by Noel Black, KRCC online content manager “Uselysses,” which contains five discrete books of poems written over the last four years, is Black’s first full-length book of poetry. Some are poems of experience, others are night raids or open attacks on the reserves of meaning that derive from properly appreciated experience; meanings that are backed [...]
August 2012 Issue
My Name is Not Easy
by Debby Dahl Edwardson ’74 This young adult novel by Edwardson was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Junior Library Guild Selection. Prior to the Molly Hootch Act of 1976, which required Alaska to build and staff high schools in rural villages, children who wished to continue their education traveled to boarding [...]
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Section: On the Bookshelf
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Class Notes: 00s, 10s
2001 Cynthia Lowen wrote and produced “Bully,” an acclaimed documentary that looks at adolescent cruelty and adult paralysis in the public schools. The film weaves together five stories from different parts of the country, including grieving families of boys who committed suicide. Cynthia’s work has been published in journals including A Public Space, Best New [...]
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Section: TigerWire
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Class Notes: 90s
1990 Todd Prusin, a librarian at Georgia State University in Atlanta, has been promoted to assistant professor. 1991 Brian Joseph is senior director of Asian and World Programs at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C.; he promotes democracy in Asia. • Shan Sethna was selected as one of The Christian Science Monitor’s “People [...]
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Milestones
Weddings and Celebrations 1974 – Biff Birkenmayer and Kimberly Hawkins, Sept. 17, 2011, in an outdoor ceremony at the Ski Tip Lodge of the Keystone Resort in Colorado. 1996 – Jennifer Dennis and Brian Superka, in February in Denver. 2002 – Cally Bartley and John Van Pelt ’04, September, 2011. 2004 – Timothy Moore and [...]
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Section: Milestones
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Peak Profile: Oscar Soule '62
Oscar Soule ’62 found his passion — baseball — while growing up in St. Louis. The retired ecology professor and academic advisor spent his 33-year career helping his students discover theirs after heeding some excellent advice at Colorado College. CC professor Richard Beidleman took aside the “not very good” student after Oscar had received his [...]
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Section: Alumni Profiles
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Peak Profile: Melissa Walker '72
There’s a theme that reappears repeatedly in Melissa Walker’s life: Discovery. Walker, class of ’72, first discovered the Colorado outdoors when she was nine years old and traveled with her siblings to the Cheley Colorado Camps on the border of Rocky Mountain National Park. Melissa grew up in Minden, La. “Its director, Jack A. Cheley, [...]
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Section: Alumni Profiles
Peak Profile: Tania Morosan '06
An afternoon of fun six years ago showed Tania Morosan ’06 a fulfilling way she could give back to her country’s wounded servicemen. In spring 2006, Tigers volleyball head coach Rick Swan and alumnus John Kessel ’74 of USA Volleyball organized a scrimmage between the Tigers and the U.S. Paralympic women’s volleyball national team. The [...]
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Alumni Association News
By Alan Harris ’77, President, Colorado College Alumni Association Board The Alumni Leadership Forum held on the Colorado College campus in April was by all accounts a tremendous success. Current AAB members, CC event ambassadors, and City Champions attended the three-day workshop, which included a Career Services focus group led by Dean Mike Edmonds and [...]
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Section: Announcements
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Retiring and New Faculty
CC welcomes four new tenure-track faculty members, two of whom are CC alumni, and says farewell to six faculty members: Bruce Kola, Paul Kuerbis, Victor Nelson-Cisneros, Adrienne Lanier Seward, Yunyu Wang, and Laurel Watkins (not pictured.) See more about the retiring faculty members’ plans and comments. Ryan Bañagale, Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Bañagale ’00 [...]
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Section: News from Campus
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