September 2008

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September 2008

O
C LORADAN
September 2008
Ralphie V runs
CU’s newest mascot
joins a long line of
heralded buffaloes.
Page 4.
Is Oprah good for
America?
A media studies
professor scruti
nizes the queen of
daytime television.
Page 8.
Alumni Magazine
of Colorado
The University
From Baghdad to
Beijing
CU alum and Iraqi
veteran sets her
sights on the 2008
Paralympic Games
in Beijing.
Page 26.
COLORADAN CONTENTS
V runs
4 Ralphie
CU’s newest mascot joins a long
line of heralded buffaloes.
Oprah good for
8 IsAmerica?
A media studies professor
scrutinizes the queen of daytime
television.
14 News
Baghdad
26 From
to Beijing
An alum sets her sights on the
2008 Paralympic Games in
Beijing.
conservatism
32 Giving
the chair
The chancellor announces plans
for an endowed chair in conservative thought and policy.
centerfold
36 Campus
Our centerfold brings one of
Glenn J. Asakawa’s (Jour’86)
best campus photographs to
your home.
38 Sports
view of diversity
44 AProfessor
Christine Yoshinaga-
Itano, along with students and
staff, discusses race on campus.
Korea
46 Remembering
On the 55th anniversary of the
Korean War armistice, historians
and soldiers who fought in Korea
discuss the war.
52 CU Around
58 CU People
64 Letters
the heart of lightness
68 Into
Alum and CU photojournalism
instructor Kevin Moloney
(Jour’87) writes about his adventures on the way to Timbuktu.
bound
70 Timbuktu
Photo by Kevin Moloney
(Jour’87) captures
the beauty and culture of the
Niger River.
Editor’s note
You never would have guessed Melissa Hoffman Stockwell (Comm’02) had only one
leg, if you were with me that day watching her swim at the Olympic Training Center.
As I observed her effortless laps, I wondered if she was bitter about losing her leg
while serving in Iraq. After all, she had been riding in a doorless Humvee in Baghdad
when her vehicle hit a roadside bomb in 2004.
She wasn’t. Instead of lamenting the loss of her leg, she set out to do things she
had never done before — swim competitively, race triathlons, pursue a career in
prosthetics and go to the Beijing Paralympics. Her tenacity forced me to wonder if I
would do the same if I were Stockwell. Short of being her, I realized it’s an impossible
question to answer.
But while interviewing her (see Page 26) for this issue, Stockwell taught me life can
be so much more than any of us settle for or imagine is possible. Fortunately, we as
Buffs have shades of Stockwell’s spirit in us — the courage to face adversity and
transform it into opportunity, the confidence to shoot for the stars and the heart to see
dreams realized.
She’ll be competing in the Beijing Paralympics two weeks after the
Olympics. You will not miss her. Her integrity and enthusiasm are as
big as the country she’ll be competing in. Here’s to Stockwell and to all
of us following in her footsteps.
Tori Peglar (MJour’00), Editor
2 SEPTEMBER 2008 COLORADAN
Under the shadow of
the Flatirons, students
walk across the Norlin
Quad between classes.
Casey A. Cass
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Tori Peglar (MJour’00)
In t e r im Ass istan t Edi tor
Marc Killinger
St u d e n t Ass istants
Emery Cowan (Jour, Span’10),
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Con t r ib u tors
Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86), Gary Baines
(Jour’83), Nicole Branan, Casey A. Cass, Peter
Caughey, Paul Danish (Hist’65), Marty Coffin
Evans (A&S’64), Bronson Hilliard (Hist’86),
Jennifer Lay, Kathy McClurg, Ken McConnellogue (Jour’90), Doug McPherson, Tom Nugent,
Silvia Pettem (A&S’69), David Plati (Jour’82),
Jim Scott (EPOBio‘73), Haley Sinn-Penfold
(ArtHist’05), Diana Somerville
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Gearing up for her first
public appearance on
Folsom Field in April,
the newly anointed
Ralphie V sped onto
the field during
the spring football
game, tripping
one of her Handlers. Smaller than
Ralphie IV she
slipped from her
harness, dropping
all but one Handler who tried to
slow her down.
“V has a lot of
spunk,” says Kevin
Priola (Econ,Fin’96),
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V runs
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co-director of the Ralphie Program. “She’s
young and has the wheels to prove it.”
For the game’s record-breaking crowd
of 17,800, Ralphie V, who hails from
Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch in
New Mexico, became the talk around
the water-cooler for the next week. Her
antics made it onto YouTube.com, as
well as headlines in local newspapers,
immediately distinguishing her from
her more docile predecessor, Ralphie
IV, who semi-retired after 10 years as
CU’s mascot. In all her wild glory,
Ralphie V is part of a long tradition of
Boulder Camera
early 1960s, wearing a path for Ralphie I. In
1966, at the height of Beatlemania and the
start of the Vietnam War demonstrations,
the father of CU freshman Bill Curtis
Lowery (A&S ex’68) donated a six-monthold buffalo calf. While the origins of the
name are shrouded in mystery, some say the
name arose from the grunting noises the
bison made while running. Ultimately, her
name was changed from “Ralph” to
“Ralphie” when someone pointed out that
“Ralph” was actually a female.
CU’s first Ralphie achieved national
celebrity status, stomping aggressively
Boulder Camera
Ralphie I
Ralphie II
bison that have represented CU since
the Depression and have come to
epitomize the West, its high ideals of
freedom and endless possibilities.
across Folsom Field, which changed from
grass to AstroTurf during her tenure.
Fitting for the anti-establishment era,
the student body elected her Homecoming Queen in 1971. During her coronation, she defiantly dumped her crown on
Folsom Field.
Ralphie quickly garnered the respect
and awe of college fans and opponents
from the Rockies to the bayous of the
South. “What started in the 60s as a
novelty has turned into a first-class
program,” Priola says.
Eaglets, Boulders, Buffaloes
Although the official school colors of
silver and gold were chosen in 1888, the
university didn’t have an official mascot.
Athletic teams were most commonly
known as Silver and Gold, although they
took on loose monikers such as Silver
Helmets, Grizzlies, Big Horns and
Arapahoes. At the turn-of-the-century,
the Engineering department loaned its
dog to the football team and in the 1920s
a goat named Clancey appeared at a game
to boost team spirit.
It wasn’t until 1934 that buffaloes hit
the CU scene. Hoping to establish an
official mascot, the then student-run
newspaper, the Silver & Gold, sponsored
a national contest with $5 going to the
winning entry. “Buffaloes” emerged over
names like the Boulders and the Eaglets,
and Boulder resident Andrew Dickson
was proclaimed the official winner. Three
weeks later, several students rented a
bison calf and cowboy to parade down
the sidelines for the season finale 7-0 win
against University of Denver.
A series of other bison stampeded in
and out of Folsom Stadium through the
Creating a buffalo legacy
CU’s second Ralphie had big hooves to
fill. Moon, as she was originally named,
replaced Ralphie I just in time for the last
home game of the 1978 season, a 20-16
loss to Iowa State. Nevertheless, she held
her head high and drew fear into her
opponents’ eyes at home and away,
allegedly once chasing down the Missouri
tiger. In 1986, Oklahoma State fans
sneaked into their college veterinary
clinic where Ralphie II was staying before
the game and spray painted “OSU” on
her in orange letters.
Ralphie II died unexpectedly in 1987
at age 12 after a 31-17 CU win over
Stanford. Some speculated she died of a
broken heart, having suffered through
seven out of eight losing seasons. Others
postulated that the Stanford Cardinal
drum major who dressed as the Grim
Reaper and high-stepped toward her pen
hastened her death.
In her place stampeded Ralphie III
who soon was nicknamed “Tequila” for
her fiery disposition. Orphaned at birth
on a Wyoming prairie after her mother
died, a cowboy saved her and brought
her back to his ranch. She was bottlefed and raised with a goat and horses
until Johnny Parker (Hist’62) and
Shaaron Parker (Bus’61) bought the
two-year-old and donated her to CU.
Handling Ralphie
Welcome Ralphie V, dubbed Blackout,
who stood out from her herd at birth as
the darkest calf.
“Ralphie V is larger in size and is
much faster that Ralphie IV was at the
same age, making her more like Ralphie
III” says Gail Pederson, athletic department chief of staff.
If the spring game is any indication
of her character, it doesn’t fairly
represent the amount of work that goes
into training one of the nation’s top
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Ralphie III
Ralphie IV
Ralphie III’s routes to away games
were guarded for fear that opposing
teams would try to deface or kidnap
her. About 500 people throughout the
nation offered to give Ralphie III room
and board during her various road
trips. Few have forgotten her memorable run around the field during the
Orange Bowl in 1990, concluding the
Buff ’s only championship season.
In 1997, Ralphie IV was born on the
Flying D Ranch near Bozeman, Mont.,
owned by media mogul Ted Turner.
When she was 1 month old, Rowdy, as
she was known, was rescued from the
jaws of a coyote and bottle-fed by ranch
hands. Turner agreed to donate the baby
bison to CU after his ranch hands
responded to an advertisement in Bison
World magazine that mentioned CU’s
need for a new mascot.
Ralphie IV first captured the hearts
of CU fans as a 400-pound calf at the
1998 Colorado State University game
when CU won 42-14. Four years later,
she made national headlines when Violet
Stromberg, 96, bequeathed $40,730 for
the care of Ralphie IV and future
Ralphies. And just as any good Western
ends, there came a sunset. Old age started
to get the best of Ralphie IV and it was
time for her to pass the torch and move
into semi-retirement.
mascots. Athletes in the Ralphie
Handler program must be able to run 13
miles per hour alongside a 1,300-pound
female animal. (Male bison can be onethird larger than females, weighing up to
1,800 pounds. As a result, female
buffaloes are easier to handle).
Ralphie’s Handlers spend at least 20
hours a week training, feeding and
grooming her. They receive varsity letters
but must attend 85 percent of all
practices and games while maintaining an
overall GPA of 2.0.
So come this fall, as cold air
descends from the mountains into
Boulder, Ralphie V will officially take
the reins front and center as CU’s new
mascot.
“She’s still pretty wild,” says Cole
Schindler, a senior and first-year Ralphie
Handler. “She’s just getting used to the
routine, but I have a feeling she’ll be one of
the great ones.”
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See Ralphie V’s spring game run
on YouTube.com by searching
for Ralphie V.
David Marucheau is a freelance
writer in Boulder. The son of two CU
alumni, he grew up with the typical
fervor of a Buff fan attending games at
Folsom Field, where he first saw Ralphie
III as a youngster.
COLORADAN SEPTEMBER 2008 7
Professor Janice Peck of journalism has received
national media attention for her new book, The Age of
Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era (Paradigm
Publishers). Michelle Starika Asakawa (Jour,
Mktg’87) served as copy editor of the book.
Glenn J. Asakawa
Is Oprah good for America?
Scrutinizing the queen of
daytime television
B Y J E N N I E L AY
Oprah Winfrey boasts more than 7
million viewers for her television talk
show, a slew of spinoff programs, a
magazine, a website, her own pending
television network and a passion for
books that some have credited with
resuscitating the publishing industry.
Her philanthropy, exemplified by her
school for impoverished girls in South
Africa, has the power to change the
course of peoples’ lives. Her politics,
illustrated by her coveted endorsement of
presidential candidate Barack Obama,
could shake up an election season. She is
wealthy beyond belief, and her global fan
base is immense and devoted.
Clearly, Winfrey is more than a talk
show host. She’s an icon and an empire,
carefully protected by the impenetrable
Great Wall of Harpo Productions Inc., her
production company. But Winfrey’s brand
of personal empowerment might never
have reached its incredible heights had it
not appeared during the Reagan and
Clinton administrations’ push for
privatization, according to Janice Peck,
associate professor of media studies at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
“This is a person who has an immense
amount of public power and authority,”
says Peck, who just wrote the book, The
Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the
Neoliberal Era (Paradigm Publishers).
“I’m trying to tell a story of American
political life . . . not just Oprah Winfrey,
but what has happened in the U.S. in the
last quarter century,” Peck says.
She figures some devoted Winfrey
fans will buy her book thinking they are
getting a biography. What she hopes is
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that it will have broader appeal to readers
with an interest in culture and politics.
Personalizing social problems
In the late 1980s the “televised talking
cure” emerged where audiences began
pouring out their problems to therapeutic
experts on T.V. Winfrey was best at it,
Peck says, and that made her a pioneer in
the process of individualizing and psychologizing societal problems like racism,
poverty, homelessness and welfare. It
paralleled a rise in deregulation and marked
a rapid departure from the political and
social norms that came before.
While people looked to the government
for solutions to social and political problems
as recently as the 1960s, Peck says during
Winfrey’s era things shifted. Instead,
personal initiative and private philanthropy
came to trump all, as the public eyed the
government increasingly suspiciously. That
emphasis on self-determination and personal
choice parallels America’s trend toward what
is known as neoliberalism, resulting in deep
cuts in social spending beginning with
President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s,
according to Peck.
“The triumph in this kind of thinking
is that we now imagine all problems can
be solved by the marketplace or individual,” Peck says. “Problem with water table
pollution? Go buy bottled water. Failing
schools? Open a charter school. We have
no public, collective way to address
problems anymore. Government is now
just the ‘problem,’ and that thinking
emerged in the last 25 years.”
“Problem with water table pollution? Go
buy bottled water. Failing schools? Open a
charter school. We have no public, collective way to address problems anymore.
Government is now just the ‘problem,’ and
that thinking emerged in the last 25 years.”
— Janice Peck
To top it off, Winfrey perfected
consumerism to a spiritual art form, says
Kathryn Lofton, a scholar of popular
religion and culture at Princeton
University. She says consumerism came
before Winfrey, but Oprah helped
connect consumerism to personal
redemption. Winfrey’s genius, Lofton
says, is “not in coming up with new
ideas. It’s in branding ideas.” Her
endorsements encourage viewers to buy
things and think about spirituality in the
same way, Lofton says.
“Oprah encouraged the first
generation of post-1970s liberated
women to purchase their way into spirituality,” Lofton says. “They went to
college, got jobs, started families…then
started watching Oprah . . . and she said
you earned this (shopping trip) after all
that bra burning.”
Winfrey, Lofton says, presents ideas in
a religious manner even though she does
not represent a religion. Self-help strategies
and her “favorite things” are offered up like
a spiritual buffet, allowing parishioners to
mix and match faiths in a way that is deeply
reminiscent of consumer practice, she says.
But Winfrey’s mix-and-match faiths are
incoherent, she says. For instance, when
Madonna appeared on the show to talk
about Kabbalah, Winfrey professed her
sudden self-realization as a Kabbalahist.
When Eckhart Tolle, author of self-help
manifesto A New Earth: Awakening to Your
Life’s Purpose (Penguin Group USA), came
on the show, she professed a similar selfrealization for his philosophy.
This was a way to appeal to a public
seeking personal choice above all things,
says Kathleen Rooney, author of Reading
with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed
America (University of Arkansas Press),
and former writing instructor at Emerson
College and Northeastern University.
Becoming a cultural icon
Peck’s initial academic interest in
Winfrey emerged from a dissertation she
wrote about Pat Robertson and Jimmy
Swaggart in the early 1990s. The time
she spent analyzing the televangelists
coincided with an era when newly
controversial daytime television talk
shows were beginning to battle for
younger viewers and scandals were
riveting their audiences. Winfrey’s show
went nationally syndicated in 1986, going
head-to-head with Phil Donahue, but soon
coming up against edgier talk shows
featuring Geraldo Rivera and Jenny Jones.
Winfrey overtook Donahue’s No. 1 rating
almost immediately, ushering in an era of
tabloid-style daytime talk shows.
But as Peck’s own curiosity about the
competition for talk show viewers grew,
she watched Winfrey separate herself
from the rest of the pack and evolve into
something more than just a talk show
host. By the mid 1990s, Winfrey was
doing shows about health, spirituality,
meditation, home decorating and her
favorite products, infusing them with a
dose of high-profile celebrity interviews.
In 1996 Winfrey introduced her
phenomenally successful book club that
has since featured more than 60 titles,
and in 2000 she unveiled O, The Oprah
Magazine, her monthly magazine that
sold more than 2 million copies less than
a year after hitting the newsstands.
Peck realized she could examine
Oprah’s success story through the prism of
contemporary social and political trends.
“I thought, ‘I’m going to use her to
look at these things I’m really interested
in.’ You can use her empire to look at
almost everything . . . she is just an
incredibly rich subject to study,” says
Peck, who wrote several academic journal
articles about Winfrey before publishing
her recent book.
She watched endless episodes of
Winfrey’s talk show, read the transcripts
and combed through ardent personal
posts on Oprah.com. Throughout this
exercise, Peck witnessed Winfrey’s
meteoric rise, the evolution of her
persona and her flubs. She watched
a new level of criticism take
hold when Winfrey endorsed
presidential candidate
Obama last year,
enraging Republican
fans and Hillary
Clinton supporters
who encouraged her
to stick to entertainment instead of
politics.
Regardless of this
recent public
criticism, Winfrey’s
lasting legacy has been
encouraging people to
read, Rooney argues.
“Oprah challenged
the gatekeepers of
culture and what they
should look like,”
Rooney says,
admitting this is
what got her
interested in
studying Oprah.
Winfrey made
“highbrow
meet
lowbrow,”
Rooney says,
by using
television to
promote
literature and
preaching that
reading is good
for everyone.
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With Winfrey’s blessing, books like James
Frey’s A Million Little Pieces (Anchor),
Toni Morrison’s Sula (Vintage) and
Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex (Picador)
became instant bestsellers. Rooney was in
the audience in 2003 on the day that
Winfrey announced the end of her book
club. She describes a crowd on the brink
of tears, expressing deep hurt and
pleading with Winfrey not to turn her back
on literature.
Ultimately, this was only a suspension
of her book club. But when it returned, the
focus on novels shifted to include a mix of
classics and New Age philosophies,
including Tolle’s A New Earth: Awakening
to Your Life’s Purpose (Penguin Group
USA), which has practically raised him to
American guru status.
For Rooney, Winfrey’s turn to New
Age titles is disappointing. Winfrey’s
stamp of approval was part of what
spurred audiences to devour books like
Elie Wiesel’s Night (Hill and Wang),
John Steinbeck’s East of Eden (Penguin)
and Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on
Your Knees (Touchstone). “Literature
has more worth than New Age pop
psychology,” she says.
Audiences may be starting to agree.
Although The Oprah Winfrey Show still
holds the top spot television ratings, her
average audience size has decreased
during each of the past three years.
The end of positive thinking
“Could this be a slowdown in the self help
movement?” asks Peck. “I’m nervous to
start making forecasts, but I do think
something is up. There are some very
serious things going on right now in the
U.S. — a mortgage crisis, rising food and
oil prices, the war. We are at a moment
politically where this idea of self help and
positive thinking may be seeing its limits.”
She uses Winfrey’s reality show The
Big Give to illustrate her point. On the
weekly show, which aired for only one
season last spring, a group of 10 contestants competed to see who could best
help a pre-determined stranger or
situation in need. The winner received a
$1 million prize and had to give half of it
away. But Winfrey decided not to
continue the program after it slipped to
32nd in the ratings by the last episode.
The problem, Peck says, is not Winfrey’s
philanthropic activities.
“I think it’s important to ask why so
many people need help,” Peck says.
“What is wrong with the structures that
have left so many people in need?”
The reality show produced admirable results, including playgrounds for
impoverished schools and medical
assistance for sick kids.
“But the question is why do kids in a
public school have no playground?” she
asks. “Why is a family on the verge of
losing its house because its kid is sick? In a
different moment historically in the U.S.,
public schools would not be in this state.
Rich districts have it all. This kind of
charitable giving deflects important
questions about why our public education
is failing — because it has been gutted.
Nearly 47 million Americans do not have
health insurance.”
