Spring 2019 Kentucky Alumni Magazine

SPRING 2019

A new season: Insights into our new membership model

Spring 2019 • Volume 90 • Number 1

The UK Alumni Association is changing its membership model but our mission and commitment remains the same.

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A new season: Insights into our new membership model

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One Day for UK

Get details on upcoming UK Alumni Association membership changes and learn how these enhancements will serve Wildcats of all generations.

UK will rally alumni, friends and fans on April 17 to support a 24-hour day of giving where donors can support the college, unit or cause of their choice.

By Molly Williamson

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A woman in the driver’s seat

Laura Schwab ’98 LAW is Aston Martin’s first female president and travels every week to one of the company’s dealerships in Canada, the United States, Mexico and South America.

By Morgan Korn

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Alumni gym: A historical building gets a makeover

Home to UK men’s basketball at the start of its dynasty, the facility was renovated and renamed the Alumni Gym Fitness Center as part of the new $201 million Bill Gatton Student Center.

Photo: Hal Morris

By Hal Morris

The UK Alumni Association played an integral role in establishing Bowman, the Wildcat sculpture in front of Memorial Coliseum on campus.

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

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Class Notes In Memoriam Creative Juices Retrospect Quick Take

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A class act!

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T. Lynn Williamson: The man behind a beloved UK tradition

Six deserving professors received the UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award for excellence in the classroom.

Since 1978, T. Lynn Williamson ’68 AS, ’74 LAW has been advisor for the UK cheerleading squad but spends his day as principal deputy general counsel in the UK Office of Legal Counsel.

By Gail Hairston

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Presidential Conversation

Investing in our future When we describe our progress in higher education, we often do so in numbers. For example, at the University of Kentucky, our graduation rate and retention rates — the success of students returning from one year to the next — are now at record highs and are the highest among public universities in Kentucky.

But what’s more important is what those numbers represent: • More Kentuckians prepared with the skills and training to join the workforce • More Kentuckians equipped to support their families and give back to their communities • More Kentuckians poised to show the world what Kentucky can do These gains are being propelled by our efforts to assist students and families with financial need — a pursuit strengthened in December by philanthropist Mira Ball.

Mira and the late Don Ball have spent a lifetime creating and sustaining one of the country’s most successful homebuilding businesses. They also have spent a lifetime giving back in ways that strengthen lives and build communities.

In December, the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees accepted a $10 million gift from Mira Ball to support the nationally-heralded UK Leveraging Economic Affordability for Developing Success (LEADS) initiative. The gift is the single largest scholarship gift in UK’s history, and it builds upon her family’s incredible legacy by supporting UK. The gift — part of the Don and Mira Ball Endowed Scholarship Program — will fund dozens of scholarships for students from Nelson and Henderson counties (Don’s and Mira’s home counties), focused specifically on addressing unmet financial need.

We know this gift will make a lasting impact. We’ve already seen what UK LEADS can do — what it can mean for our state. We launched the UK LEADS program in 2016, after a review of internal UK data suggested that students with $5,000 or more in unmet need (defined as the amount remaining after the expected family contribution and all other aid) had a significantly higher risk of not returning to the institution, irrespective of their academic success.

For example, students with a college GPA of 3.0 or higher who did not return had a much higher level of unmet financial need than students with similar academic performance who

did return for their second year at UK. Unmet need may be the most significant factor in whether a student earns a UK degree.

That’s unacceptable.

As the state’s flagship, land-grant institution, we have an obligation to enhance access and affordability for our students. Unmet need is a challenge worth combatting. That’s why the UK LEADS program is a cornerstone of UK’s comprehensive philanthropy campaign — “Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign.”

Over the last two years, a pilot program for UK LEADS has impacted about 500 students, producing retention rates exceeding predictions by almost 20 percentage points.

That’s a significantly higher number of students returning to the university to earn a degree that will positively impact their lives and amplify their career trajectories.

As Mira Ball would attest, the impact truly manifests in the student, clad in a cap and gown, crossing the Commencement stage at Rupp Arena, as more than 1,200 did in our December Commencement activities.

That is what success looks like to us.

Through UK LEADS, we believe we are addressing one of the most important issues intentionally and directly. That’s our promise to our students and their families; it is our commitment to the state and broader society that we serve.

Because it’s about more than numbers.

It’s Mira Ball’s vision for a brighter Kentucky. It’s how we show the world what Kentucky can do.

Sincerely, Eli Capilouto President

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Pride in Blue

A new season is coming for UK alumni

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Fritz Skeen

At December’s Commencement, I had the honor of representing the UK Alumni Association as your president. I welcomed our newest graduates to the rank of alumni and let them know their important role going forward with our University of Kentucky.

When the university includes a representative from the alumni association in the Commencement ceremony, it shows the important ongoing role of alumni and our impact on UK. Soon, our role — and constituency — will grow by leaps and bounds, as we launch a new membership model, which is the cover story of this issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine. The new membership model will go into effect on July 1, 2019, and will include four membership types, all of which will have access to varying tiers of benefits.

I hope you take a few minutes to read the article, as it details the different membership types, explains why the association is making the change and addresses questions we’ve received from members like you. Some important points to keep in mind — the Life Member program will remain unchanged, and those who choose to support our university monetarily will now have the freedom to choose in which UK fund they want to invest. In addition, you can still directly support the mission of the UK Alumni Association in multiple ways, and all UK alumni will be recognized as Members.

We are, after all, one Big Blue Nation!

Our membership model is changing, but our mission and commitment to you remains the same, and your loyalty is vital to the future of UK. We look forward to serving you in our New Season.

One way we do this is by keeping you connected to the University of Kentucky and other UK alumni through Kentucky Alumni magazine. Our publication shares exciting news and stories about campus and UK’s successful graduates.

For example, our annual Great Teacher Award banquet was held in February, and the six honorees were recognized on the floor of Rupp Arena during the men’s basketball game against Arkansas.

What is important about these awards is the nominations come from students. I recently read a piece by New York Times Op Ed columnist David Brooks titled, “Students Learn from People They Love.” The piece talks about his experiences as a visiting professor and the importance of relationship quality in learning. Our Great Teacher winners epitomize this relationship.

Charles A. Walton from the College of Pharmacy was the first winner in 1961, and was honored again in 1969. From 1961-1966 there was one recipient each year. The popularity of this important award became evident, and we now honor six professors each year.

I think the many years of the UK Alumni Association’s Great Teacher Award is a testament to the importance of a great relationship in learning at UK. Without the relationship I had with several Charles A. Walton, a professor in the UK College of Pharmacy, professors many years ago, I would not have had the career that I was the first winner of the had. For that, I am forever grateful.

UK Alumni Association Great This issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine includes profiles on Teacher Award in 1961. He also several alumni who have achieved great things in their chosen field, won in 1969. and I hope you are moved by their stories.

And of course, there is our wonderful year so far in sports. Our football team won 10 games and the VRBO Citrus Bowl; the volleyball team went 26-5 and reached the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16. The UK cheerleading squad won its 24th national title in January, and fourth in a row. The UK men’s and women’s basketball teams are in the thick of March Madness and our excellent spring sports are in full swing. The Kentucky baseball team had its first game in the gorgeous new $49 million Kentucky Proud Park. Get out and catch a game when you’re in Lexington.

In closing, I want to thank you on behalf of the UK Alumni Association for your membership and know that we are always here to serve you.

Go Cats!

Fritz Skeen ’72 ’73 BE UK Alumni Association President 6

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$10 million UK LEADS gift to increase access in Henderson, Nelson counties

Photo: Mark Cornelison, UK Public Relations & Marketing

The single largest scholarship gift in UK’s history will support the UK LEADS (Leveraging Economic Affordability for Developing Success) initiative with a preference for students from Nelson and Henderson counties.

The gift, part of the Don and Mira Ball Endowed Scholarship Program, will fund dozens of undergraduate and graduate scholarships in the two counties UK Board of Trustees Chairman and surrounding areas, foBritt Brockman, left, philanthropist cused on addressing unmet Mira Ball and President Eli financial need.

Capilouto following the board’s Mira Ball grew up in Nelacceptance of Ball’s $10 million gift son County; Don Ball was from Henderson County. They met at UK and graduated from the university before launching Ball Homes. The couple also has given to — or helped lead — dozens of other initiatives across the Commonwealth, including the Hope Center, which provides comprehensive assistance for homelessness and addiction.

Ball said she and her late husband, Don, discussed the gift in detail prior to his passing, which made it all the more important to make the commitment now.

“This is going to be something that is going to last, and we need to give to things that are lasting and that will mean something in the future,” Mira Ball said. “Education is a big thing we need and the thing that will get us into the centuries to come and keep us sustainable. I hope it continues to do for everyone what it has done for me and others here.”

LEADS is an initiative that attempts to address the unmet financial need of students. In recent years, UK has analyzed the factors that inhibit student success. Chief among them, according to the analysis, is unmet financial need. In fact, at $5,000 in unmet need, the success or retention rates of students drops several percentage points, irrespective of grades or other factors.

The UK LEADS program is a cornerstone of the university’s comprehensive philanthropy campaign — Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign for UK. “The incredible generosity of Mira and Don Ball is being felt right here and right now at our university, but its impact will extend across time and across generations in our Commonwealth,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “The ripple effect of this gift will be to build stronger families, stronger communities and a healthier, more vibrant state.” ■

UK December 2018 Commencement ceremonies uated with a bachelor’s degree in political science from the College of Arts and Sciences and the Lewis Honors College. She delivered the Commencement address at the afternoon ceremony. ■

Photo: Mark Cornelison, UK Public Relations & Marketing

UK honored its newest alumni at December 2018 Commencement ceremonies in Rupp Arena. More than 1,200 students participate in the event. Overall, 1,492 undergraduate, 509 graduate and 38 professional degree candidates for December had their degrees approved by the UK Board of Trustees.

August 2018 degree recipients were also eligible to participate in the December ceremonies. A total of 845 degrees were conferred for August. Doctoral, master’s and baccalaureate degree recipients are now recognized together based on their colleges.

Virginia Carter, who led the Kentucky Humanities Council for more than two decades, received an Honorary Doctor of Humanities at the event. In addition to UK President Eli Capilouto, student representatives addressed the audience at each of the ceremonies. Kelsey Allmon, from Grove City, Ohio, graduated with a master’s degree from the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. She gave the Commencement address at the morning ceremony. Kendall Hitch, from Troy, Michigan, grad-

School Technology Leadership Certification Program With a focus on the changing nature of education in a connected world, a new partnership is offering educators options for pairing graduate certificates and advanced degrees with professional learning microcredentials.

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focusing on pedagogy and technology to transform student learning. Together, the programs offered through Eduro Learning and UK focus on how technology transforms learning. The first cohort of scholars began in January.

The partnership pairs Eduro’s Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy with UK’s graduate certificate in school technology leadership. ■

UK senior wins Astronaut Scholarship, Brooke Owens Fellowship UK biology and neuroscience senior Esther Putman of Lexington was named one of 2018’s 50 recipients of a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF). She was also one of 40 recipients of a Brooke Owens Fellowship, which matches its Fellows with paid summer internships in the aviation and space industry.

The ASF Scholarship is given annually to outstanding college Esther Putman students majoring in science, technology, engineering or math. ASF was established by the Mercury Astronauts in 1984. Its goal is to aid the United States in retaining its world leadership in science and technology by providing scholarships for exceptional college students pursuing degrees in these fields. Astronauts from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs have joined in this educational endeavor. UK students

have earned a total of $181,000 from the ASF since 1998.

Just months before learning she was an Astronaut Scholar, Putman became a recipient of the Brooke Owens Fellowship.

Created to honor the legacy of space industry pioneer and accomplished pilot, Dawn Brooke Owens (1980–2016), the fellowship is designed to serve both as an inspiration and as a career boost to capable young women who aspire to explore our sky and stars, to shake up the aerospace industry, and to help their fellow men and women here on Earth. “I’m excited to be the first student from Kentucky to join this network of industry-changing women in aerospace,” Putman said.

As part of her fellowship, Putman spent her summer interning at Vulcan, a Seattle-based company, exploring how space technology can be used for Earth protection and how space organizations across the globe can collaborate toward preservation of the planet.

The daughter of Harold and Rebecca Putman, she is part of the BS/MD accelerated pre-med program at UK. A Singletary Scholar, she is also a member of the Lewis Honors College and a Chellgren Fellow. ■

New way to apply to UK The Office of Undergraduate Admission announced that UK is now accepting applications through the Coalition for College Access’ MyCoalition application. This website is an exciting new opportunity for students to learn about everything that UK has to offer and to start their UK journey.

The coalition was founded in 2015 by college leaders who wanted to make the college application process more accessible and affordable for all students. Since its inception, the coalition

has grown to include more than 140 colleges and universities across the United States.

The site contains a myriad of free college-planning tools to help make college a reality for all students. When students log on to the website, they can upload important documents and information from high school, connect and collaborate with their mentors and apply for schools like UK. To learn more about MyCoalition and its services, visit www.coalitionforcollegeaccess.org. ■

UK Engineering embarks on growth plan Given new tools and technology, society is calling upon engineers to solve the world’s most complex problems. The UK College of Engineering is answering that call by embarking on a strategy for growth — a plan to improve Kentucky industries and the lives of the citizens they serve.

More than 3,900 students, undergraduate and graduate, are currently enrolled in the college, but the goal is to reach 6,000 by 2025. Demographers predict the pool of new high-school graduates in Kentucky will be relatively flat until 2024. UK Engineering must be more accessible and more attractive — but how?

