Alumni Magazine Fall 2018

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE: COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S OLDEST PLAYER

AN ASTRONAUT FLIES HEIRLOOM HIMSELF TO CLASS RACING TO SAVE THE HOW TO TACKLE APPLE TREES OF WORKPLACE BIAS BOULDER COUNTY

THE LIONFISH KING NOWJUNE 2018 In June, CU art and art history professor George Rivera curated an exhibition of 117 works of art in a museum just outside of the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ), including 23 works by CU Boulder students. All are diptychs — art in two panels — reflecting the standoff between North and South Korea. The exhibition, which runs through Dec. 22, is the first to display American art in the DMZ Museum. Pictured here is “Between You and Me” by Sandy Lane (Art’95; MFA’98).

1Paintings FALL 2018 by Sandy Coloradan Lane Coloradan FALL 2018 2 FEATURES EDITOR’S NOTE

CU Boulder people 15 The Oldest Apples in Boulder produce interesting CU ecologists are tracking down the surviving stuff. New stuff. Fun trees of the Front Range’s all but vanished apple stuff. Mind-bending orchards — and priming a renewal. stuff. Atomic clocks. Storm-chasing drones. Gloves that turn table- 19 What Happened to the Teachers? tops into pianos. Colorado’s teacher shortage persists. Can The university is also CU Boulder help? a repository for arrest- ing old stuff. A Glenn Miller (A&S ex’26; Hon- 21 Brainy Buffs DocHum’84) gold record. Year after year, two of CU Boulder’s most successful Apple computers from sports teams also perform best in the classroom. How 1978. NASA spacesuits. does that happen? Dinosaur bones. The university’s Heritage Center and 25 The Lionfish King libraries preserve and Ken Ayers Jr. (MTeleComm’87) takes on an display a seemingly invasive fish. inexhaustible supply of treasures, including the actual diploma of CU’s 27 We’re All Chameleons Now first graduate (Henry CU Boulder professor Laura Devendorf’s high- Drumm, Class of 1882). tech fashion experiments could change the way An especially poignant we express ourselves. example appears on pages 13 and 14: The CU football that astronaut El- 33 Unlearning Pain lison Onizuka (Aero’69; Can chronic pain patients think themselves into MS’69; HonDocSci’03) wellness? An unprecedented brain imaging study brought with him aboard seeks to find out. the Space Shuttle Chal- James Stefanou lenger in 1986. (Jour’21), the We’re developing a former Australian 37 Long-Distance Commuter new Coloradan fea- soccer pro who’s Jim Voss (MAero’74; HonPhD’00) has been ture called “Artifact.” If now CU Boulder’s to space five times. He can handle the you have an evocative star placekicker. Houston-to-Boulder commute. memento related to CU Photo by Glenn Boulder that you’d like Asakawa. to share with your fellow alumni, send word to [email protected]. COVER CU researchers are trying to preserve Boulder’s apple tree legacy before it vanishes Eric Gershon forever. Illustration courtesy U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

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1 NOW 7 Campus News 13 ORIGINS Ellison’s Ball 45 CU Around 55 Class Notes Art in Korea 8 BOULDER BEAT 31 INFOGRAPHIC 47 President’s Column 61 Letters 5 INQUIRY Paul Danish Pac-12 Cities Stefanie Johnson 49 Sports 65 THEN 1978 CONTACT ERIC GERSHON AT 11 LOOK Inscriptions 43 Alumni News [email protected]

3 FALL 2018 Coloradan Coloradan FALL 2018 4 INQUIRY STEFANIE JOHNSON

WORKPLACE BIAS very likeable. That’s what I found in my are women in the S&P 500. It’s going to the pool: If you interview one woman or one Stefanie Johnson, an associate professor of study — women have to be both likeable take purposeful effort to change the way minority, they’re never going to be hired. management in CU’s Leeds School of Busi- and effective in order to be successful. If things are. You shouldn’t bother interviewing just one ness, studies unconscious bias in leadership. people don’t like you, you’re never going woman or minority. You might as well do Here she discusses strategies for mitigating to make it to the top. Is there a way to combat bias when zero or include at least two. bias, her White House appearance and a joint hiring? project with her biologist husband. What classes are you teaching? I advocate for blinding, which is taking Your husband, Pieter Johnson, also I teach “Critical Leadership Skills” and a names off résumés. If you do that, works at CU Boulder, as a biology How did the subject of bias first class called “Women in Business.” you’re more likely to have more women professor. Talk about the project you draw your interest? and minorities appear in your hiring worked on together. In my Ph.D. program, I wanted to study a How do students respond when they pool. I recommend setting targets for We published a paper on the toxoplasma mainstream business topic, leadership. learn about unconscious bias? diversity and measuring your progress. gondii parasite and its relation to entre- One of my first studies showed gender My students for the most part are open If you’re not benchmarking against what preneurship. Toxoplasma is the cat para- bias. I found some things that predicted to hearing about bias; they just don’t the best companies are doing, you’re site that causes mice to act riskier if they leadership success for men predicted the want to believe it’s true. In fact, when you falling behind. get it. Humans carry it — 20 percent of the opposite for women. I wanted to figure tell women and minorities there is bias U.S. population — but people don’t often out what was causing this difference. against them, it actually hurts their self- What advice do you give minorities study the effects on humans. We collect- I found the demands for a successful esteem. It’s worse to admit you’re being seeking leadership positions? ed data from 2,000 students and found woman leader are greater than for a man. discriminated against because of your Following on Sheryl Sandberg’s advice, business students were significantly more A woman has to demonstrate all the race or gender, because you can never you have to apply. No one is going to likely to have toxoplasma, particularly same levels of confidence, strength and change that. But after the #MeToo move- force you to do it, and women and minori- entrepreneurship students. Then we went assertiveness as a man while simultane- ment, people’s consciousness is raised. ties only tend to apply if they think they to entrepreneur events and swabbed their ously maintaining her feminine gender Clearly there’s not equality if sexual ha- have 100 percent of the qualifications. saliva along with others who were in the role. So, she still has to be sensitive, rassment is so rampant in organizations. You just have to put yourself out there. same place but weren’t entrepreneurs. caring and empathetic. The entrepreneurs were significantly more How does unconscious bias affect You spoke in the White House in likely to have toxoplasma. We’ve decided Who’s an example of a female lead- our leadership in a workplace? 2016 at a diversity summit. What was that toxoplasma makes you more likely to er who deals with criticisms? Our leaders still look a lot like proto- that like? be an entrepreneur! Hillary Clinton. People say she’s too mas- type leaders. Ninety percent of Fortune It was awesome. People were there primar- culine with her pantsuits, for example. 500 CEOs are white men. There’s more ily from Fortune 500 companies. One of the Interview by Christie Sounart (Jour’12). Hillary is super smart, but she’s just not CEOs named John and David than there things I talked about is the idea of two in Condensed and edited.

5 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 6 BOULDER BEAT By Paul Danish

ALEX AND ED heart, regaling his political sociology After you met them, you never forgot class with Sol Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. them. Alex liked Alinsky not just because In 1962, with the Cold War at its peak, he was a radical, but because he thought CU professors Alex Garber and Edward Alinsky’s rules gave radicals an alterna- Rozek were poles defining the ends of tive to violent revolution, which was the the political spectrum at CU: Garber the communist approach. brilliant and char- FALL 2018 ismatic socialist News sociologist, Rozek the equally brilliant and charismatic How the Sunflower Got That Way conservative politi- cal scientist. CU RESEARCHERS DIG DEEP INTO THE BELOVED FLOWER’S Most folks on EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY campus assumed they came from Humans and sunflowers go way back. While humans have had a heavy opposite ends of American Indians first domesticated hand in the sunflower’s transformation the earth. the plant — prized for its seeds, oil and through selection and breeding, for Temperamen- beauty — around 3,000 B.C. example, interbreeding with other wild tally, Alex was old Over the next 5,000 years, the species has also shaped the domesticated left, Ed was old common sunflower,Helianthus annu- plant we know today, according to Smith world. us, evolved dramatically and rapidly, and colleagues, including CU professor But they had a resulting in the cheer-inducing plant Nolan Kane. lot in common. we know today, with its Both put single large head, broad A 5,000-YEAR JOURNEY TO teaching above yellow flowers, large seeds publishing and rich in high-quality oil and THE FLOWER WE KNOW. were passion- (unfortunately) weaker ately devoted to drought tolerance. In recent work with sunflowers, the students. Both had worshipful student My most vivid memory of Ed was “Evolutionarily speaking, that’s very scientists focused on a common genetic followings. And both were ferocious his blistering introduction of Senator fast,” said Chris Smith (PhDEPO- process called alternative splicing, which anti-communist intellectuals. Barry Goldwater in a packed Mackey Bio’20), a graduate student in CU’s allows a single gene to direct production They might argue about the merits of Auditorium. It was a furious attack on ecology and evolutionary biology depart- of multiple proteins. This efficiency democratic socialism versus capitalism, Goldwater’s campus critics, including ment who’s been teasing out fine details can lead to observable variations. They but on the fundamental evil of commu- the Colorado Daily and YPSL, which had of the sunflower’s genetic journey. found that domesticated sunflowers had nism they agreed. been stirring up anti-Goldwater feeling in developed several new forms of splicing Alex, a life-long democratic socialist, advance of the speech. His remarks com- distinct from those of wildflowers and, was the faculty sponsor of the Young pletely upstaged Goldwater, fomenting in some cases, from the earliest domes- People’s Socialist League (YPSL), the day’s an uproar that lasted all semester. ticated sunflowers. most active left-wing student organization. Alex moved on to California State Ultimately, the scientists were able to Back then, the American socialist party University at Sacramento in 1964. He pinpoint where alternative splic- considered communists their enemy. Alex died in 1984 at age 72. ing had introduced certain might have been the fiercest anti-commu- I didn’t have much interaction with characteristics of the nist on the faculty — except for Ed. Ed during the ’60s — I was a fiery modern-day sun- Ed was Polish. Two months before his Democrat back then and thought of flower. 21st birthday, in 1939, Germany and the him kinda like Darth Vader. But toward They hope Soviet Union invaded Poland. Ed escaped the end of his life we connected. He their work to England, joined the Free Polish Army, called one day to say he liked one of with sunflow- and spent the next six years fighting Na- my columns. We had a nice chat, then ers will help zis. He was wounded three times, almost met for lunch, which turned into a long them decipher blinded and earned a chestful of medals. discussion of politics, world affairs and the evolutionary After the war, he came to the U.S. CU. One lunch led to another, and I mechanics of other with $50 and a suitcase full of books. He developed a great respect and affection life forms — and not just worked his way through Harvard, from for him. Ed died in 2009 at age 90. I plants. Smith’s got his eye on B.A. to Ph.D. He joined the CU faculty still miss him. the barn swallow next. in 1956 and stayed 43 years. My fondest memory of Alex is of Paul Danish (Hist’65) is a Coloradan By Amanda Clark (MJour’19) three weeks he spent, with a song in his columnist.

