xt79gh9b8d43 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt79gh9b8d43/data/mets.xml Lexington, Kentucky University of Kentucky Alumni Association 2016 journals English University of Kentucky Alumni Association Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Kentucky alumnus Kentucky Alumni, vol. 88, no. 3, Fall 2016 text Kentucky Alumni, vol. 88, no. 3, Fall 2016 2016 2019 true xt79gh9b8d43 section xt79gh9b8d43 FA L L 2 0 1 6 * There’s only one place you can truly sleep like a champion on an official bed! Coach John Calipari with UK Grad and Sleep Outfitters Founder & CEO, Kim Knopf To find out more about the exclusive UK Mattress and Pillow Collection, visit sleepoutfitters.com/ukbed A portion of the proceeds benefit the S LEEP L IK E A C H A MPIO N - P L AY L IK E www.caliparifoundation.org A C H A MPIO N We are the Official Sleep Provider of ® Athletics * Fall 2016 • Volume 88 • Number 3 Dr. James W. May Jr. is a 2015 inductee of the UK Alumni Association Hall of Distinguished Alumni. Cover: Adam Kuykendall 16 Dr. James W. May Jr.: Groundbreaking work in reconstructive surgery As one of the world’s most accomplished plastic surgeons, Dr. James W. May Jr. was at the forefront of advancing a cutting-edge plastic surgery technique known as microsurgery. By Robin Roenker 12 20 Billy Harper: seeing blue and making a difference UK alumnus Billy Harper ’66, a Paducah native, transforms his family’s business and channels his life pursuits into philanthropy at UK. Leading by example Meet the 10 newest members serving for the first time on the UK Alumni Association Board of Directors. By Linda Perry 22 28 30 Our Wildcat Society members The UK Alumni Association is thankful to all UK alumni and friends of the association who have given generously to the Wildcat Society this year. SEC trailblazers Nate Northington, Greg Page, Wilbur Hackett and Houston Hogg paved the way for black student athletes. 2016 UK Homecoming: ‘Going the Extra Mile’ Fellow alumni, students and friends will gather Oct. 1 - 9 in Lexington for fun and fellowship to celebrate the 2016 UK Homecoming. Photo : Adam Kuykendall Departments Dr. James W. May Jr. 4 7 8 11 33 34 37 Association President Message Presidential Conversation UK News Blue Horizons Sports Association News Alumni Clubs 39 40 52 54 55 56 College View Class Notes In Memoriam Creative Juices Retrospect Quick Take www.ukalumni.net 1 * MUSEUM. HOTEL. RESTAURANT. Now open in downtown Lexington. Discounted rate for UK alumni members. For reservations, call 859.899.6800 and mention the UK Alumni rate. 167 West Main Street | Lexington, KY 40507 21cLexington.com *21c Lexington only. Based on availability. Blackout dates apply. 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Not only does the start of fall remind us of the transition into another academic year, but the anticipation of the beautiful fall foliage reminds us that in this season, change will be upon us. In addition, the cranes, altered routes, new buildings and construction workers also remind us that our campus is in a time of transformation — an exciting time to celebrate as UK alumni. Your UK Alumni Association is also changing. We are adjusting our sails. As president of the UK Alumni Association for 2016-2017, I am taking this opportunity to announce a recent reporting change for the association: the UK Alumni Association is now reporting to the UK Office of Philanthropy (formerly known as the UK Office of Development). This move will further help the association to focus on new alumni engagement initiatives. The association has reported to University Relations for many years, and we’ve benefited by its guidance. But many of our benchmark alumni associations are aligned with the university’s foundation or development offices. Now our reporting move to Philanthropy will more closely align UK’s two units that have missions of alumni engagement. Each unit on its own has worked to advance UK’s interests and missions; now both will do so together. Both areas represent alumni and friend engagement. And there is no doubt that both divisions engage with activities that connect alumni and friends to UK. Both have a shared vision of making “UK Great” and have a cohesive tie in to UK’s Strategic Plan goals. From a practical standpoint, the two units already share a common alumni database, so the move is a no-brainer. Just as our UK campus has changed over the last several years through construction projects, our alumni association is also changing. But some things will stay the same. The structure of the association will continue to maintain its 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, and the association will continue to be governed by its board of directors. And most important, the vision of the UK Alumni Association will continue to be a connection for alumni and friends to the University of Kentucky, as it has been since 1889. The association will continue to enhance the lives of alumni, the university and its students. We will provide opportunities for increased engagement by current and future alumni in service to each other, to the university and to the communities that the university serves across the Commonwealth and beyond. The UK Office of Philanthropy will continue to be the office identified with, and leading, the university’s fundraising and gift stewardship efforts. There are opportunities to be had by this new reporting collaboration, including efficiencies of staffing and operations between the two units similar to how we have always shared the alumni/ philanthropy database. So while we previously worked together as colleagues on campus, now we will work together as colleagues within the same reporting line. By working more closely together, there is opportunity for collaborative performance metrics. For example, an effort will be launched to find new ways to measure alumni engagement. We will initiate new efforts to better understand the nature and extent of alumni engagement and how alumni feel about the university and its initiatives. The results of this work will help the UK Alumni Association be more effective in our communications and engagement with you — our alumni and other key audiences. As we adjust our sails in 2016-2017, I look forward to working with you for an even more effective UK Alumni Association. Sincerely, Peggy S. 