Dean Rudolph G. Buchheit said the key lies in providing an outstanding educational experience. “While universities can produce competent engineering talent through excellent educational programs, we want UK Engineering graduates to be so much more,” he said. “Yes, they have to have those hard skills that define engineering competence, but the very best engineers also have soft skills sets: excellent communication, cultural literacy, flexibility, resiliency in the face of failure, leadership and more.

So, creating an environment in which students can master all of that is what we’re trying to do here.”

An additional 2,100 students require investment on various levels. The college is hiring 20 new tenure and tenure-track positions for the 2019-2020 academic year. More space for offices, classrooms and labs is needed. The goal is to have co-located faculty in common areas to foster collaborations, and ultimately enable higher productivity. ■

Dean Rudolph G. Buchheit, center, with students from the UK College of Engineering www.ukalumni.net

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Kentucky Science Olympiad State Office has new residence at UK After many years at Western Kentucky University, the Kentucky Science Olympiad State Office (KYSO) now operates out of UK with dual-direction from the College of Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences.

“Having the Kentucky Science Olympiad here on the UK campus not only allows the university the chance to recognize top middle and high school students from around the state but to also showcase what the state’s university has to offer in terms of our STEM disciplines,” said Stephen Barnett, enrollment management director of orientation and outreach and KYSO co-director. “We’re excited to be administering the state program throughout the year and especially excited to host 800

Kentucky students for the state tournament on campus on April 13.”

KYSO is devoted to improving the quality of science education, increasing student interest in science and providing recognition for outstanding achievement in science education by both students and teachers. Founded in 1983 by Gerard J. Putz and Jack Cairns, the Olympiad has grown over the years with more than 8,000 participants from across the country.

The move to UK will expose KYSO participants to world-class labs and facilities, a diverse audience of students, educators and community partners, and hopefully encourage students to pursue an education from the university. ■

The next phase of our campus transformation Over the past seven years, the University of Kentucky has invested or authorized nearly $2.3 billion to transform classrooms, research laboratories, residence halls, dining spaces, health care and athletics facilities.

When we think about this transformation, we think about what these facilities have empowered us to achieve.

What impact have we seen?

• More students are graduating from UK and more patients treated than ever before in our history.

• More students, 55.6 percent more since 2011, are earning bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering, math, and health — providing key workforce needs for the state.

• More of the best and brightest are attracted to UK, as more than 650 National Merit, Achievement, and Hispanic Scholars since 2011 have joined the UK family, placing us among the top public institutions in the country.

• More cutting-edge researchers are joining the UK family, attracted by facilities like the new research building focused on addressing Kentucky health disparities — from cancer to opioids.

• $5.5 billion has been spent with Kentucky companies since 2011, reflecting the catalyst engine we are for Kentucky’s economy.

Those facts are just a few reasons why we always say: it’s not about the buildings. It’s about what happens inside. It’s about providing the innovative space that allows our people to thrive.

And we’re not done.

We continue to think about providing the best possible facilities for our growing academic programs and our priorities for the state we serve. In December, we presented our campus modernization and capital plans to the UK Board of Trustees.

Over the next five years, that plan depicted investments of another $500 million — fueled primarily by philanthropy and enrollment growth — largely focused on renovating, upgrading and expanding the campus: the places and spaces where instruc10

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tion and learning happen. Success in our Kentucky Can campaign will be a key driver in turning those plans into reality.

These plans, too, are about more than new or renovated buildings. They are about what these facilities would allow us to do.

For example: • An additional 150,000-250,000 square feet of space will accommodate up to 3,500 more students over the next five years, accelerating our plans to graduate even more students and expand Kentucky’s workforce.

• Completing Phase 2 of the Research Building 2 will support our goals to cut cancer incidence rates in half and attack the opioid drug epidemic ravaging too many communities across Kentucky.

• Expansion of the College of Engineering will allow the college to continue its growth to nearly 6,000 students by 2025, preparing thousands more engineers.

• Reimagining and recapturing the Reynolds Building for the College of Design would allow the college to expand and create new majors to meet workforce needs.

• Renovation efforts to UK’s Scovell Hall would make a reality of plans to relocate the College of Public Health, one of the fastest-growing colleges on campus.

• A new College of Communication and Information building would anchor a digital village near the James F. Hardymon and Davis Marksbury buildings, supporting more communication and technology leaders across a rapidly changing technological landscape.

These modernization and capital project plans are guided by a compelling vision for our role as Kentucky’s university.

Under President Capilouto’s leadership, we’ve built momentum by focusing, not on the “what,” but on the “why.” That momentum allows our people to thrive and to show the world what Kentucky can do.

Eric N. Monday UK Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration (From The Monday Blog)

Blue Horizons

$3.4 million grant to support children with hearing loss and deafness For UK social worker and public health researcher Christina Studts and otolaryngologist Dr. Matt Bush, the critical interplay between children’s hearing loss, children’s behavior and parenting is at the center of an ongoing collaboration that aims to improve the lives of Kentucky kids and families. Studts and Bush have now received a five-year, $3.4 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders to adapt and deliver an evidence-based parenting program for families of young children with hearing loss. The team will test the program at 10 state-funded hearing health offices in Kentucky, led by trained “coaches” who are themselves parents of deaf and hard of hearing children. Families who participate in the program will receive a strengths-based assessment and up to six parent coaching sessions annually for three years.

“When we compared the prevalence of behavior problems among preschool-aged kids with cochlear implants, hearing aids, and typical hearing, we confirmed that the children with

hearing loss had almost double the rate of behavioral issues,” Studts said. “Nearly half of the deaf and hard of hearing kids in our study were exhibiting disruptive behaviors causing impairment, compared to one in five kids with typical hearing.

Their parents were concerned, too. But none of the children with hearing loss had received behavioral services, compared to eight percent of the children with typical hearing.”

In addition to Studts, an assistant professor in the UK College of Public Health, and Bush, an associate professor in the UK College of Medicine, the interdisciplinary R01 team involves speech and language pathologist Joneen Lowman, a professor in the UK College of Health Sciences, and biostatistician Phil Westgate, an associate professor in the UK College of Public Health. Julie Jacobs serves as project director. Outside of UK, project partners include the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences; the Kentucky Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs; and the Kentucky chapter of Hands & Voices. ■

Grant expands Markey’s successful Oncology Training Program to high school students After successfully launching an oncology training program for Appalachian undergrads in 2016, the UK Markey Cancer Center is expanding the program to include high school students. The Appalachian Career Training in Oncology (ACTION) Program, formerly known as CTOP, is funded through a nearly $2.3 million grant from the National Cancer Institute.

ACTION was designed to train and educate students to help them make a difference in their own communities and to ultimately become prepared to pursue a cancer-focused career. The two-year program provides students with research and clinical experience through both Markey and UK HealthCare, mento-

ring, professional development, and outreach opportunities in their own communities. High school students will participate in a residential camp on UK’s campus for five to six weeks during the summers, and they will engage in academic activities from home throughout the rest of the year. Each student will have a goal of planning one outreach event in their hometown per year.

Besides empowering Appalachian youth to begin a career in the medical field, ACTION will help these students find ways to encourage their communities to incorporate lifestyle changes and behaviors that can help prevent cancer. ■

UK CAER receives $2.9 million for carbon capture research The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) selected the UK Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) to receive a $2.9 million grant that will allow the center to develop new technologies to lower the cost of capturing carbon dioxide in its renowned post-combustion capture system.

The project is part of DOE’s Carbon Capture Program, which is developing transformational, step-change, low-cost capture processes and enabling technologies that will maximize the efficiency of our nation’s fossil-based power generation infrastructure.

“Providing utility companies in Kentucky and across the nation with solutions to the toughest problems facing their industry has been the focus of our laboratory since I arrived at UK CAER,” said Kunlei Liu, associate director for research at CAER and a co-principal investigator on this project. “This project will allow us to not only continue that work but will help us expand our approach to provide technology of broad spectrum for CO2 capture systems.”

The CAER project — titled “Advancing Post-Combustion CO2 Capture through Increased Mass Transfer and Lower Degradation” — proposes to “significantly advance deployment of CO2 capture through enabling technologies that increase CO2 mass transfer and reduce solvent loss.”

The project will involve the development and fabrication of customized dynamic packing to increase CO2 mass transfer in the absorber column, and an electrochemical cell to adsorb and decompose nitrosamines before they can be emitted into the environment. After both of these systems have been constructed, they will be tested on CAER’s bench-scale CO2 capture unit.

Partnering with Compiled from news reports UK CAER on this about research at UK. project is LawFor more information about rence Livermore research taking place at UK, National Laboravisit www.research.uky.edu tory. ■ www.ukalumni.net

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A NEW SEASON

Insights into our new membership model

ou may have heard by now that there are changes on the horizon for the University of Kentucky Alumni Association.

On the surface, it seems like the association you have loyally supported will look very different after July 1, 2019 — we want you to know that our membership

“This is a very exciting time for the University of Kentucky and the UK Alumni Association."

— Tim Walsh

model may be changing, but our mission and commitment to you remains the same. Since the initial announcement of our New Season in fall 2018, we have fielded dozens of questions, concerns, compliments and complaints. In an effort to be transparent, we want to clarify what’s to come and elaborate on the reasons for the change.

A QUICK REVIEW On June 18, 2018, the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Board of Directors unanimously approved a plan to adopt a new membership model beginning July 1, 2019. This monumental decision was not made lightly and was the culmination of much deliberation, research and planning. The result is a new membership model that will enable the association to better serve all UK alumni, advance the University of Kentucky and strategically position itself for the future.

THE NEW MODEL AT A GLANCE The Life Membership and Wildcat Society programs will remain unchanged. If you are a Life Member now — thanks!

You will be recognized as a Life Member as long as you

live. If you are not a current Life Member, you can convert to Life Membership anytime. All Life Members will receive the highest tier of member benefits.

Here is where things will be different.

Beginning July 1, 2019, the UK Alumni Association will stop accepting new and renewing One and Three-year Memberships, but all current memberships as of this date will be honored until those memberships expire. All alumni and friends who choose to support any UK fund at a designated level will be considered Active Members and receive an enhanced tier of member benefits.

This is new, too — all UK alumni who have successfully completed at least 12 credit hours will be recognized as UK Alumni Association Members and will receive a basic level of benefits. (See Page 16 for more details about membership levels and benefits.)

“This is a very exciting time for the University of Kentucky and the UK Alumni Association,” says Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement and Executive Director of the UK Alumni Association Tim Walsh.

“For over 50 years, the association has been a dues-based membership organization and that model served alumni well. However, we are always looking for ways to improve,” he says. “Several years ago, our organization’s previous administration and elected officers began to look at how the association could better

“Under the new membership model, we won’t have to solicit for One and Three-year Memberships freeing up time and resources to focus on member benefits and innovative alumni engagement.”

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“As a third generation UK alum, I want to give back to the university that has such deep and positive roots in my family culture. I see Life Membership as a great privilege and point of pride. I’m honored to be in a position to stay connected and give back to the institution that has been an integral part of my life ..."

— Sally Bennett Hardig ’94 CI UK Alumni Association Life Member

serve more alumni and the university as a whole. It is partially because of their foresight as good stewards of the organization that we are on the precipice of being able to better serve and build relationships with a broader alumni base.”

WHY THE CHANGE? There are numerous reasons why we are turning over this new leaf. For starters, the new model is an opportunity for the UK Alumni Association to serve and build relationships with alumni and friends who have not previously been members.

This means that thousands more alumni and friends will have access to the association’s publications and varying levels of services and programs. In other words, Big Blue Nation will be bigger and better than ever!

We think you will like this — the elimination of the One and Three-year Membership programs, in combination with other deliberate campus-wide efforts, will reduce the number of

“The time is right for the UK Alumni Association to evolve and position itself to better serve Wildcats of all generations.”

— Meredith Weber

solicitations you’ll receive from the university as a whole each year. The university recognizes the need for improvement and coordination among campus units, and it is a priority to communicate a unified university message.

Another factor in the decision to make a membership model change is One and Three-year Membership trends. While the Life Membership program continues to thrive, the One and Three-year Membership programs have not experienced the same growth in recent history. Over the last several years many schools have migrated away from the traditional “membership dues” model.

“Changing culture has been a big factor in declining membership trends nationwide for many membership based organizations, not just alumni associations,” says Meredith Weber, senior associate director of communications and membership at the UK Alumni Association.

“Many schools have already made a membership model change, and others are seriously considering it,” she says. “The time is right for the UK Alumni Association to evolve and position itself to better serve Wildcats of all generations.”

LIFE COMMITMENT We are so fortunate to have over 18,000 Life Members. That’s more than 18,000 loyal Wildcats who made a lifetime commitment to the UK Alumni Association. We will honor their

“One notable change for UK Alumni Clubs is that gifts to club scholarships, if received by the UK Alumni Association, will now count toward Active Membership.”

— Dr. Michael H. Huang ’89 AS, ’93 MED Chair, UK Alumni Association Board of Directors Club Development Committee

“I am thrilled that alumni and supporters of the College of Social Work will now receive Perks & Exclusives from the UK Alumni Association.”

— Ann Vail, Interim Dean, UK College of Social Work www.ukalumni.net

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“We value our Life Members and want to do all we can to show our appreciation for their commitment.”

— Chad Polk

investment and commitment under the new membership model by keeping our Life Membership program intact.

