Fall 2022 Kentucky Alumni Magazine

Alumni

Contents

WELCOME TO UK

By Sally Scherer

Members of the UK Alumni Association and UK Alumni Clubs around the country celebrated new students at send-off events. Alumni shared stories and offered advice to help first-year students feel welcome on campus.

DESIGN LEGACIES

By Sally Scherer

The School of Interiors celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Three legacies explain why they chose to attend UK and what difference that choice has made in their careers.

ALL IN ONE PLACE

By Meg Mills

Construction will soon begin on the new Gray Design Building . A former tobacco warehouse will house the college’s five programs, the first time they will all be housed in one location.

$5 MILLION GIFT FOR UROLOGIC CANCER

By Allison Perry

Scheduled to open in 2025, the new Markey Cancer Center multidisciplinary building’s urological clinic will include named space thanks to the Ambassador William Stamps Farish Program of Excellence in Urologic Cancer.

DEDICATED ALUMNI, NEW OFFICERS RECEIVE RECOGNITION

Award winners, outstanding volunteers, new officers and devoted alumni were acknowledged at the UK Alumni Association Summer Workshop.

BIGGEST KENTUCKY EVER

Kentucky stretched from end zone to end zone at Kroger Field when the class of 2026 arrived on campus and took part in a University of Kentucky tradition.

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Built in 1870-72, Maxwell Place is an iconic building found in the heart of UK’s campus.

HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY, MAXWELL PLACE

By Sally Scherer

The President’s home, Maxwell Place, is 150 years old this year. The house has been home to 10 UK presidents and their families. And if the walls could talk, they would tell some fascinating stories about famous visitors, lavish social events and its well-worn banister.

WE’RE READY TO CELEBRATE HOMECOMING 2022

Get out your blue and white and join us for Homecoming 2022! The class of 1972 will have its Golden Wildcat reunion, we’ll enjoy a pre-game tailgate on the Tobacco Research lawn and we’ll celebrate the 2021 and 2022 Lyman T. Johnson Torch of Excellence and Torch Bearer award recipients.

THESE ATHLETES ARE NOW HORSE BREEDERS

By Katie Petrunyak

Allen Carter played on the football field, his wife, Leslie Nichols Carter, on the basketball court. Together they now own a farm outside of Lexington where they’re hosting guests, making wine and breeding horses.

by Whitney Stamper

by Mark Cornelison, UK

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CREDITS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jill Holloway Smith

EDITORS

Editor: Meredith Weber

Managing Editor: Sally Scherer

GRAPHIC DESIGNER Whitney Stamper

ASSOCIATION STAFF

Brenda Bain ’15: Records Data Entry

Lindsey Caudill: Alumni Engagement and Diversity Coordinator

Christy Coffman ‘18: Program Coordinator

Dana Cox ‘87 CI: Philanthropy Assistant

Nancy Culp: Administrative Services Assistant

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL

Officers

Antoine Huffman ’05 CI: President

Janie C. McKenzie-Wells ’83 AS, ’86 LAW: President-elect

Robert “Rob” L. Crady III ’04 BE: Treasurer

Jill Holloway Smith ’05 BE, ’11 AFE: Secretary

In-State Representatives

Michelle Bishop Allen ’06 ’10 BE

Jeffrey L. Ashley ’89 CI

Heath F. Bowling ’96 BE

Emmett P. “Buzz” Burnam ’74 ED John S. Cain ’86 BE James F. Gilles III ’10 AFE

Emily C. Henderson ’01 PHA Mark Hogge ’97 EN

Kelly Sullivan Holland ’93 AS, ’98 ED

Dr. H. Fred Howard ’79 AS, ’82 DE Michael H. Huang ’89 AS, ’93 MED Shelia M. Key ’91 PHA Kent T. Mills ’83 BE Sherry R. Moak ’81 BE Tonya B. Parsons ’91 AS Quintissa S. Peake ’04 CI Peggy Barton Queen ’86 BE John D. Ryan ’92 ’95 BE Jonell Tobin ’68 ’95 ED Allen O. Wilson ’03 AFE, ’06 LAW

Out-of-State Representatives

Brooke C. Asbell ’86 BE Erin Burkett ’01 EN Shane T. Carlin ’95 AFE Amanda Mills Cutright ’06 CI

Ruth Cecelia Day ’85 BE

Robert M. “Mike” Gray ’80 ’81 BE Dr. Michael L. Hawks ’80 AS, ’85 DE Vincent M. Holloway ’84 EN John T. “Jay” Hornback ’04 EN Erin Carr Logan ’06 BE Thomas K. Mathews ’93 AS Sylvester D. Miller II ’08 AFE Mary “Kekee” Szorcsik ’72 BE Quentin R. Tyler ’02 ’05 AFE, ’11 AS

Alumni Trustees

Brenda Baker Gosney ’70 HS, ’75 ED Paula L. Pope ’73 ’75 ED Rachel Watts Webb ’05 CI

Living Past Presidents

George L. Atkins Jr. ’63 BE

Richard A. Bean ’69 BE

Michael A. Burleson ’74 PHA

Bruce K. Davis ’71 LAW

Scott E. Davis ’71 LAW

Marianne Smith Edge ’77 AFE

Franklin H. Farris Jr. ’72 BE

William G. Francis ’68 AS, ’73 LAW W. P. Friedrich ’71 EN

Dan Gipson ’69 EN

Brenda B. Gosney ’70 HS, ’75 ED Cammie DeShields Grant ’77 LCC, ’79 ED

John R. Guthrie ’63 CI

Diane M. Massie ’79 CI

Robert E. Miller

Susan V. Mustian ’84 BE

Hannah Miner Myers ’93 ED

John C. Nichols II ’53 BE

Dr. George A. Ochs IV ’74 DE

Sandra Bugie Patterson ’68 AS Taunya Phillips ’87 EN, ’04 BE

Robert F. Pickard ’57 ’61 EN

Paula L. Pope ’73 ’75 ED

David B. Ratterman ’68 EN

G. David Ravencraft ’59 BE

William Schuetze ’72 LAW

Mary Shelman ’81 EN

David L. Shelton ’66 BE

J. Fritz Skeen ’72 ’73 BE

J. Tim Skinner ’80 DES

James W. Stuckert ’60 EN, ’61 BE

Hank B. Thompson Jr. ’71 CI

Henry R. Wilhoit Jr. ’60 LAW

Elaine A. Wilson ’68 SW

Richard M. Womack ’53 AFE

Leadership Advisory Council

In-State Representatives

Kevin L. Collins ’84 EN

Christopher J. Crumrine ’08 CI

Abra A. Endsley ’98, ’01 CI

Lu Ann Holmes ’79 DES

Lee A. Jackson ’73 AS

Grant T. Mills ’09 AS

Glen H. Pearson ’87 AS

Dr. Barbara Sanders ’72 HS, ’77 ED

Dena Stooksbury Stamper ’84 AS

Lori E. Wells ’96 BE

Blake Broadbent Willoughby ’11 ’12 ’12 BE

Out-of-State Representatives

Shiela D. Corley ’94 AS, ’95 AFE

James F. Hardymon Jr. ’56 ’58 EN

Mark A. Ison ’99 FA

Dr. Frank Kendrick ’90 ’92 DE

Roshan Palli ’15 AS

Jane C. Pickering ’74 ED

Nicole M. Segneri ’91 CI

Becky L. Spadaccini ’80 AFE

College Representatives

Michelle McDonald ’84 AFE, ’92 ED: Agriculture, Food and Environment

Winn F. Williams ’71 AS: Arts & Sciences

Michael R. Buchanan ’69 ’71 BE: Business & Economics

Jeremy L. Jarvi ’02 CI: Communication & Information

Dr. J. Clifford Lowdenback ’99 AS, ’03 DE: Dentistry G. Haviland Argo III ’03 DES: Design

Cathy Crum Bell ’76 ED: Education

Dominique Renee Wright ’08 EN: Engineering

Joel W. Lovan ’77 FA: Fine Arts

Benjamin D. Gecewich ’03 HS: Health Sciences

Janis E. Clark ’78 GS, ’85 LAW: Law Dr. Debra J. Sowell ’82 MED: Medicine Laura B. Hieronymus ’81 ’15 NUR, ’83 ED: Nursing Lynn Harrelson ’73 PHA: Pharmacy Keith R. Knapp ’78 AS, ’05 PH: Public Health

Willis K. Bright Jr. ’66 SW: Social Work

Appointed

Dr. Michael A. Christian ’76 AS, ’80 DE: Honorary Jo Hern Curris ’63 AS, ’75 LAW: Honorary Katie Eiserman ’01 ED: Athletics

Thomas W. Harris ’85 AS: University Relations

Stan R. Key ’72 ED: Honorary

D. Michael Richey ’74 ’79 AFE: Honorary Marian Moore Sims ’72 ’76 ED: Honorary

Amelia Pace: Student Government Association

From the President

In recent months, our state has witnessed one of the most devastating flooding events in its history. We have expe rienced overwhelming grief for our fellow Kentuckians who will likely feel the catastrophic effects of this tragedy for years to come.

Just as we did in December when tornadoes ravaged en tire communities in western Kentucky, our teams from across campus and our health care system mobilized quickly to support those impacted by the damage.

Where there was a need, there was this institution.

Indeed, we are harnessing this same drive to advance Kentucky and the people we are called to serve — no mat ter the circumstance.

This momentum illuminates a larger truth: the work we do here has never been more important — for the students we educate, the patients we heal and the communities we serve.

We see that in the largest incoming four-year class in the university’s history. Some 6,000 students walked onto cam pus this fall as part of a sustained effort to grown because Kentucky needs us to do so.

In fact, we are on the verge of another historic high in our graduation rate — what will be a decade long trajectory of continued increases in our student success metrics.

We also will be more diverse and welcome more young people from across the country, leaning in to being a com munity that seeks to include everyone and champions and encourages a free exchange of ideas so central to a vibrant community of students and scholars.

It is the same ethos — to grow for Kentucky and to ad vance Kentucky — that pervades everything we do.

This momentum also carries over to the legacy we leave as alumni and family of the university. Our momentum is what distinguishes a UK education.

You will witness this in the following pages, as we cele brate the School of Interiors’ 50th anniversary.

We also recognize the history of Maxwell Place, which has been on UK’s campus for 150 years, serving as the home for many UK presidents.

We highlight the new board of directors for the UK Alum ni Association, as well as the Distinguished Service Award recipients and recent club award winners. I am incredibly grateful to them for their service and contributions to the university and association.

And, in these pages, you will learn about Allen and Leslie Carter, former student-athletes who are now married. Today they manage Silver Springs Farm where they have a vine yard and breed thoroughbreds.

Our goal is to continue to build on the momentum you have helped us create as Kentucky’s university.

But momentum is not inevitable. Progress is not a prom ise. It must be nurtured.

In the coming year, we will look to our alumni and others to hold us accountable for honoring the promise of this place.

It is this shared commitment that makes us who we are — a pipeline for prosperity for the future of this state, nation and world.

Sincerely,

Eli Capilouto President

President Eli Capilouto helps a student move into on-campus housing the week before the fall semester begins.

Photo by Arden Barnes, UK Photo

Pride in Blue

In my remarks at the Alumni Association Summer Workshop where I was elected president of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association, I said that my decision to attend the University of Kentucky was the best decision of my life.

I want to share a bit about why I feel that way.

But first, I want to say how humbled and honored I am to serve in my new role. As a little boy I never imaged going to a univer sity and I certainly never dreamed of being in this position.

I say that my decision to attend the University of Kentucky was the best de cision of my life because it’s where I met my beautiful wife and where I met great friends who I now call family. It is where trailblazers and mentors had a tremendous impact on my life and have guided me to this point. I would be remiss if I did not take the time to thank all those who came and served before me; I want them to also know that when they spoke, I listened, I observed and I was encouraged.

Martin Luther King Jr., said that “Not ev erybody can be famous, but everyone can be great because greatness is determined by service.”

I wholeheartedly believe that. My mom and grandmother built this notion of serv ing people for good into the fabric of my soul.

We live in a world that focuses on and idealizes the famous. We admire people for just being famous. We think that be ing famous equals success. And for some reason, we think being famous brings us value.

Honestly, 10 years from now, I do not think we will remember who the people were who were featured in the “Real Housewives of Atlanta” or which men the Kardashians married this time.

What I believe is that service and the significance of that service is true success and success that will last forever.

We provide significant service in the Alumni Association. We have an opportu nity to make a positive impact on the lives of all alumni and their families in so many ways.

Through scholarships, mentoring, net working opportunities, game day watch parties, tailgating events and so much more, the Alumni Association is engaging alumni from all over the country in every facet of life. Through our leadership we are serving and bringing about amazing change for a lot of people across the globe.

The UK Alumni Association is the begin ning and the end of an alumni’s journey. We provide scholarships to new students, honor them in numerous ways throughout their college career, celebrate them at their graduations and provide support in the next chapter of their lives in their ca reers. I truly believe we are the heartbeat of this university and everything we do, with excellence, is designed to be at the heart of our students.

And, very soon, we will be at the heart of campus with the Rose Street project that you’ll hear more about.

Service is what lasts forever. I look for ward to serving with you.

Go Cats!

Antoine Huffman ’05 CI UK Alumni Association President

UK Alumni Association President Antoine Huffman ‘05 CI poses with Wildcat at the Summer Workshop.

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News

NEW AEROSPACE ENGINEERING DEGREE PROGRAMS APPROVED

The University of Kentucky College of Engineering has been approved by the Council for Postsecondary Education to offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in aerospace engineer ing. The new undergraduate aerospace program is the first of its kind in Kentucky.

“We are gratified to be the only academic institution in the state to offer a degree in aerospace engineering at the under graduate level,” said Rudy Buchheit, the Dr. Rebecca Burchett Liebert Dean of the College of Engineering. “Both programs enable us to take full advantage of the remarkable expertise represented within our faculty.”

Aerospace plays a significant role in Kentucky’s economy. Kentucky’s aerospace exports are the top export in the state and number three in the United States, behind only California and Washington.

According to the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic De velopment, Kentucky exported more than $14.6 billion in aerospace products and parts in 2019. Kentucky is home to 79 aerospace-related facilities that employ over 19,000 people, including General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Belcan Corp., Raytheon, General Dynamics Group, and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. The aerospace program will support Kentucky’s aerospace industry and promote economic development by training proficient aerospace engineers.

“There is a clear need for new graduates trained in aero space engineering to meet industry demand in Kentucky. These new aerospace programs are a natural fit for the University of Kentucky,” said Michael Renfro, Tennessee Valley Authority Professor and Chair of the Mechanical Engineering Department.

STUDENTS MAKING GIN IN REALWORLD DISTILLING EXPERIENCE

Making bourbon is not a quick process. It takes years after distillation to taste the final product.

Students in the Distillation, Wine and Brewing Studies program don’t have years to wait, so professors and industry partners are teaching them to make gin. Stu dents can produce gin in one semester from concept to bottle.

“Making gin allows us to give students some freedom in creativity while still teaching them about distillation,” said Jarrad Gollihue, technical director for the James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits. “RD1 Spirits (a Lexington distillery) approached us about partnering in a hands-on educational experience, and we decided on this gin production class.”

Gin does have a period where it needs to rest a bit before it’s ready for consumption, but Gollihue said that time is much shorter than the multiple years that bourbon requires.

Students have crafted their own recipes using a vari ety of botanicals.

The James B. Beam Institute for Kentucky Spirits ensures the welfare and prosperity of Kentucky’s spirits industry. Through teaching, research and outreach, the institute promotes economic sustainability, environ mental stewardship and responsible consumption.

