The film won the award for best feature documentary in May 2002 at the Tribeca Film Festival, which was co-founded by Robert DeNiro in part to re-energize lower Manhattan following the destruction of 9/11. “Chiefs” presents two years in the lives of high school-age Northern Arapaho and Eastern Shoshone boys on and off the basketball court. Using basketball as a vehicle, the film explores what it means to grow up Native American at the turn of the 21st century. The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) will air the film in 2003.

Junge received his B.A. from Colorado College and attended New York University film school. Ansbacher received his B.A. from Colorado College and his M.S. in psychology from Denver University. Ansbacher is executive director of Just Media, a non-profit production company and media foundation. “Chiefs” is their first feature-length documentary film.

The exhibit, “35 Years, In the Blink of a Shutter,” will showcase a career that has spanned 30 years. Burnett has visited more than 70 countries and has covered stories as diverse as the French and American presidential elections from 1972 to the present; the famine in Sahel in 1974 and in Ethiopia in 1984; the Iranian revolution following Ayatollah Khomeini’s return to Tehran in 1979, and the Summer Olympics of 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, and 2000. During his career Burnett has photographed every U.S. president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, and has taken cover portraits of Mikhail Gorbachev and Fidel Castro for Time Magazine.

Burnett launched his photographic career in 1967 as an intern at Time Magazine while still earning a degree in political science at Colorado College. He continues to be the photographer-of-choice for many magazines with his in-depth coverage of the Washington political scene, including the Monica Lewinsky episode and the impeachment of Bill Clinton. More recently he has produced exceptional images of Al and Tipper Gore, Bill Gates, and Elian Gonzalez, among others.

Kielcheski, who spent a tour of duty in Vietnam as a combat artist, will exhibit paintings inspired by his time in the southeast Asian country. Kielcheski, a former student of Bernard Arnest, a WWII combat artist who taught for many years in the Colorado College art department, will show work done in 1968. The combat art consists of seven canvases, numerous smaller works in acrylics, woodcuts, etchings, and a selection of pages from sketch pads.

These sensitive portrayals by Kielcheski represent a somber and realisitic depiction of war's toll on young men, and a soldier's longing for his fallen comrades. Lt.Col.Kielcheski, USAF Ret., traveled the war zone from Vietnam to Thailand to Laos. He flew 23 combat missions as an observer during his tour of duty. He has since traveled back to Vietnam from Hanoi to Saigon for a second sketch of the land and people he so vividly recalls.

In addition to Kielcheski's work, the combat art exhibit will feature photos by CC alumni Jay Maloney and Gary Ziegler. Maloney, who spent his tour in Vietnam as a medic in an evacuation hospital, has gone back to the former battleground and returned with photographs of the Vietnamese countryside and the people who inhabit it. Ziegler, who has made a name for himself in Peruvian archaeology, and who was a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier in Vietnam, will present black and white photos of his tour of duty which depict the character of the U.S. forces and the Vietnamese under the stress of war.

This year's veterans reunion is the first at Colorado College for alumni who are militay veterans. On Friday, October 11, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., the CC veterans' symposium, "War Stories: Reflections from those who Fought," will take place at Hamlin House on the CC campus. The event will feature a morning panel of war veterans recounting their personal wartime experiences, how they have been changed by those experiences, and what they have learned from them in the light of the liberal arts education they received at Colorado College. The panel will be moderated by Jose J. Barrera, CC graduate and Vietnam combat veteran. At noon, CC history professor emeritus Bill Hochman, Navy veteran of WWII, will deliver the lunchtime presentation, entitled, "Remembering War." Hochman will present a video and talk on the sinking of his LST by a German E-boat off the Normandy coast on June 6, 1944.

The afternoon panel will include comments by Lt. Col. John Shaw of the history deptartment at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and professor Reyes R. Garcia of the philosophy department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colo. The emphasis of the afternoon panel will focus on the indivdual experiencs of combat veterans and how they are understood through the culture of "war writing and film." Vietnam veterans and CC graduates Owen Kendrick and Jay Maloney will moderate comments on CC philosopy professor J. Glenn Gray's famous book, The Warriors, Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, and the films, The Thin Red Line, Apocalypse Now, and Platoon. The public is invited to attend; call (719) 328-9620 for reservations.

Homecoming weekend will also include an event honoring longtime coaches Jerry Carle and Frank Flood, with basketball and football players from the past 35 years on campus.

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