WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Spring 2003

FEATURES

Changing Views

Sculpting the final preparations for the Wichita Art Museum’s June reopening are scores of volunteers and professionals — including a most impressive number of Wichita State alumni.

Left of the Dial

Thurston Briscoe ’74 has witnessed — and helped create — radio history. As a disc jockey on KMUW in the 1960s and ’70s, he saw the nature of FM radio transform from student laboratory to viable commercial enterprise.

Staging Ground

Few people take Kansas’ motto as literally as Stan Schaefer does. As deputy chief of NASA’s systems division, this engineer has felt the exhilaration — and the pain — of years of exploratory missions “to the stars through difficulty.”