7 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by @iStock/ineskoleva (petals); @iStock/rojoimages (sunflower) Photo by @iStock/zoom-zoom Coloradan FALL 2018 8 Campus News

Not All That Glitters Is (Merely) Gold GOOD NEWS FOR EARLY RISERS DIGITS Early risers may be less prone to depression, according TUSCAN VERNACULAR SOMETIMES IT’S ALSO A NOBEL PRIZE MEDAL to one of the largest studies yet to explore the link between sleep-wake preference and mood disorders. Researchers at CU Boulder and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston looked at sleep-wake preferences and depression rates for 32,000 female nurses and found that early birds Year Charles Klauder, were 12 to 27 percent less likely 1917 who developed CU Boul- to develop depression. der’s “Tuscan vernacu- So: Stop staying up late lar” architectural style, to watch Netflix. Doctor’s first visited campus orders. For details of the study, visit CU Boulder Today online and search “early risers.”

© iStock/benimage. Photo courtesy Casey Fiesler (Barbie) HEARD AROUND CAMPUS “LOVE THEM, COMFORT CU buildings designed THEM, CALM THEM DOWN, 15 MAKE THEM FEEL SAFE AND SECURE AND LET Here, the face of a Nobel Prize medal. Jan Hall gave his to the campus Heritage Center. THEM KNOW YOU CARE FOR THEM.” Number built The Nobel Prize confers on winners later this year, Heritage Center director — CU emeritus professor Marc Beckoff, author of great prestige and a measure of celeb- Allyson Smith said. Canine Confidential: Why Dogs Do What They Do, on 14 rity. It also comes with a 175-gram gold Hall, a laser expert and member of helping pets through grief, in the Huffington Post. medal. John “Jan” Hall’s will soon be on CU Boulder’s physics community since display at CU Boulder. the early 1960s, won the prize for his First (Hellems) One of four scientists to share the contributions to laser-based precision 1921 2005 prize in physics, Hall and his wife, spectroscopy; basically, using light to BARBIE’S GOT BRAINS Lindy, have donated his gold presenta- make extremely precise measurements Casey Fiesler is taking down ste- tion medal and Nobel diploma to the of various natural phenomena. reotypes — one Barbie at a time. campus Heritage Center, an archive and “There can never be enough time or The CU assistant professor of museum about CU Boulder. opportunity to speak individually with information science won notice 1947Last (McKenna Lan- guages, after Klauder’s in 2014 after critiquing Mattel’s Five CU scholars have won the Nobel young people starting their advanced death) Prize: Four in physics, one in chemistry. educations so it is hoped that visual Barbie for its representation of Hall, now 84, is the first to turn his over contact with such memorabilia will women in technology. The company to the university. The museum previ- inspire and motivate them to succeed responded with a job offer. ously received CU chemist Tom Cech’s at high levels and realize their goals and Fiesler contributed to Mat- original Nobel diploma and a replica of ambitions,” said Hall. tel's new book Code Camp with his medal. CU Boulder’s five Nobel laureates are Barbie and Friends, which With the Halls’ donation in hand, the among fewer than 900 individuals to have teaches children to code Heritage Center, located in Old Main, won the prize since its 1901 establishment. and encourages girls is planning a Nobel Prize gallery for The medal, made of 18-carat recycled and women to pursue showcasing the medal and highlighting gold, depicts prize founder Alfred Nobel, careers in STEM. The CU Boulder’s other laureates: Cech, Carl a Swedish chemist and engineer known book was recently Wieman, Eric Cornell and David Wine- for inventing dynamite, and, of course, released along with land. The exhibition also will recognize for the prize in his name. a new doll, Robot- New edition of Body & CU affiliates involved with Nobel Peace ics Engineer Soul, book about CU Prize efforts. Work is expected to begin By Christie Sounart (Jour’12) Barbie. Boulder’s architecture 9 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by Peter van Evert / Alamy Stock Photo 1Coloradan FALL 2018 10 LOOK INSCRIPTIONS

BEHOLD! We often see without noticing, especially when we’ve crossed paths with a thing a thousand times or we’re running late or we're preoccupied with the future. And there’s a lot to take in at CU Boulder. Wisdom itself blares across quads from building faces. It calls out to us from the bushes, down to us from entryways, up to us from walkways. We noticed these inscriptions and artworks around campus — six among scores. If your favorite isn’t shown here, let us know. We’ll track it down for future publication. Write [email protected].

11 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photos by Amanda Clark Coloradan FALL 2018 12 ORIGINS ELLISON’S BALL

MEMENTO Seventy-three seconds later, a cata- These items and some others were NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, On the third floor of Old Main, encased strophic explosion tore Challenger apart, returned to Onizuka’s widow, Lorna, and whose son was attending Clear Lake, in glass in an exhibition hall chronicling a heart-rending event seared into memory their girls, Janelle and Darien. ferried it to the International Space CU Boulder’s distinguished history in for millions of Americans. The orbiter fell The family presented the soccer ball to Station. space, there’s a football with “Colorado” nine miles into the Atlantic Ocean. The the high school, in Houston, and the flag “This ball was on Challenger that fate- pressed into the pigskin. seven-member crew perished. to Hawaii’s governor. The football they ful day,” he tweeted, with a photograph At 11:38 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, that Among the wreckage recovered from gave to CU Boulder. It was an early and of the ball floating in the space station’s ball rocketed away from Cape Canaveral the sea was the CU football, a soccer ball enduringly poignant gift to the campus windowed cupola. “Flown by Ellison aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, signed by the players of the Clear Lake Heritage Center, still new in 1986. Onizuka for his daughter, a soccer player stowed among the belongings of NASA (Texas) High School girls soccer team, Not long ago, the soccer ball com- @Clear_LakeHS. #NASARemembers.” astronaut Ellison Onizuka (Aero’69; including Onizuka’s elder daughter, and a pleted its journey to space. In 2016, MS’69; HonDocSci’03). Hawaiian flag. (Onizuka was from Hawaii.) 30 years after the Challenger disaster, By Eric Gershon

13 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 14 4. Gano 2. Wealthy

1. Rome 3. McMahon

8. Delicious 6. Gano

7. Northern Spy 5. Arkansas Black The Oldest APPLES in Boulder 9. Crab

CU ECOLOGISTS ARE TRACKING DOWN THE SURVIVING TREES OF THE FRONT RANGE’S ALL BUT VANISHED APPLE ORCHARDS — AND PRIMING A RENEWAL. 11. Northwestern Greening

By Trent Knoss 10. Jonathan

Illustrations courtesy U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library. AGRICULTURE

