4A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 2006
OBITUARY
Recent KU grad dies during winter break
BY MIKE MOSTAFA
mmostaffa@kansan.com
KANSN STAFF WRITER
Elizabeth Anne Dyer, former KU graduate student, died Dec. 31 in Denver. She was 24. Her funeral services were held Jan. 5 at Morning Star Church in Lawrence. Burial took place at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Kansas City, Kan. She is survived by her husband, former KU football player Zachary R. Dyer, as well as her father and stepmother Larry and Kali Schnieders of Dallas. Her mother, Annette Laaser Schnieders, passed away earlier.
Her family and friends will greatly miss her presence and her ability to touch the people in her life.
Dyer was born March 31, 1981, in Wichita. She graduated from Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas. She received degrees in journalism and psychology from the University of Kansas, where she was a variety cheerleader and a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. After her time at the University, she earned a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Denver.
"People said she could light up a room with her smile," her father, Larry Schnieders, said.
Dyer worked for the Overland Park-based Morningstar Communications Co. She also was a published author and had recently finished a media tour promoting the book "You're Not My Mom: Confessions of a Formerly Wicked Stepmother," which she co-wrote with her stepmother Kali Schnieders.
Memorials can be made to the Morning Star Christian Church ministry entitled "Straightup Beautiful," sent to the Midwest Student Ministries, P.O. Box 550, Lawrence, KS 66044.
- Edited by Janiece Gatson
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Student-written play to show on campus tonight
Recent University of Kansas graduate Zacory Boatright will show his play "An Army of One" at 7:30 tonight in an English Alternative Theater benefit performance in the Crafton-Prever Theater at Murphy Hall.
"An Army of One" is the
University's entry in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Fargo, N.D., starting Jan. 23. Professor Paul Stephen Lim and 35 students and faculty were invited to participate in the festival. Lim estimated the trip would cost $14,000.
Tonight's performance is intended to raise money to help offset the cost of the trip, which Lim called "a very, very big honor" for Boatright and
"He wrote that play under my direction," Lim said. "It's absolutely cool that this happened for him."
his work.
A knockout performance in the regional festival could result in an elite invite to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre national festival held in Washington, D.C., in April.
— Alissa Bauer
Cancer claims professor's life
BY CATHERINE ODSON
codson@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
C. Richard "Rick" Snyder, professor of clinical psychology, died of cancer Wednesday morning. The M. Erik Wright distinguished professor was diagnosed with the disease shortly after Christmas 2005.
Snyder's daughter, Staci Kemerling, said she would remember her father for his graciousness and kindness.
"He was just a good person that everyone enjoyed being around," she said.
In his years at the University, Snyder won 51 research
awards and 27 teaching awards, including the student-bestowed HOPE, Award in 1991 and 2004. The HOPE Award is given annually to outstanding educators. He authored and edited 23 books, including six on the psychology of hope, his primary research interest but also something he exemplified in his everyday life.
"Rick Snyder was a living advertisement for his psychology of hope, always engaged and positive," Chancellor Robert Hemenway said in a press release Wednesday.
He joined the University of Kansas in 1972 as an assistant professor of psychology. He directed the clinical psychology program from 1974 to 2001.
Snyder earned a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University and master's and doctoral degrees from Vanderbilt University. He also held an honorary doctorate from Indiana Wesleyan University, awarded in 2005.
Snyder is survived by his wife, Rebecca; two sons, Zachary Snyder and James Kemerling; a daughter; and two grandchildren. Services are yet to be announced.
Professor dies from stroke
Edited by James Foley
BY FRED A. DAVIS III
davis@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Center.
The University of Kansas lost a distinguished faculty member during the winter break with the passing of Steve Ashe. Ashe, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, died Dec., 27 at St. Luke's from a stroke. He was 58.
An avid lover of the outdoors, Ashe was one of the world's leading experts on aloecharines, a lineage of the beetle.
A member of the KU faculty since 1988. Ashe also served as senior curator with the KU
Peter Luckey, pastor at the Plymouth Congregational Church, gave the eulogy at Ashe's funeral and described Ashe as a person with "immense curiosity of the natural world." Luckey added that when Ashe would take trips with his wife and son, he would stop and
capture bugs in his hand and explain the bugs to his son.
Ashe's wife, Aagie, said that Steve was the same person at work and home — a positive person who loved life and his family.
In memoriam, the Steve Ashe Scholarship Fund has been created and contributions to it should be sent through the Kansas University Endowment Association.
— Edited by Meghan Miller
Nobel Laureate Public Lecture
FRANK WILCZEK Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT 2004 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
Reception/Book signing 8:30-9:30 PM
"The Universe is a Strange Place" 7:30 PM, Friday, January 20
Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas, Lawrence
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