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Winter 2008 • Volume 79 • Number 4

FeaturesON THE COVER

A Numbers GameGary Knapp ’77 BE uses biometrics to project theprobability of producing a highly desirable horsethrough a mating between horses that are compatiblein unique physical characteristics. By Tom Leach

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Departments3 Opening Remarks5 Presidential Conversation6 UK Beat7 Research9 Capital Campaign

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How Do You Spell Relief?UK alumnus Scott Downs went from Big Blue to Blue Jay, becoming one of the best relief pitchers in baseball in his all-guts,no-glory middle reliever position. By Benjamin Gleisser

One Good Turn Deserves AnotherTom FitzGerald ’80 LAW, director of the Kentucky Resources Council since 1984, received a $250,000 HeinzAward for his work that helped to protect Kentucky’s environment over the last 20 years. By Linsen Li

See Plaid. ForeverChristina Criollo and Jena Everhard, both UK seniors, created a pattern that has now become the official UKplaid and will be used on various products.

Profiles In Blue: Kim EdwardsAssistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Kim Edwards is the author of the best-selling novel, “e Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” with fourmillion copies sold in two years.

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007-2008

We’re counting on you — 37,084 members and growing!Last fiscal year the association had impressive numbers,from 1,740 attendees enjoying UK Kings Island Day to 89UK students receiving $83,675 in scholarships. Read moreto see why we are jumping for joy!

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Board of DirectorsJuly 1, 2008 – June 30, 2009

PresidentWilliam Schuetze ’72 LAW

President-electScott E. Davis ’73 BE

Treasurer Diane M. Massie ’79 CIS

SecretaryStan Key ’72 ED

Rebecca S. Amsler ’99 FABrooke C. Asbell ’86 BEGeorge L. Atkins Jr. ’63 BEDanny G. Bailey ’68 ’71 AGeodore B. Bates ’52 AGRichard A. Bean ’69 BEKaty Bennett ’03 CISPatrick Blandford ’99 ’01 ENCharles Bonifer ’91 CISJames B. Bryant ’67 BEMichael A. Burleson ’74 PHAEmmett “Buzz” Burnam ’74 EDSusan Bushart Cardwell ’63 ASShane T. Carlin ’95 AGAndrew M. Cecil ’00 ASDonna J. Childers ’92 ’95 ’04 EDMichael A. Christian ’76 AS, ’80 DEJohn H. Clements ’67 DEKevin L Collins ’84 ASKevin A. Connell ’74 ASWilliam M. Corum ’64 BEMark CoyleGene Cravens ’58 AGJohn R. Crockett ’49 ASJo Hern Curris ’63 AS, ’75 LAWBruce K. Davis ’71 LAWMarianne Smith Edge ’77 AG Ted Eiden ’82 ENLarry M. Elliott ’71 DEFranklin H. Farris, Jr. ’72 BEPaul E. Fenwick ’52 AGEllen FergusonWilliam G. Francis ’68 AS, ’73 LAWW. P. Friedrich ’71 ENLinda Lyon Frye ’60 ASDan Gipson ’69 ENBrenda B. Gosney ’70 HS, ’75 EDCammie Deshields Grant ’79 EDTed S. Gum ’65 DESJohn R. Guthrie ’63 CISAnn Brand Haney ’71 EDBobby H. Harden, II ’91 ENLynn Harrelson ’73 PHAKristina Pickrell Harvey ’01 CISKelly Sullivan Holland ’93 AS, ’98 GSJ. Chris Hopgood ’84 BE, ’87 LAWAnn Nelson Hurst ’80 BERichard “Dick” L. HurstJames L. Jacobus ’78 ’80 AGShelia M. Key ’91 PHASandra K. Kinney ’78 BEVirginia L. Kolter ’00 NURPhyllis W. Leigh ’76 CIS, ’98 SWBarbara J. Letton ’55 BE, ’58 EDJames D. “Dan” McCain ’81 BE

Angela Rose McKenzie ’78 EDJanie McKenzie-Wells ’83 AS, ’86 LAWPeggy S. Meszaros ’72 EDRobert E. MillerTerry B. Mobley ’65 ED Charles M. Moore, Jr. ’59 BEDavid W. Moseley ’76 BEWilliam R. Munro ’51 CISSusan V. Mustian ’84 BEJohn C. Nichols, II ’53 BEJames D. “Danny” Norvell ’63 PHAGeorge A. Ochs, IV ’74 DEJohn C. Owens ’50 BEKimberly Parks ’01 BETonya B. Parsons ’91 ASSandy Bugie Patterson ’68 ASWilliam P. Perdue, Jr. ’65 EN, ’68 BEBeth Morton Perlo ’67 BERobert F. Pickard ’57 ’61 ENPaula Leach Pope ’73 AS, ’75 EDJoelyn Herndon Prather ’73 EDRandy Pratt ’91 GSDavid B. Ratterman ’68 ENG. David Ravencra ’59 BEDavid W. Renshaw ’80 BER. Michael Ricketts ’71 BENicholas J. Ritter ’01 ENAshley R. Roberts ’03 CISAdele Pinto Ryan ’88 ASCandace L. Sellars ’95 ’03 EDDavid L. Shelton ’66 BEMarian Moore Sims ’72 ’76 EDJ. Tim Skinner ’80 DESDaniel L. Sparks ’69 ENGeorge B. Spragens ’93 BEElizabeth H. Springate ’74 EDJames W. Stuckert ’60 EN, ’61 BE Mary “Kekee” Szorcsik ’72 BEJulia K. Tackett ’68 AS, ’71 LAWHank B. ompson, Jr. ’71 CISMyra Leigh Tobin ’62 AGJ. omas Tucker ’56 BEWilliam T. Uzzle ’62 BESheila P. Vice ’70 AS, ’72 EDRebecca Nekervis Walker ’74 ENCraig M. Wallace ’79 ENMarsha R. Wallis ’69 NURDavid L. Weller ’74 AS Bobby C. Whitaker ’58 CISW. Cleland White, III ’58 ’60 AGChristopher L. WhitmerHenry R. Wilhoit, Jr. ’60 LAWScott Wittich ’75 BERichard M. Womack ’53 AG

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Opening RemarksMembers, Use Your Benefits.

Let me start off by welcoming our new readers of this Kentucky Alumni magazine, alumni who have joined theUK Alumni Association after receiving the Fall issue. Here’s hoping you make use of the benefits and privilegesthat membership in the association offers. That goes for all members. Never before has the UK Alumni Associa-tion offered so much beyond the underlying love and loyalty connection that alumni tend to share with eachother for their alma mater.

Homecoming 2008 is history and we are already looking forward to Homecoming 2009, scheduled for Oct. 31. Youcan bet this family-friendly weekend will be full of activities, making your return to campus worthwhile. One event notto be missed is the UK Alumni Association Parade Watch Party at King Alumni House. In the past five years this get-together has grown from about 20 people attending to maxing out the fire marshal’s capacity limits for the festivities in2008. Altogether over 2,000 people participated in association-sponsored events throughout Homecoming week.

Class of 1959, you’ll be hearing from us soon about gathering together a committee to plan your 50th graduation an-niversary. Here’s a little secret, the more classmates that come back to UK that weekend, the bigger and better theparty will be. Right now contact your college classmates about a rendezvous in Lexington in 2009. Encourage yourfriends to check with the UK Alumni Association to be sure that their alumni record is complete. You’ll be the centerof attention at the Golden Wildcat Society dinner as those whograduated before you welcome you into this exclusive group.

And remember to “seeblue.” in your local community. enumber of UK alumni clubs is growing throughout the world.Clubs are a way to network in your local community and sharethis part of home wherever you live now. Alumni clubs are avaluable part of the team, representing the university in studentrecruiting events, offering scholarships to local students to at-tend UK, and getting students in their area together to sendthem off to UK each Fall. Club members also have fun comingtogether for Game Watch Parties and local service projects intheir communities while proudly wearing the blue and white.New this year was the Cats for a Cause National Week of Servicewith hundreds of alumni throughout the country engaged withtheir communities in many different ways.

Utilize the www.ualumni.net Web site to enhance and expandyour opportunities to be involved. When it comes to signing upfor events or taking advantage of athletic ticket opportunities,being online is the easiest, quickest way to do it.

Keep your Membership Resource Guide handy. Your alumni membership card and keytag displays your membershipnumber. You never know when you will want to use one of the over 180 discounts available to members.

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Presidential ConversationImproving Life For Kentuckians

I was happy to learn that Gary Knapp would be featured in this issue of KentuckyAlumni magazine. A horse farm owner and Gatton College of Business and Economicsalum, his story is one that illustrates the many great things UK alumni do to positively im-pact Kentucky’s economy. I hope you enjoy learning about the details of his career asmuch as I did.

I oen use this space to tell you about the great things we are doing in UK research. ButI have not spent enough time explaining how that research is hitting the ground in Ken-tucky and changing the lives of Kentuckians. at is why I wanted to take a moment totalk about a project we launched in Western Kentucky aimed at improving infant health.

Kentucky has some of the nation’s highest rates of poor oral health and negativebirthing outcomes. Approximately 5,000 premature, low birth weight babies are born inKentucky annually, and Kentucky’s rates of preterm babies and low birth weight babieshave increased by nearly 20 percent over the last 10 years. ese babies are likely to experi-

ence higher than average health problems throughout their lifetimes. eir families and the Commonwealth will face significantcosts associated with their prematurity and low birth weight. Medical procedures at time of birth average $40,000, making theannual cost in Kentucky approximately $20 million.

Responding to this Kentucky priority problem is a UK outreach collaboration called CenteringPregnancy Smiles, which isworking to reduce the cycle of preterm birth, low birth weight, and poor oral health in Kentucky. Since January 2006, UK hasbeen collaborating with the Trover Health System and Hopkins County Health Department to serve expecting families fromHopkins, Muhlenberg, McLean, Henderson, Union, Webster, Crittenden, Caldwell, and Christian counties.

e results have been phenomenal. A total of 410 women from the region have delivered babies as part of the CenteringPreg-nancy Smiles program at Trover Clinic’s Women’s Center. e overall preterm birth rates have been reduced from 14 percent to6 percent and rates of low birth weight deliveries from 8 percent to 5 percent. For those women that completed more than 50percent of the visits for Centering and received dental care, the rates for preterm birth were reduced from 14 to 4 percent and 8to 4 percent for low birth weight.

e most telling data involves women from the region who did not attend at least 50 percent of the Centering visits and didnot receive dental care. at population did not see any improvement over the regional, historical norm for preterm and lowbirth weight births.

It is estimated that CenteringPregnancy Smiles saved $1.9 million in medical bills in 2006 and 2007 by preventing 37 preterm births.CenteringPregnancy Smiles is one of 36 Commonwealth Collaboratives we created to specifically address pressing Kentucky issues.

We have asked UK’s top faculty and researchers to tackle Kentucky’s toughest problems, as I firmly believe it is the responsibility ofKentucky’s flagship land-grant university to launch research projects that will make a real difference in Kentucky lives.

When you are out in the community talking to friends and colleagues about what is happening at your alma mater, please besure to remind them that UK is working hard to improve lives in every Kentucky county. Because that’s what Top 20 public research universities do.

Sincerely,

Lee T. Todd Jr.President

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BeatState Of The University Address

In his State of the University Address, UK President Lee T.Todd Jr. recounted the accomplishments UK has made despitedeep budget cuts experienced over the last year. He thankedmembers of the campus community for their hard work andencouraged them to keep pushing toward the goal of becom-ing a Top 20 public university.

Among the many accomplishments cited were:• Record high freshman African-American enrollment this

fall at 341• Record number of Governor’s Scholars and Governor’s

School for the Arts Scholars at 389• Record high rate of freshman to sophomore retention this

fall at 81 percent• UK had 20 research papers accepted to last year’s National

Conference on Undergraduate Research

• Forty UK graduates are working for Teach for America,which recruits college graduates to teach in urban andrural public schools to eliminate educational inequity

• UK’s total research expenditures for fiscal year 2007 in-creased to a record high $332 million

• Last year 55 local companies received $64.5 million inventure funding with 32 of those companies having UKconnections

• UK unveiled 13 new Commonwealth Collaboratives, out-reach projects to help solve some of Kentucky’s most in-trinsic economic, health and environmental problems

• UK continues its strong leadership in the health carearena as construction continues on its new $700 millionChandler Hospital and for the new College of PharmacyBuilding

The Heroes Of Public Health e UK College of Public Health honored three distinguished

professionals at its fih annual Hall of Fame celebration. isyear’s inductees are Dr. Gilbert H. Friedell, Dr. Rice C. Leach andJohn S. Wiggs. Wiggs, who died of cancer last year, was inductedposthumously.

Friedell came to Kentucky in 1983 as the first director of theMarkey Cancer Center. His focus has been on the control of can-cer and chronic diseases in the poor, rural population of EasternKentucky and Central Appalachia.

