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’70
35th Cluster Reunion, Oct. 8-10, 2004!
Laura Haigler Amundsen is associate director of human resources for UCB Pharma in Smyrna, Ga. • Patricia Hayes Bennett and Larry Blaker were married Aug. 16 in Mukilteo, Wash. Her daughter, Merith Bennett ’04, was the maid of honor. Pat and Larry live in Mukilteo, where she is the technical services manager for the Everett Public Library. • Martha Shelton Carter lives in Silver City, N.M., with husband Jack, emeritus professor of biology at CC. Working with students from CC and Western New Mexico University, they have written and published two books dealing with native plant identification. Martha and Jack have also established the Jack and Martha Carter Endowment for the Plant Sciences at CC. • Russell Davis lives in Waukegan, Ill., where he is a parts manager with Northern Illinois Machines. • Bill Johnson is the training coordinator for the Transportation Security Administration in Reno, Nev.

’71
Kat Bradley-Bennett lives in Longmont, Colo., where she teaches English as a second language for the St. Vrain Valley Adult Education Program. After the loss of both her parents last year, Kat needed a little grounding, so she built a new home, where she enjoys watching marsh hawks and bald eagles pass by her office window. • Edward Francis lives in Bozeman, Mont., with his wife Eileen and their son, Seth. • John Krauss was appointed clinical professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs and adjunct professor at the IU School of Law in Indianapolis. In addition, he is the newly appointed director of IU’s Center for Urban Policy and the Environment. • Anne Mansfield lives in Denver, where she is a magistrate with the Denver County Court. • Margaret Duryea Siegel is a special education teacher for Santa Fe public schools in Santa Fe, N.M. • Alan Woo lives in Santa Ana, Calif., and was appointed chair of the Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance. Alan recently launched three management companies and business enterprises: Mega Group Associates, Tao8 Group, and Harlem Brothers Entertainment Group.

’72
Carole Bloedorn and John VanGorder were married July 19. They live in Fort Collins, Colo., where Carole is retired. • Jami Harrison is divorced and living in Orangevale, Calif., with her 10-year-old son, Jesse. Jami is a retired state capitol legislative interpreter for California’s Department of Parks and Recreation. • After many years in and out of government in Washington, D.C., Christopher Hicks returned to his high school alma mater, Culver Military Academy and Culver Girls Academy (Culver, Ind.), where he is a development officer. • Rob Jenkins M.A.T. ’79 is superintendent of schools for the Gunnison (Colo.) Watershed RE-1J School District.

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’73
Sherri Evans lives in Hercules, Calif., where she is a child welfare worker for Alameda County. • Ann Blumberg Frick was named a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers. The college was founded in 1950, and is composed of the best of the trial bar from the U.S. and Canada. Ann lives in Denver, where she is a founding member of the law firm Jacobs Chase Frick Kleinkopf & Kelley.

’74
30th Cluster Reunion, Oct. 8-10, 2004!
Britt Johnson lives in Raleigh, N.C., with his wife Sandie. Their two children and five grandchildren all live in Raleigh and he reports that “Life is never dull!” • Bob Orr retired from the federal government after 26 years of working in financial management for the Navy. He is now with a small IT firm in Arlington, Va., doing similar work in the private sector. He’s enjoying life with wife Patty and their three boys. • Joe Simitian was named by Scientific American magazine as one of the “Scientific American 50” – the magazine’s annual list recognizing outstanding leadership in science and technology from the past year. Joe was recognized for his groundbreaking legislation on electronic identity theft. Joe lives in Palo Alto, Calif., where he is a legislator and chairs the California Assembly’s Select Committee on Privacy.

’75
30th Cluster Reunion, Oct. 8-10, 2004!
Thomas Cromer is a senior principal engineer with Raytheon in Huntsville, Ala. • Sarah Jelin lives in South Orange, N.J., and is executive vice president and general counsel for Karnak • Scottie Brown Jones moved from Phoenix, Ariz., to the rural community of Alsea, Ore. She reports that she “is not sure of [her] next step.” • Jay Maloney was named the 2003 Outstanding Fundraising Professional for Southern Colorado at the annual seminar for the Association of Fundraising Professionals Southern Colorado Chapter. Jay lives in Colorado Springs, where he is the president and C.E.O. of CHI Colorado Foundation, which operates foundations in a variety of hospitals. Jay received the same award from the international organization at the AFP conference in March. • Tim Myers is the author of “Tanuki’s Gift: A Japanese Tale.”

’78
Jane Schapiro Brown lives near Washington, D.C., where she is a freelance writer. • Sam Harper wrote the screenplay for “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the comedy hit starring Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt. • David Mason co-edited the anthologies “Twentieth-Century American Poetry” and “Twentieth-Century American Poetics: Poets on the Art of Poetry.” • Peter Neupert, chairman of drugstore.com, was appointed to President George Bush’s information technology advisory committee. • Lisa Weiske is a Montessori teacher/director at Hope Montessori in Centennial, Colo.

’79
25th Reunion – Oct. 8-10, 2004!
Ken Hunter is chief operations officer of Kaiser Permanente’s mid-Atlantic region in Rockville, Md. • Nancy Smith is the artistic and managing director for Frequent Flyers Productions in Boulder, Colo. She lives in Lafayette with her husband Matthew Cryer and their son, Gabriel. • Wendy Weiss teaches textile design at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln and is also director of the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery. Wendy and her husband Jay Kreimer collaborated to create “Traveler’s Field: An Animated Textile and Sound Environment.” It consists of three-dimensional woven fields set on the floor. Underneath are motorized rotating tubes with filament appendages and cams that react to movement in the space and cause subtle shifts in the wiry fabric fields.

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