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Email holly.clark@uky.edu or call 859.257.1133 for more information on how you may become a valued Member of the Hilary J. Boone Center at the University of Kentucky. MEMBERSHIPS AVAILABLE TO UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF THE UK ALUMNI ASSOCIATION – CLUB MEMBERSHIPS SUBJECT TO APPROVAL. 6 Fall 2016 * Presidential Conversation UK’s foundation for the future This institution, and the members of the UK family, have boldly confronted challenges, risen to meet new opportunities and redefined what it means to be the university for Kentucky over the last 150 years. The university was guided through substantial financial challenges by President James Patterson. Presidents Frank McVey and Herman Donovan helped navigate two world wars, meeting the calls to support our collective national effort. Though not soon enough, we opened our doors to all people, fulfilling the lofty intention of our establishing land grant legislation. Throughout history, our mission has been to teach, discover, heal and serve. Indeed, what the UK family was able to overcome through its history illustrates the extent to which our people define this place and its purpose. Today, faced with a new array of complex questions and issues, we find the university again climbing an increasingly steep mountain. In the last five years, we initiated or approved some $2.1 billion in capital investments to improve student success, instruction, research and discovery, quality of life and health care. Approximately 91 percent of that investment is the result of public-private partnerships, philanthropy, strategic use of university resources or other collaborations such as unprecedented support from UK Athletics for the Academic Science Building. We welcomed successive record-setting, first-year classes that have joined the UK family and moved total enrollment past 30,700 — the largest in our history. And these students are succeeding at higher levels. UK’s retention rates have increased more than six percentage points in the last decade to record levels, which are projected to continue climbing. This trajectory translates to record degree attainment, including more than 6,600 over the last academic year. Since 2011, we’ve invested more in UK-funded student financial aid and scholarships that did not have to be repaid by our students. Over the last five years, we’ve increased UK’s investment in student financial aid and scholarships by $60 million — now up to $117 million — doubling the investment in the last decade. Faculty and staff researchers added to a growing portfolio of transformative research, discovery, and creative scholarship. In fiscal year 2015-2016, UK received $316.5 million in external research grants and contracts — signifying that we are a major player among research institutions in the country. In October 2015, we broke ground on a $265 million, multidisciplinary research facility to advance discovery and address critical Kentucky needs. UK HealthCare continued to meet the needs of patients and families who require complex, quality health care through our network of providers and state-of-the-art academic medical center. Annual patient discharges have grown by more than 95 percent since 2003, and UK HealthCare is now a $1.5 billion enterprise that cares for patients throughout Kentucky and, increasingly, the region. New partners joined in our progress as the university reached unprecedented levels of success in private philanthropy. Last year, UK received more than 95,000 gifts from more than 50,400 donors. As a result, our total work product exceeds $207 million doubling UK’s philanthropic outcomes in the last five years. In total, our work fueled Kentucky’s economy by providing a 12-fold return on the Commonwealth’s $267 million investment in its flagship university. UK employees pay more than $90 million annually in state/local taxes, and UK’s research enterprise has a more than $580 million impact on Kentucky’s economy. Two-thirds of graduates are employed in Kentucky after graduation. UK’s capital improvements create tens of thousands of direct and indirect construction, contracting and supplier jobs. Over the last five years, the university has made extraordinary progress and developed considerable momentum. The new 2015-2020 Strategic Plan is a pivot point in the transformation of the university in which we build upon the foundation created in the past four years with bold strategic thinking about the future. Endorsed by the UK Board of Trustees in October 2015, the Strategic Plan embraces the institution’s mission as a public flagship and land-grant research university. A university — by its design and the opportunities we have to teach, to share, to explore, to serve, to challenge, to question and to comfort — is the place where we can, must, and will make progress on the complex questions of our day. The Strategic Plan will help us build on an extraordinary foundation. But our work today — and our focus on the future — reminds us in compelling ways of our legacy, our history of confronting and overcoming