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Issue: August 2016

A Message From Your Alumni Board

 Hello Fellow Alumni, Wherever your path after Colorado College may have taken you, I hope this Bulletin finds you doing well and enjoying your summer, or perhaps your winter for those of you down under! I love hearing about what our fellow alumni are up to all over the globe. With Homecoming just around the corner, I invite you to come back to campus, reconnect with classmates and others, and come 
to the Homecoming Convocation and Alumni Awards Ceremony to meet some of our amazing alumni award recipients and hear how they are blazing new trails in their own unique ways in so many parts of the world. You won’t…

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Issue: August 2016

Alumni Block Breaks Away

 Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu Professor of Organismal Biology and Ecology Jim Ebersole served as faculty leader for a Block Break
 Away for a group of 47 alumni, parents, and friends in March. The trip combined two extraordinary UNESCO World Heritage sites, the Galapagos Islands and Machu Picchu. Teeming with tortoises, sea lions, birds, and fish, the Galapagos is almost a surreal environment in which to see iguanas, crabs, and frigate birds (all pictured above) on full display. The group then flew to Peru to visit Machu Picchu, the legendary “lost city of the Incas,” and Cuzco, the oldest continuously inhabited city of the Western Hemisphere. Photos courtesy Bob Kendig…

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Issue: August 2016

Desperately Needed: More Geriatricians

 Ninety-seven percent of medical students in the United States do not take a single course in geriatric medicine. A tsunami is coming, but not the kind you envision. It has nothing to do with water, but has everything to do with people … especially those who will be approaching retirement age. It will have serious ramifications that few are ready for. The bigger problem? In all likelihood, you have never heard about it. Every day, 10,000 people in the United States turn 65. By 2030, there will be 70 million people over age 65, or one out of five Americans. The good news is 65-year-olds can expect to live at…

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Issue: August 2016

Inside the Box

 By Abe Mamet ’17 In Colorado, incarcerated persons who are isolated in solitary confinement experience, on average, 23 months in a single cell with limited human contact. The Colorado College Prison Project, CC’s prison reform advocacy group, views this as a serious issue. We believe that solitary confinement is inhumane, unnecessary, and counterproductive. To bring…

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Issue: August 2016

Peak Profile: Sharon L. Smith ’67

 When young women graduating from CC go on to graduate studies or careers in the sciences, they owe a great debt to the women who have blazed a trail to the laboratories, to the oceans, and to space. Sharon L. Smith ’67 is among those pioneers. She became fascinated by ocean ecosystems when she was…

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Issue: August 2016

Family & Friends Weekend 2016

 “Family are the people who move and shape and build you but also who ground you. I definitely consider the people who I’ve become really close to in the last four years as members of my family.” 
 — Michelle Cordell ’16 Make plans now to attend Family and Friends Weekend, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Spend…

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Issue: August 2016

Class Notes

 1951 Ron Rubin ’73 sent in the following after learning that Mike Ohl ’51 had passed away: “Mike became a good friend while I worked at the college as a major gifts officer in the Office of Development. Some alumni stay in one’s life long past the time of working with them. Mike was one such character, and we shared banter, jokes, light-hearted discussions, and a common love of CC. Before Spencer Center was renovated in 2013, my office was on the ‘long hallway’ or ‘north  wing’ of the second floor. In the early 1950s this building had served as housing for students. When Mike visited me at my office the first time, he…

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Issue: August 2016

Peak Profile: Fantu Cheru ’75

 “I love this work, the work I do, because it is so messy.” Fantu Cheru ’75 says it with a smile, and then gets into the meat of his speech. And before long, you get a sense of the mess. The venue is a 2013 North-South Institute forum, and in 19 minutes captured on YouTube,…

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