Gollihue said it is encouraging that businesses in the spirits industry want to collaborate with the Beam Institute.

“There’s quite a learning curve in distilling careers, so having this kind of experience before they graduate will shorten that curve and position students well for moving into a distillation career,” he said. ■

Photo by Matt Barton

Photo courtesy of UK Engineering

HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS WORKING TO HELP FLOODED COMMUNITIES

More than a week into recovery and relief efforts following the devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky, Dr. Key Douthitt ’03 AS, ’08 ’10 MED sums up the experience with two words: “I’m exhausted.”

Douthitt is the medical director for UK HealthCare’s North Fork Valley Clinic in the hard-hit city of Hazard. He considers himself one of the lucky ones.

“My wife told me this morning, think how exhausted you would be if you didn’t have a home, you didn’t have electricity, you didn’t have a car,” he said. “So, at the end of the day, whatever I’m going through is small in comparison to what a lot of our neigh bors are.”

Portions of communities were virtu ally wiped away by the flood waters in late July, with some homes being swept off their foundations and car ried away. Along with family keepsakes, many residents are also left without crucial items like lifesaving medica tions, identification and insurance cards, glasses, dentures and canes.

BRENDA GOSNEY APPOINTED TO REPRESENT ALUMNI ON BOARD OF TRUSTEES

UK HealthCare’s mobile care unit in Hazard, Kentucky, is offering basic wound care and vaccinations. Team members are also handing out backpacks with supplies for flood survivors.

Health care workers are working tirelessly to try to meet the growing list of needs.

UK HealthCare operates two clinics in the impacted areas. The North Fork Valley Clinic in Hazard is still opera tional. The June Buchanan Clinic in the Knott County community of Hindman experienced significant flooding.

With support from UK’s Center of Excellence in Rural Health (CERH) the staff from those two clinics as well as volunteers have spent days in the com munity offering aid. They have been a shining example of what a community health care worker is.

Rescue teams have needed to find

Gov. Andy Beshear has appointed Brenda Baker Gosney to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees repre senting UK alumni. She replaces Mi chael A. Christian whose term expired June 30, 2022. Gosney’s term runs through June 30, 2028.

Gosney joins two other alumni-elect ed trustees: Rachel Watts Webb, whose term expires in 2024, and Paula Pope, whose term expires in 2026. Dr. Thom as G. Abell and K. Lance Lucas were also newly appointed to the Board of Trustees effective July 1, 2022.

Gosney lives in Campbell County, Kentucky, and received a Bachelor of Health Science degree in physi cal therapy in 1970 and a Master of Science in Education degree in higher and adult education in 1975, both from the University of Kentucky. She spent her professional career in health care in

creative ways to provide help for some hard-to-reach areas. CERH Director Fran Feltner ’13 NUR noted that one of their mobile teams was unable to reach someone in need even on an ATV — so they instead got to the person and delivered necessary supplies by horseback.

“That is what we do here. You go out into these communities, and you just see the absolute devastation,” said Douthitt. “We were out the other day and came across a man who was all cut up. It was because he was out looking for his wife’s body. When you see that stuff, you just know we need to do ev erything we can for these people.” ■

Kentucky and Ohio retiring as chief ex ecutive officer of HealthSouth Northern Kentucky Rehabilitation Hospital, now Encompass Health.

Early in her career, Gosney was on the faculty at UK in the College of Health Sciences Physical Therapy Program. She has been on the board of directors of the UK Alumni Association for 18 years and served as president for the 2013-2014 term. She is chairwoman of the Alumni Center Committee.

She is a past president of the North ern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati UK Alumni Club and is on the advisory council of the board of directors. She is a 2010 recipient of the UK Alumni As sociation Distinguished Service Award. Gosney is a member of Women and Philanthropy, Wildcat Society, a McVey Fellow, and is a Life Member of the UK Alumni Association.

Photo by Hilary Brown, UK HealthCare

COLLEGE OF SOCIAL WORK GRADUATES GROUND-BREAKING GROUP

The College of Social Work has made history. Of the college’s graduating doctorate students this spring, 23 of 72 are Black students, including three Black men. The graduates represent the most Black doctors to ever graduate from a single discipline at the University of Kentucky.

“We literally made history,” said Sharrion Brown, a member of the inaugural class from the Doctor of Social Work program. “And that’s not something I’m used to. I’m the first person in my immediate family to graduate college, let alone get this far.”

The students graduated from the online program in two years, meaning they went to school full-time while working. The program was launched in 2020. Many of the graduates are also parents.

“I have two children, so I hope one day they can see this and think they’re proud their mother was a part of this,” said Brittany Gentry, a class member.

According to UK, the groundbreaking representation in the class will make a difference in

a field that’s historically made up of white women.

“It’s hard to become what you don’t see,” said Laura Escobar-Ratliff, the DSW program director. “And we are providing opportunities for children to see themselves.”

“We deal with diverse communities,” said Jay Miller, the dean of the College of Social Work. “And it is extremely important practitioners reflect those communities.”

A 2017 survey from the National Association of Social Workers found nearly

70% of social workers are white. A recent study from the Bureau of Labor Statistics found a 16% increase in the need for social workers nationwide, and of demand, are social workers with advanced education.

“Being able to complete my degree online was very important to me. I’m a fulltime employee, a wife and a mother,” said Brown. “I knew coming into the program that I didn’t want to sacrifice time with my family. The DSW allowed me to remain present with my family.” ■

UK NAMED TO FORBES LIST OF BEST EMPLOYERS FOR WOMEN 2022

The University of Kentucky has been named to the Forbes list of America’s Best Employers for Women. This is the university’s first year on the list — appearing as number 88 out of 400 companies. UK is among the top 10 companies in the education space.

Providing a culture dedicated to mentorship and professional development, UK works tirelessly to create pathways for empowerment and leadership for all staff and faculty.

“As a female executive, I’m proud the university is a leader in this space,” said Gina Dugas, UK associate vice president for finance and administration and acting vice president and chief human resources officer. “This latest recognition from

Forbes affirms our efforts to be an employer of choice for the very best faculty and staff.”

The best employers for women were chosen based on an independent survey of 50,000 employees currently employed at companies with at least 1,000 workers in their U.S. operations.

“This significant recognition for the university reflects the strong and continued support that I’ve received as a leader and a woman throughout my time at the institution,” said J. Kirsten Turner, UK vice president for student success.

In addition to this recognition, UK was recently named a best employer for new graduates, a best employer for diversity and a best employer in the state by Forbes. ■

Photo courtesy of Creative Visions.

Research

PORTAL CONNECTS UK TO INDUSTRY, GLOBAL RESEARCH COMMUNITY

A new online portal, Scholars@UK, will facilitate access to research expertise and innovation at Kentucky’s flagship land-grant institution. The portal is open to the public.

“Scholars@UK will allow the Univer sity of Kentucky to share with the world what we already know: UK scientists and scholars are moving their fields forward, asking the most challenging questions, making new discoveries and solving the toughest problems facing our state and the world,” said UK President Eli Capilouto.

RESEARCH IN DE-ESCALATING TRAINING RECEIVES GRANT

For police officers, de-escalation training is critical because it can greatly reduce the use of force and the likelihood that anyone will be hurt during a confrontation.

But preparing for a peaceful end can be challenging when officers can find themselves in a variety of scenarios.

That’s where Stephen Ware, assistant professor in the College of Engineer ing at the University of Kentucky, comes in.

“We’re trying to use technology to do something good, to create intelligent training for de-escalation with the purpose of calming everyone down and creating a safe environment for police officers and the community they serve,” he said.

For his project titled, “Structured High-Agency Interactive Narratives for Virtual Environments,” Ware is the recipient of the National Science Founda tion’s (NSF) prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Ware, who started at UK in 2019, directs the Narrative Intelligence Lab and teaches artificial intelligence and game development courses, will receive more than $530,000 over five years to conduct research using artificial intelligence and virtual reality to create immersive police training for de-escalation.

“This grant is allowing us to build a virtual reality police de-escalation training simulation, which is a lot of buzzwords. But basically, you walk into a big empty space, you put on a virtual reality headset that blocks out your vision of the out side world and replaces it with the inside of a video game,” he explained. “In this scenario, you’re the police officer, and it’s your job to de-escalate a poten tially dangerous situation.”

Developed through a partnership be tween Elsevier Research Intelligence, the Office of the Vice President for Research, Research Analytics, and Research Infor mation Services, Scholars@UK highlights the breadth and depth of research at UK through individual researcher profiles, network analysis and direct access to research output and resources.

Through Scholars@UK connectivity features, researchers can increase op portunities for collaboration within UK’s research ecosystem and with colleagues at other institutions around the world.

Vice President for Research Lisa Cassis said, “This portal will allow researchers around the world and across different sectors of industry to find specific exper tise and connect with UK scholars.”

Photos by Ben Corwin, UK Research Communications

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Another academic year at the University of Kentucky is off to a great start. For many of the university’s new students and their families, the assimilation from high school to college was made much easier thanks to UK Alumni Association Clubs that hosted Student Send-Off celebrations.

From New York City to Christian County, Nashville to San Diego, our clubs sent off new students in typical Wildcat style, sharing tips for campus living, introducing them to fellow classmates and alumni and welcoming them to the Big Blue family.

Thanks to these clubs for giving these future alumni such wonderful sendoffs: Big Sandy, Central Ohio, Central Virginia, Chattanooga, Chicagoland, Christian County, Cumberland Valley East, Daviess County, Fulton County, Greater Ashland, Greater Atlanta, Greater Charlotte, Greater Dayton, Greater Louisville, Greater New York City, Greater Nashville, Hardin County, Nation’s Capital, Northern Kentucky/Greater Cincinnati, Northeast Ohio, Northwest Ohio, Upstate South Carolina.

The Chicagoland UK Alumni Club Student SendOff was held at Frontier Park in Naperville, Illinois.

The Northwest Ohio UK Alumni Club Student SendOff was at the clubhouse at The Villas in Findlay, Ohio.

The Chattanooga UK Alumni Club Student Send-Off was at Goodfellas Pizzeria in Chattanooga.

The Daviess County UK Alumni Club Student SendOff was held at Hill View Farms Market in Owensboro, Kentucky.

The Greater New York City UK Alumni Club Student Send-Off was at Jack Demsey’s in New York City.

The Big Sandy UK Alumni Club Student Send-Off was at the Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonsburg, Kentucky.

The Greater Atlanta UK Alumni Club Student Send-Off was at Hudson Grille in Sandy Springs, Georgia.

The Christian County UK Alumni Club Student Send-Off was at Planters Bank Latham Building in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Legacies in Interior Design

The School of Interiors celebrates its 50th anniversary this year

By Sally Scherer

Ashlyn Jones credits her advisors and a close-knit faculty with her success at the College of Design.

The 2019 graduate who has put her skills to work at DZN Home + Studio in Greenville, South Carolina as an associate designer and social media manager, was applying to schools in South Carolina when the college planner her parents hired asked her for five possible colleges she was interested in attending. Her fifth was UK.

“In a weird way it just all fell into place,” Jones said.

Her fifth choice didn’t mean she didn’t want to come to UK. Af ter all, her parents are UK graduates. Her dad, Clay Jones, gradu ated with a degree in architecture in 1990. He’s now a principal at Century 3 Inc., in Greenville. Her mom, Tanya Jones, graduated in 1987 with a degree in housing and interior design and works as the director of sales at Bonitz, a specialty trade commercial contractor. They met when Clay was a teaching assistant in one of Tanya’s classes.

“We had mutual friends and we were both from Lexington, but I always tell people we met when he was my teacher,” she said with a laugh.

As proud UK graduates, her parents influenced Ashlyn, but UK’s application policy that is based on a holistic review of grades, test scores and other academic achievements such as the portfolio she’d created helped her choose UK. Ultimately, she graduated summa cum laude and received several scholarships because of her studio work.

“She found her people and her place in her freshman year at UK,” said Tanya about her daughter. “The College of Design is small enough not to be overwhelming.”

Ashlyn agreed.

“The place for advising, they helped me pick classes and it was so awesome. I was trying to figure out what to take and they were happy to see me and to help. What I wanted was very important to them,” she said.

That feeling of belonging followed through her years at the College of Design, she said.

“I looked forward to going to the studio and working. I was

excited to be with the students and the close-knit professors. I felt recognized and that my vision was recognized,” she said adding that the opportunity to take trips outside of the classroom includ ing being able to study aboard was also important to her.

Those opportunities were important to her parents, too. Tanya said the education she received at UK provided her with “an elevated experience in comparison to some of the alternatives. It’s a rich, research-based institution in practicum.”

For Clay, the high quality of architecture faculty including Clyde Carpenter, Jose Oubrerie and Mark O’Bryan greatly influ enced him.

And Ashlyn felt equally as inspired.

“I was surrounded by a motivational community, lots of ener gy,” said Ashlyn. “The people are loving and supportive. It felt like nothing I had experienced before.”

Ashlyn Jones with her parents Tanya and Clay Jones. The three are proud graduates of UK.

‘She Found Her People.’ College of Design Legacy Found Home at UK

Two Different Career Paths: Sisters Share UK Influence

job,” she said. In her current job she uses research to understand users and user experiences. Through that she helps design new opportunities for brands and consumers. She uses design to help enhance digital and physical experiences.

With her new degree in interior design, Butler just started working for Adamick Architecture in New Orleans. The firm’s focus is on historic properties, historic rehab and adaptive reuse of historic properties. She’s already working on a project that the skills she learned at UK prepared her for, especially when it comes to specific design and blueprint programs like Enscape.

Both young women were born in Lexington. But their experi ences selecting a college was quite different. Chelsea said her fam ily made multiple trips to college campuses. “We went all over the place,” she said. But the design program at UK was better than the others she saw.

Chelsea was able to travel to Brazil as a design student and gained a lot from her visit. She described the experience as “eye opening.”

Sisters Chelsea Lyle and Katie Butler didn’t realize the influ ence design had on their upbringing until they stopped and thought about it.

Their dad, Shane Lyle ’83 DES, is an architect and he instilled an eye for architecture and design in them without them even realizing, they said.

“He has a keen eye and when we think about getting him any thing we really think about his style,” said Chelsea Lyle ’13 DES. “Even when he’s raking leaves, he has a certain style about.”

Katie Butler ‘22 DES laughed at her sister’s observation but then added, “It’s so true, and we didn’t realize it when it was hap pening. It was so subtle and so strong at the same time,” she said.

The influence of that style has impacted the sisters in their college choice, their career choice and their talent in the world of design.

Chelsea works as a design manager for Doblin, part of Deloitte, a business consulting firm. She works in service design and design thinking, not exactly what she thought she would be doing when she graduated with a degree in interior design.

“You can start in one industry and segue into another. The skillset I learned at UK has grown and helped me in my current

Butler was unable to travel because of the COVID-19 pandem ic. But she agreed that selecting UK for her design education was impactful. Although she originally went to college to major in biology, after two years working toward that degree, she decided it was not for her.

“I guess I was influenced by my dad, again. And I wanted to stay close to family,” she said.

Chelsea interrupted.

“You have always been designerly. You’ve always had the knack,” she said to her sister. “Your room in high school was so clean and so perfectly arranged, so feng shui.”

Butler responded, “But your room was so aesthetically pleas ing,” she said. “You are much more artistically talented and you’re such a strategic thinker. She has a talent for making things livable and beautiful at the same time”

Though their talent and careers may be sightly different, the influence UK’s College of Design had on them is evident.

Said Chelsea, “UK made time and space for me. And they’re committed to student success. And the quality of work they pro duce is very high.”

Sisters Katie Butler and Chelsea Lyle are using their interior design degrees in very different careers. But they agree their UK experiences prepared them well.

