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 [...]
August 2012 Issue
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 [...]
Issue: August 2012 (story list)
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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 [...]
Issue: August 2012 (story list)
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Section: Web Extras
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 [...]
Issue: August 2012 (story list)
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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 [...]
Issue: August 2012 (story list)
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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, [...]
Issue: August 2012 (story list)
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Section: Alumni Profiles
Deep Dark Secrets
by Michael Szyliowicz ’85 It’s the subtitle of this alluringly named book that tells the rest of the story: “The Little Known History of the World’s Favorite Confection.” Szyliowicz traces the history of chocolate from its earliest usage in Central America to the introduction of the Hershey kiss in 1907 to its popularity as an [...]
Issue: August 2012 (story list)
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Section: On the Bookshelf
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