Leach has more than four decades of public health experience,including chief of staff for the Office of the Surgeon General’s U.S.Public Health Service, the Commonwealth’s commissioner ofpublic health and most recently as executive director of the Pri-mary Care Center with the Lexington-Fayette Urban CountyHealth Department.

Beginning in 1969, Wiggs held various positions within the UKCollege of Dentistry, UK Medical Center and UK College ofPublic Health. In 1999, he became the associate director for ad-missions and student affairs in the College of Public Health, help-ing to start the master’s in public health program.

Alpha Gamma Delta At 100 Years Alpha Gamma Delta sorority members and alumni came to-

gether for a Centennial Celebration Weekend, marking the soror-ity’s 100th year milestone as the oldest chapter at UK andhonoring its years of success and service for the university andLexington area.

e Epsilon Alpha Gamma Delta sorority established itself oncampus May 14, 1908, and stands as the second oldest AlphaGamma Delta chapter in the nation.

Robinson Scholars Program Fundinge Robinson Scholars Program (RSP), which has touched the

lives of nearly 600 students from Eastern Kentucky, is receiving $2 million over the next two years from the state legislature. eprogram serves first generation college-bound and college studentsfrom Kentucky’s Appalachian region who have demonstrated thepotential to succeed.

As the original funding from a donation by E.O. Robinson hasdwindled, the RSP has worked to secure private donations, find-ing support from some Kentucky-based companies.

State legislators worked to secure state funding for the RSP,making this the first time it has received financial support specifi-cally designated to it from the state.

College Of Law Hall Of FameJohn Y. Brown Jr. and Jane E. Graham have been inducted

into the UK College of Law Alumni Association Hall of Fame.Brown was the 55th governor of Kentucky, turned Kentucky

Fried Chicken Inc. into one of the largest fast-food operationsin the world and helped establish the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

Graham joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern Districtof Kentucky in 1978. She handled major public corruption and fi-nancial fraud cases and was appointed to the U.S. Department ofJustice Economic Crime Task Force. Upon retirement she joinedHenry Watz Gardner & Sellars PLLC and served three terms onthe Kentucky Bar Association Board of Governors.

Compiled from UK Web sites, UK Public Relations news reports, and Kentucky Alumni magazine staff reporting.

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYRESEARCH FUNDING CATEGORIESFY 08 Grants & Contracts $247.2 million

Research$189.3 million

Public Service$41.1 million

Instruction$14.3 million

Other$2.5 millionIncludes fellowships

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYRESEARCH FUNDING SOURCESFY 08 Grants & Contracts $247.2 million

Federal$138.1 million

State$53.7 million

Other$35 millionIncludes foundations and non-profits

Industry$20.4 million

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKYFEDERAL GRANTS & CONTRACTSFY 08 Federal Grants & Contracts $138.1 million

National Institutes of Health$91.1 million

National Science Foundation$12.5 million

DHHS non-NIH$9.6 million

U.S. Department of Agriculture$7.8 million

Dept. of Education$5.3 million

Dept. of Defense$3.6 million

Dept. of Energy$2.1 million

Small Business Administration$1.3 million

Other$4.8 million

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During the 2007-2008 fiscal year, UK enjoyed the kind of sup-port that can only be called remarkable. We finished the year with58,338 donors and $57,701,724 in gis. at number representsan 8 percent increase over last year’s 54,179 supporters. e$57,701,724 represents an 8 percent increase over last year’s totalamount of $53,363,212.

Alumni giving was instrumental in this progress, increasing theircontributions 7 percent from 28,322 last year to 30,307 this year,donating a total of $14,874,073 to UK. is amount increasedcompared to $14,586,846 last year. We want to thank each alumwho gave support to the future of this great institution.

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In his four decades at the University of Kentucky, Bob Irelandmay have taught more students than any other history facultymember. He didn’t just teachmore students and become a re-spected and revered teacher, Dr.Bob became a legend. ThomasD. Clark once said, “Bob Irelandis someone special. Everywhere Igo in this state I hear about hisclasses from former students.I’m really proud that he’s in our[UK’s History] department.”

Professor Ireland was not only amagnificent teacher, but also agreat undergraduate advisor. He wasknown for having an open-door policy, and his typical greeting was,“Well, come on in. What’s your problem?”

Upon his retirement in May 2008, alumni and faculty memberswere moved to endow the Robert M. Ireland Scholarship for under-graduate students and outstanding UK students who decide to pur-sue legal studies. eir hope is that for many years to come, some ofUK’s best undergraduate students will be named Ireland Fellows.

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Join us January 12, 2009, for another exciting term of UK Winter College. Sessions will be held at the elegant Naples Hilton

in Naples, Fla., and will feature some ofUK’s best and brightest. Last year’s event included exciting presentations coveringtopics from opera to medicine. Don’t missout on this wonderful opportunity to meetwith other UK alumni and friends, andlearn about advances in research and technology at the University of Kentucky.

2009 Winter College

In October, UK honored donors who have made significantcontributions to the university at the annual Fellows SocietyDinner. e dinner was a more intimate event this year, held indowntown Lexington at the Lexington Center. It included aformal dinner and dance, and recognition of 259 new in-ductees into the Fellows Society, as wellas 28 current Fellows who increasedtheir level of giving within the lastyear. e dinner was held in con-junction with a DevelopmentCouncil Weekend, which includeda football game, Art Museum tour,and other activities. For more informa-tion on joining the UK Fellows Society, contact Paula Pope’73 ’75 at 859-257-8137.

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UK alumnus Gary Knapp combined analytical thinking and dreaming to breed 2008 Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.

By Tom Leach

Breed to the best and hope for the best. That’s long been the axiom for anyone involved in the pursuit of producing champion Thoroughbred

race horses.Even a numbers-oriented guy like Gary Knapp knows one cannot quantify

or control the “hope” component. He does, however, believe science can bebrought to bear on the other side of that equine equation.

That was his approach in selecting the combination of stallion and marethat produced the 2008 Kentucky Derby winner, Big Brown. Knapp says helearned how to hone his analytical skills as a graduate student at the Univer-sity of Kentucky, where he secured a doctorate in marketing and applied statistics in 1977.

Knapp came to Lexington for practical reasons. He and his first wife wantedto go to graduate school but funds were in short supply. UK not only accepted them but also offered scholarship money to both. It was 1973,which also was the year of Secretariat’s breathtaking sweep of the TripleCrown races. Knapp, who grew up on a farm near Fergus Falls, Minn., and hadridden horses from age three, instantly fell in love with the stately Bluegrasshorse country. He began to dream of someday returning to Kentucky to buyhis own horse farm.

“Secretariat just captured the imagination of the whole country and I wascaught up in it, too,” the 64-year-old Knapp said during a stroll through one ofthe Monticule Farm barns. “Then I saw all these farms and the beautiful countryside — and being from a farm myself — all of that came together forme. It was a pretty easy sell.”

After graduating from UK, the next dozen years or so found Knapp pursuing several career paths. This included a professorship in marketing at the University of Houston, owning his own consulting business, Knapp Securities Inc., and a partnership in Park Acquisitions Inc. which bought ParkCommunications Inc., a media and communications company with television,radio broadcasting and publishing interests.

In 1989, Knapp purchased a then 200-acre tract in rural Fayette County thathe named Monticule Farm. (Today the farm encompasses about 600 acres.) It was about eight years later that he divested himself of some business ventures and put his entire focus on the horses. He knew these animals, both from his days as a world-class polo player and the family farm in Minnesota. But Knapp was uncomfortable with the lack of scientific data on which the breeding business operated.

“I understand the world best through numbers. I’m a pretty empirical person.I like to see some evidence of success that’s more than one point,” Knapp said.

A company named Equix Biomechanics helped to fill that void in Knapp’s approach to the horse business. When he saw how the company plannedequine matings and projected athletic potential for young horses by measuringphysical characteristics (bone length, cardiovascular capacity, length of stride,etc.), Knapp felt he had found the quantitative data he needed.

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“e first time I read about the approachused at Equix, I thought ‘Here’s somethingto work with,’” he said.

Knapp was so captivated by Equix’smethods that he later boughtthe company.

“If you can measuresomething, you can make itinto a science. That’s wherethe Equix notion comesfrom,” Knapp explained.“Fundamentally, the seriesof measurements thatEquix takes of a mare and astallion creates what’scalled a biometric model.”

Knapp said that what themodel does is take thoseunique, physical characteris-tics of the mare and run itagainst the biometric mod-els of stallions. This pro-duces a print out of a list ofthe stallions that a mare iscompatible to and it tells the extent towhich this mare fits those stallions. Itprojects the probability of that matingproducing a highly efficient horse interms of biometrics.

“I take those several stallions that any in-dividual mare fits with and I start doingthe pedigree work. I want to pick the pedi-gree that I think is most attractive,” he said.“Fundamentally, it is saying let’s breed ‘liketo like.’”

Knapp said there are some people in thebreeding business who believe that theycan just look at a mare and tell you whichstallion to breed to. “I find that hard to be-lieve. I know I can’t do it,” he said. “at’swhy I use Equix.”

is approach seems to work for Knapp.Big Brown represents the first Grade I

stakes winner produced by MonticuleFarm, but the farm also made a mark twoyears earlier when it sold a Danzig-siredcolt for $9.2 million.

Achievements like those mean the quiz-ical looks Knapp used to get when he ex-plained his approach have greatlydecreased.

“A few years ago when people asked meabout the breeding that’s taking place here,I would get, ‘Who talked you into that?’But beginning around the time we soldthat horse for $9 million, we started tohear less of that,” Knapp noted.

ere were, though, still questions aboutBig Brown’s ability to suceed at the Derby’s

mile-and-a-quarter distance. at’s becausehis sire, Boundary, excelled in shorterraces. Knapp, however, was buoyed by theEquix report on Big Brown. e measure-

ments on the colt at less than18 months old projected excellence at up to theDerby’s 10-furlong distance.Knowing this, Knapp tried to buy Big Brown back at atwo-year-old sale but was unsuccessful.

It’s hard to imagine Knappbeing much prouder of BigBrown’s accomplishmentsthen if he owned him. Andalthough the Equix numberssuggested Big Brown hadDerby-winning potential,Knapp knew that factors overwhich there was little humancontrol also would have toconspire to help the horse beall he could be.

“ere was a lot of anticipation and a lotof anxiety about what was going to happenand a little bit of disbelief on our part thata horse that we bred was getting that far.But we were very excited and very pleasedabout the situation,” Knapp said of theweeks leading up to the Run for the Roses.

On the first Saturday in May, Knapp washigh atop Churchill Downs, anxiouslywatching to see how the foal born at Mon-ticule Farm in 2005 would do in the fa-

vorite’s role for the most famous horse racein the world.

“It was just so exciting to see the positionhe was in as he was starting to turn forhome,” Knapp said. “For me, the most anx-iety in the race was when they went by thestands for the first time. I did not expect tosee that many horses going for the lead. Itlooked like maybe three-quarters of thefield was going for the lead and he wasfour, five, six wide. I was thinking, ‘isdoesn’t look good at all,’ but when he gotdown the backstretch, I realized we werelooking much better.”

Knapp said that in a race like the Ken-tucky Derby, you’re just a spectator andyou hope that your horse can demonstratewhat he’s demonstrated before with a goodend result.

What does breeding a Derby winner dofor Monticule Farm?

“It raised our profile a little bit — well,more than a little bit,” he said. “We’ve got-ten a lot of attention for this and we’regrateful for it.”

Knapp said he believes that more peopleare going to take a closer look at his breed-ing facility and perhaps Monticule’s newfoals will become much more valuable. “Iexpect we’ll have more people looking atour horses and being competitive when itcomes to bidding on our horses, especiallyfor the close relatives of Big Brown,” he said.

But just because the sire-dam match thatproduced Big Brown put Monticule Farm

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think — how tomake decisions in

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important thing I took away from UK.”

Big Brown, bred at Monticule Farm, wins the 134th running of the Kentucky Derbywith jockey Kent Desormeaux.

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in elite company (fewer than 30 ownershave produced horses that won both theDerby and the Preakness), Knapp is notfollowing a course of déjà vu. He said ex-pecting the same result from the same mat-ing represents unscientific thinking.

“Big Brown is a huge outlier, a deviationfrom the statistical norm. We’re not goingto get that result again even if we repeatedeverything,” he explained. “You have to berealistic about what you can control andwhat you can’t. ere’s so much data in theoroughbred industry that has tremen-dous skews to it. Very seldom, in this in-dustry, are you going to see any data with anormal distribution. It’s going to beskewed one way or the other.”

Knapp said that he believes many breed-ers are likely to be drawn to averages foundin the data, but that this approach is notthe best. “ey need to start taking themode or the median/mode. at gives youa much more representative number of thedistribution than the arithmetic averagedoes,” he said. “When you’ve got a reallyskewed distribution, which is most of thedata in the industry, and you’re using thearithmetic average, you’re not getting arepresentative number of that data at all.”

