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Issue: April 2016

Jennifer Zimdahl Galt

 Mongolia is more than 6,000 miles away from Colorado, but Jennifer Zimdahl Galt already feels at home. In May 2015, President Barack Obama nominated her as ambassador to Mongolia and, a few months later, the U.S. Senate confirmed her. In late September, the longtime Foreign Service officer and her family headed to the country wedged…

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Issue: April 2016

Battle on Blake

 CC clashes with rival DU during February’s historic “Battle on Blake” hockey game, played at Coors Field in Denver. Nearly 150 former CC hockey players attended the outdoor match, which marked the 302nd encounter between CC and DU and the first time a collegiate hockey game has been played at Coors Field. Fans, many wearing…

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Issue: April 2016

Survey: CC Becoming a Greater Place to Work

 What makes a great place to work even better? For many at Colorado College, it’s being part of a culture that emphasizes an inclusive community, one that helps each person develop as a professional, and promotes enthusiasm for lifelong learning, flexibility, open-mindedness, and other 21st-century skills — the same skills students develop during their four years at CC. CC’s second campus climate/engagement survey, conducted in October among faculty and staff, assessed the continuing efforts to make the college a great place to work, one of the initiatives of the strategic plan. The goal is to cultivate a climate for employees that is as innovative and dynamic as the CC academic…

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Issue: April 2016

Athletics

 Dilorati Finishes Third in 100 Fly at NCAA Championships Olivia Dilorati ’16 became the third female swimmer in school history to earn All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly at  the 2016 NCAA Division III National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina. Pilorati was also named the 2015-16 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Women’s Swimmer of the Year on March 30. Dilorati posted the program’s best finish ever at the national meet and broke her own school record in the event with a time of 54.83 seconds. She joins Sue Wolfe Smith ’83 and Taylor Jaramillo ’06 on the CC women’s All-America list. After posting the fourth-best time…

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Issue: April 2016

Tigers Crossing Paths

 Albab Seifu ’11,  Ashley Johnson ’06 (holding Prowler), Nick Rogerson ’08, and Cullen Hughes ’94 celebrated the co-incidence of four CC alums living and working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last summer. Johnson, who is pursuing a master’s degree in international development at Georgetown University, was working with the U.S. Agency for International Development and based out of the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa. While there she met up with Seifu, who returned home to work in Addis Ababa after graduating from CC; Rogerson, who runs Betasab Global Family Initiative, serving orphaned and vulnerable children just outside of Addis; and Hughes, a USAID foreign service officer. “It truly is a small…

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