Representatives take part in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the new Gray Design Building at UK. From left: Eric Monday, Bob Hafferman, Kevin Atkins, Jim Gray, Robert DiPaola, Don Witt, Robert Vance, Mitzi Vernon, Juliane Wolf and Jeanne Gang.

A $5.25 MILLION GIFT FROM GRAY INC., AND MEMBERS OF THE GRAY FAMILY WILL HELP TRANSFORM A 100-YEAROLD TOBACCO WAREHOUSE INTO A 21ST CENTURY DESIGN SCHOOL.

On August 8, the University of Kentucky held a ceremonial groundbreaking for the College of Design’s (CoD) new home — the Gray Design Building. Previously the Reynolds Building — a former tobacco warehouse that has been empty for several years — the new facility will house CoD’s five programs, in addition to landscape architecture and biomedical engineering studio, creating the first space where the college’s students, faculty, staff and programs will be housed in one location.

“Across our campus, classrooms, residential areas and research spaces are changing to meet the demands of a 21st century living and learning experience,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “The Gray Design Building will serve as a

critical nexus between the UK campus and the larger community, enhancing what we do academically, in service to our state and as a symbol of inextricable links between the university and the city of Lexington.”

The transformation is being made possible by a gift of $5.25 million from Gray Inc., which includes companies related to engineering, design, construction, automation, equipment manufacturing and real estate, and members of the Gray family. The family has deep roots in Lexington and the Commonwealth and is recognized as an industry leader in design-build. Part of the Gray gift includes a portion dedicated to a design-build program within the School of Architecture.

In addition to the Gray gift, the building was made possible by a collaborative effort of more than 75 gifts to date, ranging from studio desk sponsorships to the naming of major spaces.

“At the heart of who we are and what we do is the foundation our parents instilled of giving back — giving back to the communities where we live and where we build. This value has been a touchstone for more than 60 years,” said

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Jim Gray, chairman of Gray Inc. “This is a generational opportunity for us to give back to a college that has meant so much to our family and team members.”

The move will allow for even greater collaboration between the college and other programs across the campus, including Landscape Architecture, which will co-habitate with CoD in the new structure, and Biomedical Engineering, which will share studio space and curriculum with the new Product Design program. In collaboration with UK’s College of Engineering and the Gatton College of Business and Economics, the CoD will also work with faculty leadership to establish a nationally recognized design-build curriculum.

“In the Gray Design Building, the College of Design will finally be housed in one common space,” said Mitzi Vernon, dean of the UK College of Design.

“In the wide open, newly appointed warehouse I imagine students, from seven different disciplines surrounded by their neighbor’s innovation as they walk through the building — ‘polycultural.’”

The project was designed by internationally renowned architecture practice Studio Gang over the last several years, and when complete, will represent

Photo by Arden Barnes, UK Photo

one of the most significant examples on the UK campus of “adaptive reuse” — an approach to architecture that creatively repurposes existing buildings for new purposes.

Construction is scheduled for completion by the end of 2023.

The CoD currently offers eight degrees, graduate and undergraduate, and five certificates. To date, there are almost 3,500 alumni of the college.

Learn more about the CoD’s new home at https://design.uky.edu/newbuilding.

ABOUT STUDIO GANG

Most Innovative Architecture Companies, Studio Gang is headquartered in Chicago with offices in New York, San Francisco and Paris.

ABOUT GRAY

“By reimagining a 100-year-old tobacco warehouse into a 21st century design school, the Gray Design Building embodies the creativity that all design students will be learning to harness while they are at the University of Kentucky,” said Jeanne Gang, the founding principal and partner of Studio Gang. “By starting with what’s there, our design pays tribute to the history of the university’s campus while minimizing the environmental impact of the project to help prepare for its future.”

Studio Gang is an international architecture and urban design practice founded and led by Jeanne Gang. Driven by an ethos of actionable idealism, the studio uses a research-based design process to create striking places that build stronger relationships between people, their communities and the natural environment. The studio’s award-winning work ranges from community centers and cultural institutions such as Writers Theatre to tall buildings like Aqua Tower and Solar Carve that foster community. Upcoming projects include an expansion to the American Museum of Natural History; a new United States Embassy in Brazil; a unified campus for California College of the Arts and the Global Terminal at O’Hare International Airport. Regularly named one of Fast Company’s

Gray Inc. is the guiding company for 12 separate Gray operating companies. These 12 Gray companies have a strategic presence in select locations in North America and Europe individually or collectively providing engineering, design and construction, along with digital, equipment manufacturing and real estate services. Consistently ranked as a leader in the industry, Gray focuses on the following markets for domestic and international customers: Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Automotive, Distribution, Mission Critical and Commercial. Founded in 1960, Gray’s robust offering enables the company to create one-of-a-kind solutions at the highest levels of customization, delivering unmatched precision and partnership to some of the world’s most sophisticated organizations. For more information on Gray, visit www.gray.com and follow @ Gray. ■

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A small-scale replica of the Gray Design Building.

UK HealthCare, Markey Cancer Center and Markey Cancer Foundation leadership celebrated the new $5 million gift from the Farish Fund at an event on June 1.

THE DONATION WILL BE CELEBRATED WITH A NAMED SPACE INSIDE THE NEW MARKEY CANCER CENTER MULTIDISCIPLINARY BUILDING’S UROLOGIC CANCER CLINIC, SLATED TO OPEN IN 2025.

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The University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has received a $5 million gift to establish the Ambassador William Stamps Farish Program of Excellence in Urologic Cancer. The gift was formally accepted by the UK Board of Trustees in June.

Given from the William Stamps Farish Fund through the Markey Cancer Foundation, the $5 million donation will be celebrated with named space inside the new Markey Cancer Center Multidisciplinary Building’s Urologic Cancer Clinic, slated to open in 2025.

“Philanthropy is crucial for us to reach our goals, and I’m incredibly grateful for this new gift from the Farish Fund,” said Mark Evers, M.D., director of the UK Markey Cancer Center. “This funding will specifically help us address an alltoo-common problem in our state — our high rates of prostate, kidney and bladder cancer.”

Overall, Kentucky faces disproportionately high rates of cancer incidence and death compared to the rest of the U.S. Also known as genitourinary cancers, urologic cancers make up three of the top 10 most commonly diagnosed cancers in the state: prostate (#3), kidney (#6) and bladder (#7). According to the American Cancer Society, there will be an estimated 6,470 new diagnoses of these three cancers combined in 2022 alone. Kentucky’s high rates of urologic cancers are correlated with socioeconomic factors including obesity and tobacco use.

Previous gifts to the UK Department of Urology from the Farish Fund supported the recruitment of physicians and researchers, helping to grow UK’s program. UK urologist Stephen Strup, the James F. Glenn, M.D. Endowed Chair in Urology and chair of the Department of Urology, has been treating patients at UK HealthCare for 19 years.

Markey Cancer Center Director Mark Evers and Markey Cancer Foundation board member Sally Humphrey at the Farish Fund gift announcement June 1, 2022.

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“I want to thank the Farish family for their continued, generous support to our program over the years,” Strup said. “With this new funding, we’ll focus on recruiting more faculty and supporting new research into the prevention and treatment of these cancers.”

“We have all been touched, in some way, by the scourge of cancer,” said UK President Eli Capilouto. “Citizens across the Commonwealth and beyond turn to us — the University for Kentucky — for compassionate care and solutions to the most complex problems. I firmly believe that this new partnership holds such great promise for this state and those we serve. Thank you to the Farish family for making that possible.”

The UK Markey Cancer Center now serves one of every two cancer patients in Kentucky and is a destination regionally for patients with more complex conditions. Since becoming the state’s only National Cancer Institutedesignated Cancer Center in 2013, Markey has seen its patient volume double, and it has launched two major new initiatives in personalized cancer care: the Molecular Tumor Board, which uses genetic analyses to help Markey physicians and researchers determine the best possible treatment for each individual patient, and the Precision Medicine Clinic, home to the latest early phase clinical trials not widely available elsewhere. Currently, more than a dozen

UK HealthCare urologist

Stephen Strup, the James F.Glenn, M.D. Endowed Chair in Urology and chair of the Department of Urology, spoke about the Farish family’s legacy of support over the years for urologic treatment and research at UK.

Phase I and Phase II clinical trials for urologic cancers are available at this clinic.

“At UK HealthCare, we pride ourselves on giving patients options that they can’t find anywhere else in Kentucky,” said Mark F. Newman, UK executive vice president for health affairs. “It’s our goal that no Kentuckian should have to leave the state for health care. Funding from generous donors like the Farish family helps us make that a reality.”

The William Stamps Farish Fund has contributed generously to the University of Kentucky for many years. With this gift, the fund has given $9.3 million to support medical, equine and athletics initiatives at UK to date.

“The burden of cancer in Kentucky is immense, and we have watched and been inspired by the Markey Cancer Center’s capacity to provide advanced care to so many people in the Commonwealth,” said William S. Farish, who is a trustee for the Markey Cancer Foundation. “We want to give Kentuckians their best chance at a long and healthy life, and this gift will provide more resources for patients, including more providers and improved access to the latest early phase clinical trials, as close to home as possible.”

EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS

2022 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNERS

Each year, the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Distinguished Service Awards and Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award are presented to honor those who have provided extraordinary service to the university and the association. The 2022 recipients were honored at the association’s annual Summer Workshop in Lexington. Thanks for all you do.

LINDA B. GORTON

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNER

Linda B. Gorton is the Mayor of the City of Lexington. She is the longest continuously serving member of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council, serving her first term as Mayor, after winning 63% of the vote in 2018. She has fostered town and gown relations throughout her political career. She is the first nurse to be Mayor, leading a city with more than 320,000 residents. She is a member of College of Nursing’s Dean’s Advisory Board. In 2017, she established the Linda Bowers Gorton Military/Veteran Nursing Scholarship in honor of her husband, Major General (RET.) Charles E. Gorton, who served his country for 39 ½ years. The Gorton scholarship supports a bachelor of science in nursing student who is a member in good standing of UK’s ROTC programs, veteran of the U.S. Military or a member of the Active Guard or Reserve. She and Charlie are proud UK alumni from the Classes of 1971 and 1970, respectively. Linda was a member of the Golden Wildcat Reunion Committee, and they were both an integral part of the success of last year’s joint Golden Wildcat reunion. They are the parents of two adult children and five grandchildren.

JAY T. HORNBACK

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNER

Jay T. Hornback lives in San Diego, California. He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the College of Engineering in 2004. He is an out-of-state representative on the Leadership Advisory Council and has served one term on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is a solution architect for a software company. He has volunteered with the University of Kentucky College of Engineering Career Development Office conducting resume reviews and mock interviews. He was a founding member of the San Diego University of Kentucky Alumni Club and has served as club president. He is currently the club treasurer.

D. MICHAEL RICHEY

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNER

D. Michael Richey, a resident of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, received a bachelor’s degree in agriculture in 1973 and a master’s degree in 1979. He retired in January 2022 as Vice President of Philanthropy and Alumni Engagement, which culminated a 48-year career at the University of Kentucky. Under his leadership, UK Philanthropy was recognized as a Top 50 Philanthropy program in 2019 by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his non-profit work. He is past president of Gideons International (2001-2004) organized in 200 countries. He is also past president of the National Association of Agriculture and Development Association, past president of the Kentucky FFA Foundation and numerous other organizations. He is a Life Member of the UK Alumni Association, a UK Fellow, a recipient of the Sullivan Medallion and recently had the newly endowed Founders Day Endowment created in his honor. He is a native of Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. He and his wife, Susan, have two children (Paul and Sarah) and six grandchildren.

QUENTIN R. TYLER

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD WINNER

Quentin R. Tyler lives in East Lansing, Michigan. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 2002 and a master’s degree in 2005 in agriculture economics from the College of Agriculture, Food & Environment and a doctorate in sociology in 2011 from the College of Arts & Sciences. He served two terms on the University of Kentucky Alumni Association Board of Directors. He was named director of Michigan State University Extension in 2021 and is also associate dean and director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He is the president of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food & Environment Alumni Association, advisory chair of the national board of Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences and a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.

CASSIDY M. HYDE

JOSEPH T. BURCH YOUNG ALUMNI AWARD RECIPIENT

Cassidy M. Hyde is executive director at the Young Professionals Association of Louisville (YPAL). She has served on the Advancement Team at Make-A-Wish, a passion and connection she found during her time at the University of Kentucky. She is a 2016 UK graduate with a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and minor in economics and has completed the Ignite Louisville and Focus Louisville programs with the Leadership Louisville Center and the Emerging Leaders Program with YPAL. Originally from Henderson, Kentucky, she currently serves as the Young Alumni President for the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club and as a board member and ambassador for the Kentucky Derby Festival, Kids Cancer Alliance, Leadership Louisville Center and Greater Louisville Inc. She is a camp counselor for one week in the summer with some of Kentucky’s strongest kids and is a proud dog mom to her adopted Border Collie, Cooper.

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LEADING US FORWARD

The University of Kentucky Alumni Association recently announced its 2022-2023 Board of Directors’ officers during its annual Summer Workshop. This year’s officers are Antoine Huffman, president; Janie C. McKenzie-Wells, president-elect; Robert “Rob” Crady III, treasurer; and Jill H. Smith, secretary. The new slate will serve until June 30, 2023.

Antoine Huffman of Prosper, Texas, graduated in 2005 with his bachelor’s degree in telecommunications. While at UK, he was a three-year starter for the Wildcats football team, becoming a UK NCAA record holder. He was also a member of the UK Athletic Association Board of Directors. He served as the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee president, as chairman for the UK Athletics Outreach Committee and was a member of the ODK National Leadership Honor Society. In 2005, Huffman became the first Black crowned UK Homecoming King. Huffman has served as chairman for the Membership, Communications, Club Development, Nominating for Board of Directors, Finance & Investments and Governance committees within the UK Alumni Association. He served as president of the Greater Nashville UK Alumni Club and served as the association’s treasurer this past year. He is a past recipient of the Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award. He is senior director, regional sales for Mizuho OSI, a medical equipment provider. He and his wife, Jessica Kibbe Huffman, who is a UK College of Education graduate, are Life Members of the UK Alumni Association. They have two sons, Jayden and Adonis.

ANTOINE HUFFMAN

JANIE C. MCKENZIE-WELLS PRESIDENT-ELECT

Janie C. McKenzie-Wells of Staffordsville, Kentucky, graduated in 1983 from the UK College of Arts and Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in political science. She earned a law degree in 1986 from the UK J. David Rosenberg College of Law. She is a certified general civil and family law mediator. She was also the first woman elected as 24th Circuit Family Court Judge. McKenzieWells served on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors for several years as a representative from District VIII and the UK J. David Rosenberg College of Law and has been chairman and vice chairman of numerous committees. She is an active member and officer of the Big Sandy UK Alumni Club. McKenzie-Wells is a member of the UK Alumni Band and served as president and member of the UK Alumni Band Board. She received the 2006 UK Alumni Association Distinguished Service Award and the 2017 UK Law Alumni Association Distinguished Jurist Alumni Award. She is a member of UK Women & Philanthropy. She and her husband, Frank, have a daughter, Dr. Katherine Wells, a recent graduate of the UK College of Medicine.

Robert “Rob” Crady III of Louisville, Kentucky, received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Kentucky in 1993. During his time at UK, he served as a member of the Freshman Representative Council and various other positions with the Student Government Association. Crady received the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor designation from the American Bankers Association. He began his career with Fifth Third Bank’s Trust Department in Lexington, later moving to Louisville to work in the Trust Departments of Stock Yards Bank and National City Bank before returning to Lexington to manage National City’s Lexington Trust Department. Crady is a director with RW Baird (formerly Hilliard Lyons) and a founding member of the Wealth & Family Office Group. He has served on the board of directors of the Bingham Child Guidance Center and is currently on the Board of Directors of the Cabbage Patch Settlement House and Nativity Academy at St. Boniface. He is married to Holly Harris Crady, a 1997 graduate from the Gatton College of Business, and they have two children, Robbie and Abby.

