Colorado College Bulletin

Editor: Susan Hyland Brickell '87

Colorado College, Alumni Office

14 East Cache La Poudre Street

Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3294

fax: (719) 389-6271

E-mail: alumni@ColoradoCollege.edu

Web: www.ColoradoCollege.edu
 
 

’33 Poet, painter and accountant Charles Hathaway lives in La Posada, Ariz. His poem "Wind" was included in the International Library of Poetry publication America at the Millennium: The Best Poems and Poets of the 20th Century.

 

’35 — 65th Reunion, Oct. 13-15!

 

’38 Chuck Axtell of Northridge, Calif., took a tour to Budapest, the Danube and Amsterdam. He later met with four fellow passengers in Dillon, Colo. "This gave me an excuse to drive back to Colorado …" He toured Mesa Verde, rode the narrow gauge railroad from Durango to Silverton and toured CC and the Air Force Academy. * Lou Henke and his wife, Nancy, live in Littleton, Colo. It was a busy year for Lou, who contracted Lyme disease after taking a walk in the woods. He recovered in time to attend his 65th high school reunion in Wray, Colo. He later hosted Ed Pelz at a campout at the nearby Beecher Island Massacre site and Arikaree River Valley. Lou is planning a Cubi Point Naval Air Station (Philippines) reunion in 2000. He helped build the station in the 1950s when he was an engineer. "Cubi Point and the many bridges in Montana are the personal ‘monuments’ I will be leaving when I die." * Mary Gilmore Magnusson and her husband, Art, retired in 1977 to a ranch in the western Montana mountains after health-science careers in Minnesota. They had a "virus" at hay time in the fall and decided to put the ranch up for sale. It sold and they now live in "less-demanding" quarters in nearby Frenchtown.

 

’40 — 60th Reunion, Oct. 13-15! Mary Duggan Clark is living with her daughter in Baton Rouge, La.

 

’45 — 55th Reunion, Oct. 13-15!

 

’48 Herb Beattie, a composer, singer, director and teacher, performed Schumann’s "Liederkreis" and "Dichterliebe" in January in Colorado Springs. Prior to the performance, he joined CC German professor Horst Richardson for a discussion of Schumann’s songs. * Jim McCarty is a retired Naval officer and city and county analyst. He and his wife, Marion, live in El Cajon, Calif. * Max Morath, pianist, vocalist and entertainer, performed "The Ragtime Man" in January at the Little Town Hall Center in Littleton, Colo.

 

’50 — 50th Reunion, Oct. 13-15! Margaret Hatch Lawrence is widowed and living in Midland, Texas. * Fred Robinson is a retired construction manager. He lives in Fort Myers, Fla., with his wife, Laura.

 

’51 Bob and Barbara Lett Brugger moved from Columbia, Mo., to their newly built home in Ashland, Ore. * Guy Gibbs became a member of the National High School Coaches Hall of Fame in 1998. He is a teacher, coach and counselor at Regis Jesuit High School in Denver.

 

’52 Thora Hodge is retired and living in Clarkdale, Ariz.

 

’54 Nancy Shryock Jordan is retired and living in Flagstaff, Ariz. * Paul Towner is retired and living in Colorado Springs after 40 years of Episcopal parish ministry.

 

’55 Jim Eldredge sold his business, National Contractors, Inc., and now plays golf and spends time with the grandchildren. He lives in Des Moines. * Todd Sermon is the rector at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Cripple Creek, Colo.

 

’56 Cherry Carter Kinney lives in Colorado Springs after retiring as the social science department chairperson at St. Mary of the Wood College in Indiana. * Valerie Johnson Southers reports that "my horses and I are finally home" in Cañon City, Colo. * W.H. Wandell is an information technology specialist with the Colorado Springs Police Department.

 

’57 Mary Prior Dambman has been a Republican National Committee member for Colorado since 1992. * Bob Hendee served as chair of the Travis County Child Protective Services (Welfare) Board in Austin, Texas. He remains on that board and also serves on the Travis County Child Fatality Review Board.

 

’58 Sara Clifford Hammond reports that she and husband, Al, have both retired for good. They live in Jacksonville, Fla. * John Poer and wife, Regina, live in Portland, Ore. * Nancy Cunningham Ramsayer and Morris Pike were married in April 1999 in Laguna Beach, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. * Susan Granberg Rendel reports that she and Janet Slaughter Tyree-Neel are planning a road trip together this summer. * Bill Schacht and his wife, Barbara, are both interim ministers and move around quite often. Bill is currently a pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Ft. Wayne, Ind. * Ann Sebastian is retired and living in Santa Rosa, Calif. She teaches part time at Santa Rosa Junior College in the tutorial center and spends her spare time taking photographs, writing and "sometimes doing nothing at all!" * Mary Lu Pike Sinclair and her husband, Ellery ’61, are retired and living in Falls Village, Conn. * Sally Stevens Sitzenstock is the office manager for Sitzenstock Associates, Inc., in Maumee, Ohio. * B.J. Chaney Skilling and her husband, Van ’55, live in Palm Desert, Calif. * Delos Smith is senior business analyst of the Conference Board and can be heard every day on www.radiowallstreet.com.