“Our intention from the beginning was to create a membership model that would continue to honor and respect our most loyal members,” says Chad Polk, UK Alumni Association Board of Directors member and current chair of the Membership Committee. “We value our Life Members and want to do all we can to show our appreciation for their commitment.”

The Life Membership program also provides a vital revenue stream for operations. Life Member dues go to an endowment fund from which the association is allowed to withdraw each year. This withdrawal enables us to provide benefits such as Kentucky Alumni magazine and the annual UK wall calendar.

sion, then you can help us help more Wildcats. However, there are countless UK funds you can support that will qualify you as an Active Member of the UK Alumni Association and support Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign. For example, support of your UK college, UK Athletics, the UK Arboretum, the Markey Cancer Center, UK’s radio station WUKY or even gifts spread over various funds will all count cumulatively toward your level of association membership.

“This approach allows the UK Alumni Association to offer the freedom of choice to direct your gifts to any UK fund you are passionate about. At the same time, the new model will allow Active Members to take advantage of the programs and services that the association is well-known for, such as the Legacy Initiative program and Alumni Career Services,” says Jill Smith, associate executive director of the UK Alumni Association.

“The new model will allow supportive alumni and friends to invest in the future of the University of Kentucky and watch it grow at an even faster pace. Membership qualifying gifts will benefit UK students and the UK community and have a meaningful impact on Big Blue Nation as a whole,” says Smith.

To check out the wide array of UK funds that you can support, visit www.kentuckycan.uky.edu

HOW TO RENEW We have had many questions from members whose membership expires before July 1, 2019. The situation is business-as-usual until July 1, so please renew at your current membership level or upgrade to a Life Membership at the time of your renewal to maintain your member Perks and Exclusives. Don’t worry, all One and Three-year Memberships will be honored until they expire, even if that date falls after July 1, 2019. You will retain access to your member benefits.

Around the time your membership expires after July 1, 2019, be on the lookout for a notice from the UK Office of Philanthropy. Think of this as your “renewal notice.” One of the best parts of the new membership model is your freedom of choice.

You get to pick where you direct your generous support of $75 or more cumulatively ($25 for students and recent graduates*).

If you feel passionate about the UK Alumni Association’s mis-

“The new model will allow supportive alumni and friends to invest in the future of the University of Kentucky and watch it grow at an even faster pace.”

— Jill Smith

HOW WILL LOST REVENUE BE REPLACED? The UK Alumni Association is and will remain a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Revenue formerly received from the One and Three-year Membership programs has been committed

"Until I became an Alumni Ambassador, I had no idea how much the UK Alumni Association did for students, UK graduates and my school. I look forward to staying involved, serving and giving back as an alum."

— William Jackson III, UK Senior, Alumni Ambassador

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“The inclusive culture under the new membership model will lead to an even deeper sense of pride across every race, gender, age and identity of our UK family.”

— Taunya Phillips ‘87 EN, ’04 BE President-elect, UK Alumni Association

WHAT DOES THIS NEW SEASON MEAN FOR YOU? Life Member Nothing changes, you will remain a Life Member.

through internal budgetary sources provided by the university, including the creation of the Fund for UK, a gift fund providing resources for initiatives of the president of the university. The university is committed to appropriately funding alumni engagement activities.

In the past two years, the university has increased its funding for alumni engagement activities and programming to more than $1.7 million annually. “President Capilouto and his administration recognize the value of effective alumni engagement and its impact on the university,” says UK Vice President for Philanthropy Mike Richey. “They are committed to supporting the mission of the UK Alumni Association.”

So, all you loyal members who have expressed concern about replacing lost revenue under the new membership model — we are covered and will continue to provide valuable benefits and services to you and keep Big Blue Nation connected and informed.

One or Three-year Member whose membership expires BEFORE July 1, 2019 Renew your membership as usual, and you will be considered an Active Member until it expires. When it does, give to any UK fund to maintain your Active Member status.

THANKS FOR YOUR LOYALTY Change can be uncomfortable, but we hope you find these insights informative and reassuring. While we continue to be prepared with answers and make the transition smooth, your patience, understanding and continued support is appreciated. We respect your commitment to the UK Alumni Association and the University of Kentucky and look forward to serving you in our New Season. ■ *Recent Graduates – those who have completed their first UK degree in the last five years.

“President Capilouto and his administration recognize the value of effective alumni engagement and its impact on the university.”

— Mike Richey

“I’m a proud University of Kentucky graduate, and I’m glad that I will be recognized as an alumni association member and receive the benefits that come with it.”

— Greg Macleery ’02 CI Future UK Alumni Association Member

One or Three-year Member whose membership expires AFTER July 1, 2019 You will be considered an Active Member until your membership expires. When it does, give to any UK fund to maintain your Active Member status.

UK Alumni (completed at least 12 credit hours) You will be recognized as a Member after July 1, 2019.

QUESTIONS?

Visit www.ukalumni.net/ newmembershipmodel or call us at 800-269-ALUM (2586).

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MEMBERSHIP PERKS & EXCLUSIVES OVERVIEW Beginning July 1, 2019

Visit www.ukalumni.net/newmembershipmodel for a full list of member Perks & Exclusives Member Perks & Exclusives can be added or changed without notice.

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All who have successfully completed at least 12 credit hours at UK

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All current student and recent graduate members (until membership expiration) and students and recent graduates who annually give $25 or more cumulatively to any UK Fund

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All current One and Threeyear members (until membership expiration) and alumni and friends who annually give $75 or more cumulatively to any UK fund

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One day. One gift.

ENORMOUS IMPACT.

BY MOLLY WILLIAMSON

On April 17, the University of Kentucky will rally its alumni, friends and fans to support One Day for UK, a 24-hour day of giving during which donors can support the college, unit or cause of their choice. In its first year, the goal of One Day for UK is to raise awareness about the campaign and to encourage giving for UK. “This is an opportunity for people to show their UK pride,” said Sarah Fitzgerald, associate director of annual giving and One Day for UK organizer.

“Many people are unaware of the many areas they can support at UK. This is an opportunity for us to spend one day celebrating UK, teaching people about the different ways they can give to the university and showing them how they can help us continue to grow.”

— Sarah Fitzgerald The day also has larger implications. One Day for UK supports the university’s comprehensive campaign, Kentucky Can: The 21st Century Campaign, which increases opportunities for student success, funds innovative research, improves health care, strengthens the alumni network and enhances athletic programs. Now more than halfway to its $2.1 billion goal, Kentucky Can benefits from every gift made to One Day for UK. “Kentucky Can is our challenge to give back, to come together, to serve others, to leave a positive mark, to share our good fortune and to show love and compassion,” said D. Michael Richey, vice president for philanthropy and alumni engagement.

“One Day for UK is one component of that effort. It is an opportunity for us to rally around UK and to encourage giving to the many wonderful programs that distinguish us and are helping us to transform the Commonwealth and inspire the world.”

— D. Michael Richey

One of Kentucky Can’s goals is to increase alumni giving by 21 percent, Richey said. Alumni participation rates show the loyalty and dedication of a university’s alumni base. Higher giving rates indicate a broad base of support for an institution, positioning it for future success.

Alumni giving also impacts national rankings, the university’s reputation and future enrollment, and it shows corporations, foundations and other donors that UK is a wise investment. As a result, high alumni giving rates can attract additional private support that will strengthen UK’s endowment and provide necessary funding for future programs and initiatives.

Gifts at any level on April 17 will help UK improve its alumni giving level and come closer to fulfilling its campaign goal, Richey said.

UK is currently ranked 13th in the nation among the 50 flagship universities and 33rd among the 484 public universities that participated in the Council for Aid to Education’s 2017 Voluntary Support of Education Survey. www.ukalumni.net

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“These are incredible statistics that truly show the loyalty and dedication of our alumni base,” Richey said. “One Day for UK could elevate those rankings, making UK one of the top 10 state flagship universities and one of the top 20 universities nationally for alumni participation.”

Most of UK’s colleges, units and causes have selected a specific fund or funds to highlight on One Day for UK. A complete list of area-specific funds is located on onedayforuk.uky.edu. Many of the funds support initiatives within the college, and some have an immediate need for funding.

To further promote the day, each college, unit and cause is seeking ambassadors – students, alumni, friends and donors – to help publicize One Day for UK through their personal social media accounts. Each ambassador will receive a toolkit with language and strategies to help them spread the message. To become an ambassador, visit onedayforuk.uky.edu.

“Ambassadors are a critical part of a giving day, because research has shown that gifts are 10 to 20 percent higher when solicited by and given to people we trust,” said Brian Gawor, vice president of research at Ruffalo Noel Levitz, the company helping UK organize its giving day. “The value of having alumni ambassadors is we cannot predict the many ways people’s lives were changed at the university.

Having people relay their own experiences diversifies and intensifies the message and provides other people who had a similar experience a reason to give.”

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ways, Fitzgerald said. Many alumni who are not active online may choose to lead the giving efforts, offering matching gifts and challenges to other donors. These increase the excitement of the day and motivate more people to give.

“It is a community effort,” Fitzgerald said. “Together, we can make a huge impact on campus through One Day for UK. We can provide more scholarships and research opportunities for students, enhance our creative and outreach efforts and give our colleges and departments the resources they need to be successful. We look forward to a fun day of showing our support for UK and improving opportunities for everyone we serve.”

Though the focal point of One Day for UK will be April 17, the university will mail information about the giving day to alumni in March and early April. You can make a gift to the college, unit or cause of your choice by sending a check in the mail or by visiting uky.networkforgood.com before April 17. Once you complete the gift information on Network for Good, you can check a box to have your gift applied to the overall One Day for UK total.

On April 17, visit onedayforuk.uky.edu to make a gift or to track the campaign’s progress.

To join the online conversation, follow #OneDayforUK on all social media platforms throughout March and April to learn more about the campaign and to discuss how private gifts transform the lives of people helped and healed by UK.

UK JOINS NATIONAL MOVEMENT It is not simply a day, it is a movement. Throughout the nation, universities and nonprofits have begun launching giving days dedicated to celebrating their achievements, promoting their programs and encouraging their alumni and friends to support their causes.

It started in 2012 with Giving Tuesday, a day devoted to raising awareness about and money for community organizations, said Brian Gawor, vice president of research at Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a company that has helped organize and manage over 200 giving days throughout the United States.

Highly effective, Giving Tuesday introduced a new platform for charitable giving. Using online tools and social media, organizations could quickly and effectively reach their target audience without spending much money.

But, as its popularity grew, Giving Tuesday created more competition for universities. Their message was lost among the thousands of organizations participating in the day, Gawor said. Many universities began creating their own giving days, often choosing their founder’s day or a significant day in their university’s history to encourage people to give. Now, more than 75 percent of universities host a dedicated giving day.

“The resources that are most scarce and most valuable in 2019 are time and attention,” Gawor said. “The most fun way to get people’s attention is through a giving day. Generally, giving days are very exciting, because they have challenges among alumni and colleges, and they give people an opportunity to cheerlead for the university.”

For 24 hours, universities focus on engaging their alumni and friends on social media, encouraging them to post pictures, reminisce about their time on campus, describe how private support enhanced their education and give to their favorite college, unit or cause.

By making the day more personal, more people can get involved, Gawor said. They can support the university through social media posts, by rallying others to give or by making a gift themselves. As a result, many universities set a record during their giving days for the most donors who have given in one day or the most money collected in a day.

“People are investing less in accumulating stuff and more in unique experiences, and giving days are powerful experiences for alumni and friends,” Gawor said. “The excitement can be contagious. It allows people to see themselves as part of something bigger, as the next donor to make a difference.”

Giving days also capitalize on the “gamification” of America, Gawor said. Throughout the day, universities post challenges and matching gifts. These special offers are only available for a limited time, spurring competition among colleges and alumni groups and causing more donors to give and to give more generously.

“There is an urgency to the day,” Gawor said of giving days.

“Most universities do a good job of explaining why donors should give, but a giving day tells people why they should give now.”

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A WOMAN IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT:

Aston Martin’s 1st female president has a message for young girls

By Morgan Korn

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ston Martin’s Laura Schwab has a lot to talk about these days: the British luxury carmaker’s Second Century Plan. The company’s return to Formula One racing. Her 2-year-old daughter, Marie.

Schwab, head of Aston Martin the Americas, is the company’s first female president in its 106-year history. She and Mary Barra, the 56-year-old CEO of General Motors, are the only two women to hold senior leadership positions in the male-dominated industry.

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Schwab travels every week to visit one of Aston Martin’s 43 dealerships in Canada, the U.S., Mexico and South America. When she’s not in a foreign city, she’s waking up before dawn to speak to her boss, Aston Martin CEO Andy Palmer, in England.

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Aston Martin has 2,500 employees around the globe but only a small percentage are women. Schwab, 45, said she is on a mission to change that and regularly participates in leadership conferences that focus on female empowerment.

“I am desperate for more women to apply for jobs in automotive,” she told ABC News last month. “For some women it’s scary … they might not think they know that much about cars, or that much about technology. I am a very firm advocate of more women applying for these roles.”

‘I WASN’T INTO CARS’ Schwab knew little about cars when she entered the business. She attended Notre Dame on a tennis scholarship, a sport she had been playing since the 5th grade.

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Laura Schwab at the Canadian International AutoShow, February 2018

“From a really young age I was competitive and loved sports.

I wasn’t into cars,” she said.