Knapp said it was the training he re-ceived in his days at UK that helped fash-ion the way he has operated businessesranging from mortage-backed securities tocommunications to horses.

“e training that the College of Busi-ness and Economics provides, particularlythe program that I experienced in research

methodology, really taught mewell how to think about things.I learned how to ask goodquestions and then how to an-swer those questions,” he said.“I also was taught how to bringempirical data to bear on thatanswer.

“e training in businessprinciples and practices wasfantastic but teaching me howto think — how to make deci-sions in my life and career —was the most important thing Itook away from UK.”

Knapp said he thinks theNFL and professional golf areway ahead of the orough-bred industry in terms of usingbiometrical analysis on ath-letes. Yes, a player that is toosmall or too slow by empirical

standards will outperform expectations,but going with the percentages projectsmore success over the long term.

Knapp believes merging biometric stud-ies with an analysis of the pedigree of po-tential matings and how certain breedingpatterns have worked in the past can besummed up in a simple fashion. “It’s theepitome of breed to the best and hope forthe best,” he said. But he emphasized thatthe “best” is a subjective component inthat he tries to match the mare that bestfits a particular stallion from both a bio-metric and pedigree standpoint.

His somewhat unconventional tech-niques extend beyond Monticule’s breed-

ing program. Knapp walks or rides horseback over his property almost daily. Hishands-on approach at the farm comes froman appreciation for good stewardship ofthe land, a trait he learned from his fatheron the family acreage in Minnesota.

“It’s a wonderful way to see your farmand keep track of things. I’m sure peopleworking on the farm may think I’m a realfanatic,” he said, citing what he tells his em-ployees about water quality as an example.“If the water is not clean enough for you todrink it, why would you expect the horsesto drink it?”

Knapp has had thousands of treesplanted on the farm based on a profes-sional landscape design created by MorganWheelock of Boston and Palm Beach. atincludes spruce, pine, maple, oak, gingko,redbud, beech, birch, yellow wood, dog-wood, Chinese elm, and sycamore. “I liketo grow things and I like a lot of landscap-ing. at initial plan that we developed forMonticule in 1997 includes a lot of drisof trees and we’re still working on thatplan,” he said. “e variety of trees plantedhere are interesting to me.”

Interesting — that’s a good word to de-scribe Gary Knapp, who represents a merg-ing of right-brain analytical thinking andle-brain dreaming to form the makeup ofa successful Kentucky horseman.

Tom Leach is an award-winning Kentuckysportscaster known as the Voice of the Wildcatsand owns Tom Leach Productions in Lexington.

Gary Knapp visits with one of several yearlings born in2008 at Monticule Farm.

Dominique Tijou, manager of Monticule Farm, and Gary Knapp discuss the daily oper-ation of the facility. Tijou, from France, previously has worked with Standardbreds inFrance and Italy.

14 Winter 2008

Three hours until game time: The Toronto Blue Jays spill outof the home team dugout in Rogers Centre and jog onto the

playing field for their pregame exercises. Pitcher Scott Downs,with a look of stern determination on his face, begins his firsttask of the day.

The University of Kentucky alumnus bends slightly, picks up aknee-high sign at the edge of the playing field and places ittwenty feet away, between the dugout and the home plate bat-ting cage.

A member of the Blue Jays community relations teamwatches with a grin. “That’s Scott’s job,” she says to a reporter.“Don’t interrupt him.”

The triangular sign exclaims, in bold blocky letters: NOMEDIA OR PHOTOGRAPHERS BEYOND THISPOINT.

Scott’s Herculean feat accomplished, he gives a firm nod tothe dozen reporters holding digital recorders and cameras inthe dugout, then trots out to left field, where the rest of theJays are lying down and stretching their legs.

Later, after warm-ups, he’s asked about his media watchdogduty. Downs throws his head back and laughs. When helaughs his whole body gets into it, shaking even the shocks ofthick, dark hair that peek out from under his baseball cap.

“That’s just one of my silly little quirks,” he says with a smile.“It’s part of my daily routine. I also like to come to the park thesame time every day, and eat at the same time every day.” Helaughs again. “I don’t like to talk about [my other superstitions],but I got a few of them. In this game, with the season being solong, it’s just a way to have some fun.”

“Fun” is the key word here. Ask anyone who has played withthe 6-foot-2, 210-pound lefthander, from former Wildcats base-ball coach Keith Madison to Jays bullpen coach Bruce Walton,and he’ll tell you that Downs’ second-best attribute is his senseof humor.

And what he does best? Throws strikes. Madison calls Downs’ curveball, “One of the best I’ve ever

seen.” Walton likes his breaking ball and slider. Downs isn’t apower hurler whose fastballs blow opponents away. Instead, he’sa finesse artist whose pitches gracefully nibble the corners ofhome plate. At September 10, his earned run average was aminiscule 1.43, with 57 strikeouts in just over 69 innings ofwork. Last year’s numbers were just as impressive: 2.17 ERA(7th best in the American League among relievers), with 57punch-outs in 58 innings.

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Kentucky MemoriesScott Jeremy Downs was born March 7, 1976, in Louisville.

The Little League standout was named Kentucky’s Mr. Baseballin 1994 after he graduated from Pleasure Ridge Park HighSchool. The next year, the Big Blue freshman made BaseballAmerica’s freshman All-America team after notching 102 strike-outs in just over 76 innings. In 1997, he was a Baseball Americapre-season All-America and an All-Southeastern Conferencefirst-team selection.

“When I was a kid, I also played basketball and football, butbaseball was the only sport I was good at,” Downs remembers.“My dad always took us to games. My dad, Joe, and older brother,Jimmy, played college ball at the University of Louisville, and itwas my dream to be a professional ballplayer. Jimmy saw I hadsome talent, and he really pushed me to do things. To this day, he’smy biggest supporter. I’m living his dream.”

Downs says playing for the ’Cats and UK Coach Madisonmeant more than just learning balls and strikes.

“Kentucky taught me a lot about maturity and Coach Madisongave me so much confidence,” he says. “When I’d struggle, coachalways helped me find the positives. And if I blew a pitch orblew a game, he would be right there saying, ‘Go back out to-morrow and change it up a bit.’”

Madison, the head coach of the UK men’s baseball team from1979-2003, and who stills works with UK on fund-raising proj-ects, says he scans Blue Jays box scores daily to follow Downs’ ca-

reer. “Scott’s a great competitor who loved pitching in the big

games,” Madison says. “The better the team we went upagainst, the more he wanted to pitch. He also kept things

loose in the clubhouse — he always had something funny tosay.”

Madison pauses a moment, then adds, “One year we were play-ing the University of Alabama, one of the top teams in the na-tion, and their top hitter, Roberto Vaz, had the longest collegehitting streak going. Before the game, Scott told me, ‘His hittingstreak is going to end tonight.’ He didn’t say it in a cocky way,but with a look of confidence. And that night, not only didScott end Vaz’s hitting streak, but he went the distanceand pitched a shutout.”

Madison runs Score International, a programwhere baseball coaches go to the Domini-can Republic and put on baseballclinics for underprivileged youth.“Some of those kids don’t havegloves or even shoes,” Madison says.“Scott sends money and auto-graphed Blue Jays equipment tohelp me raise money for the trips.He’s even promised that he’ll gowith me on an upcoming trip.”

Downs has another special mem-ory of UK. That’s where he met hiswife, Katie. “We had the same soci-

ology class, but I actually met her two days before the end ofthe semester — somewhere else. A mutual friend who playedtennis introduced us and when I saw her I thought, ‘Where doI know her from?’”

Now the couple has two children: Harrison, 6, and Grayson, 2.

Every Kid’s Dreame Chicago Cubs draed Downs as a starting pitcher in 1997, and

he made his Major League debut in 2000. Later that year, he wastraded to the Montreal Expos. But a pitching injury in 2001 necessi-tated elbow ligament reconstruction surgery, and he didn’t return tothe Majors until 2003.

He joined the Blue Jays in 2005, where he both started and relieved.He finished with a 6-2 record and a 4.09 ERA — okay numbers untilyou break them down: as a starter, he was 1-1 with a 9.39 ERA; as areliever, 5-1, 2.77 (11th best reliever in the American League). Fur-thermore, coming into games, he retired 85 percent of the first battersfaced (5th best in the AL), and held batters to a .135 batting averagewith runners on base (2nd best). Clearly, Downs had found his niche.

Unfortunately, being a middle reliever is an all-guts, no-gloryjob. ere are no stats that measure a middle reliever’s effective-ness, so good mid-men rarely get the attention they deserve. eydon’t make All-Star teams, and they don’t get voted into the Base-ball Hall of Fame.

And that’s okay with Downs.“I love coming into pressure situations and getting that first guy

out,” he says. “My job is to get the ball to (closer) B.J. Ryan, so he canget the save and we can get the win. I don’t need recognition or glory.”

But one kind of recognition he does enjoy: having his own base-ball card.

“e first time I saw my face on a baseball card, I couldn’t believe itwas me!” Downs laughs hard. “I went, ‘Wow!’ I remembered openingpacks of cards when I was a kid and looking for my favorite players,and there I was, looking at my picture. Isn’t that every kid’s dream, tobe a professional baseball player?”

Benjamin Gleisser is a free-lance writer in Toronto, Canada.

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He is known as the patron saint to Kentucky environmentalists,and now Tom FitzGerald has the national recognition to boot.

FitzGerald, a 1980 graduate of the UK College of Law, is the re-cipient of this year’s Heinz Award in the environmental category.e award comes with a $250,000 cash prize.

e annual Heinz Awards are administered by e Heinz Foun-dation, chaired by Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Sen. John Kerry.e awards, given in five categories, are inmemory of her first husband, the late U.S.Sen. John Heinz.

FitzGerald, 53, known as “Fitz” by bothfriends and foes, has been director of theKentucky Resources Council (KRC)since 1984. KRC is the state’s only non-profit environmental advocacy organiza-tion that provides free legal, strategic andpolicy assistance to individuals, organiza-tions and communities in environmentalquality and resource extraction issues. Formost of the council’s 25 years, due to thelack of funding, FitzGerald has essentiallyrun KRC by himself with the assistanceof office manager Beck Raff, earning himthe nickname “one-man environmentalprotection agency.”

In a statement, Heinz said FitzGeraldhas “generously and tirelessly shoulderedthe causes of those without the resourcesor expertise to fend for themselves.” Assomeone who has dedicated his life toprotect Kentuckians and their state’s en-vironment, FitzGerald fits every word ofthat assessment.

A native of Queens, N.Y., FitzGeraldcame to Kentucky at the age of 17 to work in Berea with the Coun-cil of Southern Mountains, an agency working on environmentaland economic justice issues in Appalachia. During his stay, FitzGer-ald was moved by the courage and resilience of the local communi-ties in their fight against the coal mining industry. “It took a lot ofcourage in those days to stand against the abuses of an industry thatwielded such political and economic clout, yet people stood up andfought for their communities,” he said.

It was FitzGerald’s experience in Eastern Kentucky that promptedhim to pursue a career in environmental advocacy. And aer he re-alized the grassroots community desperately needed more legal as-sistance, he decided to go back to law school in 1975.

FitzGerald said he has many fond memories from his years in theUK College of Law. While at UK, he contributed to the KentuckyKernel in his spare time, writing a column playfully titled “All theNews that Fitz.” He also played guitar in local bars. “But if you everhear me play music, you’d know why I am keeping my day job,” hesaid in his usual self-effacing humor.

It is obvious that FitzGerald didn’t choose his profession to makemoney or win a prestigious award, but he finds irreplaceable fulfill-ment in his job nevertheless. “I have never billed a client in the 30years of my career,” he said. “But I have been rewarded a thousandtimes over by sharing the lives of my clients and learning from theirstrength and dignity in the face of overwhelming adversity.

“Victories are few and far between, but hopefully we have helpedto address some of the inequalities,”FitzGerald said of the KRC’s role in hisusual modesty. His comment greatly un-derstates the tremendous effect the KRChas had in protecting Kentucky’s environ-ment in the past 20 years. In fact, a list ofthe KRC’s significant achievements aloneruns 15 full pages. From helping to pro-tect Big Black Mountain, the state’s high-est peak, from strip mining and timbercutting, to providing safe drinking waterto various communities, FitzGerald andthe KRC have shaped environmentalismin Kentucky in every major aspect.

To help pay the bills, FitzGerald teachesenergy and environmental law at the Uni-versity of Louisville Louis D. BrandeisSchool of Law. He said he loves the teach-ing experience: “It’s great to step backfrom your job and work with a new gen-eration of lawyers and impart on themjust how important a role they are play-ing,” he said.

In addition to running the KRC,FitzGerald has held numerous appoint-ments in the past 28 years. He has servedas a member of the Kentucky Forest Prod-

ucts Council, the Governor’s Clean Air Act Task Force, Task Forceon Waste Management, and the Kentucky Coal Authority, just toname a few.

