1962
Four former roommates spent four days in August sightseeing and reminiscing on Lopez Island, northwest of Seattle. Pictured left to right: Janet Fry Rogers (Annapolis, Maryland), Sue Hoyt Aiken (Paso Robles, California), Barbara Lambie Mino (Lopez Island), and Sue Dare Schuchter (Loveland, Colorado).
1966
In what they considered “a Panhellenic gathering at Lake Tahoe,” four friends — all former Ticknor Hall freshmen who joined sororities — reunited for the 2016 Reno Balloon Races and a trip to Emerald Bay. Pictured from left to right: Linda Lennartz Beaven (Delta Gamma); event host Cathy Jones Priest (Kappa Kappa Gamma); Linda Bjelland (Gamma Phi Beta); and Kathy Morris Olney (Kappa Kappa Gamma).
Kari Schoonhoven and Bill Moninger, classmates and fellow Tour Choir singers, were surprised and delighted to run into each other at the Women’s March on Denver in January. Kari had come to town with approximately 40 women from Paonia and the North Fork Valley; Bill had arrived from Boulder with his wife, Bonnie Phipps.
1969
Jane Lubchenco has been awarded the Public Welfare Medal by the National Academy of Sciences. The award, announced on Jan. 30, is the academy’s most prestigious, presented annually to honor individuals who have continued to demonstrate the extraordinary use of science for the public good.
1970
In recognition of her work with the Pueblo Chieftain newspaper and in the community, Jane Rawlings was named to the Pueblo (Colorado) Hall of Fame in December. Later that month, she was promoted from assistant publisher to publisher and president of the paper.
Cal Simmons was honored in November with the Minnesota Golf Association’s Warren J. Rebholz Distinguished Service Award. The award, the MGA’s most prestigious, goes to those who exemplify “the spirit of the game of golf at its highest level and who have made a substantial contribution to the game in Minnesota, or on a national or international level.” Cal, a former MGA president, has helped bring major golf championships to Minnesota and has helped lead various golf-related charitable efforts.
1973
Bill Milliken has been elected a regional vice president of the National Association of Realtors. As director of the Certified Commercial Investment Member Institute, an affiliate of the National Association of Realtors, he has participated in real estate trade missions to Taiwan and Cancun, Mexico. In November, Bill also was elected a trustee for Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
1974
In September, Mike Doubleday, Debbie Freepons Craig ’72, and Dave Craig ’71 completed the Tour du Mont Blanc — a 10-day, 80-plus-mile hike around the highest mountain in the Alps. They, seven others, and a guide started hiking in France, then traveled into Italy and Switzerland before returning to France. Mike reports that trails in the Alps “are very steep.”
Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences and chair of the National Research Council, was selected Nevada Medalist of the Desert Research Institute. It is the highest scientific honor in the state.
1976
Howell “Hal” Howard and his wife, Mary Howard ’78, are living and working in Honduras. Hal serves as a foreign service officer in the U.S. State Department, managing law enforcement programs to reform the police and prosecutor system. Mary works at the U.S. Embassy on human rights issues. Their older daughter, Lucy, is a teacher at the American School in Kuwait, while younger daughter Ellen is working in organic farming in Oregon.
Jane Maier has been appointed secretary of the American Translators Association, the nation’s largest professional organization for translators and interpreters. A resident of Boulder, Colorado, Jane has worked in the translation industry for more than 35 years and works primarily in the areas of international development and health care.
David Banks invites any and all Tigers, even parents and those remotely involved with CC rugby, to attend Homecoming 2017, Oct. 12-15, which will include the 50th anniversary of Colorado College rugby. Among the festivities will be matches by the men’s and women’s teams, the alumni vs. student match, and a gala with a grand procession of CC rugby history. He also invites people interested in helping out to contact him at dbanks@bendbroadband.com. Pictured: the Fall 2016 rugby gathering.
1981
Madeline Murphy ’18 and Nate Sweet ’18 met with U.S. ambassador to Mongolia Jennifer Zimdahl Galt while studying abroad in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Madeline and Nate met with young leaders of Mongolia to join a conversation about the meaning of democracy in America and in Mongolia.
