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Peak Profile: Millie Olson ’68

Millie Olson ’68 graduated from Colorado College with a bachelor’s degree in English and this thought: “I don’t have any marketable skills.” It was one of the few times she’d be wrong in what would become a stellar, high-profile career. Writing samples and tenacity helped her land a job at Seventeen magazine in New York City, where she was one of three fresh college graduates to answer letters from lovelorn teens. Within a year, Millie decided she needed “a real job.” After getting married and moving to Chicago, Millie found her true calling: advertising. “It’s a rollercoaster ride. You have to be half in love with chaos to be fully…

Issue: April 2014

Peak Profile: Jeff Sauer ’65

Jeff Sauer has spent his life around a hockey rink. His father was a hockey coach, and Jeff stepped onto the ice for the first time when he was 4 years old. He played high school hockey, and was given a scholarship to play hockey at Colorado College in 1962. He went on to coach at CC for 11 seasons, with 166 wins (including a memorable 23-16-0 season in 1974-75). Jeff coached college hockey for more than 30 years, until he retired after the 2001-2002 season from the University of Wisconsin as the fourth-winningest coach in college hockey history. But retirement didn’t mean Jeff stepped away from the ice. He…

Issue: April 2014

Peak Profile: Nancy Stern Bain ’73

Nancy Stern Bain ’73 is the living, dancing embodiment of the enriched life of service that beckons many CC students. A glimpse of her future may have appeared to Dance Instructor Hanya Holm, in whose legendary summer institutes Nancy danced, and to her inspirational professors — Glenn Gray, Jane Cauvel, Harvey Rabbin, Doug Freed, Marianne Stoller, and Norman Cornick — when, as a philosophy major, she produced her thesis, “The Phenomenology of Dance.” The undergraduate from Houston imagined herself as an English major with an interest in teaching, and these passions joined the love of dance in the path that has become her life. Nancy moved smoothly from life at…

Issue: April 2014

Milestones

Weddings and Celebrations 1967 Gary Knight and Keith W. Biolek-Austin, his domestic partner of 19.5 years, Nov. 23, 2013, in New York City. 1986 Katie Soden and Janet Earley, Nov. 16, 2013, in New York City. 2012 Marguerita ten Houten and Joel Swanson, Oct. 19, 2013, in Boulder, Colo. Births and Adoptions 1995 Gretchen Ann Everhart and her husband, Peter Frenchman, twin daughters, Eva Marie and Julia Ann, May 8, 2013, in Lone Tree, Colo. 2003 Patrick Doolan and Hannah Baechler, a son, Atlas Altai Doolan, Dec. 18, 2013, in Homer, Alaska. Raffaello Sacerdoti and Elizabeth Nelson Sacerdoti ’05, a daughter, Annabelle Marie, March 28 in Denver. 2004 Elizabeth Chertoff…

Issue: April 2014

Class Notes: ’00s

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Issue: April 2014

Athletics

Basketball Three Tigers — guard Ryan Milne ’14 and forward Chris Lesnansky ’15 of the men’s team, along with guard Courtney Tyus ’15 of the women’s squad — received all-SCAC recognition. Milne and Lesnansky, who led Colorado College to an overall record of 17-8, earned first-team accolades while Tyus was voted to the women’s third team. Justin Berardino ’16 and Danielle Davis ’16 were honorable-mention selections. Women’s Soccer Joins Mountain West After spending the past two seasons atop Conference USA, the Colorado College women’s soccer team has a new and more challenging mountain to climb. Starting in the fall of 2014, CC will compete as an affiliate member of the…

Issue: April 2014

Class Notes: 90s

1991 Averil Rothrock is senior counsel at Schwabe, Williamson, & Wyatt’s Seattle office. She chairs the Appellate Section of the King County Bar Association and coaches community youth soccer. Jennifer Merritt Swope has co-written a catalog and is consulting curator for “Quilts and Color, the Pilgrim/Roy Collection,” an exhibition of quilts that will be on…

Issue: April 2014

Class Notes: 80s

1980 David Lester was one of 46 attorneys from Ulmer & Berne (Cleveland, Ohio) named to The Best Lawyers in America 2014, one of the most highly regarded referral publications in the legal profession. 1985 Kristin Yanz Stutz has been promoted to assistant regional academic dean at the Amarillo Regional Campus, Texas Tech University School of Medicine. 1986 Kraig Ecton was appointed a county court judge for the 8th Judicial District (Larimer County) in Colorado by Gov. John Hickenlooper; the appointment took effect Dec. 31, 2013. Previously, he worked for the Fort Collins City Attorney’s Office, where he practiced municipal law with an emphasis in police services, municipal court management…

Issue: April 2014

On a Liberal Arts Education

Editor’s note: When his godson was considering college choices, Dan Laukitis wrote to him about how to live well. What began as a kind of love letter to family became a testament to the life of learning and the benefits of a liberal arts education. Having recently become a father himself, Dan finds his own words have added meaning. Dan said, “The lasting impact of CC was not the hours in the classroom or the knowledge accrued, but the spirit and the inspiration; the learning how to learn — removing the ceiling to reveal a sky with no limits.” It is possible to achieve greatness. You are free to cultivate…

Issue: April 2014

CC Furthers Historical Preservation

The Historic Preservation Alliance of Colorado Springs presented Colorado College with its award for Excellence for Historically Compatible New Construction last fall. The award was presented in recognition of the new Cheryl Schlessman Bennett Children’s Center, 909 N. Nevada Ave., with the observation that CC is “no stranger to the preservation of existing buildings” and that the college “showed its sensitivity to neighborhood design and new construction.” In presenting the award, Tim Boddington ’72, an alliance member, said the building “is functional with many nods to Grandma’s bungalow” and fits in well with the neighborhood. The new children’s center, with more than 9,000 square feet, can accommodate 64 children, nearly…