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Tim Jankovich was recently named head basketball coach at Illinois State University after four years at KU. He joins a long list of former KU assistants are now head coaches, including Bill Self, who was an assistant at KU in 1986. Coaches, their current positions and their years at KU: John Calipari, head coach, Memphis, 1984-85; Mark Turgeon, head coach, Texas A&M, 1989-92; Kevin Stallings, head coach, Vanderbilt, 1989-93; Matt Doherty, head coach, Southern Methodist, 1993-99; Neil Dougherty, head coach, Texas Christian, 1996-2002; Norm Roberts, head coach, St. Johns, 2003-04.

TOPONYMS

S.H. Carpenter of the University of Wisconsin would have been KU's third chancellor, but he arrived in Lawrence on a sweltering summer day in 1874 in the middle of a drought and a grasshopper invasion. He immediately left town and did not even visit the campus. The Board of Regents then hired James Marvin, a professor of mathematics at Allegheny College; the building named for him also honors his son, longtime Dean of Engineering Frank O. Marvin.

KU HISTORY

Time magazine expected big things out of Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy. In a July 16, 1951, article about the departure of Chancellor Deane W. Malott and his replacement, Murphy, Time said, "In the last 12 years, KU has begun to climb from its place as a solid but unspectacular state university … Under Chancellor Murphy, it hopes to climb even faster." For more, visit www.kuhistory.com

NOTABLE ALUMS

KU grad Cynthia Leitich Smith has become a well-known writer in and around Austin, Texas. The Library of Congress recently announced she is among 70 writers chosen to participate in the seventh annual National Book Festival. Smith has written several books for young readers. She graduated from KU and the University of Michigan Law School. She won the 2001 Wordcraft Circle Award for children's literature, but her latest novel, "Tantalize," is a dark fantasy.

NOTABLE ALUMS

KU grad Cynthia Leitich Smith has become a well-known writer in and around Austin, Texas. The Library of Congress recently announced she is among 70 writers chosen to participate in the seventh annual National Book Festival. Smith has written several books for young readers. She graduated from KU and the University of Michigan Law School. She won the 2001 Wordcraft Circle Award for children's literature, but her latest novel, "Tantalize," is a dark fantasy.