She decided to enroll in law school after graduating from Notre Dame but soon hated every minute of it. Her father convinced her to keep at it, and she graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law. “I have never quit anything in my life,” she explained. “If I got the first year down, there was no way I was going to drop out. I think it taught me a lot too. It knocked me down a little bit. I realized I could persevere through it.”

Even with her degree Schwab had other ideas. She quit her contract law position and started applying to “any job possible” in California. She was eventually offered a position at a small dot-com called Auto Fusion, a reverse auction place for car buyers.

“It was a great company with some brilliant ideas for how to transform the automotive buying experience that I think was really ahead of its time,” she said. “I would sit with the developers and they’d show me how to code. This was new technology that had never really existed before.”

Schwab was the 11th employee at the company and worked an average of 18 hours a day. The firm grew exponentially in the halcyon days of the late 1990s and Schwab was convinced she’d become a multimillionaire.

Then she was recruited for a job that would change her life.

She left California for a short-term contract position in Maryland to build a car configurator for Land Rover’s website.

A mentor at Land Rover later recommended she abandon her focus on the internet, learn the company’s business and apply for a field position in Boston.

‘THOSE JOBS ARE PRIMARILY MEN’ “I thought, ‘Maybe I need to learn the car business if the internet was not going to take

off.’ And I did take the job in the field. Those jobs are primarily men, that’s pretty standard,” she said.

She was hired as a retail operation manager for Land Rover, acting as a liaison between the dealers and the manufacturer.

“I knew configurators and websites. I didn’t really understand the operational aspects of the car business,” she said.

“It took me almost two years to get the hang of it.”

Schwab turned to another woman, Sheree Kaplan, president of the Kaplan Auto Group, for help.

“Sheree took a chance on me,” Schwab recalled. “I probably owe her a lot. She was one of the few females who owned a dealer group. She taught me everything.”

Kaplan told ABC News that her father brought her into the car business in the 1980s. When he died at age 91 he left her with “an opportunity and a big mortgage.” Nearly 35 years later she oversees six franchises and has a son who works in the family business.

“I need to do a better job myself of recruiting women,” she said in an email. “We clearly need more women in the automotive business.”

She added, “Laura’s a prime example of someone who worked her way to the top of the automotive industry and manages to balance her career and family life. She’s a big inspiration to me.”

SCHWAB’S SURPRISE PREGNANCY Schwab spent 15 years at Jaguar Land Rover, moving around the country and ultimately to England, where she was promoted to marketing director. Aston Martin poached her from Jaguar Land Rover in October 2015 to helm its Americas operations.

Schwab said she couldn’t turn down the opportunity to work for this “amazing brand” so she packed her bags and moved to Irvine, California. Five weeks after accepting the president position she found out she was pregnant.

“My first thought was, ‘What am I going to say to Andy Palmer?’ He hired me. I was nervous about what it would mean for my position, how am I going to balance everything. My husband was still living in England. We didn’t have a house yet.

I was living in an Airbnb.”

Schwab said she and her husband were apart throughout the entire pregnancy.

“We saw each other twice and moved a week before the baby was born.

I was very lucky the company was super supportive,” she said. “We don’t know a lot of people in California — my family Laura Schwab with her parents, Marie and Matt

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is in Kentucky, my husband’s family in England. It was a lot to balance and a big adjustment after living in England for five years.”

Schwab conceded that she gets asked “how do you do it” a lot.

Her response is always: “When was the last time you asked a man that question?”

“Sometimes I think I balance it really well and sometimes I don’t,” she acknowledged. “I am obsessed with my daughter and my husband and I have a huge responsibility to this incredibly gorgeous, iconic brand and I take it all very seriously.”

‘AN UNCONSCIOUS BIAS TOWARD WOMEN’ Rebecca Lindland, former executive analyst at Kelley Blue Book, said she looks forward to the day when powerful women like Schwab and GM’s Barra are not anomalies in the auto industry.

“This can be a very difficult industry to be in. Historically it’s male dominated,” she told ABC News. “Family obligations can disrupt a woman’s career, and travel can be incredibly challenging to any kind of relationship. There’s an unconscious bias toward women when we think of them in this role.”

One of the biggest misconceptions in the industry is that only men are interested in cars, Lindland said.

“Women have a lot of influence when it comes to car buying,” she said. “From an industry standpoint we need to do a better job showing women what type of jobs and opportunities exist and that they will be treated fairly. In an ideal world it’s not a big deal for a woman to be in an executive position.”

Barra, who was named CEO of GM in January 2014 and is the first woman to run an American auto company, touched on the gender gap in a March 2017 LinkedIn post.

“In the automotive industry, we’re making progress to close the gender gap — at General Motors alone, we have women leading core areas such as global manufacturing, electrification, car-sharing, tax and audit, marketing and communications. I’m also working with our most senior GM women to further build our benchstrength. And, I look forward to the day when women CEOs are the norm, not the exception. That will be real progress,” she wrote.

Audi of America has also implemented aggressive strategies to increase the number of women in its U.S. workforce, including an employee resource group that provides information on coaching, career paths, worklife balance and mentoring for women, a company spokeswoman said.

just in the automotive space, but in the world,” she said. “A lot of barriers, or perceived barriers, have started to be removed.

I think in automotive, specifically, we’ve still got a job to do.

I never thought of myself as a role model but now that I am in this role, women are looking to me and saying, ‘I can do it.’ And if I can play a small part in encouraging women that automotive is a wonderful place to work, and an inspiring and exciting place, then I’ll take on that role for sure.”

Resilience, hard work and perseverance are traits that Schwab wants to instill in her own daughter.

“My mom raised me to be a strong, independent, self-sufficient woman so I hope I made my mom proud,” she said.

“Hopefully I am setting the stage for my daughter to do the same. I want her to be exactly what she wants to be. I want to give her those opportunities.”

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UK COLLEGE OF LAW AND SUCCESSES Even though she realized early that the study of law at the University of Kentucky would never, by her choice, culminate into a law career, Laura Schwab says she learned valuable lessons on campus that she still employs today.

“UK College of Law set me up for my greatest success.

It taught me how to think, how to be analytical and how to translate a case into human language,” she says. “That training helped me to land my first job and has helped every day of my career since.

“UK is also where I’ve made my best friends — women who are intelligent, determined and inspiring, and we’ve all persevered in our careers. So while I’m not a lawyer, UK Law set a foundation of strong, positive, supportive influences I still enjoy.”

A ‘PIVOTAL MOMENT’ FOR WOMEN Schwab said she’s willing to spend her weekends and nights away from her toddler daughter to convince young women that a career in the automotive industry can be gratifying and highly rewarding.

“It’s a very pivotal moment in time for women, not Laura Schwab’s daughter, Marie, in her own mini Aston Martin

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Basketball in Alumni Gym, circa 1948-1949

Alumni Gym:

A historical building gets a makeover

Nearly a century after it opened, Alumni Gymnasium has been set up to cater to students and staff for the next hundred years.

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he gym, famously known as the home of the Kentucky men’s basketball team at the start of its dynasty, was renovated and renamed the Alumni Gym Fitness Center as part of the new $201 million, 378,000 square-foot Bill Gatton Student Center.

The same Alumni Gymnasium walls that housed Adolph Rupp when UK won its first two national titles now houses a new generation of Wildcats. But first, the building that opened in 1924 had to undergo a major makeover.

“We worked with the architects to address certain needs, but above all wanted to retain the original character of the building,” UK architect Warren Denny ’70 DES, ’80 BE says. “From a student standpoint, we felt it is the kind of recreation facility they would want.”

Denny says there was never really any thought about razing the gym or the 1938 Student Union Building and replacing them with a new structure on the site.

“You really can’t replicate all the aspects of the older details.

When you find a way to do adaptive reuse for any building like we have, to me it is a win, and win-some-more situation,” he says.

“I’m so glad we got everyone on board to do it this way.”

Michael Jacobs ’75 DES is partner and president of Omni Architects in Lexington, one of the two firms along with Perkins+Will Global that designed the student center. He says the construction had to be “contextual and yet modern” to suit the needs of UK and its students.

Different uses were considered for the facility, including the campus bookstore, Jacobs says. “But in the end, it was determined that the legacy of Alumni Gym could be best preserved by repur-

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posing the building as a recreation and wellness center to UK Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp serve the residents of (1930-1971) in practice clothes in the new north campus Alumni Gym in 1955 dormitories, and other north campus students, faculty, and staff,” he says.

Denny compared the extent of the renovation of Alumni Gymnasium to the renovation of the Main Building after it caught fire in 2001.

“After the fire the entire building was gutted except for the exterior walls. And basically, that’s what was done with Alumni Gymnasium,” he says. “It was an aggressive gut renovation. We put a new roof on the building and incorporated a skylight to cap the ascent from the lower level entry leading to the upper level where most of the activity takes place.”

The lower level floor was not useable, so it had to be taken up and the column supports were extended. By doing that, Denny says, the architects were able to create more usable space including modern accessible dressing facilities.

The old bleachers covered up many of the windows, and once the bleachers were removed, more light was let in and activity could be seen from the street.

“One of the things people take for granted is the impact of the view from Euclid Avenue or South Limestone Street.

“When we removed all of the bleachers and space below them, we were able to open up the building to natural light."

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The gym no longer complied with the structural requirements for a 21st century building, Jacobs says. It had to be brought up to code, which required removing the floors, wood roof deck and bracing the structure while maintaining the exterior envelope.

The gym and old Student Union Building are now joined together by a small atrium. Jacobs says the design of the overall student center was to make everything flow and appear as one unit.

An initial take on viewing the floor plan of the student center might be that it is comprised of discrete buildings, and yet as the narrative unfolds, one begins to see the project successfully incorporates two historic buildings, he says. “The resulting design is an example of an architectural design process that examined these relationships between old and old, old and new, and between new to new.” ■

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Under Coach C.O. Applegran, Kentucky opened the new 2,800-seat, $100,000 gym (funds raised by the UK Alumni Association) with a 28-23 win over Cincinnati on Dec. 13, 1924.

When Rupp took over the program in 1930, Alumni Gymnasium became the place opponents rarely ventured out of with a victory.

The new gym, however, was not totally a co-ed experience.

In the Dec. 12, 1924, edition of the Kentucky Kernel, it was reported there was a section for men and another for women. “Young gentleman may bring young ladies to the games but must part with them at the door and rejoin them after the game,” the paper reported.

Kentucky went 204-8 in 19 seasons in the gym, including 84 straight victories in what became a 129 game-winning streak in both Alumni Gymnasium and Memorial Coliseum from Jan. 26, 1943, until Jan. 31, 1955. In all, UK posted a 247-24 record in the building.

The facility eventually became a campus recreation area with basketball courts, a small fitness center, martial arts area and a small boxing ring, though its age started to show. Jacobs says a bleacher area was becoming not safe to occupy, among the many issues with the building.

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Michael D. Toland College of Education Department of Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology

Melvin Coffee College of Communication and Information School of Journalism and Media

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J. Fritz Skeen President UK Alumni Association

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Margaret Rintamaa College of Education Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Wendy Liu Gatton College of Business and Economics Finance and Quantitative Methods

Timothy L. Walsh Associate Vice President for Alumni Engagement Executive Director UK Alumni Association

Charles Hazle Jr. College of Health Sciences Department of Physical Therapy

A Class Act! The University of Kentucky Alumni Association presented its 2019 Great Teacher Award to six recipients during a recognition dinner at the Hyatt Regency, followed by an appearance at Rupp Arena’s center court at the Arkansas vs. Kentucky men’s basketball game Feb. 26. This significant award is the longestrunning University of Kentucky honor recognizing teaching.

Teachers are nominated by students, and selection of the award winners is made by the UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award Committee, in cooperation with the student organization Omicron Delta Kappa. Recipients received an engraved plaque and stipend.

The 2019 Great Teachers are Melvin Coffee, Charles Hazle Jr., Wendy Liu, Gregory Luhan, Margaret Rintamaa and Michael D. Toland. >> Watch a video of the Great Teachers: www.ukalumni.net/ greatteachers

Gregory Luhan College of Design School of Architecture

Will Nash Chairman, Scholarship & Great Teacher Awards Committee UK Alumni Association

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T. LYNN WILLIAMSON:

The man behind a beloved UK tradition

By Gail Hairston

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Since 1978, he’s been advisor for the UK cheerleading squad one’s life. Not so for T. Lynn Williamson.

He had an additional calling that has consumed him over the decades. As an “extracurricular” activity during the 1977-78 season, Williamson assumed the role of advisor to UK’s cheerleading squad.

He never looked back, and neither have the young men and women he challenged to be great. He was one of the first leaders of a collegiate cheer program to stress both athleticism and safety. It wasn’t long before his perspective began paying dividends.

In 1985, they achieved their goal, together, but only for the first time. Today, he has more Universal Cheerleaders Association National Championship rings than two people could wear on all 10 fingers.

Kentucky cheerleaders won their 24th national championship at the Universal Cheerleaders Association finals competition in January in Orlando, Florida, the second time that UK has strung together a quadruple triumph in the Division IA Coed squads. The University of Kentucky cheerleaders won their first national crown in 1985, won again in 1987, 1988, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, for a total of 24 Universal Cheerleaders Association championships.

Williamson declared his commitment to the betterment of cheerleading on the national level when he became a founding board member of the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors (AACCA), which has now become U.S.A. Cheer, the national governing body

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fter four decades with the institution, T. Lynn Williamson ’68 AS, ’74 LAW defines the word icon at the University of Kentucky. The school and its cheerleading program would not be the same without him.

