Bulletin

Mark Fiore is living his dream. But even in his wildest dreams, he didn’t expect to win a Pulitzer Prize. The 1991 CC graduate made history when, in April 2010, he became the first online-only editorial cartoonist to win journalism’s greatest accolade. His animated cartoons boosted him to a pantheon including Berke Breathed, Jeff MacNelly,…

Betty Sowers Alt is not your typical 70-something grandmother. This one’s got murder on her mind. The 1960 CC graduate, who lives near Pueblo, Colo., with her husband, Bill ’63, is working on her seventh book with Sandra Wells, a former chief investigator with the district attorney’s office in Pueblo. “I’ll write on anything they’ll…

Horses have been a constant in Makendra Silverman’s life. Now, protecting wild horses is her life’s work. Silverman started riding horses when she was six years old and rode throughout her childhood and young adulthood in Ashland, Ore. When she was a first-year student at Colorado College, a friend put her in touch with Ginger…

Thanksgiving of her junior year, Katherine Bell ’08 returned from CC to a flock of chickens in her family’s front yard, a rented chicken scalder, and a mother who needed a hand. “It was the first time I’d ever killed something,” she said. The experience was a turning point for Bell, who had been a…

Doug Pray ’83 has spent most of his professional life exploring worlds unknown to him. A documentary filmmaker, Doug looks through the camera’s eye to delve into American subcultures — long­-haul truck drivers, graffiti artists, hip­hop DJs, and musicians. In his most recent film, “Art & Copy,” which opened last summer, he examines the culture…

It’s been a great summer for Marc Webb ’96. His film “(500) Days of Summer” has been one of the biggest releases of its type (small-budget, debut director) this year. “It’s what’s called a ‘platform release,’ which is a system for distributing small films and relying on word of mouth for marketing. The movie has…

Americans exchange seven billion greeting cards each year. That number would be a lot lower if Henry Doyle ’73 put down his pen. Henry is an Episcopalian priest and chaplain at Shattuck-­St. Mary’s, a prep school in Faribault, Minn. He has worked at the school for 20 years, and for almost that long, he has…

Today, Barbara lives in Flagstaff, Ariz., where she still finds time to teach in retirement. This time around, she’s teaching life lessons. Barbara participates in an all­-volunteer program called Elder Wisdom Circle. Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Elder Wisdom Circle provides free and confidential advice. Elders, who range in age from 60 to…

Mary Mashburn ’83 and her husband, Steve St. Angelo, operate a two-person letterpress paper goods shop in Baltimore, Md. They launched their shop four years ago after they purchased their first press. “Steve and I had taken a letterpress printing class at the Center for Book Arts in New York, and after that I really…

I recently resigned my position on the Colorado College Alumni Association Board (AAB) so I can devote more time to whiskey. Lest anyone suggest I need to allocate my now-available AAB energy to AA, I have an explanation. But, first: As a member of the AAB, I was on a brainstorming team that worked to…