He is married to Jefferson County Family Court Chief Judge Pa-tricia Walker FitzGerald, and has three sons, ages 22, 19 and 18.

As for winning the prestigious Heinz Award, FitzGerald said he issurprised and humbled by it. “I am a little uncomfortable with allthe attention from the award,” he said. “None of us can accomplishanything worthwhile working alone, and my work has simply builtupon the work that others before me have accomplished in helpingto foster justice in environmental health and quality.”

With three sons currently in college, FitzGerald said the awardcame at an opportune time. “e award enables me to put my chil-dren through their education,” he said. “With the growing cost ofeducation, I want to help them begin their adult lives with as littleeducation debt as I can.”

Linsen Li is a freelance writer in Lexington.

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The first time you hear the words “UK” and “plaid” in the samesentence, you have to wonder why no one thought of combining

these two before now. Let’s just be grateful they did! Christina Criollo and Jena Everhard, both UK seniors, created the

UK plaid that was the ultimate winner in a contest conducted by theUK College of Agriculture. e two students participated in a projectin a merchandising, apparel and textiles class in the college’s School ofHuman Environmental Sciences. Teams in a merchandising class de-signed plaids and then 35 entries were narrowed down to the top fourplaids, which were then voted on by visitors to UK Web sites.

anks to the efforts of many individuals, including Rita Smart,Kentucky Plaid Project Advisory Committee chairwoman, ScarlettWesley, assistant professor in the School of Human EnvironmentalSciences, and UK first lady Patsy Todd, honorary chairwoman, UKnow has an official UK plaid that will be used on various products of-fered for sale. is is significant because all royalties received fromthese items, such as ties and scarves, will be returned to the School ofHuman Environmental Sciences to enhance student educational ex-periences.

“is was a real-world experience for our students,” says Wesley.“ey earned credit for a project that created a signature plaid fabricthat is unique to UK and ultimately will establish a new tradition forthe university.”

Only a handful of other universities have an official plaid and nowUK joins their ranks with its own unique pattern designed by Criollo

and Everhard. e tie and scarf, the first twoproducts resulting from this project, will beavailable in late fall at the UK Bookstoreand on the College of Agriculture Web site.

“Christina and I wanted to create a clas-sic design that could become a tradition,”says Everhard. “We experimented with acouple of variations of our design, then wewould literally step back and examine it,trying to visualize which one would lookbest on various products. We easily agreedon a version of our plaid that suited ourtaste and felt satisfied.”

Criollo says she thinks it’s important thatUK have a student run project like this. “I'velearned so much about the apparel industryin just a few short months from this proj-ect...it’s real, hands-on experience for stu-dents that will benefit them much morethan just by reading about the process in atextbook.”

Wesley says she learned much from thewhole experience as a coordinator of the project, including thatUK students are great at coming up with wonderful ideas whenchallenged.

“I am so proud of all their hard work. I also have learned beyond adoubt that UK is a great university. is project has been a total teameffort from all around campus. If it had not been for the help of somany individuals, this project would never have culminated with uswalking on the football field at halime during Ag Roundup weekendwith Dr. and Mrs. Todd in the tie and scarf.”

Everhard agrees that being recognized at the Middle Tennessee/UKgame was an exciting experience. “Right before we walked out, I sawthe first plaid products on President Todd and first lady Patsy Todd,and it validated our accomplishment,” she says. “Until that moment, itwas hard to grasp the fact that our plaid was more than just an assign-ment. On the field, I was all smiles, and now I’m anxious to see whatthe stadium will look like when our plaid is part of the blue and whitemix in the stands.”

e project is not over yet. “Both of my classes this semester areworking on Kentucky plaid activities and classes in the future willcontinue to build on what we have accomplished so far. You couldnot ask for a better real-world student learning experience.”

UK seniors Christina Criollo, left, and Jena Everhard display their winning UK plaid thatwill be used on new UK products sold in the UK Bookstore and on the College of Agriculture Web site.

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Kim Edwards, assistant professor ofEnglish at UK, has said that one of the

pleasures of writing “e Memory Keeper’sDaughter” was uncovering the resiliencethat developed in the novel’s characters asthey found themselves in situations theydid not understand. Her expertise at cra-ing this story — about a doctor deliveringhis twins during a snowstorm, discoveringthat one has Down’s syndrome and sendingthe child to an institution, all the whiletelling his wife that the child died at birth— was what propelled the book to a hugesuccess, reaching No.1 on e New YorkTimes, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, andBook Sense best seller lists. e novel also isbeing published in 40 other countries.

Edwards has been interested in tellingstories all her life, so writing a successfulnovel is like the ultimate culmination of anatural inclination. Storytelling is simplypart of her.

“I have a clear memory of my very firststory. I told it to my mother and she wroteit down because I was too young to write.It was a very moralistic tale about an eagleand a worm,” she says. “But it had a happyending.”

Edwards is a native of Texas and grewup in Skaneateles, N.Y. She graduatedfrom Colgate University and the Univer-sity of Iowa, where she received master’sdegrees in fiction and linguistics. Travel-ing to Asia with her husband (omasClayton, now head of the English depart-ment at UK), she enjoyed five years ofteaching in Malaysia, Japan, and Cambo-dia and began publishing short storieswhile overseas. One of these, “Sky Juice,”won the Nelson Algren Award, while oth-ers appeared in notable periodicals andalso won honors, including a NationalMagazine Award for Excellence in Fictionand a Pushcart Prize, as well as inclusionin e Best American Short Stories. Herbook, “e Secrets of a Fire King,” also wasrecently reissued in the United States.

Before coming to UK in 2002, shetaught in the MFA programs at WarrenWilson and Washington University. Sheusually teaches creative writing classes, butcurrently she is on a one year sabbaticalfrom UK.

“I’m working on another novel, andeven though I know more now aboutwriting, it is still a process of startingover,” she says. “Some writers have a for-mula they follow, but for me, it is moreabout the process of discovery.”

How To Handle Stress Goes for a neighborhood walk or to theUK Arboretum

Favorite Thing About Being A Writer“I love that it is unexpected and I neverknow where the narrative will take me next.”

How To Stay Cool Under Pressure“ere are different types of pressure, but Icollect my thoughts beforehand and I alsomeditate.”

Favorite Thing About Kentucky“It would be so hard to say. Wheeler Phar-macy on Romany Road makes terrific rootbeer floats, though.”

Advice To College Students“Listen to your heart — what are yourpassions — follow that voice to discoveryourself.”

Did It Once, Wouldn’t Try AgainSkydiving“My first story was loosely based on it. Italso was the first time I had ever been in anairplane. I was 18 years old and with somefriends in upstate New York. I’ll never dothat again!”

Most Important Part Of ASandwichAvocado

Best Meal Ever HadBanana leaf rice with curry in Malaysia,served without a plate and eaten with yourright hand, as is customary

What Gets Fixed At The HouseIf The Lottery Is Won“My husband is very good at keeping thehouse repaired so we’d probably buy newfurniture. We still have stuff from our daysin Cambodia.”

Last E-mail ReceivedFrom an old friend in Minneapolis met ingrad school

Design Flaw In The WorldWould Like To ChangeDependency on cars for transportation

First Job As A TeenagerCleaning up at a beauty parlor

Last Time Was SurprisedLast April when “e Memory Keeper’sDaughter” won the British Book Award“It’s like the Oscars, complete with a redcarpet and paparazzi!”

The Professor Or Gilligan“e professor, of course!”

Daydreams“I think about the place that I grew up inNew York and swimming in the FingerLakes. Also, exploring the Great Lakes.”

Skill Would Like To Master“I’d like to be a really good kayaker. I trieda kayak for the first time last summer and itwas really fun.”

Celebrates Her BirthdayGoing out to eat with her husband atsomeplace really nice, like the Holly HillInn in Midway

Skiing Or Fireplace Gazing“Fireplace gazing because I don’t ski. But ifit were another sport, maybe I wouldn’tpick the fireplace.”

Reading Now“e People of the Book,” by GeraldineBrooks

One Thing To Change AboutLexington“I’d put a lake here.”

First Choice For A New Career“Something in the social justice area — Ihave been an ESL teacher to migrant work-ers and recent immigrants and I really en-joyed that.”

Most Respected ‘Competitor’Sena Jeter Naslund, the 2005 – 2006 Ken-tucky poet laureate“She’s done some really amazing things,writing fine books and starting an MFAprogram in Louisville.”

Five Year Plan“I try not to make plans because they oenget turned upside down, but I will finishmy current novel and see it through publi-cation.”

Would Like As A Do-OverMaking a trip to New Zealand

MentorsFrederick Busch at Colgate University andJames Alan McPherson at the University ofIowa

Share A Secret“If I told you it wouldn’t be a secret.”

Most Useful Thing Taught By Mother“How to garden — she is a wonderful gar-dener. I want to do it, too, when I havemore time.”

Favorite Mall Hangout“I don’t like a mall — any mall.”

Past The Freshness Date In Refrig“What isn’t?! Probably yogurt.”

Guilty Pleasure“It used to be playing Spider Solitaire. I fi-nally had to take it off the computer, so it isno longer a guilty pleasure.”

I Procrastinate When . . .“. . . I need to clean the house.”

Best Personal DecisionPursuing my education; getting marriedand having a family

Room Spends The Most Time In “My home office — my husband is a won-derful carpenter and built me a beautifuloffice.”

Favorite Saturday Night DestinationHome with a good book

Funniest Thing Ever Saw“My parents trying to adjust to eating fishthat still had heads on when we took thetwo of them out to dinner in Malaysia.”

My Colleagues Would NeverGuess That I . . . “. . . used to hate public speaking.”

Define Happiness“When I’m writing, I’m really happy, espe-cially when it’s going well, but even whenit’s not.”

Goal Yet To Be Achieved“To finish my second book! at’s reallywhat I’m concentrating on these days.”

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UK’s collegiate license plate is a great way to show your Wildcat pride. Best of all, $10 from the

sale of each plate or renewal goes directly to the university’s general scholarship fund.

To order yours, visit your County Clerk’s office.

Help drive more students to UK.

0001An Equal Opportunity University

The ballot for this year’s election will be distributed January 16, 2009, by e-mailonly to alumni members who have an e-mail address of record. Alumni who do

not have an e-mail address will receive a printed ballot through postal mail.

e annual election of District Representatives to the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors will run from

January 16 – March 13, 2009.e input of our alumni members (completed 12 or more credit hours)

is critical. Your opinion is valued. Your vote counts.

UK Alumni Association Board of Directors Election

is is an opportunity to participate in the association’s governance through the election of alumni to serve yourdistrict. e board consists of 63 elected members representing 18 districts throughout the United States and 48 additional members including the officers of the association, three alumni representatives on the UK Board ofTrustees, the UK vice president for Institutional Advancement, the UK director of Athletics, six members at largeelected by the board of directors, nine representatives from the college affiliate alumni groups, the past nationalpresidents and two honorary life members. Elected members of the board of directors will serve three-year termsstarting July 1, 2009.

Please go to www.ukalumni.net/Update or call 1-800-269-ALUM to confirm or update your e-mail address in order to receive a ballot.

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Club Hopping

UK Alumni across the country, fromSeattle to Lexington to Miami, partici-pated in the first annual Cats for a CauseNational Service Week this fall. Clubswere asked to choose a charity and organ-ize and participate in a service activity intheir community for the benefit of thatcharity. Together, members from 33alumni clubs made a tremendous impactwhile spreading their pride for the Uni-versity of Kentucky.

The Northern California UK AlumniClub served food to the less fortunate atthe Glide Community Center, recentlymade famous in the movie, “Pursuit ofHappyness,” featuring Will Smith.

“I can’t forget the faces of the folks thatcame through the line. We all want tohelp…this was an incredible event,” saidCaroline Corum, club president.

In St. Louis, Mo., UK alumni spenttime cleaning the grounds of GatewayGreening, a Missouri Botanical Gardensvenue. “This was a huge success,” saidAmanda Barbieri, the St. Louis UKAlumni Club president. “The volunteercoordinator even asked us to return tohelp with other projects. Our club willcontinue with this.”

A camp for special needs children,Camp Courageous in Ohio benefitedwhen the Northwest Ohio UK AlumniClub cleaned the grounds. “Camp em-ployees were amazed that an out-of-stateuniversity would donate time for them,”said Jim Kreiling, club president.

In Greenville, S.C., UK alumni spent

time helping the local humane societywalk the dogs, giving the canines muchneeded exercise. “Everyone had a greattime and I think we made a difference inthe short hour and a half we were there,”said Price Atkinson, Upstate SC UKAlumni Club president. “It really was ahit and I heard a lot of positive feedbackfrom everyone who participated.”

e Franklin County UK Alumni Clubvolunteered at the L.I.F.E. House for Ani-mals, a no-euthanasia pet adoption facility.“e full-time volunteers that run the shel-

ter were so grateful for the help with thefence and the cleaning. ese are necessaryprojects that they have trouble findingtime to do,” said Laura Risk, member ofthe Franklin County UK Young AlumniClub. “We had a blast helping with the catsand dogs. It was so rewarding to be able togive back to the community but enjoy theservice at the same time.”