And that’s where Winfrey’s self-help
philosophy chafes Peck.
“We cut taxes for corporations and
the rich and think people can fix it with
philanthropy and pulling themselves up
by their boot straps,” Peck says.
Instead, she’d prefer to witness a
shoring up of the overarching social
systems like health care and welfare that
are failing those for whom Winfrey’s
viewers have such empathy.
“It’s not an even trade off,” Peck
says. “Oprah is not answerable to us. We
don’t get to decide how (her) philanthropy is getting used.”
Jennie Lay is a freelance writer based in
Steamboat Springs.
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Chef teases tastebuds of students
Blueberry pecan salad and chicken
Florentine lasagna aren’t items you’d
expect in dorm cafeterias, but you may
have graduated before CU chef Bill
Kardys was around.
At Piazanos, Cheyenne Arapaho
residence hall’s restaurant, lead chef
Kardys prepares gourmet pasta dishes,
sandwiches and salads for as many as
2,600 students a day.
More than just a way to pay the
bills, Kardys sees his job as an
opportunity to introduce new foods
and flavors to students used to a
mundane diet of pizza, ramen noodles
and cereal.
“I’m challenging these kids’
palates, and they love it,” says Kardys,
who won first place at the National
Association of College and University
Food Services’ regional challenge. His
winning dish consisted of sea bass
gremolata over saffron-seafood risotto
with a side of honey-poached carrots
and parsnips in champagne sauce.
CU-Boulder chefs have won at the
competition three of the past four
years. Kardys traveled to Washington,
D.C., in July to cook against other top
college and university chefs at the
organization’s national conference.
While students won’t see a dish
quite as gourmet as bass with risotto at
Piazano’s, they should consider
themselves lucky for their lunchtime
options, says Juergen Friese, coordinator for facilities in the Housing and
Dining Services department.
“These are entrees that you would
easily pay $10 to $12 for in a restaurant,” Friese says. “And here they are,
part of the meal plan.”
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CU chef Bill Kardys aims to impress students with his gourmet dishes.
By the numbers 23,078 Applications received for freshman admissions
this year. 5,750 Estimated number of
freshmen expected to enroll this fall — the
largest class in CU history.
Previous record-sized class in fall 2006.
4,281 Number of freshmen who came to
CU in 1998.
Number of applications submitted by ethnic minorities,
a record number and an increase of 16
percent over 2007.
Percent increase
of total applications over last year.
Echo Boomers Term used to describe national trend of children of baby
boomers headed to college. Reaction
prospective students get when they check
out the media savvy, customized CU admissions website at www.colorado.edu/
prospective.
5,617
3,500
16
!
Algae at the pump?
If filling up your car with gas seems less
sustainable, help may be on the way in the
form of algae, thanks to CU renewable
energy research.
To assist in the university’s exploration of alternative fuels, ConocoPhillips
signed a $5 million, multiyear agreement with the CU-affiliated Colorado
Center for Biorefining and Biofuels in
July. The center is a research unit of the
Colorado Renewable Energy Collaboratory aimed at developing new ways to
convert biomass into low-carbon
transportation fuels.
The Collaboratory is a joint venture
of CU-Boulder, Colorado State University, the Colorado School of Mines and
the U.S. Department of Energy National
Renewable Energy Laboratory. It formed
the Colorado Center for Biorefining and
Biofuels, known as C2B2, in March 2007
to conduct research.
As for algae, “it’s a way for the oil
companies to basically grow oil,” Alan
Weimer, executive director of C2B2, told
the Boulder Camera.
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Graduate student Sara Mesfin Hunegnaw performs
bacteria culture experiments with the aim of
improving biofuels production.
ConocoPhillips purchased a $58.5
million, 432-acre site in Louisville,
former home to StorageTek, earlier this
year to create a research facility for
exploring renewable energies and other
technologies. Read more at www.
coloradocollaboratory.org.
BOULDER BEAT
Save the conservatives!
B Y PA U L DA N I S H
Earlier this year CU-Boulder Chancellor
G.P. “Bud” Peterson proposed creating a
Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and
Policy at CU and raise a $9 million
endowment for it.
Here’s the inside story.
Karl Rove wasn’t behind it. It was the
Environmental Protection Agency. Here’s
the tear-stained memo I found in the
bushes behind City Hall:
To: Occupant, Boulder, Colorado
From: Roger Dogood, Enforcement
Division, EPA
Subject: Endangered Species in Boulder
A recent environmental census has
found a catastrophic collapse in the
number of conservatives in Boulder.
Immediate and robust remedial action is
required to prevent the total disappearance of several species of the genus
Conservatis from your community.
The root cause of the crisis is habitat
destruction.
Item: There hasn’t been a new trailer
park built in the Boulder Valley in 35
years. Several existing ones have even
been uprooted for the construction of
yuppie condos. This, coupled with the
steady decline in the number of Boulder
“Honky-Tonks” (a technical term), has
resulted in the virtual disappearance of
the Conservatis redneckis from the
Boulder Valley.
Item: The replacement of thousands
of Boulder tract homes with so-called
“starter palaces” (a technical term) has
not had the intended effect of attracting
Conservatis wallstreetis to Boulder.
Instead, it has attracted exotic species,
like the Liberalis trustfundis and
Liberalis newageis, which have filled the
niche. Worse, the elimination of tract
homes has contributed to the collapse of
Conservatis mainstreetis populations.
Item: Boulder’s paucity of street
crime has precluded the introduction of
Conservatis neoconis. (As I’m sure you
know, Conservatis neoconis is by
definition any member of the genus
Liberalis who’s been mugged. No
muggers, no neocons.)
The situation is so alarming that the
EPA intends to invoke emergency
provisions of the Endangered Species
Act pertaining to mandatory habitat
restoration.
Or, to put it more plainly, you guys
are gonna have FEMA trailers on the
mall, country clubs on the greenbelt,
pickup trucks on the bike paths and
target practice in the prairie dog colonies
if you don’t shape up.
The EPA is currently trapping live
conservatives for reintroduction into
Boulder. (Traps have been set outside
Fox News, The Heritage Foundation and
Ann Coulter’s
apartment.) We’re
confident the
University of
Colorado will assist
this program by
endowing a chair in
conservative
thought and policy.
Otherwise we’ll
release them on a
window ledge
outside the
sociology department.
Glenn J. Asakawa
Paul Danish
(Hist’65) was a
liberal in 1970,
when he was
mugged three
blocks from the U.S.
Supreme Court. He
currently lives in
Longmont with two
pickup trucks.
Kevin Stearns
Assistant professor Rebecca Safran examines a New Jersey barn swallow as part of a study
revealing how birds with darker feathers attract more females.
Darker chests get the chicks
Laws of attraction are mysterious, but
CU researchers have discovered that a
Sharpie pen does wonders for male
barn swallows.
When researchers used a Sharpie to
color the rust-colored feathers of lighter
male New Jersey barn swallows a deep
red, those birds attracted more females,
spurring increased testosterone levels and
loss of weight. In the 30 birds that were
darkened, testosterone was up 36 percent
after one week.
“It’s the ‘clothes make the man’ idea,”
Rebecca Safran, an evolutionary biology
professor and the study’s lead author,
told the Associated Press. “It’s like you’re
driving a Rolls Royce down the street and
people notice. And your physiology
accommodates this.”
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Safran and her team concluded the male
birds with darker feathers had heightened
levels of testosterone because of amorous
interactions with females and more run-ins
with jealous males. Those same birds lost
weight because they were more preoccupied
with mating than eating and were more active
than their “duller” neighbors, Safran says.
“Barn swallows are socially monogamous and genetically promiscuous, same
as humans,” she says. “There are some
interesting parallels, but we do need to be
careful about making them.”
See a video on the new study of
North American barn swallows
led by assistant professor Rebecca Safran
at www.colorado.edu/news/video/
barnswallows/news-barnswallows.swf
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Jay Price, a senior mechanical engineering student, developed the “Dynamic Stability Tray” to help people
using walkers carry food and beverages without spilling.
Improving lives tray by tray
As a child, Jay Price, a senior mechanical engineering student, saw it happen
repeatedly to his father, a multiple
sclerosis patient, when he tried to carry
food or drinks on his walker. If his
walker hit the smallest bump, everything
would fall off the unstable tray and crash
to the ground.
Searching for solutions, Price, then in
middle school, began creating an
invention that finally has come to fruition.
The “Dynamic Stability Tray,” built by
Price and his CU classmates, incorporates
a stabilizing device that allows the tray to
remain level even if its user goes up and
down ramps or tilts from side to side. It
also sustains low-speed impacts.
With an estimated 12 million Americans using mobility aids and swells of baby
boomers heading into their senior years, it’s
not surprising a major medical manufacturer has expressed interest in the tray.
Along with the tray’s commercial possibilities, Price is excited about the potential of
his invention to improve lives, although his
dad passed away many years ago.
“This disease (multiple sclerosis) has
already taken so much away from me,” he
says. “I try to do as much as I can to help
put an end to its devastating effects.”
You don’t have to be Angelina
Jolie to have sex appeal.
That’s because sex appeal
is a learned behavior rather
than an inherent trait, according to University of Colorado
professor emeritus Stan Jones,
an internationally recognized
expert in body language. In his
new book, Seven Days to Sex
Appeal (Andrews McMeel
Publishing), he and relationship
and sensuality expert Eva
Margolies provide a step-bystep guide written for women to help
them communicate the confidence they
need to get noticed in all types of settings.
“These skills are not only beneficial
for attracting romantic relationships but
also can be beneficial for long-term
relationships, same-sex relationships and
even work relationships,” he says.
The key is mastering effective gender
signals like the proper way to sit, gaze and
communicate vocally through body
language that projects femininity instead
of blatant physicality.
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Seven days to lure a lover
Jones and Margolies studied people in
the workplace, singles bars and at parties,
watching them interact. They also
analyzed movies that featured actresses
known for their sex appeal to see how they
created those impressions. Upon doing so,
they discovered behaviors essential to
communicating sex appeal, they say.
Listen to the podcast of Jones talking
about his new book at www.colorado.edu/
news/podcasts.
Foundation brings in the green
The University of Colorado Foundation
raised $57.4 million in donations last fiscal
year for CU-Boulder, which ended June
30, making 2007-08 the best fundraising
year in the school’s 132-year history. This
was even more impressive because it came
amid a downturn in the economy and
rising energy costs.
The increase in donations corresponded to reforms brought about under
former CU President Hank Brown’s
(Acct’61, Law’69) tenure, making the
university more transparent and helping
boost donors’ confidence, CU system
spokesperson Ken McConnellogue
(Jour’90) says.
During the past year the foundation, led
by President Wayne Hutchens (Mktg’67),
has added about 30 employees and lowered
costs by scaling down its use of consulting
firms, according to spokeswoman Nicky
DeFord (Jour’99). It costs the foundation
18 cents for each dollar it raises, compared
to 30 cents per dollar two years ago.
The rise in donations for CUBoulder represents an increase of
80 percent in two years. In 2006
the total was $32 million.
Fundraising for the threecampus CU system also set
a record for 2008
of $162.5 million.
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Val Peterson, wife of Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson, holds a photo of triplets Filisha, Qualisha and Whylisha.
The Petersons fostered Filisha and Whylisha for three years.
Creating a safety net for foster children
Raising four children is hard work, but
CU-Boulder Chancellor G.P. “Bud”
Peterson and his wife, Val Peterson, made
it look easy as they also opened their
home to nine foster children during an
11-year period.
Their experiences as foster parents
led them to spearhead a new scholarship
program at CU-Boulder designed for
college-bound foster youths — a program
desperately needed. Twenty-five to 50
percent of children who age out of the
foster care system at age 18 will become
homeless, according to national statistics.
“Now that we don’t have any children
at home, I look back and wonder how we
did it,” Val Peterson says. “We had six
kids at home and they were all in scouts
and soccer or other sports. The best
thing is I wouldn’t trade that experience
for anything.”
The program, which includes
mentoring, is modeled after the successful
Guardian Scholarship program that was
started at California State University,
Fullerton in 1998. It has spread to 20 universities in California, Colorado, Indiana,
Massachusetts and Washington.
The campus received a $25,000
donation to start the program in April, but
fundraisers are working to raise more money.
Two students who have been attending Mesa
State College in Grand Junction will transfer
to CU this fall to kickoff the program.
To contribute contact Brian Winkelbauer
at 303-492-4070 or brian.winkelbauer@
cufund.org.
Aaaaand they’re off!
The November CU regent races are set
for the fall election. Republican James
Geddes (EPOBio’73) of Sedalia and
Democrat Afenai “AJ” Clemmons of
Aurora are vying for the seat in the 6th
Congressional District.
In the 2nd District, centered
around Boulder, Joe Neguse (Econ’05)
is running unopposed, making him the
district’s certain next regent. He won
84 percent of the vote in the district’s
May 10 assembly to opponent Curt
William’s (Jour, Engl’91, MEngl’95)
16 percent. Neguse is a CU law student
and former tri-executive. He will
replace Cindy Carlisle (A&S’70,
MEngl’77) who retired to run for
Colorado State Senate.
In the 7th District, including most of
Denver and areas to the west and northeast
of the city, Patrick Mulligan (PolSci’84,
Law’87) of Golden avoided a Democratic
primary challenge when D. Scott
Martinez (IntlAf, Econ’00) withdrew.
Mulligan will run against Republican Pat
Hayes, former regent chair.
A revolution in dorm life A noisy
a
revolution is taking place on campus.
It’s not about politics or people but
about place. Dorm life is being reinvented
through the prism of residential colleges —
a notion that learning should take place
everywhere, not just in lecture halls.
The concept, which will include
professors living in the dorms, is part of
the university’s strategic plan called
Flagship 2030.
The first dorm to receive a makeover is
Arnett Hall, part of the Kittredge complex, which will reopen this fall as a residential college. The renovation cost is
$13 million.
Arnett’s renovations include smart
classrooms, study nooks and energysaving sensors that shut off the heat when
a window is opened. The dorm will host
seminars, a speaker series and social
activities.
During the next six years the entire Kittredge complex will undergo renovations.
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Thinking outside the cracker box
Faced with the challenge of how to market
Doritos at an international competition,
CU senior Phil VanBuren and Elliot
Nordstrom (Jour’08) looked at the chip’s
competitors.
From there the duo developed a “There
Is Only One” campaign, featuring Doritos
as the only triangular-shaped snack amid a
slew of square and round chips and crackers. Their creative genius garnered the top
prize out of more than 350 student entries
at the prestigious One Show College Competition. Three CU-Boulder
student teams also were
named merit finalists.
No other traditional
four-year university
had more winning
teams. Over the past
nine years, CUBoulder boasts
more winners than
any other four-year university, according to associate professor of
advertising David Slayden.
Casey A. Cass
Student Rob Mickle won $25,000 in the first round of Google’s Android Developer Challenge.
Googling a cash prize
In a weak national economy, the last thing
Rob Mickle expected to do this summer
was forgo an internship. But when the CU
senior found out he had won $25,000 in
the first round of Google’s Android
Developer Challenge, he found it hard to
stay focused during finals week.
Rather than pursue an internship, he
worked full time to refine his software
application to move to the final round of
the contest in July. His program allows
users to collaboratively sketch and paint
on mobile phones. His prototype was
named one of 50 winners in the Google
challenge, a $5 million contest that
attracted nearly 1,800 entries worldwide,
including many from computer science
professionals, teams and companies.
He could win between $100,000 and
$275,000 if he comes out among the top
10 designers in the finals.
Google is sponsoring the contest to
support and recognize developers who
build great applications for devices based
on Android, an operating system being
developed by the Open Handset Alliance,
a group of more than 30 technology and
mobile companies.
CU keys in on DNC
Coinciding with the Democratic National
Convention Aug. 25-28, CU hosted its
own Conference on World Affairs-style,
two-day event Aug. 22-23. From
immigration to America’s mental health
policy issues and climate change, the
university hosted more than a
dozen panels focused on CU
research findings that have strong
public policy implications.
Participants had not been finalized
before Coloradan press time, but
visit www.colorado.edu/climatenergy
for more information.
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Taxes may fuel scholarships
Facing Coloradans in November is a
ballot initiative supported by Gov. Bill
Ritter (Law’81) that would raise taxes on
gas and oil extracted in Colorado to fund,
in part, an ambitious new scholarship
program for university students.
Supporters say the measure would
bring in about $200 million a year.
“Education is absolutely fundamental
to everything we do,” Ritter says. He says
as many as two-thirds of Colorado
families would be eligible for what would
be called the Colorado Promise program.
The measure would also fund the
protection of wildlife habitat, the
development of clean-energy projects and
assist communities impacted by the
state’s energy boom.
The initiative is being vociferously
opposed by the energy industry and its
supporters, claiming it would hurt the
state’s largest industry and the rural
communities that depend on it.
Some in the higher education
community voice concerns that none of
the money will be allocated to desperately
needed university operations costs. CU
President Bruce Benson (Geol’64,
HonDocSci’04) worries there will be a
new demand for underfunded universities
that can’t meet the students’ needs. “We
need operating money badly,” he says.
In related news, the regents in April
approved tuition raises averaging 9.3
percent for the coming school year. CU
leaders cited continuing low levels of
state support as well as mandated salary
increases. It equates to an extra $504 for
undergraduate Arts and Sciences
students at CU-Boulder. Other majors,
such as engineering and business, are
higher. The average increase for freshmen
out-of-state undergraduates is 7.7 percent
over last year’s rate.
CU and our alumni change lives
B Y B ruce benson
I first came to the University of Colorado in 1961 to study oil and gas geology of the Rocky
Mountains, which had captured my interest while I was working as an oil-field roughneck in
Wyoming and Colorado. Like many who come to Boulder, I was drawn by the promise of top-notch
academics and a sophisticated city, and amazed by the sheer beauty of the campus once I arrived.
CU has been a common thread throughout my life, whether as a student, an alumnus, a
participant in various university activities and initiatives, a donor, an advocate or as co-chair,
along with my wife Marcy Benson, of the university’s billion-dollar fundraising campaign.
Now, it is an honor and a privilege to serve as the 22nd president of our alma mater. In nearly
six months on the job, I have developed an even deeper appreciation for this great university. It is
a place that not only provides students with a world-class education, but also one that tackles
the significant challenges facing our state, nation and world.
CU is at the leading edge of biomedicine by improving drug therapies, developing better
diagnostic tools and improving the quality of life for millions. We are leading the way in aerospace
engineering by contributing to NASA missions, improving satellite technology and exploring the far
reaches of the universe. Here on Earth, CU is leading the way in developing renewable and sustainable
energy sources, as well as researching in geosciences fields ranging from polar ice to Western water.
But perhaps the most significant thing about CU is that it is a place that changes the lives of
those who pass through its halls, as well as those whom we serve.
Since becoming CU’s president, I have been touring Colorado to convey the value of CU and
of higher education in general and to build support for the university. Along the way, we have met
and visited with many alumni whose lives the university changed. It’s a pleasure to hear how their
education opened doors for them and their families, to learn how they are contributing to their
communities and to see firsthand what they add to our society.
Our alumni are the best demonstration of the value of our university. Whether you are a
doctor, teacher, artist, businessperson, scientist or engineer, CU alumni make a difference. You
exemplify the best of what our university is about and what it has to offer. I am proud to count
myself among you.
Bruce D. Benson (Geol’64, HonDocSci’04) is president of the
University of Colorado system. Contact him at 303-860-5600 or at
Glenn J. Asakawa
OfficeofthePresident@cu.edu.
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Melissa Hoffman Stockwell
(Comm’02) lost her leg in
Baghdad when a roadside
bomb exploded under the
Humvee in which she was
riding. Above she swims at
the Olympic Training Center
in Colorado Springs.
