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Attend an upcoming information session to learn more. ExecMBA.biz G AT T O N C O L L E G E O F B U S I N E S S & E C O N O M I C S CHOOSE YOUR * Spring 2015 • Volume 86 • Number 1 R. Benjamin ’79: ’62 Features Barbara RiceSpaceAFE hasinspent 25 years with 12 Gerald blue and making a difference seeing the Johnson Center Houston, Texas. ON THE COVER A former UK scholarship Barbara Rice: A lofty career 16 helping NASA with nutrition Barbara Rice ’62 AFE has forged a long career at NASA studying the nutritional needs of astronauts before, during and after their space flights in the Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Group. By Robin Roenker recipient achieved success and now helps UK move forward in transformational ways. Revolution in Black and Blue: Wagner documentary showcases UK’s role in integrating SEC football Paul Wagner ’70 AS, ’72 CI wants to set the record straight. 20 By Hal Morris Greta Holtz: 24 Serving America’s international goals Greta Holtz ’84 GS has served in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Tunisia, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and now is ambassador in Oman. By Robin Roenker 26 Jim Duff: Bringing order to the courts As director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Jim Duff ’75 AS assists the chief justice in the operation of the federal judiciary, which includes more than 2,000 judges. By Vickie Mitchell Photos: Submitted 28 We salute the 2015 Great Teacher Award recipients Each year, the UK Alumni Association recognizes six professors for outstanding teaching, and this year’s recipients are once again distinguished faculty members who are appreciated by their students. Departments 4 Pride In Blue 7 Presidential Conversation 8 UK News 11 Blue Horizons 32 Wildcat Sports 34 Alumni Clubs 40 52 54 55 56 Class Notes In Memoriam Creative Juices Retrospect Quick Take www.ukalumni.net 1 * Where Wildcats have banked for over 75 years. Your savings federally insured to at least $250,000 and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government NCUA National Credit Union Administration, a U.S. Government Agency www.ukfcu.org 859.264.4200 * How To Reach Us University of Kentucky Alumni Magazine Vol.86 No. 1 Kentucky Alumni (ISSN 732-6297) is published quarterly by the University of Kentucky Alumni Association, Lexington, Kentucky for its dues-paying members. © 2015 University of Kentucky Alumni Association, except where noted. Views and opinions expressed in Kentucky Alumni do not necessarily represent the opinions of its editors, the UK Alumni Association nor the University of Kentucky. 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It’s with great pride that we bring you the 2015 spring issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine. You will never convince me that time doesn’t somehow move faster now. It’s hard to believe that it is 2015. Doesn’t it seem like just last year we were ushering in 2000 and fearing the world’s end? 2015 is a big deal for many reasons. It’s certainly a year to celebrate greatness around here. First, the University of Kentucky marked the 150th anniversary of its founding in February. ink about that for a moment. ink of all the monumental things that have happened in the world during this span of time. Our university has been right here through it all. It’s incredible to me to think about all the people who have been a part of shaping UK into what it is today. Just think for a moment about all the students, faculty, staff and alumni who contributed to the rich history of the University of Kentucky. We are all part of the hashtag #WeAreUK. Here’s to the next 150 years! We will also celebrate the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni as we welcome the Class of 2015 inductees in April. Every five years, we recognize a select group of outstanding alumni for their distinguished contributions to the Commonwealth and the nation in their fields of endeavor. If you want to be impressed, you don’t have to look any further than the members of this prestigious group. You can find a complete listing of all inductees at www.ukalumni.net/HODA. Speaking of impressive, our cover story this issue just happens to be a member of our Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Barbara Rice was inducted in 2010. I had the pleasure of meeting her at the awards ceremony. In her role as research dietitian working at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, she has studied the nutritional needs of astronauts before, during and aer space flights for over 25 years. at certainly gives new meaning to the age-old question, “What’s for supper?” Just as impressive, Rice followed her four older sisters to UK. ey all graduated with degrees in home economics. Now, that’s a family legacy! 4 Spring 2015 The UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award has been recognizing excellence in the classroom since 1961. This year’s award recipients (featured on Pages 28-29) certainly continue the tradition of outstanding teaching and dedication to students. Also in this issue, read about Greta Holtz, the U.S. ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman, a prosperous nation situated southeast of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Peninsula. Read about how a summer European backpacking trip during college eventually led to her lifelong career in Middle Eastern diplomacy. Her story makes my mind wander around the world. Get to know Jim Duff. He is the former CEO of the Newseum, the Washington museum that educates the public about the importance of the First Amendment, and president and CEO of the affiliated, nonpartisan Freedom Forum. Now, he has returned to a job he held from 2006-2011. At the request of Chief Justice Roberts, he became director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. You will want to read about academy award-winning documentarian Paul Wagner’s commitment to telling the story of UK breaking the color barrier for football in the Southeastern Conference. He is working on a documentary that will share the story of Nate Northington and Greg Page becoming the first African Americans to sign with an SEC school in 1965, and how two years later, Wilbur Hackett and Houston Hogg continued to tear down barriers. We also introduce you to J.D. Shelburne, an aspiring country music singer who has kept his day job — and keeps right on singing and performing. We also catch up with former Wildcat All-American Tony Delk, who is a part of the SEC Network college basketball broadcast team. He offers great insight into the game. Finally, I hope you enjoy this issue of Kentucky Alumni magazine as much as I enjoy sharing it with you. Kentucky Alumni magazine is another way we say “thank you” to our members. We couldn’t do what we do without you! As always, I welcome your feedback. With Pride in Blue, Kelli Elam ’11 Editor * * Page WILDCATS ON THE MOVE Another member benefit from the University of Kentucky Alumni Association “Preferential Wildcat Treatment” • • • • • Minimum of 55% discount on all interstate moves Free full value coverage up to $50,000 on relocations Guaranteed on-time pick-up and delivery available Personalized attention from start to finish Sanitized Air-ride Vans Contact Tom Larkins (The Wildcat Relocator) for details on this program 1.800.899.2527 or email him at tom.larkins@atlanticrelocation.com U.S. DOT No. 125550 Atlantic Relocation Systems Interstate Agent for ATLAS VAN LINES 6314 31st Street East Sarasota, FL 34243 A portion of the proceeds collected from the transportation costs will be paid to the UK Alumni Association. Tell your UK story with a commemorative brick paver and help raise money for scholarships! www.wildcatalumniplaza.com – 800-269-ALUM(2586) 6 Spring 2015 * Presidential Conversation A university for Kentucky " I gleaned the remains of my life, turned toward the hills that give me help, give me shelter, hold the sky where it belongs." — Jane Hicks What began as a mild winter gave way to Mother Nature’s fury at the end of February. The University of Kentucky was planning to host its Board of Trustees meeting in Hazard, but historic snowfall kept us in Lexington. Why Hazard? From the October Trustees Retreat, your board expressed a desire to see more of the state we serve. It was an enticing opportunity to spend more time in and with the communities where our students are from, many of our faculty work, our Extension agents serve and where our clinicians and partners heal. Over the last several months, we’ve been sharing and discussing the special relationship and partnership the University of Kentucky has with the Central Appalachian region. We launched a new series of stories, “Rooted in Our Communities: The University of Kentucky in Appalachia,” that examines the myriad ways in which UK faculty, staff and students are working in — and, more important, with — communities throughout the mountains. Those stories and other compelling features can be found at www.uky.edu/appalachia. These stories bring to life the significant challenges and even more promising opportunities that exist not only in Eastern Kentucky, but throughout our Commonwealth in areas such as health care, energy and conservation, education and economic development. One of those stories is our partnership with the Shaping Our Appalachian Region initiative, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, Appalachian Regional Commission and Appalachian Regional Hospitals. With these partners, UK is engaged in a five-year, $1.5 million project to help patients with cancer navigate the often confusing and growing system of treatment options. We are also developing a three-week initiative to train community leaders and health-care leaders in the mountains. From unlocking through research the mysteries of disease at the cellular level to engaging in evidenced-based approaches to problems at the community level, UK is investing in micro interventions that, taken together, offer the promise of macrolevel change. These are just two examples of the dozens of programs and initiatives ongoing at UK that total nearly $350 million. This work and the stories captured through the UK in Appalachia initiative celebrate and promote the incredible culture and heritage of the region, as well as the progress we’ve made together. The richness of the mountains emboldens our shared effort and the promise of tomorrow. At the University of Kentucky, we take pride in the fact that