Bulletin

Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends of Colorado College, The Year of Planning has been nothing short of exhilarating! Thanks to the input from students, faculty, trustees, staff, alumni, parents, and local community leaders, Colorado College is well on the way to establishing a bold plan that will guide us for the next decade. In reflecting…

James Alan “Al” Johnson ’56, a well-regarded economics professor and debate coach who brought order to the chaos of registration in the early days of the Block Plan, was honored on April 6, in a memorial service in Shove Chapel. He died Dec. 28, 2012, at age 82 after a brief illness. Johnson is remembered…

This is the last time I will write in the Bulletin as president of the Alumni Association Board. It has been an honor and pleasure to serve. Chris Schluter ’65 will take over on July 1, 2013, and lead AAB in exciting times as CC establishes itself as the premier liberal arts institution for engaged…

Raymond Dean Jones ’67 was a sophomore at Colorado College when he walked in the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches. He came back a changed man. “The first thing that struck me was the violence of the whites toward the blacks,” the Pueblo native said. “I had no idea how deeply people can hate other people.…

Lindsay Patterson ‘06 tells good stories. In 2011, after years of experience writing and editing, the former creative writing major took her love of learning about people and the stories that make them unique and decided to make a career of it. The path between her time at CC and her decision to launch the…

by Lorinda J. Taylor ’61 In The Termite Queen: Volume One: The Speaking of the Dead, the death of a specimen of intelligent giant termite impels a team of scientists to mount a new expedition to the alien planet where the specimen was captured. During the voyage out, Kaitrin Oliva, the linguistic anthropologist, and Griffen…