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<\/a><\/span>Nate Bower: Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry (started at CC in 1977)<\/span><\/h3>\nUltimately (God willing), I\u2019d like to try some of the things I\u2019ve read about but never really got to do: time travel, explore a parallel universe, find intimacy.\u00a0But those may have to stay on the backburner until opportunity knocks.\u00a0Until then I suppose I will try to do the usual catch up on some (okay, a LOT) of my deferred maintenance, throw out a ton of paper, paint some pictures, complete research projects, visit countries I\u2019ve missed, and maybe write a futuristic forensic mystery novel. I hasten to add, however, that I spent my sabbaticals exploring alternative careers. I found I loved teaching more than anything else.\u00a0Thus, the momentum of my personal train is going to be very hard to switch onto a new life track, especially as we all pick up speed on the downhill side (to paraphrase Charles Schulz). I plan to do more writing, some teaching, more tennis, volunteering, and politics. More music, art, and hiking. With great gratitude for 56 years of teaching and scholarship at Colorado College and elsewhere. When Vincent Carroll, former director of the editorial page at The Denver Post<\/i> retired last year, he said \u201cTom and Bob (Loevy) are walking encyclopedias of knowledge concerning state and presidential politics,as well as a pleasure to work with for journalists. They provide very readable copy \u2014 no dense academese \u2014 that includes rich insights and context that gets below the surface of events. I\u2019ll miss handling their columns.\u201d (Cronin and Loevy were frequent co-authors of opinion and perspective pieces.) In addition to spending more time with my family, I plan on continuing my scholarly life, working with my University of Chicago grad friend and often co-author\u00a0Robert Merrill. We\u2019re near completion of our second book, this one titled \u201cMarlowe\u2019s Cat: Raymond Chandler\u2019s \u2018The Long Goodbye\u2019 From Novel to Screenplay to Robert Altman\u2019s Film.\u201d Merrill and I are simultaneously working on a much shorter book on Chandler\u2019s first and best novel, \u201cThe Big Sleep,\u201d and its extraordinary metamorphosis into Howard Hawks\u2019 \u201cThe Big Sleep.\u201d Since our first book on Sam Peckinpah, Merrill and I have been leading a (writer\u2019s) life of crime, with essays on \u201cMystic River\u201d and \u201cDouble Indemnity\u201d preceding the larger Altman and Hawks projects. I\u2019ll be teaching several courses next year on \u201cHemingway, O\u2019Connor, and Carver and the Modern American Short Story,\u201d as well as a half block on Terrence Malick, whose \u201cDays of Heaven\u201d I lectured on this spring for the Film and Media Studies program, as well as the Colorado Springs community. Lastly, I\u2019ll be teaching a course on film history and theory in the second semester. Retiring but still stirring some embers!<\/span><\/p>\n I hesitate to say anything about this because I am not sure \u2014 I have no idea what it will be like to no longer get up and go to class every morning.\u00a0Here are some ideas of what I think I might do:<\/span><\/p>\n And, I plan to stay in Colorado Springs, at least for the foreseeable future.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Colorado College professors \u2013 who between them have more than 165 years of teaching and scholarship \u2014 retired at the end of the 2016-17 academic year. 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\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/b>Tom Cronin: Professor of Political Science (started at CC in 1986, acting president of CC in 1991, president of Whitman College 1993-2005, returned to CC in 2005)<\/span><\/h3>\n
\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/a><\/b>John Simons: Professor of English (started at CC in 1971)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/a><\/b>Fred Tinsley: Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science (started at CC in 1977)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/a><\/b><\/span>Barbara Whitten: Professor <\/span>of Physics (started at CC in 1978)<\/span><\/h3>\n\n