Class Secretary:

Nancy Cunningham Ramsayer-Pike

217 Cerro Street

Encinitas, CA 92024-4823

npike@cwsl.edu

 

’60 Elizabeth Wyckoff Neel lives in Corralitos, Calif., where she is a culinary arts student and works part time in the culinary arts office at Cabrillo Community College. She also works part time for Monterey Bay Caterers. * Joan Vivian and Richard Hoffmann were married June 12, 1998.

 

’61 John Cashman and Joanne Wiegel Meier held a mini-reunion over lunch on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland, in March. John works for American Express in San Francisco and travels as much as possible. Joanne has lived with her husband, Geri, in Switzerland for 36 years, less two years in Hong Kong. She is looking forward to her daughter’s wedding in California this summer. * Bruce Radley is retired and living in Peoria, Ill.

 

’62 Janet Fraser Cowan is retired and living in Mount Shasta, Calif. * Elizabeth Icks and Ron Caple were married Aug. 17, 1999, in Petrozavodsk, Russia. * After 34 years as a training consultant with Eli Lilly and Co., Vic Kuehnert retired in December. He and his wife, Rita Jo, moved to Tucson, Ariz., where Vic plans to continue his interest in training and instructional design.

 

’63 Gail Halpern Cullen is manager of the Aloha Apartments in Honolulu. * Clif Rouse and his wife, Kathy, live in Tulsa, Okla., where he is a sales engineer. * Heather Kirk Thomas resigned from her job as associate professor of English at Loyola College in Baltimore to move with her husband, Dick, to St. Louis, where he took a position at Paige Sports Entertainment. They have new twin grandbabies, Cole and Jackson, born in June 1999. Heather saw Kathie

Bruce Murphy in San Francisco in February. * Kathryn Francis Veltre is a social worker at the Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage. * David and Bonnie Toxby ’62 Williams live in Fairbanks, Alaska. David is retired and Bonnie is an elected official in the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly, a position similar to a county board of supervisors.

Class Secretary:

Ben Eastman

2020 Julian Way

Denver, CO 80211

BenEastman@aol.com

 

’64 Wallace Schultz is president of City Commercial Management in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

 

Classes of ’65 & ’66 — 35th Cluster Reunion, Oct. 13-15!

 

’65 Suzanne Benua Vorbrugg owns Suzanne’s Bed and Breakfast in Fussen, Germany. She is also the director of the folk quartet Musik Aus’m Venetianerwinkel.

 

’66 Virginia Crain and Richard Weaver were married April 10, 1999. * Teri Lumley Huff is the vice president of purchasing and distribution at Junior Achievement, Inc., in Colorado Springs. * Pamela Smith Kast and husband, Greg, are both retired and living in Bend, Ore. * Marsha Hayes Wyly is a landscape architect in private practice in Bath, N.C. * Bill and Lee Prater Yost live in Evanston, Ill., and have both taken new jobs. Lee is director of communications and outreach at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy, and has developed an alumni magazine and Web site for the school. In addition to his position as director of the Parmly Hearing Institute and the interdisciplinary neuroscience minor at Loyola University, Bill is acting associate vice president for research and acting dean of the graduate school.

 

’67 Linda Seger, author of Making a Good Writer Great: A Creativity Workbook for Screenwriters, received Regent University’s Candle Light Award. The award is given to the person who uses their "God-given talents to be a light in the entertainment industry."

 

’68 Kent Schobe is engineering vice president at Sheehan Pipe Line Construction Company in Tulsa, Okla., where he also serves on the city planning committee.

 

’69 Jeff Bauer was appointed senior vice president of Superior Consultant Company, Inc., based in Southfield, Mich. Jeff lives in Hillrose, Colo., with his wife, Christina Cramer Bauer ’70. * Jim and Mary Farver ’70 Griffith live in Carbondale, Colo., where Jim is a self-employed rancher and Mary is a professional board member. * After five years in Los Angeles, Bonita Lahey returned to Denver, where she is vice president of North American operations for the Communications Group at CH2M Hill. * Nicki Steel works for the Vermont Department of Education, training and supporting people who advocate for special education children in state’s custody. She also sells her photo notecards under the name Mostly Local, serves on the local zoning board, and remains active in the valley’s agricultural fair. * Chris Walker works for InTrust Bank in Wichita, Kan.

 

Class of ’70 & ’71 — 30th Cluster Reunion, Oct. 13-15!

 

’70 Robin Lostetter was ordained as a Presbyterian pastor in February, and now works as an associate pastor at Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.

