Four faculty members, with more than 150 years of teaching experience at CC among them, retired at the end of the 2014-15 academic year. They are:

Richard Agee, Music:

Agee joined CC in 1982, after receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Courses taught include Music History, Introduction to Counterpoint and Diatonic Harmony, and Beethoven, or ‘Da-Da-Da-DUMMM’. Music will continue to play a major role in his post-retirement life, although with upcoming moves to Denver and Palm Springs, he’ll be selling his Italian-style Renaissance harpsichord (“Anyone interested in purchasing — only $10,000?”) During his tenure at CC he served as Music Department chair, Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society president, and as a Colorado Opera Festival Board of Directors member. Agee’s performances include playing the harpsichord basso continuo part in Bach’s “Suite in b minor” with the CC Chamber Orchestra. He also was the organist for the Chamber Chorus’ performance of the Popora Magnificat and the Collegium Musicum performance of the Charpentier Mass.

Salvatore Bizzarro, Spanish:

Bizzarro, who started at CC in 1968, earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, and his B.A. from Fordham University. In addition to Elementary Spanish, he has taught courses such as Hispanic Literature and Culture and Italian Film from Neorealism to Modern Times in Spain, Italy, Chile, and Mexico. He served as the director of the Mexico Program, director for the ACM Florence Program, and director of the Italian in Italy Program. He has authored articles on the politics of Chile, Mexican politics, and Mexican oil, and edited works on Latin America under Nixon’s second term. He worked as the scholarly consultant for the NPR program on Jorge Amado, and was one of the creators of “Faces, Mirrors, Masks: 20th-Century Latin American Fiction,” an NPR series.

Andrew Dunham, Political Science:

Dunham started his professorial career 38 years ago. He taught at Middlebury College and the University of Chicago before coming to CC in 1980, acting as the Political Science Department chair from 1997 to 2000, and most recently teaching classes in American Politics and Government, and the United States Congress. His dissertation received the William Anderson Award from the American Political Science Association for best dissertation in intergovernmental relations, and he served a Congressional Fellowship in 1983 and 1984. Dunham also has served as a Forest Fellow for the Wilderness Society, health advisor to Sen. Gary Hart, legislative assistant to Sen. Max Baucus, and consultant to the American Political Science Association, Greenwood Press, Vermont HSA, and the Florida Public Health Review Project. These days Dunham’s time is spent traveling — he hiked the Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango in just seven weeks.

Jeff Livesay, Sociology:

After receiving his B.A. magna cum laude in social relations from Harvard University, his M.A. in Sociology from Duke University, and his Ph.D. at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Livesay arrived at CC in 1978. His areas of teaching interest include the nonprofit sector, social movements, and social stratification, including courses in Marxism after Marx and Modernity and Morality. Livesay has many paper presentations, and has served as a manuscript reviewer for Sociological Theory, Sociological Quarterly, and The Social Science Journal. He served as Sociology Department chair and co-chair and on various CC committees and boards, most notably the Colorado College Public Interest Fellowship Program Advisory Board — where he’ll continue post-retirement, at least for a year, expanding the seminar program for yearlong fellows and helping with fundraising.