ROBERT “ROB” L. CRADY III TREASURER

JILL H. SMITH

SECRETARY

Jill H. Smith of Lexington, Kentucky earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and management from the University of Kentucky in 2005 and a master’s degree in career, technical and leadership education from the University of Kentucky in 2011. She began working at the UK Alumni Association in 2006 as a program coordinator and held four other positions at the association before becoming executive director in February 2020. She also serves as associate vice president for alumni engagement. She has been an active volunteer with the Council for Advancement and Support of Education at the state and district level. She is an advisor to the Delta Rho chapter of Delta Delta Delta, an active participant in Lexington area Tri-Delta alumni activities and is a Class of 2022 member of Leadership Kentucky. She is a Life Member of the UK Alumni Association, a UK Fellow and serves on several university committees. She and her husband, Ryan, who is a 2004 UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment graduate, have two children, Tanner and Emmy.

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WHO’S NEWLY ELECTED?

These alumni were recently elected to the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors and Leadership Advisory Council for the very first time. They are dedicated to carrying out the missions of the association and the University of Kentucky.

ERIN N. LOGAN

OUT OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

TERM: JULY 1, 2022-JUNE 30, 2025

FRESH FACES

Erin N. Logan lives in Park City, Utah. She earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the Gatton College of Business & Economics in 2006. She restarted the Pacific Northwest UK Alumni Club and served as its president for five years. Under her leadership, the club started a scholarship fund and expanded alumni activities to western Washington, Oregon and Idaho. She serves on the Gatton Emerging Leaders Board as the chair of the philanthropy committee. She is the 2020 Joseph T. Burch Young Alumni Award winner. She is a legacy student and her husband Mark is a 2008 alumnus.

SYLVESTER MILLER

OUT OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

TERM: JULY 1, 2022- JUNE 30, 2025

Sylvester Miller lives in Somerville, Tennessee. He is a 2008 graduate of the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural economics. He is a crop technology market manager. He serves as the vice president of the UK Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences Alumni Association and is the MANRRS representative on the UK College of Agriculture, Food & Environment Alumni Association.

ALLEN O. WILSON

IN-STATE REPRESENTATIVE, BOARD OF DIRECTORS

TERM: JULY 1, 2022- JUNE 30, 2025

Allen O. Wilson lives in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. He earned a bachelor’s degree in agriculture, education, communication and leadership from the College of Agriculture, Food & Environment in 2003 and a law degree from the J. David Rosenberg College of Law in 2006. He is a member of Wilson Law Firm, PLLC and is the Livingston County Attorney. He was recognized in 2017 by the UK Department of Community and Leadership Development as an Outstanding Alumni.

CHRISTOPHER J. CRUMRINE

IN-STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL

TERM: JULY 1, 2022-JUNE 30, 2024

Christopher J. Crumrine lives in Lexington, Kentucky. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mass communication and political science from the College of Communication and Information in 2008 and a MPA from the Martin School of Public Policy and Administration in 2010. Crumrine is the director of state and federal relations for the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment. Prior to this, he served in various roles in the UK Office of the President under President Eli Capilouto and former President Lee T. Todd, Jr. He has been a board member of the Fayette County UK Alumni Club and was Young Alumni Club president.

JAMES F. HARDYMON JR.

OUT OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL

TERM: JULY 1, 2022-JUNE 30, 2024

James F. Hardymon Jr. lives in Atlanta, Georgia, but is originally from Maysville, Kentucky. He graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1987 with a bachelor’s of business administration degree from the Gatton College of Business & Economics. He is currently the vice president of business and finance at Georgia Gwinnett College in Lawrenceville, Georgia. He has spent the last 28 years of his career working in higher education financial management. He is a member of the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Earlier in his career he served as Chief Financial Officer for the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.

FRESH FACES

MARK A. ISON

OUT OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL

TERM: JULY 1, 2022- JUNE 30, 2024

Mark A. Ison lives in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated summa cum laude as a Singletary Scholar in the Honors Program from the University of Kentucky in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in music. He is a partner with Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison, PLC, where he practices in the areas of healthcare law, corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, and he has served as an adjunct instructor at the Belmont University College of Law. His parents and his wife graduated from the University of Kentucky. In recent years, he has been named as one of the Nashville Business Journal’s “Best of the Bar” and as a “Mid-South Super Lawyer” in healthcare law.

ROSHAN PALLI

OUT OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL

TERM: JULY 1, 2022- JUNE 30, 2024

Roshan Palli lives in Chicago, Illinois. He is a 2015 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences with a bachelor of science in mathematics and economics. He was president of the Student Government Association from 2013-2014 and was on the homecoming court. He is the president of the UK Delta Sigma Phi Alumni Association and he regularly participates in Chicagoland UK Alumni Club events. He is a consultant with Bain & Co., a global management consulting firm.

NICOLE M. SEGNERI

OUT OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE, LEADERSHIP ADVISORY COUNCIL

TERM: JULY 1, 2022- JUNE 30, 2024

Nicole M. Segneri lives in Lucas, Texas. She graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1991 from the College of Communications with a bachelor’s degree. She manages the family business, a backcountry cabin in Telluride, Colorado. She and her husband, UK graduate Michael Bowling are University of Kentucky Fellows. While living in Lexington, she also volunteered as an advisor for Chi Omega for five years. Her daughter has carried on her legacy at the University of Kentucky studying electrical engineering, and she hopes to continue the Wildcat legacy with her two younger children as well.

OUTGOING BOARD MEMBERS

Thanks to these board members for all their hard work. From left to right: Robert Price Atkinson, Dr. Michael A. Christian, Robert “Rob” L. Crady III, Susan L. Liszeski, William M. Corum, Kendra Lorene Wadsworth, Kevin L. Collins, Marianne Smith Edge, Vicki S. Hiestand, Mary L. Shelman, Chad D. Polk and Dr. Mark Myers.

ALUMNI CLUBS HONORED FOR GOOD WORK

The clubs of the UK Alumni Association serve a critical role in the mission of the UK Alumni Association.

That mission, to engage, connect, serve and celebrate alumni and friends of the university, was celebrated at the annual Summer Workshop in June.

The clubs work hard to bring together alumni in their local communities to demonstrate their love and support for their alma mater through events and activities throughout the year.

Some of these events include game watch parties, group outings, social and professional networking events, service projects, book awards, scholarship fundraising, student sendoffs and more.

The UK Alumni Association recognized many of its outstanding clubs at the Alumni Service Awards and Club Awards dinner during the association’s annual Summer Workshop on Friday, June 17, held this year at the Lexington Marriott City Center.

Awards were given to in-state and out-of-state alumni clubs in the following six categories — Alumni Engagement, Scholarships, Service, Student Recruitment, New and Creative Programming and Most Improved — and determined by the Past Presidents’ Advisory Council.

The following clubs were recognized for outstanding contributions in one or more categories:

IN-STATE AWARDS:

GREATER ASHLAND: STUDENT RECRUITMENT

BIG SANDY: STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE CHRISTIAN COUNTY: SCHOLARSHIPS

CLARK COUNTY: SCHOLARSHIPS

CUMBERLAND VALLEY EAST: SCHOLARSHIPS, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICES, MOST IMPROVED DAVIESS COUNTY: STUDENT RECRUITMENT

FAYETTE COUNTY: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, SERVICE, NEW AND CREATIVE PROGRAMMING

FULTON COUNTY: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT HARDIN COUNTY: SERVICE HOPKINS COUNTY: SCHOLARSHIPS

GREATER LOUISVILLE: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICES, NEW AND CREATIVE PROGRAMMING

MCCRACKEN COUNTY: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, SERVICE NORTHERN KENTUCKY/GREATER CINCINNATI: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, NEW AND CREATIVE PROGRAMMING

OUT-OF-STATE AWARDS:

GREATER ATLANTA: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT GREATER BIRMINGHAM: STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE

CENTRAL TEXAS: ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT CENTRAL VIRGINIA: SERVICE CHATTANOOGA: SCHOLARSHIPS, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE CHICAGOLAND: SCHOLARSHIPS, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE DALLAS-FORT WORTH: ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT

GREATER DAYTON: STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE GREATER HOUSTON: SCHOLARSHIPS, SERVICE KANSAS CITY: SCHOLARSHIPS KNOXVILLE: ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, SERVICE GREATER NASHVILLE: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE NATION’S CAPITAL: SERVICE

NEW YORK CITY: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, SERVICE, NEW AND CREATIVE PROGRAMMING, MOST IMPROVED

NORTHEAST OHIO: STUDENT RECRUITMENT

NORTHERN ALABAMA: ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT

NORTHWEST OHIO: SCHOLARSHIPS

PACIFIC NORTHWEST: SCHOLARSHIPS, STUDENT RECRUITMENT

SAN DIEGO: SCHOLARSHIPS, NEW AND CREATIVE PROGRAMMING

SARASOTA-SUNCOAST: ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, SERVICE TAMPA BAY: SCHOLARSHIP, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT

TRIANGLE AREA NC: SCHOLARSHIPS

UPSTATE SC: SCHOLARSHIPS, ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT, STUDENT RECRUITMENT, SERVICE

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The Class of 2025 picture taken last fall.

THE BIGGEST KENTUCKY EVER

We welcomed the largest first-year class in University of Kentucky history this fall with more than 6,000 students, the class of 2026. As part of an annual tradition for the incoming class, students gathered at Big Blue U at Kroger Field and created the biggest state of Kentucky we’ve ever seen on the field. And this year, students wearing white formed the shape of a heart in the location of Lexington.

We are delighted to welcome them all to UK and the Big Blue Nation!

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‘A Wonderful Home’

Maxwell Place, the residence of UK presidents, turns 150 years old

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt stayed there in 1934 and visited again in 1938.

Students have lived in the apartment over the garage and in third-floor bedrooms.

Scholarship recipients and award-winning faculty have been honored at receptions there and John Oswald Jr., son of University of Kentucky President John Oswald, remembers sliding down the big banister there when he was a child.

The original architect is unknown. The original owner, James H. Mulligan, wrote the poem “In Kentucky” and delivered it at the close of a speech in 1902. The house was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Sen. Mitch McConnell joined researchers and clinicians there in 2015 to learn about the advancements being made at the university. And the funeral of President Frank L. McVey’s first wife, Mabel was held there in 1922.

Maxwell Place, the home of 10 presidents of the University of Kentucky, turns 150 years old this year. President Eli Capilouto and his wife Mary Lynne still live there. Once slated for demolition by the Board of Trustees, the house is the second oldest building on campus and certainly one of the most beautiful.

How Maxwell Springs became Maxwell Place

The Italianate-style house was built between 1870-1872 as a wedding gift for Judge James H. Mulligan from his father Dennis Mulligan, a city council member, according to the thekaintuckeean.com a Kentucky historical blog by local lawyer Peter Brackney.

Prior to the house, the property was known as Maxwell Springs and was the site of a natural spring that was one of three that crossed near the property before feeding the Town Branch of the Elkhorn Creek.

The property was named for John Maxwell, one of Lexington’s founders. He lived on the property for 40 years. Henry Clay once said, “No man can call himself a true Kentuckian who has not wa tered his horse at Maxwell Springs.”

During the Civil War, the area of what’s now the university cam pus, was occupied by Federal troops. The owners of the land, the Maxwell Springs Company, couldn’t keep up its payments during the war and in 1870 it was sold.

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Mulligan, a city council member, encouraged the city to purchase the majority of the land for use as a city park while he purchased a narrow strip of land on Rose Street. He built Maxwell Place on that strip. Mulligan would serve in a number of political offices in Ken tucky where he was speaker of the Kentucky House, in Washington and abroad.

Mulligan is perhaps best remembered, however, for a poetic speech he delivered at the old Phoenix Hotel in Lexington in 1902 entitled, “In Kentucky.”

According to the house’s Kentucky Historical Society historic marker, “As Lexington was trying to get the state university and facing strong competition from a Bowling Green bid, it offered its old Maxwell Springs land and won the bid.”

The Mulligan family sold its 13 acres, including Maxwell Place, to the university in 1917 for $40,000. The original architect of Maxwell Place is unknown, though it is believed to have been either Thomas Boyd of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or Phelix L. Lundin of Lexington. The two-and-a-half brick Italianate has been added to and remodeled throughout the years, but many of its original features remain intact.

Before there was Maxwell Place, there was Maxwell Springs, a natural spring with a pond, named for the area’s landowner, John Maxwell. The spring was one of three that crossed near the property before feeding the Town Branch of the Elkhorn Creek. The community was allowed to enjoy the property and use its water.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Maxwell Place in 1934 when UK President Frank L. McVey lived in the home.

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The house became home

Frank L. McVey was the first president to live at Maxwell Place. He was also a painter and several of his paintings still hang in the front hallway of the house.

A 1972 Kentucky Oral History Project recording with Barbara McVey Hitchcock, Frank L. McVey’s niece, described life at Max well Place while she was a student at the University of Kentucky. She visited the home often before graduating in 1940 with a bachelor’s degree in political science in a class with 90 students.

She described her Uncle Frank as one of the funniest people she’d ever met and his second wife, Frances Jewell McVey, as very tall. “I loved her dearly,” Hitchcock said.

She remembered delicious meals at the house which she described as “gourmet dinners” that often included shrimp, Cor nish hens and always included sorghum molasses. She remem bered that A.B. “Happy” Chandler, a United States senator and Kentucky governor; Kentucky writer Jesse Stuart and Kentucky composer John Jacob Niles stayed in the garage apartment at Maxwell Place at various times.

Hitchcock was visiting Maxwell Place when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt stayed there in 1934. She said the McVeys gave up their bedrooms so the guests could stay comfortably. A large afternoon tea was planned and “1,000 women were there,” she remembered. Five cooks made sandwiches and tea cookies for the crowd. The tea was planned from 3:15-5 p.m., and by 4 p.m. all the food was gone and “Mrs. Roosevelt had yet to come downstairs” to join the guests, she said, laughing.

Students and faculty were invited to Wednesday afternoon teas at Maxwell Place, she said. “All of the students were at Max well Place at least once during their four years here,” she said. Also, the Board of Trustees’ dinners at Maxwell Place required formal attire and Hitchcock remembered that someone from the music department would come and play before dinner was

Frances Jewell McVey wrote the university’s Board of Trust ees in 1940, not long after she and her husband left UK and Maxwell Place. “Of all the presidents’ houses that I have seen, many far more elaborate and more costly than is Maxwell Place, I have seen not one that was so beautifully adapted to its uses as is your president’s house. It is truly an amazing house.

“Because of the arrangement of rooms and doors, and because there are no blind end rooms, people in great numbers may ‘flow’ through the house. Also, the yard and gardens in good weather supplement the house and can be used as added living room space. On four occasions this last year about 900 people have been at tea or at some other occasion at Maxwell Place.

“The president and I have believed that our entertaining at Maxwell Place was one of the contributions that we could make to the University of Kentucky. We needed to make friends, and welcome citizens of Lexington and of Kentucky, and of other places. We have also felt that we were justifying some of the reasons for our being at Maxwell Place.”

She ended her letter by saying, “Living on the University of Kentucky campus has been a radiantly happy and an absorbing ly interesting experience for me.”

