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Class Notes: ’10s

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, he started working on a master’s of science in finance, and is scheduled to complete it this summer. 2012 Andrew Wallace is managing StoryCorps OutLoud, a national initiative to document, preserve and honor stories from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer community. StoryCorps is traveling the country to record conversations and, with the subjects’…

Issue: August 2014

Class Notes: ’00s

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 Edition,” Gordon and Amanda have signed a deal to produce an as-yet unnamed reality series in the fall. Jon Wilson, who lost a leg to cancer in 2006, started the AKP Foundation to help cancer survivors pursue adventure. After chemotherapy, a second surgery, and radiation, he was given a clean bill of health. Just a…

Issue: August 2014

College Press Club

College Press Club doesn’t look like other startup companies. An established market and way of doing business already existed when, shortly after graduation, Alex Kronman ’12 and Ben Quam ’12 founded an online platform to connect advertisers with college newspapers. But the potential for improving how business is done in the $300 million industry is what sold their idea to executives at Boomtown, a Boulder, Colo.-based and mentor-driven accelerator for startups. College Press Club streamlines the process for college newspapers and local and national advertisers so they’re not making 1,000 phone calls to reach 1,000 potential customers. It was one of six companies selected to participate in an inaugural program…

Issue: August 2014

A Message from Your Alumni Board

Dear Fellow Alumni, Building college graduation rates among talented first-generation, low-income, and ethnic minority students is a national challenge. We, as CC alumni, can have a meaningful impact through active involvement with the CC Alumni Association, groups such as CC Alumni and Students of Color Association (CCASCA), and our regional chapters and activities. As our country’s demographics have changed, Colorado College — like virtually all other colleges and universities — has become much more diverse economically and ethnically. For CC and its peers, attracting and graduating a diverse student body is essential to building and retaining academic excellence and to equipping our students to succeed. It is essential to the…

Issue: August 2014

Homecoming Convocation Awards

The following will be honored Oct. 11, during the Homecoming Honors Convocation. The Louis T. Benezet Award recognizes outstanding achievement in one’s chosen field, excellence through unusual success or contribution, innovation or research that has advanced a profession or a cause, and/or extraordinary contributions and achievements that exemplify the values of a liberal arts education. These attributes characterized the late Louis T. Benezet, CC president 1955-63. Recipient: David C. Phillips ’78 When marine mammal conservation dilemmas arise, David responds with innovative solutions. His organization, Earth Island Institute, has taken on 65 national and international conservation projects. David led a decade-long campaign that resulted in the adoption of dolphin-safe tuna fishing…

Issue: August 2014

Milestones

Weddings and Celebrations 2008 Mari Connors married Andy Melby in Allenspark, Colo., on Feb. 22, 2014. Mari teaches special education and Andy is an electrical engineer. The Melbys reside in Denver. Births and Adoptions 1996 John Lawton and Heather Block Lawton ’97 had a son, Peter Francis, March 19, 2014, in Minneapolis, Minn. 2000 Katie Haeck and Raphaël Goyran had a son, Gaël Goyran, Dec. 8, 2013. Katie works at Physicians Anesthesia Service in Seattle. Meghan Rudd Van Alstine and Aron Van Alstine had a son, August Rudd Van Alstine, March 3, 2013, in Ojai, Calif. 2001 Marisa Kind Nulton and her husband, John, had their third daughter, Lucia Kind,…

Issue: August 2014

CC Students Reap Academic Awards

Colorado College students and recent graduates, representing a variety of disciplines and departments, were widely recognized for their academic excellence in 2014. Among them: Benjamin Munyao ’14, a Colorado College economics major from Nairobi, Kenya, received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Munyao’s project, titled “A Walk to Manhood: A Look at the Interplay Among the Society, the Youth, and the Elders,” will take him to Ethiopia, New Zealand, Australia, and Ghana as he explores the rituals in these societies that mark the transition from boys to men. Munyao also won a Projects for Peace award as a sophomore. Alexander Langstaff ’14 received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship scholarship. Langstaff, a…

Issue: August 2014

Letters to the Editor

Kudos for Heckman Thanks for reprinting the N.Y. Times article by CC’s Nobel winner, Jim Heckman ’65. As usual, he is original and eminently practical, and he pinpoints a set of policy options with massive benefits across the board, as an approach to narrowing the income gap in the U.S. Other major changes under discussion must be done, but few are as humane, non-doctrinaire, economical, and constructive as his, in so many ways. Any public school teacher will want to send Heckman a rose. – Larimore Nicholl ’61 In his article that appeared in the April CC Bulletin, James Heckman ’65 presents a compelling case for the long-term benefit of…

Issue: August 2014

Students Venture into the World

A total of $97,789.80 was awarded to 108 students in the 2013-14 Keller Family Venture Grant Program. The 95 projects range geographically from building furniture for CC’s Art Department and Arts & Crafts Program and studying Colorado Springs’ Red Rock Canyon Open Space to exploring tourism in Thailand, organic farms in France, teaching strategies in Brazil, and public health in Kenya. The proposals include such titles as “The Meaning of Disney,” “Sports Medicine in the Ancient World,” “A Case Study of Microbrewery Culture,” and “Impact of Footballing Academies in West Africa on Youth Education.” The topics encompass Dutch jazz, songbirds in the Everglades, the Acinetobacter Baylyi bacterium, golden eagles in…

Issue: August 2014

Faces of Innovation

They come from different eras and have taken divergent paths, but these outstanding and innovative members of the CC community express similar sentiments about what they do and how they maintain their momentum toward changing the world. First and foremost, they all have passion for their life’s work and know that will keep them engaged…