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August 2012
Half-Baked History
by Chip Bagnall ’07 Bagnall, a history major, combines his two passions, history and comedy, in this satirical history myth/fact book. The 85-page book features a collection of 37 historical events that span a variety of time periods and geographical locations, and are reinterpreted by the author posing as the esteemed Professor Chip Bagnall in ways that are random, witty, and at times, vulgar. ISBN-13: 978-1466335196. Published by CreateSpace, 2011.Read more
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August 2012
Irish Jazz
Recorded by Peter Strickholm ’80 Strickholm and his CC friends were involved with the Celtic music revival of the late 70s during their last two years at CC. Upon returning to his hometown of Bloomington, Ind., which has a strong Irish and traditional music heritage, Strickholm began experimenting with fusing contemporary jazz and traditional Irish tunes with a classical music flair. The result? Recordings which sat for 20 years, until Strickholm had two Irish musicians master the best of the recordings onto a CD produced and published by the Strickholm family. Available through www.peterstrickholm.comRead more
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August 2012
Retiring and New Faculty
CC welcomes four new tenure-track faculty members, two of whom are CC alumni, and says farewell to six faculty members: Bruce Kola, Paul Kuerbis, Victor Nelson-Cisneros, Adrienne Lanier Seward, Yunyu Wang, and Laurel Watkins (not pictured.) See more about the retiring faculty members’ plans and comments. Ryan Bañagale, Assistant Professor of Music Ryan Bañagale ’00 earned his Ph.D. in musicology from Harvard University after receiving an M.A. in music history from the University of Washington and majoring in music and drama at Colorado College. He also taught at CC as a Riley Scholar-in-Residence in the music department in 2011-12. Both his teaching and research focus on the process of constructing historical…Read more
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August 2012
My Name is Not Easy
by Debby Dahl Edwardson ’74 This young adult novel by Edwardson was a finalist for the National Book Award and a Junior Library Guild Selection. Prior to the Molly Hootch Act of 1976, which required Alaska to build and staff high schools in rural villages, children who wished to continue their education traveled to boarding schools in the lower 48 states or more populated parts of Alaska. One such student is Luke, who struggles with the strange culture, food, language, and attitudes at a boarding school hundreds of miles away from his Arctic village. ISBN-13: 978-0761459804. Published by Amazon Children’s Publishing, 2011.Read more
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August 2012
Uselysses
by Noel Black, KRCC online content manager “Uselysses,” which contains five discrete books of poems written over the last four years, is Black’s first full-length book of poetry. Some are poems of experience, others are night raids or open attacks on the reserves of meaning that derive from properly appreciated experience; meanings that are backed on faith so that one can keep having meaningful experiences in the future. As a radical questioner of such faiths, Black subjects his own skepticism to sufficient pressure to line a mine with prodigal kindness or absolute contempt, depending on the company. His poems have appeared widely, but few of the poems in this book…Read more
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August 2012
New Best Friends
by Peter Husak ’87 Based on the author’s 15-year journey bringing OfficeScapes from market impotence to market dominance, “New Best Friends: Playground Strategies for Market Dominance” shows the rules of social life do not differ much from the rules of business life. Husak, the owner of OfficeScapes, says that by applying social rules to business relationships, readers can achieve business success. Most of the systems and stories in the book are from the early years at OfficeScapes, but are still applicable today. ISBN-13: 978-1466436350. Published by CreateSpace, 2011.Read more