David Eulitt

portraits

360 Architecture principal architects David Rezac, (project manager and partner-in-charge), left, Trevor Hoiland, (project designer), center, and Erika Moody, (interior manager), right, all worked on the H&R Block world headquarters in downtown Kansas City, Mo.
   
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Damon Huard will get his chance in the spotlight as the starting quarterback. Huard is taking over for an injured Trent Green, who suffered a severe concussion against the Bengals.
   
Scott Coons, CEO and president of Perspective Software in Shawnee, oversees the growing company that makes document imaging software that allows users to scan and import data electronically, reducing paper costs.
     
  
Forty years ago, Barnett Helzberg sketched an "I Am Loved" button, reflecting his joy that Shirley agreed to marry him. The button became synonymous with Helzberg's jewelry business and was distributed in eleven different languages. Barnett even has a necktie with the embroidered buttons stitched in.
   
Clancy Martin, associate professor and chair of philosophy at UMKC, authored his first novel, "How To Sell," which borrows from Martin's morally questionable early life. Martin, explores the philosophical exploration of lies and deception, having been a shoplifter at age 5, kicked out of high school and having spent seven years in the diamond and watch business.
   
Alacartoona, a modern cabaret band featuring Kyle Dahlquist, upper left, Erin McGrane, upper center, Christian Hankle, lower center and Gregg Jackson, lower right, are working on a film featuring their music at the end of May from a local arts grant.
     
  
Andrew Stanley of Overland Park graduated from the University of Kansas in May but couldn't find any work in the non-profit sector or get hired by Teach for America, so Stanley will represent his church, Church of the Ascension in Overland Park, on a six-month mission in Guatemala, being the liason between the church and locals needing aid.
  
Bobby Dobson, club owner of Bobby's Hangout in Kansas City, Mo., has created a club which turns back the clock with live music acts and deep red upholstery and fabric around the midtown club.
   
Angela Cervantes, writer.
     
  
Red Line Chemistry, rock band.
   
Lauren Braton, actress
   
Behzod Abduraimov, pianist.
     
  
David Roddy of Audrain County at age 73 is the oldest inmate at the Moberly Correctional Facility's Old Timers Unit in Moberly, Mo.
   
Buck O'Neil, a Kansas City legend for his career with the Kansas City Monarchs baseball team in the Negro Leagues, celebrates his 91st birthday. O'Neil's birthday wish is to set a one-month attendance record at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum,. The statue at background right is Satchel Paige.
   
Rachel Silk, 41, has been looking for work since August. Silk lost her condominium to foreclosure and is now living, with her two cats, in her mother's house in Shawnee, staying in what used to be her grandmother's bedroom.
     
  
Kansas City Wizards goalkeeper Kevin Hartman will be guarding the goal again on Saturday for the Wizards home opener, as he was every minute of the past two seasons. With 12 years in the MLS, Hartman has recorded the third-most saves in MLS history and is tied for the league-lead in shutouts with 10. Hartman also holds the record as the MLS career leader in all-time wins for a goalkeeper with 138, along with the all-time leader in postseason minutes played (4,042), saves (155), shutouts (14) and wins (22).
   
At 30,000 feet on a Northwest Airlines flight, Patrick Emmett had sudden cardiac arrest with a 100% blockage of his aorta. Fortunately, the flight carried a AED (automated extenal defibrillator) and Emmett's heart was restarted. When Emmett came to on the floor of the airplane, he felt like he was emerging from the inky waters of a deep, dark well. The experience insired Emmett to found Kansas City's regional chapter of the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association.
   
After fouling out during his six attempts at the U.S. Olympic Trials and missing the team bound for Athens, Christian Cantwell is looking to retain his stature as one of the world's best shotputters. Cantwell made the Olympic team four years later and won a silver medal in Beijing, China.
     
  
Missouri death row inmate Dennis Skillicorn sat in the visitors room behind glass on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Mo. Skillicorn was one of three men convicted of killing Richard Drummond in 1994 and was executed by lethal injection the following Wednesday.
   
