12.12.22
Shock Talk
Shockers everywhere, at events long ago to happenings just the other day, always have something interesting to say. Take this sampling as a Shock Talk example:
“We were honored to do the design work for the signage for NICHE.”
BILL GARDNER ’81/83, owner of Gardner Design, Wichita, on the unveiling of the downtown Wichita sign for the National Institute for Culinary and Hospitality Education (NICHE), WSU Tech’s new culinary school.
“From talent development to pathbreaking research to entrepreneurship, universities have a central role to play in economic development.”
ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC AND LAND-GRANT UNIVERSITIES (APLU) PRESIDENT MARK BECKER, Nov. 7, on WSU being designated an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University.
“Our Lady of Embarrassment wasn’t the most reliable tour bus.”
JOHN NICHOLS, WOODY GIESSMAN, BILL GOFFRIER ’80 AND RON KLAUS, members of The Embarrassment, one of the most storied bands in Wichita’s music history, from the documentary chronicling the rise, heyday and fall of the nearly forgotten post-punk band that honed its audio and visual crafts as students at Wichita State, “We Were Famous, You Don’t Remember: The Embarrassment,” which premiered Sept. 30 at the Tallgrass Film Festival’s Friday Night Gala at the Orpheum.
“We want to create industry hubs in diverse communities across the country. The South Kansas Coalition is leveraging the region’s assets to expand aerospace production and build resiliency to thrive in a global market.”
U.S. SECRETARY OF COMMERCE GINA RAIMONDO, on Sept. 2 about the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA)’s awarding $51.4 million to Wichita State to aid in the rapid development and adoption of emerging smart manufacturing technologies for south Kansas.
“While the North End has long been the beginning of the American dream for many peoples including African Americans, Southeast Asians, and Anglo Americans, it is perhaps the Mexican American community that most visibly embodies the hopes and struggles in this part of the city.”
ANITA MENDOZA, a real estate agent who grew up in Wichita’s North End; José Enrique Navarro, WSU associate professor of Spanish and associate dean of the Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; and Jay Price, WSU history professor and department chair who directs the local and community history program, on their book Mexican Americans of Wichita’s North End.
“Over the few months we’ve spent here, I’ve seen students embrace Woolsey Hall as their home away from home — a place they feel safe to challenge themselves, to grow and to thrive. This is the beginning of a new and blooming journey.”
LARISA GENIN, dean of the W. Frank Barton School of Business, at the Sept. 30 grand opening celebration for Woolsey Hall, the new home for Wichita State’s business school.
“I am sitting in Nathan Lane’s dressing room, staring at myself in Nathan Lane’s mirror. The only thing missing is Nathan Lane.”
RAY WILLS ’82, in the newly released Being Max: A Short Memoir About a Long Day in the Life of a Broadway Understudy, about taking the stage in May 2001 for Nathan Lane as Max Bialystock in Mel Brooks’ “The Producers,” the runaway hit musical starring Lane and Matthew Broderick that has won more Tony Awards than any show in Broadway history.
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