{"id":8712,"date":"2014-08-04T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T22:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=8712"},"modified":"2014-08-04T16:25:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T22:25:21","slug":"alumni-explore-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2014\/08\/alumni-explore-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Explore Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cO<\/span>ne has to admire the human spirit\u2019s will to survive and to do what one needs to do to create a life. Cubans love their country; they just want their lives to be better than the previous generation and their children to have better lives than theirs,\u201d Anita Pariseau, director of alumni relations, said of her experience during CC\u2019s first special block break. On March 30, 32 alumni and friends accompanied Pariseau on the sold-out trip to Cuba led by Associate Professor of Sociology Eric Popkin. Participants traveled for nine days, soaking in history, culture, and Cuban perspectives, and navigated historical context from a social and economic perspective with Popkin\u2019s guidance. Interest in the program was so strong that the college will consider repeating it in the future, and Pariseau is exploring adding six to eight new programs in 2015.<\/p>\n

\"Van <\/a>
Van Skilling \u201955<\/b> and BJ Skilling \u201958<\/b> enjoy a classic car known as a \u201cYank Tank\u201d at a scenic overlook at the Fort of Old Havana. Many cars have their original engines; the rest are outfitted with Japanese replacements. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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A trip to the University of Havana was just one of 24 visits over the course of the nine-day program. <\/div> <\/div>
\"Three <\/a>
Three young farmers work a 17-acre organic farm without benefit of modern farming equipment. After leading a tour of the farm, the farmers prepared a multi-course meal with ingredients grown or raised on the farm in the beautiful Vi\u00f1ales Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Horst <\/a>
Horst Richardson, center, presents a CC Youth men\u2019s Soccer Camp T-shirt to a representative of a community center that the group visited. Judy Reid \u201965<\/b>, Steve Creaghe \u201969<\/b>, Jim Schwanke \u201969<\/b>, and Cuban guide Nilda Fuentes Diaz look on. Richardson is celebrating 50 years with the CC men\u2019s soccer team. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Andy <\/a>
Andy Collins \u201983<\/b>, Mark Durkin \u201983<\/b>, and Tom Howes \u201984<\/b> enjoy an authentic Cuban smoke at a tobacco farm in the rolling hills of the Vi\u00f1ales Valley. The \u201ctrifecta,\u201d as it is known, is Cuban cigars, coffee and rum, sometimes the latter two mixed in an aromatic brew. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cOne has to admire the human spirit\u2019s will to survive and to do what one needs to do to create a life. Cubans love their country; they just want their lives to be better than the previous generation and their children to have better lives than theirs,\u201d Anita Pariseau, director of alumni relations, said of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-8712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-august-2014","tag-features"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8718,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8712\/revisions\/8718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}