To get involved in next year’s Cats for aCause National Service Week, please con-tact your local club president or visitwww.ukalumni.net/service.

First ‘Cats For A Cause’ Service Week Rewarding For Many

The Ashland UK Alumni Club participated in a food drive for the Neighborhood Food Pantry.

The Franklin County UK Alumni Club volunteered atthe L.I.F.E. House for Animals, a no-euthanasia petadoption facility.

Northern California UK Alumni Club members served food at the Glide Community Center.

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Club Hopping

The Franklin County UK Alumni Club hosted its first StudentSend-off. Justin Walling was recognized as the club’s 2008-09scholarship recipient. Walling, center, is pictured with Laura Risk,left, and Lisa Grim, club president, right.

The Greater Birmingham UK Alumni Club hosted a luncheon forUK football coach Rich Brooks and players Dicky Lyons Jr., and Je-remy Jamon, who attended the SEC Media Days.

The Boyle County UK Alumni Club hosted a Student Send-off forhigh school seniors headed to the University of Kentucky.

Members of the Upstate SC UK Alumni Club attended aGreenville Drive baseball game.

The Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club enjoyed a football kickoff evening with Joker Phillips. There also were several formerUK football players in attendance for the event. Left to right are Todd Perry, Mike Riddle, Mike Scott, Mike Shutt, AnthonyWatson, Ron Mack, Phillips and club member David Shelton.

College View

The UK College of Allied Health (now Health Sciences) dental hy-giene program Class of 1978 celebrated its 30 year reunion. Thiswas the last class of dental hygienists to graduate from the college,as the program was transferred in 1979 to the Lexington TechnicalInstitute, now the Bluegrass Community and Technical College.

The UK College of Engineering inducted four new membersinto its Hall of Distinction for 2008. Lee T. Todd Jr., UK president,left, is pictured with inductees Wendell S. Norman, Lois Turner,widow of inductee Larry W. Turner, Davis Marksbury, J. RalphKing, and Thomas W. Lester, dean of the college.

Dean Emeritus Joseph V. Swintosky signs the final beam of the construction for the new UK College of Pharmacybuilding during the topping out ceremony. The event commemorated the building reaching its maximum height inconstruction. The new 280,000-square-foot facility is scheduled for completion in 2010. It will be the largest academic building in Kentucky and among the largest in the nation.

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The UK Alumni Association was founded in 1889 by Joseph H. “Little Joe” Kastle, a UK graduate and nationally-known chemist, when he returned to UK as a professor and persuaded 14 fellow

faculty members and UK graduates to establish the organization. Today, the association continues to provide relevant opportunities to enrich the lives of alumni and facilitate a lifelong connection with

the University of Kentucky.

And Growing…

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

M E M B E R S H I P

Annual Members: 22,401Life Members: 14,683

TOTAL: 37,084GENDER

MALEFEMALE

52%48%

GEOGRAPHY

83.8 % South (Most Members: Kentucky)

2.3 % Northeast(Most Members: Pennsylvania)

3.1 % West (Most Members: California)

10.7 % Midwest (Most Members: Ohio)

.1 % Outside U.S. (Most Members: Canada)

*37 % Of All Members Reside Outside Of Kentucky

7.3 % Students

DEGREE

45.6 % Undergraduate

1.0 % Associate

20.8 % Graduate

5.6 % Alumni, No Degree/Attended

19.7 % Friends Of UK

CurrentAddressable Records

225,207Degreed Addressable163,492

Counts are based on first degree earned (unless if both Community College and UK degree earned...counted in UK).Addressable includes Non-Degree Alumni who earned 12+ hours but did not complete a degree or Resident House Staff

and Non-Degree friends/donors.

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

Median Age: 61Median Class Year: 1974

Wildcat Society Life Members: 2,921Young Alumni Members: 5,360 A

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UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBERS BY GRADUATION YEAR

1920-1929

1930-1939

1940-1949

1950-1959

1960-1969

1970-1979

1980-1989

1990-1999

2000-2006

Alum/NoDegree

StudentMembers

AssociateMembers

010002000300040005000600070008000

Ag-7.0%A&S-13.4%B&E-16.3%

Comm & Info-4.5%Dentistry-1.5%

Design-0.9%Education-10.8%

Engineering-8.4%Fine Arts-1.2%

Grad School-0.1%Health Sciences-2.0%

Law-3.4%Martin School-0.3%

Medicine-2.0%Nursing-1.8%

Patterson-0.2%Pharmacy-2.9%

Pub Health-0.1%Social Work-1.3%

Comm. Colleges-1.8%Alum/No Deg-3.8%

Student Members-6.0%Associate Members-10.6%

UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MEMBERS BY COLLEGE

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

P R O G R A M S

CLUB GATHERINGS

36.3% Social/Cultural

22.5%Service

9% Athletic

4% ScholarshipFund-raisers

4.9% Young Alumni

8% StudentRecruitment

15.3% Networking

UK Alumni Clubs And Groups Around The World

50 8New Clubs: Charleston, S.C., Jacksonville, Fla.,Knoxville, Tenn., Milwaukee, Wis.,Philadelphia, Pa., St. Louis, Mo., New York, N.Y., and Twin Cities, Minn.International

Clubs And Groups: Greece, Malaysia, And Indonesia

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1,250 Visitors At Association Homecoming Events

133 Attendees At Class Of 1957 Reunion

Homecoming And Reunions

156 Attendees At 2007 UK Alumni Weekend Members At

UK Alumni Band Reunion140

1,250156 133

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

Scholarships And Service

48 Students Received A Total of $23,425 In Association Scholarships 41

Letters Of Support Were Written To DanceBlue Participants On 72 Teams And

$4,364 Was Donated From Clubs

Scholarship Recipients, Donors And Guests At The Scholarship Banquet105 $14,844

For Scholarships From TheBig Blue Auction382

Legacy

Students Received A Total Of $60,250 In Club Scholarships

1,074 Legacy Students At UK 3,183 Children (Newborn Through 18 Years Old)

Of UK Alums Enrolled In Legacy Program

270 Attended Legacy Events 2,168 Legacy Birthday

Gifts Sent

200 International Students Attended 2007Thanksgiving Program900 Seniors Attended

Senior Salute

StudentsStudents Today; Alumni Tomorrow (STAT) Had Opportunity To

Participate in 8 Campus Events

Students Attended Welcome Back Picnic At

King Alumni House

Student Recruitment

325 2,015

Out-Of-State Clubs Participated In 56 Student Recruitment College Fairs, Submitting 593

Prospective Student Contacts To UK14 Clubs Held UK

Student Send-off Parties18 Book Awards Presented

To High School Students 78 Attended The African-American Admitted Students Receptions In Lexington And Louisville

216 Constituent Groups

Constituent Groups Supported By The UK Alumni Association (Alumni Band, Greek, Lyman

T. Johnson African American Alumni Group,Robinson Scholars And Young Alumni)

5 Attended Lyman T. Johnson African

American Alumni Group Events 600

1,740 Members And UK Friends Enjoyed UK Day At Kings Island

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

Career Services

Travel

Awards

UK Alumni Distinguished Service Awards

6Great Teacher

Awards 6 Great

Teachers Honored Since 1961

235

Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award

1Times Honored As Great Teachers: Dibikar Bhattacharyya And Mehale Zalampas

3

Traveling Wildcats Participants

141TravelingWildcats Destinations

13Individuals Took “Tuscany and Venetian Treasures”Trip, The Most Popular Destination

31AttendeesAt Taste

Of Travel Dinner78

32.4%By Phone

34.5%By E-mail

33.1%In Person

Alumni Had Campus InterviewsWith 74 Employers

482Individuals Attended 6 Local, Regional And

National Networking Events204

UK Alumni Received

Career Counseling

658

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

C O M M U N I C A T I O N S

Kentucky Alumni Magazine

www.ukalumni.net

Most Visitors On:

Electronic Communications

Annual Distribution

250,000760,000

Contacts

$109,533*Total Print And

Electronic Advertising Revenue*First Year To Break $100,000

Annual Circulation

5,414Read Kentucky AlumniMagazine Online

19,745,170 World Wide Web Page Views

Visits To Event Calendar

Visits To Club Web Sites

Visits To The Online Directory

3,484Online Records

Updated

Log-ons To Online Community

Colleges With Most Broadcasts:

Agriculture ..........................12Gatton College of B&E ......12Dentistry ..................................9

146,914122,420

59,672

Thursdays (19.4 %) • Saturdays (19.3 %)

4,835

2,304,325

Online Registrations For 87 Events

89,3073,773

4,053,471693,173

Valid UK Alumni Addresses

UK Lifetime E-mail

E-mail Contacts

eAlumWise Contacts

UK Alumni Association Annual Report 2007 - 2008

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859-257-8905/1-800-269-ALUM

REVENUES

32.6 % Member Dues

5.8% Wildcat Society & Gifts

4.7% Advertising &Sponsorships

23.8 % UK Funding

17.4 % PartnerRoyalties

15.7 % Programs

EXPENSES

28.7 % Programs

9.4% Information Technology & Records

5.0% Scholarships

20.4 % Communications

19.2 % Administration

17.3 % Membership Services & Marketing

F I N A N C E S

Members Enjoy Savings With Insurance PoliciesThrough Partner Providers: Liberty Mutual (Auto/Home); Marsh (Term/Life,Short-Term Medical, Long-Term Care)

4,665Alumni And UK Friends Show Their Pride By Carrying The Official University Of Kentucky Chase Credit Card

17,562

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Career Cornerwith Caroline Francis

Caroline Francis, Ed.S., NCCC is available for in-person, telephoneor e-mail consultation. Reach her at cfrancis@uky.edu or 859-257-9323 (voicemail). Alumni Career Services are made possible by aspecial gift to the Career Center from the Jane I. Morris Endow-ment to the UK Alumni Association.

UK Alumni and UK employees recently gathered for a new work-shop presentation, the Mid-Life Career Change Forum. isHomecoming week workshop was designed for individuals contem-plating a career change. Participants learned more about effectivetransition strategies and heard from a panel of successful careerchangers. UK Human Resources Work Life, UK Human ResourcesCareer Development, and the UK James W. Stuckert Career Centerpartnered with the UK Alumni Association for this standing-room-only event. Many alumni who were in town for Homecoming weekfestivities were able to take advantage of the forum.

Wildcat Networking Tip According to Phyllis Wagner with Corporate Collaborations,

“ere is no question that the current job market is extremelytight, but the good news is that top companies continue to seekoutstanding talent. ey are, however, being more selective thanever, so it is critical that you are prepared, since competition isfierce. Getting focused, having an outstanding resume and theability to really market your unique ability to impact their busi-ness is critical. Networking is also a primary key to a successful jobsearch. Leverage your personal and professional network and re-sources as you embark upon your job search. Be prepared and bepatient, since a successful job search can take months.”

With the tight economy, we all have family, friends, and col-leagues who are in the job market. Use this time to consciously goout of your way and connect them with people in your network. In-vite them to a local business networking meeting, to join you on aHabitat for Humanity build or to attend a social fund-raiser. Manyjob seekers feel as if they have exhausted their network. ese smallgestures are much appreciated and may be just what is needed tolaunch a new opportunity. e job search truly is a numbers game!

Worried About A Bad Reference? Many individuals look for another job due to a strained relationshipwith their current supervisor. is creates a challenge when interview-ers request a reference. During the application and interview process,ask that your current boss not be contacted. Use references who previ-ously supervised your work, colleagues you trust or who have movedon to other employers, satisfied customers or consultants. Providingcopies of evaluations and testimonials also may support your workethic, reputation, and value-added potential. If pressed for a currentsupervisor, you may have to explain this is a large reason you are jobseeking and you aren’t sure what type of reference will be given.

Branding and the Job Search We are hearing a lot these days about personal branding. In a

tight economy, being recognized in your field is a strong asset. Afew ways to increase your name recognition include:

• Contributing to industry blogs• Posting a review for a industry-related book• Having a professional profile at a site such as LinkedIn

Upcoming Career Fairs Alumni are invited to attend all UK Career Fairs. Upcoming

opportunities include:• Agriculture Career Fair at E. S. Good Barn: Feb. 4, 2009• Spring Career Expo at the UK Student Center Ballroom:

– Engineering, High Tech & Architecture: Feb. 24, 2009– Business, Government & Nonprofit: Feb. 25, 2009

For a list of companies who will attend, visit www.uky.edu/CareerCenter.