On a high mesa overlooking Eldorado Today, a few hundred old apple trees secret spots. Last spring, Suding and her Canyon, an elderly apple tree stands alone. remain in Boulder County, having long colleagues created a free smartphone app Its trunk is weathered, its branches bowed, outlived their original caretakers. But for community members to submit tree but it is nevertheless resplendent with many won’t survive much longer. info instantly. white springtime blooms. The tree is a Enter CU ecology professor Katharine Back at the greenhouse on CU’s East hardy survivor, a witness to more than a Suding. Campus, Suding and her students extract century of Boulder history. She usually studies mountain eco- DNA samples from the old trees in order And now, near the end of its life, CU re- systems (and leads the university’s to classify and compare them against a searchers are trying to preserve its genetic long-running Niwot Ridge alpine plant database of known varieties. So far, around legacy before it vanishes forever. research project). But she was curious half of the samples have returned match- Apple trees are a largely overlooked el- about the origins of the apple trees near es. The other half may have no living equal ement of Colorado’s agricultural heritage. her own Boulder County home and felt anywhere in the world. In the late 1800s, pioneers brought seed- strongly that the trees represented natural These yet-to-be-identified trees are like- 1. Rome lings from afar, planting orchards across and cultural history worth preserving. ly to be heirloom varieties worth reviving, the state that yielded either for ecological study or for commer- “I’m thrilled that they’re out there varieties like the Maiden cial apple cultivation. doing this,” Johnson said. “They have a lot Blush, the Winesap and ALL THESE TREES HAVE But apple trees have notoriously fickle of hands, they’ve mapped scores of trees the Yellow Transparent. STORIES TO TELL. genes: A tree grown from seed alone will already and they have really made a dent.” Near the turn of the 20th not necessarily resemble its parent, making The Boulder Apple Tree Project century, Colorado was one of the top ap- Despite an estimated 7,500 types it difficult to conserve desired charac- has the potential to answer important ple-growing states in the nation, regularly of apples worldwide and 2,500 in the teristics through traditional planting. scientific and agricultural questions. exporting thousands of bushels by rail. An United States alone, Americans’ apple Grafting, an age-old horticultural art that The CU team also views it as an ongoing abundance of heirloom apple varieties, consumption is dominated by just 15 joins two plants together as one, could educational outreach effort, offering each with its own local quirks and flavors, common varieties, such as Red Deli- offer the solution. On greenhouse tables undergraduates the rare opportunity to offered Americans hundreds of unique cious, Golden Delicious and Granny strewn with dirt and tape and pruning participate in research efforts during varieties for eating, canning, baking and Smith. The selection at the grocery shears, Suding and team carefully attach their first years in college. making hard cider. store barely scratches the surface of wood from the old trees to a healthy root The simplicity of the project’s aim By the 1920s, however, the newly what once was — and again could be. system. Then they place the combined — saving lost apples — could serve as a invented Red Delicious gained popularity “This effort could uncover rare and stems into pots to be nurtured over several crucial entry point to ecology for talented and Washington State emerged as the uncommon varieties that have been lost to growing seasons. students, said ecology professor Lisa Cor- country’s new apple-growing hub. The time,” she said. “They probably represent Each successful graft will yield the ge- win, a co-leader of the apple study: “Not all commercial apple market shrank, with a lot of diversity in our apple cultivars that netic heir of a tree planted over a century students believe research is for them, but growers turning their focus to only the we don’t have anywhere else today.” ago, paving the way for these forgotten if we can just get them out there, they may most profitable varieties. Thus was born the Boulder Apple Tree varieties to thrive again. find that they love it.” Project. The first order of business was Suding isn’t the only person interested For now, Boulder’s next generation finding more of these historic trees. in a Front Range apple revival. In 2015, of heirloom apple trees grows in a quiet Like old-fashioned sleuths, Suding and Eric Johnson (Edu’92) and Brant Clark corner of a CU greenhouse. The young, her students fanned out across Boulder to co-founded the Widespread Malus project, healthy stems, each about a foot tall, find and catalogue them. They consulted an orchard in east Boulder that plants and bear little resemblance to their gnarled maps and journals, cross-referenced farm- manages grafted apple tree varieties from forebears. Eventually, when the freshly- ing logs and scrutinized photos from the near and far. grafted trees are strong enough, Suding Norlin Library archives. Students hiked “On one hand, we’re preserving old will plant them outdoors as a kind of trails and canvassed neighborhoods block trees and repropagating them because “living laboratory” that will offer agricul- by block, an effort still underway. we know they work here,” Johnson said, tural teaching resources for students and Whenever the apple hunters locate “and on the other, we’re gathering genes community members alike. a tree (and obtain landowner permis- from wild apples because those are the The revived apples might even pop sion), they mark its GPS coordinates tools that are going to make the apples up at local farmers markets someday, and collect leaf and branch samples. The of the future.” though they’re unlikely to disrupt the group has identified over 200 specimens Other citizen-led initiatives, such as the commercial dominance of the Red Deli- so far, including in the Chautauqua area, Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project, cious or the Granny Smith anytime soon. the Mapleton neighborhood and one have in recent years compiled information Still, they’ll offer Coloradans a taste of 3. McMahon at the historic Doudy-DeBacker-Dunn about Colorado’s major fruit-growing the agricultural diversity that once exist- home near the South Mesa trailhead — regions. But the Front Range has remained ed in their own backyard. An unlucky run of crop-killing late possibly one of the first apple trees ever largely uncatalogued until now. “The research is relevant and it’s tan- spring frosts and disease outbreaks further planted in Boulder. The success of such an effort, Johnson gible,” Suding said. “All these trees have sapped apple enthusiasm along the Front Along the way, the scientists have says, will be built on the hard work of stories to tell about the history of this Range. The orchards dotting Boulder’s benefited from the wisdom of the phone calls, door knocks and one-on-one place and the environment where we live.” fields, hills and now-historic neighbor- crowd. Boulder residents eagerly chime community interactions like the ones hoods faded into the landscape. in, reaching out with clues and tips and Suding’s team prioritizes. Comment? Email [email protected]. Illustrations courtesy U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor 17 FALL 2018 Coloradan Collection. Rare and Special Collections, National Agricultural Library. Coloradan FALL 2018 18 EDUCATION

What Happened to the TEACHERS?

COLORADO’S TEACHER SHORTAGE PERSISTS. CAN CU BOULDER HELP?

By Christie Sounart

Stephanie Mares (EBio’17) was in demand. By the time the 22-year-old left CU Boulder in May with a biology degree and teaching certificate, she had seven job offers in a single Colorado school for culturally and linguistically diverse teacher shortage,” Schultz said. “One Now you’re a counselor, a liaison be- district, St. Vrain Valley, in her home- personnel, said the CDHE. way is through recruitment of new tween family and community, a language town of Longmont. “People have told me there are schools teachers. The other is through the reten- specialist and a bureaucrat.” Had she kept looking, she’d likely have that haven’t had an 11th grade math teach- tion of teachers who are already there.” In rural areas especially, where had more offers still, given her science er for a couple of years,” said Schultz. To cultivate future teachers, the uni- schools often face a distinct shortage of training and English-Spanish bilingual- Low pay is the biggest problem, versity is promoting teaching careers to infrastructure, technology and financial ism. Colorado is struggling with a serious though: The CDHE found that 95 middle and high schoolers through class- resources, Barnes said, teachers often teacher shortage. percent of rural school districts’ teacher room visits, internships and college-level leave by their fifth year in the job. “There’s a shortage in all of Colora- salaries are below the cost of living. credit for some high school courses. A Last spring’s national teacher walk- do except for the Front Range,” said “In some districts teachers make new CU bachelor’s degree in elementary outs and protests — including April’s Katherine Schultz, dean of CU Boulder’s about $30,000 a year,” said Schultz. “It’s education equips graduates with skills march by thousands of teachers on School of Education. difficult to take a job in an area that pays for teaching diverse populations and Colorado's state capitol — have height- There are shortages in many states, es- so little money, especially if you still have emerging bilingual learners. ened awareness of teachers’ economic pecially for special education, math and student loans.” Current teachers play a role in inspiring circumstances. science teachers, attrib- the next generation. Mares’ high school CU’s education school is meanwhile utable to a combination history teacher, Chris Barnes (Hist’06; bolstering the skills of current teachers. of low salaries, demo- THE AVERAGE STARTING MEdu’10), persuaded her to consider CU It’s developing an online dual master’s graphic shifts, inadequate Boulder for a teaching degree. program in bilingual education and training, and the rising TEACHER SALARY IN COLO- “He really pushed me, and he took me special education, for instance. cost of college education on my first campus tour,” said Mares, This fall, Mares is prepared to start and teaching licenses and RADO IS ABOUT $33,000. who received, and could not have at- her own career as a physics teacher at other factors, according to tended without, significant scholarships. Longmont’s Skyline High School. But a 2017 Colorado Department of Higher Statewide, the average starting teacher “This one teacher changed my life. I she hasn’t ruled out a future position in Education (CDHE) report. salary in Colorado was $32,980 in 2017, thought, ‘I can do this for other kids.’” a rural school. The shortage became apparent in according to the National Education Barnes, now in his 13th year of teach- “I would prefer a school that is strug- Colorado in 2010, and is most severe in Association. Adjusted for cost of living, ing, saw potential in Mares’ work ethic gling a little bit because I think it’s where rural areas — partly because of their typ- teacher pay in Colorado ranks 44th in the and interest in learning. I can make the most impact,” she said. ical distance from colleges that prepare nation, National Public Radio reported. “The job of teacher is getting harder teachers, the need for teachers to handle CU Boulder is stepping in. and harder,” he said. “Teaching used to Contact Christie Sounart (Jour’12) at multiple subjects and a greater need “There are two ways to address a be just the dissemination of knowledge. [email protected].

19 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by @iStock/studiocasper; @Getty Images/Matt Hoover Photo Coloradan FALL 2018 20 BRAINY Buffs

YEAR AFTER YEAR, TWO OF CU BOULDER’S MOST SUCCESSFUL SPORTS TEAMS ALSO PERFORM BEST IN THE CLASSROOM. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN?