From
Baghdad
to Beijing
BY TORI PEGLAR
Who knows how long the
roadside bomb had been sitting under the overpass on the
outskirts of Baghdad that hot
day in April 2004? Sixty seconds? Ten minutes? It doesn’t
really matter, except for the fact
it lay there undisturbed, waiting for Melissa Hoffman
Stockwell (Comm’02) and her
convoy.
Several miles up the road,
Stockwell’s Humvee swerved
around chaotic Baghdad traffic
and crowds of Iraqis fanning
out onto the streets. She looked
out excitedly at the teeming
city. After spending three
weeks in Iraq, she was headed
to the Green Zone where she
finally would get to see former
Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein’s storied palaces. As
the chaos of the city gave way
to quiet clusters of small
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concrete houses, Stockwell’s leg
dangled carelessly outside the doorless
Humvee. Life was good.
But the instant her vehicle drove
through the overpass, the bomb
exploded. Stockwell struggled to get her
seatbelt off as the four other soldiers in
the car jumped outside the vehicle to
secure the perimeter. Something was
wrong with her leg, she called out. She
felt a burning sensation but didn’t look
down. If she had, she would have seen
her left leg was gone.
In a split second, Stockwell’s life
changed. And perhaps you assume it was
altered for the worse, as she faced life
without her leg. You could probably
come up with a long list of things the
young, talented soldier would never be
able to do.
But the eternally optimistic Stockwell
turned a tragic accident into an opportunity to compete as a world-class athlete.
This spring she became the first Iraqi
veteran to qualify for the Beijing Paralympics, which take place two weeks after the
Summer Olympics, Sept. 6-17. She’ll be
competing for the elite U.S. Paralympic
swim team, despite the fact she never
competed as a swimmer before her
accident.
“I regret none of it,” Stockwell says
frankly when talking about going to Iraq.
“Honestly, I’d do it again mainly because
I am really happy with where my life is
now. Just driving into (the Olympic
Training Center in Colorado Springs) is
emotional. I feel very lucky.”
Wearing the uniform
The road to Iraq began when Stockwell
arrived on the CU-Boulder campus as a
freshman from Eden Prairie, Minn.
During her sophomore year, she joined
ROTC not for financial reasons but
because she had always dreamed of
wearing the U.S. Army uniform. Dick
Stockwell (Econ’02 ), who is now her
husband, also was in ROTC and they
began dating. When the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks occurred two years later, she knew
getting deployed was a strong possibility.
“When I graduated, our ROTC
instructor said, ‘I guarantee that every
single one of you will be over in Iraq or
Afghanistan within the next couple of
years,’” Stockwell recalls. “He was right.
It’s a volunteer army, so you sign up
knowing that’s a possibility so you go
along with it.”
Diving into the pool at the Olympic Training Center in
Colorado Springs, Melissa Hoffman Stockwell
(Comm’02) practices in the morning and afternoon
to prepare for Beijing.
By March 2004, she and her
husband found themselves deployed on
opposite ends of Baghdad. He was the
first person she saw when she woke up
from her first lifesaving surgery in
Baghdad. He was the one who told her
she had lost her leg. A couple of months
after her accident, he helped her discover
the Paralympics.
Recovering at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center in Washington, D.C.,
Stockwell had been lying low in her
room, not really wanting to get out.
Dick Stockwell, who accompanied her
back to the States and was reassigned
to the Washington,D.C., area, convinced her to see a presentation on the
Paralympics —something she had never
heard of before.
Following World War II, an English
neurosurgeon organized the first International Wheelchair Games to coincide with
the 1948 Olympic Games. But it wasn’t
until the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome
that the first Paralympic Games for elite
athletes with disabilities took place. Held
just a few weeks after the Olympic Games,
the Paralympics attracted 400 athletes
from 23 countries. Today the Paralympic
Games feature over 4,000 elite athletes
Melissa Stockwell
Melissa Hoffman Stockwell (Comm’02) and husband Dick Stockwell (Econ’02) smile for the camera at the
Baghdad International Airport.
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A gymnast while growing up, Melissa Hoffman Stockwell (Comm’02) takes a break between swim practices at
the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
with a physical disability from over 136
countries.
The Iraqi veteran’s mind raced as she
listened to the Paralympic presentation.
Swimming was the first exercise she did as
she recovered, and the pool was the one
place where she felt like herself. The smell
of chlorine was like an old friend visiting
from her days as a competitive diver — a
sport she did while growing up in addition
to gymnastics. She remembered training
six days a week, five hours a day as a child
and teenager in Atlanta with the hope she
would make the U.S. gymnastics team for
the 1996 Atlanta Games. Her hero was
Mary Lou Retton who, in the 1984 Los
Angeles Olympic Games, became the first
American woman ever to win a gold medal
in gymnastics.
Stockwell never qualified for the
Olympics. But maybe, she thought as her
heart pounded, the Paralympics were a
second chance to compete on the world’s
greatest sports stage.
“I thought this is it,” she says. “This
is my chance to do this.”
Having a shot
But it’s one thing to dream of going to
the Paralympics. The cards were
stacked against her — she had never
swum competitively, and most of the
competitors were swimming in their
teens and had raced for years. Stockwell was in her mid-20s, not an ideal
time to pick up a technical sport. In the
early days of her training, she got
disqualified constantly at meets, slowly
learning by trial and error the rules of
the sport.
“Swimming is such a technical in-thefield sport,” says Jimi Flowers, the U.S.
Paralympic resident swim team coach. “It
takes so many years to pick it up, so
Melissa is really unusual. When she came
(to the Olympic Training Center), people
asked, ‘Does she have a shot to make the
team?’ After working with her for the first
week, there was no doubt in my mind she
had a shot.”
In typical Stockwell fashion, the
confident young woman turned every
challenge into an opportunity. She
approached her first coach, Jim Anderson, in Minnesota where the couple
moved after a year of her rehabilitation in
the Washington, D.C., area.
“I said, “Hi, I’m Melissa. Can you get
me to the Paralympics?” she recalls,
laughing at how determined she must
have sounded.
He told her yes. Her swimming
improved rapidly, as she spent between
three to four hours in the pool every day.
She discovered a new hero, Sarah
Reinertsen, the first above-the-knee
female amputee to compete in the
Ironman Kona triathlon, arguably one of
the world’s most grueling races — a 2.4mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bike
ride and a 26.2-mile run. Before long,
Stockwell joined Reinertsen in the 55
degree San Francisco Bay water to swim
1.5 miles in the Escape from Alcatraz
Triathlon.
In January 2008 she moved to
Colorado Springs to train for the
Paralympics full time. It was not easy
temporarily moving away from her
husband, who is in medical school at
Loyola in Chicago, and putting her career
in prosthetics — a field she never knew
existed before her accident — on hold.
She completed a two-year degree
program in prosthetics in May 2007 to
help amputees from kids to the elderly get
fitted and adjusted to prosthetic limbs.
“If a new amputee comes in, you take
a cast of his or her limb,” she says. “You
literally get people back on their feet.”
Making the team
But going to the Summer Olympic
Games was a once-in-a lifetime opportunity. She made the U.S. Paralympic team
in early April, landing interviews with
ABC, USA Today and The Denver Post,
among others, as the first Iraq War
veteran to qualify.
Two months later, the 28-year-old
kicks back in an oversized brown chair
at the Olympic Training Center after an
exceedingly rigorous swim practice and
talks about wanting to medal in Beijing.
Her prosthetic leg is decorated with
Olympic rings and emblazoned with the
word “Beijing” near the thigh area. The
lower part of her leg is wrapped in an
image of the American flag. She’ll have
three shots to medal, as she’ll be
competing in the 400 freestyle, 100
freestyle and 100 butterfly.
“Anything is possible. I lost my leg
and it was tragic and I was here and I had
to get to there to make it,” she says, using
her hands as she talks. “If you want
something badly enough, and you put in
the work, it really can happen.”
To follow Stockwell during the Paralympics, check out www.usparalympics.org. To
find out more about the CU-Boulder
Alumni Association’s Veterans Club and
its events, please visit www.cualum.org/
clubs/veterans.
Tori Peglar (MJour’00) is the editor
of the Coloradan magazine.
Buffs competing in Beijing
The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing run from Aug. 8-24. The track and field events will be contested Aug. 15-24.
The Paralympic Games will take place in Beijing Sept. 6-17. For CU-related resources and stories about the
Olympics, go to www.colorado.edu/news and click on “Special Reports.” The following are CU Buffs who will
compete in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
CU senior-to-be Jenny Barringer qualified in the
3,000-meter steeplechase
Kara Grgas-Wheeler Goucher (Psych’01) will run
both the 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
Casey Malone, CU assistant coach for throwers,
will compete in the discus.
Billy Nelson (Ethnic’08) qualified for the men’s
3,000 steeplechase.
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Aija Putnina (A&S ex’08), former women’s
basketball team member, will compete on Latvia’s
national team.
Dathan Ritzenhein (Hist’06) will run the marathon.
Melissa Hoffman Stockwell (Comm’02) will
compete in the Paralympic Games, racing in the
400 freestyle, 100 freestyle and 100 butterfly.
Jorge Torres (Econ’03) qualified for the 10,000
meters.
Giving conservatism
the chair
BY DOUG MCPHERSON
Glenn J. Asakawa
ou would have thought
Chancellor G.P. “Bud”
Peterson’s office was giving
away free gas tokens. The
phone was ringing like a
church bell on Sunday morning.
All the buzz began soon after word
got out this spring that CU had started a
campaign to raise $9 million to establish
an endowed Visiting Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy.
And word spread in a big way — from
National Public Radio to the Boulder
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Camera and Page One of the Wall Street
Journal.
“The media coverage ran the
spectrum, but I think most of it was
positive,” Peterson says. “Some liberals
are certainly against it, but some are for it.
And some conservatives are for it and
some are opposed.”
Even though he’s is an avid cheerleader for the idea, it wasn’t his. Turns
out, a few faculty members and potential
donors began discussing the idea about
“Like Margaret
Mead among the
Samoans, they’re
planning to study
conservatives. That’s
hilarious.”
— Columnist George Will
told the Wall Street Journal
10 years ago, according to Bronson
Hilliard (Hist’86), the CU-Boulder
spokesperson, although he would not
share any names. The idea was one of
several items left unresolved on former
chancellor Richard Byyny’s agenda. When
Peterson took over, he resuscitated the idea
and ran it by Todd Gleason, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences and Phil
DiStefano, provost and executive vice
chancellor for Academic Affairs, and both
reportedly were receptive.
As for why a conservative chair now,
Hilliard says there’s a feeling that the time
is right and that it fits with Peterson’s
efforts to add intellectual diversity to the
school. Hilliard says he’s unaware of any
other public or private university making
such an appointment.
The potential donors for the chair,
people Peterson describes as individuals
very interested in CU and helping to
support the school, have held two events,
one at the Denver Country Club and
another at a private residence, with about
15 people attending each. 
Morton C. Blackwell, president of
The Leadership Institute, an organization
in Arlington, Va., that promotes conservative thought, says he isn’t a fan of the
endowed chair.
“Some exposition of conservative
ideas is better than none, but the problem
is deep and wide,” says Blackwell, whose
mother graduated from CU in the 1930s
and says he’s always had an interest in the
school. “We should not see a token
position as an acceptable solution.”
Education professor Margaret
LeCompte questions why the university is
raising $9 million to fund a professorship
for people “who will make more than
almost anyone but a football coach . . .
when the school has leaking roofs and
asbestos contaminates in many of the
major classroom buildings.”
“We could do a lot more with $9
million to improve the quality of instruction than to hire one conservative
ideologue,” LeCompte says. “The
conservative chair is just a waste of effort.”
But Spencer Page, a sophomore,
Condoleeza
Rice
George
Will
William
Kristo
Philip
Zelikow
finds such a chair refreshing.
“After my outspoken, left-wing writing
and rhetoric professor told me with
disdain, ‘May God help you’ when I told
her I was looking at a future career as a
lobbyist, I would love a change and
welcome [someone] who will help guide
my right-wing views and not look down
upon me for what I believe. I look forward
to learning from both sides of the aisle.”
Names initially tossed around as
potential candidates included Secretary
of State Condoleeza Rice, conservative
columnist George Will and neoconservative pundit William Kristol, editor of The
Weekly Standard. Will, however, was
among the many who criticized the
proposal.
“Like Margaret Mead among the
Samoans, they’re planning to study
conservatives. That’s hilarious,” he told
the Wall Street Journal.
But Will later called the chancellor
and told him he liked the idea. Nevertheless, Peterson’s okay with the criticism. “I
have a thick skin. I’m mostly concerned
about the misunderstanding of what
we’re trying to do.”
That misunderstanding, the chancellor says, is coming from some who believe
the new chair is an attempt to hire a
conservative scholar to teach the
conservative line. But he says the goal is
to find a scholar of conservative thought
who has expertise in the role and historic
significance of conservatism. This expert
in conservative thought would start with
the writings of John Locke, Thomas
Hobbes, Alexander Hamilton and extend
to the present.
“It’s tough to deny the impact the
[Ronald] Reagan conservative movement
had on this country,” says the chancellor.
And if the school raises the money,
who might land in the chair? It may not
even be a conservative.
“It’s not imperative that the person
actually be conservative,” Peterson says.
“When we hire someone to teach French,
they may not be from France.”
Doug McPherson is a freelance writer for
the Coloradan magazine.
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Varsity Lake captures the
reflection of the sandstone
bridge that crosses it in the
light of late summer. The
bridge is the third in
succession to span the lake
and was completed on June 8,
1935. Alumni were granted the
privilege of being the first to
walk across.
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SPORTS
C o m p i l e d b y G ar y B a i n e s ( J o u r ’ 8 3 )
Track athletes cap stellar year
Five current or former CU track and
field athletes and a coach qualified to
compete in the 2008 Beijing Olympics
(see Page 31 for a complete list of
athletes headed to Beijing).
The CU contingent also numbered
six for the 2004 Summer Games,
including 2008 Olympians Casey Malone
and Dathan Ritzenhein (Hist’06).
“This is the best overall year we’ve
had at CU since I’ve been here,” CU coach
Mark Wetmore told the Boulder Camera.
“. . . Obviously we’re all sky high.”
CU hosted the Big 12 outdoor track
and field meet in May, and the Buff men
captured the conference title at Potts
CU Athletics
CU senior Jenny Barringer set the 3000-meter
steeplechase American record in 9:22.73 in Belgium
on July 20.
Field. Claiming individual Big 12
championships for CU were James
Begley (discus), Billy Nelson (3,000
steeplechase), Brent Vaughn (5,000) and
Kenyon Neuman (10,000).
“Honestly, it was happenstance or
kismet or something that all these guys came
together on this track,” said Wetmore, voted
the Big 12 men’s track and field coach of the
year. “There wasn’t a master plan. I’ve used
up my luck for the rest of my life because not
only did the team do everything it possibly
could, everything here turned out so well and
so many people contributed.”
Vaughn went on to capture his third
NCAA title in the regional 5,000, while
Jenny Barringer and Nelson won regional
3,000 steeplechase titles.
Barringer claimed the NCAA
Championship 3,000 steeplechase
victory, recording a meet record in the
process (9:29.2). With the win, Barringer
became the first Buff ever to win the same
event twice at the NCAA outdoor meet,
having also finished first in 2006.
Nelson took second in the NCAA
3,000 steeplechase, and Stephen Pifer and
Vaughn went 2-3 in the 5,000. The men
finished 10th in the NCAA team standings.
“We had a very good season,”
Wetmore said. “… I usually feel like we
didn’t reach our full potential. But this year
I feel like we came pretty close to that.”
Vaughn and Wetmore were named
the Mountain Region men’s track athlete
of the year and men’s track coach of the
year, respectively.
Golfers tee up in summer heat
The men’s golf team was definitely in the
swing of things during early summer.
Brothers Pat Grady and Jim Grady
qualified for the U.S. Amateur Public
Links Championship played in Aurora
this year. Both earned spots in the final 64
of the national tournament, with Pat
Grady advancing to the final 16 before
being eliminated in match play.
Senior Derek Tolan, the only Buff to
qualify for the NCAA finals in June, won
his first Colorado Golf Association
individual title — the State Public Links
championship — after nine runner-up
finishes in CGA events.
In July Tolan played former high
school and current CU teammate
sophomore Luke Symons in the 36-hole
title match of the CGA’s oldest event, the
State Match Play. Symons, who shares a
south Boulder house with Tolan and
some other teammates, rallied to capture
the victory, 2 and 1. The win was the
biggest of Symons’ career, coming a few
weeks after his low-amateur finish in the
San Juan Open.
Winning a similar event was Justin
Bardgett, a junior finance major, who
claimed the Missouri State Amateur title
in June.
Meanwhile, CU women’s golfer Julie
Kim was named to the 2007-08 National
Golf Coaches Association All-American
Scholar Team. To qualify, athletes must
have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 and have
competed in at least 50 percent of the
college’s regularly scheduled tournament
rounds during the school year.
Seeking lofty heights In the Big 12 preseason media poll, football coach Dan Hawkins’ Buffs were picked to
finish fourth out of six teams in the Big 12 North, behind
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska. Incoming Buff Darrell
Scott, by most accounts the No. 1 high school running
back prospect in the nation, was picked Big 12 Newcomer
of the Year by media outlets that cover the conference. CU
senior defensive tackle George Hypolite was named to the
preseason All-Big 12 team by the media.
Taking a break,
Hawkins and his
family — including
son and CU quarterback Cody Hawkins
— went to the ancient
Incan city of Machu
Picchu in Peru on a
trip in July. The
Cody Hawkins
Coach Dan Hawkins
Hawkinses did an
unforgettable climb while there.
“You have to be kind of agile; it’s about a 5,000 or
6,000-foot drop down to the river and it clears up the
gene pool in a hurry,” the coach reported. “I looked to see
how Cody was doing and (Dan’s wife) Misti said, ‘You
have other children here.’” Responded Dan, jokingly: “I
told her that it’s one thing to lose a child and it’s another
thing to lose your starting quarterback.”
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Football back in black
With the football team’s improved record
and 2007 bowl-game appearance, the
athletic department had
a surplus of about
$2 million at the
end of last
fiscal year.
“That
excess
revenue
beyond our
projections
was huge for
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us,” athletic director Mike Bohn says.
“Obviously, that’s tied to football ticket
sales and that’s why it’s so important to
have that support there that generates
the support for all the programs.”
Bohn is in the process of trying to
raise money for a $10 million basketball
practice facility. He hopes to break
ground on that facility in spring 2009.
In the meanwhile, this summer new sod
was laid at Folsom Field at a cost of
$80,000.
CU Heritage Center
During World War II, the CU Marching Band consisted only of women as illustrated in this photo taken in 1942.
One hundred years of music
B y G ar y B a i n e s
It’s been 100 years of striking up the
band at CU, and it’s time to celebrate.
Ten decades of memories run deep.
The Hudson car caravan to Nebraska.
Serenading train travelers as they
arrived at the Water Street depot in
Boulder. Having a penalty flag thrown
on the band during a football game
against Texas A&M. The women’s
marching band taking up the slack
when most of the men were overseas
during World War II. The 1987 battle
of the bands with Stanford in downtown Boulder.
These are some of the more
memorable moments in CU marching
band history, which will be front and
center come Homecoming weekend
Oct. 3-5. The band, which has performed on a regular basis since a
formation meeting in October 1908,
will hold a Centennial Celebration in
conjunction with the Buffs’ home game
against Texas on Oct. 4.
An alumni marching band performs
each CU Homecoming weekend, normally
drawing 80-100 former members of the
Golden Buffalo Marching Band.
“We’re really pushing hard for the
anniversary,” says CU marching band
historian (and tuba-playing member in
1985-88) Walt Blankenship (Hist’89,
MA’02), the man who provided the spark
of inspiration for the celebration. “We
hope to get at least 250 alums.”