 

’72 Margot Williams Harter is clinical director at the Children’s Center in Salt Lake City. * Kristin Leclair Kirkpatrick is pursuing a doctorate in counseling psychology at the University of Texas in Austin. * Ed Winograd is a technical editor at Horizon Interactive, Inc., in Colorado Springs.

Class Secretary:

Jesse Sokolow

2 Spaulding Lane

Riverdale, NY 10471-3212

jessokol@webspan.net

 

’73 Michael Adams lives in Lake Oswego, Ore., where he is a salesman with Adidas.

 

’74 Mark Lassleben and his wife, Kris Pelz ’73, live in Bern, Switzerland, where Kris works as a political officer with the U.S. Embassy. Mark works for SHL as a human relations consultant and also has a private practice in clinical and consulting psychology. * Richard Mount was married in 1994 and has two step-sons, A.J. and Tom, and two sons, Peter and Michael.

 

’75 — 25th Reunion, Oct. 13-15! Barbara Beatty is a human services consultant with Insight Communications in Phoenix, where she is also pursuing a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. * Rick Benoit is a marketing manager at Intel Corporation in Hillsboro, Ore. * Liz Brimm lives in Lakeville, Mass., but "travels for my job every day of every week." * Marian Davenport is the vice president of human resources at Dynegy, Inc., in Houston. * Stephen Koloskus lives in Denver, where he is owner and creative director of an advertising and graphic design company. * Richard Schulte is vice president of sales at MShow.com in Englewood, Colo., where he lives with his wife, Susan, and their three children.

 

’76 Patti Maas Barton is a staff assistant in the college relations office at CC. * Gregg Easterbrook lives in Bethesda, Md., and is a senior editor for The New Republic magazine. * Anne Wehrli is a treatment coordinator with Youth Guidance Association in Portland, Ore.

 

’77 Christy Herman is the owner and skipper of her own yacht, Pwyll, a 44-foot Jeanneau Sunfizz sloop. She takes people on sailing holidays in the Mediterranean from May through October, and spends the rest of the year in Carmel Highlands. * Bob Lawrence is a partner with Davis, Graham & Stubbs in Denver. * Peggy Lubchenco was selected by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists as their 1999 National Earth Science Teacher of the Year. Peggy teaches science at La Colina Junior High School in Santa Barbara.

 

’78 For the past ten years, Tom Farrow has served as a Pierce County District Court judge in Washington. He lives in Gig Harbor with his wife, Lori, and their three sons. * John Traeger, attorney at law, joined Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., as a member. He lives in Chesterfield, Mo.

 

’79 Richard Johnson and Alice Shuman were married April 24, 1999, in Madison, Wis. Jeff Jarris attended. * Larry Lutz lives in Cincinnati, where he is president and CEO of CCLC, a provider of online business development solutions for the career training industry. * A booksigning was held at the Chinook Bookshop in Colorado Springs in March for Suzanne Lyon, author of Bandit Invincible: Butch Cassidy. * David Morrison is vice president of marketing at Brookfield Properties Corporation in Denver. * Lisa Peters-Wakefield is the author of John Twachtman: An American Impressionist. The book accompanied the exhibitions of his works at the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. * Caroline Smythe McCallum is spending a year in the Chiricahua Mountains with her husband, Arch, and two daughters while he is on sabbatical.

 

’80 — 20th Reunion , Oct. 13-15! J. Barton teaches history and is the debate coach at Mt. Pleasant High School in Mt. Pleasant, Texas. He would enjoy hearing from friends who graduated in ‘79-’81. * Nationally acknowledged furniture maker and wood sculptor, Anne Shutan’s works were displayed at the Colorado Springs airport during February and March. She lives in Boulder, where she is also a part-time sculpture instructor at the Naropa Institute. She was featured on the October ’99 cover of Boulder’s Women’s Magazine, in the April ’99 issue of Woodwork, and in the January 27, 2000, issue of the Colorado Springs Independent. * Sarah Stewart was elected a partner in the firm of Boardroom Consultants in New York. Sarah is the first female partner in the firm and previously served as the company’s executive director.

 

’81 Jim Bowman sends greetings from Cape Cod. "Never thought I’d end up close to ‘Bean Town’ as Jim Madsen would say." He has learned "the curse of the Bambino is real, the Bruins have potential, the Celtics suck, and go Patriots … to somewhere else." Jim, an F-15 instructor pilot with the Massachusetts Air National Guard, says whale watching at 500 feet and 500 m.p.h. is not for the faint of heart. He plans on retiring soon and starting a "real" job as an airline pilot. * Cynthia Gordon Mendez is married and has an 18-year-old son, Steven. She works in Princeton, N.J., as the executive director of the Princeton Human Services Commission. * Debbie Patton Swanson is a development officer for research at CC.