our 150-year legacy of education, research, service and care means that we are — in creative and compelling ways — the university for Kentucky. In Appalachia, that service and those partnerships are deeply rooted and grounded in a sense of community, in a spirit of partnership, with the idea that we, too, look toward the hills — for help and shelter, for partnership and meaning, for stronger communities and for a brighter future for our Commonwealth. Eli Capilouto President www.ukalumni.net 7 * UK News UK HealthCare has opened its first Observation Unit at the UK Chandler Hospital. Across the nation, observation units are increasingly being used to provide high quality, safe and efficient care to patients who come to the Emergency Department and are too sick to be discharged home and need additional evaluation. In the 24-bed unit located adjacent to the UK Chandler Emergency Department, patients with symptoms such as chest pain, abdominal pain, dehydration or syncope (fainting or passing out) will be managed and cared for up to 24 hours until either discharged or admitted as an in-patient for more intensive care. e patient will remain as an outpatient while in the unit. Studies show benefits of patients cared for in observation units include better clinical outcomes, greater patient satisfaction, less diagnostic uncertainty and improvements in the use of hospital resources and staff. “ere are times when a patient doesn’t meet criteria set by Medicaid or Medicare to be admitted to the hospital but as a physician you just don’t feel that they are well enough to be sent home,” said Dr. Romil Chadha, medical director Photo: UK Healthcare New Observation Unit at UK HealthCare of the Chandler Observation Unit. “is unit allows us to monitor them for an extended amount of time and ensure they get the care they need.” The new unit, which opened with 12 beds, will eventually expand to 24 beds and provide patient care with close collaboration among Hospital Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Cardiology to provide prompt, high quality and efficient observation care. n Family and Consumer Sciences Extension personnel honored an early, influential Extension educator and their program’s centennial anniversary with a historical marker. e marker was unveiled in December outside of the Myrtle Weldon Suite in the E.S. Good Barn on campus. “ousands of agents have served the people of Kentucky over the last century. It is fitting that we also recognize Myrtle Weldon on the same marker. She had the initial vision for what has become the FCS extension program in 2014,” said Ann Vail, assistant director of UK Family and Consumer Sciences Extension, during the ceremony. In Kentucky, Family and Consumer Sciences Extension programming began in 1914 when UK hired 17 county Extension agents to teach food preservation. Weldon became state leader of the then UK Home Economics Extension program in 1924. Weldon oversaw the program grow in educational emphasis and in agent numbers during her 31-year tenure. In addition, she played an instrumental role in the beginnings of the Kentucky Extension Homemakers Association, a group that formed in 1932. n 8 Spring 2015 Photo: UK Ag Communications Services UK unveils historical marker From left to right, Bob Weldon, Ann Vail and Jimmy Henning unveil the newest historical marker at UK. * UK News UK celebrates December graduates bright Commission Summer Session last year, spending a month in Berlin. e university also awarded honorary doctorates. One went to Brady Deaton, former chancellor of the University of Missouri-Columbia and chairman of the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. Don Jacobs also received an honorary doctorate. He is co-founder of the Don Jacobs Organization, one of Central Kentucky’s largest family-owned car dealerships. Don Jacobs and his wife Cathy Jacobs have served as leading donors for many university projects, such as the Don and Cathy Jacobs Health Education Center at the new Pavilion A in the Albert B. Chandler Hospital. n Photo: UK Public Relations & Marketing ere were 839 undergraduates and 125 graduate and professional students who were expected to participate in the Commencement Ceremonies that were held inside Memorial Coliseum in December. A total of 1,357 undergraduate degrees, 536 graduate degrees and 22 professional degrees were conferred for August and December 2014. Lauren ompson of Louisville was the 2014 December Commencement student speaker. e communication major has spent her time at UK participating in the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the National Association of Black Accountants, Ad Club and serving as a UK 101 Peer Instructor. She was also selected for the German-American Ful- UK earns 2015 Community Engagement Classification Recognizing UK’s commitment to its surrounding local, national and global communities, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching selected the university to receive the 2015 Community Engagement Classification. “The success of our reclassification efforts is the result of the efforts of a committed group of campus stakeholders who contributed their expertise, time and knowledge in the drafting of the report,” said Katherine McCormick, professor of