August 2011

Class Notes: 60's

’61 50th Reunion: October 14–16, 2011! Richard “Dick” Rundell is retiring after 35 years of teaching German and film studies at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, most recently as department head of languages and linguistics. ’62 A documentary film by two CC alumni was screened at the Texas Black Film Festival in February [...]

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Class Notes: 50s

Greetings Fifty Year Club Friends! Those of us who have been part of Colorado College for so many years are very attuned to the ebb and flow of events at the college. In recent months, we began another momentous era — expressing a fond and grateful farewell to President Dick Celeste and Jacqueline Lundquist and [...]

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Class Notes: 80's

’80 Ellen Guthrie came in first in the women’s 50+ category in the UCI Masters Mountain Bike World Championships in the south of Brazil in September 2010. In 2009, she rode to the bronze medal at the World Championships in PraLoup, France. This time, she toed the line at 8:30 a.m. for three laps of [...]

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Class Notes: 70s

’70 By day, John L. Campbell is known for his work as an attorney in Cincinnati. At night, he transforms himself into Ledyard Campbell, a songwriter and ‘60s-style entertainer. John was featured in an article on NKT.com, which tells about his life as a performer. He has just released an album of original songs, “It’s [...]

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Class Notes: 10s

'10 One-Year Reunion: October 14–16, 2011! Jody Joyner, a land art artist from Tucson, Ariz., completed a giant nest of hibiscus twigs in Soekershof Private Mazes and Botanical Gardens in Robertson, Western Cape, South Africa. She was inspired by the numerous weaver bird nests in the old stretch of the Klaas Voogda River which runs [...]

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Class Notes: 90s

’90 Mickey Krupa was remembered in an article written in March 2011 by Katie Kerwin McCrimmon ’87 for HealthPolicy Solutions.org. Katie had gone to the Denver Hospice Care Center to learn about end-of-life decisions, and met Mickey there. He had a cancerous tumor in his spinal column and was receiving care for severe pain. “I [...]

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Class Notes: 00's

’00 Tamara Roberts, a professor of music at the University of California-Berkeley, is co-editor of a special edition of the Journal on Popular Music Studies. “Michael Jackson in/as U.S. Popular Culture,” was co-edited by UC-Berkeley professor Brandi Catanese. The issue looks at Jackson’s profound impact on popular culture from many angles, and can be viewed [...]

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