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Posts from the April 2016 issue

CC Receives $8.5 Million for Innovation

Colorado College received an anonymous $8.5 million commitment that will provide support for the further development of its innovation program. The commitment includes $6 million toward a $15 million building for innovation and $2.5 million to permanently endow a professorship in innovation. The commitment, one of the largest gifts in CC’s history, comes after Forbes…

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Alumni in Admission: Staying Connected with CC and Future Generations of Tigers

Alumni are in a special position to help the Admission Office build the next generation of CC students.

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On the Bookshelf

Now and Then Old Worlds Unfurl co-authored by Susan Barney Jones ’76 Jones and co-author Emily Calhoun ask if parallel lives can intersect — then enumerate the ways theirs have: family lives, professional interests, commitment to a public ethic, and love of nature. “We have recognized over the 15 years we have been meeting as…

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Student Perspective

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Jena Hausmann ’93

Jena Hausmann ’93, knew one thing for sure when she graduated from high school: Whatever she did with her life, it had to matter. That mantra eventually propelled her through two decades in healthcare administration and in May 2015, to a top job as president and CEO of Children’s Hospital Colorado, ranked the fifth best…

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Exciting Changes in Office of Alumni Relations

Michael McNamee has joined the Office of Alumni Relations as assistant director of career volunteer initiatives. Linking the Alumni Office to the Career Center, McNamee will be responsible for charting a new course for alumni and parent engagement as it relates to career success for current students. He’ll be working on mentoring, a job shadow…

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A Message From Your Alumni Board

I want to share with you a couple of activities the Alumni Association Board (AAB) has been working on to provide an opportunity for alumni to offer their voices about engagement with CC. Earlier this winter, the AAB’s Engagement Committee partnered with the Alumni Office to prepare and process a large-scale alumni survey. More than…

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Class Notes

1930 The late Frank S. Hoag Jr. has been honored with a bronze statue installed at Pueblo Community College. The installation commemorates his work establishing Southern Colorado Community College in 1933, and then his work helping lead it and other institutions (including CC, where he was a trustee) in the following decades. 1948 Max Morath,…

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Milestones

WEDDINGS & CELEBRATIONS 1961 Annie Hereford Rohrbach and Gary Walker, July 19, 2015, in Newport Beach, California. 1987 Kaaren Bock and Andre Locke, Aug. 15, 2015, in Oakland, California. 1991 Justin Broce and Anthony Poe, July 4, 2015, in Austin, Texas. 1992 Theresa “Terry” de la Garza and Matthew Provencher, March 14, 2015, in Junction…

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‘Just Hanging Out, Baking Pies in Jill’s Kitchen’

The historic “Battle on Blake” between CC and DU in February ended in the “Battle on Bake” – with CC taking the heat and forking over five strawberry-rhubarb pies as the payoff in a friendly wager between the two schools. CC President Jill Tiefenthaler and DU Chancellor Rebecca Chopp took the long-simmering rivalry between the…

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