Presidents and their wives have continued to entertain through the years, but perhaps none on the grand scale of the McVeys.

Frank Dickey, his wife Elizabeth and their three young chil dren moved into Maxwell Place in 1956. A Maxwell Place history booklet created by Judy Wethington, wife of President Charles T. Wethington Jr., stated that the house was freshly decorated for them. “Vivid colors in the décor included brick red in the library, turquoise in the kitchen and bright Kentucky blue in the two boys’ room.”

1. Each UK president who has lived in the house has placed a plaque near the front door. This is the plaque from UK President Frank L. McVey.

2. The door knocker at Maxwell Place can still be used today.

3. The foyer of Maxwell Place was featured in a Christmas card from UK President Frank L. McVey and his wife Frances. The couple’s dog was prominently featured.

4. Judy Wethington selected the china that is used at Maxwell Place. But, the idea for it was that of Board of Trustees’ member Martin I.Welenken who helped raise the money to purchases the dishes, too.

5. Original works of art by UK President Frank L. McVey line the hallway on the first floor.

Each resident of Maxwell Place has made changes to the home. Most recently, Mary Lynne Capilouto, wife of UK President Eli Capilouto, moved the dining room to a larger living room space and turned what had been the smaller dining room space into a sitting area.

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Cause for concern

President John W. Oswald and his wife Rose moved into Maxwell Place in 1963. When the couple was shown the home, President Oswald suggested that the day of college presidents living in the middle of campus might be past. He suggested that it wasn’t appropriate for the house to be situated near the (Mar garet I. King) library, the new physics building and the architecture school in Pence Hall where Oswald observed the “lights burned all night.”

He told the university’s Board of Trustees that Maxwell Place should be used for other purposes or be used as expansion of the library. The suggestion must have been considered because at one point in the 1960s, a university development plan included the demolition of Maxwell Place although it never happened.

Another concern of President Oswald was that the couple’s three children had no chance of having any playmates if they lived in the middle of campus, he said. The family lived in the house, but in a Kentucky Oral History interview with Oswald in 1987 he said, Maxwell Place was “so big and so unlike any kind of normal family living we were all there by ourselves in this big place. Just not normal living. We’d always been in a neighborhood.”

Ultimately, Rose “decided to fix up Maxwell and we did some redecorating and it was much more pleasant,” he said. But in 1967, university trustees autho rized the demolition of the presidential property.

In a visit to campus in 2012, John Oswald Jr. talked about living in the house. “Each room here has special memories,” he said. “It’s really special to be here.”

John Oswald Jr. lived in the house from the age of 7 until he was 12. He said he had memories of each room and of other particular things around the house.

“There’s an enormous banister on the front stairs, and I would slide down it,” he said. “My mom was very upset about it. She was worried that I was going to fall and break my neck, and she was also worried that I would break the banister.”

UK President John W.Oswald and his family made Maxwell Place home from 1963-1968.

UK President Otis Singletary was the eighth president of the university. He, his wife Gloria and their family lived in Maxwell Place from 1969-1987.

UK President Frank G. Dickey, his wife Betty and their three children at a piano. The family lived at the Maxwell Place, the official president’s residence, from 1956-1963.

Care of the home required dedicated staff

Roberta Figgs worked at Maxwell Place for 25 years. She started as an upstairs maid when the Oswalds lived in the house. In fact, Rose Oswald interviewed her for the job.

“She was friendly and she was a young woman who was eager to do the job,” Figgs said in an interview with the Kentucky Oral History Project in 1990. “There were lots of parties and I would help with those.

“Maxwell Place is a gracious and beautiful place,” she said. “But it de manded a lot of strength. I loved caring for it, but you felt your days when you left there each evening.”

Figgs started as an upstairs maid, making sure the beds were made, laundry was done and cleaning up after the children, but worked throughout the house during her tenure.

“I was there to care for them and to make the house comfortable for them,” she said, although she said she didn’t see much of the presidents. “I’m a people person. I enjoy taking care of people and getting ready for guests. When the Oswalds left, she wrote the nicest letters (of recommen dation) for all of us (the house staff) and they asked us if we’d stay on and care for the house after they left.”

She described Albert D. Kirwan’s wife Betty as a “lovely, sweet, gracious woman.” The Kirwans lived in Maxwell Place for just one year, from 1968-1969 but it was during that time that the decision to tear down the house was reversed.

In a 2012 blog post in Birds’ Eye View, Terry Birdwhistell, UK senior historian, wrote this about President Otis Singletary and his wife Gloria’s time at Maxwell Place.

“Perhaps the first important decision Gloria and Otis Singletary made when they came to Kentucky in 1969 was their decision to live in Maxwell Place. Town/gown relations were at a low ebb in the late ‘60s and the Singletary’s decision to move their young family into Maxwell Place was good for both the community and the university and probably saved Maxwell Place which had earlier been targeted for demolition.

“A newspaper article reported that ‘The Singletary children are allowed a free run of the UK campus, although Mrs. Singletary said she encouraged the children to stay out of the buildings and to avoid congested areas as they ride their bikes and walk across the campus.’ ”

Lady Bird Johnson visited the campus and visited Maxwell Place in 1978 when UK Libraries held the dedication ceremony of the Earle C. Clements Collection. Johnson was friends with the family and had chosen Clements’ daughter, Bess Clements Abell, to serve as White House secretary.

Figgs worked with the Singletary family for 17 years. She said that Gloria Singletary called the staff “the team.”

“There was a lot to do in that big, old house,” Figgs said. “And she was a very busy person, very involved with the community, as a volunteer at the hospital. I hated to see her leave.”

The future of Maxwell Place

David P. Roselle and his wife Louise lived in Maxwell Place from 1987-1989.

In Carl B. Cone’s “The University of Kentucky: A Pictorial History,” he wrote, “The Roselles made many friends almost immediately upon arriving in Kentucky. They seemed especially to enjoy living at the traditional home of UK presidents, Maxwell Place. Louise Roselle added her own special touch to the historic structure and wel comed hundreds of guests, including faculty, staff and students.”

Charles T. Wethington Jr., and his wife Judy moved to Maxwell Place in 1989. Judy Wethington created a booklet in 1992 about the house and its residents. It features photos from throughout the years along with short descriptions of changes made to the home.

The class of 2000, using donations as part of the University of Kentucky Student Development Council, saw to it that a historic maker was placed at Maxwell Place. The dedication ceremony took place in 2002. President Lee Todd Jr., and his wife Patsy, who were living in the house at the time, were present at the dedication.

It was important to the Todds that the campus felt like home to the students. Patsy Todd encouraged students to enjoy the grounds surrounding Maxwell Place and she often made and shared homemade cookies with those who knocked on the door while passing by on their way to class.

President Eli Capilouto and his wife Mary Lynne have lived in Maxwell Place since 2011. The upstairs bathrooms have been renovated since they moved in and a private outdoor patio area has been added.

The house, which once served as a centerpiece on campus of social activity, has been closed to the public since the COVID-19 pandemic spread. The UK Alumni Association’s Alumni Ambassadors’ dinner was held there in 2019 but few celebrations have been there since.

The university is still working through when Maxwell Place might be used for events in the future, said spokes person Jay Blanton.

Judy Wethington recently reminisced about her family’s time at Maxwell Place. She owned an antiques shop in Chevy Chase in Lexington when her husband was president. She used her knowledge and love of antiques to restore several pieces she found in old buildings and farms that UK owned and gave them a new home at Maxwell Place.

“Maxwell Place was a wonderful home to reside in,” she said. “I will always have pleasant memories of being there and interacting the students and alumni.” ■

WHO LIVED AT MAXWELL PLACE AND WHEN

Frank L. McVey was University of Kentucky president from 1917-1940. He was the first president to live at Maxwell Place, moving there in 1918 after some renovations were made.

Herman L. Donovan was president from 1941-1956. While he and his wife Nell lived in the house they welcomed Vice President Alben W.Barkley and Kentucky writer Jesse Stuart.

Frank G. Dickey was president from 1956-1963. The house was freshly decorated for Dickey, his wife Elizabeth and their three children — Frank Jr., Joe and Ann Elizabeth.

John W. Oswald lived in the house from 1963-1968. In 1967, university trustees authorized the demolition of the house as part of a university development plan.

Albert D. Kirwan called the residence home just briefly from 1968-1969 while he was interim president. It was during his tenure that the university’s decision to tear down Maxwell Place was reversed.

Otis A. Singletary and his family lived in the home during his presidency from 1969-1987 though he and his wife Gloria were given the choice of living in another location.

David P. Roselle lived in Maxwell Place from 1987-1989. He and his wife Louise had substantial redecorating and upgrading done to the house before moving in.

Charles T. Wethington, Jr. became interim president in 1989 and moved into Maxwell Place in 1990. He was president from September 19902001. His wife Judy wrote a booklet about the history of Maxwell Place in 1992.

Lee T. Todd Jr. was president from 2001-2011. He and his wife Patsy moved into Maxwell Place in the summer of 2001. The Todds removed the perimeter fence and hedges and opened the grounds to campus. Patsy Todd was known for sharing fresh-baked cookies with students that knocked on the door.

Eli Capilouto became president in 2011 and moved into Maxwell Place. In 2013, an exterior concrete ramp was installed from the driveway to the front porch, designed by Lord Aeck Sargent. The ramp made the house more accessible.

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KENTUCKY FOOTBALL LOOKS TO CONTINUE WINNING WAYS

Kentucky football is poised for an intriguing — and per haps historic — 2022 season as Head Coach Mark Stoops begins his 10th season at the helm with a team that has been picked by media to finish second in the SEC East.

This recognition comes on the heels of the loss of sub stantial personnel who helped the Wildcats to a 10-3 2021 campaign that finished second in the SEC East, trounced Louisville, and claimed the Vrbo Citrus Bowl title. But Stoops said he is confident the culture that’s been built can sustain the unique challenges of a new season.

“We have very strong leadership on this team,” Stoops said. “That has a lot to do with the foundation of the players in previous years. Really feel proud of the work that we’ve done.”

Leadership comes in the form of second-year quarterback senior Will Levis, who is coming into the season with high expectations from Wildcat fans and NFL scouts alike.

“He’s a great leader, starting with his own work ethic,” Stoops said. “He has the impact to affect those close to him.”

The question of who Levis will target at the receivers position is still open, but the coach said he was impressed with the group at the beginning of training camp still trying to learn the NFL-style offense and how to communicate with one another.

“I feel this is definitely the most talented group we’ve had as a whole,” Stoops said. “As a group, we’ve never had this much depth.”

Earning praise from coaching staff after the first few days

KENTUCKY DIVERS DAZZLE AT U.S. OPEN

Kentucky’s Kyndal Knight, Abby Devereaux, Sam Duncan and volunteer assistant coach Julia Vincent impressed on the national stage at the 2022 U.S. Diving Open Championship at the COM Aquatics Center in Midland, Texas.

The Wildcat quartet notched several podium performances throughout the meet, which was highlighted by a run ner-up finish for Knight on the women’s 1-meter and a third-place showing for Vincent on the women’s 3-meter.

Knight, the 2022 SEC Female Diver

of camp include freshmen Barion Brown and Dane Key.

Defensively, the interior defensive line made up of juniors Justin Rogers, Octavious Oxendine and Josaih Hayes are ready to make their presence known. The Wildcats also hope to capitalize on depth in this area.

When Kentucky takes its second victory of the season, Stoops will move past Paul “Bear” Bryant in all-time wins. Currently, Stoops’ record is 59-53 since 2013.

“I feel very privileged to be here for nine years, going on 10, and really excited about this football team,” Stoops said. “I really feel like our program is in a position that we’re very confident in what we’re going to do.” ■

of the Year who will return to Kentucky for a fifth year in 2022-23, recorded a score of 253.45 to earn second place among the 12 participants in the wom en’s 1M. She was nearly four points clear of the third-place finisher.

Knight also took fourth place in the women’s 3M with a mark of 257.90, just behind Vincent who finished third in the event with a mark of 271.55.

Upcoming sophomore Devereaux placed 25th and 31st in the preliminary rounds of the women’s 1M and 3M, respectively.

On the men’s side, Duncan recorded a pair of top-10 finishes on the national stage. The incoming junior was the top qualifier in the men’s 1M preliminary round with 342.65 points, before earn ing seventh place in the event’s final with 313.95 points. He followed that performance up by earning 10th place on the 3M with a score of 318.70.

The 2022-23 Kentucky Swim & Dive season officially gets underway Friday, Sept. 23 with the Blue and White Meet at Lancaster Aquatic Center. ■

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MIKE PRATT REMEMBERED

Kentucky basketball fans joined the friends and family of Mike Pratt ‘75 ED in Memorial Coliseum Friday, August 5 to remember his life and legacy.

The UK Hall of Famer passed away June 16 at age 73 after a lengthy battle with cancer. He spent the past 21 seasons as the radio broadcast partner of Tom Leach. He played for Kentucky from 19671970.

Jack “Goose” Givens will join Leach this season as color analyst. He joined the UK Sports Network in 2020. Givens played at Kentucky from 1975-78, earning the 1978 NCAA Final Four Most Outstand ing Player.

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KENTUCKY TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES SHINE AT 2022 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Eleven Kentucky track and field-affiliated athletes repre sented their countries in the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, in July.

Sydney McLaughlin (pictured right below) added to her Olympic and World Championship gold medal collection while Abby Steiner (pictured left below) earned her first gold medals as they represented Team USA.

McLaughlin and Steiner served as two legs of the 4x400-meter relay team, winning with a 3:17.19 time, never giving up their lead during the race. Steiner grabbed the baton from Talitha Diggs as the second leg, running a 49.99 split. As the anchor leg, McLaughlin followed Britton Wilson, running away from the field with an amazing split of 47.91.

The relay win gave both McLaughlin and Steiner their second gold medals of the meet. McLaughlin smashed her own world record to win gold in the 400m hurdles with a 50.68 time, becoming the first and only woman to run under 51 seconds in the event.

Steiner won gold in the 4x100m relay, running a 9.86 split to help upset the favored Jamaican team. Steiner became the first woman to win gold in both relays since Allyson Felix in 2017.

Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn won bronze in the 100m hurdles with a personal best and Puerto Rican national record of 12.23, her first world medal.

Dwight St. Hillaire and the Trinidad & Tobago men’s 4x400m relay placed fifth with a time of 3.00.03. St. Hillaire ran the first leg with a split of 45.89. It was his highest finish in a world meet.

Volunteer Coach Devynne Charlton finished seventh in the 100m hurdles final with a time of 12.53. She broke the Bahamian national record and set a personal best in the semifinals, clocking a 12.46.

Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medalist Keni Harrison qualified for finals in the 100m hurdles event with a season-best 12.27. Volunteer Coach Christian Coleman earned silver in the 4x100m relay with

Other Kentucky track and field ath letes who competed in Eugene include Andrew Evans in discus, Daniel Roberts in 110m hurdles, Celera Barnes in the 4x100m relay, and Megan Moss in the 4x400m relay and 4x400m mixed relay.

The World Athletics Champi onships are held every two years. This is the first time the event was held in the United States.

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A NEW BEGINNING

Former UK athletes turn abandoned property into wine, breeding businesses

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The couple calls the farm they operate Silver Springs Farm Eqwine and Vineyard. It is the historic site of the Silver Springs Distillery.

Allen Carter ‘86 SW and Leslie Nichols Carter ‘87 AFE are the sort of couple who doesn’t do anything halfway. The former UK running back and the UK Hall of Fame basketball player had great athletic success on campus. And, their academic success was impressive, too. Allen earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of Social Work and Leslie has a bachelor’s in agriculture economics from the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.

