary Taylor Young ’65 Lexington, Ky.

Charles R. Keeton ’75 Louisville, Ky.

Naomi Armstrong Broida ’66 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Mary Dawson Marcum ’75 Elizabethtown, Ky.

Robert S. Howell ’47 Lexington, Ky. Life Member Mary Nichols Rogers ’48 Louisville, Ky. Nancy Kirby Alton ’49 Durham, N.C. Life Member D. Milton Shuffett ’49 Campbellsville, Ky. Leonard I. Chambliss ’50 Paradise Valley, Ariz.

Paul G. Darnall ’50 Ipandma, Rio de Janero Byron Gail Hughes ’50 Carlisle, Ky. Jeanette Blair Ladenburger ’50 Life Member, Fellow

Thomas P. Lewis ’54 Lexington, Ky., Fellow Lex H. Simmons ’54 Shepherdsville, Ky. Sheldon N. Isaacs ’55 Louisville, Ky. Vivian Cox Johnson ’55 Lexington, Ky. George C. Barber ’56 Versailles, Ky.

Gary R. Wallace ’66 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow J. Peter Cassidy Jr. ’67 Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Roy D. McDonald ’56 Marietta, Ga.

Kim Reynolds ’67 Louisville, Ky. Life Member

Joseph L. Rose ’56 Murray, Ky.

Waller M. Scott ’67 Cincinnati, Ohio

Earl C. Yates Jr. ’50 Lexington, Ky.

George L. Hannon ’57 Mechanicsburg, Pa.

Ella McClure Berry ’51 Simpsonville, Ky.

Barbara Tatum Shelton ’57 Scottsville, Ky.

Carolyn von Gruenigen Walker ‘67 Asheville, N.C.

Joan L. Hoskins ’51 Lexington, Ky., Fellow

Ollie T. Smith ’57 Lexington, Ky.

Louise McIntosh Slaughter ’51 Fairport, N.Y.

Clara Yates Wieland ‘58 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

John E. Owen Mount Juliet, Tenn.

Life Member

Anna B. Holt ’59 Princeton, Ky.

Hazel F. Wells ’50 Burkesville, Ky. Life Member

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Marie Stallins Jones ’53 Georgetown, Ky.

Lenville R. White ’67 Louisville, Ky. Life Member Edward A. Eckenhoff ’68 Naples, Fla. William H. Funk II ’68 Bowling Green, Ky. Douglas C. Wallace ’68 Paducah, Ky.

Aileen Field Alexander ’52 Sorrento, Fla.

Nancy Foley Johnson ’59 Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Edward L. Massie Jr. ’52 Cordova, Tenn.

Richard C. Lamb ’60 Lexington, Ky.

William R. Piel ’70 Glenshaw, Pa.

Daniel S. Smith ’52 Tulsa, Okla.

Charles W. Strader ’60 Bowling Green, Ky.

Michael R. Sheffield ’71 Winchester, Ky.

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Paul A. Taccarino ’69 Rockford, Ill.

Clifton R. Smith ’73 Winchester, Ky. David L. Bradley ’74 Columbia, Mo.

Harvey E. Pennington II ’75 La Grange, Ky. Charles K. Mahaffey ’76 Louisville, Ky. Alfred R. Baldridge ’78 Vallejo, Calif.

Barbara Murray Mercer ’78 Lexington, Ky. Susan Knoll ’81 Lexington, Ky., Fellow Craig A. Johnson ’87 Roswell, Ga. Julie Sullivan Pauly ’89 Lexington, Ky Hope Hurst Lanham ’94 Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Natalie Barrett Bailey ’96 Lexington, Ky. Kyle P. Stewart ’02 Lexington, Ky. Chadwick Scott Tichenor ’07 Chicago, Ill.

Former students and friends Harold D. Asher Lexington, Ky. James W. Baker Lexington, Ky. Don Ball Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Dorothy Swetnam Botto Fort Thomas, Ky. Lorraine S. Brooks London, Ky.

Jeffery D. Hatter Liberty, Ky.

Lisa Mink Brodhead, Ky.

Samuel S. Walls Lexington, Ky.

Johan Hilbrink Blue Ash, Ohio

William Sanford Rinesmith Lexington, Ky.

Carolyn Rigdon Wheeler Lexington, Ky.

Phillip M. Kitchen Lexington, Ky.

Garnetta Preston Rhoads Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Luke Martin Whitsell Morganfield, Ky.

Alan Lewis Livingston Plantation, Fla. Pearse Lyons Nicholasville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Billy J. Miles Owensboro, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Matthew John Szabunio Nicholasville, Ky. S. Sidney Ulmer Lexington, Ky. Fellow

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Summer 2018

Retrospect

9 years ago…

Hannah Newman, held by family friend Kelley White, admired the hot air balloons at the Little Kentucky Derby Balloon Glow Field Party at the Good Barn Field in 2009.

26 years ago…

58 years ago…

University of Kentucky students majoring in speech therapy who were awarded Lexington Junior League Scholarships in 1960 were, from left, Lila Leach of Corbin, a senior; Jan Harris, Louisville; and Elizabeth Jane Withers, Hardinsburg, both sophomores.

77 years ago…

Photos: ExploreUK

In 1992 Lee Helivers, Jennifer Fournalis and Michael Rust took part in an Earth Day display opportunity.

Leisla Moran and Frances Beard practiced cooking in the cooking laboratory of the new Home Economics Building in 1941. www.ukalumni.net

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Photo: Elliott Hess, UK Athletics

Quick Take

A good run After 50 years, 733 victories and countless memories, Cliff Hagan Stadium hosted the final regular season game in its storied history on May 13 with a capacity crowd. Kentucky baseball celebrated its final regular season weekend in the stadium with special recognitions, ceremonial pitches, Senior Night and fireworks. Before the last game, 50 years of UK coaches threw out ceremonial first pitches. Cliff Hagan, UK Athletics director from 1975 to 1988 and for whom the stadium is named, threw out the last first pitch.

Later this summer, the Cats will move into their new $49 million home along Alumni Drive near the softball and soccer facilities that will hold about 7,000 fans. The state-of-the-art stadium will also house the team offices, locker/team rooms and practice facilities. â–

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