Blankenship will present a historic
slide show before the game.
Matt Roeder (PhDMus’07), director
of the marching band since 2002, says
they will perform music during halftime
from the last 100 years, tying it to
memorable events in CU football history:
the 1990 national championship, the
1994 miracle catch at Michigan, the 6236 win over Nebraska in 2001 and last
year’s upset of Oklahoma, among others.
Some historic footage will be shown on
Buffvision. Four former band directors
are expected to take part and the alumni
band will perform at select times during
the game.
Grant Garlinghouse (Mus’57,
MA’65), the oldest former band member
to return for last year’s Homecoming,
plans to be on hand for the centennial
celebration. He’s 80 and played trombone when he was an undergraduate and
graduate student.
“I can get the old horn out,”
Garlinghouse says. “I’m going to really
enjoy it.”
One of his indelible memories is a
band trip during his undergraduate
years to Lincoln, Neb. A Boulder
Hudson automobile dealership donated
50 new cars for the trip.
“We had cars lined up around
Folsom,” Garlinghouse recalls. “It was
kind of a (publicity) stunt. One car
burned up (on the trip); somebody didn’t
look at the oil light.”
And those are just a few of the high
notes.
Learn more about the reunion at http://
bands.colorado.edu/marching/alumni.html.
Gary Baines (Jour’83) covers sports
for the Coloradan.
Bzdelik visits Iraq,
Kuwait
CU’s Jeff Bzdelik was one of several
coaches and basketball executives who
took an off-season United Service
Organizations trip to Iraq and Kuwait in
June as part of “Operation Hoop Talk:
Talking Hoops with the Troops.” His
group toured military posts and hosted
free basketball clinics.
“Regardless of one’s view of the war, it
is our duty as citizens to support our
soldiers and their families who have
answered our nation’s call,” Bzdelik says.
“… I was amazed but not surprised by our
soldiers’ spirit, and that has no limits.”
Soldiers appreciated the visit, he says.
“I met a kid named Andy Roe who
received the Purple Heart, and he was shot
in the hand,” Bzdelik says. “His job was to
protect a general. He saved the general’s
life. He grew up outside of Stillwater and
was a big Oklahoma State fan. But he said
to me that “since you came all the way out
here I am a Buff fan now.”
Bzdelik, meanwhile, was considered
by the NBA’s Chicago Bulls for their head
coaching vacancy, but he reaffirmed his
commitment to CU.
Senior Richard Roby, who finished his
career as the all-time leading scorer in CU
history, wasn’t drafted by an NBA team but
signed a contract to play for the New Jersey
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Jeff Bzdelik spoke with U.S. troops in the Middle East.
Nets’ summer-league squad. Teammate
Marcus Hall (Soc’08) played for the New
York Knicks in their summer league.
Sophomore forward Jeremy
Williams left the CU program in the offseason, marking the seventh player to exit
since Bzdelik was hired in April 2007.
Meanwhile, a couple of power
forwards departed the women’s program
in the off-season. Aija Putnina, a starter
for most of last season, exited to play pro
ball in Europe. She earned a spot on the
Latvian team for the Olympics. And
later, senior Caley Dow opted to leave
the Buffs, though she plans to stay at CU
to complete her undergraduate work.
Director of basketball operations Ann
Strother also left to pursue professional
playing opportunities in Europe and the
WNBA.
Going green for football season
During the 2007 football season, CU increased
recycling nearly 2.5 times over 2006, and that
effort will expand considerably this year with
“Ralphie’s Green Stampede” initiative.
CU will move toward zero waste at Folsom
Stadium during the football season and will
obtain carbon offsets to compensate for its use
of stadium lights, the scoreboard and other
energy at Folsom, as well as for flights taken by
team members.
Concessionaries will serve food on biodegradable material, composting will increase
and riding bikes to the stadium will be encouraged. CU will even use more biodegradables in
its uniforms and other gear.
Athletic director Mike Bohn anticipates
hitting over 90 percent of the zero-waste goal
this year.
Athletic Hall of Fame inductees announced
The CU Athletic Hall of Fame will induct
its largest class on Oct. 17 as nine new
members are enshrined. The new
honorees are discus thrower Claude
Head football coach Dal Ward poses in this undated
photo in the Alumni Association photo collection.
Walton (Mus ex’37), CU’s first AllAmerican in any sport (1936); Frank
Clarke ( A&S ex’57) and Billy Lewis
(PE’60), the first blacks on CU’s football
and basketball teams, respectively, both in
the 1950s (Lewis also competed in track);
former football head coach Dal Ward
(1948-58), for whom the athletic center is
named; and sprinter Don Campbell
(CivEngr’51, Mgmt’57), who excelled
after sustaining machine-gun fire to his
upper leg and hip during World War II.
Also, 1970s football teammates
Dave Logan (A&S ex’76) and John
Stearns (A&S ex’73), both two-sport
athletes (Logan also played basketball at
CU, while Stearns was a baseball
standout); linebacker Alfred Williams
(Soc ex’91), who helped lead CU to the
1990 football national title; and runner
Kara Grgas-Wheeler Goucher
(Psych’01), who stood out during the
late 1990s and early 2000s. The Athletic
Hall of Fame was started in 1998 and
has previously inducted 28 individuals
and the 1959 ski team.
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A view of diversity
B Y C H R I S T I N E Y O S H I N A G A - I TA N O
We are Japanese Americans, Korean
Americans, Asian Indian Americans,
Chinese Americans, Southeast Asian
Americans and South Pacific Islanders
who never experience the luxury of
just being “Americans.” As Asian
Americans we remain “strangers”
in our own land while AngloAmericans are quickly accepted
as American even when born
in another country, as long
as they do not speak with an
accent from their native
land. In February we as a
group were targeted by an
offensive editorial published in the Campus Press
newspaper as alleged satire
(see the News section of the
June 2008 Coloradan ).
Four decades after Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of
1964 was created, prohibited
slurs continue to flourish, e.g.,
racial epithets and comments
about “chinky” eyes and flat
noses, along with repeated
stereotypes regarding abilities
that lead to questions like “Why
are you not good at math?” or
“Why do you Asians all stick
together?” No one questions why a
group of whites in the same class or
residence hall eat or party together.
There is a belief in our society, on
our campus and in our city that racism
is an issue of the past and does not
impact our lives today. While there is no
doubt that behavior that breaks the laws
of our nation must not be tolerated, it is
rare the injustices, indignities and
painful encounters of people of color and
other communities on our campus
actually violate a law.
Because actions or words do not
break the law does not mean life is just.
Slavery at one time did not violate the
law. Imprisoning U.S. citizens and
permanent residents of Japanese ancestry
during World War II because they looked
like the enemy did not violate the law.
In Boulder and on campus, many see
themselves as champions of diversity and
cannot imagine they could act in a racist
manner. Racism is thought to be an “ugly”
characteristic, something unacceptable for
“good people.” Thus, it is a topic that seems
Faces of CU
impossible to discuss without people
getting defensive.
There is a segment of students,
staff and faculty of color who continue
to be beleaguered, who grit their teeth
and walk into their departmental
buildings wondering what indignity
will have to be endured each day. The
fall 2001 university climate survey
reported that only 37 percent of Asian
Americans claimed CU-Boulder was a
“good” or “great” place for students of
“your ethnic identity group” as
compared to 75 percent of white
students. A survey conducted by the
Office of Diversity and Equity and the
Office of Faculty Affairs in 2001-2002
reported fewer than 20 percent of the
faculty of color intended to remain at
CU-Boulder as compared to 40
percent of the majority faculty. Over
the past 20 years, glacially slow
progress has been made in increasing
the number of students and faculty of
color on the campus.
Although it should not be the
responsibility of victims to solve the
problems, many in the majority are
unable to see the problems. Thus, issues
do not get raised, unless described by
members of diverse communities. But
we, the faculty, staff and students of
color, cannot solve the problem alone.
Furthermore, the first priority of our
students is to engage in the scholarly
environment of our research institution.
They are not responsible for “fixing” the
environment. Neither should the staff or
faculty of color shoulder this responsibility, nor do they have the power to
transform the climate.
It is possible to transform our campus
into a welcoming community for all
students, including those from diverse
communities, but it will take the hard
work of the whole community.
Christine Yoshinaga-Itano is professor of
speech, language and hearing sciences.
Her family has lived in the United States
since 1898. Her research has led to
universal newborn hearing tests in all
50 states and U.S. territories, as well as
in many other countries. From 2003 to
2007, she served as vice provost and
associate vice chancellor for diversity
and equity.
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OTHER THOUGHTS ON
CAMPUS CLIMATE
Coloradan student writer Emery Cowan spoke with
different people at CU to find out their ideas for
improving the university’s climate for minorities.
Here’s what several students and staffers had to say.
Sallye McKee, vice
chancellor for diversity,
equity and community
engagement “We are
trying to get more
people from different
cultures in terms of
multicultural
involvement. We want a
new social contract to
encourage civic
discourse.”
Valdemir Jimenez,
senior anthropology
major “We should give
minorities more
incentive to come
here.”
Derek Patton, senior
molecular, cellular and
developmental biology
major “We need more
organizations that
focus on cross-cultural
and global interaction
because that is what
college is all about —
getting out of your
comfort zone.”
Eva Fuentes, UMC
employee “I think
programs that teach
English to workers are a
good idea to improve
the climate for
minorities.”
Remembering
Korea
BY JANET SINGLETON
In the Haktong-ni area of Korea on Aug. 28, 1950, a griefstricken American infantryman, whose buddy has been killed
in action, is comforted by another soldier. In the background
a corpsman methodically fills out casualty tags.
Image by © Corbis
uring a hyper-patriotic
era, the American government perceives
a security threat. The Pentagon launches
a war in a developing nation already
strained by the weight of poverty and
unrest. But ill-prepared allied forces find
themselves fighting torrents of unforeseen enemies. The struggle becomes a
bloody shooting gallery of shifting
objectives and shocking casualties. And
the ensuing war drains the popularity of
a president.
Sound like today’s headlines? It
happened over five decades ago when the
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politically endangered president was
Harry Truman.
The Korean War — the 16-country
United Nations campaign to keep North
Korea from overtaking the territory south
of its border — has been called “the
forgotten war.” This year marks the 55th
anniversary of the armistice of that Asian
conflict that raged from 1950 to 1953.
Though it was given less attention than
the wars that sandwiched it, World War II
and Vietnam, the Korean War’s legacy is
its terrible human cost paid in order to
“As we drove through
the streets of the war-torn
suburbs of Seoul, little
children followed the truck.
They were cold, dirty,
miserable and hungry. We
threw them our C-rations
and wept.”
— Bud Davis (PE’51, EdD ’63)
contain communism during the Cold
War, say former soldiers and University of
Colorado historians.
Cost of containing communism
Soon after completing his undergraduate degree at CU, Bud Davis (PE’51,
EdD ’63) arrived in Korea with other
American soldiers backing up the
fighters of the South as Russia threw the
weight of its money, technology and
influence behind the North. He vividly
recalled his first day in the beleaguered
nation. After landing at an air base in
Korea on a freezing November day, he
and the other newly arrived Marines
boarded the rear of an open truck to be
transported to the First Division
Headquarters some 50 miles away.
“As we drove through the streets of
the war-torn suburbs of Seoul, little
children followed the truck,” he remembers. “They were cold, dirty, miserable
and hungry. We threw them our C-rations
and wept.”
Davis, a Marine 2nd lieutenant, had
just arrived in harm’s way. A training
commander, he recalls the haunting
prediction that trainees had a 50 percent
chance of being killed in battle.
During one of the most intense
battles in September 1950, 83,000
American soldiers and 57,000 South
Korean and British troops fought
during the lionized amphibious assault
on Inchon, a major seaport on the west
coast of South Korea. Though that
battle was won, the war was long from
being over. On New Year’s Eve, the
Chinese joined North Korean fighters
in an offensive that resulted in the
capture of Seoul and merited the label
of the worst American defeat in history,
according to then Secretary of State
Dean Acheson.  The city fell after a
week of fighting, and Acheson compared it to the Civil War’s first Battle of
Bull Run.
After that, the struggle became an
entrenched ping-pong game that
included blows and victories for each
side, including the momentous artillery
action of Operation Ripper that won back
Seoul for the allies in March 1951.
“The Korean War showed that the U.S.
was willing to fight to keep communism
from spreading,” says CU history
professor Thomas Zeiler, an expert in
American diplomatic history. “We had
come to terms with the need to contain
the Soviets.”
As American troops fought dangerously close to the Chinese border, the
giant to the north threatened to enter the
fighting in full force alongside North
Koreans.  And the Chinese proved to be
the pivotal element in the war — they sent
waves of seemingly endless troops better
dressed than the Americans for the
treacherous cold and trained to offset
America’s technological superiority by
their willingness to die in masses,
according to The Coldest Winter: America
and the Korean War (Hyperion), the
2007 bestseller by the late celebrated
journalist David Halberstam. An
estimated 1 million Chinese and 600,000
North and South Koreans perished by
the conflict’s end.
Underestimating the enemy
Bad intelligence permeated the
strategies used during the Korean War,
© Duncan P Walker, istock photo.com
An unknown artist carefully painted a North Korean flag on a rock.
many argue. At the outset of the Korean
War, CIA analysts deduced intrusion by
China was unlikely. Even after the military
picked up numerous Chinese-speaking
prisoners, American commanders
claimed that the communist republic
likely would not enter the Korean War
and if it did, it could be easily defeated.
Former Marine and Colorado native
Bob Brockish, a parent of two CU alumni,
experienced the contradictions between
theory and reality firsthand. He was
involved in the battle of Horseshoe Ridge
April 22 - 25, 1951, as the Chinese
kicked off their spring offensive.
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lines, they threatened the left flank of the
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range the resistance,” Brockish says.
“Our battalion, the 1st, was sent to
establish an outpost.  Throughout the
night of April 23 Charlie Company was
under continual fire.”
Sunrise revealed the Chinese had
surrounded the battalion.
The uninvited guests proved deadly
and possibly ended tens of thousands of
U.S. lives, according to Halberstam’s
700-page tome of data and interviews.
“Major Gen. Hap Gay, George
Patton’s Chief of Staff in World War II . . .
believed that in Korea they had been
doing things wrong from the start,”
Halberstam wrote. “He had been
shocked by the terrible state of the Army
when the war began and bothered as well
“By June 1951 our
platoon had experienced so
many losses by deaths,
wounded or rotation that I
was advanced to squad
leader of the 3rd Squad of
the 2nd Platoon of Charlie
Company. I was only 19
years old.”
— Bob Brockish
by Gen. (Douglas) MacArthur’s initial
failure to respect the ability of the enemy.”
Brockish believes McArthur let his ego
take over, noting the general’s failure to heed
intelligence from the battlefield was
criminally negligent. While he feels Halberstam’s book overemphasizes the racial bias
that infiltrated military strategy, CU history
professor William Wei, an expert on
modern China, says the issue of race cannot
be overlooked. What blinded U.S. leaders
in Korea is a cut-off-your-nose-to-spiteyour-face racial arrogance, he says.
“Unfortunately we bring a racist
perspective to these conflicts in Asia . . .
toward the people we work with and the
people we fight against,” Wei says. “They
assumed the Chinese could not shoot
well because (in certain battles) they
tended to wound rather than kill (a
strategy meant to keep U.S. troops tied
up tending the injured).” 
The weight of war
What is indisputable, however, is a great
blood-letting occurred on both sides.
A 1907 vintage map
shows Korea and China
and significant trade
routes. Two years earlier,
Japan had made Korea a
protectorate and
occupied the country.
However, following the
defeat of Japan in 1945,
two new, separate
governments were
established, dividing the
country at the 38th
parallel: a democratic
South Korea and
communist North Korea.
“By June 1951 our platoon had
experienced so many losses by deaths,
wounded or rotation that I was advanced
to squad leader of the 3rd Squad of the
2nd Platoon of Charlie Company,” Brockish recalls. “I was only 19 years old.”
Back in the United States, the
American public did not get involved in
the war as it did in World War II or as it
would during the Vietnam War. The Cold
War years, replete with the red-hunting
McCarthy era, placed a freezing hand on
dissent. “People feared being branded
communists,” professor Robert Schulzinger of history says.
But the public had quieter ways of
expressing their displeasure. President
Harry Truman’s popularity rating
dropped to a shocking 23 percent. It was
the lowest presidential rating ever
measured, according to Schulzinger.
Truman’s ratings destroyed his plans to
seek a second term. And five months after
Eisenhower became the nation’s 34th
president in 1953, negotiations yielded a
truce. The agreement — widely proclaimed
a “stalemate” — prevented a North Korean
advance on its southern neighbor and any
American efforts to overthrow the commu-
nist regime of the north. It returned the
dividing line between the two sides to the
famous 38th parallel, where it was before
the outbreak of war.
Few celebrations greeted the
returning troops. Former soldiers quietly
eased back into civilian life, haunted by
those soldiers who did not return and
never had the chance to have families or
grow old. Others, like Brockish, have
returned to the country to see how South
Korea has evolved over time.
“I have been back to Korea twice,”
he says. “I am proud.  Seeing the
modern Korea made me realize what we
did was good.”
Had it not been for people like
Brockish and Davis, Wei says South Korea
might have become a socioeconomic and
political “basket case” like the North.
“For the (South) Koreans, the war was
worth the sacrifice, but for the Americans,
less so,” he says, as an estimated 36, 940
Americans died in the Korean War.
Janet Singleton is a novelist and
freelance journalist.  Her father, John
Singleton, served as a Marine sergeant in
the Korean War.
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CU AROUND
It’s a golden Homecoming!
Students
celebrate
during the
Homecoming parade
with Chip.
Ken Abbott
Come join the fun during CU Homecoming weekend Oct. 3-4.  This year’s theme
is “Go for the Gold” in honor of CU’s
Olympians and Paralympians who will
have just competed in the 2008 Beijing
games, as well as those who competed in
previous games.
The big event Friday afternoon is
the Homecoming parade, followed by a
concert on campus and a school spirit
event on the Pearl Street Mall. The
Homecoming football game is Saturday,
Oct. 4, against the Texas Longhorns,
preceded by the alumni pregame party
on Benson Field 2 ½ hours before the
game. See the “Happenings” calendar
on Page 53 for details or check the
alumni website, www.cualum.org/
homecoming or the student site, www.
cuhomecoming.com.
Chat with alums online
The Alumni Association’s www.cualum.org
website has a comment feature that allows
readers to respond to online stories
posted under “CU Voices,” “CU
Memories” or Photo of the Day. We want
to hear from you! If you’ve got an
observation or just want to express your
thoughts about a story or other item, look
for the public comment field or contact
us at feedback@cualum.org.
Pedal for scholarships
The Boulder Buffalo Bicycle Classic,
which takes place Sept. 7, is the largest
single source of scholarship funds for
CU’s College of Arts and Sciences.
You can help make this year’s goal
of $300,000! Get all the info at
www.buffalobicycleclassic.com.
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HAPPENINGS www.cualum.org
Aug. 31, Denver, CU vs. CSU at Invesco Field at Mile High,
pregame 2:30 p.m., kickoff 5:30 p.m.*
Sept. 2-3, Boulder, Senior Auditors registration, Koenig
Alumni Center, 303-492-8484, www.cualum.org/services/
senior-auditors
Sept. 6, Boulder, CU vs. Eastern Washington, pregame
11 a.m., kickoff 1:30 p.m.*
Sept. 6, Boulder, Directors Club pregame party, Koenig
Directors Club Garden, 303-492-3005, barb.banta@colorado.
edu, www.cualum.org/clubs/directors
Sept. 7, Boulder, Buffalo Bicycle Classic, benefits Arts &
Sciences scholarships, www.buffalobicycleclassic.com
Sept. 9, Boulder, CU Active Military and Veterans Alumni
Luncheon, Laudisio Restaurant, 303-492-8484, www.cualum.
org/clubs/veterans
Sept. 18, Boulder, CU vs. West Virginia, pregame 4 p.m.