In 2010, the Carters came across an abandoned property on the north side of Lexington that was located just a few doors down from what was once Leslie’s grandmother’s house.

“We fell in love with this property,” Leslie recalled. “When we saw that it was abandoned, we would run up to the front door and put notes on the porch saying that we were interested, but we nev er heard from anyone. Finally, the property came on the market and we were fortunate enough to purchase it.”

They soon learned that their 20-acre plot was home to Silver Springs Distillery from 1867 until Prohibition in 1918. Water from the spring supplied limestone water that was used to produce pure hand-made sour mash whiskey. But today, wine is made from the grapes grown in a five-acre vineyard that Allen planted on the property.

Before the property was abandoned, it had a building on it that served as a bed and breakfast. After moving into what was once the distiller’s house, the Carters renovated the old cottage house into what is now a guest house.

Soon after moving in, Allen realized he would need some help with maintaining the farm’s lawn. He asked Leslie’s father about purchasing a horse. Fortunately for Allen, Leslie’s dad Harvey Nichols and her grandfather K.C. Wilson were both well-respected members of the industry.

“I’ve been around horses all my life,” Leslie said. “My grand father was a foreman at Jonabell Farm for 20 years. He handled studs and did pretty much everything. My dad worked at Stone Farm for Arthur Hancock. He took care of Sunday Silence and a lot of other really famous horses. There were four girls in my fami ly and so I always hung out with my dad. Allen calls me my dad’s boy. But I would go out to the farms with him and horses have just always been a part of my family.”

And as regularly happens with the Carters, one thing led to another and now the couple is involved in the breeding business.

At Allen’s request, Leslie’s father found a filly named Princess Laila who could be ready immediately, but by the time Allen had the fences fixed and ready for an occupant, she had gone back into training.

“The guy asked me if I would be willing to split the cost with him in racing the horse,” Allen recalled. “We ended up racing her a few times and she actually won a race. When she retired, I brought her to the farm to breed her.”

Princess Laila produced several foals. Her first, Wine Devine, eventually became another broodmare at Silver Springs. She also is the dam of Sellwood, who sold for $40,000 as a yearling and ended up earning nearly $200,000 as a Grade I performer.

“I’ve just been lucky,” Allen said on his fast start as a breeder. “I guess it’s a lot of listening and watching and research to make sure you’re breeding to the right stallion to get the horse that will sell well at the sales or the horse that will run well.”

Well-respected Lexington veterinarian Dr. Robert Copelan helped Allen and Leslie land their second broodmare.

“Leslie’s family is closely connected with Dr. Copelan and I was joking with him that I needed a second horse to help with the grass,” Allen recalled. “I think it was a week later, he called me up and said a guy was on his way to bring me my horse. I thought he was joking. I ended up breeding that mare as well and selling her foal at the sales.”

The mare, Jana D, produced a $20,000 yearling in 2014 and later a Midshipman gelding named Breacher that Silver Springs raced.

“The neat thing is that before this, Allen really knew nothing about horses,” Leslie said.

The Carters acknowledge that they are far from what is the typical breeder in Lexington.

“When people hear what we’re doing, especially with us being a Black couple, they seem to be very surprised,” Leslie said. “In Kentucky, you’re looking at million-dollar farms near us. People ask us, ‘What is that? Is that a house?’ and we explain that it’s a horse stable.

“I guess for us, it’s about trying to expose racing to more Black people so that they can understand that even though we only have 20 acres, it is a business that you can be a part of.”

As the vineyard prospers — Allen won awards in the 2020 Kentucky Commissioner’s Cup with his 2017 Black Type Reserve Kentucky Sparkling Wine Traminette and his White Traminette won a bronze medal — and their small broodmare band continues to thrive, the Carters officially named their property Silver Springs Farm Eqwine and Vineyard.

Allen entered his first wine competition in the 2020 Kentucky Commissioner’s Cup with his 2017 Black Type Reserve Ken tucky Sparkling Wine Traminette and won double gold, a highly distinctive honor given only when all judges consider it to be an excellent wine. At the same competition, his White Traminette won a bronze medal.

Silver Springs has one more venture on the horizon — Allen is working on obtaining his distiller’s license. He is planning for a single-barrel bourbon release soon.

“Our long-term goal for the farm is to expand all the products that we are producing,” Allen said. “We have all our products on our website and a few stores around Kentucky. ■

This story first appeared in The Thoroughbred Daily News.

Allen Carter and Leslie Nichols Carter needed help to maintain their farm pastures. One thing led to another and now, they’re involved in breeding horses.

Class Notes

1960s

Paul W. Chellgren ’64

BE is the 2022 recipient of Omicron Delta Kappa’s Pillars of Leadership Award in Service to Campus and Community. Chellgren is a 1963 initiate of the Universi ty of Kentucky Circle (chap ter) of Omicron Delta Kappa. He is the retired chairman of the board and chief execu tive officer of Ashland, Inc. He is currently a partner with Snow Phipps Group, LLC, a New York City-based private equity firm.

1970s

Wayne Talley ’72 BE was recently honored for his 50 years at Old Dominion Uni versity in Norfolk, Virginia. Talley is the Frederick W. Beazley Professor and Emi nent Scholar of Economics and professor of maritime and supply chain manage ment in the department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences.

Richard Vari ’76 ’80 ’84

AS has been conferred the title of professor emeritus by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. He was profes sor of basic science edu cation and senior dean for academic affairs at the Vir ginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, Virginia, where he was a founding faculty member in 2008. He helped establish and oversee the curriculum for the new medical school.

Cynda Hylton Rushton ’78 NUR received the 2022 Marguerite Rodgers Kinney award for a Distinguished Career by the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. An international leader in bioethics and nursing, Rushton is the Anne and George L. Bun ting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics and the JHU School of Nursing.

Florence Tandy ’78 AS is the president of the Covington Rotary Club. A Rotarian for more than 20 years, Tandy served as the executive director for the Northern Kentucky Com munity Action Commission in the Greater Cincinnati area.

1980s

Kenneth Cundy ’84 PHA has been appointed chief scientific officer at Anebulo Pharmaceuticals. Cundy previously held various positions at Gilead Scienc es. He will lead Anebulo’s research and development initiatives.

Dennis A. Matheis ’85 BE has been named Sentara Healthcare president and chief executive officer. He served as the president of Sentara Health Plans and executive vice president at Sentara Healthcare since 2018. Prior to that he has been in senior leadership roles within the healthcare

In 1957, this homecoming decoration was created by the mem bers of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. The “Wildcat Whipping Bowl” received first place in the homecoming decoration compe tition that year.

industry for the past 30 years.

Anella Wetter ’86 AS has been named chief sales officer at 95 Percent Group. Wetter brings 25 years of education and sales leadership to the role. She most recently served as the regional vice president of sales with Carnegie Learning.

Marc Guilfoil ’87 AFE has joined the federal Horserac ing Integrity and Safety Au thority as director of state racing commission rela tions. Guilfoil has been the executive of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission since 2016. He has worked at the Kentucky Horse Rac ing Commission since 1988 and is one of the longest tenured commission offi cials in the United States.

Ming-Tung “Mike” Lee ’87 GS, ’91 BE has been appointed interim president at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California. Lee has served in many leadership roles for 28 years at Sacramento State, prior to retiring in 2018. Since then, he has held emeritus status on campus as a professor of business administration.

Bill Ulbricht ’87 BE has been named chief execu tive officer of Baptist Health South Florida. Ulbricht served as chief operating and administrative officer for the Clinical Enterprise division of Baptist Health since August 2019. Prior to joining Baptist Health, he spent 23 years working with BayCare Health Systems in Tampa, Florida.

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David Dees ’89 FA has de cided to return to the class room after having been dean and chief administra tive officer at the Kent State University Columbiana Campuses, Salem and East Liverpool, since 2017. He joined Kent State in 1991.

David F. Morrice ’89 CI has been appointed vice president of sales at Stony Creek Brewery in Branford, Connecticut. Morrice was director of sales at Yazoo Brewing in Nashville and has more than 25 years of beverage industry experi ence.

1990s

Larry Gillis ’90 AS was recently elected to a third four-year term on the Kentucky Personnel Board. Gillis has 30 years of state experience and is current ly serving as Personnel Program Consultant at the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet.

Vivian Shipley ‘64

CI, ’67 AS was a junior at UK when she was not crowned 1963 homecoming queen and then she was. In front of a crowd of 50,000, the announcer misread the name of the winner. The error was corrected, and Shipley received her recognition on the sidelines.

Clifton M. Iler ’91 LAW has been appointed senior assistant attorney general and university counsel at the University of Virgin ia. He will serve as the university’s lead attorney and will supervise a team of nine. He recently served as deputy general counsel for faculty, students and research at UK and associ ate general counsel for UK’s healthcare operations and healthcare colleges.

Julie Mix McPeak ’91 BE has been hired as senior vice president and general counsel for insurance by USAA, a San Antonio-based insurance carrier. McPeak was senior deputy general counsel at Root, a webbased personal property and casualty insurance bro ker. She served eight years as insurance commissioner in Tennessee.

Bruce Neely ’91 EN has been chosen by the Kentucky Gas Association board of directors to lead

the organization as presi dent. A long-time Somerset resident, Neely has served the city of Somerset as natural gas director.

Kathy Stumbo ’91 GS has been named the new CEO for the Paintsville, Kentucky, ARH Hospital. A senior healthcare executive with more than 30 years of experience, Stumbo served as CEO for the ARH Our Lady of the Way Hospital in Martin, Kentucky, for the past 21 years.

Travella Free ’92 AFE is the new executive director of Elon University’s Center for Access and Success in Elon, North Carolina. Free has served as the 4-H state program leader, specialist and director of the Rosenwald 4-H youth development center at Kentucky State University in Frankfort.

Dwight Merilatt ’92 ED will join Nebraska Wesley an University in Lincoln,

Nebraska, as Director of Athletics and Recreation. Merilatt has over 25 years of experience in athletics including more than 20 years in athletic senior lead ership and administration positions at NCAA Division I, II and III institutions.

Rodney Vinegar ’92 BE, ’96 LAW has joined Sun dyne, a designer and manu facturer of mission critical pumps and compressors, as the company’s chief human resources officer and vice president of environmental, health and safety.

E. Keith Couch ’93 EN has become the chief executive officer at Special Support Technologies, a Go Forth and Conquer Holdings Company. He retired from the U.S. Marine Corps in 2020 having served more than 26 years of active duty.

Michael Drescher ’93 AS has joined XSOLIS as Vice President of Payer Strategy. Drescher has more than 20 years’ experience helping organizations succeed and navigate complex environ ments. He spent more than a decade with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee, most recently serving as Director of Value-Based Contracting.

Bennett Knox ’93 AFE has been named director of Whatcom County Parks and Recreation in Blaine, Wash ington. Knox worked for Louisville Metro Parks for 20 years. He was recently

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parks administrator for the natural areas division and Jefferson Memorial Forest.

Richard Coffey ’94 AFE has been selected to lead the Department of Ani mal and Food Sciences at Oklahoma State University. Coffey most recently served as chair of the Depart ment of Animal and Food Sciences in the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment at UK.

Todd G. Shields ’94 ’95 AS has been appointed chan cellor of Arkansas State University. Dean of the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the Univer sity of Arkansas since 2014, Shields began his academic career as an assistant pro fessor in political science at Arkansas in 1994.

Chrisandrea Turner ’95 AS, ’98 LAW has been named chair-elect of the Kentucky Bar Association’s bankruptcy law section. Turner is a partner at Stites & Harbison based in the Lex ington office and chair of the firm’s creditors’ rights and bankruptcy service group.

Adam Wade White ’95 AS was nominated in June by President Joe Biden to become a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors. White is serving his 12th year as Lyon County, Kentucky, Judge Executive.

Brian F. Haara ’96 LAW has moved his practice

back to Fultz Maddox Dickens after 15 years as a partner with a commercial litigation boutique firm. Haara represents plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business, insurance, real estate and contract disputes.

Derek Bonifer ’97 BE has joined Baird Trust as senior vice president and portfolio manager. He brings more than 24 years of experience to his new position.

Melissa Cothran ’97 BE has become a shareholder with LBMC, a top 40 advi sory and business consult ing firm. She joined the firm in 1999 and leads LBMC’s family office practice.

Douglas Ohmer ’97 BE has been appointed dean of the School of Business at Northern State Univer sity. Ohmer has worked at Northern since 1994 holding numerous positions at the School of Business including founding director of the Center of Excellence in International Business.

Dr. Neville Sarkari ’97 MED has become chief mission medical affairs officer at Empath Health of Sarasota/Clearwater, Flor ida. He was executive vice president/chief medical offi cer at Tidewell Hospice, a member of Empath Health.

Craig Farmer ’98 EN has been named director, capital improvement pro gram at the Metropolitan

Nashville Airport Authority. Farmer served 15 years as chief aviation engineer for the state of Kentucky before joining the Blue Grass Airport as manager of design and construction.

Dr. Marty Odom ’99 MED has joined Jackson Pur chase Medical Center and will be offering primary care services in Mayfield, Ken tucky, and the surrounding region. Odom, a Mayfield native, joined JPMC after nearly 20 years practicing medicine in Tampa, Florida.

2000s

Michelle Bean ’00 AS has been named principal of Polk County High School in Columbus, North Carolina. Bean is in her 10th year at the high school having joined the faculty as an En glish teacher before moving into the assistant principal role in 2016.

Andy Bissell ’00 BE has opened a bakery in Frank fort, Kentucky, called Andy’s Artisan Bread. Serving European-style pastries, whole-grain sourdough loaves, desserts, coffees and teas, the bakery is in a restored 1907 building at 127 East Todd Street.

Mari Chinn ’00 EN heads the Oklahoma State Univer sity Department of Biosys tems and Agricultural Engi neering within the Ferguson College of Agriculture and the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technol ogy. She also serves as the interim director of the Biobased Products and Energy Center. Chinn has academic experience in California, Kentucky and North Carolina.

Emily Roark ’00 LAW has been appointed to Murray State University’s Board of Regents. Roark heads the Bryant Law Center, Mass

Finishing touches were made on this float that was featured in the 1969 homecoming parade.

Tort Division, where she has spearheaded millions of dollars in settlements for clients and has developed a passion to protect those who have been harmed by drugs and medical devices.

Brandin Stewart ’00 BE has been named senior vice president and regional manager of the broad casting division of Nexstar Media Inc. He will oversee the television stations and digital operations in multiple markets across the country.

Jonathan Goforth ’01 BE has been named senior vice president/credit adminis trator at Citizens National Bank. He has worked in the banking business for 25 years, starting as a teller while working his way through college.

Trevor Graves ’01 EN, ’04 LAW is a member of Leadership Kentucky’s Class of 2022. Graves is coun sel at Stites & Harbison in Lexington. He is a patent attorney and a member of the intellectual property and technology service group. Leadership Ken tucky prepares participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good.

Dan McHale ’01 BE has been appointed as a partner and head of U.S. collegiate sports practice at Odgers Berndtson. He will work with coaches and administrators to secure top

coaching talent in the coun try. McHale spent 25 years leading and supporting coaching teams at top tier universities. He coached at Eastern Kentucky University and was a student basket ball manager at UK.

Jennifer Wills ’01 LAW has been named director for Claytor Nature Center at the University of Lynch burg in Lynchburg, Virginia. Wills spent 16 years as an attorney at the U.S Environ mental Protection Agency, taught at Virginia Tech and formed a nature-based professional leadership coaching and consulting business.

Brad Zapp ’01 BE been appointed by Gov. Andy Beshear to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents. Zapp is the co-founder and manag ing partner of Connetic Ventures, founder and managing member of ZH Holdings, co-founder of Wendal, and co-founder of SimpleCoin.