interdisciplinary early childhood education and James W. and Diane V. Stuckert Endowed Professor in ServiceLearning, who chaired the team responsible for completing the application process. e classification recognizes institutions that provide evidence of substantial engagement and contribution to their communities. A significant achievement, institutions complete a two-year long application process. UK also received the 2010 Community Engagement Classification. In a letter to McCormick, the Carnegie Foundation and New England Resource Center for Higher Education praised the university, saying that UK’s report “documented excellent alignment among campus mission, culture, leadership, resources, and practices that support dynamic and noteworthy community engagement.” “Prominent in the reclassification application was the work of the colleges, the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, the Center for Community Outreach in the Division of Student Affairs, the Office of Community Engagement, the University of Kentucky International Center and the Office of the Associate Provost, Division of Undergraduate Education,” said McCormick. n UK Art goes 3D As the Smithsonian Castle displayed the first 3D-printed bust of a U.S. president, students in one UK art course wrapped up a semester learning how to not only create art with the assistance of a 3D printer, but also to build 3D printers. e concept for the new course came from a suggestion by Derek Eggers, senior faculty instructional consultant with the UK Center for Enhancement of Learning and Teaching, and Jeremy Colbert, a facilities specialist in metal arts at the UK School of Art and Visual Studies. Eggers then teamed up with senior lecturer James Wade in sculpture and art foundations to design a 3D printing course that would teach students to not only use the printer but also build one from kits, capitalizing on the wealth of open source information available. Initially imagined for model making and prototyping, opportunities to use 3D technology have boomed in recent years. More and more, the forms produced by printers can now be used as the final product. And the industry is pushing the realm of possibilities even further by transforming them into other materials using casting and mold making processes, making this another tool in the inventory. Egger and Wade’s course, “A-S 390: Hybrid Fabrication,” is cross disciplinary and open to all majors with the goal of creating interaction between several departments and colleges on campus — engineering, art, media, agriculture and design. n www.ukalumni.net 9 * * Blue Horizons UK study on campus tobacco-free policies Amanda Fallin, assistant research professor at the UK College of Nursing, recently published a study, “Association of Campus Tobacco Policies With Secondhand Smoke Exposure, Intention to Smoke on Campus, and Attitudes About Outdoor Smoking Restrictions,” in the American Journal of Public Health. Fallin and her co-authors surveyed California college students between September 2013 and May 2014 with a range of policies (smoke-free indoors only, designated outdoor smoking areas, smokefree, and tobacco-free). Fallin said that findings indicate smoke and tobacco-free policies are widely accepted and are working on campus. Findings include: • Stronger policies were associated with fewer students reporting exposure to secondhand smoke or seeing someone smoke on campus. • On tobacco-free college campuses, fewer students smoked and reported intention to smoke on campus. • Strong majorities of students supported outdoor smoking restrictions across all policy types. • Comprehensive tobacco-free policies are effective in reducing exposure to smoking and intention to smoke on campus. n Grant to meet demand for behavioral health in primary care e UK College of Social Work, in collaboration with the UK Department of Family and Community Medicine, has been awarded a $1.4 million Health Resources and Services Administration grant to train graduate social work students to meet the rising demand for social workers trained in primary behavioral health with children, adolescents and transitional aged individuals (ages 18-25). e federal grant will provide $10,000 stipends that will allow the College of Social Work and the Department of Family and Community Medicine to create an integrated behavioral health track. is track will train 92 clinical social work students in a fully-integrated model of primary behavioral health care over a three year period. Second year graduate social work students will practice intensive case management, behavioral health interventions and secondary prevention screening for children/teens/and transitional age young adults at risk for mental illness, family violence, trauma, substance misuse and risky sexual behavior. Students will serve at-risk and underserved populations including rural, impoverished, refugee, immigrant and inner city clients, including families. Compared nationally, Kentucky has higher poverty rates, child and adolescent risk of illegal substance use, youth suicides and child obesity. Kentucky’s high school youth experience higher rates of violence and have had higher rates of child abuse fatalities in recent years. Kentucky was also an early state to experience