Bulletin

Issue: July 2009

President Celeste's Summer Reading

We were asked what President Dick Celeste was reading this summer for possible inclusion in a national story on college presidents’ summer reading lists. We thought you might be interested as well. He collected a stack of used books at Powell’s Bookstore in Portland, Ore., on his last visit. They include his usual load of mysteries — three novels by Elmore Leonard (“City Primeval,” “The Switch,” and “The Hunted”), James Ellroy’s “Blood on the Moon,” and “Luna,” an old tale by Delacorta.  In addition, he picked up e.e.cummings’ “100 Selected Poems” and David Lynch’s “Catching the Big Fish.” He supplemented those purchases with “Don’t Fill Up On the Antipasto,” a father-son cookbook by Tony…

Issue: July 2009

In Memory of Whitney Hendrickson

The 2009 senior class gift was three trees, presented and planted in memory of Whitney Hendrickson, the daughter of Political Science Professor David Hendrickson ’75 and Clelia Deane deMoraes ’75. Whitney was killed in an accident while home over spring break from her first year at Grinnell College in Iowa. The three weeping Siberian pea shrubs, planted in mid-May, are located north of the Tutt Science Center and the sundial. Members of the senior class raised more than $1,000 for the gift to honor one of their favorite professors.

Issue: July 2009

A Mountain of Trash

Colorado College’s location near the foot of Pikes Peak has always been a source of pride. But during the spring semester, CC students and staff built a different kind of mountain on campus. This one was made of trash. Colorado College participated in RecycleMania, a nationwide competition among colleges and universities aimed at promoting waste reduction on campuses. CC students and staff constructed “Trash Peak,” a 30-cubic-yard mountain of trash at the base of Earle Flagpole, as a visual reminder of the amount of solid waste that CC generates in a single day. Colorado College finished 22nd overall in the RecycleMania competition, placing it in the top 10 percent in…

Issue: July 2009

Colorado College, Obama Administration Connections

Four Colorado College graduates have now been tapped by President Barack Obama to serve in his administration. Lori Garver ’83, a political science and economics major, was nominated in May as the deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Former Colorado senator Ken Salazar ’77 serves as Obama’s secretary of the interior and Jane Lubchenco ’69 as head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (See February 2009 Bulletin.) Garver advised Obama’s presidential campaign and transition team on space issues. She is the president of Capital Space, LLC, and has served as senior advisor for space at the Avascent Group, a strategy and management consulting firm…

Issue: July 2009

Meet Our New Faculty Members

Colorado College has hired six outstanding tenure-track professors this year – all of its first choices. Meet our new faculty members: Marie Davis-Green: Assistant Professor of Drama and Dance Davis-Green spent the past four years as an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado. She earned her M.F.A. in set and costume design from Yale University in 2003 and her B.A. in performing arts from Colorado State University. At the University of Northern Colorado’s department of theatre arts and dance, she served as a theatre design generalist, scene shop coordinator/prop shop supervisor, and, more recently, as the head of the set design program. She was set designer of a Little Theatre…