The Christopher Quon Memorial Fund was established in 2009 after Christopher Quon ’09 lost his life at the age of 22. Quon, an economics major at Colorado College from Lake Forest, Ill., had just begun his career as a financial analyst at Duff and Phelps in Chicago when he died unexpectedly from a heart condition. [...]
November 2010 Issue
Christopher Quon ’09 Remembered at CC
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Wait, Wait...It’s the Block Plan
Colorado College’s NPR-member station KRCC brought the popular radio program “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” to Colorado Springs in May. The show, billed as the “oddly informative news quiz,” has an audience of three million listeners and one million podcast subscribers. CC developed a 10-second tagline for the show promoting Colorado College as “challenging students [...]
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Eighty Years Later, Original Shove Dedication Programs Given to CC
On Oct. 17, 1930, eight-year-old Bob Funk ’54 attended the cornerstone dedication at Shove Memorial Chapel. Almost exactly 80 years later, on Sept. 10, 2010, Funk returned to CC and presented the original dedication programs to Chaplain Bruce Coriell.
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Sports Briefs
An Inside, In-Depth Look at Tiger Hockey — On Film Check this out, Colorado College alumni and hockey fans. Here’s a treat you won’t want to miss. Relive your favorite team’s history, as told by those actually responsible for the story, as it never has been seen or heard before. Recently released in DVD format, [...]
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Peak Profile: Kari Thompson ’99
Kari Thompson ’99 knew her chosen career of medicine would serve her well no matter where she went, but it took a trip to Cameroon, Africa, for her to realize just how universal her general surgery skills were. “Becoming a general surgeon is the most translational specialty,” she says. “Appendicitis in Africa is the same [...]
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Class Notes: '20s, '40s and '50s
’28 LaRue Wentz, a niece of the late Ed Jordan, put together a display of his artwork for Patti’s Main Street Coffee House in New Castle, Colo., in April. Ed taught at several universities from 1928-48, including the University of Washington, the University of California-Berkeley, Harvard University, the University of Illinois-Urbana, and Bennington College. In [...]
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Class Notes: '60s
’60 Anne Curtis Flanigan is enjoying retirement. She and her husband John celebrated their 50th anniversary last September. They both sing with the Honolulu Symphony Chorus and the Honolulu Chorale. Their 13-year-old granddaughter visited in July and the couple is planning a trip to China in the spring. • Janice Jilka McElroy retired this year from [...]
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Class Notes: '70s
’71 40th Reunion: October 14–16, 2011! Lynn Morris was awarded a Distinguished Achievement Award by the International Bluegrass Music Association at a ceremony at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville, Tenn. Lynn grew up in the small West Texas community of Lamesa and began performing professionally after graduating with an art degree from CC. She switched [...]
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Class Notes: '80s
’80 Peter Strickholm lives in Bloomington, Ind., where he works part-time with his father on a photographic project, “Southern Indiana Hill Country Throughout the Seasons.” He is also a contemporary classical composer and has been compiling performances onto CDs for professional use in the arts world. ’81 Sue Allon was named Outstanding Woman in Business [...]
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Class Notes: '90s
’90 Keller Kimbrough, associate professor in the department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, returned to the University of Colorado, Boulder, in July, after a sabbatical year in Japan. He spent the year working on his second book, “Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Buddhist Sermon Ballads and Miracle Tales of Seventeenth Century Japan.” ’91 20th Reunion: October 14–16, [...]
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