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Zell Sharff Schulman ’50 ASrecently received the UKCollege of Fine Arts Com-munity Service Award duringa recognition ceremony at theSingletary Center for theArts. Schulman is an arts ad-vocate who has served variousarts organizations andfounded arts advocacy groupsserving Cincinnati andNorthern Kentucky. She alsois a writer for Taste MagazineCincinnati, a cook book au-thor and former food editorof The American Israelite.Among her many accom-plishments, she also workedin television in Cincinnati,Ohio. Schulman is an hon-oree in the UK Alumni Asso-ciation Hall of DistinguishedAlumni.

Jim Gibson ’58 EN is an as-sociate at Ricci Green Associ-ates in Lexington, havingjoined the firm almost twoyears ago. He has been in-volved actively with architec-ture and the education ofarchitects in Kentucky formore than 40 years. Previ-ously, he served as the presi-dent, principal architect andproject manager of BickelGibson Associates. Gibsonalso has held multiple teach-ing posts at UK and the Uni-versity of Illinois atChampaign – Urbana.

Joseph W. Justice ’60 AS, ’62LAW was appointed by Gov.Steve Beshear as administrativelaw judge in the Department ofWorkers Claims. Justice willconduct hearings, supervise thepresentation of evidence andrender final decisions, orders orawards. He has been an attorneyin private practice in Pikeville.

Jerry Gayle Bridges ’61 BE isCFO of the Corporation forNational and CommunityService. He was previouslythe controller at Johns Hop-kins University and also wasan assistant general, as well asan inspection general, at theUnited States InformationAgency.

Gary K. Smith ’65 - ’69 re-cently announced the mergerof Gary K. Smith & AssociatesPLLC with Apperson Crump& MaxwellPLC, the oldestlaw firm inMemphis, Tenn.e new firmoperates as Ap-person Crump and benefitsfrom Smith’s practice in cata-strophic personal injury,wrongful death, insurance badfaith, product liability andmedical malpractice.

omas Bersot ’66 AS is presi-dent of the National Lipid As-sociation and isa professor ofmedicine at theUniversity ofCalifornia – SanFrancisco. He isthe director of the AmericanHeart Association Lipid Disor-ders Training Center, as well asthe associate investigator at theGladstone Institute of Cardio-vascular Disease.

Delbert J. Hayden ’66 ED is amember of the KentuckyBoard of Licensure of Marriageand Family erapists, with histerm expiring July 15, 2011. Herecently was reappointed byGov. Steve Beshear. Hayden,who lives in Bowling Green, isa part-time marriage and familytherapist in private practice. Healso is a retired professor ofcounseling from Western Ken-tucky University.

Charles Ashby ’69 BE isowner of VIP Realty in FortMyers, Fla. He has spent hisentire professional career inreal estate, entering the fieldright after graduating fromUK. His company’s Web sitewas recently awarded firstplace for best Web site thisyear by Leading Real EstateCompanies of the World, thecountry’s largest network ofindependent real estate agen-cies.

Robert Cameron ’69 ’72 ASrecently retired as a professorin the Department of SocialScience at Fairmont StateUniversity in West Virginia.Cameron joined the univer-sity in 1972 and taught psy-chology courses for about 35years. He is the past presidentof the Marion County Coun-cil of Social Agencies and co-ordinator of the RevenueSharing Committee for Re-gion Six.

Robert L. Losey ’69 ’77 BEis a leading horse-industryeconomist and consultant.He is chairman of the financeand real estate department atAmerican University KogodSchool of Business and haswritten extensively about theThoroughbred horse indus-try. Losey has bred and racedhorses since 1972, with ElGran Papa being a stakes win-ner of more than $500,000.

Donna Brawner Penrose ’69AS recently retired as execu-tive director of ComprehendInc. for the Buffalo Trace Re-gion. She previously workedfor the Kentucky Depart-ment of Mental Health, Men-tal Retardation in Frankfort.Penrose has received manyawards and accolades duringher career, including being aKentucky Colonel.

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COLLEGE INDEXAgriculture — AG

Arts & Sciences — ASBusiness & Economics — BE

Communications & Information Studies — CIS

Dentistry — DEDesign — DES

Education — EDEngineering — EN

Fine Arts — FAThe Graduate School — GS

Health Sciences — HSLaw — LAW

Medicine — MEDNursing — NUR

Pharmacy — PHAPublic Health — PHSocial Work — SW

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Larry R. Rhodes ’69 AS wasappointed by Gov. SteveBeshear to serve as a memberof the Board of Registration forProfessional Geologists, whichregulates and controls the li-censing and conduct of profes-sional geologists in Kentucky.His term will expire July 14,2010. Rhodes is a consultinggeologist for FRA Engineeringin Danville.

Donald Bataille ’70 DES is aspecifications and quality con-trol manager at Dale & Associ-ates Architects PA in New York.Bataille has more than 35 yearsexperience in the industry. Helives in Pittsford, N.Y.

Larry Gossett ’70 ED is a cap-tain and 30-year veteran pilotfor FedEx Express. While at UKhe lettered inbaseball andaer graduation,joined the U.S.Air Force. Helives in Mem-phis, Tenn., and he and his wifehave two adult children.

Jack Howard ’70 EN retiredrecently as federal project di-rector in the Department ofEnergy Oak Ridge Office aer39 years of federal service.Since 2004, Howard has servedas supervisory general engineerand federal project director forthe K-25/27 Decontaminationand Decommissioning Project,one of the largest cleanup proj-ects within the department.

Steve Jackson ’70 BE is theowner of Gene Jackson TireCompany in Ashland. He as-sumed responsibility for the fam-ily-owned company 10 years ago.He also has worked as creditsales manager at Goodyear tirestores in Huntington and Park-ersburg, W.Va., and in Chilli-cothe and Kenton, Ohio.

Susan Scholl Allen ’71 DES isowner of Susan May Allen Ar-chitects in Morgantown, Ind.,and a member of the AmericanInstitute of Architects Collegeof Fellows. Her firm acted asarchitect on the Indiana Uni-versity and the State Capitolfood courts. She and her hus-band have two adult sons and adaughter.

Gretchen Marcum Brown ’71AS, ’73 SW is the presidentand chief executive officer forHospice of the Bluegrass. Sherecently was appointed by Gov.Steve Beshear to the JudicialNominating Commission forthe 22nd Judicial Circuit andDistrict of Kentucky. Brownlives in Lexington.

omas Goerke ’71 ’74 AG re-cently retired from the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-River Falls(UWRF). He had been a profes-sor of animal science, teaching atthe university since 1975. In1981 he received the UWRFDistinguished Teacher Award.

Daniel R. Bartley ’72 LAWhas been named outside gen-eral counsel for SustainablePower Corp. He also is withBartley Law Offices in North-ern California. Bartley has 36years of practice, includingnine years as in-house counselwith Fortune 100 companies.He has substantial experiencewith cases involving false-claims and whistleblowers.

Chris Sullivan ’72 BE has beenelected to serve on the board ofdirectors of the Horatio AlgerAssociation of DistinguishedAmericans. Sullivan and hispartners opened the first Out-back Steakhouse in 1988. Sincethen he is the founder andchairman of OSI RestaurantPartners Inc. In 1994 he was in-ducted into the UK GattonCollege of Business and Eco-nomics Hall of Fame.

eodore L. Innes ’73 BE hasbeen appointed to the board ofdirectors of AIMS WorldwideInc., a vertically-integratedmarketing communicationsconsultancy. Innes has servedas chief marketing officer ofMovie Gallery, the secondlargest North American homevideo specialty retailer, since1999. Before that, he was withBlockbuster Entertainment asdirector of marketing financeand later as vice president ofmarketing for the video divi-sion.

Stephen J. McGuire ’73 AS isvice president for complianceand ethics at the University ofLouisville Hospital/J. GrahamBrown CancerCenter. He hadworked as chiefadministrativelaw judge withthe FederalTrade Commission (FTC) inWashington, D.C. until Au-gust, presiding over some of thelargest antitrust cases in FTChistory. He and his wife,Doris, live in Louisville.

Miller Bruce Slaughter ’73 BEis the director of the BowlingGreen Area Chamber of Com-merce. During the last threeyears, he was development spe-cialist with the Kentucky Cabi-net for Economic Develop-ment, focusing on the 13-county Barren River region.

Sharon Louise Winkle ’73CIS has been director of MeadPublic Library in Sheboygan,Wis., since 1991. e libraryserves 70,000 residents and re-cently introduced a self-servicecheckout system which is nowused by 75 percent of the li-brary visitors with more than1.5 million checkouts.

George “Nick” Casey ’74 BEwas one of six West Virginiansrecently recognized by Pope

Benedict XVI for years of serv-ice and dedication to theCatholic church and commu-nity with the Pontifical Orderof St. Gregory the Great. He isa member of many civic organi-zations, including chairman ofthe board at St. Francis Hospi-tal and as board member forRae of Hope.

Helen Faye Harrah ’74 ’90 EDretired recently aer servingthe Bullitt County PublicSchool System for 20 years asan administrator and principal.Among her accomplishments,she helped the district set up aprogram that lowered classsizes and helped create a busdriver handbook that set rulesand expectations for drivers.

Jeff Barber ’75 BE retired re-cently as a partner in theRaleigh, N.C., office of Price-waterhouseCoopers. He hadbeen with the firm for 31 years,working as a managing partnerin the Raleigh office and previ-ously working in the company’sTriangle office. Barber hasworked on a dozen successfulinitial offerings of public stock,including Red Hat and InspirePharmaceuticals.

Barbara Dahlenburg Bonar’75 AS, ’84 LAW is the presi-dent of the Kentucky Bar Asso-ciation. Her law firm, B.Dahlenburg Bonar, is in theCovington neighborhood ofLatonia. Bonar also has beeninvolved in civic activities, in-cluding Milestones erapeuticRiding, and she is the founderand president of the Rising StarArt Studio for special needschildren.

Beverly Monthie Jacobson ’75SW, ’76 AG was named theMost Valuable Member of2008 by the Lexington LionessClub. She joined the organiza-tion in 1998. She lives in Lex-ington.

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Richard M. Joiner ’75 LAWhas been reappointed by Gov.Steve Beshear as an administra-tive law judge in the Depart-ment of Workers Claims.Joiner has served in this capac-ity since 2001. He lives inMadisonville.

omas W. Strohmeier ’76 BEis chairman of the board of di-rectors of the Kentucky Unit ofRecording for the Blind &Dyslexic, the educational li-brary headquartered inLouisville for students whocannot effectively read stan-dard print because of a learningdisability. Strohmeier also isvice president of the MorganKeegan Kentucky Public Fi-nance Group. He was presidentof KingFish Restaurants andthe CFO of Executive & GaltHouse Hotels before he wasthe CFO for the JeffersonCounty Public Schools from2001-2006.

Mike ieneman ’76 ’78 ASretired recently fromWhirlpool Corp. as executivevice president and chief tech-nology officer. He worked atWhirlpool for 31 years, hold-ing leadership roles in manyareas of the organization, in-cluding acting as president ofWhirlpool Compressor Opera-tions in Riva di Chieri, Italy.

William B. Stroube ’77 ASreceived the OutstandingTeacher of the Year Award atthe University of Evansville inIndiana. Stroube, a professor ofhealth services administration,also was given a commemora-tive plaque and $2,000.

Kenneth Amos ’78 CIS is divi-sional vice president of loss pre-vention for Walgreens. Hestarted with the company in1973 as a stock clerk while hewas in high school. He contin-ued working for the companyand received promotions

throughout his career, includ-ing store manager, district man-ager and director of lossprevention.

James W. Gardner ’78 LAW isvice chairman of the KentuckyPublic Service Commission.He most recently has worked asan attorney at Henry WatzGardner & Sellars PLLC inLexington. He served previ-ously on the Lexington-FayetteUrban County Council.

William A. Hayes ’78 LAWwas appointed by Gov. SteveBeshear to serve as a memberof the Kentucky Board of TaxAppeals. He has been an attor-ney in private practice in Mid-dlesboro. He has previouslyworked as commonwealth at-torney for the 44th JudicialCircuit.

David Kalasky ’78 EN is direc-tor of business development forNineSigma, a provider of openinnovation solutions. He hasmore than 20 years of innova-tion and business developmentexperience and was most re-cently an account developmentmanager for Sun Microsystems.Kalasky is based in Chicago, Ill.

Delbert L. Lobb ’79 EN ispresident and chief executive ofWestmoreland Coal Companyin Colorado Springs, Colo.Lobb has been group executivefor two years of Peabody En-ergy Corp. Power River Basinoperations in Gillette, Wyo. Healso has managed Peabody’sTwentymile Mine near Steam-boat Springs, built and openeda gold mine in Argentina, acoal mine in Columbia, andworked as a mining engineerand later a manager at coalmines in Alabama, Illinois, In-diana and Kentucky.

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Phoebe Knight Helm ’80 ED issuperintendent/president of theHartnell Community CollegeDistrict in Salinas, Calif. Shewas president of Truman Collegein Chicago, Ill., from 1996 to2002. Before that, Helm spentfive years as vice chancellor ofeconomic development for Cali-fornia Community Colleges –Sacramento. She also has workedat Palomar College in San Mar-cos, Calif., and at Triton Collegein River Grove, Ill.