 

’82 Kent Bossart does government work in Washington, D.C., with Mitsui & Co., a Japanese trading company. He lives in Falls Church, Va., with his wife, Jackie, and their children, Douglas and Hope. * Mike Kocel is an attorney in private practice in Colorado Springs. * Jeff Mazie lives in Los Angeles, where he works for Lockton Insurance Brokers. * Henry Shires’ story of his trek along the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail from Mexico to Canada was featured in World Traveler, Northwest Airlines in-flight magazine.

 

’83 Stephen Antupit is an urban design supervisor in the Strategic Planning Office for the city of Seattle. * Susan Sonnesyn Brooks is owner/publisher of Corporate Security Publishing in Washington, D.C. * Kim Crossen lives in Brea, Calif., where she is a customer care manager for Veterinary Pet Insurance. * Hans Krimm made it to the finals of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" on March 14. He answered both "fastest finger" questions correctly but wasn’t fast enough to make it to the hot seat. Hans is an associate research scientist in high energy astrophysics at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. * Nancy Curto Runco is the librarian for Rocky Ford High School in Rocky Ford, Colo. * "C" league hockey is still going strong. Steve Zahorik, Bruce Kirchhoff ’81 and John Champion ’84 are playing on a Denver ice hockey team and "loving every bump and bruise."

 

’84 Carter Bruns lives in Highlands, N.C., where he owns Wild Thyme Gourmet. * Lisa Piper and Dave Clark were married Sept. 12, 1999. * Kelly Powers and Pam Arnold were married Aug. 14, 1999, in Denver. Alumni in attendance were Peter Armstrong ’83, Mark Emslie ’83, Jerry Grewe ’83, Brad Lundberg ’83, Scott Mills ’83, Todd ’83 and Laura Harvey Olds ’83, John Baumstark, Richard and Donia Ness ’81 Beile, Skip Cowart, Scott Eaton, Chan Gibson, Rich Laws, Chris Peel, Eric and Sara Severa ’85 Tibby, Ron White, Tim King ’85, Carie Freimuth ’85, Kevin ’86 and Moira Curtis ’88 McCabe, Steve ’86 and Lin Billings ’87 Vela and Tim King ’90. * After many corporate years with Turner/Time Warner in Hollywood, Fla., Melanie Bradley Rohrbach is adjusting to life as a stay-at-home mom to children, Claire and William.

 

’85 Dee Baker shot another 80 episodes of the game show "Shop ’Til You Drop." He is the announcer and dresses up as several characters on that show, and is the voice of Sundae, Ronald McDonald’s dog, in three new animated videos for McDonald’s. He is also recording various voices on the Nickelodeon animated series "Sponge Bob Square Pants." And he and his wife, Michelle, have successfully trained their pugs to sit, stay and wait. * Kathy Ludwig is an assistant professor at Barry University in Miami Shores, Fla. * Heidi Davis Owen was instrumental in putting together an ensemble to perform part of CC Professor Stephen Scott’s bowed-piano piece "Vikings of the Sunrise" at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., in March. * Pamela Riney-Kehrberg is an associate professor in the agricultural history and rural studies program at Iowa State University in Ames. * Brian Thomson lives in Denver, where he is co-owner of thetrip.com.

 

’86 Bonnie Bertram is back in New York after being a producer at CNN in Atlanta for eight years. She is working for an Internet start-up company and often sees Janet Heller Harckham ’85. * Michael Conti is a software producer for Intel-Matel’s Smart Toy Lab in Portland, Ore. * Mike Taber is an assistant professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., where he is developing a high school environmental science curriculum. * Tracey Webb is a tax accountant/C.P.A. with Sample & Bailey in Fort Collins, Colo.

 

’87 Ed Casias was promoted to assistant district attorney for the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office in Summit County. * Dee Martin Dern is a senior research analyst and telemarketing coordinator at Eagle Marketing in Fort Collins, Colo., where she lives with her husband, Bill, and their three daughters, Reecie, Autumn and Emma. * Kimberly Harrell is a silversmith in London, where she designs pieces in precious metal as functional art and jewelry. She lives in Wembley Park, a suburb west of London, with her husband, David Drew, and their daughter, Beatrice. * Melinda Rees is director of eco-resorts.com, a vacation tour company specializing in safari and adventure tours of East Africa. * Randy Roach is director of admission and financial aid at the Webb Schools in Claremont, Calif. Taylor Stockdale ’85 also works there as Webb’s director of institutional advancement. * Brian Smith is a financial consultant with Wells Fargo in Portland, Ore. * Michael Travers teaches chemistry at the University of Denver.