By Eric Gershon

Petra Hyncicova had been in the Unit- ed States two days when she dropped by the mighty CU ski team’s headquarters for the first time. It was August 2014, and the future Olympian had come to CU Boulder with two aims — studying science and racing for an elite ski team. At home in the Czech Republic, there was really no way to do both. Universities there generally don’t blend serious academics and serious sports. Hyncicova (IntPhys, MS’18), a Nordic, or cross-country, skier, was about to give up racing for school when she learned of another possibility. An acquaintance connected her with CU ski coach Richard Rokos, a fellow Czech, and she soon found herself on the path to a new future. In Boulder, Hyncicova had barely set foot inside the ski team offices when she saw that the vaunted scholar-athlete was no mere catchphrase: Noted beneath photographs of CU’s many NCAA championship teams were their GPAs. “When they come, they see,” said Rokos, who has a degree in engineering and calls knowledge “my passion.” CU’s women skiers in particular have a two-part reputation to uphold, Hyncicova found: They’re perennially among Ameri- ca’s best collegiate racers and also among the top performing CU Boulder athletes in the classroom. For five years running, they’ve earned the highest team GPA among spring athletes, 3.5 most recently. Their fall-sport rival is CU’s women’s cross-country squad, which won the Pac- 12 title last season. The runners also have

21 FALL 2018 Coloradan Illustration by Sean McCabe BRAINS AND BRAWN BRAINY BUFFS

earned highest team GPA honors five but does not factor in actual GPAs — Hurta prioritizes years in a row, 3.4 last semester. APR offers a basis for comparisons. running and school work How does this happen? How is it that For the four-year period through the nearly to the exclusion two of CU Boulder’s most successful 2016-17 school year, women’s ski teams of all else, including intercollegiate athletics teams also ranked second nationally, tied with social life outside the consistently do best in the classroom? swimming and ice hockey and just behind team, she said. Saarel gymnastics, the NCAA reported. Wom- said he generally tried THE THEORIES en’s cross-country teams ranked fifth, tied to get ample rest, but If there’s no definitive answer, the ath- with rowing and tennis. pulled all-nighters — letes and coaches all have theories. In more than 25 years at CU, once between 12- and Some emphasize CU Boulder’s cross-country head coach Mark 14-mile runs — when ability to offer both elite-level skiing Wetmore has mentored hundreds of necessary. and running and premier science and runners, leading the women’s and men’s (Runners are generally engineering programs — a draw for high teams to a slew of national titles. He “We keep our practices businesslike, so they’re out the door.” fastidious about diet and school athletes with a scientific bent. attributes their academic prowess over- sleep. “The requirements Others cite cultural and demographic whelmingly to the type of person drawn “I either do things as hard as I can, or of [race day] preclude a lot of howling at factors, including women’s superior ac- to a grueling, glamour-free sport. I don’t do them at all,” said Ben Saarel the moon,” Wetmore said.) ademic achievement on average, skiers’ Most cross-country runners also run (EngrPhys’18) of men’s cross-country, Competitiveness drove Hyncicova, the and runners’ strong performance across distance events in spring track, which which last spring had the highest GPA skier said; team culture inspired her. the NCAA and their often-privileged means they’re in season 10 months a among CU men’s teams. Her experience at the 2018 Winter backgrounds — white and middle class. year, running 10 or more miles daily. Saarel, an engineering physics ma- Olympics underscored culture’s role. Still others stress team culture and “It’s rarely playful,” Wetmore said. jor whose roommates nicknamed him On CU road trips, she found Rokos a healthy peer pressure. “Nobody says, ‘Let’s go to the park and “Bengineering,” is a two-time Pac-12 versatile conversationalist with an infec- have a 10,000-meter race.’” scholar-athlete of the year. He graduated tious sense of curiosity. The skiers stayed The students who pursue collegiate with a cumulative 3.97 GPA and the CU together in small quarters. After skiing, YOU DON’T WANT distance running usually arrive on record for 1,500 meters. eating and napping, she said, it would get TO DISAPPOINT campus imbued with determination, To the extent Wetmore and Burroughs quiet and they’d hit the books. self-discipline, focus and tolerance for help runners in the classroom, they said, But at the Olympics, where Hyncicova THE TEAM. pain, he said. it’s through flexible scheduling and by was one of the only athletes with obliga- Combined with intense competitiveness sending a convincing message that they tions other than skiing, keeping up with Everyone interviewed for this story un- and, often, intellectual ambition, these value intellectual ambition. They routinely school was a challenge. derscored the nature of the sports, which traits serve them well in the classroom. schedule make-up practices for runners “It’s really tempting to focus on ski- depend on a series of exacting solo perfor- “I’ve always felt this need — ‘I have with conflicting academic obligations, and ing,” she said. mances for team success, and the driven, to be the best at it,’” said Sage Hur- they design efficient training programs. CU's skiers are further motivated by self-reliant personalities they attract. ta (ChemBioEngr’20), an emerging “We keep our practices businesslike, the awareness that there’s almost no “These are not normal college stu- women’s cross-country star and chemical so they’re out the door,” Wetmore said. chance they’ll become professional rac- dents,” said cross-country associate head engineering major from upstate New Similar traits are at play among the ers, given how few there are worldwide. coach Heather Burroughs (Bio’99), a York who recently earned a 4.0 GPA, skiers, especially Nordic racers like “Everybody knows they will have to go past CU All-American. along with at least four other runners. Hyncicova. And like the cross-country and make a living,” said Rokos. Hyncicova, who would become a Hurta recalls feeling this way all her life, coaches, Rokos attributes the skiers’ two-time CU ski captain while pursu- even about middle-school badminton. academic success mainly to the natures ing a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree, “It would really bother me that I of the sport and the athletes, plus a team I EITHER DO THINGS said she wasn’t about to blow her team’s wasn’t good at it,” she said. culture steeped in learning. AS HARD AS I CAN brainy reputation. All NCAA Division 1 athletes are “As long as you provide opportunity for “You want to do the same and not competitive, and it’s especially true this climate,” he said, “it’s self-fulfilling.” OR NOT AT ALL. disappoint the team,” she said in June, of endurance athletes. The structure while wrapping up her master’s thesis of cross-country competition further TECHNIQUE Hyncicova, now back in Europe, will and preparing to join the Czech national intensifies it: Only seven of the team’s Like all student athletes, the runners and devote the next two years to skiing full- ski team. 20 runners compete in most meets, so skiers ration their time. time and proving what she’s capable of they’re perpetually competing against Hurta and Saarel live by the same when focused solely on racing. Sooner or BUT HOW? teammates as well as opponents. maxim, which Saarel put this way: “If later, she’ll move on, likely to a career in The academic strength of CU’s women At the meets, the team’s fate depends you’re not ahead, you’re behind.” physical therapy, she said. skiers and runners makes sense: Across on each runner’s solo performance: There Both said they keep a close eye on She’ll have a head start, thanks to the the NCAA, both groups do well. are no time outs and no substitutions. due dates for assignments, exams and four years she devoted to twin dreams: The athletic association measures “You are on your own when the gun projects, and avoid procrastination. Earning two CU Boulder degrees while classroom performance by a metric goes off,” Burroughs said. This allows them psychological space to skiing her way into the Olympics. called academic progress rate (APR). This reinforces the athletes’ innate focus on running come race day. They “I would do it again,” she said. While imperfect — it emphasizes eligi- determination, self-reliance and sense also communicate early and often with bility to play and persistence in school, of personal responsibility. professors about their travel schedules. Contact Eric Gershon at [email protected].

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After retiring from the Air Force in 1995, he moved to Hawaii, where he learned to scuba dive. When he moved back to Florida in 2013, he started to spearfish. “I was looking for a way to help our environment and dive too,” he said. “Spearfishing became a perfect fit.” That year, Ayers shot 95 lionfish off the coast of Panama City in Florida, where he lives. “After that, I was hooked,” he said. On one of Ayers’ first lionfish hunts, he got distracted by all the colorful fish and lost track of how much oxygen was in his tank. “Before I knew it, I was down to less than 100 [cubic feet] in my tank,” he said. “You should end your dive at 500 so you can make a safe ascent and do a safety stop.” If a diver collects too many fish in one dive, they can be buoyed to the surface by the dead fishes’ expanding swim blad- ders. Ken learned this the hard way, after collecting 55 lionfish and finding himself rocketed upwards. Invasive lionfish are found along the southeast coast of the U.S., the Carib- bean and in parts of the Gulf of Mexico. They infest coral reefs and feed on more Conservation Commission. This year’s than 50 species of fish and crustaceans. Lionfish Challenge started May 19 with Since lionfish have no natural predators the fourth annual Lionfish Removal and in Atlantic waters and reproduce abun- Awareness Day and runs until Sept. 3. dantly, they can upend the food chain by This time, Ayers is shooting to catch eliminating native plants and animals and 1,500 lionfish. monopolizing limited resources. An aquarium staple, the lionfish is The lionfish boom has serious impli- famous for its colorful vertical stripes, cations for marine ecosystems, and the 18 venomous spines and feathery fins. problem is unlikely to go away soon, if Florida has a lionfish problem. It’s native to the South Pacific and ever — despite Ayers’ efforts. The invasive sea creature, though re- Indian Oceans and is part of the scor- markable to look at, is destroying marine pionfish family. ecosystems by eating everything in sight. The exact cause of Florida’s lionfish HIS NEW GOAL: The Ken Ayers Jr. (MTeleComm’87) is invasion is unknown, but many experts doing more than his fair share to fight speculate the species was introduced to CATCHING 1,500. back. He was named the state’s 2017 local waters in the 1980s, when citizens Still, one way to fight back, he says, is LIONFISH Lionfish King after removing 1,250 inva- began releasing unwanted aquarium fish to fry up the fish for dinner. sive lionfish off the coast in a statewide into the Atlantic Ocean. More are said Seafoodwatch.org, a website for King competition. And he’s still at it. to have escaped from damaged tanks environment-conscious fish eaters, “The only way right now to successful- when Hurricane Andrew swept across lists lionfish as a “Best Choice” option: ly hunt lionfish is with a pole spear while the Bahamas and Florida in 1992. “When you buy lionfish, you’re helping diving,” said Ayers, an Air Force veteran Once introduced, the fecund fish to prevent the spread of this invasive A CU ALUM TAKES ON and master dive instructor with more spread through the marine ecosystem species in U.S. waters.” AN INVASIVE FISH. than 1,700 dives under his belt. like wildfire. According to the National Ayers’ favorite way to eat lionfish is Last year, Ayers and fellow partici- Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra- pan-fried and smothered in butter. His pants removed 26,321 lionfish during tion, a single female lionfish can spawn cats prefer it sashimi-style. By Amanda Clark the four-month competition, spon- more than two million eggs a year. sored by the Florida Fish and Wildlife This is where Ayers comes in. Comment? Email [email protected].

