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Jay Engeln '74 Named Director of Alumni/Parent Relations

Jay Engeln ’74, P’03 has been named director of alumni and parent relations, effective July 1. Engeln served on CC’s Alumni Association Board. He and his wife, Priscilla ’73, are members of CC’s 1874 Society, and their daughter, Anna, is a member of the Class of 2003. In 2000, CC awarded Engeln an honorary doctorate, and in 2006 the college inducted him into its Athletics Hall of Fame. Engeln, who graduated with a degree in biology, served during the 1990s as the principal of Colorado Springs’ Palmer High School, where he was widely recognized as having a transformational impact and was named National Secondary School Principal of the Year in…

Issue: August 2010

New Old Shoes

by Charlotte Blessing, CC director of international programs This children’s book, told from the perspective of a pair of old sneakers, was inspired by the secondhand clothing and shoe markets in East Africa, where Blessing lived for 13 years. The story follows the shoes from their first home with a young boy in America to children in Africa. An end-note includes information about making donations to Soles4Souls. ISBN-13: 978-0979203565. Published by Pleasant St. Press; 2009.

Issue: August 2010

Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology

by David Williams ’87 “Stories in Stone: Travels Through Urban Geology” examines how stone is used as a building material in the urban landscape, with each chapter focusing on a different type of rock. Williams traveled to quarries and stone yards; interviewed historians and preservationists about the social history of stone; and accompanied geologists to discover how rocks formed and how that influenced its qualities as a building material. ISBN-13: 978-0802716224. Published by Walker & Company; 2009.

Issue: August 2010

Spiritual Steps on the Road to Success

by Linda Seger ’67 Seger’s 11th book focuses on how to achieve your professional goal without losing your soul. Each chapter features interviews with a number of high-profile Christians from the fields of business and the arts. Seger, a script consultant and international speaker, has written eight books on screenwriting and three on spirituality. ISBN: 978-0825462948. Published by Monarch Books; 2009.

Issue: August 2010

The Wandora Unit

by Jessy Randall, CC curator of special collections, Tutt Library Wanda Lowell and Dora Nussbaum are best friends, co-editors of the school’s literary magazine, and so close that friends call them “The Wandora Unit.” But things shift in their senior year of high school. This is a bittersweet story about the meaning of friendship, the lessons of growing beyond one’s boundaries, and the joy of being part of something that makes us bigger than who we really are. ISBN: 978-0981652580. Published by Ghost Road Press; 2009.

Issue: August 2010

The Guantanamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices

by Eric Stover ’74 The book is based on a two-year study of former prisoners at the U.S. government’s detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Researchers interviewed more than 60 former Guantánamo detainees in nine countries, as well as key officials, military experts, and camp personnel, and the result contributes significantly to the debate surrounding the U.S.’s commitment to international law during war time. ISBN: 978-0520261778. Published by University of California Press; 2009.

Issue: August 2010

Programming the Semantic Web

by Jamie Taylor ’87, Toby Segaran, and Colin Evans In this book Taylor, who started one of the first ISPs in San Francisco so he could get a better connection at home, demonstrates several ways to implement semantic web applications using current and emerging standards and technologies. The book shows that the promise of a semantic web, in which machines can find, share, and combine data, is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality. ISBN: 9780596153816. Published by O’Reilly; 2009.

Issue: August 2010

The Black Book: Select Lines from Grand Teton National Park

by Conor Miller ’05 The premise of “The Black Book” is simple — a collection of high-quality photos of skiing lines in the Grand Teton National Park. Miller’s inspiration for the project was the lack of photos in the Jackson Hole Ski Atlas depicting the national park. The resulting book is an addition to the Teton skiing collection that any skier and/or mountain lover would enjoy. Published on demand. Contact consmiller@gmail.com; 2009

Issue: August 2010

Creating a Safe Place for Courageous Questions in the Liberal Arts Classroom

I am often taken aback by the suggestion that a liberal arts education limits rather than expands the intellectual horizons of students. My non-academic friends often imagine that college professors enlist students in an ideological mission to remake the world. Such assumptions fail to appreciate the great diversity of academic thought and inquiry that students acquire across a well-planned liberal arts curriculum. Simply put, I believe a liberal arts education is the strongest bulwark our society offers against intellectual chauvinism of all varieties. I do not teach at CC to indoctrinate students. My best courses ask difficult questions with no clear or simple answers. Responding to these questions requires intellectual…

Issue: August 2010

Quintessentially CC: Freedom and Authority

They climb the stairs in Palmer Hall eager for the discussion, book in hand. Last year it was “Nickel and Dimed” by Barbara Ehrenreich. This year it will be “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World” by Tracy Kidder. These are students in the truest sense – lifelong learners. They are alumni, parents, and friends who return in droves to CC’s Freedom and Authority class at Homecoming and Parents Weekend. The session is a highlight for many, a nostalgic trip through the classrooms, hallways, and intellectual passageways of a CC education. “This class embodies CC for many alumni. It is CC,”…