 

’88 Linda Martinez Brenner lives in Rome. * Lisa Hall and Dan Anderson were married May 30, 1999, in Temecula, Calif. Lisa’s cousin, Theana Hancock ’99, was in the wedding party. Lisa has a research job at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. * Kim Sportsman Lopez-Walters is senior product manager at Starbucks Coffee Co., in Seattle. * Sharon Sturr Lund spent the month of November traveling through France, Belgium and Switzerland, visiting family and friends along the way. * Valerie Stambaugh Robbins is senior designer with NationalGeographic.com in Annapolis, Md. * Julia Sterling is associate director of the Iyengar Yoga Institute of San Francisco. * Silke Tobey and Vince Larson were married March 12, 1999. A reception was held July 31, 1999, in Redstone, Colo. Martha Tierney attended. Silke is program coordinator of the Intensive English Program at the University of Colorado at Denver. * Kristen Young and Greg Jones were married May 8, 1999, in Dallas. Alumnae in attendance were Anne Kowalski, Judy Wilder and Jennifer Young ’90.

 

’89 Eric Boltz is vice president of product development for Marathon Sensors, Inc., in Cincinnati, where he lives with his wife, Monica, and their children, Marilyn and Keegan. * Eric Clark is general manager of the Winter Park Mountain Lodge in Winter Park, Colo. * Jean Halley and Jacob Segal were married July 10, 1999. * Garrett Ito is an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of California at Davis. * Monica Lichtner is marketing director for Digital Mobility Ltd. in London. * Ted Miller and Samantha Le Vine were married Sept. 3, 1999. Ted owns Home Ec: Classic Housewares in Portland, Ore. * Keith Perry is a senior financial analyst at Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, Calif., where he lives with his wife, Ellen.

 

’90 — 10th Reunion, Oct. 13-15! Terry Ashby is a technical analyst with Capital One Services, Inc., in Glen Allen, Va. * Brendan Bennett works for a paper company in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he has lived the past four years. * Cristina Bordes is a yoga teacher/therapist at the Master Yoga Academy in La Jolla, Calif. * Cary Lehnertz Clarke is a physician with Family Physicians of Greeley in Greeley, Colo. * Catherine Rees Cooper lives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, with her husband, Steve, and their children, William and Kate. * David Cripe is an associate with Krendl, Krendl, Sachnoff & Way in Denver. * Keri Culver is pursuing a master’s degree in international affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. * Lisa Davenport and John Terborgh were married July 27, 1999, in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. * Leah Glenn and Lance Mattson were married Sept. 8, 1999. Leah is a dispatcher with the National Park Service in Big Bend National Park. * Arun Jacob is a software engineer with F-5 Networks in Seattle. * Irene Lei lives in Managua, Nicaragua, where she has started her own business. * Julie Martin is a resident in cardiology at Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital in Fort Collins, Colo. * Dewayne Niebur is a family physician with Lanai Family Health in Lanai City, Hawaii. * Shannon Parsons is doing her residency in small animal internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Hospital in Philadelphia. * Paul Raphaelson works at MTV in New York and plays bass in a local garage R & B band. * Scott Reynolds is the physical education director at the YMCA in Rye, N.Y. * Ilana Steinberg resigned from her position as family life educator at Congregation B’nai Tzedei in Arlington, Va., to be a stay-at-home mom to her son, Ely. * Ryan Wallach is a law clerk for Judge Clyde Hamilton in Columbia, S.C.

 

’91 Samantha Towbin Baumgarten teaches at Kent Denver School in Denver. * Mary Quinn Birnesser lives in Austin, Texas, where she is a consultant with SAP America, Inc. * Lynn Sandifer Cobb works for Level (3) Communications in Broomfield, Colo. * Blair Grey lives in Santa Fe, N.M., where she is a doctor of oriental medicine. * Aubrey Hord and John White ’92 live in Boulder, Colo. * Jennifer Kuehner is the assistant curator of education at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield. * Eric Nickell and Julia Juberias were married March 6, 1999, in Madrid, Spain. Eric is a management analyst with Uitetta Public Management consulting in Sacramento, Calif. * Katherine Pease is executive director of the Gill Foundation in Denver. * Ben Savery and Anne Watts were married Oct. 23 in North, Va. Alumni in attendance were Gabriel Carter, Logan Kendall, Ross Burns ’92, Armen Malikian ’92 and Treena Colby ’93. * Shan Sethna works in the media relations office at the University of Denver’s College of Law. He spends much of his free time skiing. * Shaharra Usnick is a research entomologist with the USDA in Stoneville, Miss. * Kerry McCune Williams lives in Carbondale, Colo., with her husband, Cleve, and their daughter, Devin Rhianne.

 

’92 Todd Andrews works for Analytical Surveys, Inc., in Colorado Springs. * Scott Billingsley is counsel to the Committee of Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he is working on the investigation of campaign finance abuses from the 1996 presidential election. * Rahul Kapur is the trade representative for the Americas at the State Economic Development Department in Santa Fe, N.M. * Scott Kempers and Jennifer Hanson were married in June 1999. * The "world premier" of Doug Lansky’s adventure-travel-comedy television show aired on the Travel Channel in February. The show is called "Trailblazers." * Kirby McIlyar is pursuing a master’s degree in counseling psychology at the University of Denver. * Scott Moore is an industrial business analyst with Valspar Corporation in Minneapolis. * Orion Poplawski is a computer system administrator in Boulder, Colo. * Jody Shear is a marketing associate with Eli Lilly & Company in Indianapolis. * Jimmy White and Melinda Prather were married Feb. 6, 1999. Jimmy is a systems engineer with Science Applications International in League City, Texas. * Sarah Wright is pursuing a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia.