(Thursday night game), kickoff 6:30 p.m.*
Sept. 26-27, Jacksonville, Fla., CU vs. Florida State festivities, 303492-2879, becky.cabral@colorado.edu or www.cualum.org/fsu
Oct. 3, Boulder, Homecoming parade, 303-492-8484, 800492-7743, www.cualum.org/homecoming or www.cuhomecoming.com for a complete listing of weekend events and reunions
Oct. 3, Boulder, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Alumni
Homecoming party, Koenig Alumni Center, 303-492-2280,
marc.killinger@colorado.edu
Oct. 3, Broomfield, Hispanic Alumni Association dinner gala,
details to be announced, 303-492-8484, 800-492-7743, www.
cualum.org/clubs/haa/
Oct. 3, Boulder, Living Legends Ceremony, Club Level of
Folsom Stadium, 303-492-5065, bill.harris@cufund.org
Oct. 4, Boulder, Hispanic Alumni Association pregame, details
to be announced, 303-492-8484, 800-492-7743, www.cualum.
org/clubs/haa/
Oct. 4, Boulder, CU vs. Texas pregame*
Oct. 17, Broomfield, CU Athletic Hall of Fame Induction,
Omni Interlocken Hotel, 303-492-5065, bill.harris@cufund.org
Oct. 17, Boulder, Alumni Association Board of Directors
meeting, 303-492-4930, stump@colorado.edu, www.cualum.
org/services/board
Oct. 18, Boulder, Family Weekend, CU vs. Kansas State pregame*
Nov. 8, Boulder, CU vs. Iowa State pregame*
Nov. 15, Boulder, CU vs. Oklahoma State pregame*
Dec. 5, Denver, CU Night at Zoolights, Denver Zoo, 303-4922879, becky.cabral@colorado.edu
*Pregames begin 2 ½ hours before kickoff and are at Benson
Field. For more information see www.cualum.org/football. For
tickets and game times, contact the CU Athletics ticket office at
800-87-BUFFS, 303-49-BUFFS or www.cubuffs.com.
www.cualum.org
Help recruit new students
Help us round up and recruit the next
Herd! Our Fall Preview programs are a
joint effort among the Office of Admissions, University Communications, Office
of Parent Relations, CU Foundation and
CU-Boulder Alumni Association to
generate enthusiasm about CU among
prospective students, their parents and
alumni in key out-of-state markets from
Boston to California.
Select alumni have the opportunity
to speak about what made CU special
for them and answer questions at the
conclusion of each event. If you’re
interested in participating in one of the
cities listed below, contact Becky
Cabral at the Alumni Association at
303-492-2879 or at becky.cabral@
colorado.edu. Dates subject to change.
Fall Preview schedule 2008
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Relive your CU days by sharing your memories with
prospective students at Fall Previews.
Sept. 18
Oct. 1
Oct. 2
Oct. 14
Oct. 15
Oct. 16
Oct. 22
Oct. 23
Oct. 29
Oct. 30
Nov. 5
Nov. 6
Scottsdale, Ariz.
Boston, Thousand Oaks,
Calif.
New York City area,
San Francisco area
San Diego
Orange County, Calif.
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
Chicago
Washington, D.C., Houston
Dallas, Atlanta
Philadelphia
Newark, N.J.
Buffs face Seminoles
For details and to purchase tickets
to both events and the game, go to
www.cualum.org/fsu. There is
plenty to see and do in downtown
Jacksonville. Check out our website for
more info or call Becky at 303-492-2879.
Denver Zoolights are brilliant
Join alumni, friends, family and CU Santa for this year’s CU Night
at Zoolights Dec. 5. Dozens of acres of glittering trees, animated
light sculptures and live animals are featured at this fun holiday
event. Reserve your tickets now!
For more information contact Becky at 303-492-2879, becky.
cabral@colorado.edu or go to www.cualum.org/events.
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Our big away game against Florida State is only one
month away! Don’t miss out as we face the Seminoles in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sept. 27. Gather
with alumni and fans at our opening reception
the night before the game and at our
pregame party on game day at the
Jacksonville Municipal Stadium where
the Jaguars play. The Friday night
opening reception on Sept. 26 will
be held at the Hyatt Regency
overlooking the beautiful St. Johns
River.
CU Heritage Center
CU welcomes Nixon The 1956
presidential election pitted the Republican
ticket of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard
Nixon against Democrats Adlai Stevenson
and Estes Kefauver. University of Colorado students welcomed candidates and
supporters from both parties to the Boulder campus.
Democrats held their state convention
at Balch Fieldhouse where, according to
the Colorado Alumnus, contesting presidential hopefuls Stevenson and Kefauver
“shook hands across a tiny burro loaned to
the convention by a good-natured, local
Republican.”
Vice President Nixon spoke in Macky
Auditorium on Oct. 11, greeted by a wildly
enthusiastic group of Young Republicans
who staged a rally to show their support.
Colorado followed the rest of the country
and voted almost 60 percent in favor of the
popular incumbents, Eisenhower and Nixon.
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CU Young Republicans
welcome Vice President
Richard Nixon to Macky
Auditorium in October
1956.
To learn more
about CU’s history, visit
the Heritage Center on
the third floor of Old
Main or go to www.
cualum.org/heritage.
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CU wherever you may roam
Roaming Buffaloes Calendar
Sept. 25 - Oct. 3 Croatia & Venetian
Treasures
Sept. 30-Oct. 11 Campus Abroad in
France — Normandy
& Brittany
Oct. 16-30 Paradores & Pousadas,
Spain & Portugal
Nov. 30-Dec. 9 Holiday Markets along
the Danube
Jan. 18-26
Tahiti & French Polynesia
Feb. 3-16
Treasures of South Africa
Feb. 8-14
Campus Abroad in the
Mayan Riviera
Feb. 14-23 Campus Abroad in Israel
Apr. 17-25 Campus Abroad in
Holland & Belgium
Apr. 19 – May 5 Egypt & the Eternal Nile
Discover the magical
city of Venice while on
the Croatia & Venetian
Treasures trip.
For trip details contact
Ryan Lecky at 303-4920635 or 800-492-7743,
e-mail ryan.lecky@colorado.edu or visit www.
cualum.org/travel.
Read the travel
newsletter at www.
cualum.org/travelhome/.
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into the CU Alumni Association’s My
CU Network. Whether you’re looking for
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CU PEOPLE
60s
AND EARLIER
After five decades of
research and work on
a book about the life
of Gautama, a spiritual
teacher from ancient
India and founder of
Buddhism, Louise
Ireland Frey (Bio, PreMed’34) has published
Blossom of Buddha
(Blue Dolphin).
While working on the
book she raised four
sons and worked on
improving her health
through self-hypnosis.
She lives in Durango
but fondly recalls
climbing the Flatirons,
Green Mountain and
Bear Peak.
Professor emeritus of
history at Florida State
University, Richard
Bartlett* (Hist’42,
PhD’53) published
First Christmas at
Muddy Creek (Booksurge). The book
follows a Jesuit priest
in his work to host a
Christmas Eve mass
in a rough-and-tumble
Montana boomtown
wrought with sin and
human degradation.
Richard lives in Tallahassee, Fla., where
he is recovering from a
hip injury.
A distinguished
professor of chemistry
and biochemistry
emeritus at Florida
State University, Werner Herz (A&S ex’43)
remembered his long
relationship with
professor emeritus
Stanley J. Cristol of
chemistry after hearing of the professor’s
death in January 2008.
Werner was Cristol’s
first doctoral student,
served with him
on several national
committees and spoke
at the symposium
that preceded his
retirement. He lives in
Tallahassee, Fla.
The Boulder
Chamber of Commerce recognized six
local business leaders,
including Virginia
Wheeler Patterson*
(Jour’46), at its annual awards dinner.
Virginia received the
chamber’s prestigious
Franny Reich Award
for her unending commitment to making the
community a better
place. She lives in
Boulder.
For his contributions
to the science and
tion received by
America’s youth,
according to former
Colorado Gov. Roy
Romer (Law’52).
Roy is the former
superintendent for
the Los Angeles Unified School District
and serves as chair
of the nonpartisan,
nonprofit Strong
American Schools.
Noting U.S. children
are falling behind
academically, he is
working to bring education to the forefront
of debate during the
Read the complete CU People
online at www.cualum.org/
publications/coloradan/.
technology of radiation safety, the Health
Physics Society
honored Joe Soldat*
(ChemEngr’48) with
the 2007 Distinguished Scientific
Achievement Award.
Over his career he
has worked with
the environmental
measurements group
of General Electric
Co. and operated
the AEC’s Hanford
Atomic Products
Operation. He lives in
Richland, Wash.
After retirement from
his profession, Werner
Barasch (PhDChem’52) spent 30
years teaching lessons
learned from the Holocaust. He spoke in
personal appearances
and wrote a book, Survivor: Autobiographical
Fragments 1938-1946
(Cork Hill Press),
about his knowledge of
the Western European
countries involved
in the Holocaust as
well as strategies to
overcome adversity in
prisons and concentration camps. He lives in
Los Gatos, Calif.
The economic future
of the United States
depends on the
quality of educa-
presidential election.
He lives in Denver.
Don’t Miss the Boat,
Cruising Through Leisure Years (LifeTime
Chronicle Press) by
Janet Go* (Geog’53)
and Perry McGinnis
won first place in the
travel category at the
14th annual Colorado
Independent Publishers Association award
dinner. The book
recounts the couple’s
109-day cruise around
the world aboard the
Queen Elizabeth 2.
She lives in Grand
Junction, Colo.
The 2008 Delta Sigma
Pi Career Achievement Award was
given to Alan Elkin
(Mktg’56) in June.
He is the president
and co-founder of
Advance Business
Systems, Maryland’s
largest independent
document management company. The
Baltimore resident
and his wife have two
children, three grandchildren and a golden
retriever.
At the 27th annual
University of Colorado
Law School Alumni
Award Banquet, Neil
C. King (Law’56),
Colorado Gov. Bill
Ritter (Law’81) and
Steven T. Pelican*
(Law’71) received
distinguished alumni
awards for their
post-college successes.
Steven is Fourth
Judicial District Judge
and lives in Colorado
Springs. Neil lives in
Boulder and is one
of the region’s most
recognized legal
figures in the areas of
land use and real estate
development.
With 44 years of
experience playing in
PGA and Champions tours and 17
professional victories
under his belt, Dale
Douglass* (A&S’59)
is no stranger to success on the green. He
has the opportunity
to set a record for the
number of appearances on the PGA
Champion’s Tour if
he can bump his current 592 stops up to
604. No matter how
many times he tees
off though, the Castle
Rock, Colo., resident
says it is always a
privilege to play the
game he loves.
In May Nancy Dixon
Davidson* (Pol
Sci’60) and longtime
friend Ed Kahn*
(IntlAf ’58) organized
a mini reunion of
their CU friends and
fellow Colorado Daily
staffers. The group
of about 30 met in
Denver to dine and
catch up. Along with
friends, Nancy writes
she met her husband,
Roger H. Davidson*
(Spch’58) while both
were staffers for the
Colorado Daily. They
live in Santa Barbara,
Calif., and Ed lives
with his wife in
Denver.
Formerly a conductor,
composer and professor of music at Frostburg State University
in Frostburg, Md., Jon
Bauman (Mus’61) is
now focusing much of
his time on commu-
* Indicates Alumni Association members; “ex” indicates
a nondegree alum and the year of expected graduation.
nity service. His committments includes the
concert series Music
at Penn Alps, the
Cumberland Music
and Arts Club and the
Rotary Club of Frostburg. In recognition
of his service, Rotary
International named
Jon a Paul Harris Fellow, the highest award
for service recognized
by the organization.
Many CU graduates
and longtime Boulderites may recognize
the characters, events
and places depicted
in Dan Culberson’s
(Engl’63) newest fiction book Plastic Man:
A Novel of the Sixties
(Xlibris Corporation).
Following the hitchhiking journey of a college
dropout, the novel
describes college life
at CU in the ’60s. Dan
is a film reviewer and
lives in Boulder.
An employee with the
U.S. Foreign Service
for 30 years, Don
Cofman (Jour, PolSci
’64) retired in 1995
to Ankara, Turkey,
where he worked as
a journalist, business
consultant and association executive. After
13 years abroad, Don
and his wife moved to
the Washington, D.C.,
area to spend time
with their children
and grandchildren.
In a column in the
January edition of the
Boulder County Bar
Newsletter, Sonny
Flowers* (Engl’67,
Law’71) expressed
his discontent with
public reaction to
a Boulder district
court judge’s October
ruling on an adversepossession case.
Sonny, president of
the Boulder County
Bar Association,
supported the judge’s
ruling, considering
the evidence. He lives
in Boulder.
From Africa to Asia
to Europe, Carlton
Stoiber* (A&S’64,
Law’69) spans the
globe in his work
for the International
Atomic Energy Agency. His most recent
lecture destinations
have included Abuja,
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Nigeria and Tbilisi,
Georgia. He also teaches at the International
School of Nuclear Law
at the Université de
Montpellier in France
and the World Nuclear
University in Canada.
He lives in Washington, D.C.
During the summer
and fall, Suzanne
Spitz Carmichael
(IntlAf ’66, Law’71)
has been working at
the newly opened
Deer Isle Creative
Workshops. She
teaches silk fusion and
publicity for artists at
the workshops in Deer
Isle, Maine.
for the Steamboat
Springs Winter Sports
Club scholarship
program.
With her new book,
Positively Pearl
Street (Book Lode),
Silvia Veith Pettem*
(A&S’69) chronicles
the history of the
street-turned-walkingmall that has become
an icon of Boulder.
The book features
photographs, business
ads and quirky anecdotes to document
the history of Pearl
Street, which has been
around for more than
a century. Silvia lives
in Ward, Colo.
After the New York
Giants’ win against
New England in
Super Bowl XLII,
Dick Anderson*
(Mktg’68) and the
1972 Miami Dolphins
team breathed a sigh
of relief. The loss
meant they continue
to hold the record for
being the only team in
the NFL to complete
a perfect season. He
planned to celebrate
their still-standing
record with old teammates sometime after
the Super Bowl game.
He lives in Coral
Gables, Fla.
Serving as a CU regent
After meeting at
CU and marrying
in 1968, Rhonda
Fadum (A&S ex’68)
and Ole Fadum* (ElecEngr’68) celebrated
their 40th wedding
anniversary on Jan.
27. The couple owned
Fadum Enterprises, a
consulting business in
information technology and process
control in the paper
industry. They are
close to retiring. They
live in Boulder where
they enjoy skiing,
theater and travel.
As president and
director of operations
at Global Response,
Paula Palmer
(A&S’70) works to
help communities
worldwide that are
struggling to defend
themselves and their
natural resources
against multinational
corporations. The
organization’s main
tactic is letter writing
and recently was successful in preventing
the construction of an
open-pit copper mine
in an Ecuadorian
jungle sanctuary. She
resides in Boulder but
lived in Costa Rica for
20 years, transcribing oral histories of
indigenous tribes.
Although he has long
since retired from ski
racing, Billy Kidd
(Econ’69) has stuck
by the slopes. He won
the silver medal in the
1964 Winter Olympics for the slalom.
He has spent nearly
40 years as director of
skiing at Steamboat
mountain resort and
hosts a golf tournament to raise money
70s
since 2002, Cindy
Carlisle (A&S’70,
MEngl’77) announced
her intent to run for
the District 18 seat
in the Colorado State
Senate. The district
encompasses Boulder
and parts of unincorporated Boulder
County. She lives in
Boulder.
Former Buffalo
wide receiver Larry
Brunson (A&S’71)
was inducted into
the Colorado High
School Activities
Association 19th Hall
of Fame in 2007. He
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was a star on the 1971
team when the Buffs
ranked third in the
country. He lives in
Centennial, Colo.
Now able to combine
her expertise in law
and journalism, Sheila
Hollis (Jour’71)
serves as chair of the
board of editors for
the ABA Journal,
the American Bar
Association’s monthly
magazine. She is
chair of the Duane
Morris law office and
taught energy law for
20 years at George
Washington Law
School. She lives in
Washington, D.C.
Rancho Mirage, Calif.,
residents Dick Engebretson* (MBA’72)
and Jean Engebretson* (MEdu’76)
donated funding for
one of the conference
rooms in the business
school’s new Koelbel
Building. The room is
named after professor
emeritus John Lymberopoulos who had
been a faculty member
in the business school
since 1964.
As more of Iowa’s
tallgrass prairie is
transformed into farmland, Cornelia Mutel
(MBio’73) takes a look
back at the history of
the state’s landscape
in The Emerald
Horizon (University
of Iowa Press). She
writes about how
human development
has affected the native
plant and animal
communities and
examines ways people
can restore the habitat
and reconnect with
the land. Cornelia is a
historian and archivist
at the University
of Iowa College of
Engineering and lives
in Salon, Iowa.
With 30 years of
public relations
experience, Jeffrey
Julin (Comm,
Thtr’74) was named
the chair and chief
executive officer of
the Public Relations
Society of America.
The Denver resident
is president of MGA
Communications,
one of the region’s
top communications
firms, and is a member of the Denver
Metro Chamber of
Commerce’s Public
Affairs Council.
A real estate agent
and travel writer
turned painter, Laurie
Anderson MacMillan
(PolSci’74) received
the Individual Artists
Award in abstract
painting from the Arts
Fund of Santa Barbara
County. The award,
which honors Laurie’s
entire body of work,
includes a $2,500 cash
prize and a solo show.
She lives in Santa
Barbara, Calif.
A noted author, lecturer, public speaker
and former national
liaison to the Internal
Revenue Service,
Richard Colombik*
(Acct’75) heads the
law firm of Richard M.
Colombik & Associates. The firm, which
represents businesses
as well as individuals,
trusts and estates,
has been involved in
community service for
over 30 years. He lives
in Itasca, Ill.
After playing on the
CU golf team, Blake
Stirling (Mktg’75)
stuck around in the
industry, becoming a
senior architect of golf
courses. He worked
his way up to designing courses on his
own with Global Golf
Co. and has designed
18 courses in Spain
with five more under
construction. He lives
in Denver.
If ever a Broncos team
could bring Denver
together it was the
1977 team dubbed
the “Orange Crush,”
writes Terry Frei*
(Hist, Jour’76) in ’77:
Denver, the Broncos,
and a Coming of
Age (Taylor Trade
Publishing). The book
takes a look back at
the players and their
experiences leading
up to the Super Bowl.
He has been a sportswriter for The Denver
Post since 1976 and
lives in Denver.
With his foundation’s
annual grants of $11.5
million, Tim Gill
(ApMath’76) ranks
third on the Rocky
Mountain News’
Philanthropic Five
list in Colorado. He
started Quark, a leading page and layout
software program,
with a $2,000 loan
from his parents. The
Gill Foundation gives
money to programs
and nonprofit organizations that serve
lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender
anniversary on Sept.
18, 2007. She worked
for 20 years as a news
and sports publicist,
co-founded publishing company Inside
Communications and
served as editor and
writer for VeloNews
and Inside Triathlon
magazines. Living in
Boulder, she owns and
handcrafts Qworks
jewelry.
Quick Fix: Sudden
Fiction (White Pine
Press), a bilingual collection by Argentine
writer Ana Maria
Shua, was translated
by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan (MSpan’78,
PhD’82). Rhonda is a
professor of Spanish
and director of Latin
American and Latino
Americans and people
with HIV/AIDS. He
lives in Denver.
Formerly president
of the New York City
Economic Development Corp., Robert
Lieber (Psych’77)
was named the city’s
deputy mayor for
economic development in December. He
has worked on many
successful rezoning
projects and plans to
continue similar work
in Harlem and Staten
Island. He lives in
Scarsdale, N.Y.
