WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE
Fall 2005

CLASS NOTES

Class Notes

Comings, goings, appointments, retirements, honors, accolades and other personal alumni news.

Shocker 49er

Scot McCloughan fs '92 left WSU a professional baseball player but has spent the past nine years working in a sport Wichita State hasn't hosted since 1986 — football.

A Musical Life

"I think I've always known I was going to teach," recalls Sarah McKoin '89, director of bands at Texas Tech University. "After getting into music, I knew my life was going to be a musical one."

Smoke & Fire

Ken Spurgeon '89/97/02 zealously embraces and celebrates Kansas history, particularly the seven years prior to statehood known as Bleeding Kansas, a precursor to the Civil War.

From the Ground Up

The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., won't open for four years — won't even break ground for months.