WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Fall 2009

ALUMNI NEWS

Lifelong Learning

Retirement doesn't fit LaVerne L. Baker's '56/81 personality. "Many people my age are retiring," she says, "but not me. I'm like that energizer bunny that just keeps going."

Stolen Identity

It was a hot day in early April 1882 in the town of Lafayette, Mo., where Jesse James had made a home. He had a bounty of $5,000 on his head, put there by Thomas T. Crittenden, the governor of Missouri.

Stimulus Package

WSU student Ben Tyson needed some help getting his small business up and running, and he found it with Bill Ellison '71 and Roger Douthett '75.