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Summer Bluegrass Workshop Offers Exceptional Lineup

CC is bringing several of the “first ladies of bluegrass” to campus this summer for a three-day intensive workshop. Acclaimed bluegrass musicians Sierra Hull, mandolin; Courtney Hartman, guitar; Alison Brown, banjo; Becky Buller, fiddle; and Missy Raines, bass, will be conducting the bluegrass workshop June 25-27, with a focus on instrumental techniques, singing, songwriting, and ensemble performance. Participants must be 18 or older, and the workshop size is limited to 25 students. Information available at kreed@coloradocollege.edu

Issue: Spring 2019

CC Presents Colorado Pledge

CC has launched the Colorado Pledge, an initiative designed to ensure Colorado College is as affordable for students from Colorado as the state’s flagship public institution, the University of Colorado, Boulder. As part of Building on Originality: The Campaign for Colorado College, a $435 million fundraising initiative that includes a $100 million effort to secure funds for financial aid, the college is raising $20 million specifically to support the Colorado Pledge during this campaign. Currently, about 15 percent of CC students are from Colorado. Through the Colorado Pledge, families who earn less than $200,000 with typical assets will not pay more than the cost of attendance at CU-Boulder. The pledge comes…

Issue: Spring 2019

CC Helps Launch Gap Year Research Consortium

CC has been instrumental in the launching of the new Gap Year Research Consortium, a first-of-its-kind consortium bringing together admissions deans and researchers from top colleges and universities to study the outcomes of taking an intentional gap year before college. “As long-time supporters of the gap year movement, we believe that creating a clearinghouse for the research that is going on at colleges and universities around the country is the logical next step in better understanding the positive outcomes that can come from taking a gap year,” says Vice President for Enrollment Mark Hatch. “CC is proud that nearly 10 percent of each incoming class opts to pursue a meaningful gap…

Issue: Spring 2019

Robson Arena Update

At its February meeting, the CC Board of Trustees approved a change to the Campus Master Plan that updates the Robson site plan and provides additional parking for the campus community and visitors. The revised plan situates the arena at the north end of the block near Cache La Poudre and Tejon streets, and provides for a parking garage for 300-350 vehicles south of the arena. In addition to providing a new home for CC’s Division I hockey team, and club and intramural ice sports, the arena will include academic and co-curricular spaces and uses, as well as host national governing body and other community events. This also means the college…

Issue: Spring 2019

Tava Quad Named in Honor of Native Peoples

Armstrong Quad has been named Tava Quad in response to a request from the indigenous and native Peoples at CC. “Tava” means “Sun Mountain,” and is the name used by the Tabegauche Band of the Ute People for Pikes Peak. A group of native faculty and staff began meeting during the Fall of 2017 to discuss…

Issue: Spring 2019

Oprah Winfrey to Deliver Commencement Address

Colorado College will bestow an honorary degree on global media leader, philanthropist, producer, and actress Oprah Winfrey, who is this year’s Commencement speaker. She will deliver the Commencement address at 8:30 a.m., Sunday, May 19, in a ceremony on Tava Quad (formerly known as Armstrong Quad). Ticketed seating will be limited to graduating seniors and…

Issue: Spring 2019

What’s on Your Reading List, Andrea Bruder?

We asked Department Chair and Associate Professor of Mathematics Andrea Bruder What’s on Your Reading List? “‘Power in Numbers: The Rebel Women of Mathematics’ by Talithia Williams features biographies of 30 female mathematicians, spanning 300 years of history. Williams showcases each woman’s accomplishments and tells their stories of overcoming significant obstacles in order to be taken seriously. Highlights include the story of 18th-century French mathematician Sophie Germain whose parents took away her light, clothing, and heat to stop her from doing mathematics (with little success!); Katherine Johnson, a black mathematician who in the early days of NASA calculated the trajectories for America’s first human space flight; and Maryam Mirzakhani, the…

Issue: Spring 2019

Obituaries

’44 Marjory “Marge” Reid Abbott passed away Jan. 4 at age 96. Those who predeceased her include her father, former CC professor W. Lewis Abbott, and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth “Betty” Abbott McKeever ’41. ’45 Charlotte Lewis Skiffington started a career as a medical technologist before marrying an Army officer and living on various military bases in Germany, Japan, and the U.S. She and her husband raised five children. Charlotte died Dec. 5 at age 94. ’47 Richard T. “Doc” Blowers, a Navy veteran, owned five separate optometry practices. Four were still in operation when he died Oct. 21 at his longtime Riverside, California, home. He was 94. ’49 Ellsworth…

Issue: Spring 2019

Births & Adoptions

’99 Katie Jenkins ’99, a daughter, Hannah Jean, March 21, in Bismarck, North Dakota. ’05 Megan Fitzgibbons ’05 and Yusuke Fitzgibbons, a son, Kai Michael, Sept. 25, in Yokohama, Japan. John Lanham ’05 and Eve Ardell Lanham ’06, a daughter, Sienna Claire Lanham, July 10, in San Diego, California. ’07 Jaime Boswell Cammack ’07 and Christopher Cammack, a daughter, Adelaide Elizabeth, Dec. 29, 2017, in Fairfax, Virginia.

Issue: Spring 2019

Weddings & Celebrations

’78 Elizabeth Frank ’78 and Steve Achelis, June 16, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. ’91 Sandy Buffett ’91 and Timothy Perez, Oct. 6, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ’06 Chris Petersen ’06 and Lauren Seno, Sept. 22, in Door County, Wisconsin. ’08 William M. Copp ’08 and Emma Craft, Oct. 20, in Oyster Bay, New York. ’10 Kristin Rider ’10 and Peter Polite Fisco ’10, July 28, in Redcliffe, Colorado. ’11 Eric Atherley ’11 and Jessie Hughes Atherley ’11, Oct. 6, in Portland, Oregon. ’12 Fransiska Dannemann ’12 and Brannon Dugick, Oct. 6, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. ’14 Kendall Bentsen ’14 and Jesse DuMond, Nov. 10, in New York City.