A Fulton County native, Williamson first stepped on the UK campus as a freshman in 1964. He earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1968 and his law degree in 1974. He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and was awarded the Bronze Star medal for his service in Vietnam.

Williamson began his professional career with his beloved alma mater in 1973, holding various leadership roles in the Student Affairs Division over the following decade. In fall 1983 he began serving as administrator for Personnel Policy and Procedure, was named associate director for Human Resource Services in 1994 and then named director of Human Resources in 1999 through 2004, until he joined the UK Office of Legal Counsel.

Now, as principal deputy general counsel, Williamson advises UK in the specific areas of education law, judicial processes, athletics law, constitutional law, interpretation of regulations and policies, employment and labor law, the Kentucky Open Records Act and other general areas of the law, as needed. He interprets the university’s alcohol policy. Williamson serves as the chairman of the University Ethics Committee and issues official Ethics Opinions for the Ethics Committee.

He also serves on the GR/AR Revisions Committee and the Ethics and Risk Management Committee.

During his career at UK, Williamson has been a hearing officer for various UK student and employee appeals processes, chaired the Personnel Council, the Wage and Salary Committee, and the Health Insurance Committee. He was a member of the President’s Executive Committee, treasurer and president of the UK Boone Faculty Club and today serves on the Boone Center Board of Directors. He also was coordinator of the university’s Commencement ceremony for many years.

For most individuals, those responsibilities — astonishingly enough, an abbreviated list — would be enough to fill

for all cheerleading. Today he serves on the board of directors of U.S.A. Cheer as the organization promotes cheerleading to be an Olympic sport. He ramped up his commitment again when he brought his legal expertise to the table. He often shares his knowledge on risk management and the liability aspects of cheerleading; continues to write for sports and cheerleading publications on the topic; makes presentations on cheerleading safety topics at conferences, camps, and state and national meetings; and serves on AACCA’s National Consortium on Safety.

Today, he sees his role as “a kind of general overseer,” albeit a consistently amazed one.

“I live it. I breathe it. I go into practice and watch them trying to work on some stunt, and I think, ‘That is completely impossible. There is no way they will ever do that,’” says Williamson.

“And then I come back the next night, and there’s actually one or two that are beginning to hit it. Then I come back the next night, and they are all actually doing what I didn’t think was possible,” he says.

But none of the awards, none of the accolades, none of it matters as much to the extraordinary student-athletes as what “T” (as the students call Williamson) has done for each of them personally. Each one asked has another remarkable story about T’s commitment to the university, the cheerleading squad and to each of them, personally.

“I’m a single person,” said Williamson, “and I would say the cheerleading program has been my life. It is my family.” ■

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Alumni Engagement

Last fall, the Fayette County UK Alumni Club unveiled its custom labeled bourbon bottles from Barrel House Distillery in Lexington. A portion of the proceeds ($6,580) from the sale of the bottles goes toward the club’s scholarship fund.

Josh Palmer, left, a UK student recruiter, and Hannah Simms, right, UK Alumni Association program coordinator, attended the Cumberland Valley East UK Alumni Club Student Send-off to welcome area students into the UK alumni family. The event was held at the Harlan County Extension office.

The Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club watched the Cats break Florida’s football winning streak at Hudson Grille Midtown, led by Mark Pierson, club president, and Stephanie Robb, communications director. Benny Snell Jr. is being interviewed on the big screen.

Twelve Kuala Lumpur UK alumni, two spouses, and their children attended an event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in November hosted by Nancy Johnson, associate dean of international affairs and associate professor of management in the Gatton College of Business and Economics.

Members of the Central Texas UK Alumni Club cheered for the Wildcats as the men’s basketball team successfully defeated the University of Louisville in December.

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The Northern Alabama UK Alumni Club had a good turnout for its summer picnic at Monte Sano State Park.

Members of the Southern California UK Alumni Club met at The Parlor – Hollywood to cheer for the Wildcats during the football team’s win over the Florida Gators in September.

Members turned out in force for the Jacksonville UK Alumni Club Game Watch Party as UK football beat Mississippi State.

Members of the Hopkins County UK Alumni Club held their annual dinner in Madisonville where they also honored Lee T. Todd Jr. ’68 EN, former UK president, and his wife, Patricia Brantley Todd ’68 AFE. The couple posed with the club’s officers at the event. Left to right are Bob Kelley ’81 BE, Nancy Kelley ’81 AFE, Patsy Todd, Lee Todd, Jamie Brown ’82 AFE, Dr. Terry Brown ’83 DE, Frances Corum ’64 AS and Bill Corum ’64 BE.

Alumni and friends at the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club annual basketball Tipoff Luncheon enjoyed visiting with former UK basketball player Kenny “Sky” Walker, center.

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Alumni Engagement Legal moves The UK Alumni Association and UK College of Law recently cosponsored a small group attending the U.S. Supreme Court Bar Admission ceremony in Washington. Eleven people were sworn in as members of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States on Tuesday, Jan. 15. Those admitted were: • David A. Brennen, dean of the UK College of Law • Kimberly Brennen • Angela Edwards ’94 LAW • Charles E. English Sr. ’57 BE, ’60 LAW • Charles E. “Buzz” English Jr. ’80 BE, ’83 LAW • Edward Glasscock ’66 EN, ’69 LAW • LaToi Mayo ’98 AS, ’01 LAW • John McNeill ’82 LAW • Russell B. Morgan ’94 LAW • Lou Anna Red Corn ’81 CI, ’84 LAW • Steve Ruschell ’71 BE, ’74 LAW

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Ray Stewart ’78 LAW was scheduled to participate in the event but was unable to attend the morning of the ceremony. John McGarvey, a 1973 graduate of the UK College of Law, served as movant for the ceremony.

A reception was held the previous evening for the group and other Washington-area UK College of Law alumni at Thompson Coburn LLP, where Stewart is a member. The group also met with U.S. Rep. Andy Barr ’01 LAW.

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Valerie Still inducted into Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame Still completed her degree in animal sciences with honors in 2000. She earned a master’s degree from Ohio State. In September 2005, Still was inducted into the charter class of the UK Athletics Hall of Fame, the only female of the 88 inductees. ■

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The all-time leading scorer in both men’s and women’s basketball history at the University of Kentucky — Valerie Still ’00 AFE — has been announced as one of seven 2019 inductees into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame. The 2019 induction will mark the 21st anniversary of the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, which held its grand opening and inaugural induction in 1999. The Class of 2019 will be officially inducted in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 8.

Still (1979-1983) became the first female letter winner in any UK sport to have her jersey retired.

Still is the leader among all Wildcats for career scoring (2,763) and rebounding (1,525). She was a three-time consensus All-American and led the program in scoring four-straight seasons with a career average of 23.2 points. At one point during the 1981-1982 season, she led the nation in both scoring and rebounding before finishing second in both categories (24.8 ppg and 14.3 rpg).

Still led the Cats to their highest national ranking (4th) in 1983 and helped UK roll up a 30-game home court win streak from 1980-1982.

Still had a successful career in the Italian Professional League.

While in Italy, Still was a television actress and hosted her own TV show, “Still Basket.” She is also an accomplished print model and a professional caliber jazz, pop and concert pianist.

Still became a charter member of the American Basketball League for Women and was a two-time MVP of the ABL Championship Series. She later played for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA and was also an assistant coach for the Orlando Miracle for two seasons.

Valerie Still (No. 12), Kentucky’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder (men or women) and a three-time All-American, was announced as one of seven 2019 inductees into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Kentucky Athletics Hall of Famer and former All-America star volleyball player Sarah Rumely will represent the Wildcats as a member of the 2019 Southeastern Conference Women’s Legends Class. Rumely was honored at the 2019 SEC Women’s Basketball Tournament on March 6-10.

Rumely was inducted into the UK Athletics Hall of Fame in 2017 after a decorated four-year career from 2006-2009. She was a four-year starter at setter for the Wildcats and was a cornerstone in UK becoming one of the most prominent programs in the country over the last decade.

She was the only player in program history to earn SEC Freshman of the Year (2006) and SEC Player of the Year (2008) honors. She was a two-time AVCA All-America selection, a four-time All-SEC player and a third-team Academic All-American as a senior. She directed the Wildcats to four NCAA Tournaments, including an appearance in the NCAA Regional Semifinals in 2009. She capped her career with UK records in assists (5,703) and aces (165). Her 5,703 assists also ranked fifth all-time in SEC history.

She played in the top professional division in France, Ligue A, as the starting setter for Nantes Volley Feminin. She then entered the coaching ranks where she served as an assistant coach at North Texas, Wake Forest, Arkansas and currently LSU. ■

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ESPN College GameDay made its return to Rupp Arena on Jan. 26 for the Kentucky-Kansas game in the SEC/ Big 12 Challenge. From left, Rece Davis, Jay William, Seth Greenberg and Jay Bilas discussed the day in college basketball against the backdrop of an enthusiastic crowd of UK fans. The Wildcats beat Kansas 71-63.

Kentucky football signs 22 players in Class of 2019 Coming off a 10-3 season, its first since 1977, and a VRBO Citrus Bowl win on New Year’s Day, the UK football team signed 22 players in its 2019 class. The Wildcats signed 21 players during the early signing period and then added another in February to a class ranked 34th by Scout/247 Sports, 35th by ESPN and 30th by Rivals.

“To be good, we didn’t really over-sign this year, which is really critical. Next year we’re going into the year without any attrition, but I do anticipate some attrition,” UK Coach Mark Stoops said. “Everybody is getting that in this day and age, which can be helpful, quite honestly, at times. But going into the year, we only have nine seniors.

“So, coming off the best season we’ve had in a long time, next year will be the smallest class that I’ve signed. I do anticipate some attrition and hopefully we’ll get a few scholarships back somewhere along the line. But it’s going to be a year where we have great momentum but we have to be very selective heading into this next class.”

Here is a look at this year’s class: December Signees • Marquez Bembry: Stone Mountain, Georgia • Cavon Butler: Toledo, Ohio • Jared Casey: Louisville • Eli Cox: Nicholasville • Tae Tae Crumes: Louisville • Taj Dodson: Union Grove, Georgia • Moses Douglass: Springfield, Ohio • Brandin Echols: Southaven, Mississippi • Jalen Geiger: Columbia, South Carolina • Isaiah Gibson: Springfield, Ohio • Amani Gilmore: Amite, Louisiana • DeMarcus Harris: Vero Beach, Florida

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by Caroline Leggett

JOEY MATTINGLY CLASS OF 2009

Mattingly reached out to several of his mentors at the College of Pharmacy and they encouraged him to pursue a PhD. “I thought back to my time in pharmacy school and realized I spent a lot of my fourth year regularly teaching guest lectures. I just loved teaching. And my professors at UK knew I could make it as a professor—more so than I did.”

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orn and raised in Bardstown, Kentucky, Joey Mattingly grew up looking for his chance to wear Kentucky blue. To live in Lexington was a dream for any die-hard University of Kentucky (UK) basketball fan, but especially for someone with Mattingly’s background.

Growing up on a farm in Nelson County, Mattingly was familiar with hard work, but knew he didn’t want to take over the family business. “It didn’t matter how many times I went to the gym and how much weight I could lift. I’d go to the farm with my dad, and he’d work circles around me,” Mattingly laughs. He learned early from his parents about grit and determination—lessons that would prove useful since he was set on applying to UK’s nationally ranked pharmacy program.

“I was an insecure 18-year-old kid from pretty humble beginnings who was just trying to prove to his family—and himself—that he had what it took to be academically successful and land a good job,” said Mattingly.

And like many of UK’s first-generation students, Mattingly did just that. With scholarship support, he arrived on UK’s campus in 2002, and by the time he graduated in 2009 from the UK College of Pharmacy, he was a 25-year-old with a dual PharmD/MBA degree, a national student officer for the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and an emerging young leader in the profession.

“The family-like atmosphere at Kentucky was just what I needed,” said Mattingly. As someone who was close to his friends and

family, but who also looked to professors for mentorship and guidance, the familial culture at the College of Pharmacy was a natural fit.

“You can kind of be raised by a village,” said Mattingly. And it was that village of support he credits to helping him figure how to navigate life after pharmacy school.

Four short years after finishing at UK, Mattingly went on to manage a total of 16 retail pharmacies, 4 as manager and 12 as district manager, as well as one long-term care operation serving 23 nursing homes. Although those jobs were successful, Mattingly felt he wasn’t doing enough.

He was still looking for where he fit within the pharmacy profession and how to better incorporate his MBA from the Gatton College of Business and Economics.

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That’s how Mattingly found himself applying for a faculty position at the University of Maryland where he is today. Mattingly is working on his PhD part-time while he serves as an Assistant Professor in Pharmacy Practice, teaching pharmacy management and economics.

“Without being surrounded by great people at the University of Kentucky who have had a global impact, I would have never realized my potential to shape the world,” said Mattingly.

Mattingly continues to think back to those at UK who impacted his education. “I’m always asking myself ‘Can I be genuinely enthusiastic about what I do?’ It’s something I observed early on as a UK undergrad. My favorite classes were the ones taught by people who you could tell loved their subjects,” he said.

While the list of pharmacy faculty he credits is long, Mattingly made sure to mention Fitzgerald Bramwell (Professor of Chemistry), Bob Gillette (Professor of Economics), and Ganpathy Murthy (Professor of Physics) for modeling how to teach well. “They all worked hard to engage students while demonstrating an authentic enthusiasm for the subjects they loved.”

