WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Spring 2011

CONTENTS

FEATURES

Patterns of Change

The history of Wichita State’s anthropology department, founded by Lowell Holmes, can be read as a classic field study of people in action.

Artscapes

Wichita State’s original vagabond student gallery, WSU Shift Space, has ceased its wanderings and settled into a converted cinder-block garage in Old Town.

A Man on the Horizon

Alfonso “Al” Lenhardt ’76 is a very busy man – and a very happy one. But a happy man isn’t necessarily a contented one: Lenhardt is always looking forward to new horizons. And he looks to the horizon these days from Tanzania.

NIT Champs!

The Shockers bring home the basketball program’s first national title to the wild, wild adulation of “the best fans in the nation.”


SHOCK TALK

Shock Talk

Shockers everywhere, at events long ago or happenings just the other day, always have something interesting to say.


ALUMNI NEWS

The Music of Chance

Cassiday Proctor ’06, who produces the JB & Sandy Morning Show on Austin’s Mix 94.7, says her theater training at Wichita State helped her land her first job in radio.


SHOCKER PROFILES

Cowboy Up with the Home Rangers

It’s not every day your Kansas premier moo-grass cowboy band is called on to provide closing credits music for a video debuting a brand spanking new version of our national anthem penned by the Washington Post’s Gene Weingarten.


MARGINALIA

Marginalia

Newsworthy info about alumni and university personalities and events — all packaged up in bite-size reads, complete with original illustrations by Wade Hampton.