Along with many CC alumni and parents, an unexpected guest showed up for Homecoming 2009 in October. This Homecoming’s theme — “Camp Colorado College” — was fitting as the celebration included a bonfire, chilly weather, wildlife, and lots of spirited merrymaking.
November 2009 Issue
Homecoming and Parents Weekend 2009
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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The Bemis Family: A Deep-Rooted Legacy
Colorado College would be a different place were it not for its significant and storied relationship with the Bemis family, whose roots at the college reach from present day back to the late 1800s. Learn more about the history of the Bemises at CC.
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Section: Features
President Celeste Signs Climate Commitment
In the fight to cut greenhouse gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality on college campuses, college presidents are signing the Presidents Climate Commitment. Learn about what CC is doing, as a signatory to the PCC, to become carbon neutral.
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Other Sustainability News
Learn about the great news on the sustainability front at CC, including a special certification for the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center, the aCClimate 14 conservation campaign, a car sharing program, and accolades for CC green efforts.
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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The Anatomy of Grace
by Peter W. Marty ’80 Marty, senior pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa, and host of “Grace Matters,” the radio ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, takes wellworn religious language from another era and refashions it into food for thought for the 21stcentury Christian. The work is a treatise on [...]
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Section: On the Bookshelf
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Born Expatriated
by Sara S. Villarreal Bishop ’00 The book serves as an American expatriate’s primer for being pregnant overseas in an embassy environment and returning to the U.S. for the birth. The author also includes suggestions for raising an American child in a foreign environment. Although written specifically for young families who do a significant amount [...]
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Section: On the Bookshelf
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Ish, Ish, Almost Made a Fish!
by Paul Weathington, illustrated by Steve Shaw ’87 This children’s book explores the use of the “ish” phrase (“Ish helps us guess one’s age … fiftyish like Dad, Ish helps us get it close so no one is too mad!”). Shaw, an Atlanta freelance artist who teaches art at Atlanta’s Schenk School, portrays Ish as [...]
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley
by Darcy Purinton ’86 and Dale Cahill With more than 200 photographs, the book provides a visual tour of the wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. The photos are accompanied by text that provides a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and agricultural perspective, highlighting how Yankee ingenuity [...]
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Blood, Sweat & Fury: An American Expeditionary Manifesto of Poetry
by Andrew Borene ’98 Attorney, Iraq war veteran, and former Minnesota state senate candidate, Borene’s debut collection of poems is derived from his experiences in business, politics, and government. The collection is an edgy and at times haunting look into the mind of a man struggling with addiction and trauma. A portion of the book’s [...]
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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Anticipation: Poems of the River
by Diane Brown Benninghoff ’68 Benninghoff has made nearly a dozen trips, including several organized for Colorado College alumni, down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Most of the 30 poems in this chapbook are the result of the 2008 CC Grand Canyon trip, with CC English Professor and poet Jane Hilberry. Says Hilberry, [...]
Issue: November 2009 (story list)
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