IN MEMORIAM

Leaving lasting legacies are these Wichita State University alumni and friends.

Wilbur Elsea ’50 took up his second career as an artist after 40 years as an advertising executive — and with, to Shockers anyway, his most beloved artistic creation already under his belt: WuShock.

Jerry Blue began his successful entrepreneurial career in 1959 when he collaborated with his father in the purchase of Radionic Hearing Aid Service in downtown Wichita.

The year Hazel D. (Shanklin) Miller ’51 graduated from the University of Wichita with a bachelor’s degree in general studies, she was one of more than 400 graduating seniors and one of only six seniors of distinction to garner Women’s Honor Group accolades.

Robert “Bob” G. Langenwalter ’50, longtime Wichita banker and investor, was always a man on the move.

Anthony P. Gythiel, history professor and WSU’s resident medievalist until his retirement in 2010, was a perfectionist. His work demanded it.

Kathryn (Pearcy) Griffith ’47 earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Wichita and went on to receive a master’s degree from Syracuse and a doctorate from the University of Chicago.

George J. Ablah fs ’51, president and board chair of Ablah Enterprises, was a real estate developer with dealings in Dallas, LA, Minneapolis and Wichita, where his successes include Terra Cotta Tower, Tallgrass and Willowbend.