'70
Having grown bored with quasi-retirement, Peter Nichols is practicing water and environmental law with Trout, Witwer & Freeman, P.C., in Denver.

'71
Deb Ayers stopped by the alumni office while attending the Junior Olympics for fencing with her godson. She has taught art in the public schools for 29 years and is currently teaching at John Fuller School in North Conway, N.H. • Michael King, senior project scientist for NASA's Earth Observing System, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Michael is one of only 16 active or retired NASA employees to be elected to the NAE. • Charlie Roudabush proudly reports that his daughters, Claire Anne and Kaitlin Elise, had multiple starring roles in the Rocky Mountain School of the Arts production of "The Nutcracker." Charlie lives in Cody, Wyo.

'72
Bruce Barber is a senior vice president with Wells Fargo Bank in Moraga, Calif. • Melissa Walker is the education director at the Catamount Institute in Colorado Springs.

Class Secretary:
Jesse Sokolow
2 Spaulding Lane
Riverdale, NY 10471-3212
jessokol@webspan.net

'73
Dick Berger lives in Denver, where he is a suicide and crisis hotline counselor. • Michael Nettleton was recognized by Who's Who Among America's Teachers for 2002. In his 30th year of teaching, Michael lives in Denver and also serves on the State World Language Advisory Council. • Kristin Olson lives in Palm Springs, Calif., where she is founder and owner of Urban Yoga Center. • Ann Morrison Smith spent two weeks this past winter in Sydney, Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, where she was an invited speaker on Smith-Magenis Syndrome. She also led a team conducting an SMS research clinic for 18 families while at Camp Breakaway.

• Rick Tharp is a doctoral candidate in theatre and performance studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. He is enjoying "the never-ending excitement" of the Washington, D.C. area with his wife Lauren, son Tommy, and daughter Miranda. Rick's older son, Andy, attends Claremont-McKenna College. • Mac Tiger-Toll and Jessie Schwartz '02 are colleagues at Montclair Elementary School in Denver, where they teach English as a second language to K-5 children from a variety of countries. • Joan Dobrowolski Urbaniak was named executive director of the year by the Community Associations Institute, for her work with the California chapters of the 16,000-member organization. • Pat Donnelly Ziegler and family still live in the backwoods of northeast Florida. She would love to hear from anyone living in or visiting the area.

'74
Jim McDowell, vice president of marketing for BMW of North America, L.L.C., was named one of Automotive News' marketers of the year. • Rudy Melena has been a principal for Jefferson County, Colo., public schools for 11 years. • Frank Moen is vice president for the Joint Operations Division, which provides support to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for the development of Joint Doctrine. Joint Doctrine includes future warfighting concepts, e-learning courses for the conduct of joint operations, and development of gaming software for both the Department of Defense and the commercial sector. • Thomas and Janis Dickey '76 Taylor report that a group dating back to 1970 traveled to Las Vegas, N.M., for the most recent John Connolly dinner. Brad Turk and his wife Leslie played host to 30 classmates from across the country. The three days were spent renewing old friendships and making new ones. "Never underestimate the importance of the friendships you make at CC!"

'76
Jeff Haney is a member of the board of the Martin Luther Home Foundation and attended his first meeting in January, extending a family relationship with MLH that began in 1979. Jeff's parents, Don '33 and Gratia Bell Blackman '34 Haney, helped bring MLH to Colorado Springs more than 23 years ago, and Jeff's brother, Stephen, was one of the first residents in a Martin Luther Homes duplex, back in 1979. • Fred Klashman and his wife Leslie publish metro New York's food service newspaper, TFS-Total Food Service. At age 49, Fred enjoys something he never did while playing for Jeff Sauer's Tiger hockey team... ice time. Fred plays on three teams in suburban New York City. • Marr Leisure is president of Leisure Capital Management in Costa Mesa, Calif. • David Malpass, chief global economist for Bear Stearns, was on campus in April to deliver the H. Chase Stone Memorial Lecture, which was entitled "Economic Debates from Wall Street to Washington."

'77
Sam Dashevsky lives outside Fairbanks, Alaska, with his wife Tako Raynolds and their children, Margi and David. Sam is a senior geologist and manager of Northern Associates, Inc. Besides prospecting for precious and base-metal deposits, Sam enjoys traveling interior Alaskan rivers in the summer and sampling remote hot springs in the winter. • John Grenardo is single and living in Denver. • Doug Obletz received an honorary degree at the college's Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2003 in May. Doug is co-owner and development/project manager at Shiels, Obletz and Johnsen in Portland, Ore. • Ken Salazar received the Anti-Defamation League's Civil Rights Award at a ceremony in December. Ken is Colorado's attorney general.

'78
25th Reunion - Oct. 10-12, 2003!
Patricia Donnelly Cotton and Martin Betzing were married Sept. 14 at the Air Force Academy Community Chapel in Colorado Springs. They live in Colorado Springs, where Pat teaches special education at Doherty High School. • Jo Ann Schneider Farris had a surprise reunion with Jennie Bails Wallace at Ski Cooper near Leadville, Colo. The two ran into each other at the ski rental area and had a wonderful reunion on the slopes. They hadn't seen each other for 25 years and continued catching up at Jennie's home in Buena Vista. • Sam Harper wrote the screenplay for "Just Married," which opened across the country in January. The movie was inspired by Sam's chaotic experiences on his own honeymoon in Italy 15 years ago.

• Howard Lehman and Joe Henning '84 bumped into each other at a Fulbright orientation in Tokyo in October 2002. Howard is spending the year teaching political science at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, and Joe is teaching history at Tohoku University in Sendai. • Jeannette Barnes Lessels won the Pushcart Prize in poetry in 2001. She is an access services librarian at Auburn University in Montgomery, Ala. • Suzie Moore Pearce is executive director of the Friends of the Children's Justice Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. • Carol Stott St. Jean is an associate director of admissions at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo. • Timothy Wilt is a professor of medicine in the Minneapolis VA Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research. He presented his research results at the International Prostate Cancer Symposium held in Vail, Colo., and also was able to spend a couple of days skiing and snow-shoeing with classmates Mike Craine and Joel Stine.

'79
Nanci Hill Feeney lives in Southern California with her husband John and their daughters, Olivia and Blythe. Nanci was honored as a 2002 International World Champion with the San Diego Chorus of the Sweet Adelines. She also appeared as a guest artist with the San Diego Symphony. • Carol Petsonk received an honorary degree at the college's Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2003 in May. Carol presented the keynote address at Opening Convocation. She lives in Washington, D.C., where she is the international counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. • Chris Rich and Darsi Myers were married Jan. 4 in Middleburg, Va. They live in New Delhi, where Chris is a political officer at the U.S. Embassy.