 

’93 Hillary Arnold is a family practice resident at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Wash. * Seth Bacon is a network technician at Vermont Law School in Royalton, Vt. * Gilberto and Kara Ayers Dorantes live in Colorado Springs where they own La Campana. * Zach Drennen attends Harvard Divinity School in Boston. * Heather Hetzeck lives in Annapolis, Md., where she plans events for the "Save the Bay" folks in the Chesapeake Bay region. She also enjoys doing triathlons and open water swimming. * Rachelle Latimer is a development officer in the planned giving office at CC. * Margo Mehl lives in Koloa, Hawaii, where she is a small animal surgery resident. * Kandra Payne is a stage manager with the Seattle Children’s Theatre.* Alexandra Prime teaches social studies at Colorado Timberline Academy in Durango, Colo. During the summer she leads wilderness adventure courses for Deer Hill Expeditions throughout the Four Corners Region. * Cindy Schaefer and Christopher Knapp were married April 17, 1999. They live in Colorado Springs, where Cindy is a training specialist with Checks Unlimited. * Soprano Margaret Fuller Simpson performed a recital with CC pianist Susan Grace on campus Jan. 30. Margaret also had a role in the "Ballad of Baby Doe," an opera performed on campus in March. * Karen Badonie Sopko is doing her residency in internal medicine at University Hospital in Albuquerque. * Kree Swanson and Chris Klein were married Aug. 21, 1999, in St. Helena, Calif. They reside in Denver. * Marilyn Hanawalt Turner MAT is a special education teacher for the Aztec Municipal Schools in Aztec, N.M. * Jeanne Ulmer is coordinator of student affairs for Florida State University in Tallahassee.

 

’94 Justine Abel is pursuing a master’s degree in international development and education at the University of London. * Louisa Armbrust lives in London, where she is studying visual art at Goldsmiths College. * Kristin Axtman and Anthony Francis were married Jan. 23, 1999, in Irish Town, St. Andrew, Jamaica. Kristin is manager of interim programs at the Island School in Cape Eleuthera, Bahamas. * Michelle Berry is a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Arizona in Tucson. * Karen Zeder Blaschke is an associate editor with Colorado Homes & Lifestyles Magazine in Denver. * Tom Doggett is an M.B.A. candidate at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. His wife, Jenny Frank-Doggett, is taking time off from her career to raise their daughter, Bailey. * Tim Garth lives in Washington, D.C., where he is a legal assistant/paralegal. * Curtis Hagedorn and Phyllis McCaleb were married June 19, 1999. * Tim Hurtado is an emergency medicine resident at Madigan Army Medical Center in Fort Lewis, Wash. * Amy Peck Kerns is a physician’s assistant in a pediatric clinic in Arcadia, Calif. * Steve Mahoney is an associate with the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, L.L.P., in Boston. * Mike Myerburg and Becca Ringham were married in May 1999 in Pittsburgh. Alumni in attendance were Dolly Norton Miller and Dan Abromson ’95. * Emily Piper is a clinical psychologist at Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. * Courtney Starks is in her post-doctoral studies at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif.

 

