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Awards and Accolades Roll in for CC Students

Colorado College students and recent alumni, representing a variety of disciplines and departments, continue to be widely recognized for their academic achievements. Claire Derry ’19, Fulbright Camilla Fuller ’19, Fulbright Photo by Jennifer Coombes Isaak Belongia ’21, Critical Language Scholarship Photo by Jennifer Coombes Ines Siepmann ’19, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Photo by Jennifer Coombes Lindsey Aronson ’18, Fulbright Harrison Raine ’19, Watson Fellow Photo by Chidera Ikpeamarom ’22 Beka Adair ’16, Fulbright Jeronimo Miranda Castro ’18, Erasmus Mundus Scholarship Photo by Chidera Ikpeamarom ’22 Paulina Ukrainets ’19, Princeton in Asia Photo by Chidera Ikpeamarom ’22 Rishi Ling ’18, Fulbright and Princeton…

Issue: Summer 2019

Four Faculty Members Promoted

The CC Board of Trustees approved the promotion of four associate professors to full professor. They are: William Davis, comparative literature and German. He joined the CC faculty in 1993. Marion Hourdequin, philosophy. She joined the CC faculty in 2006. Mike Taber ’86, M.A.T. ’87, education. He joined the CC faculty in 2006. Tricia Waters, psychology. She joined the CC faculty in 1991.

Issue: Summer 2019

CC Esports Wins First-ever Division III Title

Colorado College has arrived in the world of esports! The CC esports team brought home the first-ever Division III Esports Conference Championship in early April after competing against five other Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference schools at the inaugural SCAC Esports Showdown in Kerrville, Texas. Additionally, esports at CC has added a third team: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which joins Overwatch and League of Legends. Esports also will soon have planned “season” and “off-season” times for each team separately in order to prevent burnout and to align with other sports teams, which all have an off season (it also helps prevent too much demand on the lab).

Issue: Summer 2019

Five New Members Named to Board of Trustees

CC has named five new members to its Board of Trustees. They are charter trustees Heather Carroll ’89, Lisa Hastings ’91, and Lauren Watel ’07, who will serve six-year terms; Kyle Samuel ’92, who will serve a four-year term (two as Alumni Association Council president and two as immediate past president); and Lily Weissgold ’20, who will serve one year as the student trustee. Two trustees whose terms have ended have been elected to life trusteeship. Both Neal Baer ’78 and Adam Press ’84 have served on the Board of Trustees for 12 years and will now become life trustees. Additionally, leaving the board are Eric Mellum ’90, who is…

Issue: Summer 2019

Welcome, Class of 2023!

CC’s Class of 2023 was selected from a record 9,455 applicants — nearly 1,000 more than last year. Here’s a quick first look at the class, with more to come in the Winter issue of the Bulletin. 1,280 accepted to the Fall class 547 committed to the Fall class 13.5% of applicants admitted 43% of admitted students enrolled 15% Pell Grant recipients 9% first-generation students 8% international students 15% from Colorado(OK; really 14.6%!) 27% students of color 71 Bridge Scholars Transfer students: 505 applicants 60 accepted 37 enrolled This year’s Common Read for the incoming class is “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich. The book, which takes place on the…

Issue: Summer 2019

From The Archives

Homecoming Weekend is a time of reconnection. Alumni return to campus and the familiar haunts of their college days. They catch up with old friends and classmates, their favorite professors, and explore the campus anew. In preparation for their return, some alumni dust off photo albums and scrapbooks to jog their memories. Last Homecoming Weekend…

Issue: Summer 2019

A Tribute to Joan Stone

Joan Stone taught poetry for years at Colorado College, both creative writing and modern poetry classes. She had an extraordinary ear for poetry, for nuances of sound and rhythm. And she was an exacting teacher. She would sometimes send her poetry students away on the second day of class because they weren’t reading the poems…

Issue: Summer 2019

Obituaries

’44 John “Jack” Coash, a World War II veteran and geologist, held positions including assistant provost at Bowling Green State University. He later worked with the National Science Foundation in India and Washington, D.C., and served as founding dean of science and dean of the School of the Arts and Sciences at California State University, Bakersfield. He died in Bakersfield on March 21 at age 96. Doris Hebert Wellington passed away March 8 at age 96. ’45 Barbara Dwyer Goss, who served as president of the Fifty Year Club while at CC, worked as a teacher in Denver Public Schools for 30 years. She and her late husband, Leslie A.…

Issue: Summer 2019

Births & Adoptions

’86 Alejandra and David Pollak ’86, a daughter, Colette Evelyn, March 10,  in New York City. ’05 Katie Ries ’05 and Stephen Martin, a daughter, Margaret Webb, Nov. 20, in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Issue: Summer 2019

Weddings & Celebrations

’14 Erin Slay ’14 married Craig Harris Jr., May 31, in Westminster, Colorado. ’12 Elle Emery Shafer ’12 married Max Shafer in Victor, Idaho, on Aug. 4, 2018.