Dr. David Hess ’02 MED is the new president and CEO of West Virginia University United Hospital Center. Previously, Hess served as the president and CEO of Uniontown Hospital in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, and as president and CEO of West Virginia Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hos pital and Medicine Wetzel County Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics.

A. Catherine McCabe ’02 BE has joined Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut, as dean of the Jack Welch College of Business and Technolo gy. McCabe was formerly associate dean of Boston’s Suffolk University’s Sawyer Business School.

Deana Doty Paradis ’03 BE has been appointed to a four-year term with the Financial Accounting Stan dards Board Nonprofit Ad visory Committee. Paradis is chief financial officer at Louisville Collegiate School.

Jagannathan Ramach andran ’03 EN has been named vice president man ufacturing at PIM Brands, a global snacks and confec tion maker. He has more than 20 years of experience with responsibility for man ufacturing operations at the company’s Somerset, New Jersey, production facilities. He also has 11 years of ex perience with the Campbell Soup Company.

Tiffanie Underwood ’03 ED was named the assistant principal at McKell Elemen tary in Ashland, Kentucky. She brings 17 years of teaching experience to the role, 15 of which were at McKell.

Lauren Burnett ’04 FA has been named principal at Lincoln County Middle School. She has been the assistant principal at Boyle County High School since 2017 and before that

was dean of students at McNabb Middle School in Montgomery County, Kentucky.

Michael Carson ’04 ED has been named principal at Signal Mountain Mid dle/High School in Signal Mountain, Tennessee. He has served as assistant principal since 2018.

Tim Robinson ’04 LAW was presented with the 2022 Congressman Hal Rogers Beacon of Hope Award at National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit. Robinson founded Addic tion Recover Care (ARC) in 2012. It now operates more than 30 programs in 21 Kentucky counties. Rob inson celebrated 15 years in recovery in December 2021.

Wenwen Du ’05 BE, ’08 ED, ’15 AS is the recipient of the Glenville State Uni versity Faculty Award of Ex cellence. He is an associate professor of Mathematics at Glenville State in Glenville, West Virginia, where he has taught since 2014.

Eric Moyen ’05 ED is beginning in a new role as Mississippi State University’s first assistant vice president for student success. He was a professor and head of the department of educa tional leadership. Before arriving at MSU in 2017, he held multiple roles at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee.

Career Corner Career Corner

INTERN OF THE YEAR OFFERS INSIGHT ON WORK EXPERIENCE

Alyssa Hargis, a first-generation college student from Cincinnati, Ohio was recognized as UK’s Undergraduate Intern of the Year by the Stuckert Career Center and the Graham Office of Career Management. Alyssa is a senior double majoring in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Public Health. She interned at the Kentucky Environmental Public Health Tracking Network in the Kentucky Department of Public Health. Her projects focused on the Centers for Disease Control cold-related illness pilot study and chronic lymphatic leukemia research.

How did you learn about the internship? I learned about the internship via my Environmental Health course for my major. In the course, our professor challenged us to connect with a health care professional in a field in which we are interested. I did and then I went through an interview process and was assigned my internship experience from May 2021-May 2022.

What skills did you develop through the experience? I feel I have developed as a leader in the public health field. I now have the confidence I needed to step up in my field in the future. One of my tasks was leading the CDC’s pilot study on cold-related illness. I had to organize materials, learn to use data programs, including SAS, prepare a PowerPoint with graphs, and present for other pilot study states. Being pushed out of my comfort zone was what I needed to feel confident in leading public health projects and initiatives in the future.

How did the employer adapt your internship to meet changing status of COVID-19? We met weekly via Zoom to go over the week assignments and then reflect on past experiences. My supervisor was flexible during the pandemic, but still challenged me to be proactive and perform at my best ability.

What advice do you have for other companies that are hosting interns? Find ways to challenge your interns to be leaders. The most valuable skill I am taking away from my experience is my confidence, which I would not have gained if I was not challenged to lead projects. If every intern is challenged as I was, we will have a workforce full of confident aspiring leaders.

How did you know UK is where you wanted to be when choosing a college? I knew that the University of Kentucky was meant to be my home because of the ways they focused on student success through everything they do.

John Egbo, epidemiologist with the Kentucky Department for Health was recently quoted as saying, “Having Alyssa as part of our team at Kentucky Tracking and the Kentucky Department for Public Health has been a blessing, and she sets the bar high for all future interns. We are so proud of her for achieving this honor.”

Amanda Schagane is associate director of UK Alumni Career Services. UK Alumni Association Life/Active Members are eligible for two complimentary appointments per year with a certified career counselor. Visit http://www.ukalumni.net/career to learn more about resume critiques, career assessments, interview preparation, Central Kentucky Job Club, encore careers and other Alumni Career Services. Alumni Career Services: Celebrating 20 years of helping UK alumni advance their careers.

Class Notes

Jill H. Smith ’05 BE, ’11

AFE is a member of Lead ership Kentucky’s Class of 2022. Smith serves as the associate vice president for alumni engagement and executive director of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association. Lead ership Kentucky prepares participants to take an active role in advancing the state for the common good.

Liz Toombs ’05 AFE de buted her podcast “Soror ity Chat” in May 2022 on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. President and owner of PDR Interiors, Toombs is a leader in the decorating industry with more than two decades of experience.

David T. McFaddin ’06 BE was installed as the president of Eastern Kentucky Universi ty in Richmond, Kentucky. He is the 14th president of the university. He was selected interim president in 2019. Before joining EKU he held statewide leadership posts with AT&T.

Kalin Mutter ’06 BE, ’14 HS is the clinic director at BenchMark Physical Thera py’s new outpatient clinic in Evansville, Indiana. Mutter is a certified orthopedic clinical specialist.

Katie Palmer ’06 AFE has joined the Arts Academy in Danville as a dance teach er. She has taught dance and theatre and has been a classroom teacher. Her dance experience includes having been a hip hop

instructor at Danville Dance Academy, the choreogra pher for Centre College and a Wildcat Danzer at the University of Kentucky.

Audra Hoofnagle ’07 ED is the new principal at Elkhorn Middle School in Frank fort, Kentucky. Hoofnagle began her teaching career at Elkhorn Middle School in 2008. Most recently she was assistant principal at Winburn Middle School in Fayette County.

Anne McKnight ’07 LAW has joined Latitude as Director of Legal Recruit ing & Placement in the Nashville, Tennessee area. Latitude is a legal services company that specializes in providing experienced attorneys and paralegals to legal departments and law firms nationwide. Prior to joining Latitude, McKnight practiced employment law at Am Law 100 firm Ogle tree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart, P.C., in Nashville.

Rutherford Johnson ’08 AFE was awarded the Ac creditation Council for Busi ness Schools and Programs Teaching Excellence Award for region four. Johnson specializes in consumer behavior and economic geography. He teaches in the business department at University of Minnesota in Crookston, Minnesota.

Robert Andrew Fleming ’09 LAW has been named to Sports Business Journal’s 2022 40 Under 40 Class. The

list is a prestigious recogni tion of the best young tal ent in sports business from across the United States. Fleming is the president and chief executive officer at Breeders’ Cup Limited.

Amy Laub-Carroll ’09 CI has been appointed as a member to the Deposi tory Library Council with the U.S. Government Publishing Office. She is the regional depository librarian at the University of Kentucky.

2010s

Lamar Allen ’10 AFE has been named acting pro gram director at the Carter G. Woodson Preparatory Academy in Lexington, Kentucky. He joined Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2015. He has been the professional growth and effectiveness coach at the Woodson Academy.

Shawn Love ’10 HS is the director of sports medicine and health athletic trainer for the University of Louis ville football program. Love was promoted after serving as associate football athlet ic trainer for the Cardinals since 2018. He joined UofL after four seasons as an assistant football athletic trainer at the University of Kansas.

Dr. Gregory Repass ’10 MED has been named chief operation officer at Baptist Health in Lexington, Ken

tucky. Repass, an internal medicine physician, has been with Baptist Health since 2013.

Kara Dill ’12 ’13 ED was recently selected as Univer sity of Texas at Arlington’s softball coach after spend ing the last six years as an assistant coach with Texas A&M at College Station, Texas. Dill was an All-SEC player and one of the top leadoff hitters in the confer ence during her Kentucky playing career.

Michael Quillen ’12 ED has been elected to the board of directors of the Association of Chief Aca demic Officers. Quillen, the Rowan-Cabarrus Commu nity College Vice President of Academic Programs, will begin his second term with ACAO and also serves as chair of the ACAO mem bership committee.

Kelsey Elizabeth Slone ’13 AS has been named vice president for sales at Pru dent American Technolo gies. She has been with the company since its founding in 2018. Previously she served as national accounts manager.

Julie Burland ’14 PH received a $50,000 grant from the Arthroscopy Asso ciation of North America to study female college soccer players to see how sensors and biomarkers can help predict and prevent injury on the field. Burland is the director of research at the

University of Connecticut’s Institute for Sports Medicine.

Rachael High Chamberlain ’14 LAW has been promot ed by Frost Brown Todd to a member of the firm. She practices tax law in the firm’s Florence, Kentucky office. She serves as the secretary of the taxation section of the Kentucky Bar Association.

Dr. Laura Cleary ’14 MED is opening a new dermatol ogy practice in Riverfront Medical Center at The Bend in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dr. Cleary has been practic ing dermatology in the Chat tanooga area since 2018.

Haley S. McCoy ’16 BE has been president and CEO of the Kentucky Asso ciation for Economic Devel opment. McCoy previously served as the Executive Director of Economic De velopment for the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

Cody Spence ’16 ED has been named the director of career and technical educa tion at East Center Com munity College in Decatur, Mississippi. Spence has been serving as a workforce coordinator for ECCC since 2016.

Michelle di Russo ’17 FA has been promoted to the role of associate conductor of the North Carolina Sym phony. She joined the sym phony in 2021 as assistant conductor. For the 2022-23 season, she will continue to lead North Carolina Symphony’s Education and Pops Concerts in Raleigh and throughout the state.

Grant Mauk ’17 EN was recently hired as a me chanical project engineer with Prime Engineering in Huntington, West Virginia. He performs work for a variety of industries, mainly focused on oil and gas and will work with Prime’s indus trial clientele.

R. Nick Rabold ’17 LAW has joined Bowling Green, Kentucky’s Lucas, Priest & Owsley law firm as an associate attorney. He practices in the areas of general litigation, health care, government and ap peals. He previously served as assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Dr. Phillip Chang ’18 BE has been named senior vice president and chief medical and quality officer at Memorial Hermann

Gail A. Clark Gatewood ’75 ED was crowned home coming queen in 1974. The football team played Vanderbilt and won 38-12.

Health System in Houston, Texas. Chang trained as a trauma and general surgeon. In 2016 he became system chief medical officer at UK HealthCare.

Gentry Collins ’18 LAW has joined Stites & Harbison’s trusts and estates service group and will be based in the firm’s Lexington office. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Collins worked in estate planning and adminis tration practices with a small law firm in Lexington.

Blake Denson ’18 FA has been selected as a recipi ent of the 2022 Sara Tucker Study Grant of $5,000. Denson is a studio artist at the Houston Grand Opera and he will be making his company debut with the Des Moines Metro Opera singing Jake in “Porgy and Bess.”

Hunter Gillispie ’18 EN recently graduated from Leadership Texarkana, com pleting a year-long Leader ship Texarkana leadership program. He works as a quality engineer at Cooper Tires.

Abhishek Anil Kognole ’18 EN has recently been hired by SilcsBio as applications scientist, computational chemistry. Kognole is a computational chemist and biophysicist.

William Evan Nixon ’18 AS earned his law degree from University of Notre Dame. He is a staff attorney for Chief Circuit Judge Honor able Mitch Perry in Jefferson County, Kentucky.

Katherine Perros ’18 AFE, ’20 FA has become the executive director of the Great American Brass Band Festival held annually in Danville, Kentucky. She was the assistant band director at Danville High School and has performed all around Kentucky as a saxophonist and vocalist.

2020s

Natasha Davis ’21 ED has been appointed special assistant to the president for strategic planning and compliance at Houghton College in Houghton, New York. Davis has served as assistant dean for the Caudill College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky.

Maira Gomez ’21 LAW has joined English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley as an associate attorney. She practices in the areas of immigration law, em ployment law and family law. At the UK Rosenberg College of Law, she was a member of the Trial Advocacy Board, president of the Latino Law Student Association and a student advisor for the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Student Advisory Board.

Hannah Edelen ’22 ED was crowned Miss Kentucky 2022. She will represent Ken tucky at the Miss America pageant in December where her social impact platform will be called “Read Ready Kentucky.” Edelen worked as a teacher in the Coving ton Independent Schools and is a doctoral student at UK. She recently published “Hank the Horse and the Case of Missing Eggs!”

Allie Wasson ’22 BE has joined the communication consulting firm of Wiser Strategies in Lexington as the Marketing and Admin istrative Services Specialist. She joined Wiser Strategies in 2020, first as an intern and soon after as a part-time em ployee. Wasson will continue her work in analytics and business development for the firm, as well as marketing for multiple clients.

Kristin Catherine “KC” Watts Crosbie ’92 CI was homecoming queen in 1989. The Wildcats played Rutgers on October 14 and beat them 33-26.

William Gilbert ’19 LAW was recently honored by the American Bar Association as the newcomer of the year in healthcare law at a ceremo ny in Miami, Florida. He is employed by Waller Lansden Dortch and Davis in Nash ville, Tennessee.

Information in Class Notes is compiled from previously published items in newspapers and other media outlets, as well as items submitted by individual alumni.

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COLLEGE INDEX

Agriculture, Food & Environment — AFE Arts & Sciences — AS Business & Economics — BE Communication & Information — CI Dentistry — DE Design — DES Education — ED Engineering — EN

Fine Arts — FA

The Graduate School — GS Health Sciences — HS Law — LAW Medicine — MED Nursing — NUR Pharmacy — PHA Public Health — PH Social Work — SW

Alumni Feature

DISTINGUISHED COLLEGE OF PHARMACY ALUMNI RECOGNIZED FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE

By Rosa Mejia-Cruz

Three accomplished University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (UKCOP) alumni have become the latest inductees to the College’s Hall of Distinguished Alumni. The College recognized their professional achievements at the Hall of Distinguished Alumni and Preceptors Awards Ceremony.

The 2021 inductees include Young Alumni Award winner Dr. Joshua Brown (‘16) and Lifetime Achievement Award winners Dr. Eiichi Akaho (‘79) and Dr. Stephen W. Schondelmeyer (‘77). Their peers selected these three new inductees for their exceptional contributions to their respective fields and their embodiment of UKCOP values.

“For more than 150 years, the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy has produced outstanding pharmacy practitioners and researchers who have changed how we think about patient health and scientific progress,” said Dean R. Kip Guy. “We are proud to celebrate the achievements of three bold innovators who have dedicated their lives to improving the way we teach and practice pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences.”

Part two of this series highlights Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award recipient Eiichi Akaho, Ph.D.

Dr. Eiichi Akaho completed pre-medicine coursework at the University of California at Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.S. in pharmacy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (‘75). He obtained a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences under the supervision of Dr. Anwar Hussain at the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy (‘79), where he also served as a teaching assistant. Akaho’s dissertation “Dosage form design for the continuous release of 4-hexylresorcinol” was the first dissertation overseen by Hussain. After completing his Ph.D., Akaho began a distinguished academic career at Kobe Gakuin University in Japan, where he rose through the ranks to his current status as professor emeritus.