After working for
money manager Fred
Alger and mutual
fund company Janus
Capitol, Tom Marsico (EPOBio’77) has
found success in his
own company, Marsico
Capital Management.
The company
celebrated its 10-year
anniversary in 2007
and its assets have hit a
$100 billion milestone.
He lives in Cherry
Hills Village, Colo.
After meeting during
an interview, Susan
Eastman Walton
(Jour’77) and her
husband celebrated
their 40th wedding
Studies at the University of Louisville
in Kentucky. She is
a recipient of a 2006
National Endowment
for the Arts translation
fellowship. She lives in
Louisville.
An attorney and
director of the law
firm Bell, Davis & Pitt,
Elizabeth Repetti
(Bus’78) was selected
by the North Carolina
Bar Association to
lead the association’s
statewide Credit
Abuse Resistance
Education Seminars.
The seminars are
presented in North
Carolina colleges and
universities to help
college freshmen
avoid bankruptcy by
providing real life,
understandable credit
information. Elizabeth
lives in Winston
Salem, N.C.
Used Crocs have a
chance to make a
comeback thanks
to the SolesUnited
initiative launched by
the plastic shoe manufacturer. Through
the program, the Niwot-based company
collects worn out
Crocs and recycles
the plastic into new
shoes, donating them
to countries like
Chile, El Salvador,
Malawi and Pakistan.
Crocs CEO Ron
Snyder (Acct’78)
says the program is a
great opportunity to
give back. He lives in
Longmont.
Digging in the dirt
turned into a sixmonth roof restoration
endeavor for Dylan
Williams (Phys’78)
and his wife after
Dylan found parts of
their 131-year-old
Victorian house’s
original slate roof
buried in the garden.
He did most of the
roofing himself on
their Boulder home,
ordering new slate
shingles from the same
area as the originals
and attaching them
one by one to the
home’s tower.
While some aspects of
the college admissions
process have remained
the same over the
years, Priscilla DannCourtney (Engl’79,
MPsych’86, PhD’91)
writes that in many
ways, today’s college-bound students
are wiser than their
parents. In a column in
The Denver Post, she
explains how students
today are interested
in how colleges will fit
their needs rather than
the other way around,
which she hopes will
make for a smoother
ride. She is the mother
of a recent high school
graduate and lives in
Boulder.
Recognizing journalism that explores issues
of social and economic
justice, the 2008 Sidney Hillman Foundation Journalism Award
for magazine reporting
was given to Ray Ring
(Jour’79). The award
recognized his article
“Death in the Energy
Fields” published
in the April 2007
issue of High Country
News. The Bozeman,
Mont., resident was a
finalist for the Scripps
Howard National
Journalism Award and
received an Honorable
Mention Heywood
Broun Award for the
article.
PROFILE
John Suthers
Courtesy John Suthers
Attorney general advocates for Colorado
Colorado Attorney General John
Suthers (Law’77) has a passion for
prosecution and public service. So much
so that he’s written a book, No Higher
Calling, No Greater Responsibility: A
Prosecutor Makes His Case (Fulcrum).
The book focuses on the prosecutor’s
role in the justice system and addresses
many of the major issues surrounding
crime and punishment.
John credits an internship in
Colorado Springs during his law school
years for influencing his career path. He
was assigned to do legal research on two
high-profile homicides being prosecuted
by the district attorney’s office, including
one against serial killer Ted Bundy.
“I’d never been confronted with evil
of that nature,” he says. “I felt the
satisfaction of vindicating the interests of
the victim and the public when the
murderers were brought to justice. I
knew then I wanted to be a prosecutor.”
After graduating from law school,
John spent four years as a deputy and
chief deputy district attorney in Colorado
Springs. After a 10-year stint in private
practice, he was elected district attorney
and spent two terms in that office.
Gubernatorial and presidential appointments propelled him to executive
director of the department of corrections,
U.S. attorney for Colorado and finally
state attorney general. He was elected to a
four-year term as attorney general in
2006 by a large margin.
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“Probably the most important work
we do day in and day out is to protect
the interests of Colorado under the
interstate river compacts to which it’s a
party,” John says. As attorney general
overseeing 244 lawyers and 400
employees in six divisions, dealing with
water resources is just one of his many
responsibilities.
Nine interstate agreements govern
how much water Colorado gets to keep
and how much it must deliver to
surrounding states. Two recent cases
exemplify the challenges faced by the
attorney general’s office. A Kansas v.
Colorado case over the Arkansas River is
just coming to a close after 25 years.
Farther to the west, Colorado just
reached agreement with the other upper
and lower Colorado River basin states
over management of Lake Powell and
Lake Mead during drought years.
“I’ve been extremely fortunate to be
able to spend a significant portion of my
career in the public sector,” John
reminisces. He advises law students to
take a broad-based course of study, get
public and private law office internships
and then decide what they like.
“There’s more money in private
practice, but you may feel better about
your client in the public arena,” he
concedes. “You have to balance what you
enjoy and what helps you meet your
various obligations in life.”
—Marty Coffin Evans
CU PEOPLE
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After playing the title
role in a bilingual
production of
Shakespeare’s Hamlet
in Vladivostock,
Russia, Philip Sneed
(Thtr’80) held two
lectures describing his experience.
He is the Colorado
Shakespeare Festival
producing artistic
director and was
elected president of
the Shakespeare Theatre Association of
America in February.
He lives in Boulder.
The famous back-page
column in Sports
Illustrated will no
longer be written by
Rick Reilly (Jour’81),
a 22-year SI veteran
writer and columnist
and 11-time National
Sportswriter of the
Year. He joined ESPN
in early 2008 and will
take on a variety of
duties with the cable
network, including
writing for ESPN The
Magazine and hosting
interviews. He lives in
Denver.
Head of the laboratory
of molecular biophysics at Rockefeller University, Jack Fishman
Professor Seth Darst
(ChemEngr’82) was
elected to the National
Academy of Sciences.
Election to the academy, which was
established in 1863,
is considered one of
the highest honors
accorded to a U.S.
scientist or engineer.
He lives in New York
City with his wife and
two daughters.
After reading
about CU’s Joseph
Frascona Teaching
Excellence Award,
Donna Brown Miller
(Bus’82) writes she is
the country by the Associated Press Sports
Editors. The articles
covered the Albany
district attorney’s investigation into illegal
pharmacies. He also
co-authored The Card
(Harper Paperbacks),
the story of history’s
most famous and
desired baseball card,
the Honus Wagner
card. He lives in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Formerly a trustee of
the Village of Northport, N.Y., Henry
Tobin (Hist’82) was
delighted to see the
business law professor honored. She says
professor Frascona
challenged her and
permanently changed
her way of thinking.
“Getting a ‘B’ from
professor Frascona
was like getting an
A+++ from anyone
else,” writes the
Littleton resident.
A series co-written
by New York Daily
News sports reporter
Michael O’Keeffe
(Jour’82) was named
one of the 10 best
investigative series in
appointed deputy
mayor and commissioner of finance in
April. When elected
trustee he became
the second openly
gay elected official
on Long Island. He
serves as a director of
the chamber of commerce in Northport.
For his service to
the state’s Hispanic community, the
Colorado Hispanic
Bar Association recognized Daniel Vigil
(Law’82) with its
lifetime achievement
award in February.
He is assistant dean
at the University of
Denver’s Sturm College of Law and lives
in Broomfield.
After a 20-year stint
living away from
the Flatirons, Peter
Nielsen* (Jour’83,
Econ’86) and his wife
Catherine Margolis
Nielsen* (Hum’77)
have moved back to
Boulder from the
United Kingdom.
Business partners
at RMB Capital
Management in
Chicago, Dick Burridge* (Econ’84) and
Frederick Paulman*
(Acct’94) were selected as two of the city’s
top financial advisers
by Chicago Magazine.
RMB offers in-depth
financial planning
and investment
management services
to high-net-worth
clients, including
many partners at law
firms. Both men live
in Hinsdale, Ill.
With 183 tackles, Ray
Cone (PE’84) has
held the college record
for the most number
of tackles in a single
season since 1982.
He works in sales for
Trinity Tile Co. and
lives in Orlando, Fla.,
with his wife Patricia
Schafer Cone (EPOBio’84) and their five
children.
1988 yearbook
In a January ceremony,
Capt. William Kearns
III (PolSci’84) officially took command
of Destroyer Squadron
31. The change of
command ceremony
took place on board
Naval Station Pearl
Harbor. He lives in
Honolulu.
traffic control liability and is a partner at
Clifford Law Offices.
He works on several
aviation cases, including property damage
claims in the collapse
of the World Trade
Center buildings,
and lives in Western
Springs, Ill.
Stevens Point, Wis.,
resident Geary Larrick (PhDMus’84)
premiered two original compositions in
March. He performed
Marimba Sonata II
and played Poem VIII
for bongo drums.
Taking a break from
Broadway has had
its benefits for Terry
Berliner (Eng’87),
a musical theater director who returned
to CU to direct a new
musical, Beneath
the Surface. She
says the “university
provides a really safe
haven (to create new
musicals)” which
has allowed for more
creativity than an onBroadway production. In her career,
the Brooklyn, N.Y.,
resident has been an
assistant director on
Broadway.
A guest lecturer to
the CU President’s
Leadership Class and
an adjunct professor
of trial advocacy at the
law school, Patrick
Mulligan* (PolSci’84,
Law’87) is running
for the CU Board of
Regents in November.
The Golden resident
will run in the 7th
Congressional District.
After forming a
monthly couples
support group with
his wife over 12 years
ago, Greg Thiel
(MEdu’84) has co-authored and published
his first book, Preventative Maintenance for
Your Marriage: The
Owner’s Manual for a
Couple’s Group (Ketch
Publishing). He is a
professional relationship coach and lives in
Centennial, Colo. His
website is www.RelationshipCoach.us.
After 10 years working
with the Boulder
Camera, Clint Talbott
(Jour’85) left the paper
in March to join CU as
publications coordinator of the College of
Arts and Sciences.
He was the editorial page editor for the
Camera and head of
its editorial board. He
lives in Nederland,
Colo., with his wife,
Melinda Marquis
(PhDChem’95).
The American Association of Justice
welcomed Timothy
Tomasik* (Jour’86)
as a guest speaker at
their annual conference in Philadelphia.
He spoke about air
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The Association
of Biomolecular
Resource Facilities
elected Michael
Doyle (PhDChem’87)
as president. He
serves as group leader
of protein biochemistry at Bristol-Myers
Squibb research
and development in
Princeton, N.J.
Think Like a CEO
(Flow Publishing) by
Mark Kuta (MBA’87)
was awarded the 2008
Gold Medal in the
Axiom Business Book
Awards as the top
sales book in 2007. He
attended the awards
in New York City
with his wife and two
daughters. The family
lives in Denver.
In recognition of her
exceptional customer service, Realtor
Jeanette Meyer
(MBA’87) received
Gold status by Quality Service Certified.
Gold status is the only
award in the industry
based on independently validated,
measurable service
results. She works for
The Group and lives
in Fort Collins.
Nearing the end of a
military career that has
included a combined
23 years in the Marine
Corps, Air National
Guard and Air Force,
Michael Eaton
(ApMath’88) received
his master’s degree in
homeland security and
transportation security
studies in May. He is
stationed at Andrews
Air Force Base
outside Washington,
D.C., where he flies
Gulfstream executive
jets for international
diplomatic missions.
He lives with his wife
Cindi Hodskins
Eaton (Fin’90) and
their two children.
An avid actor and
contributor to the
direction and set
construction of
numerous plays during his time at CU,
Philip Middleton
Williams (PhDThtre’88) has produced
his own play, Can’t
Live Without You,
which had a run of
six performances as a
part of the Manhattan
Repertory Theatre’s
Winterfest 2008 in
New York. The Coral
Gables, Fla., resident
is an administrator for
Miami-Dade County
Public Schools.
April was the one-year
mark for Catherine
Kolkmeier (EPOBio,
Hist’89) in her new
job as director of the
La Crosse Medical Health Science
Consortium and the
Health Science Center
in La Crosse, Wis. She
coordinates collaborative projects among
two area medical centers and three higher
education institutions.
She also operates the
scientific writing and
editing business, Plain
English Professional
Writing Services,
which she began in
2003.
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Firefighter and filmmaker Eric Abramson
(Jour’90) is director
of Years in Your Ears:
A Story of Leftover
Salmon. The film was
produced by fellow
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Buff Michael Henry
(Engl’,Thtr’96),
and a majority of the
electricity used in
the completion of the
project was generated
through solar and
wind power. Both alums live in Nederland,
Colo.
A new species of
cave springtail was
discovered by David
Steinmann (Phys’90)
and his wife in Fulford
Cave, Colo. The
species is named
Typhlogastrura steinmanni in their honor,
as they have found
over 50 new species
in Colorado’s caves.
David works as a wetland biologist at his
company, Professional
Wetlands Consulting,
and lives with his wife
and their son in Gold
Hill, Colo.
Author Jennifer Hails
Hedda (Hist’91)
wrote His Kingdom
Come: Orthodox
Pastorship and Social
Activism in Revolutionary Russia (Northern Illinois University
Press), a book about
the Russian Orthodox
Church’s response to
changes in the modern
world and how it
affected society. She
lives in McLean, Va.
A former assistant
attorney general in the
employment and civil
rights litigation section for Alaska’s law
department, Richard
Postma Jr.* (Fin’91)
was appointed by
the governor to be a
district court judge in
Anchorage. He lives in
Chigiak outside Anchorage with his wife
and three children.
Former Buff and
Bronco linebacker
Alfred Williams (Soc
ex’91) is still saying
“thanks” to his CU
coaches as a sports-talk
radio host on Denver’s
KKFN 950 AM. He
told The Denver Post
that former head coach
Bill McCartney, as well
as assistant coaches
Mike Hankwitz and
Bob Simmons, helped
shape his life. He lives
in Aurora.
Proud parents Sherry
Fushimi* (Kines’92)
and Douglas Wolanske* (Econ, PolSci’93)
had their second child,
Carston Bridger in
August 2007. Sherry is
a physician’s assistant
at Panorama Orthopedics in Golden, and
Doug is an attorney at
Ruddy & Wolanske
in Denver. The family lives in Morrison,
Colo.
Jonathan Treisman*
(Comm’92) was
hired as director of
business development
at Universal Pictures
Strategic Partnerships
Group in Los Angeles
where he oversees
long-term corporate
alliances for the film
studio. He lives in
Santa Monica.
The last year was full
of world travel, writes
Kevin Goodfellow
(MMechEngr’95),
as he visited Iceland,
Sweden, Norway and
Finland. In his spare
time away from his IT
consulting practice,
Kevin founded
SportsDataHub.com,
a sports fan statistics
website set to go live
this summer. The
Denver resident writes
he’s on the lookout for
CU alums to join the
SportsDataHub team.
A Coloradan summer
intern during his undergrad years, Patrick
Crawford (Engl’96,
MJour’07) is editorial and online vice
president of Storm
Mountain Publishing
in Boulder. He writes
that his internship
with the Coloradan
was his first journalism position, and he
still loves working in
the magazine industry.
He lives in Longmont.
Former Colorado
guard Matt Daniel
(A&S’96) was named
head women’s basketball coach at Central
Arkansas in January.
Prior, he was an assistant at Missouri and
at CU under former
head coach Ceal Barry.
ment Federation
TMDL Conference
Proceedings, his
study described the
ability of plants to
remove nitrogen and
phosphorus from
streams to improve
water quality. He lives
in Denver.
Longtime offensive
tackle Matt Lepsis
(Hist’97) retired from
the Broncos after 11
NFL seasons. He lives
in Castle Rock, Colo.
Wider than the Sky:
Essays and Meditations on the Healing
Power of Emily
Dickinson (The Kent
State University
Press) is co-edited by
Cindy MacKenzie
(PhDEngl’97). The
Marine biologist Shiway Wang (Chem
Engr’96) married
David Safine in
Anchorage, Alaska,
in July 2007. Both
are employed at the
Alaska SeaLife Center
in Seward.
A water resources
engineer with CDM
in Denver, Timothy
Cox (CivEngr’97)
received a $5,000
award from the
company for the best
paper published in
a non-peer-reviewed
journal. Printed
in Water Environ-
1992 yearbook
essays in the book
range from scholarly
analyses to personal
essays and meditations, each offering
thoughts on the
emotional, spiritual
and physical healing
power gained from
reading Dickinson.
Cindy teaches English at University of
Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada, and
lives in Regina.
Baby Buff Oscar Harvey Johnson Wimmer
was born to Jonathan
Wimmer (Engl’97) in
November. Jonathan
writes both the baby
and the mommy are
healthy, and son James
Wimmer has assumed
the role of big brother
with great interest and
intensity. Jonathan
gives a big shout out
to his Sig Ep brothers.
The family lives in
Knoxville, Tenn.
Last spring Aimee
Woolley* (Kines’97)
was certified as a
medical services
professional by the
National Association
Medical Staff Services.
She is membership
coordinator at the El
Paso County Medical
Society and coordina-
tor of the society’s
centralized credentials
verification service.
She lives in Colorado
Springs.
Freelance photographer and
writer Jad Davenport
(MJour’98) is winner
of the Lowell Thomas
Silver Award in the
environmental tourism category of the
Society of American
Travel Writers’
Journalism Competition. He won for a
package submitted by
ISLANDS magazine
called “Ultimate Icebreaker” about South
Georgia Island in the
Antarctic. He lives in
Denver with his wife
and daughter. Check
out his work at www.
jaddavenport.com.
Cardiac nurse at
Aurora Children’s
Hospital Kari Hopper
(Psych’98, Nurs’05)
married Brad Snyders
in August 2007. They
spent their honeymoon
in Kaui, Hawaii, and
live in Parker, Colo.
Proud parents Doug
Slaybaugh* (Acct’98)
and his wife welcomed
future Buff Guy
Douglas on December
12. The family lives in
Denver.
Civil engineer Melissa
Tolve (CivEngr’98,
MS’00) and Matthew
Morin married in November and celebrated
with a honeymoon to
the Ambergris Caye in
Belize. Melissa works
for the Loveland
Water Department.
The couple lives in
Longmont.
A student at the
George Mason University School of Law,
Ashley Brott (Fren,
Span’99) received the
Virginia State Bar’s
2008 Oliver White
Hill Student Pro
Bono Award. The
award recognizes a law
student’s commitment
to uncompensated or
minimally compensated pro bono work and
other public service,
and is bestowed by
the Virginia State Bar’s
Committee on Access
to Legal Services. She
lives in Arlington, Va.
PROFILE
Eric Stough
Casey A. Cass
Bringing South Park to life
Students sit silently in the dark room in
the ATLAS building on the Boulder
campus, their faces barely illuminated by
the action on the projection screen. They
watch a scene from South Park featuring
Kenny McCormick flying in a spaceship
with a “biker babe” in the driver’s seat.
Eric Stough (A&S’95), the man behind
the show’s animation magic, sits in the
back of the classroom, explaining the
images and joking with students.
Although Eric is a bit of a celebrity
in the animation world, with two Emmys
and a Peabody award under his belt, the
animation director of Comedy Central’s
South Park show doesn’t take his
position too seriously. He wears jeans to
his guest lecture at CU, works on his
house in his free time and makes sure
students know he doesn’t even like Los
Angeles that much.
South Park is known for pushing
satirical and moral limits as it follows the
lives of four elementary schoolboys in
their fictional hometown of South Park,
Colo. It parodies everything from Britney
Spears’ style to the capture of Saddam
Hussein.
But Eric says when he first imagined
himself in the field of animation, he could
only picture working at Disney.
“Disney is the best in the industry,”
he says. “From The Jungle Book to The
Little Mermaid, I wanted to be able to
do that.”
