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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…

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,…

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.

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…

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.…

The Alumni Association Board (AAB) Development Committee has the privilege of interviewing outstanding applicants each spring for the AAB Student Leader Scholarship. This loan-reducing scholarship is intended to recognize students for their leadership and service as students while encouraging them to continue their involvement with the college once they are alumni. Again this year, given the continued need for financial aid and one…

If you traveled through Denver International Airport this summer via Terminal A, you might have seen a familiar photo. The image that appears on the April issue of the Bulletin and this year’s State of the Rockies Report Card and poster was on display at DIA from May to July. The cover of the April…

Jay Engeln ’74, P’03 has been named director of alumni and parent relations, effective July 1. Engeln served on CC’s Alumni Association Board. He and his wife, Priscilla ’73, are members of CC’s 1874 Society, and their daughter, Anna, is a member of the Class of 2003. In 2000, CC awarded Engeln an honorary doctorate,…

by Charlotte Blessing, CC director of international programs This children’s book, told from the perspective of a pair of old sneakers, was inspired by the secondhand clothing and shoe markets in East Africa, where Blessing lived for 13 years. The story follows the shoes from their first home with a young boy in America to…