Akaho has delivered numerous invited talks at national and international scientific meetings, including the Japan Medical Association Conference and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP), the global body representing over four million pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists. Throughout his career, Akaho received generous funding from the International Corporation Research Grant in Japan (¥3.9 million), the Canadian Ambassador Research Grant ($15 million Canadian), Fundamental Research Grant C from the Ministry of Educa tion, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan (¥3.1 million), Private University Advancement Grant from Ministry

Eiichi Akaho, Ph.D.

“For more than 150 years, the UK College of Pharmacy has produced outstanding pharmacy practitioners and researchers who have changed how we think about patient health and scientific progress.”

of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in Japan (¥2.6 million), and the Kobe Gakuin University Corporation Grant (¥2 million), to name a few.

Akaho has been selected as a nominator for the Japan Interna tional Prize, commonly referred to as the Japanese International Nobel Prize. The Japan International Prize is awarded annually to scientists and engineers from around the world who have made significant contributions to the advancement of science and technology, thereby furthering the cause of peace and prosperity for humanity. Nominators are strictly comprised of prominent scientists and researchers invited by the Japan Prize Foundation. Akaho has published 70 articles in international journals, 41 papers in scientific journals, and 12 books.

In Memoriam

Mary W. Craig ‘38 AS Owensboro, Ky.

Elizabeth C. Danforth ‘43 AS Columbus, Ind.

William E. Nolan ‘43 EN Lubbock, Texas

Marian Viola Congleton ‘45

AFE Lexington, Ky.

Mary Mitts Evans ‘45 AFE Winchester, Ky.

Joseph B. Beard III ‘47 AS Lakewood Ranch, Fla.

Dr. James E. Criswell ‘47 ‘48 AFE

Wilmore, Ky.

Life Member

Joann E. Klatt ‘47 CI Morrow, Ohio

Mary Ann Burdette ‘48 AS Lexington, Ky.

Joseph H. Bailey Jr. ‘49 AS Louisville, Ky.

Life Member, Fellow

Mitchell V. Owens ‘49 PH Guthrie, Okla.

Elizabeth C. Spencer ‘49 AS, ‘74 CI Winchester, Ky.

Dr. Paul J. Cunningham ‘50 AS Galveston, Texas

Life Member

Lucille D. Juett ‘50 ED Ashland, Ky.

Life Member

Marvin Greenwald ‘51 PHA Miami Beach, Fla.

MaryAnn Kearney ‘51 HS Lexington, Ky.

Charles L. Locker ‘51 BE Crystal Lake, Ill.

Life Member

George W. Schoolcraft ‘51 AFE Corbin, Ky.

Alfred J. Graves ‘52 ‘55 EN Seffner, Fla.

Miss Emma Virginia Jayne ‘52 ‘56 ED Ashland, Ky.

Life Member

Mary Katherine Swinford ‘53 BE Cynthiana, Ky.

Charles H. Cole ‘54 ‘58 EN Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. Ann Marie O’Roark ‘55 CI Saint Augustine, Fla.

Dr. James F. Thorpe ‘55 EN New Port Richey, Fla.

Glenn L. Adams ‘56 AFE Richmond, Ky.

Robert M. Biltz ‘56 AS Madison, Conn.

Life Member

Everett Alan McFee ‘56 AFE Britt, Iowa

Donald B. Shelton ‘56 ‘65 EN Lexington, Ky.

Albert R. Turley ‘56 AS Kerrville, Texas

Jane H. Yeiser ‘57 ED Owensboro, Ky. Life Member

Mary C. Bentley ‘58 AS Nashville, Tenn.

Brent A. Clay ‘58 CI Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Betty L. Jones ‘58 ED Raleigh, N.C.

Carla K. McFee ‘58 ED Britt, Iowa

Clyde R. Carpenter ‘59 EN Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Anne Nelson Coffman ‘59 AS Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Lucia Lee McCall ‘59 ED Lexington, Ky.

Susan Seidel ‘59 ED Wilmington, N.C. Life Member

Ron Cummings ‘60 AS Louisville, Colo. Life Member

Donald M. Mattox ‘60 AS Santa Fe, N.M.

Ruth Hatchett Duncan ‘61 AFE

Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow Richard A. Loeffler ‘61 BE Lexington, Ky.

June M. Parrish ‘62 AS Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Dr. Aubrey Daryll Wills ‘62 AS, ‘67 MED Laramie, Wyo.

Dale R. Lovell ‘63 ‘68 AFE Greenville, Ky.

Lee Renfrew Wallace ‘63 ED Saint Louis, Mo.

Sally Crossland Money ‘64 AS Shelbyville, Ky.

Robert J. Baglan ‘65 EN Saint Louis, Mo.

Dr. D. McAllister ‘65 MED Louisville, Ky.

Judith Ann Elias ‘66 AS Seminole, Fla. Life Member

Dr. Edwin J. Nighbert ‘66 MED Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Louis Robert Owen Jr. ‘66 DES Meridian, Miss.

John P. Reisz ‘66 BE, ‘69 LAW Louisville, Ky. Fellow

Dr. F. Douglas Scutchfield ‘66 MED Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Robert M. Staib ‘66 AS, ‘76 ED Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Sarah M. Camden ‘67 ED Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Frank B. Chumley ‘67 AS Crestwood, Ky.

Allie W. Denny ‘67 AS Daytona Beach, Fla.

Dr. Joseph R. Pugh ‘67 MED Franklin, Tenn.

Beth R. Wadlington ‘67 ED Olive Branch, Miss.

Life Member

Dr. Gregory McConnell ‘68 AS Naples, Fla.

Dr. T. Milton Skeeters ‘68 DE Radcliff, Ky. Fellow

Martha D. Alexander ‘69 DES, ‘91 GS Bloomington, Ind.

Valerie L. Langlois ‘69 ED Lexington, Ky.

Marilyn A. Logue ‘69 CI Washington, D.C.

Ted R. Renaker ‘69 BE Lexington, Ky.

Life Member, Fellow

Shirley Ann Adair ‘70 NUR Lexington, Ky.

Dr. Peter M. Guzy ‘70 AS Lockport, N.Y.

William J. Haunert ‘70 BE Hardeeville, S.C.

Dr. Donald L. Musselman ‘70 ‘72 ED Rockingham, Va. Life Member

Maurine Pyle ‘70 AS Carbondale, Ill.

Bettina G. Todd ‘70 ED, ‘75 CI Horn Lake, Miss.

Mary Jane Combs ‘71 ED Sturgeon Bay, Wis. Life Member

Dr. I. Roger Morehouse ‘71 MED Blowing Rock, N.C.

Dr. John H. Scahill ‘71 ‘72 ‘81 ED Lexington, Ky.

Sen. Joe R. Bowen ‘72 BE Owensboro, Ky.

Jimmy Darrell Mullins ‘72 AFE Amburgey, Ky.

Joyce Carolne Hahn ‘73 CI Lexington, Ky. Fellow

George J. Kopser ‘73 BE Wellborn, Fla. Life Member

Guy R. Colson ‘74 LAW Lexington, Ky. Fellow

Joseph E. Graft ‘74 LCC/LTI, ‘75 BE Lexington, Ky.

Dr. Robert W. Haney Jr. ‘74 ‘82 AS Savannah, Ga. Life Member

James William Holifield ‘74 SW Lexington, Ky.

Kathryn Amanda Lewis ‘74 HS Louisville, Ky.

Rebecca B. Loar ‘74 ED Lawrenceville, Ga. Life Member

Dr. Billie Wayne Rideout ‘74 ED Henderson, Ky.

Philip D. Rowe ‘74 ‘83 ED Lexington, Ky.

Kay C. Jones ‘75 PHA Richmond, Ky.

Michael R. Pratt ‘75 ED Louisville, Ky. Life Member

William J. Shaw ‘76 AS Farragut, Tenn.

Pamela Wofford ‘76 AS Frederick, Md.

Harvey H. Helm ‘77 EN Lexington, Ky. Life Member

Linda L. Milligan ‘77 BE Lexington, Ky.

Charles H. Stewart ‘77 AS Lexington, Ky.

Dr. Alan E. Bland ‘78 AS Laramie, Wyo.

H. T. Cecil ‘78 PHA Richmond, Ky.

Donna Gail Combs ‘78 ‘86 NUR Hazard, Ky.

John C. Mahre ‘79 DES Hopkinsville, Ky. Life Member

William R. Nicholson ‘79 BE Lawrenceburg, Ky.

Donna B. Lott ‘80 CI Cincinnati, Ohio

Kent C. Shelton ‘80 LCC/LTI, ‘85 CI, ‘94 PHA Lexington, Ky.

Marcy Dianne Brown ‘81 ED Danville, Ky.

Roger M. Weaver ‘81 BE Winter Springs, Fla.

Robert J. Pohrer ‘83 BE Saint Louis, Mo.

John F. Clines Jr. ‘84 AS Lexington, Ky.

Edward C. Lewis ‘84 EN Franklin, Tenn.

Dr. Ralph E. Miller ‘85 MED Lexington, Mass. Fellow

Charles J. Sauer ‘88 AFE Lexington, Ky.

Leona Ellis Edge ‘89 AS Sonora, Ky.

Lisa Price ‘91 BE Williamson, W.Va.

Dag Ryen ‘92 AS Santa Fe, N.M.

Elizabeth Cecil Clay ‘94 SW Lexington, Ky.

Julie Beth Hayden ‘94 AFE Lexington, Ky.

Edward C. Kennedy ‘94 FA Lexington, Ky.

Andre M. Gouws ‘95 PHA Prosser, Wash.

Miram G. Gerlach ‘96 CI Ocala, Fla.

Cynthia Ann Bowling ‘01 ‘13 SW Lexington, Ky.

Bonnie Lynn Conaway ‘02 FA Lexington, Ky.

In Memoriam

Whitney Elizabeth Hines ‘04

AFE

Elizabethtown, Ky.

Dr. Haley Renee Wehder ‘15

AS, ‘19 MED Corbin, Ky.

Collin G. Burt ‘19 AS Columbus, Ohio

FORMER STUDENTS AND FRIENDS

Dr. Jerry E. Anderson Lexington, Ky. Life Member, Fellow

Marydel M. Burton Winter Park, Fla.

Hays L. Cowley Jr. Lexington, Ky.

James Dale Creech Nicholasville, Ky. Fellow

Janelle H. Dishman Charleston, S.C.

Lillian C. Fisher Lexington, Ky.

Walter Fisher Lexington, Ky.

Virginia Lee Gleason South Charleston, W.Va. Life Member

David A. Harman II Navarre, Fla.

Donald McGee Harmon Versailles, Ky.

Life Member, Fellow

Mary Carolee Harris Ann Arbor, Mich.

Walter E. Hirsch Belmond, Iowa

Ronald Paul Hooker Lexington, Ky.

James B. Jenkins Bluffton, S.C.

Dr. Russell A. Jones Lexington, Ky.

Life Member

Robert Keith Noel Lexington, Ky.

Jeannie R. Nunnery Sarasota, Fla.

Louise Phillips Jonesboro, Ark.

Frederick D. Schleifer Jr. Morganfield, Ky.

Nina W. Tucker Louisville, Ky.

Billy H. Turner Fort Myers, Fla.

Dr. Ronald Elwood Walton Golden, Colo.

Tim Webb Middlesboro, Ky.

Life Member

Mike Wilder Danville, Ky.

Valerie K. Wood Louisville, Ky.

Kelley L. Young Kansas City, Mo.

Marcia Lou Zack Lexington, Ky.

Creative Juices

Peter Zeihan ’98 GS has published “The End of the World Is Just the Begin ning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization.” In the book, geopolitical strategist Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where coun tries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own en ergy, fight their own battles and do it all with popula tions that are both shrinking and aging. The list of coun tries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Which means everything about our interconnected world — from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all — is about to change. In customary Zeihan fashion, rather than yelling fire in the geoeconomic theatre, he narrates the accumulation of matchsticks, gasoline and dynamite in the hands of the oblivious audience, suggesting we might want to call the fire department. A world ending. A world beginning. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminat ing (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit and his trademark irreverence.

Kelly Motley ’90 AS has written “The Fight for My Life: Boxing Through Che mo” which chronicles how training and boxing helped her navigate a breast can cer diagnosis and chemo therapy. The book is about developing a stronger mind, body and soul for facing your worst enemy, whether it’s cancer, divorce, bankruptcy or something else. This book is for any one who feels desperate, lonely or terrified by an unexpected circumstance. Motley writes with humility and fearlessness about her journey as a mom, business owner, wife, friend, daughter, grand daughter and ultimately a boxer. She has written the book she wished she had when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Motley is a former public relations and marketing professional.

Jayne Moore Waldrop ’83 AS, ’86 LAW has written

“Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems.” With truly remark able and arresting haiku, Waldrop leads us through the tumult of the early months of our global health crisis with sensitivity and insight. Her valuable and succinct intro duction explains how the poems grew out of her Lenten discipline for the season. The work itself captures the foreboding of the siege of Covid-19, while effectively delineating the little details of a spring both natural and unnatural. A most unique daybook, it offers comfort and hope much as does the Christian ethos, never denying death but always averring new life and rebirth. This collection will stand the test of time as a well-turned reminder of human resilience.

M.Nolan Gray ’15 AS has published “Arbitrary Lines: How Zoning Broke the American City and How to Fix It.” With lively explanations and stories, Gray shows why zoning abolition is a necessary — if not sufficient — con dition for building more affordable, vibrant, equitable, and sustainable cities. The arbitrary lines of zoning maps across the country have come to dictate where Americans may live and work, forcing cities into a pattern of growth that is segregated and sprawling. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way. Reform is in the air, with cities and states across the country critically reevaluating zoning. In “Arbitrary Lines,” Gray lays the groundwork for this ambitious cause by clearing up common confusions and myths about how American cities regulate growth and examining the major contemporary critiques of zon ing. Gray sets out some of the efforts currently underway to reform zoning and charts how land-use regulation might work in the post-zoning American city.

Stephen J. McGuire ’73 AS has written “Fractured Power,” a dark and haunting psychological thriller about Aiden Fletcher, a young man who came from humble origins and uses his extraordinary ambition and devi ous ingenuity to fulfill his inevitable destiny and reach the pinnacle of power in Washington, D.C. As a newly elected district attorney whose office investigates a rash of murders of young women in Knoxville, Tennessee, he uses his position to manipulate the evidence while pursuing a serial killer whose arrest and trial puts Fletcher in the public limelight and forever changes the trajectory of his extraordinarily treacherous life. His first book, “Prior Restraint,” also a political thriller, was published in 2021.

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Quick Take

MEET THE 2022-2023 CLASS OF UK ALUMNI AMBASSADORS

Each year we welcome a new group of Alumni Ambassadors of the University of Kentucky Alumni Association. This group of students, who serve as the official student hosts for the University of Kentucky, bridge the gap between alumni and current students and create positive experiences for both.This team promotes the University of Kentucky at university and alumni association events and assists in strengthening students’ roles within the university. These students represent the best and brightest of University of Kentucky students. We are excited for the year ahead and look forward to working with them.

From left to right:

Front row: Emily O’Dell, Veronica Murray, Abigail Elbert and Rachel Weaver. Second row: Shannon Nguyen, Grace McDonald, Madison Argue, Julia Rhorer and Christy Kirkham. Third row: Lilly Meekin, Mattie Strode, Caroline Youdes, Meredith Compton, Autumn Rodgers and Dasha Boikov. Fourth row: Madeline Pass, Elizabeth Piipponen, Lauren Weisert, Lauren Hickey, Elizabeth Akers, Isha Chauhan and Lily Messer. Back row: Isabella Bowling, Tanner Thompson, Jordan Colella, Jackson Huse and Mary Grace Hemingway.

Photo by Stacey Gish

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