targeted gun violence in schools. “is is really a great opportunity to increase interdepartmental collaboration here at UK for preparing social work graduate students to meet the critical shortages of behavioral health care professionals across the Commonwealth of Kentucky. I cannot imagine a more community engaged project,” said Carlton D. Craig, associate professor in the College of Social Work and the project’s principal investigator. The collaborative team working on the project also includes William Elder, professor in the College of Medicine, David Royse, professor in the College of Social Work and Pamela Weeks, associate clinical professor in the College of Social Work. n Study examines communication and end-of-life decisions For many people, talking about end-oflife decisions can be very difficult. Although making choices about health care at the end of life is an important outcome of these conversations, recent research suggests that talking about end-of-life choices with family members in a way that pays attention to how they perceive themselves and maintains your relationship with them may be more important than actually reaching decisions. Allison Scott, assistant professor at the UK College of Communication and Information, focuses her research on the quality of communication about end-of-life health decisions. In her study published this year in Communication Monographs, “Enacted Goal Attention in Family Conversations about End-of-Life Health Decisions,” Scott and co-author John Caughlin, professor and department head at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used a multiple goals theoretical perspective to demonstrate that the quality of communication about end-of-life decisions matters. Members of 121 older parent/adult child dyads (N = 242) engaged in an elicited conversation about end-of-life health choices and reported their assessments of the conversation. Scott and Caughlin found that people who paid better attention to task, identity, and relational goals were more satisfied with the conversation, felt more hopeful after the conversation, experienced less hurt after the conversation and felt less relationally distanced after the conversation. n Compiled from news reports about research at UK. For more information about research taking place at UK, visit www.research.uky.edu www.ukalumni.net 11 * New Developments 12 Spring 2015 * www.ukalumni.net 13 * New Developments 14 Spring 2015 * www.ukalumni.net 15 * Barbara Rice: A lofty career helping NASA with nutrition By Robin Roenker ’62 When Barbara Landrum RiceasJohnAFE accepted her position a research dietitian working at NASA’s son Space Center in Houston, Texas, she thought it would be a two-year role. at was 25 years ago. Rice, a native of Franklin, has forged a long career at NASA as a contractor, studying the nutritional needs of astronauts before, during, and aer their space flights in the Human Adaptation and Countermeasures Group. “Student groups often ask me, ‘What did you do in your background to be able to work for NASA?’” says Rice, who graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in dietetics from the School of Home Economics, now called Human Environmental Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. “e truth is, when I was hired I knew nothing about microgravity or spaceflight. But the woman who hired me said, ‘We can teach you those things. You have intrinsic values and experiences that we can’t teach,’” Rice says. Early Training Rice grew up in an agricultural family of nine children. Her mother taught Rice and her siblings from an early age how to help grow and prepare their own foods and make their own clothing. “We only shopped in town, which was, I think, about 12 miles from our home, on Saturday aernoons. It was a very different world than it is now. We made almost 16 Spring 2015 everything ourselves. Looking back, I’m very grateful to have had that type of upbringing,” says Rice, who credits those experiences with her lifelong passion for healthful foods and style of eating. As Rice and her six sisters grew, there was never any question about their educational path. “Our mother was adamant that all of the girls would go to college or technical school,” Rice says. “She just said, ‘is is what you need to do, and you can do it if you work really hard.’” Rice followed her four older sisters to UK, where they also had majored and graduated with degrees in home economics. “I was familiar with UK from my sisters’ experiences there, and also from the many camps and conferences that I had attended there through my 4H work,” Rice says. “Really, it had been driven into me by my mother that UK was the best place for me to study and get a degree.” Once on campus, she says she found herself motivated and shaped by another strong woman: Abby Marlatt, who was the director of the School of Home Economics. “Abby Marlatt taught all of our advanced nutrition classes. She was a very vocal person who didn’t always follow all the rules. She would oen stand on one of the main streets and hold signs in support of Black freedom and other civil rights issues and was just so bold. I remember thinking she had such courage — not to mention a very good knowledge of nutrition,” says Rice. When Rice e