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CLASS NOTES: 2012 – 2016

2012 Fransiska Dannemann and Brannon Dugick celebrated their marriage in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Oct. 6. They live in Santa Fe and both work at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where Fransiska is a dual graduate research assistant in the Geophysics Group and Ph.D. student in the Geophysics Department at Southern Methodist University. Pictured front row, left to right: Carl Slater ’13, Natalie Nicholls ’13, Fransiska, Sarah Giesse ’13. Second row: Emily Faxon ’13, Colin McCarey ’12, Caleb Birchard ’12. 2014 10 in New York City, with many classmates in attendance. From left to right, front row: Damen Erf, Nathan Hahn, Lauren Traub, Michaela Neville, Kelly Latterman, Lauren Dinsmore, Ellie Nesbit, and Seema Ibrahim. Second row: Eliza Carter,…

Issue: Spring 2019

CLASS NOTES: 1996 – 2011

1996 Kenny Harris has been hired as assistant professor of painting and drawing at Laguna College of Art + Design in Laguna Beach, California. He lives in Venice Beach with his wife, painter Judy Nimtz, and continues to exhibit his art on both coasts. 1999 Jamie Torres ’99 is running for a seat on Denver’s City Council. Her campaign website is jamietorresforcouncil.com. 2006 Chris Petersen married Lauren Seno on Sept. 22 in Door County, Wisconsin. Though living in Chicago in early 2019, the couple hopes to move to Minneapolis later in the year. Chris invites those who are up for cross-country skiing or canoeing the Boundary Waters to get in…

Issue: Spring 2019

CLASS NOTES: 1977 – 1980

1977 David Banks reports that during a very busy Homecoming weekend for the CC rugby family, highlights included one married couple (Caitlin Barbera ’12 and Andrew Larson ’10, above) and one father-son tandem (Mark Osmond ’78 and Alex Osmond ’12) playing as teammates. Patti Freudenburg and her husband, Tony, recently visited Steve Simasko at his mountain cabin in Jewel Lake, Idaho. Patti is retired, while Steve is a professor of integrative physiology and neuroscience at Washington State University. Though Steve and Patti hadn’t seen each other since graduation in 1977, Patti reports that their conversation about philosophy and world politics picked up as naturally as if they had…

Issue: Spring 2019

Creating Bridges of Relevance and Big Ideas

The Big Idea pitch competition provides an opportunity for students to win up to $25,000 for business, nonprofit, or social enterprise innovations. And while the competition is focused on making real startups successful, the overarching objective is learning and building experiences that create bridges of relevance to the careers and activities of students beyond life at Colorado College. Ahead of the 2019 competition, the Big Idea Half Block course taught by Director of Innovation Dez Stone Menendez ’02 and Jake Eichengreen, director of the Quad Innovation Partnership, aimed to help students prepare for the Big Idea competition. Last year, the total prize money was $50,000. This year, half the funding…

Issue: Spring 2019

On the Bookshelf

The Journey Is the Goal By Jack Walker ’62 Walker chronicles his journey from child to man, a journey that started in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley during the Great Depression and took him to Colorado, where for the first 10 years of his life he was raised by his maternal grandparents, with stop-offs with foster parents. His formative years were spent in a home for needy children. He dropped out of high school his sophomore year and took jobs that ranged from the oil fields of Wyoming to the fishing boats of California. Eventually he earned a degree in political science from CC on the GI bill. Walker says a later…

Issue: Spring 2019

Book in Play

Horst Richardson coached men’s soccer at Colorado College for 50 years, with his wife Helen serving as the team’s surrogate mother, game-day chef, and documentarian from almost the very beginning. So it is no surprise that in retirement, they hung in there for more than three years to complete “The History of Men’s Soccer at Colorado College, 1950-2015” (available through horstandhelenbooks.com). Nor is it a surprise that the book reflects an even greater team effort. To gather the most vivid material, Horst connected with nearly 200 former players — representing every Tiger team, including Saad Sahawneh ’51’s original ragtag crew — plus dozens of friends of the program, parents, staff,…

Issue: Spring 2019

Athletics Hires New VP and Director of Athletics Lesley Irvine to Start June 1

Lesley Irvine had a choice to make in 1998. The recent college graduate could stay in her native England and teach or take the less conventional route of moving to Iowa to play field hockey while earning a master’s degree. Choosing the latter set the tone for a series of career moves that led to…

Issue: Spring 2019

Next Steps on CC’s Antiracism Report

Roger Worthington, of the Center for Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education at the University of Maryland, spent all of Block 3 at CC last fall, conducting an external review on racism. He then presented the findings of his initial report to a capacity crowd of students, faculty, and staff in Celeste Theatre in January,…

Issue: Spring 2019

Author Ta-Nehisi Coates Visits CC

An event titled “A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates” was just that, as renowned author Coates (above and below right), participated in a discussion facilitated by Michael Sawyer, assistant professor in race, ethnicity, and migration studies and English, and chair of the Africana Intellectual Project. Coates discussed his experiences in journalism, growing up in Baltimore, and working on Marvel comics “Captain America” and “The Black Panther.” He opened the event, held in late March, by reading an excerpt from his book, “Between the World and Me,” which won the 2015 National Book Award. The Journalism Institute at Colorado College sponsored the event.

Issue: Spring 2019

Activist Shaun King on Campus

Writer and activist Shaun King drew a full house at Shove Memorial Chapel in February with his talk, “Beyond Dialogue: Tools for Reclaiming Truth.” King challenged notions of upward progress in human moral behavior, highlighting contemporary injustices such as police killings of unarmed black Americans and family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border. King also emphasized catastrophes such as the Rwandan Genocide and the Holocaust, making the case that the relative historical proximity to today negates the Darwinian notion that human ethics and behavior always progress as time goes on. He emphasized that for society to exist in a state of peace, people must engage in collective and well-organized action. His…