Michael Lincoln ’81 has joined SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, a corporate and investment bank, as managing director and group head to lead its midwest corporate banking coverage team. He had most recently served as co-head of business development at MB Real Estate Services in Chicago.
1986
Marty Wakelyn has run into a number of fellow CC hockey alumni in recent months. Pictured below, left to right: At a charity hockey game in September in Aspen, Ryan Bach ’96 and Marty played goal for the Colorado Avalanche alumni and the Dallas Stars alumni, respectively. Pictured bottom, left to right: Kent Fearns ’95, R.J. Enga ’95, Marty and Mark Olsen ’89 all came out later in September to Blaine, Minnesota, for the NAHL Hockey Showcase. R.J., current CC hockey assistant coach, was scouting future talent; Kent, Mark, and Marty’s sons were playing in the showcase.
1988
Colorado College women’s ice hockey teammates Dorothy Diggs and Katie Clinton ’87 ran into each other while watching a NWHL game in Boston. Dorothy has twice served as the massage therapist at U.S. Women’s Hockey National Team training camps, and credits her intramural hockey experience at CC with getting her “hooked” on hockey.
1991
Katherine Pease ’91 has been named the 2017 recipient of the Livesay Award for Social Change, presented annually to a CC graduate who has made a significant career contribution to the nonprofit sector in Colorado over the years.
Katherine graduated with honors with a degree in sociology and earned a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Colorado, where she also is a lecturer in the School of Public Affairs.
As the principal for the Colorado-based philanthropic advisory group, KP Advisors, she has worked with foundations, investors, and nonprofit organizations for more than 20 years. In addition to working with many emerging leaders in philanthropy and nonprofits as a mentor and teacher, she also has worked with CC’s Public Interest Fellowship Program fellows and graduate students at the University of Colorado, Denver. She regularly speaks about the intersection of impact investing and social equity and has written about the subject extensively.
Between 1995 and 2001, Katherine served as the first executive director of the Gill Foundation, playing a pivotal role in bringing about one of the most significant social changes in Colorado and across the nation — the transformation of the position of and attitudes toward LGBTQ people. Under her leadership, the Gill Foundation staff increased from one to 42 and its budget from $1 million to $18 million.
As principal of KP Advisors since 2001, she has advised a wide range of organizations — from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to the Colorado Association of Funders — about their strategies and organizational infrastructures. Recently she has worked with foundations, nonprofits, and public sector agencies that are committed to developing innovative strategies for financing projects in low-income communities using impact investing, traditional finance, and philanthropy.
The Livesay Award, named in honor of retired Professor of Sociology Jeff Livesay, founder of the Public Interest Fellowship Program, will be presented at the annual PIFP dinner on May 3.
1992
Stephen Pilcher was named Doctor of the Year 2016 by the Illinois Academy of Family Practice. The academy includes 4,700 members; Stephen was recognized for his work running a private family practice and for starting and working in a federally qualified health center for the uninsured and underinsured.
1993
Beth Olsen is racing and coaching ultra-endurance mountain biking in New Mexico and Colorado. Her daughter recently graduated high school and is attending Barnard College in New York City.
Jeff Curry has been appointed to the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas. Jeff is co-owner and director of development for the JL Gray Company, based in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
“For contributions to GPU computing and computer graphics,” David Luebke was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He works as vice president of graphics research at NVIDIA Corporation, where he researches topics in computer graphics and virtual reality.
After almost 20 years of working in health care, and nearly a year after losing Jill Huseby Vannatta, his wife of 18½ years to cancer, Jeremy Vannatta made a career change. Jeremy — father to Peyton, 15, Connor, 13, and Avery, 10 — now runs a startup based in Evanston, Illinois, called Mettle Sports, which aims to place at least 1,000 street soccer pitches across the U.S. in the next three years. He would love to hear from old friends and classmates, and get introduced to their soccer connections via jeremy@mettlesports.com.
1994
Mindy Klowden has accepted a new position as director of national technical assistance with the National Council on Community Behavioral Health. She will provide coaching and consultation to community mental health centers and other providers on integration and transformation, and payment reform. Mindy lives in Denver with her husband and 7½-year-old son, Cody, and is a long term board member with the CC Public Interest Fellowship Program.