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COULD LAURA DEVENDORF’S HIGH- TECH FABRICS CHANGE THE WAY WE EXPRESS OURSELVES?

By Daniel Strain

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Laura Devendorf has a ready answer by her eclectic interests in art, sustain- for how she spent the summer: The CU able design and feminist theory. She’s Boulder information scientist taught more interested in expressive potential herself how to weave, an experience equal than utilitarian value. In this vein, she’s parts relaxing and infuriating — “like exploring how clothing can connect our brushing doll hair forever,” she said. bodies to the environment, for example, On any given day in Devendorf’s lab, or reveal and record influences on the part of the university’s ATLAS Institute, body as an aid to memory and reflection. Devendorf helped invent a fabric that interlaces ordinary and thermochromic threads. where students and faculty commonly mix art and science, you’ll find at least PURPLE TO PINK TO three wooden looms — the old-fashioned pigments that change color in response to Parenthood. The mother of a 2-year-old kind with a hand-operated shuttle. They WHITE IN SECONDS. an electric current. and a 5-year-old, she describes it as a sit next to circuit boards, wires and other Among the projects Devendorf can vulnerable experience. high-tech toys. Rather than developing technologies carry forward with this computer- And while many technologies aimed That’s because Devendorf, an ATLAS of convenience, she said, she’s interested meets-loom is Ebb, a fabric she helped at parents seek to ease stress, Devendorf fellow and CU assistant professor since in “whether or not it’s possible to build a invent as a graduate student at the embraces the vulnerability. 2017, is diving into the zeitgeisty field of different kind of relationship with tech- University of California, Berkeley. It At a May workshop at the Boulder smart textiles — fabrics that look and nology that’s slower and more thoughtful.” interlaces ordinary yarn with thermochro- Museum of Contemporary Art, she feel like wool and cotton but exhibit mic threads, yielding a fabric with designs asked participants to design what she dynamic properties. OLD MEETS NEW that can morph from purple to pink to called an exoskeleton for caregivers Last year, designer Julianna Bass Although Devendorf has a bachelor’s white within seconds. Devendorf has — think an Iron Man suit for people made waves at New York Fashion degree in computer science and enjoys experimented with designing Ebb shirts covered in baby vomit. The group’s ideas Week when she introduced a line of writing code, she is in some ways an odd that change color as the skin undergoes included small, autonomous robots that garments that changed color as models fit for the world of smart textiles. She’s tiny shifts in sweatiness — like a human would crawl over your body to clean sauntered down the catwalk. Google’s skeptical about aspects of tech culture blush in cloth. your clothes and a hoop skirt that could Project Jacquard recently teamed up and is predisposed to physical craftsman- These subtle changes can indicate double as a playpen for toddlers. with Levi’s to design a denim jacket ship. She once spent a summer drawing various types and degrees of excitement Devendorf herself is interested in that lets you answer your phone by handmade cards for tourists in Santa — from physical exertion to mere antic- using technology to lay bare the tensions simply tapping the sleeve. Barbara, Calif., seemingly more in tune ipation, true anxiety, even sexual arousal. inherent in parenthood — including the But Devendorf has a distinct attitude with another of her degrees, in art. Ebb-based garments would manifest how fact that, as a mother, she often feels like toward wearable technology, inspired “My husband says I have an analog the wearer is feeling, signaling a change her body isn’t her own. In her free time, fetish,” she said. “I still for all to see. she’s been crocheting a poncho made of collect vinyl. I like send- “We have five senses,” she said. “Smart pacifier nipples to make visible a com- ing letters in the mail. I textiles can partner with those and give mon feeling among nursing mothers. don’t really like technolo- you this other sense.” She’s also begun developing a drape gy, but it’s not going away. with small pressure So my focus is how do sensors to record how we do something more SPEAKING TWO LANGUAGES: parents hold their interesting with it?” ART AND SCIENCE. newborns, allowing Much of that old-meets- production of maps new tension is embodied Because smart textiles make public showing the evolving physical relation- in a special delivery De- what might otherwise be private, and ship between parent and child. vendorf is expecting this because clothing is more intimate than a “I like the idea of how our memories fall: A custom-made TC2 phone you can set down and ignore, De- might change if we remember the pres- Jacquard loom. The device vendorf approaches these projects with sures on us,” she said. looks more like a 3D caution. “It represents you to the world.” Ultimately, Devendorf hopes more printer than one of the Steven Frost, an instructor in CU technology will move in this direction — doll-hair combers in her Boulder’s College of Media, Commu- enhancing how people experience reality lab now, and can seamless- nication and Information who has and caretaking rather than alienating ly weave more complex collaborated with Devendorf, said she them from it. patterns of traditional has a rare ability to blend technology and “So much of technology is about textiles and high-tech artistic creativity. self-realization and no longer having to threads, such as wires “What’s really exciting about working struggle or care for anything because coated in thermochromic with Laura is that she really does speak you have the technology to do that,” she both languages,” Frost said. said. “I like the idea of actually amplify- ing that struggle instead, because maybe Devendorf’s students THE PRESSURES ON US that’s where the meaning comes from.” working on the textiles Much of Devendorf’s recent work of the future. focuses on a topic she thinks about a lot: Comment? Email [email protected].

29 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photos by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 30 INFOGRAPHIC PAC-12 CITIES SEATTLE, WASH. CORVALLIS, ORE. STANFORD, CALIF. Founded: 1851 Founded: 1845 (unincorporated area in Santa Population: 724,745 Population: 57,961 Clara County) Home of: University of Washington Home of: Oregon State University Founded: 1885 Mascot: Harry the Husky Mascot: Benny Beaver Population: 13,809 (2014 est.) Fun Fact: Seattle is the home Fun Fact: Home to Juicy’s Home of: Stanford University of Pike Place Market, said to be Outlaw Grill, which holds the Mascot: the Cardinal, the Stan- the oldest continually operating Guinness World Record for largest ford Tree (both unofficial) farmers market in the U.S. and the commercially available hamburger Fun Fact: There’s a long history location of the original Starbucks. (777 lbs). of fountain hopping at Stanford Check out the market’s spooky Things to Do: Explore Benton — jumping in water fountains side with a nighttime tour of the County’s wineries or visit Bruce around campus. remnants of several graveyards, Starker Arts Park. Things to Do: Visit the Com- a former brothel and the nation's puter History Museum in nearby first mortuary. Mountain View, walk the salt Things to Do: Visit the Space EUGENE, ORE. marshes of Baylands Nature Needle, explore historic Pioneer Founded: 1862 Preserve or explore adjacent Square or take a ferry to Bain- Population: 168,916 Palo Alto. bridge Island. Home of: University of Oregon Mascot: Oregon Duck Fun Fact: In 2014, Eugene SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH PULLMAN, WASH. became one of the first cities in Founded: 1847 Founded: 1888 the nation to place climate action Population: 200,544 Population: 33,354 goals into its city code. Home of: University of Utah Home of: Washington State Things to Do: Visit the oldest Mascot: Swoop, a red-tailed University Black Tartarian tree in the U.S. hawk Mascot: Butch T. Cougar at the Owen Rose Garden or the Fun Fact: The Salt Lake Temple, Fun Fact: In 2011, Bloomberg landmark Skinner Butte. the largest Mormon temple in Businessweek chose Pullman as the U.S., took nearly 40 years the “Best Place to Raise Kids” to complete. in Washington. Also notable, the BERKELEY, CALIF. Things to Do: Visit the Great elusive 3-foot-long giant Palouse Founded: 1878 Salt Lake or Antelope Island earthworm — the inspiration for Population: 122,324 State Park. many business names in the area Home of: University of California, — was first discovered here. Berkeley Things to Do: Visit the Lawson Mascot: Oski the Bear TEMPE, ARIZ. Gardens or attend the National Fun Fact: The city was named Founded: 1894 Lentil Festival in August, which after the Irish philosopher and Population: 185,038 has taken place since 1989. poet George Berkeley. Home of: Arizona State University Things to Do: Explore the Univer- Mascot: Sparky the Sun Devil sity of California Botanical Garden Fun Fact: Tempe is home to or Indian Rock Park. a thriving music scene. Bands such as the Gin Blossoms, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers and the Refreshments all started there in the ’80s and ’90s. Things to Do: See a comedy show at the Tempe Center for the Arts or rent a kayak, pedal boat or paddle board at Tempe Town Lake.