Mattingly works to carry that same enthusiasm to his own students. “I strive to show my love for pharmacy every time I stand in front of those students,” he said. And from what we hear, he may even do that wearing Kentucky blue.

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Hadeel Abdallah:

UK senior named Rhodes Scholar

By Whitney Hale, Amy Jones-Timoney, and Kody Kiser UK is celebrating the announcement that political science and Arabic and Islamic studies senior Hadeel Abdallah of Lexington has been named a recipient of the highly prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Abdallah is one of 32 American women and men selected as Rhodes Scholars representing the United States.

She is the first female from the university and the 10th UK student named a Rhodes Scholar, the last being selected in 1955. UK remains home to the largest number of Rhodes Scholars from institutions in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

“Hadeel’s passion for public service and resolve to make a positive impact on the world are an inspiration to the UK family,” UK President Eli Capilouto said. “Her story embodies the values and ideals that our campus holds dear: dogged determination and unwavering good will. We are so proud of her accomplishments and wish her the best in her journey as a Rhodes Scholar.”

The Rhodes Trust is a British charity established to provide full financial support for Rhodes Scholars to pursue a degree or degrees at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Rhodes Scholars are chosen not only for their outstanding scholarly achievements, but for their character, commitment to others and to the common good, and for their leadership potential in whatever domains their careers may lead.

UK Provost David Blackwell acknowleged the magnitude of Abdallah’s selection. “She is an amazing student with vision and an endearing humility that is quietly captivating. She will be a leader who brings great credit to UK. For me, this is the best news about UK this year,” he said.

“I am incredibly honored to have been selected as a Rhodes Scholar,” said Abdallah. “I am looking forward to the educational opportunities provided to me by this award and what it will mean for my future aspirations. I would like to thank my family, friends, mentors and the University of Ken-

tucky for their help in my endeavors thus far.”

Abdallah, the daughter of Younes Abdallah and Maissa Abdallah of Lexington, is excited about what this new scholarship means as she pursues graduate studies to expand her foundation for a future career in public service. Her passion for public service began at a young age while translating for refugees and has continued as she has served in other capacities over time.

“Hadeel’s passion for public service and resolve to make a positive impact on the world are an inspiration to the UK family.”

— President Eli Capilouto “I’m thankful to my community for allowing me to serve them in the capacities that I have, and for their confidence in me to do so,” Abdallah said.

A recipient of UK’s Chellgren Fellowship and Gaines Fellowship, Abdallah has been very active at the university inside and outside the classroom and is also pursuing a Peace Studies Certificate.

In the field of research, Abdallah conducted undergraduate research on the relationship of citizen dissent and coup d’états. Additionally, as part of her Gaines Fellowship, she worked with the UK Office of Philanthropy, Masjid Bilal and the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government to create a permanent endowment for refugees settled in Kentucky. The endowment will serve as a long-term community investment in their education and brings a spotlight to the plight of refugees making their way to America.

Outside of the academic realm, Abdallah previously served as president of the Muslim Student Association, where she spearheaded the Refugee

Benefit Gala initiative for Kentucky Refugee Ministries and the Islamic Society of Central Kentucky’s Refugee Resettlement Program. She was also director of inclusion and outreach for UK’s Student Government Association and a national outreach director for the Muslim Youth of North America.

To gain experience in public service, Abdallah interned in the Office of the Lexington Vice Mayor; the Washington office for U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas; and with the Kentucky House Democratic Caucus in Frankfort during her undergraduate years.

Last spring, Abdallah became UK’s 14th Truman Scholarship recipient and she credits her success to several faculty and mentors at UK and around Lexington.

Abdallah applied for the Rhodes Scholarship through the UK Office of Nationally Competitive Awards, part of the Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence within the Division of Student and Academic Life at UK. The Office of Nationally Competitive Awards assists current UK undergraduate and graduate students and recent alumni in applying for external scholarships and fellowships funded by sources (such as a nongovernment foundation or government agency) outside the university. These major awards honor exceptional students across the nation. Students who are interested in these opportunities are encouraged to begin work with Whitlow, well in advance of the scholarship deadline.

Rhodes Scholars are chosen in a two-stage process. First, candidates must be endorsed by their college or university. Committees of Selection in each of 16 U.S. districts then invite the strongest applicants to appear before them for interviews.

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Kentucky Alumni magazine welcomes news of your recent accomplishments and transitions.

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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 David M. Allen ’61 ’64 AFE lives in Lexington and was inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. He is a professor emeritus in the UK Department of Statistics, where he was the first faculty hired when the department was established in 1967.

Gerri Green Miracle ’63 ’68 AFE, ’90 ED was inducted into the UK School of Human Environmental Sciences Hall of Fame.

She is a retired family and consumer sciences teacher living in Walton.

Sheldon M. Steiner ’64 ’67 AS was inducted into the UK School of Human Environmental Sciences Hall of Fame. He is a professor emeritus in the UK Department of Biology. He was chairman of the Department of Biology from 2005-2008 and served as associate chairman from 2008-2009.

Rodney F. Page ’68 AS lives in Washington and was inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. He is an attorney and partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP. Page earned his law degree from Harvard Law School.

George M. Geoghegan ’69 LAW is an attorney in Lawrenceburg. He was elected to his third term on the Lawrenceburg City Council.

W. Bruce Lunsford ’69 AS was inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.

He is the owner and CEO of Lunsford Capital LLC in Louisville. Lunsford earned his law degree from Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law. 1970s Freddie L. Barnard ’75 ’79 AFE is professor emeritus of agricultural economics in the Purdue University College of Agriculture in West Lafayette, Indiana. He received the American Bankers Association Blanchfield Award, which recognizes the contributions of a nonbanker who has made significant contributions to the advancement of agricultural lending.

William C. Leavell ’75 BE is vice president-investment at Stifel Financial Corp. in the company’s Louisville office.

He was elected commissioner for the city of Hurstbourne, a suburb of Louisville, and was inducted recently into the UK Kappa Sigma Hall of Fame.

1980s Ntamulyango Baharanyi ’80 ’85 AFE is a professor of agricultural and resource economics in the Tuskegee University College of Agriculture, Environment and Nutrition Sciences in Tuskegee, Alabama. He also is assistant Extension administrator in the school’s Cooperative Extension Program. He received a Carnegie African

Diaspora Fellowship Program fellowship to travel to Uganda and work with the University of Saint Joseph at Mbarara on curriculum development and collaborative research initiatives.

Charles E. English ’80 BE, ’83 LAW is a partner at English Lucas Priest & Owsley LLP in Bowling Green. He was elected to a three-year term on the American Bar Association Board of Governors.

LaVon V. Williams ’80 AS was inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.

He is an artist in Lexington.

Charles E. Brymer ’81 CI is chairman of DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., an advertising agency in New York. He had been the company’s president and CEO. Phillip R. Pratt ’81 AFE lives in Georgetown and is president and owner of Pratt’s Lawn & Landscape Inc. He was elected to his second term as the 62nd House District representative in the Kentucky State Legislature.

His district includes Fayette, Owen and Scott counties.

Anthony M. Richardson ’81 EN is an associate professor and director of the electrical engineering program in the University of Evansville Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in Indiana. He received the university’s Exemplary Teacher Award.

James A. Tipton ’81 AFE, ’85 ED lives in Taylorsville and is a cattle farmer and real

estate broker. He was elected to his third term as the 53rd House District representative in the Kentucky State Legislature. His district comprises Anderson, Spencer and Bullitt counties.

J. Gregory Howard ’82 BE lives in Middletown, Ohio, and is the Butler County Court of Common Pleas judge, General Division. After 29 years in private practice, he was appointed in 2017 by Ohio Gov. John Kasich to fill an unexpired term. In November 2018, he was elected to a full six-year term. He earned his law degree from the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law. James R. Baird ’83 AFE is the owner of Baird Family Farms and Indiana Home Care Plus in Greencastle, Indiana. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives representing the 4th Congressional District. He had been state representative for District 44 in the Indiana House of Representatives.

Katherine Playforth Grawe ’83 ED is a teacher at Clark County Preschool in Winchester and has been a teacher for 35 years.

Marilyn Edwards-Barrick ’84 AFE was inducted into the UK School of Human Environmental Sciences Hall of Fame. She is a family and consumer sciences teacher at Barren County High School in Glasgow.

Edwards-Barrick earned her master’s degree from Western Kentucky University.

Shelton Green ’84 DES is a project architect on hospital

and institutional projects for Prad Group Inc. in Atlanta.

He was previously an architect with BMH Engineering LLC. Cathy Peake Wilson ’84 EN is market development manager for Gates Corp. at the company’s Elizabethtown plant.

Phillip O. Bradley ’86 BE is manager of the Berkley Equine & Cattle Animal Mortality Claims Adjusting office, a division of Berkley Program Specialists, in the company’s Lexington office.

Edward J. Krawiec ’86 EN is vice president of global sales for StratEdge Corp. in Santee, California. He was previously director of sales and marketing at Quick-Pak Inc. Jennifer L. Garr ’86 AS lives in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, and was inducted into the UK College of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame.

She has worked at some of the top advertising companies and management agencies, including Brown & Williamson International, Leo Burnett, J. Walter Thompson, Publicis and Ammirati Puris Linta.

Troy D. Hammett ’86 BE lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is senior vice president and chief financial officer for the southeast division of Catholic Health Initiatives.

He is responsible for health systems located in Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas and Ohio.

Mary A. Ramsey ’86 EN is executive director of International Society of Automation in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.

She had been the company’s interim executive director.

Karen L. Wilson ’86 AS, ’00 GS lives in Lexington and is legislative liaison and executive advisor to the commissioners for the Kentucky Public Service Commission.

She had been a policy advisor in the Energy and Environment Cabinet Department of Energy Policy.

Palmer A. Orlandi ’87 MED lives in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, and is deputy executive director and chief science officer for the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists International. He was previously chief science officer and research director in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of Food and Veterinary Medicine.

Kristin K. Howell ’88 ’87 ’89 BE is the biomedical science teacher at Martha Layne Collins High School in Shelbyville. She was awarded a $7,000 grant by the Toshiba American Foundation to turn her classroom storage closet into a mini research lab.

Russell J. Mumper ’88 AS, ’91 PHA is vice president of research and economic development at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. He had been vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Georgia.

Mark A. Ripato ’88 AFE is agribusiness division president for the Wilbur-Ellis Co. LLC, which markets and distributes crop protection, seed and nutritional products. He is based in the company’s agribusiness headquarters in Aurora, Colorado. He had been CEO and president of Tenkoz.

Rebecca Barker Vest ’88 BE lives in Brentwood, Tennessee, and is senior vice president of procurement and strategic partnerships at Bridgestone Americas, leading the integrated procurement organization. She was previously vice president of corporate development and social responsibility at Nissan North America.

Denise Bailey Adams ’89 ED is attendance advocate for Jessamine County Board of Education in Nicholasville. She was elected to the Jessamine County School Board and was the founding principal at The Providence School in Wilmore.

Robert L. Beeler ’89 ’91 EN lives in Carmel, Indiana, and is vice president, products and engineering for Carbonite Inc. Linda K. Donaldson ’89 CI is the owner and president of Copies Galore LLC in Portsmouth, Ohio.

Carol Giltner Gallagher ’89 PHA is a partner at New Enterprise Associates, a venture capital firm, in the company’s Menlo Park, California, office. She was named to the LeadingBiotech (formerly Boston Biotech Conferences) Ambassador Committee.

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Staying relevant throughout your career

Alumni Career Services is growing!

Many mid to late career professionals have learned the hard way the importance of remaining relevant throughout their careers. It is crucial to be proactive about seeking out networking and professional development opportunities. Being relevant at work today means building and maintaining strong networks with diverse people of various ages, industries, positions and interests.

Participate in at least two or three monthly networking events.

These might be industry meetings or conferences, community nonprofits, social and hobby related activities. Volunteering continues to be an excellent way to network, build skills, fill a potential work gap and add to one’s resume.

Build skills through online and short term certification programs, continuing education and skills enhancement resources. Discontinuing industry licenses and certifications is another lesson many learned the hard way during the recession of years past. Staying relevant means keeping up with technology and being a lifelong learner. A recruiter recently shared with the Central Kentucky Job Club (www.ukalumni.net/jobclub) his favorite interview question.

“What is something that you have learned lately?”

According to Amanda Schagane ’09 AS, ’10 ED, associate director of UK Alumni Career Services, staying relevant means continuously reading about trends in one’s target industry, and staying up-to-date on standards and best practices for your job function.

Staying relevant also means having tools in place to smoothly change jobs, careers or industries. What are your “plan B’s” if your position ended tomorrow? What jobs and careers do you still have on your bucket list? How are you gaining skills and knowledge in those areas? Reinventing oneself multiple times is a new career reality.

“My advice is to always keep your resume current,” says Lisa Donnelly ’90 BE. “While I was employed full-time, I attended the UK Job Club because I was considering a transition. A speaker at the UK Job Club stressed to us that your resume should be current because you never know when you might get, ‘The Pink Slip.’ I followed the advice and updated my resume. Within a few months after attending the UK Job Club meetings, I was laid off from my full-time job of 8 years. I was able to walk out with confidence and excitement about my future just because my resume was current.

“LinkedIn has been a valuable resource for me as I continue to use it daily and have learned that people respond quicker through LinkedIn than regular email,” she says. “I recommend setting up a LinkedIn account, explore, and take advantage of everything it has to offer.”

