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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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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Irish Jazz
Recorded by Peter Strickholm ’80 Strickholm and his CC friends were involved with the Celtic music revival of the late 70s during their last two years at CC. Upon returning to his hometown of Bloomington, Ind., which has a strong Irish and traditional music heritage, Strickholm began experimenting with fusing contemporary jazz and traditional Irish [...]
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Class Notes: 40s, 50s, 60s
1944 Carl Christ emailed us the following note: “Dear Friends: Some of my CC friends from the early 1940s may like to know that The Alumni Assn. of Johns Hopkins U (where I taught economics from 1950 to 2005, with an occasional absence) has given me their Heritage Award, given to a few alumni and [...]
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Retiring Faculty
Bruce Kola, Lecturer in Sport Science My 38-year tenure as coordinator of sports medicine and lecturer in sport science has been a very rewarding time, allowing me to teach and to provide medical care for an incredible group of outstanding young people throughout the years. I will miss the opportunity to teach surgical anatomy and [...]
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Half-Baked History
by Chip Bagnall ’07 Bagnall, a history major, combines his two passions, history and comedy, in this satirical history myth/fact book. The 85-page book features a collection of 37 historical events that span a variety of time periods and geographical locations, and are reinterpreted by the author posing as the esteemed Professor Chip Bagnall in [...]
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Class Notes: 70s, 80s
1974 Biff Birkenmayer is celebrating his 21st year in the title insurance industry as a sales representative and continuing education instructor for the Colorado Real Estate Commission. • Gay Witherspoon and her artwork were featured in an article in the Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) newspaper this spring. Gay says she used to draw and paint in [...]
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Ray Werner
This fall’s incoming freshmen may not know who Ray Werner is. They should, because they will certainly feel the effect he had on Colorado College and Colorado Springs during their four years here. So many former students have, on both a professional and personal level. Werner, who turned 90 recently, made his mark at the [...]
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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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