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25th Reunion, Oct. 7-9, 2005!
Alan Rawn is a freelance teacher at the Experimental College at the University of Washington-Seattle. His seminar-style classes focus on the classics, and his students cover a wide range of demographics. Alan, at the suggestion of some of his students, formed the Northwest Classics Society, which now publishes a journal/newsletter, “The Armchair Classicist,” 10 times a year. • Jo Ann Viola Salazar left her position at the Colorado Bar Association in August and is seeking a new adventure in the work arena, “maybe legal, maybe not.” September’s O Magazine featured the article “She’s Come Undone,” which chronicles the effects of mental and emotional abuse in relationships. Jo Ann made the decision to allow the author to use her story. “The feedback I have received from readers of the magazine has all been positive…I know that I did the right thing in opening my life to others.” • Phoebe Weitz is a buyer, scheduler, and retail salesperson for The Cupboard in Fort Collins, Colo. She’d love to reconnect with old friends.

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Todd Mesnik is chief financial officer for Santa Barbara Auto Group in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he lives with his wife, Ruth.

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Stevens Heckscher and Oksana Forsyuk were married Nov. 13 in Centennial, Colo. Alumni attending the reception were John Atwater, David Hoag, Jim Lewis, and Jeff Mazie. • Doug Johnson has been named managing director for Parson Consulting’s Denver office. • Mark Williams is a partner in the law firm of Cage Williams Abelman & Layden in Denver. The firm was recently named the top medium-sized company (51-150 employees) in the Denver Business Journal’s Best Places to Work survey.

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Arleigh Champ-Gibson is a minister at the White River Presbyterian Church in Auburn, Wash. • Fred Galves is a visiting professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, Calif., for the 2004-05 academic year. He is teaching computer-assisted litigation in the school’s new Julian C. Dixon Courtroom and Advocacy Center. • Laura Hershey is a project administrator of the Systems Change for Real Choices grant for the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing. She lives in Denver with her partner, Robin Stephens. • Hans Krimm, a project scientist with NASA, is working with an experimental telescope called InFOCuS, which gives scientists a fresh look at a well-known pulsar. • Rick May is an orthopedic surgeon in Denver, where he lives with his wife, Kim Warner, and their daughter Kiah. Rick is president-elect of the Colorado Medical Society and president/C.E.O. of Colorado Orthopedic Trauma Services in Denver. • John Thelin lives in Buena Vista, Va., where he is a musician and fund-raising researcher.

From left, Camille Bzdek Schwerin ’84, Laura Luckett ’84, and Catharine Buchanan Reinitz ’86 pose with Prowler, the CC tiger, during Homecoming 2004

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Cooper Cowart is director of OEM marketing for Dot Hill in Longmont, Colo. • Douglas Ebner and Lejla Pasic were married Oct. 9 in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Alumni in attendance were Amy Bliss ’83 and Craig Dehning. Douglas resigned from the Foreign Service after 19 years of diplomatic service. He and Lejla plan to move back to the U.S. in early 2005.

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20th Reunion, Oct. 7-9, 2005!
Jennifer McFarland-Whisman is the associate director of the Autism Training Center at Marshall University in Huntington, W.V.

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Michael Conti recently visited CC as an invited guest of the Film Series to present the Top Ten Films from The Shoot Out 24-Hour Filmmaking Festival. • Gloria Dossett lives in Augusta, Ga., where by day she is the public relations coordinator for the LifeLink Foundation, and by night she is the producing artistic director of the Occasional Theatre Company. Last year she was awarded a Fulbright Memorial Fund Theatre Fellowship and received a National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Career of Merit award. • Grace Cowper Harley is on hiatus from television producing in order to stay at home with her new son, William. She and her husband, Bill, live in Chicago. • Steve Hoppin was a presenter at the Fifth Annual Wine Symposium held in Beaver Creek, Colo., in November. Steve lives in Gypsum, Colo., where he is an account specialist for Southern Wine and Spirits. • Anthony Johnson lives at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he is a commanding officer in the 5th Battalion, 10th Marine Division. • Ken Sims is a geochemist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution based in Woods Hole, Mass. His job includes rappelling into volcanoes to take samples of the exhaust emitted from magma tubes.

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Susan Hyland Brickell is the new assistant to Diane Brown Benninghoff ’68, assistant vice president for advancement at CC. She has passed off her duties as editor of class notes for the Bulletin to Beth Hanrahan ’04, the new staff assistant in the alumni office. Susan frequently sees Phil Apodaca and Alan Davis ’86, when they all drop off their daughters at the CC Children’s Center. Phil is the registrar at CC, and Alan is a network engineer in the ITS department.

Five CC alumni participated in an October fund-raising trip to Costa Rica for the Webb Waring Institute for Cancer, Aging, and Antioxidant Research. They hiked, biked, and rafted 170 miles from the country's Pacific coast across the continental divide to the Atlantic. From left, Buck Blessing ’85, Denise Calkins ’88, Tom Hilb ’60, Anne Hanson ’85, and Gregg Marshall ’69.

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Elizabeth Heninger Chicoine writes articles for The Vail Trail newspaper in Vail, Colo. She focuses on issues important to families. • Last summer, Jonathan and Jenifer Hendee Behrins took their daughters, Alexandra, Abigail, Elizabeth, and Beatrice, on a cross-country trip commemorating the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. They covered 7,200 road miles, made only two fast-food stops and spent time on and off the trail reuniting with numerous CC alumni. “It was a tremendous learning experience for the entire family.” • Scott Holstein and his wife, Kim, own Kim & Scott’s Gourmet Pretzels in Chicago. They appeared on the cover of the Winter 2005 issue of Family Business Magazine. • Kimberly Race is an instructional coach and math teacher at Littleton High School in Littleton, Colo. Last summer, she traveled to Australia with Maryrose Kohan. • Bryan Saunders is a video, film, and special projects producer for Post Modern in Denver. He completed his first marathon in Chicago on Oct. 10. “It wasn’t easy, but a good weekend in the Windy City.” • Liz Stanton is a full-time student pursuing her master’s degree in fine arts at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo.

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Jeanne McFarland-McDonald is the commencement and outreach coordinator in the office of community relations at the University of Colorado-Boulder.