By following these strategies and using UK Alumni Career Services resources, UK alumni and friends will be able to remain more resilient throughout their early careers and long into their encore careers.

Our alumni have told us consistently that one of their most useful UK Alumni Association member benefits is having access to career services — whether for help finding that first job, changing professions later in life or simply enhancing their networking skills.

So we are pleased to announce that in addition to the career expertise already provided by Caroline Francis, we are expanding to better serve you.

Alumni Career Services has moved off the UK campus to a new location at 210 Malabu Drive, Suite 200, Lexington. Now UK alumni will have easy access to convenient parking to meet with career counselors. The phone number remains the same 888-9UK-CATS (852287), only the location is different.

Amanda Schagane has joined the UK Alumni Career Services team as associate director, bringing more Amanda Schagane than 8 years of experience in career counseling. She is transitioning to us from the Graham Office of Career Management in the UK Gatton College of Business & Economics, where she served as interim associate director and instructor for career development/communication courses. Schagane worked primarily with graduate students including professional MBAs. She earned the Certified Career Counselor and Certified Clinical Supervisor of Career Counseling (CCSCC) credentials from the National Career Development Association and has served as past-president for the Kentucky chapter of the organization. She’s the first in the state to earn the CCSCC. “I am thrilled to join the Alumni Career Services team and serve our UK alums across the country,” says Schagane. “Graduate Assistants Chase Herndon and Rena Goodwin also transitioned to the team in the new year.

This expansion of the team is going to allow us to have an incredible impact through expanded career counseling availability, programming efforts and more. Caroline Francis, director of Alumni Career Services, is leading our way in the development of a nationally recognized program. I am so grateful to join the team.”

Schagane also served over 3 years writing for the Business Monday section of the Lexington Herald-Leader, sharing expertise on job-related topics for working professionals.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the UK College of Arts & Sciences in 2009, a master’s degree in counseling psychology from the UK College of Education in 2010 and also earned a certificate in business administration from the UK Gatton College of Business & Economics.

by Caroline Francis

UK Alumni Association members are eligible for two complimentary appointments per year with an alumni career counselor. Call 1-888-9UK-CATS (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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Class Notes Mary Beth Willis Hudson ’89 EN is vice president and site manager for Wacker Polysilicon, a division of Wacker Chemie AG, at the company’s Charleston, Tennessee, plant.

Debra Hembree Lambert ’89 LAW lives in Burnside and was elected as a judge to the Kentucky Supreme Court, 3rd District.

She had been a judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals, 3rd Appellate District, Division 1.

Amy Miller VanMeter ’89 AFE was inducted into the UK School of Human Environmental Sciences Hall of Fame.

She has been a department manager and senior buyer at Mercantile Stores Co., director of development and alumni relations for the UK College of Human Environmental Sciences and assistant director of development in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

1990s Aaron Thompson ’90 ’92 AS is president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education in Frankfort. He was previously the council’s vice president and chief academic officer.

Todd R. Cheever ’91 MED lives in Bowling Green and is associate dean for the UK College of Medicine-Bowling Green campus. He was previously

associate dean of student affairs at the UK College of Medicine.

Lindsey Wilson College Division of Humanities and Fine Arts in Columbia.

Joel M. Guthridge ’91 MED is director, translational informatics and clinical research resources in the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Arthritis and Clinical Immunology Research Program in Oklahoma City.

John D. Boyd ’94 BE is vice president of contract sales for General Electric Appliances in Louisville.

William O. Taulbee ’91 BE lives in Winchester and is an account executive with Apsect Software Inc., which is headquartered in Phoenix. He was elected to the Clark County Board of Education representing District 1.

Wendy Palmer Summers ’91 ED is a kindergarten teacher at Shearer Elementary School in Winchester.

Richard W. Westerdale ’91 EN is senior vice president of Jiangnan Environmental Protection Group Inc., a pollution control company headquartered in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. He was previously a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of State.

Karen Chandler ’93 EN is senior vice president and chief operating officer at Laredo in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She had been the company’s vice president of operations.

Amy Smith Engelsdorfer ’93 ’00 ’01 FA is an assistant professor of music theory at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa.

JoAnn Browning ’94 ’95 EN is the dean and David and Jennifer Spencer Distinguished Chair of the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Engineering.

Jeremy R. Graff ’94 MED is president and chief scientific officer for Biothera Pharmaceuticals Inc., which is headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota. He has responsibility for research, clinical operations and manufacturing.

Cathy Lilford Altman ’95 LAW is a partner at Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal LLP in Dallas. She was appointed to the Trinity River Authority Board of Directors

by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

James L. Blanton ’95 AS, ’00 CI is director of the Buncombe County Library in Ashville, North Carolina. He was previously director of the Louisville Free Public Library.

Sarah Bonewits Feldner ’95 CI is acting dean of the Marquette University Diederich College of Communication and Leadership in Milwaukee.

She had been the college’s associate dean for graduate studies and research.

Matthew C. Hess ’95 AFE, ’98 LAW is a partner with Bell Hess and VanZant PLC in Elizabethtown. He was named to the board of directors for the Central Kentucky Community Foundation, which serves Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson and Washington counties.

Clinton T. Justice ’94 ’97 EN is a senior project manager/geotechnical engineer at GEI Consultants Inc. in the company’s Knoxville, Tennessee, office.

Dustan C. McCoy ’95 LAW is an attorney at McCoy Hiestand & Smith PLC in the firm’s Bardstown office. He was elected to a second term in the Kentucky House of Representatives 50th District representing Nelson County. McCoy was also selected as House Majority Whip.

David B. Schneider ’95 AS, ’01 MED is an internist at Medpace, a clinical contract research organization in Cincinnati.

Leon C. Williams ’95 BE is pastor and director of ministry for Shiloh Baptist Church in Lexington and is chairman of The People’s Campaign.

Donald E. Goodin ’96 MED is an oncologist at Hardin Memorial Hospital Cancer Care Center in Elizabethtown.

Robert L. Reynolds ’93 FA is a professor of music in the www.ukalumni.net

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Class Notes Brian M. Johnson ’97 LAW is a member at Dickinson Wright PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office. He was named a 2019 Super Lawyer for Business Litigation.

Laura K. Wilson ’97 FA is the music teacher at Strode Station Elementary in Winchester.

Dustin R. Mitchell ’98 EN is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army and director of Army Officer Education in the Vanderbilt University Army Reserve Officer Training Corps. He was previously commander of the 4th Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, Fort Bliss, Texas.

Travis K. Womack ’98 EN is president of The Battery Terminal Inc. in Ashland. He was named the Ashland Lions Club 2018 Lion of the Year.

Ginny Norris Blackson ’99 AS, ’04 CI is managing associate dean and head of collection development and management for the Central Washington University Libraries in Ellensburg. She won the American Library Association 2018 I Love My Librarian Award.

Scott J. Lane ’99 BE is an associate professor and director of the School of Accountancy in the Auburn Montgomery College of Business in Montgomery, Alabama.

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counties. He earned his law degree from the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law.

Wendy M. Grab ’02 SW is a visiting assistant professor of social work at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio.

Robert P. Strobo ’00 AS lives in Louisville and is general counsel, chief legal officer and corporate secretary for 3PEA International Inc. He earned his law degree from the DePaul University College of Law.

Brende Bloomer Lott ’01 NUR is an advanced practice registered nurse and certified nurse-midwife at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital Women’s Pavilion at the Springs in Owensboro.

Eric D. Jackson ’02 EN is an associate research professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the University of Connecticut School of Engineering in Storrs. He is also director of the Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center.

George M. Wise ’00 GS lives in Campbellsville and is a member of the Kentucky General Assembly representing the 16th Senate District which covers Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Russell, Taylor and Wayne counties. He is also an adjunct professor in the UK Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce.

Jeffrey W. Brittingham ’01 AFE is owner and principal scientist at Bluegrass Radon Systems in Lexington.

Kevin C. Brown ’01 LAW is general counsel for Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville. He had been associate commissioner and general counsel for the Kentucky Department of Education.

Jennifer Moore Friedland ’01 AS is an attorney and managing partner at Momkus LLC in Lisle, Illinois, and focuses her practice in commercial and business litigation and appellate practice. She earned her law degree from Tulane University Law School.

Louis D. Kelly ’01 BE was elected Commonwealth’s attorney for Boone and Gallatin

Erica Sipple Morgos ’01 NUR is a psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner at Valley Health-East Huntington in Huntington, West Virginia.

Karen Myhre Venis ’01 BE is CEO/executive director at Sayre Christian Village in Lexington. She had been Sayre’s chief administration officer.

Keith D. Bricking ’02 MED is president of Premier Health Atrium Medical Center in Middletown, Ohio. He was president of the Miami Valley Hospital medical staff and medical director of that hospital’s Emergency Medicine Department.

Alan Chan ’02 EN, ’07 MED is a hospitalist and vice chairman of the Department of Medicine at Orlando Health Inpatient Medicine Group in Orlando, Florida.

Johnathan C. Gay ’02 LAW is an attorney in Flemingsburg. He was appointed District Court trial commissioner for Fleming County by District Court Judge Jeffrey Schumacher.

Angela Green-Miller ’02 ’04 EN is an associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering in the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences.

Kevin R. Waldo ’02 AS is an attorney at Spilman Thomas & Battle in Charleston, West Virginia. He earned his law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law. Ashley B. York ’02 CI is a film maker and producer in Los Angles. She co-directed the documentary “Hillbilly: Appalachia in Film and Television.” York earned a master’s degree from the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.

Angela Nottingham Henning ’03 HS lives in Lexington and is clinical instructor of physical therapy in the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital Inpatient Rehab Department.

She received the Ohio-Kentucky Consortium of Physical Therapy Programs Peter D. Mosher Educational Leadership Conference Scholarship.

Larry C. Cary ’04 MED is associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics, and internal medicine residency program director at the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga. He received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award from Marquis Who’s Who. Jeremy D. Luckett ’04 AFE, ’08 MED is an internal medicine physician and founder of Vineyard Primary Care PLLC in Owensboro. He was elected to the Owensboro Public Schools Board of Education.

Amy Corder Bland ’06 DES is accounts receivable clerk for the Marion County Fiscal Court in Lebanon. She was elected to the Marion County Board of Education, District 3.

Brian K. Fields ’06 AS, ’09 NUR is an advanced practice registered nurse at Ephraim McDowell Diabetes & Endocrinology Center in Danville. He previously worked at UK Endocrinology.

William L. Nash ’06 AS lives in Lexington and is executive director, new site development with the nonprofit organization New Leaders. He was appointed to the Fayette County School Board by Kentucky Education Commissioner Wayne Lewis.

Janey L. Watts ’06 PH is a doctor of osteopathic medicine at Pikeville Medical Center’s clinics in Martin and Harold. She received her medical degree from the Kentucky College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Ryan A. Daniele ’08 BE is director of property and casualty strategy and operations at MJ Insurance in Indianapolis.

He was named a Property Casualty Insurers Association of America Emerging Leader.

Amanda R. Ellis ’09 ’13 ’18 AS is deputy commissioner and chief academic officer for the Kentucky Department of Education in Frankfort, overseeing the Office of Career & Technical Education and Student Transition. She received the 2018 Kevin M. Nolan/ Mary Ann Miller Award.

Audra Isaac Grossman ’09 AFE is a dermatologist at Harrison Memorial Hospital in Cynthiana. She earned her medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

Phillip D. Keathley ’09 EN is a research assistant in the research laboratory of Electronics Quantum Nanostructures and Nanofabrication Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. He was among 31 scientists and engineers nationwide awarded three-year, $450,000 research grants by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Nathaniel R. Kissel ’09 LAW is an attorney at Steptoe & Johnson PLLC in an of counsel position in the firm’s Lexington office. He had been a partner at Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA. 2010s Ellen T. Hammer ’10 AS lives in Nashville, Tennessee, and is director of business development and marketing for ServisFirst Bank, a subsidiary

of ServisFirst Bancshares. She was previously commercial marketing manager for Martin & Zerfoss Inc. David C. Kirk ’10 CI is destination management director for the Owensboro-Daviess County Convention and Visitors Bureau in Owensboro.

He was named a Kentucky Travel Industry Association 2018 Emerging Leader.

Heather Awender Shick ’10 DE is the owner of Above & Beyond Dentistry in Rockford, Illinois. She was named a Highland Community College Foundation Distinguished Alum.

Gillian C. LaRue ’11 AS, ’15 ED is a doctoral student in psychology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.

She was elected treasurer of the Association of Black Psychologists Student Circle Board of Directors.

Gregory R. Lee ’11 EN is president and CEO for Nolin Rural Electric Cooperative Corp., a division of Touchstone Energy Cooperative in Elizabethtown. He had been Nolin’s vice president-system operations.

District of Kentucky in Louisville. He works as a prosecutor for Project Safe Neighborhood, part of the Department of Justice’s violent crime reduction strategy.

Emma R. Wolfe ’11 LAW is a member at Dickinson Wright PLLC in the firm’s Lexington office.

She was named a 2019 Kentucky Super Lawyer Rising Star for Business Litigation.

Tristan C. Fretwell ’12 SW is an attorney with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP in the firm’s litigation group in Indianapolis. He earned his law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law. William E. Burchfield ’17 CI is cataloging librarian at the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort.

He is also an adjunct faculty instructor in the UK College of Arts and Sciences and had been a patient services coordinator at the UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital.

Ann Louise Hance ’11 ED is principal at Maryville Elementary School in Bullitt County. She had been the instructional coach at Shepherdsville Elementary School.