’95 — 5th Reunion, Oct. 13-15! Inge Alpers is director of operations for Surefoot, L.L.C., in Park City, Utah. * Julie Bohl and Jonathan Dubin were married Oct. 23, in Chicago. Alumni in attendance were Mark Peterson ’93, Elizabeth Dunne ’94, Galen Myers ’94, Blair Berselli, Kate Woods, Shannon McDonnell ’96, Molly Ross ’96 and Kristin Bohl ’02, Julie’s sister and maid of honor. * Alexandra Conti and Mark Cramer were married Nov. 26 in New Vernon, N.J. They live in Los Angeles, where they are both lawyers. * Lora Droste lives in Oakland, Calif., where she is a social worker for the homeless. * Nicole Egge and Michael Fulton were married Aug. 28, 1999, in Bozeman, Mont. Alumni in attendance were Sally Sikes Wilde ’64, Peter ’90 and Kendra Egge ’89 Wilde, Bitsy Krueger ’93, Chris Beauchamp, Jeff Bush, Shawna Hedlund, Kimberly Nixon and Jason Stinson. They live in Redmond, Wash., where Nicole is a program director for Invest in Youth. * Kim Ellis is a probation officer for the Fourth Judicial District Probation Department in Colorado Springs, and is also pursuing a master’s degree in criminal justice at the University of Colorado. * Kasandra Griffin lives in Portland, Ore., where she does non-profit environmental work. * Debra Griffith teaches at Linne Elementary School in Chicago. * Dicky Heermance is an engineering geologist with Cotton Shires & Associates in Los Gatos, Calif. * Amanda Jackson is a volunteer coordinator for the International Refugee Center of Oregon in Portland. * Alexandra Kennaugh is a master’s degree candidate at Duke University in Durham, N.C. * Jessica Knight lives in Okinawa, Japan, where she teaches second grade for the Department of Defense Schools. * Scott Nilsen is pursuing a master’s degree in theology at Fuller Seminary. He is the area director/ordained minister with Young Life of Grand Junction, Colo. * Marycourtney Ning works for Community First National Bank in Evergreen, Colo. * Read Norton is director of business development at Boatscape.com in Boston. * Heather Ogren lives in Boulder, where she is pursuing a graduate degree in music at the University of Colorado. * Alejandro Salazar is involved in community service by working on a national AIDS vaccine fund-raiser in Alaska in August. * Jennifer Harris Shuford is a resident in internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. * Courtnay Jones Thunstrom is an organic chemist with AC2 Laboratories in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where she lives with her husband, Nils. * Pamela Uihlein is working on her master’s degree in environmental studies at the University of Montana in Missoula. * Beverly Vasquez is pursuing a master’s degree in urban planning and community development at the University of Colorado at Denver. * Julie Wilson and Michael Gottselig were married March 13, 1999. They live in Zurich, Switzerland. Julie is a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

 

’96 Alisa Anderson is a law clerk in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver. * Heidi Estus Balaraman lives in Colorado Springs with her husband, Ravi, and their daughter Sangeeta. Heidi is a stay-at-home mom. * Charlie Blumenstein is a project engineer with Locus Technologies in Menlo Park, Calif. * Carrie Bofenkamp and Tony Damon were married July 31, 1999, in Minneapolis. Alumni in attendance were John Blaschke ’93, Suzanne Gepson, Kate Liro, Dana Menzel, Sabrina Sammons and Kate Stewart. They live in Denver, where Carrie works for Andersen Consulting. * Christina Crumpecker lives in Englewood, Colo., where she is a paramedic student. * Scott Grosscup is a senior research assistant with the Colorado Legislative Council in Denver. * Eric Johansson is an assistant project manager for the International AIDS Society in San Francisco. * Callie Kessinger lives in Raleigh, N.C., where she is a Spanish teacher. * Amy Pedersen is a graduate student at the University of Maryland, where she is studying immunocontraception in white-tailed deer. * Kara Pellouchoud and Andrew Mobley ’94 were married Oct. 2, 1999. * Eric Punkay is in the Ph.D. program in environmental science at the University of California at Berkeley. * Matthew Reinhard and Kathryn Tinker were married May 22, 1999. Matthew is a law clerk in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston. * Joel Schilling is a M.D./Ph.D. student at Washington University in St. Louis, where he lives with his wife, Denise. * Mary Sisson is an elementary school teacher in Portland, Maine. * Liese Stevens and Aaron Gauthier were married in July 1999. Alumni in attendance were Greg Albers, Brady Larson, Sara Morton, Kate Palmer and Amy O’Leary ’97. Liese teaches English at Kingswood High School in Wolfeboro, N.H. * Ashley Struck lives in Denver, where she works for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains as a counselor for homeless and high-risk youth. * Anne Jacobson Suntken MAT teaches fifth grade at Summit Country Day School in Cincinnati. * Jeff Tieman lives in Chicago, where he is a reporter for Modern Healthcare Magazine. * Timothy and Christine Soper Turnbull live in Salt Lake City.

 

’97 Bonnie Algera lives in Alexandria, Va., where she is a copywriter for Burch Munford Direct. She is also pursuing a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. * Matt Atencio is the head coach for the men’s soccer team at Columbia Basin College in Paseo, Wash. * Christopher Erb is a M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. * Jason Foster and Amy Morgan were married Aug. 21, 1999. They are both serving in the Peace Corps on the island of Vanuatu in the South Pacific. * Bethany Boland Garner is an engineer with REZlink.com. * Andrew Grabham is a case manager/clinician at the Juneau Alliance for the Mentally Ill in Juneau, Alaska. * Doria Keesling lives in San Francisco, where she is a licensed midwife. * Shelly Killeen is a development officer for research at CC. * Nicole King and Andrew Coons were married May 1, 1999. * Zachary Love is proprietary owner of Digital Wave in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he lives with his wife, Mollie, and their daughters, Kyllie and Miya. * Sophie Malkasian is an alumni relations officer in the alumni office at CC. * Scott McIndoo teaches high school at the American International School of Krakow, Poland. * Christine McNaul is a graduate student at the University of Denver. * Anne Nichols lives in Denver, where she teaches first grade. * Kaeley O’Leary is a day care supervisor in Port Angeles, Wash. * Tamar Orlansky and Drake Weisert were married June 27, 1999, in Boulder, Colo. They live in Reston, Va., where Tamar is a juvenile probation officer for Loudoun County. * Joseph Sharman is the help desk manager for Information Technology Services at CC. * Keri Tessler teaches for the Ridgewood Public Schools in Ridgewood, N.J. * Truxton Wildes lives in Bolton, Mass., where he is enrolled in an M.B.A. program at Northeastern University.