1996
SJ Breier, who studied Chinese philosophy and literature at CC, has created a massage therapy business that focuses on traditional Chinese medicine. He also is developing a career as a writer specializing in fantasy, and works as an energy reality ambassador for the Post Carbon Institute — which is directed by Asher Miller. The two of them were roommates and classmates in CC’s creative writing (fiction) program.
1999
Katie Sieben has been appointed by Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton to serve a six-year term on the state’s Public Utilities Commission. Katie served in the state legislature for 14 years before deciding not to run for re-election in 2016.
2000
Mark Sample and his wife, Carmen (both pictured directly behind the red bow) recently restored the oldest building in Arvada, Colorado, and made it into Gallery 1874, a gallery and event venue. Mark is the owner of Samples World Bistro, which specializes in international cuisine and craft beer and has its own catering facility inside the gallery.
2003
Kitren Fischer married Justin Cox at Selby Fleetwood Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Oct. 8. In attendance were a number of the Fischer family Tigers, photographed left to right: Zach Zeidler ’12, Sarah Fischer ’12, Woody Fischer ’00, Justin Cox, Henry Fischer (son of Liz and Woody Fischer), Kitren, Liz Connelly Fischer ’01, Laura Fischer ’06, Dennis Fischer ’73, Judy Thompson Fischer ’73, Will Ritchie ’05, Beatrix Fischer and Grandin Fischer (children of Giselle Restrepo and Mark Fischer), and Mark Fischer ’02.
2004
Danica Lombardozzi is engaged to Jonathan DeCoste, with plans for an August wedding in Black Forest, Colorado. Danica is a project scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
2008
Meaghan Lynch has been named executive director of the 5Point Adventure Film Festival based in Carbondale, Colorado.
2010
On June 25, Jillian Keahey married Tony Weskamp in Washington state. Pictured left to right: Ian McGee ’10, Sarah Albert ’10, Tony and Jillian, Alice Meyung ’10 and wedding officiant Cameron Mansanarez ’10.
Madeline Furst and Alex Weiss ’09 got married on June 18 on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. They had been dating since meeting each other in Tutt Library in 2008. After CC they lived together in New York, Alaska, and China; they now reside in Baltimore, Maryland. Pictured bottom row, left to right: Jody Joyner ’10, Marina Van Stirum ’09, Meriwether Hardie ’09, and Brittin Alfred ’10. Second row, left to right: Angela Eastman ’09, Moriah Cowles ’07, Thea Giovannini-Torelli ’10, Alex and Madeline, Annie Maurer ’10, Chelsea Schmidt ’10, Annie de Mayo ’10, and Evan Huggins ’07. Third row, left to right: Hans Wendel ’09, Jacob Weiss ’09, Matthew Rubin ’11, Megan Rehder ’10, and Julia DeWitt ’10. Not pictured: John Thorp ’09, Arlo Furst ’08, and John Willett ’72.
2013
Over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, Zander Goepfert and six other Tigers trekked to the Emma and Marceline yurts outside Leadville, Colorado. Pictured left to right, top row: Andrew Allison-Godfrey ’17, Zander, Kate Leaf ’13, Charles Allison-Godfrey ’13 and Jesus Loayza ’16. Bottom row: Michiko Mitsunaga Whitten ’13 and Isabelle Febvre ’17.
Cindy Taylor Mooers ’13, MAT ’14 and Elliot Mooers ’13, who met while playing intramural broomball during their junior year, were married on Sept. 10 in Arcadia, Michigan. A number of fellow alumni turned out to help them celebrate. Top row, left to right: Madi Stuart ’13, MAT ’14, Jessica Watkins MAT ’14, Brendan Lamarre ’13, Paul Todd ’13, Nate Wilson ’13, and Hunter Wolfel ’13. Bottom row, left to right: Deb Kennedy ’13, Ellie Brown ’13, Cindy and Elliot, and Tessa Harland ’13. Elliot and Cindy both work as teachers in the Portland, Maine, area.
2014
Taryn Wiens earned recognition in Willamette Week as one of “six female curators [who] might save Portland’s art scene.” She is a co-founder of S/PLI/T, a curatorial project that puts the work of two artists side-by-side in various Portland-area venues. Notably, S/PLI/T’s first exhibition featured fellow alumna Dominique Saks ’14.
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