TUCSON, ARIZ. Founded: 1775 Population: 535,677 Home of: University of Arizona Mascot: Wilbur and Wilma Wildcat Fun Fact: One of America’s sunniest cities, Tucson gets more than 350 days of sunshine annually. LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Things to Do: Pedal on the city’s Founded: 1781 1,000-plus miles of bikeways Population: 3,999,759 or explore Saguaro National Park. Home of: University of California, Los Angeles; University of South- ern California BOULDER, COLO. Mascot: Joe Bruin the Bear; Founded: 1871 Traveler the Horse Population: 107,125 Fun Fact: According to the Home of: University of Colorado History Channel, independent film Boulder producers first started moving Mascot: Ralphie the Buffalo from New York to Los Angeles to Fun Fact: America’s happiest avoid the Motion Picture Patents city, according to National Geo- *City Company, which Thomas Edison graphic (2017) OUR TOWNS populations helped create in 1909. Things to Do: Spin past the are latest Things to Do: Visit Griffith new Google campus at 30th and In the 11 cities that are home to the universities of the Pac-12 athletic con- published Observatory on the south side of Pearl, eat hydroponic greens ference, there’s more than just college life (not that there’s anything better U.S. Census Mount Hollywood, Santa Monica grown at Williams Village Dining than that). Whether you’re cheering on a visiting Buffs team, working or estimates, Pier or take a stroll down the Hall, hike to the Royal Arch in unless noted. Hollywood Walk of Fame. Chautauqua Park. playing, here are some fun tidbits to jumpstart your adventure.

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CU scientists are mapping blood- flow in the brain to better understand chronic pain.

Cheri Gould doesn’t remember exact- — has grown weary of the way pain in- pain. The study hinges on a question ly when the pain first began to creep terferes with her life, and desperate for that spiritual practitioners have been Unlearning across her shoulders, down her spine nondrug, nonsurgical treatment options. asking for centuries: Can thoughts and and into her back. To this day, she’s not “I’ve heard a lot of talk about tapping emotions have a measurable impact on PAIN sure what started it. into the mind-body connection, but I physical well-being? But she remembers what life was am a science person. I need evidence,” CU graduate student Yoni Ashar like before. she said, before slipping on some blue (PhDNeuro, PhDPsych’18), a former CAN CHRONIC PAIN She played soccer and softball, ran reg- scrubs, lying flat on her back inside a software engineer who made his way PATIENTS THINK ularly and was full of energy and drive. functional magnetic resonance imaging to neuroscience via his own spiritual THEMSELVES INTO “I have never been one to let things (fMRI) machine, and letting a team of quest, is now asking an even more WELLNESS? AN stop me,” she said. neuroscientists peer inside her brain. specific question: UNPRECEDENTED BRAIN But after 12 years, multiple diagno- “That’s why I’m here.” “Can we think ourselves out of IMAGING STUDY AIMS ses and futile tries at everything from Gould is among 150 or so chronic chronic pain?” TO FIND OUT. physical therapy and Botox injections back pain patients who made their way “The assumption for a long time to opioids, the 48-year-old mom and to CU Boulder last summer for the has been that chronic pain is driven teacher — like many of the 100 million largest brain imaging study ever to ex- by problems in the body. The neck. By Lisa Marshall Americans suffering from chronic pain plore mind-body treatments for chronic The back. The tissue,” said Ashar, who

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is leading the study. “But there is a psychology and has shifted his focus might ask them to sit slowly, paying close attention “in a Study subjects’ paradigm shift underway. People are re- from how spiritual practices alter the detached, curious way” to how this feels physically and brains reacting to alizing that for many patients, the brain brain to how thoughts and emotions the fearful thoughts that come with it, and to evaluate a knife scraping is at the center. To get at that pain, we impact its pain-related regions. whether those fears are justified. a glass bottle. have to change the way we think and He points to numerous recent studies After a few repetitions, the pain often lessens. feel about it.” suggesting that, even in the absence of “The goal is to break that learned association — to tissue damage, misfiring neural path- teach the brain that something they learned to inter- MEDITATING MONKS ways can cause or perpetuate pain. pret as dangerous is actually safe.” Eight years ago, Ashar was sitting in “The brain learns to be in pain,” he a synagogue in Jerusalem watching a says. “But can it be unlearned?” slide presentation of red-robed monks In one famous case study, a construc- THE BRAIN LEARNS having their brains scanned when he tion worker arrived at an emergency realized what he wanted to do with the room with a 6-inch nail protruding TO BE IN PAIN. CAN rest of his life. from his boot, the pain so excruciating Bored and unsatisfied, he had quit his he had to be sedated. When the boot IT BE UNLEARNED? job as a computer scientist in Washing- came off, doctors discovered the nail ton, D.C., in his early 20s and moved to had passed between his toes, never While he has seen such methods work time and again Israel to study spirituality. puncturing him. in his own practice, he realizes that it will take scientific He considered becoming a rabbi. Other recent studies have shown that evidence to convince the broader medical community. But as he heard the presenting sham surgeries — in which the patient That’s where CU Boulder comes in. neuroscientist explain the clear changes is sedated and a surface-level incision “Tor and his team are among the most respected that occurred in monks’ brains as they is made — can be as effective for pain groups of scientists in the world when it comes to meditated, something clicked. relief as real ones. fMRI studies,” he said. “We are really excited to be “I had zero background in psychology. Another paper, published in 2013, working with a group with so much credibility.” I had never taken a neuroscience class. showed that while acute pain from a But I remember feeling electrified at tissue injury lives in a region of the YOUR BRAIN ON PAIN the thought that you could use scientific brain commonly associated with pain On a recent July day, Gould was lying on her back tools to study these things I had been (what Ashar calls the “I just stubbed my inside a tube-shaped $2 million MRI machine at the reading about in spiritual texts,” he said. toe” region), chronic pain resides in a Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium facility on different region — one closely associat- the Boulder campus clicking a button near her right Basic structural MRI image ed with reward and emotion. hand to rank her pain as researchers remotely applied of Yoni K. Ashar That could help explain why some pressure, first to her lower back, then to her thumb. chronic pain sufferers feel their symp- Three-dimensional images of her brain appeared on toms flare up around a mean boss or an the screen before them, providing detailed baseline estranged relative, Ashar said. information about which regions light up during pain, “Pain is a danger signal that tells you and by how much. to stop what you are doing so you don’t Over the course of the study, she and the other par- do more damage. But sometimes these ticipants would be assigned to one of three treatment danger signals can be activated even in groups exploring noninvasive, nondrug approaches to the absence of injury,” or linger after the treating pain. injury is gone, said Los Angeles-based A month later, they would have their brains pain psychologist Alan Gordon, who is scanned again. collaborating with Ashar on the study. Ultimately, the researchers hope the project will Added Ashar: “It’s like a false alarm accomplish two goals: First, they hope to develop a that is stuck in the ‘on’ position.” brain marker, or signature, which doctors can use to assess a patient’s pain. (State-of-the-art measurement SHUTTING OFF THE ALARM today, believe it or not, involves asking patients to Ashar scoured the internet looking That is not to say the pain is “all in rank their pain from 1 to 10 or choose from a series of for the world’s leaders in functional your head.” sad-to-happy faces.) MRI research, which maps blood flow “There is no such thing as imaginary Second, they hope to use the brain scans to assess IF YOU in the brain to examine neural activity. pain,” Gordon said. “If you feel it, it is real.” scientifically just how effective psychological treat- He emailed a dozen of them offering to Over the past 10 years, he has ments are, and precisely how they work. FEEL IT, work as a software designer to get his worked with hundreds of patients with Published results are months away. But in the end, foot in the door. intractable chronic pain, using mind- the research could change lives. THE PAIN Tor Wager, director of CU Boulder’s body methods to help them shut off Said Ashar, “We think this study stands to make Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience the false alarm, after ruling out serious a large impact on the field and on the treatment of IS REAL. Lab, emailed him back. structural causes. chronic pain in general.” Today, Ashar is finishing up dual For instance, if someone always doctorates in neuroscience and clinical experiences pain when they sit, Gordon Comment? Email [email protected].

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Jim Voss is no stranger to work travel. long-distance for work. Since 2009, he’s In one two-year stretch, he flew month- been teaching in CU Boulder’s aerospace ly between Houston and a job site in Star engineering program, commuting twice Long-Distance City, Russia, near Moscow. a month from Houston, where his wife, That wasn’t even extreme: As a NASA Suzan, still works for NASA. COMMUTER astronaut, Voss (MAero’74; HonPhD’00) Usually Voss flies Southwest Airlines to circled Earth more than 550 times during Denver. But every few months he pilots five Space Shuttle missions. himself in one of two small aircraft he JIM VOSS HAS BEEN TO SPACE He spent 201 days in space, 163 as a resi- owns, a single-engine, four-seat Cirrus FIVE TIMES. HE CAN HANDLE THE dent of the International Space Station. In SR22 with tan leather interior. He’s also HOUSTON-TO-BOULDER COMMUTE. 2001, he and a crewmate floated outside it got a two-seat Rutan Long-EZ experimen- for 8 hours, 56 minutes, setting the record tal aircraft he built himself. for longest spacewalk. “There are never traffic jams,” he said By Eric Gershon Now 69 and three times retired and in a June interview at Rocky Mountain unretired, Voss continues traveling Metropolitan Airport, where he keeps