Although he hasn’t had a chance to
work at the magic castle company yet, his
life so far has been a bit like a dream
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come true.
After growing up in what he terms a
cookie-cutter childhood in Evergreen,
Colo., Eric attended CU to study
animation. He quickly bonded with
future South Park creators Matt Stone
(Art, Math’93) and Trey Parker ( A&S
ex’93 ) in his film classes, as the three
shared similar tastes in storytelling.
After college, Eric interned for Matt
and Trey and then stayed on as the show
evolved from a video Christmas card in
1996. He says he loves his job because of
South Park’s constant experimentation
with new topics and animation styles.
“I love that every week is something
different — it’s like still being in school,”
Eric says.
Because Matt and Trey aim to parody
world events days after they happen, the
South Park crew creates a single episode in
about five days versus normal production
schedules of six months. As a result, Eric
works 12 hours a day, six days a week for 10
consecutive weeks during a run of shows.
He then gets four months off to travel and
work on other projects like visiting CU to
lecture.
Eric says CU’s animation classes have
changed “1,000 percent” with the
addition of new studios and technology.
Yet, he notes the essence of filmmaking
hasn’t changed.
“Good storytelling is important no
matter what computers or technology
you have,” he says.
-Emery Cowan
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Law firm Dykema announced that Monica
J. Frascona (Fin’00)
joined the firm’s litigation department as
an associate in its Los
Angeles office. She is a
general litigator whose
practice focuses on automotive and liability
litigation. She lives in
Pasadena, Calif.
Proud parents John
Harter (Hist’00) and
Heather Roemke
(Psych’00) welcomed
their first child, Maxwell Thomas Harter,
in February. The two
have been married for
five years and live in
Louisville, Ky., where
John is an orthopedic
sales representative for
Johnson and Johnson
and Heather is a social
worker.
CBS Interactive
project manager
Erika Bodigheimer
Winterholler
(Soc’00) married
Ryan Winterholler in
September. Two of
her bridesmaids were
CU friends Carey
Lavaux (Psych’00)
and Sara Morris
(Jour’00). After the
wedding, the couple
celebrated in St.
Kitts. They live in
Pleasanton, Calif.
In February, Marnie
Mosiman White
(Mus’00) and Ted
White (CivEngr’01)
welcomed their
first child, Eleanor
Marion White. Marnie teaches general
music at Aspen Elementary School and
Ted is an engineer
for CTL/Thomp-
Buff couple Erik
Johnson* (Fin’01)
and Lauren Newton
(SpLangHearSci,
Edu’05) are engaged
to be married in June
2009. They live in
Telluride.
Last September,
Heather Fuller
(Soc’02) and Jonathan Culwell (Comm,
Engl’04) married at
Chautauqua Park
and spent their
honeymoon in Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico.
Heather works for
Network Document
son in Glenwood
Springs. The family,
two dogs and a cat
live near Carbondale,
Colo.
The first American
woman to earn a world
championship medal
in the 10,000-meter
race, Kara Goucher
(Psych’01) won at
the 2009 Millrose
Games in New York in
February. She lives in
Portland, Ore.
Services and Jonathan
is at Charles Schwab
in Denver.
Winner of the 2000
NCAA slalom title
Andy LeRoy (Fin’03)
finished his second
season as head coach
Denver this year. Prior,
he spent two seasons
as a volunteer assistant
coach for CU ski
coach Richard Rokos.
He lives in Denver.
Buff couple Andrew
Morrison (Law’03)
and Kristen Rahbar
(Psych’03) married
in June in Littleton,
Colo. Fellow Buffs
in attendance were
Cyrus Rajabi
(Mgmt’00, Law’03) of
Englewood, Meredith
McVeigh (Psych’02)
of Littleton, Abe Laydon (Law’03) of Denver, Lauren Glicken
O’Leary (Engl’03)
and Robert O’Leary
(IntlAf ’03) of New
York City, Samuel
Sorkin (Law’03)
of Gunnison, Kent
Bozarth (Law’04)
of Denver, Kristin
Edgar (Law’04) of
Louisville, Kelsey
Ahem Thompson
(CivEngr’03 ) of Austin, Texas, and Dustin
Kitson (Law’04) of
Denver. Andrew is
in-house counsel
for Shell Oil Co.and
Kristen is finishing her
doctorate in clinical
psychology at Texas
A&M.
Former CU AllAmerican Jorge
Torres (Econ’03)
won the 2008 USA
8K championship in
March in New York.
He picked up $10,000
for the win, defeating
the second-place run-
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As a CU grad student,
she served as research
assistant at the Natural
Hazards Research
Center, where she is
now a faculty affiliate.
The Fort Collins
resident also is an
assistant professor of
sociology at Colorado
State University.
ner by .07 seconds.
He made the U.S.
Olympic team on July
4 by finishing third in
the 10,000 meters.
Addison, Texas,
resident Audrey Lam
Yazbeck (Fin’03,
MAcct’03) was promoted to controller
at Centex Homes in
Dallas.
A product manager
for Yahoo! Adam Zarlengo (MechEngr’03)
married Alyssa
Shimasaki in Malibu,
Calif., in September.
After a honeymoon in
Aruba, they returned
to their home in Los
Angeles.
CU couple Kelly
Crowder (Hist’04)
and Christopher Kudola (Hist, PolSci’04)
married in December
in Denver. Kelly is an
engineering recruiter
for Kelly Services and
Christopher is completing his master’s in
international studies
Denver.
Marketing specialist Jenn Dormann
(Mktg’04) is coordinator for The Gourmet
Spoon, a division
of the Witherspoon
Group. The culinary
business specializes
in hands-on culinary
workshops, culinary
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team building and
culinary parties. She
lives in Parker, Colo.
Schoolmates from
Fairview High School,
Chelsea Glasscock
(Phil, Psych’04) and
Jonathan Pierotti
(Econ’05) married in
August 2007.
Silverthorne resident
Jillian Mustard
Benbow* (Psych’05) is
program coordinator at
Bristlecone Health Services, a nonprofit home
health and hospice
center, in Frisco, Colo.
She married Dillion
Benbow last November
in Kauai, Hawaii. She is
training for marathons
on her time off.
Great River Energy
Bicycle Festival. The
Havertown, Pa., resident was selected to
the team based on her
standings in the Tour
de Ephrata.
Last July Michael
Leibovitz (Geol’05)
and Erika Olson
(Psych ex’09) married
in Boulder and spent
their honeymoon in
Maui, Hawaii.
Registered nurse at
Boulder Community Hospital Callie
Burson (Psych’05)
and commercial real
estate lender at U.S.
Bank James Payne
(Mgmt’05, MBA’06)
married in September.
They spent their
honeymoon in Kauai,
Hawaii.
Second-year, CU law
student Joe Neguse
(PolSci, Econ’05)
is a candidate for
the CU Board of
Regents in the 2nd
Congressional District
to succeed Cindy
Carlisle (A&S’70,
MEngl’77). He told
the Colorado Daily he
would like to secure
adequate funding for
CU and other higher
education institutions.
As an undergrad,
Joe co-founded and
directed the “Fund
our Future” campaign,
geared toward increasing state funding for
higher education.
A German teacher at
Ridley High School in
Pennsylvania, Kristine
Church (MGer’05)
raced on the Nature
Valley Pro Ride team
in the Nature Valley
Grand Prix in June.
The race, held in Minnesota, was part of the
The CYE Journal, an
online publication of
the CU architecture
school’s Children,
Youth and Environments Center for
Research and Design,
devoted an entire issue
to the topic of children
and disasters. Lori
Former CU standout Mason Crosby
(Comm’06) led the
NFL in scoring as a
kicker for the Green
Bay Packers. Making
31 of 39 field-goal
attempts, he became
the seventh rookie in
league history to lead
the NFL in scoring
with 141 points.
Director of the
documentary La
Quiñceaera, Boulder
resident Adam Taub
(Anth’06) won the
award for outstanding
documentary at the
12th Annual Angelus
Student Film Festival
in Hollywood last
October. The film
follows Ana Maria, a
Mexican girl preparing to celebrate her
15th birthday.
Designer Lars Zimmerman (EnvDes’07)
works for concept3D
Inc., a Boulderbased 3-D modeling
company. Founded
in 2006, concept3D
formed after @Last and
its SketchUp software
were purchased by
Google. He lives in
Boulder.
CU researcher Lynsi
Aldridge (Astro,
RelSt’07) married
Tim Coressel Jr. in
Denver. They spent
their honeymoon in
Riviera Maya, Mexico,
last July. Lynsi works
at the Joint Institute of
Laboratory Astrophysics and lives in
the Boulder area.
“Words Personified”
by Eric Bumguardner (Art’07) was an
art show on display
through mid-April
at the Norlin Library
HotSpot gallery. His
three pieces made up
a conceptual triptych
that collectively
examined the notion
of words and language
as records of societies,
communicative tools
and instruments
of expression. The
Centennial, Colo.,
resident donated his
bust of Noah Webster
sculpted from dictionaries to the library’s
permanent collection.
World traveler Brianna Corbat (Jour’07)
traveled to Uganda
last fall for volunteer
work and spent much
of the spring traveling
in South America.
She writes she loves
writing and taking
photos on her travels.
See her blog at www.
briandbociadventures.
blogspot.com.
Boulder’s Wendy
Kirchner (Psych’07)
and Asa Merriam
married in Lyons
and honeymooned
in Cozumel, Mexico,
last July.
Kelly McQueeney*
(Clas’07) writes she is
taking a year off before
heading to law school
in fall 2009. The
Longmont resident is
working in property
management after having received her real
estate license.
A CU-Boulder Herd
volunteer during her
undergrad years,
Arica Nigrini*
(Mgmt’07) is a brokers associate for the
Boulder Area Realtor
Association. She
earned her license in
February.
New York journalist
Ben Popken (Engl’07)
is editor of the online
consumer report site
consumerist.com. He
published an article in
May’s Reader’s Digest
titled “Consumer Relief: How To Get What
You Pay For.” He lives
in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Cyclist Luisa Sullivan
(MIntPhys’07) is the
owner of Davanti
Cycling, an integrated
coaching lab that offers performance tests,
bike fittings, training,
One of 13 Churchill
Scholars in the
United States for
2008, Ben Safdi
(Phys, Math’08) will
receive a $25,000
academic scholarship
for a year of study
at Cambridge University in England. He
will study for a certificate of Advanced
Study in Applied
Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics.
In April, he received
a National Science
Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship, which provides
$121,000 for up to
three years of funding for master’s and
doctoral degrees. Ben
plans to undertake
his NSF fellowship at
Princeton University
nutrition plans and
cycling tour camps
in Italy. She lives in
Boulder.
after he returns from
Cambridge in fall
2009. He hails from
Cincinnati.
After spending the
last couple of years
working at Rich’s
Tennis School in
Erie, Colo., Chad
Tsuda (Soc’07) is
taking a position as
a coach at Fairview
High School, his
alma mater, where
he won state titles
in No. 1 singles as a
junior and senior. He
will be coaching the
boys’ team starting
in the fall. He lives in
Boulder.
After graduation, Lisa
Garske Clemons*
(Comm’00) worked
for a literary agency
in Hollywood and as
a director’s assistant
for feature film On the
Line. She has shifted
gears, partnering with
her brother to start
Pelligrini Solutions, a
promotional products
and event management
company. The Highlands Ranch, Colo.,
resident writes the
company is doing well,
with five employees
and an office in Denver.
After two years in Seattle, Nathan Evenson
(EnvSt, Geol ’00) and
his fiancée moved
back to Colorado to
enjoy the beautiful sunny weather.
Nathan works as an
assistant ESQ scientist
at TetraTech and lives
in Arvada.
New Canaan, Conn.,
resident Katharine
Hovey (Jour’00) is
the director of watch,
jewelry and fashion
advertising at Doubledown Media.
Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, was an unlikely
place for Capt. William Acosta-Trejo
(Hist ’01) to meet a
fellow CU alum. Deployed to Kuwait as a
defense attorney, he
was surprised to meet
U.S. Navy officer
Katie Jones (EnvSt,
EPOB’00) while at
a local hospital. He
knew both of Katie’s
brothers at CU. The
two have named
themselves the unofficial CU alumni club
at the camp.
A former editor at the
Longmont Times-Call
and part-time copy
editor at the Rocky
Mountain News, Rory
Fairlight Baer-Gutierrez (Jour’02) was
promoted to editor
at YourHub.com in
March. The Denver
resident helped launch
the website and print
editions of Denverbased YourHub in
spring 2005. She
married photojournalist Barry Gutierrez last
October.
After three wonderful
years in New York
City, Megan Young
(Mktg, Span’02)
moved to Cincinnati
to pursue a marketing
career with Proctor
and Gamble. She is assistant brand manager
at the company and
traveled to Egypt,
Germany and Mexico
last year.
Pairing up with Michaela Capps (IntlAf
’05), Leslie Byers
(Mgmt ’05) opened
and now co-owns
Mountain Waters
Recreations. The
specialty sporting
goods store is located
on Flathead Lake in
Polson, Mont.
Providence, R.I., residents McCall Elyse
Mullen (ApMath,
Astro’07) and Daniel
Lee Burau (Jour’04)
were married on
June 21 in Lyons,
Colo. McCall is enrolled in the geophysics doctorate program
at Brown University
and Danny works as a
freelance production
agent/art director in
advertising.
PROFILE
Jon Ferris
Courtesy Jon Ferris
Creating quality jobs in developing countries
He noticed it on a dusty street in Ghana
when a young man ran up to him asking
for a job and promising to work his
hardest. He observed it while teaching
English to Burmese refugees in northern
Thailand. Even during his younger
years, living in Switzerland, Mexico and
Sweden, Jon Ferris (Mgmt’02) saw it:
the unrecognized and untapped
potential of young adults living in these
countries.
“I’ve met so many intelligent young
people throughout life,” Jon says. “It
didn’t seem fair that they can’t get jobs.
They are sharp 25-year-old university
graduates who would do well in the U.S.
but have few prospects in the Philippines
or Bangladesh.”
A graduate of the entrepreneurship
program in the Leeds School of Business,
he knew he didn’t want to spend his
future selling computers or marketing
plastics. Instead, after spending three
years working with refugees in Thailand
and Ghana, he created a company to
provide job opportunities for hardworking, educated young people like
those with whom he had worked. Jon’s
company, myglobalstaff.com, is an
outsourcing firm providing a variety of
information technology, customer service
and administrative support services to
small and medium-sized businesses.
With the internationalization of the
world economy, he firmly believes
outsourcing is the way, providing competwww.cualum.org
itive advantage for companies and
promising job opportunities for talented
workers in developing countries. He also
sees outsourcing as a way for young
graduates to remain in their home
communities while still participating in
the global economy.
“You go up to a group of young
people and ask them what they want, and
they want to work for an American
company — they want a good job,” Jon
says. “Now they can start to support their
families in a new way.”
His company’s goal of providing
great work with a social reward isn’t
surprising considering the influences in
his life. While he was growing up, Jon’s
mother worked with refugees around the
world and his wife works for the International Rescue Committee in Bangkok,
finding homes for Burmese refugees.
As the director of myglobalstaff.
com, he travels from his home in
Bangkok around Southeast Asia,
overseeing the company’s operations
and scouting out new places for
expansion. With each location, he
considers the impact his company
would have on the local people and
economy and works to spread into
areas where work is most needed.
“I love being able to say, ‘Wow, we
just created new jobs for people in the
Philippines,’” Jon says. “It’s amazing
what a truly humbling feeling that is.”
—Emery Cowan
Faculty,
staff &
students
Assistant professor
Hang “Hubert”
Yin of chemistry
and biochemistry
received the Kimmel
Scholar Award from
the Sidney Kimmel
Foundation for Cancer
Research in Baltimore.
The $200,000 award
began in July and will
support his cancer-related research for two
years.
Founding president of
Engineers Without Borders USA
and co-founder of
Engineers Without
Borders International,
Bernard Amadei was
honored as the Drexel
University College of
Engineering’s 2008
Engineer of the Year.
He is a CU professor
of civil engineering.
CU-Boulder named
Julie Wong vice
chancellor for student
affairs, effective July
22. Prior, she served
as associate vice
president and dean
of students at the
University of Texas
at El Paso, a post she
held since 2004.
Widely regarded as a
world leader in laser
spectroscopy and frequency measurement
technology, LongSheng Ma received an
honorary degree from
CU-Boulder in May.
He has been a frequent
visitor to JILA, a joint
institute of CU-Boulder and the National
Institute of Standards
and Technology, and
has worked with Jun
Ye (PhDPhys’97), a fellow at JILA and NIST
and an adjoint physics
professor.
Professor in the civil,
environmental and architectural engineering
department, Joseph
Ryan, was selected
as a 2008 Pacesetter
Award recipient in the
science/ medicine/
health category. He
has helped protect the
James Creek water
supply from vehicleerosion. His analysis of
acid-mine drainage for
the Lefthand Watershed helped residents
living above Boulder
clean their water
supply, and the data he
collected helped raise
millions to revitalize
water sources.
Winner of three gold
medals and one silver
in swimming at the
1984 Los Angeles
Olympic Games,
Nancy HogsheadMakar is CU’s Title
IX advisor. Prior, she
taught courses on
federal gender-equity
law at Florida Coastal
School of Law in
Jacksonville.
The Hazel Barnes
Prize, the highest
faculty recognition for
teaching and research
given by CU-Boulder, was awarded to
John Falconer. The
professor and chair
of the chemical and
biological engineering
department received
an engraved university
medal, as well as a
$20,000 cash award.
He was recognized for
his ground-breaking
work in heterogeneous
catalysis and zeolite
membranes for gas
phase separations
and for his teaching
excellence.
Four faculty members
in the mechanical
engineering department garnered Young
Faculty Awards from
the Defense Advanced
Research Projects
Agency to support innovative research in microsystems technology.
Assistant professors
Scott Bunch, Harold
Park, Wei Tan and
Ronggui Yang were
among 39 “rising stars”
selected at 27 universities across the country.
Each received a grant of
about $150,000 to develop and validate their
research ideas during
the coming year.
In June Frank Bruno
became vice chancellor for administration. Prior, he served
as Boulder city
manager, a post he
held since 2003. He
succeeds Paul Tabolt
(MBA’96), who retired
from the position
in March after 17
years of service to
the university and 11
years in the post of
vice chancellor for
administration.
A new study by CU
researchers indicates
older, multiyear sea
ice in the Arctic is
giving way to younger,
thinner ice, making it
more susceptible to
record summer sea-ice
lows like the one that
occurred in 2007. Lead
study author for the
research is Professor
James Maslanik of
CU’s Colorado Center
for Astrodynamics Research. His team used
satellite data going back
to 1982 to reconstruct
past Arctic sea ice
conditions, concluding
there’s been a nearly
complete loss of the
oldest and thickest ice
and 58 percent of the
remaining perennial ice
is only 2-to-3 years old.
James Hynes
Linda Cordell
Two CU faculty
members were invited to join American
Academy of Arts
and Sciences in the
spring. Former CU
Museum director and
anthropology emeritus
Professor Linda
Cordell and chemistry
and biochemistry
Professor James
Hynes were among
212 inductees into
the academy in 2008.
Cordell’s research focused primarily on the
archaeology of Pueblo
peoples of the American Southwest. Hynes
is well-known in his
field for contributions
to the theory of chemical reaction rates and
mechanisms.
Assistant professor
Nils Halverson of
the astrophysical and
planetary sciences and
physics departments
and assistant professor
Kyle McElroy of the
physics department
were among 118 scientists and scholars to receive Sloan Foundation
Research Fellowships.
The two-year awards
for $50,000 each are
designed to stimulate
research by early career
scientists who show
outstanding promise.
