Bulletin

Issue: Summer 2017

Fine Arts Center’s Theatre Nets Five Henry Awards

The theatre at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College received a record 11 Henry Award nominations (more than double the nominations from the previous year) and went on to win a record five awards, tying for first place this year with the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. The Henry Awards are the statewide equivalent of the Tony Awards, and the theatre’s “Man of La Mancha,” which ran May 25-June 18, raked in the awards. They are: Outstanding Sound Design: Benjamin Heston Outstanding Lighting Design: Holly Anne Rawls Outstanding Scenic Design: Christopher L. Sheley Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical: Stephen Day Outstanding Direction of a Musical:…

Issue: Summer 2017

Class of 2021 Reads ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’

Members of CC’s incoming Class of 2021 and transfer students are reading “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine as part of Colorado College’s Common Book Read program. Rankine was on campus in February as the Block 6 First Mondays speaker and delivered the capstone address during New Student Orientation. She is the author of five collections of poetry, two plays, numerous video collaborations, and the editor of several anthologies. “Citizen” recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in 21st-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, while others are intentional offensives. Rankine writes that the cumulative stresses come to…

Issue: Summer 2017

Alex Hernandez-Siegel Joins CC as New Chaplain

Alex Hernandez-Siegel joined CC as the new chaplain and associate dean of students on Aug. 1. Previously he was at Harvard University, where he served as university chaplain since 2012 and advised graduate students in the organismic and evolutional biology Ph.D. program. Additionally, he worked for two years as a community associate director with the Pluralism Project at Harvard. While overseeing student academic progress and diversity recruitment in Harvard’s organismic and evolutional biology program, he also led national efforts to attract underrepresented students to the genomic sciences at the undergraduate and postdoctoral levels. As chaplain at CC, Hernandez-Siegel will provide leadership in the ethical, religious, and spiritual dimensions of community…

Issue: Summer 2017

More CC People Celebrated!

           “Celebrating CC People” is an ongoing feature in which faculty and staff members who have had a significant impact on the college are profiled. Recently added to the ever-expanding series are Laurel McLeod ’69, MAT ’75, former vice president for student life and the last person to hold the title of dean of women, and John Simons, professor emeritus of English. Read about them and others at http://sites.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin/celebrating-cc-people/

Issue: Summer 2017

Forget TED. We’ve Got 
TUTT Talks

Five students presented at CC’s first-ever TUTT Talks, held in April in McHugh Commons. Participants Helena Thatcher ’18, Maggie Mehlman ’19, Stefani Messick ’17, Trevon Newmann ’18 (right), and Barbora Hanzalova ’17 shared how their passions can make an impact, showcasing the ideas, experience, and creativity of CC’s community. Students used performance, spoken-word poetry, and TED Talk-style presentations to share their passions in less than 10 minutes. The event was sponsored by the Tutt Library transition team and the Office of Speech and Debate.