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both aircraft in a meticulously orga- nized hangar adorned with the flags of CU Boulder and Auburn University, his undergraduate alma mater. Voss enjoys flying for most of the usual reasons: The views, the solitude, the sense of freedom. He also likes the technical challenge and convenience. On “Voss Airlines,” he said, “there’s no rush, no schedule.” THERE ARE NEVER TRAFFIC JAMS. Commuting by plane also gives him a chance to practice something he does for fun anyway. He’s flown over the Grand Canyon, up and down the Hudson River, past Mount Rushmore and to the Bahamas. He once took the Long-EZ all the way to Alaska. One year, en route to Oshkosh, Wisc., for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual fly-in, he took a detour to Dayton, Ohio, to check out the Air Force museum there. And when his wife joins him in Jim Voss, a retired NASA astronaut who teach- es in CU Boulder's engineering college, maps a route to Boulder from his Houston home. Colorado, he’ll pilot her and friends to a favorite vacation spot in Durango. In Boulder, Voss and airport pals fly Long-EZ, following a design by legend- in formation to Fort Collins, Steamboat ary aircraft designer Burt Rutan. Given OVER 13 YEARS, VOSS HAND-BUILT Springs and Greeley for lunch at little work obligations that often kept him airport restaurants. away from home, it took him 13 years AN EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT. From time to time, Voss, who aver- to finish the fiberglass-and-foam plane. ages about a flight a week year-round, But it never felt like work, he said. cial airlines. It’s less expensive than aerospace engineering center on East takes his aerospace graduate students “This is fun for me,” he said during using his own plane, and more reliable Campus. It’s less than a mile from his for a spin. a break from his annual piece-by-piece — commercial airliners can handle Boulder condominium. Voss learned to fly more than 40 years inspection of the Long-EZ. weather Voss wouldn’t risk. “I’m gonna walk,” he said. ago, as a hobby. He later attended Naval On the day the Coloradan visited, he Being a passenger is also less taxing: Flight School, becoming a flight test was planning to reinstall the nose gear. As pilot, he said, “You have to pay atten- Contact Eric Gershon at [email protected]. engineer, a person who helps establish an “I take good care of my airplanes,” he tion all the time.” aircraft’s capabilities. said. “My life depends on it.” When Voss flies himself ASTRONAUT, PILOT, PROFESSOR Though it was never his job to pilot Voss began commuting by aircraft in from Texas to Colorado, the Space Shuttle, Voss logged enough 2003, while teaching at Auburn, near he steers a diagonal course NAME: Jim Voss (MAero’74; HonPhD’00) Shuttle time to appreciate why the his hometown of Opelika, Ala. Flying in northwest from Hous- TRIPS TO SPACE: 5, last in 2001 commanders usually came from the the Long-EZ was less of a hassle than ton, across Texas and the Shares record for longest SPACEWALK: 8 ranks of the military’s elite test pilots. taking a commercial flight to Atlanta or Oklahoma panhandle, into hours, 56 minutes (2001) Upon reentry to Earth’s atmosphere, Birmingham, then driving two hours to Colorado, then north. He’ll STARTED TEACHING AT CU: 2009 the Shuttles, which went out of service Auburn. He was going almost weekly. stop at Dalhart, Tex., or LIVES: Houston and Boulder in 2011, moved blazingly fast and on an He bought the Cirrus in 2004. Faster Amarillo for lunch and gas. TRAVELS BETWEEN THEM: Twice a month unusually steep path to the runway. and safer, it’s got a full-aircraft parachute In the Cirrus, the trip takes TRIP TAKES: 5.5 hours in his Cirrus SR22 “You can’t afford to make a mistake,” for dire circumstances. Fortunately, he's five-and-a-half hours. VOSS’ OTHER AIRPLANE: Rutan Long-EZ he said. never had to use it. As much as Voss enjoys experimental aircraft In 1981, before becoming an as- While teaching at CU, Voss has flying, he’s looking forward to YEARS HE SPENT HAND-BUILDING IT: 13 tronaut, Voss began building the mostly been commuting on commer- the 2019 opening of the new LIKES: Tiny airports

39 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photos by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 40 41 FALL 2018 Coloradan Coloradan FALL 2018 42 HOMECOMING WEEKEND 2018 This Homecoming, Jeff Randall (Geog, Soc’78) of 2019 TRIPS Boston and Jeff Gray (Psych’78) of Los Angeles will reconnect in Boulder to hike, visit friends, roam Pearl Street and rally behind the Buffs at Folsom Field. They and a core group of pals do it every few years. “It’s Boulder and CU that brought us all together in the first place,” said Randall, who, with Gray, is co-hosting a 40-year reunion for the Class of 1978. FALL 2018 Also at Homecoming 2018 (Oct. 25-28), the Alumni SAILING THE News Association will host its annual awards ceremony WINDWARD ISLANDS in the Glenn Miller Ballroom, a series of Buff Talks Feb. 26-March 5, 2019 — short, Ted Talk-style lectures — in Old Main and Forever (Young) Buffs Buffs on Tap, an afternoon of beer and wine tasting in Koenig Alumni Center’s backyard. There’s the FLAT TIRES WON’T KEEP CU BOULDER’S YOUNGEST ALUMNI FROM A GOOD TIME Homecoming parade and pep rally on Pearl Street and the alumni tailgate before the big game against A flat tire almost stopped Chancee and programs this year developed specifi- Oregon State. Forestier (Fren, Psych’16) from getting cally for graduates of the past decade. In addition to the 40-year reunion, which includes to Glenwood Springs, Colo., for the in- This fall, young alumni (and those a dinner at the Hotel Boulderado, more than 15 other ISRAEL: TIMELESS augural CU Wine and Whitewater young young at heart) are invited to tailgate reunions are planned. WONDER alumni weekend in June. Fortunately, a with the CU Young Alumni Chapter Visit colorado.edu/homecoming to register. April 6-17, 2019 good Samaritan helped her get on her way. (CUYA) before every home football game in campus parking lot 308 and to gather in ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TIDBITS Denver at Blake Street This summer, more than 600 people Tavern to watch all road gathered in Colorado, California and games. During Homecom- Alaska for exclusive alumni showings of a new 30-min- ing Weekend, the Young ute documentary about CU’s history, The Light Shines Alumni After Hours event On: A Celebration of CU Boulder. See the film yourself on SOUTHERN will convene Buffs at Pearl campus during Homecoming Weekend. GRANDEUR Street haunts old and new April 7-15, 2019 Oct 26. The NorCal alumni chapter has new The Alumni leaders: Summer Vaughn (Phil’16) Association will offer and Jenna Kinsinger (Fin’16). Kelly two free online career- McKee (PolSci’94) has taken over development sessions the Orlando chapter. Catch Buffs games this fall with aimed at young alumni: alumni in your area. Visit colorado.edu/alumni/chapters An Oct. 9 session for to see which group meets nearest you. aspiring entrepreneurs MOUNT EVEREST and another on Nov. 13 Join us on Duane Field before every BASE CAMP TREK with Buffs working in the home CU football game for our Ralphie’s April 23-May 9, 2019 This summer, young alumni rafted in Glenwood Springs. outdoor industry. Corral Tailgate. The free event, located The annual Buffs at south of Folsom Field, begins three hours The 26-year-old Buff, fresh from Eu- the Butte young alumni ski weekend in prior to kickoff. Take a photo with live mascot Ralphie, rope, went on to meet up with 40 other Crested Butte, Colo., is scheduled for pick up alumni swag, play games with your kids and get a CU alumni and friends at an evening early 2019. Marlee Glasgow (Ad- bite to eat. On the road, we’ll hold Buffs Bash tailgates at pool party to kick off the weekend. vert’14) has attended four years in a row USC, Washington, Arizona and Cal. “I had been living in France the last and will be there again this year. year, so I really hadn’t even seen a CU “I plan on keeping the streak alive,” The Alumni Association welcomes WONDERS OF PERU shirt other than my own in a while,” she said. “It’s nice to be reminded that its newest advisory board members: April 25-May 6, 2019 said Forestier, now a graduate student in the community that made CU great still Chip Bollendonk (MechEngr’17), Georgia with an eye on medical school. exists outside of school.” Kyle Evashevski (Econ’96), Timothy For more information “I loved singing the fight song and shar- Gurba (Chin, Fin’04), Svein Hasund (MechEngr’67), about the Roaming Buffs ing our CU pride.” For more information about CU Young Mina McCullom (ArchEngr’09), Landon Mock travel program, email The trip, which sold out, included nine Alumni events and programs, visit colorado. (Psych’07), Floyd Pierce (ApMath, Econ’17), Laurie lisa.munro@colorado. miles of whitewater rafting and visits to edu/alumni. To suggest a young alumni event Porter (Mktg’88) and Chrissy Renegar (Jour’06). edu, call 303-492-5640 three wineries in nearby Palisade, all by idea, contact Taylor Stratton at 303-492-8485 The roughly 40-person volunteer board provides guid- or visit colorado.edu/ bicycle. It was one of several new events or email [email protected]. ance and feedback to Alumni Association staff. alumni/travel.