challenges to meet the needs of those we serve. In the wake of the First World War, amid a tumultuous period in our history, President Frank McVey believed that the university needed to be viewed “as more than an economic asset. It served, in fact, as an essential component of the well-being of the state, and in that position it needs to be free to seek truth.” In his words, he concluded that “what will save this nation after the war are the universities.” Each day we are, together, grappling with how we continue to fulfill this vision. We are working with a sense of common purpose at an uncommon and distinctive place to find those answers. As part of our alumni family — a Big Blue Nation united — I look forward to sharing that future with you. www.ukalumni.net 7 * UK News Five residence halls get new ‘old’ names Photo: Explore UK The UK Board of Trustees has apDean Paul P. Boyd in 1906, and they proved the renaming of five residence moved to Kentucky. She was a teacher halls in honor of the achievements of of the classics, Greek and Latin. An prominent leaders in UK’s history. active member of the UK community, Five years ago, much of UK’s campus Boyd was president of the UK Woman’s infrastructure was in need of improveClub and the Board of Control of Womment as it did not serve the technology en’s Dormitories for 25 years. Because of and learning needs of students. Now, her service to women’s residence halls, physical spaces across the campus are the original Boyd Hall was named for changing to meet the demands of a 21st Boyd around 1933. century living and learning experience. Limestone Park II will be named CleoUnder the leadership of President na Belle Matthews Boyd Hall. Eli Capilouto, and with the support of Francis Jewell McVey was a native the Board of Trustees, UK has been Kentuckian and graduate of Vassar Colable to execute a $1.9 billion transforlege and Columbia University. Beginning mation. The vast majority of that transas an instructor at UK in the English formation has been paid for through Department from 1915-1921, Jewell a combination of university resources, served as dean of women from 1921 partnerships with private businesses and until she married President Frank McVey UK Athletics, and private giving. in 1923 and ended her employment with Today, campus looks far different. the university. However, she became well Champions Court I will be named However, that transformation does not known across the state as an ambassador Frances Jewell Hall. change the university’s history. for UK. She opened Maxwell Place to “Even as we are focused on the future and the transformathe campus and community for various social and cultural tion that continues to take place on our campus, we also must events and remained engaged in campus and civic life. ensure that we honor our history and the legacy of accomChampions Court I will be named Frances Jewell Hall. plishment that has helped shape this special place,” said UK Georgia M. Blazer served continuously on the UK Board Board Chairman Britt Brockman. “Renaming these residence of Trustees from 1939 to 1961. The current Blazer Hall is no halls for those who made UK’s mission of education for all longer in service as a residence hall and will be razed in 2018. of Kentucky possible is just one way we remind ourselves and After the new Blazer Hall is dedicated, the current Blazer Hall those we serve of the path we have taken and the work by so will be known simply as Blazer Dining until it is decommismany to help make this institution the university for Kentucky.” sioned. The original Blazer Hall was named to recognize BlazThat is especially true on north campus where a number of er’s long service to the UK Board of Trustees and the Blazer previous residence halls held the names of many of the univerfamily’s support of the university. sity’s mothers: Holmes, Boyd, Jewell and Blazer. Those names Champions Court II will be named Georgia M. Blazer Hall. are now returning to campus — to the new residence halls — On central campus, a dormitory formerly known as Donthose opened two years ago and others scheduled to open this ovan Hall was demolished to accommodate the construction fall across Avenue of Champions and around Patterson Hall, of the new Academic Science Building. Donovan Hall will which was the first women’s residence hall on campus. return, as well. Following are the new names of the residence halls and Herman Lee Donovan, UK’s fourth president (1941information about the people of significance for whom the 1956), guided the university through World War II and desegbuildings are being named: regation. He focused much of his energy on postwar planning Sarah Bennett Holmes served as UK’s dean of women for UK, which witnessed an influx of returning service men from 1942 until 1957. She defended the rights and welfare of and women. Donovan pushed for the opening in 1955 of the female students. Holmes earned two degrees from the Univernorthern Extension Center in Covington, the establishment sity of Kentucky and, in honor of her service, was named state of new academic programs and made preliminary plans for mother of Kentucky and received the Sullivan Medallion. The the establishment of a medical school. In retirement, Donooriginal Holmes Hall was named in honor of Sarah Bennett van published “Keeping the University Free and Growing.” Holmes on May 25, 1958. Born in 1887 in Mason County, Donovan died on Nov. 21, Limestone Park I will be named Sarah Bennett Holmes Hall. 1964. Cleona Belle Matthews Boyd, a native of Missouri, taught Central Hall II will be named Herman Lee Donovan Hall. Greek and Latin at Park College Academy until she married 8 Fall 2016 * Photo: UK Public Relations & Marketing Four-legged