Joseph “Joedy” Isert ’80 CIS ispublic relations manager at Ki-wanis International in Indi-anapolis, Ind. He waspreviously senior communica-tions associate at Eli Lilly andCo., global director of publicrelations for Habitat for Hu-manity International and acommunications director withthe Commonwealth of Ken-tucky. Isert also has held similarpositions in the newspaper,homebuilding and regulatoryindustries and owned a weeklynewspaper and consumer/non-profit communications agency.

Scott Foster ’82 AS is senior vicepresident, alternative invest-ments, of Millennium TrustCompany, an administrative andcustodial service organization.He is responsible for the businessdevelopment of alternative assetsbusiness dealing with hedgefunds, private equity, futures andventure capital relationships. Be-fore joining Millennium Trust,he cofounded Global Fund Mar-keting, a capital markets consult-ing company.

F. omas Howard ’82 BE isexecutive director of the Ken-tucky Office of Financial Man-agement within the Finance andAdministration Cabinet, wherehe oversees the Common-wealth’s $12 billion investmentand appropriation-supported

debt programs. He also overseesall nonappropriation debt issuedby Kentucky state agencies. Be-fore 1989 he held various posi-tions with First Security Bank &Trust Company and EclipseCapital Management Inc.

Mary Lankton Pate ’83 BEpractices law with the laborand employment group ofHoward & Howard AttorneysPC in Kalamazoo, Mich. Shefocuses on litigation, labor andemployment and construction.

Sheila Spreiregen Cohen ’84ED has been appointed chair-woman of the Literacy Depart-ment at the State University of

New York – Cortland. Cohenis an associate professor of liter-acy who has served the collegefor 21 years. is past year, sheorganized e Big Read, whichwas part of a national effort toencourage children, youth andadults to become more literateand informed citizens.

David Hucaby ’85 ’87 EN is alead network engineer for theUniversity of Kentucky, wherehe works with health care net-works based on Cisco Catalyst,ASA/PIX/FWSM security,and VPN product lines. He’sworked in the IT field for 19years and also is the author ofseveral books. Cisco Press re-

cently announced the launch ofthe Cisco Firewall Video Men-tor, featuring 16 videos of in-struction from Hucaby,allowing viewers to learn com-mon Cisco firewall configura-tions and troubleshootingtasks.

Kenneth A. Jackson ’85 BE isin private law practice in Lex-ington and is a member of theKentucky Horse Racing Au-thority and the KentuckyEquine Education Project. Healso owns the Kenneth A. Jack-son Kentuckiana Racing Stable.While at UK he was a four-year letterman in baseball.

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Prolific Writer Honored In Washington, D.C.David B. Dick, long-time broadcast

journalist and author, received the 2008Henry Clay Distinguished KentuckianAward from the Kentucky Society ofWashington in September. e honor isbestowed biennially to recognize the ac-complishments of a nationally prominentKentuckian who has brought honor tothe Commonwealth of Kentucky, withsome of those significant public contribu-tions taking place while living in theWashington, D.C., area.

“We were very pleased that UK Presi-dent Lee Todd attended the presentationalong with so many other prominent Ken-tuckians,” Dick said.

Dick, who served four years in the U.S.Navy, earned a bachelor’s degree in 1956 and a master’s degree in 1964, both from the UKCollege of Arts & Sciences in English. He began his career as a journalist for LouisvilleWHAS radio and television. In 1966 he was hired by CBS News and worked over the yearsin Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, Ga.; Caracas, Venezuela; and Dallas, Texas. His broadcast ca-reer culminated with an Emmy Award in 1972 for his coverage of an assassination attempton Alabama Gov. George Wallace.

He later was publisher of e Bourbon Times, a weekly newspaper. Dick also was an associateprofessor of journalism at UK.

He became a member of the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 1987. In 2000 Dick was in-ducted into the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

For the last 16 years he has been president of Plum Lick Publishing. Dick and his wife, Lalie, resideon a farm in North Middletown, Ky., that was originally owned by his great-great-great-grandfather.

Dick has published 12 books, with the newest being “Let ere Be Light: e Story of RuralElectrification in Kentucky.” Another recent book is “A Journal for Lalie: Living rough ProstateCancer,” a chronicle of how he and his family navigated this medical challenge in his life.

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Timothy M. Henderson ’88AG is employed by Seay OilCompany as a manager. Whileat UK he was a member of theAlpha Gamma Rho fraternity.He also has been president ofthe Pennyrile Area UK AGAlumni and treasurer of theWestern Kentucky State FairBoard. He lives in Hop-kinsville.

Natalie Lile Reed ’91 CIS iswith the firm ofStites & Harbi-son as counsel inthe company’sLexington office.She has morethan 10 years experience repre-senting buyers, sellers, borrow-ers, lenders, developers,landlords and tenants in com-plex real estate and financetransactions. Reed also has beena member of the national Com-mercial Real Estate Women or-ganization since 1999.

Michael Sullivan ’91 LAW istreasurer of the OwensboroMedical Health System Foun-dation for Health. He also is apartner in the Owensboro lawfirm of Sullivan MountjoyStainback & Miller PSC. Sulli-van is an elected member of theboard of governors for theKentucky Bar Association andserves on the board for theDaniel Pitino Shelter Inc.

Ben Gaddie ’93 AS ownsGaddie Eye Centers in Ken-tucky and Southern Indiana,including Louisville,Springhurst, LaGrange andCarrolton. The facilities offeradvanced eye care and havebeen family-owned since1968. The Shelbyville Roadlocation was renovated re-cently and expanded by 6,000square feet and had a grandopening in July.

Kevin L. Cox ’94 AS, ’00 DEprovides dental care at HarlandFamily Dental Care in BowlingGreen. He was named recentlyas a member of the HeartlandDental Care President’s Club,which is a group of doctorswho have been recognized fortheir accomplishments, contri-butions to the community andcommitment to providinghigh-quality dental care. He isa member of the AmericanDental Association.

Matthew Durham ’94 ED isvice president at RegionsMorgan Keegan Trust in Pen-sacola, Fla. He has more than10 years experience providingfinancial services to affluentclients. Durham was previ-ously a client manager withBank of America.

Dan Renick ’94 PHA is man-aging partner with the HobartGroup, a full-service managedmarket agency in Gladstone,N.J., focused on securing formu-lary access for pharmaceuticalbrands. Renick provides counselto the firm’s pharmaceutical andbiotech clients, including Glax-oSmithKline and Forest Labo-ratories. Before joining Hobart,he was director of corporatepharmacy management at Hu-mana Inc.

Terisa Laine Scales ’94 ED is aprofessor of social work andeducational administration andassociate dean of the GraduateSchool at Baylor University.She and her husband, an assis-tant professor of English, areserving as the first facultymembers-in-residence at Kok-ernot Hall to encourage qualityfaculty-student interaction.e couple’s teenage daughteralso lives there.

Huntly Gordon ’95 BE is anattorney in Spring Hill, Tenn.He received his law degree atMarquette University and has

eight years experience, includ-ing practicing in Wisconsinand Arkansas. He and his wifehave three children.

Brad Wright ’95 BE is employedby Shane Cox Insurance inOwensboro. He has 12 years ex-perience in customer service andis licensed in home, auto, com-mercial, life and health insurance.

Travis Perkins ’97 CIS is thedirector of communications forFamily Service of Central Indi-ana. He had been electronicmarketing specialist for theGeorgia World Congress Cen-ter Authority in Atlanta. Be-fore that, he was the externalcommunications specialist forthe Community Action Coun-cil in Lexington.

Jennifer Church-Duran ’99CIS is the assistant dean foruser services in the Universityof Kansas Libraries. She pro-vides administrative leader-ship and directs and manageslibrary faculty and staff in in-struction, reference, branch li-braries, access services anddocument delivery. Church-Duran joined the library sys-tem in 2006 as the head ofinstructional services. Beforethat, she was with the Univer-sity of Nevada – Las Vegassystem.

Brian C. Knott ’99 AG is thepresident of Grow Farms Inc.in Louisville. He was previ-ously the business services offi-cer at BB&T in Owensboro.

Lisa Marie Curch ’02 PH is anassociate professor of sociologyat State University College inOneonta, N.Y. She has a doc-toral degree in gerontologyfrom UK and previously taughtat Eastern Kentucky University.

David M. Johnson ’02 AS iswith the law firm of Johnson andPresser in Owensboro. He is agraduate of the omas CooleySchool of Law in Lansing, Mich.

Kevin A. Wannemacher ’04 AShas graduated with honors frombasic military training at Lack-land Air Force Base, San Anto-nio, Texas. He holds the rank ofAir Force Airman 1st Class.

Rahim Esmail ’06 AS is the assis-tant coach for the women’s tennisteam at the University of Ala-bama. Esmail played at UK from2001 to 2004 before pursuing acareer on the professional circuit.He also recently completed workon a master’s degree in sports ad-ministration and served as an as-sistant coach at Eastern KentuckyUniversity for a year.

Will Nash ’06 AS teachesmath, speech and drama atCapitol Middle School inBaton Rouge, La. He has beenparticipating in the Teach forAmerica program, an organiza-tion that recruits recent collegegraduates to teach in under-served public schools.

Benjamin Hall ’07 CIS is the li-brary director for WilliamsburgCounty in South Carolina. Hewas previously working on a dig-ital preservation project forKeeneland, focusing on theTriple Crown racing years.

Taryn Nicole Ignacio ’08 AS isthe head diving coach at FresnoState in California. She was anindividual national championfor UK in 2006 on the platformevent. Ignaciowas a five-timeSEC champion,racking up moreconference titlesthan any otherathlete in the history of Ken-tucky swimming and diving.Ignacio also was a five-time All-American while at UK.

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John M. Salyer ’35 of Coronado, Calif., Life MemberRichard H. Weddle ’36of Somerset, Life MemberRay Salyer ’37 of Richmond,FellowJack Shanklin ’38 of Fort Myers, Fla., Life MemberKatharine Richardson White ’38 of HopkinsvilleGrover N. Conley ’39of Tyler, Texas, Life MemberCharles G. Moore ’39 ofNashville, Tenn., Life MemberEllen Perrine Baxter ’40of LexingtonDorothy HillenmeyerCrutcher ’40 of Lexington,Life Member, FellowHarold N. Rowe ’40of Louisville Noland L. Navarre ’41of Baton Rouge, La.Arthur B. Rouse Jr. ’41of Lexington, FellowCatharine Wilson Cleveland’42 of Versailles, Life MemberLucille Elizabeth Evans ’42of LexingtonWallace E. Hughes ’42of Orlando, Fla.Mildred Moore Myers ’42of Mortons GapWilliam L. Ginter ’43of RichmondFay McDearman Keogh ’43 ofNorwalk, Conn., Life MemberEmma Porter Leasure ’43of Madisonville, Life Member,FellowJohn D. Minton ’43of Bowling GreenBernie H. Keown ’44of LouisvilleElizabeth Hickman Wright ’44of Owensboro, Life MemberChester C. Jenkins ’45of LouisvilleMargaret Goggin Ashley ’46of Richmond Hill, Ga.Oliver B. Majors Jr. ’47of Roanoke, Va.

Robert L. Anderson ’48of St. Albans, W.Va.Jerome F. Eastham ’48of Knoxville, Tenn.Charlotte Erskine Whitelaw’49 of Nashville, Tenn., Life MemberAlberta Ray Anderson ’50of Hugheston, W.Va.Clarence P. Bayes ’50of ScottsvilleDick J. Holway ’50of Westlake, OhioArthur C. Hounshell Jr. ’50of Greenville, OhioWillis G. Moremen ’50of BrandenburgBilly G. Crawford ’51of Lexington, Life MemberWilliam S. Dalton ’51of JacksonAllen J. Groneman Jr. ’51of Cincinnati, OhioJoseph G. Humphress ’51of e Woodlands, TexasAnita Underhill Mills ’51of Austin, TexasWilliam York Varney ’51of LexingtonIvan S. Cason ’52of Homestead, Fla.Robert M. Huffman ’52of VersaillesAustin J. Jernigan ’52of Dallas, TexasHerman E. Spivey Jr. ’52of Chattanooga, Tenn.Frank H. Wiedmer ’52of Birmingham, Ala., Life MemberRobert E. Gipe ’53of OwensboroHazel T. Hamby ’53of OwensboroShelby E. Linville ’53of Middletown, OhioWilliam L. Hinkle ’54of LexingtonBarbara Weesner Ward ’54of Traverse City, Mich.Joseph J. Harber ’55of Claremont, Calif.

