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Reading Plays

Plays: “The Tempest,” Shakespeare “Copenhagen,” Michael Frayn “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” Adapted by Simon Stephens based on the best-selling novel by Mark Haddon “Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles,” Luis Alfaro “Ludlow,” David Mason ’78 “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Oscar Wilde “House of Blue Leaves,” John Guare “Tartuffe,” Molière…

Issue: Summer 2021 • Tags:

Class of 2021 video: Behind the Scenes 

The video was created as a way to honor the Class of 2021 and acknowledge their unique senior year. It also serves as a documentary on what life was life for students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Bergen Hoff  ’22 had started as a Communications Office video intern during the Spring 2021 Semester. “He loved the idea…

Issue: Summer 2021 • Tags:

Spreading Branches: TREE Semester Grows Environmental Students and Teachers

Colorado College students in the TREE Semester live and take classes at the Catamount Center and apply their lessons to the environmental science curriculum they create and teach.

Issue: Spring 2018 • Tags:

Five awarded tenure

Five Colorado College associate professors were promoted to full professor during the June Board of Trustees meeting. They are: Lori Driscoll, Psychology An alumna of Colorado College, Driscoll earned her B.A. (1994) in psychology, magna cum laude. After completing her dissertation on “The Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure on the Cholinergic Modulation of Attention and…

Issue: Summer 2017 • Tags: ,

What’s on Your Reading List, Gail Murphy-Geiss?

We asked Professor of Sociology, Gail Murphy-Geiss What’s on Your Reading List? When I’m not reading sociology, I love reading for my European Book Group at the Alliance Française in Denver. Because only 3 percent of the American book market comes from translations of works written elsewhere, we read from that small portion, focusing on…

Issue: Summer 2017 • Tags: ,

Peak Profile: Peter Frykholm ’92

Not just any boys’ high school soccer team practices on an artificial turf field at 10,000’ elevation, but if you play for Peter Frykholm ’92 in Leadville, Colorado, you do. Under Frykholm’s leadership, a landmark five-year community project transformed an abandoned zinc smelter into a modern athletic facility. Frykholm devoted countless volunteer hours to everything…

Issue: August 2016 • Tags:

In Memoriam: Jerome McHugh

Jerome “Jerry” Pinckney McHugh, April 5, in Denver. He was 88. A trustee emeritus of the college, Jerry and his wife, Anabel, helped make possible facilities such as the Baca Campus in Crestone, as well as the McHugh Distinguished Chair in American Institutions and Leadership in the Department of Political Science. Jerry was president of…

Issue: August 2016 • Tags:

In Memoriam: Tass Kelso

Sylvia “Tass” Kelso, June 8, at age 63. Tass taught at Colorado College for 29 years, specializing in plant systematics and evolution and rising to professor emerita in the Department of Organismal Biology and Ecology. Tass grew up in New England, and an early fascination with diverse landscapes would be reflected in the arc of…

Issue: August 2016 • Tags:

Milestones

Weddings & Celebrations 2005 Carleton “Corky” Keck and Erin Hopmann, on May 14, 2016, in St. Louis. Births & Adoptions 1992 Andrew Wilkey and Jennifer Jane Fransen Wilkey, a son, Nolan Henry Vincent Wilkey, Oct. 9, 2015, in Minneapolis. 2005 Peter Maiurro and his wife Kate Faricy Maiurro, a daughter, Josephine Hayden, Jan. 13 in…

Issue: August 2016 • Tags:

A Message From Your Alumni Board

Hello Fellow Alumni, Wherever your path after Colorado College may have taken you, I hope this Bulletin finds you doing well and enjoying your summer, or perhaps your winter for those of you down under! I love hearing about what our fellow alumni are up to all over the globe. With Homecoming just around the…

Issue: August 2016 • Tags: