Fifth Generation
Jayhawk Generations
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hese are the championship babies. Sure, all good parents think their children potential champions, but many of this year’s freshmen were born shortly before or after the KU men’s basketball team claimed the 1988 NCAA title. We’re betting that jubilant parents and grandparents even dressed their fledglings in tiny T-shirts proclaiming KU’s pre-eminence. Those born to alumni gained entry into the KU family and were reared in the reflected glory that shines on all true Jayhawks. Now grown into their new KU family role as scholars are two fifth-generation, 17 fourth-, 18 third-, and 137 secondgeneration members of the flock, champions every one. B Y S A L LY H AY D E N
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KANSAS ALUMNI
Drew Miller’s Jayhawk legacy took root in the mid-1890s, when great-greatgrandparents Luther Stover and Madge Fisher Stover studied on Mount Oread. His choice of major is all his own, however; the computer science degree he will pursue in the School of Engineering wasn’t even imagined by the first three generations of his family to attend KU. Drew is a graduate of Iola High School, where he excelled academically and in running cross country and track. His parents are Jay Miller Jr., ’81, and Karen Jones Miller, ’81. Both grandfathers are KU graduates: Edward J. Miller, b’55, and Robert L. Jones, a’53. Jayhawk great-grandparents are Horace L. Miller, ’24, and Madge “Nannie” Stover Miller, ’25, daughter of Luther and Madge, who started it all when they attended with the classes of 1895 and 1897.
Richard “Richie” H.Wagstaff IV
certainly knows the words to the Alma Mater and the fight song, and he can carry the tunes with style. A veteran of the Shawnee Mission East High School Varsity Choir and Choraliers, Richie sang in cathedrals and other venues in England, Belgium and Germany. He also earned varsity letters in football and basketball. He is the son of R.H., j’80, and K. Bridget Gaughan Wagstaff, ’79, of Prairie Village, and of Jane Hedrick Lake, ’83, of Emporia. His maternal grandparents are Dr. Kenneth E., m’58, and Joanne Lowry Hedrick, n’52, of Hutchinson. His paternal grandparents are Richard Jr., b’50, and Carolyn Campbell Wagstaff, c’54, of Lawrence. His great-grandparents are Richard, ’18, and Joanna Gleed Wagstaff, f’21. Four great-great-grandparents attended KU in the 1800s: Robert Barnard, 1895, and Clara Butler Wheeler Wagstaff, 1892, and Charles Sumner, c1880, and Mabel Gore Gleed, f1887. Charles Gleed served on the Board of Regents and co-founded the KU Endowment Association.