Lead chef for CU’s
Piazanos café in Cheyenne-Arapahoe dorm,
Billy Kardys won the
National Association of
College and University
Food Services’ regional
challenge in early April,
representing CU at the
organization’s national
conference in Washington, D.C., in July.
Parents of bipolar
teenagers, whose
youngsters’ extreme
mood swings and
severe irritability
often cause significant
trauma and conflict
for families, may find
some helpful tips in a
newly released book
by clinical psychology professor David
Miklowitz. His book
is titled The Bipolar
Teen: What You Can
Do to Help Your Child
and Your Family (The
Guilford Press).
At the 43rd annual
Engineering Award
Banquet in April, five
recipients received the
2008 Distinguished
Engineering Alumni
Award. They included
former vice president
of Storage Technology
Corp. Gary Anderson
(MechEngr’69), CUBoulder Distinguished
Professor Kristi Anseth (PhDChemEngr’94), past chair of the
Engineering Advisory
Council Peter Mannetti, Denver structural
engineer Sami Miro
(CivEngr’70) and the
late John McMasters
(Aero’61, MS’62),
a former Boeing
engineer.
R.I.P
Correction
Due to a reporting error, we
extend our sincere apologies to
CU alum Jennifer Lynn Maybee (MSpcHearSci’06) whose
name appeared in the R.I.P.
section of the June issue. She
writes she is alive and well.
Robert Mills (Bus’31)
Edward J. Gemmill (ElEngr’33)
Gertrude Bee Molini (Econ’33)
Helen Warner Crane (A&S’34)
Margaret Lawrence Preston (A&S’36)
John D. Morton (Mktg’38)
Elizabeth Heffernan Meyer
(HomeEcon’39)
Donald W. Sidwell (A&S ex’39)
K. Ellen Williams Valentine (A&S ex’39)
Helen Johnson Wigram (Acct ex’39)
Robert H. Austin (Mgmt’40)
Frances Kalcevic Cutright (A&S ex’40)
Robert L. Howsam Sr. (A&S ex’40)
Jane Moorhead Immel (Edu, Hist’40)
Eddie W. Schodt (MA&S’40, PhD’51)
Arlene Solomon Shattil (Jour ex’40)
Jean Holm Delehoy (Jour’41)
H. Vincent Ellwood Jr. (Mech
Engr’42)
George F. Baroch (ElecEngr’43)
Robinson B. Gourley Sr. (Mech
Engr’43)
Dorothy Schmidlin Orians (MA&S’43)
Leslie Friedman Davis (A&S ex’44)
P. Raymond Johnson (Bus’44, MMgmt’57)
Eugenia Johns Oldweiler (Jour’44)
Peggy Walker Barker (A&S’45)
James W. Aspinwall (Bus ex’46)
Philip H. Barnes (MechEngr’46)
Jack W. Cunningham (ChemEngr’46)
Virgina A. Lee (MA&S’46, PhD’52)
Barbara Louise McClintock (A&S’46)
David M. Rohr (ElEngr’46)
William A. Willoughby (A&S’46, MD’49)
Loyal W. King (MechEngr’47, MS’57)
Shirley Flanagan McKeon (A&S’47)
Albert B. Ackermann (Aero’48)
Joseph W. Bachman (Acct’48)
George R. Brown (ElEngr’48)
Stephen S. T. Kao (MMechEngr’48)
Richard L. Lines (Chem’48)
John T. Morrow (Mktg’48)
Mary Jacobson South (DistSt’48)
Marylou Regier Stirling (A&S’48)
Leland S. Alvord (Mus’49, MA’50)
Charles M. Foster (Zool’49)
Eleanor Oxley Gause (Art’49)
Dale B. Hylton (DistSt’49)
James H. Konkel (ChemEngr’49)
John J. Magee (MGeol’49)
Robert M. McGrew (CivEngr’49)
Ramey B. Metz (ElecEngr’49)
Albert W. Smith (MGeog’49)
Walter A. Steele (Law’49)
Camille Matteson Young (A&S’49)
Robert Guy Barrows (A&S’50)
Thomas Dale Bartley (A&S’50, MD’53)
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Hans C. Borm (Aero’50)
Andrew H. Cochran (Psych’50, MPerServ’52)
Floyd A. Gates (ElEngr’50)
Theodora Vale Koble (MZoo’50)
Wayne A. McAninch (ArchEngr’50)
John W. Plunkett (MEdu’50, EdD’51)
Jayne Godbe Winegardner (Law’50)
Muriel Rae Cibull (A&S’51, MD’54)
William G. Dryden (CivEngr’51)
Elizabeth B. Harlan (A&S’51)
Emery D. Jarrett (A&S’51)
Robert P. Muschler (A&S’51)
Shirley Maxine Reed (Mus’51)
Gary G. Willoughby (A&S’51, MA’58)
Leonard S. Allott (A&S’52, MD’56)
Keefe L. Baker (Art’52)
Bobby M. Downing (Mus’52, MMus’57)
George L. Ellis (A&S’52)
Helen Banzhaf Mitcheltree (MMus’52)
Richard M. Simmons (Soc’52)
Joe H. Bergheim (Bus, MechEngr’53)
George E. Lindsley (A&S’53)
John D. Livingston (A&S’53)
Charles D. Montfort (Law’53)
Melvin F. Orth (A&S’53)
Patricia Anderson Wells (Home
Econ’53)
Gerald K. Dungan II (A&S ex’54)
Charles P. Hughes (Acct’54)
Harlan B. Hamilton (Engl’55)
Robert P. Arganbright (PhDA&S’56)
Robert W. Olsen (CivEngr’56, MS’62)
Irving J. Witkind (PhDGeol’56)
William J. Kabbert (MechEngr’57)
Dwight Malcolm Akers (MS’58)
Etta Mae Conrad Coburn (MEdu’58)
Raymond A. Hatch (Fin’58)
Clemens W. Helms (A&S’58, MA’60)
Lois F. Radford (Mus’58)
Richard V. Reed (ElEngr’58)
Jo An Ciavaglia Toth (BusEdu’58)
Sally Ann Klein Bishop (A&S’59)
Elizabeth Borgmann Carey (Edu’59)
Robert A. Carvell (Law’60)
Robert Emmett Floyd (MPerSer’60)
Kelly L. Harris (MA’60)
Paul E. Hubble (Aero’60)
William A. Lidster (MCivEngr’60)
Nancy S. Newall (Acct’60)
Peter Rosoff (A&S’60)
Robert Wang (ApMath’60)
John Carter Bromley (A&S’61, MA’63)
Mary A. Gilchrist (MEdu’61, EdD’68)
John H. McMasters (Aero’61, MS’62)
David Roger Howard (CivEngr’62, MS’62)
William F. Sealy (MechEngr’62)
Robert Lionel Fisher (Psych’63)
Gerald Wayne Nelson (Mktg’63)
Lawrence R. Reno (Law’63)
Maurice Dean Harrah (A&S’64)
Donald Lester Lucas (Edu’64)
Steven Reynold Trott (A&S’64)
James Donald Webb (MMgmt’64)
Paul H. White (A&S’65)
Evelyn Johnson Cobb (Edu’66, MA’77)
William M. Perry (MElEngr’66)
H. Don Unland Jr. (MChemEngr’66)
Robert Stephen Warren (A&S’66)
John Charles Bowman (MBasicSci’67)
William P. Bredesen Jr. (Mgmt’67)
James Harold Chenoweth (Aero’67)
Carl Bernard Lindsey (ElEngr’67)
Phil Eugene Miller (EngrPhys’67)
Rex E. Mayhew (MMgmt’67)
J. Stephen Schroeder (Aero’68)
Florence Noramae Hitt (MEdu’69)
Donald Clark Hichens (MBA’70)
Joan Gamel Murnan (Mktg’70, MEdu’85)
Bruce Allen Anderson (MAnth’71)
Randall Paul Bruns (Engr’71)
Douglas Weller Price (MBA’71)
Shirley Sagehorn Travis (MEdu’71)
Claire C.S. Gomez (Rec’72)
Wesley Lee Halbrook (Engl’72)
Leona Hoover Laut (Edu’72)
Leslie Ann Fishbein (Art’74)
Richard Carl Kimble (MS’74)
Thomas David Lustig (Law’74)
Angela M. Lujan-Ogle (LatAmer’74, Law’82)
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Mary Jane Morrow Ward (EdD’75)
Darlene Kay Husted (Soc’77)
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Arthur F. Greslin (MCDBio’78)
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CU Extension Adult Education
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LETTERS
Remembering Claude Walton (Mus ex’37)
Please accept my thanks to you and Zak Brown for your
story in your June issue about beloved schoolmate
Claude Walton (Mus ex’37).
It was a privilege to be with Claude. Many afternoons,
training in the stadium under Frank Potts, I could look
over to the northwest quadrant, exalted by the living
grace of
Claude at
discus
practice. It
was a treat
then to
encounter
him on
campus, always with a friendly greeting and a shining
example of grace under pressure.
Depression years were a trial for all of us, yet they
continue to bring many happy memories. Association
with Claude remains one of the happiest.
Let us wait no longer for Claude’s induction into the
CU Hall of Fame. Again, thank you!
Robert “Bob” C. Davidge (ElecEngr’35)
Baton Rouge, La.
I want to commend you on the inspirational story of Claude Walton (Mus ex’37).
What an amazing gentleman. I can think
of no one more deserving of an honorary
degree. He was and is a true trailblazer
and through your story I hope he
encourages greater diversity within our
CU family.
Lastly, according to your “The
Scoop” section I should see notes about
alumni on either decade of my intended
graduation date. Alas I left CU in 1986
three credits short of my degree, but I
seem to get information only on graduates
of 1960 and 1970! Maybe there is a way
to get this corrected?
I should note that even with the
changes I always look forward to the
arrival of my Coloradan!
Thanks and good job,
Brian Thomas Beagle (Hist ex’86)
Denver
Editor’s note: For all of you alums who
attended CU but did not get your degree,
customizing your Coloradan with the class
notes from the decade you attended is not
possible. The computer sorting system only
looks for degrees earned. When no degree
appears, it defaults to placing you in the
60s and before/70s category. Unfortunately, there is no technological solution to this
issue at this time. Please go online to www.
cualum.org/publications/coloradan to
read all class notes.
Cabral an asset to CU
The good article in June 2008 Coloradan
(page 52) about the “Cabrals living the
dream” had me remembering when Brian
Cabral (Rec’79) first came to CU. He had
been recruited from St. Louis High School
in Honolulu, Hawaii, where my brotherin-law had coached and mentored him, as
well as a few others who attended CU.
I met Brian at Stapleton Airport and
drove him to Boulder to the athlete
dorms. We had the privilege to attend
Brian and Becky Cabral’s (PolSci ex’80)
wedding and reception. His book, Second
String Champion (Group Pub), is a
testament to his faith and abilities to
overcome the trials he’s faced. Now he is
recognized at CU for his achievements
and his positive influence on the team.
We are still avid Buff fans and wear
CU sweatshirts and socks during every
game. Give our love to Brian and Becky.
Jim Amend (MedTech ’54)
and Mary Ann Amend
Aurora, Colo.
Growing green graduates
I enjoyed your June article on Ellis Jones
(PhDSoc’02) and his Better World
Shopping Guide (New Society Publishers).
The work of another graduate of our
program, John Paul Lederach (PhDSoc’88), may be of interest to you as well.
He lives in Rollinsville, Colo., but spends
much of his time with difficult conflicts
around the world. His latest book, The
Moral Imagination (Oxford University
Press), is highly respected among
international peace builders.
Paul Wehr, Professor Emeritus,
Sociology
Boulder
Remembering old times
I enjoy reading the Coloradan. In March,
during CU’s spring break I visited
Boulder, the campus and the geography
building for the first time since graduating
with my Ph.D. in geography in 1980. I
retired in December 2007 from the
University of Houston-Downtown after 37
years of community college and university
teaching.
The region, the city of Boulder and
www.cualum.org
the CU campus have really changed over
the years. It was wonderful to see the
Flatirons again. I also walked around
Newton Court. I couldn’t believe how
much it has grown. I moved into the
apartments when they first opened on
January 1975.
I also took a drive to Estes Park, and
as I drove through the mountains I
remembered the beautiful drives we took
into the mountains on the weekends to
take a break from my studies. I remember
how my son enjoyed the snow and
chipmunks. My son was just 2 years old
then. He is 35 years old now, the age I
was at that time.
I have fond memories of my days at
the University of Colorado. It was nice to
go back and visit after all these years.
Roberto Garza (PhDGeog’80)
San Antonio, Texas
Thoughts on Coloradan redesign
Thanks for taking the time to explain the
recent decision to customize the CU People
news items in the Coloradan. While I
applaud the Alumni Association’s efforts to
be responsive to the requests of some of the
readers who were not interested in reading
about people who graduated in other
decades, I question we would all agree.
It’s often interesting to read what
alumni from CU are doing, regardless of
whether we knew them. While I don’t
anticipate a full-scale return to including
all decades in the magazine, I would like
to make a couple of recommendations to
help facilitate customization and enable
those who graduated CU in multiple
decades, graduated near a decade cutoff
or have a two-alumni household with
different decade categories to receive the
alumni news that is relevant to them:
1. Is the magazine customizable
enough that alums could go to the
website and select the specific decades
(or all, or none) that they want to receive
in their print version?
2. If not, then perhaps the magazine
could include an individual’s graduating
decade plus the decade before and after.
This would better include information
pertinent to those who graduate near a
decade cutoff.
Thanks for listening.
Jonathan Brahmer
(PolSci’93, MBA’02)
Denver
I am glad to know I’m not the only one
who is late in getting to his/her reading
stack!
I just read the June issue, and it’s the
first one I’ve read with your new format. I
love it! I enjoy having something I can
easily hold in one hand, and I really like
that your stories are contiguous — not
jumping from Page 3 to Page 18 and back
again. Thanks!
Sally (Specht) White
(MCDBio’75)
Leander, Texas
Where’s the culture?
I seem to notice a distinct improvement in
the quality of the writing in the first issue of
the magazine under your editorship. But I
was surprised to find not a single word on
the summer Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
A missed opportunity. In general, I find the
magazine gives short shrift to “cultural”
events on campus, in deference to an
assembly line of articles on astrogeophysics or NASA or mechanical engineering.
I’d like to see more pieces on students and
interesting things they may be doing on
campus in the arts, and fewer on the
activities of professors and administrators.
Yes, it’s money
I’m a CU alum (and my mother and sister
are CU alums) and thought I should
comment on the recent changes to the
alumni magazine.
I did my graduate work at Johns
Hopkins and also get the Hopkins Arts
and Sciences as well as the Medicine
alumni magazines, and boy is there a huge
contrast. The Hopkins magazine is fullsized, printed on nice paper, with terrific
design, interesting art and good articles.
The Coloradan has, well, interesting
articles. I do enjoy the reporting and I
think you guys do a good job, but I’ve
been very disappointed in other aspects
of the magazine.
For example, the recent move to a
hypercondensed format has created
something that looks and feels like a
pamphlet rather than a magazine. The
printing job isn’t impressive, as my most
recent issue arrived with over half of the
pages uncut (not even perforated, so I
had to cut the pages apart with scissors to
avoid destroying them). There is no point
in getting good photography and writing
nice articles and sticking it all in a badly
printed piece that people aren’t drawn to
read (and that requires sharp implements). I will note, though, that the paper
used is of obviously low quality and that
even the previous format using the same
paper wasn’t much better, though at least
all the pages were usually separated.
Is it money? Hopkins has ads in their
magazine. Maybe that’s the difference.
Their ads are very tasteful, though, and
unobtrusive. I’d much rather get a
magazine with a few advertisements that
actually looks and feels like a legitimate
publication and something to keep in the
bookcase than something that looks
seriously underappreciated.
Sarah Wheelan (Math, MCDBio’95)
Baltimore
Hugh Heckman (PolSci’69)
Forest Hills, New York
Buffalum Notes a good model
I just responded to the survey on the new
Coloradan. I suggested using an electronic version of the Coloradan similar to the
PDF version of Investors Business Daily.
Then I backed out of the survey and took
another look at the Buffalum Notes.
What’s wrong with that format? It would
be ideal for the Coloradan and those
alums wishing to receive their Coloradan
electronically, as I would. If 100,000
alums chose the electronic version you
would save a whole lot more money than
Pentagram’s hard copy.
Ed Wrasmann (Chem’62)
Rolla, Mo.
Your turn Coloradan celebrates the
power of thoughts and ideas. We invite you to
write letters to the editor on subjects related
to the university. The editors may edit for
brevity, clarity and sensitivity to the
community. Please let us know your thoughts
about CU happenings, suggestions for stories
and your news.
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Kevin Moloney
Robyn Paiba of London rests against the gunwale of a 40 foot pinasse (boat) while traveling from Mopti to Timbuktu on the
Niger River, on Jan. 6, 2008.
Into the heart
of lightness
BY KEVIN MOLONEY
N
ear Niaunkén, Mali — Joseph Conrad must not have
spent crystaline days and nights on the Niger River.
Long bright hours pass over an irregular parade of
shoreline towns and villages of eagerly waving people.
Crisp nights fall under a perfect dome of stars.
As we settled in to dinner I looked over the rail of the
boat. The water was glassy calm and reflected all the
constellations perfectly. Uninterrupted sky wrapped
around our rustic little pinasse (boat) in every direction as
if we had been tossed into the heavens.
If Conrad’s darkness in the heart of humankind exists,
it is not here with me now.
En route to mythical Timbuktu I climbed aboard this
40-foot canoe with a small outboard motor, thatched roof
and wicker outhouse hovering over the stern. On the
trash-strewn and muddy shore at Mopti, I and six others
had negotiated prices for the three-day ride. My companions include an English cinema art director, a British
press agent working in Spain, a California organic fruit
farmer and his local guide, a young Belgian home-care
worker and a German punk record producer.
We line rickety wooden benches padded more in spirit
than in fact, bask in the sun atop the roof, read and trade
stories from our lives. All the passengers aboard have
stressful careers. As the semiarid tropical landscape of the
Sahel rolls by, we let go of any need to do anything. Deadlines evaporate. Finance becomes barter. Cities fade to
distant memory.
Being trapped on a small boat for three days is the
most calming experience I’ve had in years.
To the rear, pilot Abdul guides the boat down the wide
river as his wife, Aisha, barters with passing fishermen for
their catch. From it she cooks each day’s meals of fish, rice,
pasta and onions. Young boatman Atraman bails from the
bilge, cleans fish and stands at the bow to guide Abdul
through an occasional narrow channel. We sleep along the
sandy shore on mats, under tents and behind bug nets.
By the time the weather takes on a less comfortable
tone in cold wind and rain, all aboard have shed any
ability to complain. We huddle, smile and drink syrupy
tea among the benches, giggling as we pick sand burs out
of every piece of fabric among us.
As night falls on the third day, Noel the farmer spies an
orange glow on the horizon.
“That’s got to be it! Timbuktu! We’re in Timbuktu!”
Kevin Moloney (Jour ’87) is a Denver-based photojournalist. His work regularly
appears in the New York Times and other national and international publications. He
is an adjunct photojournalism instructor at CU-Boulder and has desperately wanted to
go to Timbuktu since he was 8 years old.
Timbuktu bound
Boatman Atraman Maika
watches for obstacles as his
brother Abdul Timbeli guides
their 40 foot pinasse (boat)
through a narrow side channel
of the Niger River near
Niafunké, Mali, on Jan. 5, 2008.
The boat and crew took
passengers, including Kevin
Moloney (Jour’87), on the
three day downriver trip from
Mopti to Timbuktu.
Read Moloney’s essay on
pages 68 69.
Campus centerfold
See pages 36-37 for our centerfold featuring Varsity
Lake by Glenn J. Asakawa (Jour’86).
University of Colorado at Boulder
Alumni Association
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