Bulletin

2005 Gordon Beecher (Nitka) is the coach of Team GB Fitness in Scottsdale, Ariz. He has coached power lifters, Olympic lifters, and fitness competitors. Gordon is coaching Amanda Loy, a 4-foot-tall bodybuilder. They traveled to New York City in April for the New York Metropolitan Championships, where she took fourth. After a feature on “Inside…

Colorado College has been designated a Changemaker Campus by Ashoka U, and selected to join a global consortium of leaders in social innovation. The group seeks innovative, transformative, and sustainable solutions to social problems. The 26 members of the consortium, which includes only three liberal arts colleges, are committed to advancing social innovation initiatives on…

2010 Ryan Nichols received his law degree from the University of Denver in May 2013. He is now an associate at the Denver-based law firm of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. His practice focuses on general corporate matters, business entity formation, and restructuring, securities, and mergers and acquisitions. While he was at the University of Denver,…

1990 David Cripe is a new partner in the Denver office of Kutak Rock. David represents a variety of companies and individuals on general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate transactions. His corporate practice includes business formation and structuring, and drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all types of contracts. He received his law degree…

The date was April 1, but there wasn’t a fool to be found in the Edith Kinney Gaylord Cornerstone Arts Center as The Big Idea pitch competition winners for 2014 were announced. What’s The Big Idea? On paper, it’s a program designed to give students a launching pad for creating startups and pursuing funding for…

1980 Patty Pansing Brooks is running for the Nebraska Legislature, District 27 (pattypansingbrooks.com). She lives in Lincoln, Neb., and is an attorney. She received her law degree from the University of Nebraska College of Law. Dave Feamster was profiled in the Pueblo (Colo.) Chieftain’s “Hometown Heroes” series. After playing four seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks,…

It’s right there in the name: InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts. IDEA Space is an art gallery, sure, but it bursts out of that box to deliver enlightenment and inspiration wrapped in texture, color, shape, and line. Jessica Hunter-Larsen ’90 has been the curator since 2006, when she was handed a tabula rasa for the resource in…

1945 Elizabeth M. Warner graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor’s in education and earned a diploma from the Philadelphia School of Occupational Therapy in 1946, but CC remains her favorite college. When she wasn’t working with physically disabled people, she enjoyed performing in civic theater, a love that was fostered at CC.…

In its 12th year, the State of the Rockies Project continues to be a critical resource for keeping the public informed about the conservation issues that matter most in the Rocky Mountain West. Each summer, the program hires several student interns who compile research for the annual State of the Rockies Report Card. Three of…

Healing the Pain of Heartache by Erv Hinds ’63 Subtitled “A Physician Explores the Broken Heart Syndrome,” this book provides medical evidence underlying the intuitive knowledge of heartache. It presents heartache as a legitimate illness that needs to be treated — just as other illnesses involving physical pain are treated. Documented stories and data illustrate…