Sam Andrew, a founding member of Big Brother and the Holding Company, serves as the music director for the Kansas City Repetory Theatre's production of "Love, Janis," a bio-musical about Janis Joplin, who started her singing career with Big Brother and the Holding Company.
   
Al Cerne, 79, of Olathe, jumped in Normandy as part of the 101st Airborne Division and was part of the fighting at the Battle of the Bulge during World War II. His return to Normandy six years ago was the catalyst in being able to speak about his experiences in the war. A yellow flag with the 101st Airborne logo is one of Cerne's few mementos from the war.
     
  
Kansas City Chiefs running back Larry Johnson broke the team's single-game rushing record with 211 yards against the Houston Texans.
   
Jacqueline Bonilla, 10, a fourth-grade student at Boone Elementary School (Center School District), wants to cook and work in a restaurant when she grows up.
   
Lisa Long was driving through Cass County farm country when somebody, from more than a mile away, pulled the trigger on a high-powered rifle. The bullet zipped over fields and pasture from the south as Long's car traveled west from her aunt's house. The two would meet at a point on 307th Street at precisely the same instant. Long's driver-side window was down six inches or so and the bullet was at the perfect trajectory to enter the opening as she drove past that point at 40 mph. The slug tore through her cheek, exited her mouth, then plopped onto the floorboard of the 1998 Ford Taurus.
     
  
KCTV-5 chief meterologist Katie Horner is always looking to the skies in predicting the weather in the greater Kansas City area.
   
Zack Bailey, a senior at Oak Park High School, will travel to Columbia, MOfor his fourth trip to state wrestling finals in his four-year high school career. Bailey, who is going to the University of Oklahoma after graduation for wrestling, is trying to become only the ninth wrestler in Missouri to win four state titles. Bailey's room in his Gladstone home is lined with brackets of tournaments he has won.
   
Erin Ray, 17, a senior from Olathe Northwest High School, checks her web blogs every day as she gets home from school in her parents' Olathe home. Ray's online musings of her life (shown with her home page, left computer monitor, a tribute to the Harry Potter books) and reading about her friends' thoughts is a rapidly growing aspect of Internet communications.
     
  
World War II veteran pilot.
   
Matt Woerman, a senior at Topeka High School, has been named as the Topeka Capital-Journal 2002 local student of the year. Woerman plans on studying mechanical engineering at either the University of Kansas or Kansas State University in the fall.
   
Aaron Johnson, who goes by "A.J," creates art despite his blindness from a brain tumor when he was 13. A.J. 's art will be the feature of a one-man show on display through Accessible Arts at the Kansas School for the Blind beginning September 30th. The school will benefit from the proceeds of his works. A.J. is photographed wrapped in one of his unfinished quilts.
     
  
Kansas City artist and photographer Robert Heishman uses a homemade pinhole camera to create dreamy photographic interpretations that are being used by the nationally-renowed Merce Cunningham Dance Company in their stage productions. Heishman photograph of a railroad bridge next to Kemper Arena was selected for the production. An example of his photography is taped to the bridge.
   
Damon Huard, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback.
   
Chris Browning, aka "Road Warrior," who drove 63,000 miles in one year for his business and spends part of that drive time calling into sports talk radio shows in Kansas City.Part of a portrait series on sports talk radio callers.
     
  
William Currie, aka "Wolverine Willie," a sarcastic Michigan Wolverines fan that has used his on-air persona calling into both local and national sports talk radio shows.Part of a portrait series on sports talk radio callers.
   
Ted Wienstroer , 55, uses a motorized chair to reach the second floor of his midtown Kansas City home. Story on the post-polio syndrome, which began to sap the strength of Wienstroer in 1992 after he contracted polio when he was twoyears old.Part of a portrait series on the last polio victims following Jonas Salk's 1955 polio vaccine.