Curt D. Shaver ’11 AFE is the co-founder of Columbus Barrel Co. in Lewis Center, Ohio.

Timothy D. Thompson ’11 LAW is an assistant U.S. attorney for the Western www.ukalumni.net

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In Memoriam Bill Dyer Atkins ’41 Versailles, Ky.

Carl E. Begley ’51 Jacksonville, Fla.

Carl D. McClure ’58 Henderson, Ky.

Samuel T. Delaney ’63 Lexington, Ky.

Alice Murphy Siegel ’45 Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Daymond E. Helton ’51 Rockholds, Ky.

Ronald Russell-Tutty ’58 Norwalk, Conn.

Life Member

Elwood East ’64 Lexington, Ky.

Lorine Compton Trosper ’45 Lexington, Ky. Life Member Maria Legg Wortham ’46 Henderson, N.C. Robert M. Bookbinder ’47 Satellite Beach, Fla. Thornton L. Johnson Jr. ’47 Tequesta, Fla. Wilma Proffitt Valentine ’48 Louisville, Ky. Life Member

Elizabeth Cole Sphar ’52 Austin, Texas Polly Boteler Williams ’52 Baton Rouge, La. Norval R. Copeland ’53 Philadelphia, Pa. Thirlen F. Osborne ’53 Boiling Springs, N.C. Gary C. Russell ’54 Liberty, Ky.

Carita P. Roach ’48 Saint Paul, Minn.

Thomas F. Arnold ’54 Lexington, Ky.

Karl D. Kirk Sr. ’48 Fort Worth, Texas

Lester B. Wise ’55 Ocala, Fla.

Benjamin F. Reeves ’49 Huntsville, Ala. Anne Whitehead White ’49 Cincinnati, Ohio

Henry Alan Steilberg ’55 Saint Matthews, Ky .

Luther Beatley ’55 Lexington, Ky.

Earl N. Boyd ’49 Blacksburg, Va.

Oscar H. Geralds Jr. ’55 Lexington, Ky.

William J. Hanna ’49 Lexington, Ky.

Susan Druley Corbin ’55 Ashland, Ohio

Mary Goodson Brown ’49 Paris, Ky. Life Member

Barbara J. Lake ’55 Worthington, Ohio

Walter Huddleston ’49 Warsaw, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Charles E. May ’49 West Chester, Ohio James T. Elrod ’50 Old Hickory, Tenn.

Raymond C. Thornton ’50 Prospect, Ky. Warner C. Grubb ’51 Nashville, Tenn.

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Imogene Redd Staub ’52 Pineville, Ky.

Donald C. Kelly ’55 Louisville, Ky.

Sophie L. Osborne ’59 Boiling Springs, N.C. Mary Bond Sallee ’59 Leesburg, Fla.

Donald R. Ramage ’64 Franklin, Tenn.

James D. Quisenberry ’64 Louisville, Ky. Caroline T. Davis ’64 Saint Matthews, Ky.

Dewey A. Young ’59 Paducah, Ky.

George W. Waggoner ’64 Grayson, Ky. Life Member

Shird Robinson ’59 Ekron, Ky.

Leo J. Treciokas ’64 Los Angeles, Calif.

Harold B. Copley ’59 Penland, N.C.

Charles F. Ishmael ’65 Mount Sterling, Ky.

Mary E. Miller ’60 Bowling Green, Ky.

Ralph C. Brown ’66 Lexington, Ky.

Earl D. Wilson ’60 Palm Coast, Fla. Life Member

D. Leon Mayo ’67 Harrodsburg, Ky.

Patricia Harper Kirwan ’60 Rockville, Md. Life Member Gerald T. Silvers ’60 Fort Mitchell, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

James C. Hudson ’67 Frankfort, Ky. Arthur C. Stagg Jr. ’67 Elk Grove Village, Ill. David M. Petersen ’68 Decatur, Ga.

Jesse E. Raine ’61 Bixby, Okla.

Robert F. Brandt III ’68 Saint Michaels, Md.

Larry M. Judy ’61 Cynthiana, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Ralph D. Garrett ’69 Shelbyville, Ky.

Edwina Miller Setzer ’61 Madeira Beach, Fla.

Donald J. Hillenmeyer Jr. ’69 Naples, Fla. Life Member

Margaret Endebrock Smith ’56 Williamsburg, Va.

William D. Wooden ’61 Leitchfield, Ky. Life Member

Larry D. Keeling ’69 Frankfort, Ky.

Charles M. Anderson ’56 Paris, Ky. Fellow

Hollis B. Brown ’61 Lexington, Ky.

Earl L. Nelson ’70 Barboursville, W.Va. Fellow

Wayne L. Lollis ’62 Lexington, Ky.

Felix J. Bongiorno ’71 Lexington, Ky.

Harry E. Mason ’62 Hoover, Ala.

Charles A. Shuck III ’71 Lexington, Ky.

William A. Feiler ’62 Paducah, Ky.

Robert Leslie Rosenbaum ’72 Lexington, Ky.

James P. Hill ’62 Kingsport, Tenn.

Life Member, Fellow

Waverlie D. Crafton II ’72 Henderson, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Alice Tramell Sage ’56 Hendersonville, Tenn.

Richard Layne Craft ’57 Burke, Va.

Edwin M. Eckdahl ’51 Lexington, Ky.

Howard J. Dohrman ’57 Masonic Home, Ky. Life Member

Ralph O. Wilson II ’51 Newburgh, Ind. Life Member, Fellow

Otis C. Williams ’57 Lexington, Ky.

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James L. Gibson ’59 Danville, Ky.

John J. Ialeggio ’72 Easton, Pa. Life Member David A. Petersen ’73 Upper Saint Clair, Pa. Charlotte E. Dorton ’73 Versailles, Ky. John R. Phillips ’74 Lexington, Ky. Fellow Kathleen D. Connick ’75 Athens, Ohio Clyde T. Stambaugh ’75 Murray, Ky. Chadwick R. Harper ’76 Lexington, Ky. Mary Labach Hutton ’76 Cincinnati, Ohio Deborah H. Byron ’76 Auburn, Ala. Life Member Ken Clevidence ’76 Lexington, Ky. Thomas R. Myers ’77 Rockport, Texas Nancy Refbord Leach ’77 Ashburn, Va. Life Member Katherine Duclos Koelb ’77 Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Thaddeus R. Salmon ’77 Madisonville, Ky. Doug C. Combs Jr. ’78 Hazard, Ky. Ronald L. Hout ’78 Louisville, Ky. John E. Peters ’80 Madisonville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Kenton L. Owens ’81 Holt, Mich.

Brent M. McAlister ’81 Louisville, Ky. Life Member Thomas S. Buehner ’81 Palm Springs, Calif.

Marilyn Esterline McElvain ’82 Fishers, Ind.

Susan Trautwein Campbell ’84 Lexington, Ky. Lelia P. King ’84 Georgetown, Ky. Mary L. Campbell ’85 Lexington, Ky. David R. Zittle ’86 Davie, Fla. Patricia L. Jorgenson ’86 Lexington, Ky. Life Member Paul W. Hoffman ’86 Lexington, Ky. Michael D. Bush ’87 Versailles, Ky. Candice Shearer Sherry ’87 Saint Paul, Minn.

Timothy J. Laubenthal ’88 Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Tonya Simpson Rylee ’90 Fort Mitchell, Ky. S. Todd Robinson ’91 Lakeland, Fla. Brian T. Judy ’92 Frankfort, Ky. Life Member

Rebecca C. Boyd Watkinsville, Ga. Fellow

Hazel Wall Luster Elizabethtown, Ky. Life Member

Stuart G. DuVall Versailles, Ky.

Bobbie Brooks Sims Lexington, Ky.

Edward Hagyard Fallon Lexington, Ky.

Herbert Davis Sledd Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Sue Tharp Fenwick Louisville, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Edgar Hayden Lexington, Ky. Ralph Horney Lebanon, Ind. Lawrence E. Jewell Fort Myers, Fla. Clara McGinley Judy Cynthiana, Ky. Life Member

Myridean Wallace Wheeler Lexington, Ky. Kathryn Henderson White Lexington, Ky. Life Member Hester Palmer White Ludlow, Ky. Life Member Julia Ann Wilson Newburgh, Ind. Life Member, Fellow

Eugene L. Ketchum Tucson, Ariz.

Margaret S. Womack Grayson, Ky. Life Member

Charles K. C. Lawrence Lexington, Ky.

Thomas E. Wooten Lexington, Ky.

Howard H. Logan Sr. Naples, Fla. Life Member

Jerome W. Wurmser Lexington, Ky.

Kendall Markesbery ’93 Lexington, Ky. Christopher R.M. Hayward ’95 South Burlington, Vt. Laura Beth Allison ’00 Louisville, Ky.

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Dudley Ives ’01 Lexington, Ky. Samuel Beckett Gruber ’13 Lexington, Ky. Jennifer Collier McBrayer ’15 Lexington, Ky.

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Clint W. Jones ’09 ’13 AS has written “Ecological Reflections on Post-Capitalist Society,” a book that provides an intellectual roadmap for deciphering the difficulties facing civilization confronted by the destabilization of late stage capitalism. Drawing upon a variety of resources, Jones argues that it is of vital importance that traditional ideas about the human-nature divide be systematically broken down, not merely along the typical socio-political divides of race, class, and gender, but at deeper ontological and metaphysical levels. By radically reconceptualizing how we personally, socially, and communally inhabit environmental spaces, Jones argues that it is possible to develop a more thorough appreciation of what it means to be in the world. The book is composed of essays that cover a range of subjects, including political ecology, Marxism and feminism, among others.

Jones is the author of several other books, including “A Genealogy of Social Violence: Founding Murder, Mimetic Justice, and the Future of the Family.”

Bianca L. Spriggs ’17 AS is coeditor of the book, “Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets,” a collection of works of poetry by gifted artists. The Appalachian region stretches from Mississippi to New York, encompassing rural areas as well as cities from Birmingham to Pittsburgh.

Though Appalachia’s people are as diverse as its terrain, few other regions in America are as burdened with stereotypes. Author Frank X Walker coined the term “Affrilachia” to give identity and voice to people of African descent from this region and to highlight Appalachia’s multicultural identity. This act inspired a group of artists, the Affrilachian Poets, to begin working together and using their writing to defy persistent stereotypes of Appalachia as a racially and culturally homogenized region.

After years of growth, honors, and accomplishments, the group is acknowledging its silver anniversary. The book is a beautiful collection of both new and classic work and features submissions from Frank X Walker, Nikky Finney, Gerald Coleman, Crystal Wilkinson, Kelly Norman Ellis, and many others. The illuminating and powerful collection is a testament to this groundbreaking group.

Cornerstone Press

University Press of Kentucky

www.kentuckypress.com

www.uwsp.edu/cornerstone Clifford Holliday ’63 EN, ’68 BE is the author of “Treasure of the Mount: A Hunt Across Time,” which intertwines several story lines about the desperation of the American Civil War, as well as memories of a small town high school reunion 155 years later.

Gregory Luhan, UK College of Design faculty member, has edited, authored or co-authored four new books, including “D. Eugene Egger: The Paradox of Place in the Line of Sight,” an archive of Egger’s drawings from five decades of study abroad with Virginia Tech students.

Stephen Prince ’72 ED has written “Quick Takes: Movies & Popular Culture,” a book that considers how new technologies have revolutionized the medium, while also investigating continuities that might remain from filmmaking’s analog era.

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Linda Wise McNay ’79 BE has co-authored “The Adventures of PhilAnThropy,” a children’s picture book aiming to raise a new generation of philanthropists through the story of three children who raise money for a friend.

Abamekeze Z. Biame Meh ’15 SW has published “An Easy Walk to America, Not,” under the pseudonym Das Emeritus.

The book explores the internal and external struggles of a young man who leaves Africa in search for a better life in the Diaspora.

Betty Southard Stokes ’72 ’76 ED has written “Leslie’s Christmas Dream,” a children’s picture book about a little girl who falls asleep at Christmas and dreams about playing in Toyland.

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Spring 2019

Retrospect

15 years ago…

Running on High Street, Craig Carlson, left, and Chase Azevedo led fellow members of the Bluehearts toward Rupp Arena and the eRUPPtion Zone for a UK basketball game in the 2003-2004 academic year.

53 years ago…

Searching for a fresh angle, Barb Feather prepares to photograph a snow-scape as part of her requirements for Journalism 581 in the 1965-1966 academic year.

29 years ago…

Around 1,400 students squeezed into Memorial Coliseum to try and get tickets to the UK-LSU men’s basketball game in 1990. This was the largest lottery turnout since the 1987 UK-Louisville game.

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years ago…

On the Experiment Station farm during the 1940-1941 academic year, Jason Ison, Porter Read and Gerald Schaffer worked on tractor engines in the agricultural engineering laboratory.

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Quick Take

Photo: Mark Cornelison, UK Public Relations & Marketing

Kentucky cheerleaders win 24th national championship!

The University of Kentucky cheerleaders won their fourth crown in a row at the Universal Cheerleaders Association finals competition in January in Orlando, Florida. It’s the second longest streak in school history for the dynasty that won its first national crown in 1985.

Competing among the Division IA Coed squads, this year’s win was once again under Coach Jomo Thompson.

Although Kentucky has won 24 championships in the last 35 years, it is only the second time that UK has strung together a quadruple triumph. The Wildcats won a school-record eight straight from 1995-2002. ■

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