 

’98 Matthew Casebolt and Turid Nagel were married Aug. 21, 1999. Matthew is pursuing an M.B.A. and a law degree at American University in Washington, D.C. * Theodore Cheng is an associate producer with Youbet.com, Inc., in Los Angeles. * Butler Cox MAT teaches first grade at the American School of Belo Horizonte in Brazil. * Classmates Hannah Duggan and Erin Rollman joined Erik Edborg ’97 and Brian Colonna ’00 as they performed adaptations of eight tales by James Thurber at the Buntport Theater in Colorado Springs in December. * Megan Eggers is a certified massage therapist in Evergreen, Colo., where she also works at the Oriental Herb Company. * Former CC hockey defenseman Calvin Elfring started in the East Coast Hockey League All-Star Game on Jan. 19. He was recalled by the Utah Grizzlies of the International Hockey League. * Todd Florio is a refund specialist with Providence Seattle Medical Center in Seattle, Wash. * Annelise Jacobsen lives in Beer-Sheva, Israel, where she is enrolled in a M.D. program. * Tali Jones reports that she is "dancing, playing and working" in San Francisco. * Scott Keiner lives in Los Angeles, where he is a free-lance assistant director in the film industry. * Erin Knoska is a program associate with El Pomar Foundation in Colorado Springs. * Joshua Messer and Laurel Smith ’99 were married Sept. 18, 1999, in Shove Chapel. They live in Denver, where Joshua is an enrollment specialist with Denver Health. * Erin Morton and John Spiess were married July 24, 1999. * Andrew Mudge premiered his comedy short "Chicken Pox Pal" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in January. The Sundance Channel purchased the short. * K. Brevard Neely is a marketing assistant with Kensington Publishing Corp. in New York. * Kyle Ploessl is a media analyst with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. * Shalini Ramchandani is pursuing an M.B.A. and a master’s degree in health care administration at the University of Denver. * Ryan Reed and Amy Easterly were married in June 1998. They live in Littleton, Colo., where Ryan is a chemist with Geneva Pharmaceuticals. * Ben Reneker is founder and president of REELMIND, an Internet company that provides independent filmmakers, animators and musicians an outlet for their work. * Jessica Riquetti received a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship. She is a graduate student in the biology department at the University of California at Berkeley. * Carli Sumida and Jack Harman were married July 31, 1999. * Rochelle Thompson is assistant to the associate director and the special assistant at the White House in Washington, D.C. * Ethan White is a graduate student in the biology department at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He received a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship that provides tuition, fees and a stipend for three years. * Alicia Wolfe is an AmeriCorps volunteer at the New Mexico Center for Dispute Resolution in Santa Fe.

 

’99 Robyn Anderson is a staff assistant in the alumni office at CC. * Haley Ashton and Miguel Knochel were married June 12, 1999. * Verdel Baskin, all-time leading scorer in CC men’s basketball history, had his jersey officially retired in January. * Yvonne Becker and Brian Merkle were married March 17. * Holly Benner is an intern at the Carter Center in Atlanta. * Laura Dickerson works for Teach for America as a special education teacher in the Mississippi Delta, at Central High School in Helena, Ark. Fellow CC alumni, Bryce Hach ’98 and Shawn Sears ’98 are also teaching in the delta with Teach for America. * Adam Farver and Melissa Morrison were married April 24, 1999, in Kewannee, Ill. Adam is an analyst with Pacific Corporate Group in La Jolla, Calif. * Sarah Kawano is director of international programs at CC. * Allison Meserve is a regional event coordinator at Stand For Children, a children’s advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. * Sumer Ortiz is a paraprofessional in the minority student life office at CC. * Joshua Paddock reports that he is still recuperating from graduation and is working as a full-time nanny for twins in New York City. * Miegan Riddle is a museum store manager at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Boulder, Colo. * Robyn Rissman works in the publishing industry in Albuquerque, where she enjoys exploring the Southwest, eating green chile and mountain biking with Ian Miller. * Brian Swanson made it on to Sports Illustrated’s list of the 50 greatest sports figures of the century from the state of Alaska. Brian signed with the Edmonton Oilers and was assigned to their top minor league farm team in Hamilton, Ontario. He lives there with his wife, Lynn. * Monique Widmer is pursuing a law degree at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.