Gill staffer helps patients walk back to health Carmine pauses with handler Katelyn King. At 85 pounds, Carmine is one of the smallest visitors to the UK Gill Heart Institute’s inpatient unit. As a therapy dog, the English Labrador retriever does what dogs do best — make people happy — but he is not just any therapy dog. He is one of the few unit-specific therapy dogs in the United States. His assignment is simple: get patients up and walking. As transitions of care coordinator for Gill, Katelyn King is Carmine’s handler when he’s on the unit. King visits with patients before they are discharged, using the time to explain what to expect in rehabilitation and to encourage them to make lifestyle adjustments at home. Part of that recovery begins almost as soon as patients are admitted to the hospital, since the unit philosophy is to walk every patient, every day — regardless of how sick they are. Carmine is on duty every Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings. King ultimately hopes to expand Carmine’s skill set to help patients in other areas of recovery. “If I can get him to play volleyball with a balloon, for example, he can help patients with balance and reaction times,” she said. As Carmine walks the unit, it’s clear he’s a popular attraction. Staff and families roaming the halls stop to say hello and pat Carmine’s massive, blocky head. His first order of business: licking the shoes of everyone who greets him. “We’re not exactly sure why he does that,” King laughs. “We think that’s his way of checking people out.” College of Pharmacy names new dean R. Kiplin Guy, a renowned researcher who specializes in the development of drugs to combat pediatric diseases, has been named the dean of the College of Pharmacy, assuming the position Oct. 1. He is chairman of the Department of Chemical Biology and Therapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and held the Robert J. Ulrich Endowed Chair. He also has held secondary appointments as adjunct professor of pharmaceutical chemistry for the University of California San Francisco; adjunct professor of biochemistry for Vanderbilt University in Nashville; and adjunct professor of pharmaceutical sciences and pathology for the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His research focus is chemical biology and preclinical drug discovery and development for neglected diseases, especially those that affect children. In recent years, he has led the team that discovered and developed a new drug candidate for malaria that is currently in Phase 1 trials. The Chemical Biology and Therapeutics group, built and led by Guy, has collaboratively repurposed drugs for clinical trials for ependymoma, leukemias, medulloblastoma and other pediatric cancers. Guy earned a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Reed College in Portland, Oregon. He earned a doctorate in organic chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in cellular biology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Trustees approve fit-up of 12th floor in Chandler Hospital Pavilion A The UK Board of Trustees approved a plan to fit up the 12th floor in the Albert B. Chandler Hospital Pavilion A. Since the opening of the first two patient care floors in Pavilion A in May 2011, substantially increased patient volumes have strained UK HealthCare’s patient care capacity. Fitting out the top floor of Pavilion A is intended to ease some of that pressure with a 64bed inpatient unit dedicated to acute and critical care. Opening the top floor of Pavilion A is part of Phase I-I of the HealthCare Facilities Development Plan. With the board’s approval of this latest phase, total investment in UK HealthCare facilities has topped $1 billion. New drone policy to ensure safety, compliance Photo: UK Public Relations & Marketing The use of drones for recreation or by hobbyists is prohibited on the UK campus under a new policy regarding drones or unmanned aircraft systems. Drone use requests for research or instructional purposes must be registered and approved by the UK Event Management Office. “Our first and most important priority is the safety of our UK community and those who visit us,” said Eric N. Monday, the university’s executive vice president for finance and administration. “At the same time, we want to ensure that any policy we adopt is in full compliance with federal aviation requirements and the law.” One of the chief concerns about drone use has been the proximity of any campus flight to a heliport located at the UK HealthCare A.B. Chandler Hospital, as well as Commonwealth Stadium. Federal Aviation Administration regulations generally restrict flights of unmanned aircraft systems near airports. The new UK policy, adopted after recommendations by a committee that met multiple times over the last several months, is posted on the UK website. www.ukalumni.net 9 * 10 Fall 2016 * Blue Horizons Study links tobacco microbials, carcinogens UK researchers have found a link between changes in microbial communities on tobacco leaves and the development of carcinogens during the curing process. A team led by Luke Moe, a microbial ecologist in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, found that the microbial community on the tobacco leaf changes during the air-curing process, especially during high heat and high humidity. Under these conditions, microbes that convert nitrate to nitrite appear to increase. Nitrate to nitrite conversion is key in forming carcinogenic tobacco-specific nitrosamines, referred to as TSNAs. In the field, tobacco contains really low TSNA levels. For many years, UK tobacco researchers and tobacco farmers in the state have noticed that hot, humid conditions increase the amount of TSNAs that