Noreen Howard Weber ’55of LexingtonPerry J. Ashley ’56of Columbia, S.C.Justine Stinson Sprenger ’56of Sarasota, Fla., Life MemberMargaret Moren Summers ’56of Naples, Fla., Life MemberHal G. Perry ’57 of Humboldt, Tenn., Life MemberCharles F. Staley ’57of Tequesta, Fla.Robert P. Debenedictis ’58of Granville, OhioDonald E. Maynard ’58of Ralaigh, N.C.Pat omas Redden ’58of Joplin, Mo.Marcia Givanni Strid ’58of Hartford, Conn.Charles A. Cooper ’59of Ooltewah, Tenn.Gross C. Lindsay ’59of HendersonGladys Lawson Little ’59of Nicholasville, Life MemberJohn W. Hostetter ’60of Lexington, FellowJack B. Howard ’60of Winchester, Mass.Leo J. Wagner ’60 of LouisvilleEdward J. Buban ’62of LexingtonC. Richard Mochow ’63 ofMemphis, Tenn., Life MemberCarley Revell White ’63of Ocala, Fla.Roy Douglas Kleiser ’64of DanvilleWilliam P. Fritsch ’66of Cincinnati, OhioDonald E. Witt ’66of LexingtonJames C. Bryant Jr. ’67of Atlanta, Ga.H. William Gwinn Jr. ’67of Belhaven, N.C.George H. Rodman Jr. ’70of Indianapolis, Ind.Margaret Tobin Carrico ’71of Bardstown

Kirk L. Neidhardt ’71of JamestownPaul Reed Smith ’75of Seattle, Wash.Charles Beattie ’76of Baltimore, Md.Jerry J. McKenney ’76of SturgisBarry C. Amyx ’77of Spanish Fort, Ala.Robert A. Mirrielees ’77of Rapid City, S.D.Nicholas N. Brown ’78of Bowling Green

Jim M. Alexander ’79of LexingtonRaymond N. Dunlap ’79of Fulton, Mo.Mary Cleary Kenney ’79of Fairfax, Va.Carol Beaman Damron ’80of Adel, IowaLinda Braamse Taylor ’80of LexingtonMary Hepner Burnett ’83of Louisvilleomas M. Paulson ’85of LexingtonMark Kincaid ’86of Sioux Falls, S.D.J. Penrod Eades ’92of Central CityRobert J. Topmiller ’98of Lexington

Former StudentsCorday D. Battaile of LexingtonFrank R. Dean of LexingtonJames C. Doyleof Newport Beach, Calif.Joyce Young Flynn of FrankfortRobert M. Gabbardof NicholasvilleMary Massey Hargreavesof Lexington, FellowMary Maynard Leonardof Atlanta, Ga.Cornelia Wallace O'Kellyof Lexington

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omas Kiffmeyer ’98 GS has written “Reformers to Radicals: eAppalachian Volunteers and the War on Poverty,” a book that investi-gates one of the groups of young people who rallied to make a differ-

ence, aer hearing President John F.Kennedy’s inaugural address challenging in-dividuals to do something for their country.e Appalachian Volunteers set out to im-prove the standard of living by enactinglong-term economic reforms, but overtime, some within the group felt the needto “radicalize” its efforts, providing con-troversy over political views. e inabilityto focus on one issue or to define goalsled to disputes within the group, and theorganization lost sight of its original goalto listen to the local people and form aneffective agenda for reform. is bookpresents an account of the flawed at-

tempts to eliminate socioeconomic strugglesduring whirlwind domestic reform and international conflict.

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Rebecca Booth ’81 AS, an obstetrician and gynecologist inLouisville, is the author of “e Venus Week,” drawing on her wis-dom gained from treating thousands of women over the course ofmore than 20 years. e title of the book refers to the magicallook-good, feel-good days in every woman’s cycle. Booth describeshow the Venus week is the five to sevendays before ovulation when estrogen andtestosterone are at their peak in the femalebody, making women feel more sociallyagile. e book provides information onthree ways to pinpoint your Venus week.It also contains information about“Venus-maximizing” vitamins and di-etary supplements, including cinna-mon and dark chocolate, as well asexercise tips and relaxation tech-niques (diaphragmatic deep breath-ing) that can help a woman harnessher hormonal power to look andfeel her biological best.

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Virginia Marsh Bell ’82 SW, TonyaTincher Cox ’98 SW and Robin L.Hamon ’89 ’91 SW have co-authored “eBest Friends Book of Alzheimer’s Activities,Vol. 2,” a book that offers 149 versatile, easyto implement activities to bring out thebest in individuals with dementia.

Health Professions Presswww.healthpropress.com

Linda Scott DeRosier ’72 AS is the au-thor of “Songs of Life and Grace: A Mem-oir,” the story of her parents lives, whichshe traces through the Appalachian land-scape, pieced together from her own mem-ories, visits with kinfolk and trips tomountain graves.

e University Press of Kentuckywww.kentuckypress.com

William Fortune ’61 AS, ’64 LAW, theRobert G. Lawson Professor of Law at UK,has recently had his book, “On the Bench:e History of the Federal Court in the East-ern District of Kentucky,” published.

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Melanie Beals Goan ’96 ’00 GS hascompiled “Mary Breckinridge: e FrontierNursing Service and Rural Health in Ap-palachia,” a comprehensive biography ofthe FNS founder who put nurses on horse-back to reach rural Kentucky families whootherwise would not receive health care.

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Kyle Longley ’93 GS helps readers under-stand the American combat soldier’s experi-ence in Vietnam, including the stereotypes ofthe combat veteran that have been perpetu-ated in popular culture, in his book “Grunts:e American Combat Soldier in Vietnam.”

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Kolan T. Morelock ’99 GS in his book“Taking the Town: Collegiate and CommunityCulture in the Bluegrass 1880 - 1917,” gives alook at the culture and intellectual life of Lex-ington through the eyes of two residents,Margaret Preston and Joseph Tanner.

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Nelson Rhodus ’79 DE has published acollection of poetry and prose, “White LickCreek,” representing simple reflections on aKentucky childhood, which knew little ofmoney, but was full of family and life spentin the woods, fields and streams.

AuthorHousewww.authorhouse.com

David Shepard ’72 ’75 ED is a formerteacher, coach and principal and has co-authored “Teach My Kid — I Dare You!,” a book with a 10-step plan for designing acomprehensive parent involvement program.

Eye On Educationwww.eyeoneducation.com

John Speer ’90 ’99 GS wrote “Uncom-mon Community: One Congregation’s WorkWith Prisoners,” about the Henry Davidoreau Unitarian Universalist Congrega-tion in Texas launching a creative writingworkshop for prisoners.

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GLEANINGS FROM THE

1934To conform with other SEC schools,

the UK Senate says a student must passat least three-fourths of the normal classload in the proceeding semester andmust carry 12 credit hours to be eligiblefor extra-curricular activities or initia-tion into fraternities . . . W.S. Webb,head of the Department of Physics, isgranted six months leave from UK toperform archeological work in Ten-nessee and Alabama for the SmithsonianInstitute on artifacts in 300 Indianmounds . . . Alpha Xi Delta memberRuby Dunn, a junior from Cynthiana inthe College of Arts & Sciences, is cho-sen 1934 Kentuckian Beauty Queen atthe annual Kentuckian formal in theAlumni Gymnasium . . . A history of theGratz family, one of the earliest familiesto settle in Lexington, is donated to UKby Anderson Gratz . . . Advertising To-pography and Layout, a new elective, isadded to the Department of Journalism . . . A group of 28 art students are es-corted by Professor Edward Rannells tothe Taft Museum, the Art Institute andthe new Cincinnati terminal . . . Dr.Elizabeth Farra, a 1916 UK graduate,visits campus and tells of her last six years as a medical mission-ary stationed at Ambala City, Punjab, India . . . The women’s UKfreshman basketball team, the Kittens, complete their seasonwith 16 victories and no losses . . . Elmer Sulzer, director of theUK publicity bureau, publishes a booklet containing 40 StephenFoster songs with all the original verses.

1959Due to a change in the direction of traffic on Limestone and

Upper Streets, the circle in front of the Administration Buildingis now one way from the South gate to the Student Union . . .Construction begins on two UK campus buildings, an athleticfacility on the Experiment station farm and the Alpha TauOmega fraternity house on Clifton Aveune . . . Gov. Chandlerappoints Robert H. Hillenmeyer and Floyd H. Wright to theUK Board of Trustees . . . After a Kentucky Kernel editorial ap-pears saying there are too many walkways on campus that are notwell-lit and could cause safety problems, UK begins installing

more lights around campus . . . A $500scholarship for an engineering student ispresented to the dean of the College ofEngineering by the UK Alumni Associa-tion, made possible through a donationfrom J. Ray Jenkins of Elizabethtown . . .Dr. Statie Erikson, professor of homeeconomics, is named the 1958 Womanof the Year for Kentucky by The Progres-sive Farmer magazine . . . UK PresidentDickey and Dr. Merl Baker plan a trip toIndonesia to inspect the UK technicalassistance program there . . . The UKfaculty draw up new rules on the use ofalcoholic beverages on campus, delegat-ing power of enforcement to the deans ofmen and women with action at their dis-cretion . . .UK basketball head coachAdolph Rupp dismisses rumors that heplans to leave UK for a position with theprofessional Cincinnati Royals.

1984Subzero temperatures and wind chill

over the winter holidays gives 53 UKcampus buildings and rental propertiesdamage from burst water pipes . . . UKCheerleaders travel to Hawaii as one ofeight finalist teams in the Ford CollegeCheerleading National Championships,

open to all NCAA Division I schools . . . The Student Organiza-tion Assistance Committee of the SGA votes to grant $300 tothe Gay and Lesbian Union of Students to sponsor a lecture tobenefit research for AIDS . . . Decline in student enrollment andrising costs of labor and utilities forces the Student Center toclose at 10 p.m. every day, saving UK between $45,000 -$50,000 per year . . . Led by Donna Brittain, former head ma-jorette in the Wildcat Marching Band, eighteen women are se-lected to comprise the Dance Cats, a new form of danceentertainment at half-time during basketball games . . . DonaldSands, associate vice chancellor for academic development, saysit’s estimated that one out of six freshmen won’t be accepted byUK under the school’s new selective admissions policy . . . UKstudents audition for summer work as performers for Kings Is-land in Ohio . . . Lyman T. Johnson, the first black student to at-tend UK, now 78 years old and a civil rights activist, gives alecture sponsored by Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.

Moments In History

After not placing during the 1984 competi-tion when two partners fell during a stunt,the UK Cheerleaders set new goals for the1985 event in Hawaii. More hard work paidoff. The team won the Ford College Cheer-leading National Championship after a per-fect performance.

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Former University of Kentucky basket-ball great Tayshaun Prince can add goldmedalist to his list of accomplishments.Prince was a member of the USA men’sbasketball team that captured the goldmedal in the 2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing, China. Team USA earned a per-fect 8-0 record enroute to the gold medalthat signified redemption for Team USAaer a disappointing bronze medal resultin the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Prince joined Olympic teammates:Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets); Car-los Boozer (Utah Jazz); Chris Bosh(Toronto Raptors); Kobe Bryant (Los An-geles Lakers); Dwight Howard (OrlandoMagic); LeBron James (Cleveland Cava-liers); Jason Kidd (Dallas Mavericks);Chris Paul (New Orleans Hornets);Michael Redd (Milwaukee Bucks);Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); and DeronWilliams (Utah Jazz) for the medal cere-mony.

Prince also was a member of the 2007USA Men’s FIBA Americas Champi-

onship Team that finished 10-0, won thegold medal and qualified the U.S. men forthe 2008 Olympics.

A two-time All-American at Kentucky,Prince was the2001 SEC Playerof the Year. He cur-rently ranks eighthon Kentucky’s all-time scoring listand third on UK’sall-time three-pointers made list.

He was selectedas the 23rd overallpick in the 2002NBA Dra by theDetroit Pistons.He helped lead thePistons to theNBA Champi-onship in 2004.He has been se-lected to theNBA’s All-Defen-

sive Team for four consecutive years.Prince played in more NBA Playoff gamesin his first five seasons as a professionalthan any other player in NBA history.

Former Wildcat Prince Is Golden

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Former UK golfer JB Holmes helped theUnited States win the 37th Ryder Cup.USA defeated Europe 16 ½ - 11 ½ at theValhalla Golf Club in Louisville. In his in-ternational play debut, Holmes went 2-0-1for the tournament.

Aer a stellar college career, Holmeskicked off his PGA career in 2006 when hewon the FBR Open in his fourth start as aprofessional. He also has had four top-10finishes since joining the PGA. In his thirdtournament this season, Holmes won theFBR Open for the second time.

Holmes’ college career included earningAll-SEC Conference honors for four con-secutive years, as well as being named theSEC Golfer of the Year in 2005 aer help-ing the Wildcats win the SEC Champi-onship. A consistent performer in theclassroom, Holmes was an Academic All-American in 2004 and 2005 and he was onthe Academic All-SEC team from 2002-2005. He also was selected to the PING All-American team.

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