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Issue: Spring 2019

Five Faculty Members Awarded Tenure; Seven to Retire

 Five Faculty Members Awarded Tenure; Seven to Retire Five Colorado College faculty members, including an alumna, were approved by the Board of Trustees for tenure and promotion to associate professor following the board’s annual February meeting. CC President Jill Tiefenthaler, Provost Alan Townsend, and Dean of the Faculty Sandra Wong visited each promoted faculty member,…

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Issue: Spring 2019

Tigers Crossing Paths: CC Connections

 “In reading “Tigers Crossing Paths” in the Bulletin I thought you might be interested in my story. In 2008 I contacted three of my CC schoolmates on the 50th anniversary of our summer in Alaska prospecting for gold (1958). One of the three was able to go to Alaska with me, Maury Hammond ’56, to look at areas favorable for gold mining. I bought two claims and staked other acreage and in 2009 went to Alaska for the summer with crew and equipment; I was the geologist, Maury was the geological engineer. This past November, XII Caesars Gold LLC received the BLM 2017 Hardrock Mineral Small Operator Award, which recognizes…

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Issue: Winter 2018

Block Break Away Programs 2018-19

 Since 2014, 447 alumni, parents, and friends have traveled with the Block Break Away program, 53 as repeat travelers. The hallmark of our program is inclusion of a CC faculty member or an experienced alumnus/na travel guide or provider. March 12-19, 2019 Caribbean: Sailing the Windward Islands on Le Ponant with Associate Professor of Music Ryan Bañagale ’00. (Only three cabins available.)     June 15-25, 2019 Hiking Scotland’s Inner and Outer Hebrides with Professor of Geology Eric Leonard (just three spots available)     July 28-Aug. 3, 2019 Polar Bears and Beluga Whales of Hudson Bay with Associate Professor and Director of Environmental Programs Miro Kummel     Aug.…

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Issue: Winter 2018

Celebrating 50 Years: John Riker

 This year, Colorado College’s John Riker, professor of philosophy, is celebrating 50 years of teaching at the college. A celebration was held at this year’s Homecoming, with Riker giving a talk on his recent scholarship, “Philosophy and Psychoanalysis: Re-vitalizing Contemporary Life,” alongside a celebratory event and reception with Professor of Philosophy Jonathan Lee interviewing Riker,…

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Issue: Winter 2018

Milestones

 Weddings and Celebrations 2005 Retta Bruegger ’05 and Andrew Gingerich, Sept. 23, 2017, in Old Snowmass, Colorado. 2006 Josie Tuttle Munroe ’06 and Matthew Munroe in Maui, Hawaii, October 2017. Kimberly Shephard ’06 and Joseph Kaiser, Sept. 23, 2017, in Denver. 2012 Vita Emery ’12 and Matthew Beaton ’12, June 30, in Columbus, Ohio. 2016 Abby Mietchen ’16 and Luke Allen, March 31, in Salt Lake City. Births and Adoptions 1999 Amber Dodson ’99 and Alex Webb ’99, a daughter, Naomi Alexandra, on April 17 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Obituaries 1938 Edward “Ed” Joseph Pelz was a Rhodes scholar who had his formal education cut short by World War II. After…

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Issue: Winter 2018

A Message From Your Alumni Council

 Greetings, CC, Shockingly, another year has almost gone by. The holidays are right around the corner, the new CC academic year is in the not-too-distant rear view, and this all means that some of us also returned from Homecoming Weekend on campus! As we turn our attention forward to year’s end, I am excited to…

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Issue: Winter 2018

Class Notes

 1969 Nicki Steel had her photo essay, “The Life of Loons on Lake Raponda,” published in the September/October 2018 issue of Vermont Magazine. When not shooting photographs, Nicki is serving as chair of Wilmington, Vermont’s Old Home Week for 2020, a once-every-10-year celebration dating back to 1890. 1970 Nancy Guild, a longtime professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, recently had a $10,000 biology undergraduate annual scholarship endowment set up in her honor by former student Alex Meininger. A group of Tigers assembled to celebrate Bill Jenkins’ 70th birthday on Aug. 4 in Leavenworth, Washington. Seated, from left: Alice Klauzer, Karen…

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