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LOST AND FOUND “I had the idea of the Before long, Blumen- Eben G. Fine Park, west finally understand ALSO ADRIFT: Twenty years ago, Tom ‘art’ installation vaguely thal and his wife, Betsy, of 6th Street. something I’ve done,” Blumenthal was sur- in mind after the first an artist, had boxes and With no plans for joked Blumenthal, who 1. A paddle prised by the number of season,” said the recent- boxes of lost footwear. further art installations, has published more than 2. Hats flip-flops washing up at ly retired CU Boulder This summer, they they discarded the rest. 100 articles on RNA the bottom of the steps professor, a former chair strung together 231 “Non-scientist friends and chromosomes. “My 3. T-shirts leading from his yard to of the molecular, cellular flip-flops to catch the who have known me scientist colleagues 4. Bottles Boulder Creek. He start- and developmental biol- eyes of oncoming tubers for a long time seem are just amazed and ed collecting them. ogy department. floating past from nearby pleased that they can bemused.” 5. A watermelon

45 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo courtesy Daily Camera Coloradan FALL 2018 46 THE PRESIDENT’S VIEW BRUCE D. BENSON

FIFTY-FIVE YEARS (AND COUNTING) significantly. We recently launched an University of Colorado President Bruce engineering master’s degree delivered Benson (Geol’64, HonDocSci’04) has an- entirely by Massive Open Online Cours- nounced plans to retire next summer. Here es (MOOC), which has the capacity to he looks ahead. reach tens of thousands. MOOCs didn’t exist at CU a decade ago; now we When I announced in July that I would have more than 2 million enrollments in retire as CU’s president in July 2019, 30 courses, and offer them for credit, many faculty, friends and alumni asked which is a revenue producer. me what I was most proud of from my The bachelor’s degree may be sup- decade-plus leading our university. While planted in the future by a series of peer we had some notable accomplishments, I certificates matched to societal and think I surprise people when I say I prefer industry needs. Competency-based to look ahead, not back. education will increasingly allow students I find myself wondering what the CU of to demonstrate their knowledge and test the future will look like. It may seem odd out of courses. coming from someone who just turned 80 I believe the trend toward more STEM and has a history with the university that degrees will accelerate dramatically, and dates back some 55 years. it should to meet the needs of an increas- It’s analogous to my predecessor ingly technological society. George Norlin. At the end of his presiden- Demographics and economics will cy in 1939, CU had about 4,500 students have a big impact. A recent study shows and a budget of just over $1 million. He that in 20 years, half the population of the probably never imagined CU Boulder as country will live in eight states, including the flagship of a university system with Colorado. This will likely lead to increas- four campuses, more than 70,000 stu- ing consolidation of educational institu- dents and a $4.5 billion budget. tions and the very real possibility that I can’t help but wonder what changes some will close (but no CU campuses). are in store for our university. Technol- Whatever the changes, one thing will ogy will continue to change the way remain the same. I have every confidence we deliver education. CU offers more the CU of the future will be as great as than 45 degree programs online, and the university that has served Colorado online enrollments grew from 30,000 and our nation so exceptionally for the to 56,000 in a decade. That could jump past 142 years.

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ONENew name for Coors Events Center: CU News FALL 2018 Events Center.

Engineering a Better Football Helmet BUFFS BITS Women’s golfer Brittany Fan (Advert’18) graduated with a career stroke average of 74.24, the best A CU BOULDER ALUMNUS PUTS ON HIS THINKING CAP in CU history. Men’s golfer Yannick Paul (Mgmt’18) was CU’s team leader in stroke average, at 70.24. … You could say Chris Yakacki is in any products, might be a good material Former Kansas State women’s tennis head coach Danielle making serious headway in the effort to for use in knee implants and back repairs Steinberg joined CU as head coach. She takes over for Years the arena had develop a safer football helmet. — a kind of shock absorber inside the Nicole Kenneally, who retired after 19 seasons. … Bruce Coors in its name. The CU Boulder alumnus, now a CU body. When that idea didn’t elicit much Cranmer (Engl’73) retired in July after 18 seasons as CU’s Denver mechanical engineering pro- investor interest, he and Impressio turned head Nordic ski coach. He coached 12 skiers to individ- 28 fessor, is developing and testing a new their attention to football helmets. The ual NCAA Championships and helped lead the Buffs to kind of helmet padding made of a class NFL and the State of Colorado are now four team NCAA titles. Former assistant Nordic coach of elastic materials called liquid crystal both supporting the research. Jana Weinberger (IntlAf’06) succeeds him. … During elastomers (LCEs). Yakacki regularly confers with CU the 2018 NBA Draft in June, George King (Soc’18) was Coors Foundation gift to Yakacki (MechEngr, MS’04; PhD’07) Boulder Associate Athletic Trainer Adam selected by the Phoenix Suns in the second round with $5M CU, leading to the name and colleagues at Impressio Inc., a firm Holliday and team physician Dr. Sourav the 59th overall pick. He is Colorado’s fifth NBA draft “Coors Events Center.” he helped found, believe an LCE-based Poddar. Impressio hopes to have a prod- pick in eight years. foam fitted for existing helmet designs uct ready for testing in actual helmets will significantly improve energy absorp- this football season. FOLSOM’S 500TH GAME tion, lessening the energy transferred to If the new technology proves effective, CU football’s Nov. 17 matchup versus the Utah Utes will the athlete during a collision. Yakacki can imagine the helmets being mark the 500th game at Folsom Field. In honor of the “It behaves like a natural tissue,” used by other athletes, such as skiers, six home games on this season’s schedule, we celebrate 1977Groundbreaking. Yakacki said. “It’s soft, it absorbs a lot of and perhaps by soldiers also. here six notable past Buffs victories at Folsom. energy and it’s directionally dependent. “Our goal is to put [the LCE foam] It’s kind of like a rope — you pull a rope in the helmet and they won’t even Colorado 20, Kansas 19: The Buffs overcame a and it’s really strong in one direction, and notice we did anything different,” Yak- 19-0 deficit to achieve what was then the school’s the other direction it’s soft.” acki said. “[Players] are going to put it biggest’61 comeback. CU went on to win its first Big 8 title. The helmet is top of mind in discussions on and, if anything, it will feel a little Colorado 41, Penn State 13: CU ended the about how to minimize football-related more comfortable because it’s softer. ’70 No.4-ranked Nittany Lions’ 31-game unbeaten brain injuries, which can compound over But the difference will be when you streak. The win landed linebacker Phil Irwin (Acct’71) time with devastating effects. get impacted, it will absorb that on the cover of Sports Illustrated. Cost of student tickets Yakacki originally energy a lot better.” Colorado 20, Nebraska 10: Marking a for$3 men’s basketball thought LCEs, ’86 turn toward renewed national prominence, games during the first which aren’t By Neill Woelk the Buffs defeated No.3-ranked Nebraska for the first season, in 1979. yet used (Jour’82) time since 1967. Colorado 27, Nebraska 21: No. 2 CU ’89 defeated No. 3 Nebraska — both undefeated — in a thrilling game that sent the Buffs to the Orange Bowl to play for the national title. First sell-out crowd, Colorado 41, Iowa State 20: Eventual 1989 for CU Women’s NCAA ’94 Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam Tournament game (Soc ex’95) cruised past the 2,000-yards-rushing mark versus UNLV. with a 67-yard touchdown run. Colorado 62, Nebraska 36: CU scored the most points ever against a Husker defense at the’01 time in this win over No. 2 Nebraska, undefeated until then. It shocked the college football world. Would you have picked other games? Email us at editor@ 2016Year the Dalai Lama colorado.edu. spoke in the building.

Photos courtesy CU Athletics Coloradan FALL 2018 50 SPORTS Q&A JAMES STEFANOU

ELDER STATESMAN Have you been watching the World Cup? pro sport. Then it was, like, ‘Yep, let’s go to proudest moment, and I got crunched. Australian James Stefanou (Jour’21), a I have — I’m missing Brazil vs. Belgium the U.S. Let’s see where this goes.’ 31-year-old former soccer pro who is the now. Thanks for that. How bad was the tackle? Buffs’ star placekicker, is the oldest active Did any of the other guys you met at I’ve still got a scar on my arm. I can say I player in big-time college football. This Sorry. the camp also come to U.S. colleges? played football now. interview took place in July, during the That’s alright. I’ve just had four mates leave this morning. World Cup. They came to visit me for the July Fourth Have you made a tackle yet? Australia was in it for a brief time… week, or Fourth of July, I should say. One No. That’d be pretty fun. Do your teammates tease you? We gave it a crack. Played with a lot of is a punter at UConn, one’s at Berkeley. Not anymore. All the seniors from last heart, but just fell short. One’s at Toledo. One’s at Weber State. You got married before you came year left. here. Do the guys come to you for How did you decide you were going Talk to us about connecting with CU. relationship advice? You made nearly 80 percent of to get into U.S. football? I was talking to a few other schools. Ha- They don’t want to get married yet. your field goal attempts last year. There’s an academy back in Melbourne waii was very interested. Maryland. The A hundred percent of your extra called Prokick Australia. They scout Longhorns, for a brief moment. Houston... You haven’t attended an NFL point tries. You won the most out- you and teach you how to kick, mostly I had a chat with [CU] Coach Mac, and I game yet, but you have played in standing freshman award. Seems punting. Nathan Chapman, who was on just felt it was real genuine. It was a dif- an NFL stadium. like maturity has helped. the Green Bay Packers — he’s taken the ferent kind of phone call than I had from Yeah, Mile High. First game I’d ever been I don’t know if I would have done that reins, and he’s working with John Smith. other schools. I wasn’t wrong — the guys to — then I had to run on and kick and it was well coming in at 19. It was good fun. He kicked in Canada and was on the Pa- here really care about their athletes, about like, ‘Oh, I’m part of this. Let’s go, let’s do it.’ That was the main thing. triots. They do a lot of scouting, commu- being students first and athletes second nicating with colleges over here. Johnny and actually developing better men. Any thoughts about life after CU? What are some of the ways that be- kept calling me every week or two I try not to focus on it too much. In terms ing older helps? saying, ‘You gotta come down.’ I ended Talk to us about the main challenges of football, I’d love to play in the league. Experiencing pressure before in life. Not up committing to it full time at about 29. in learning to kick a football for a per- just on the sports field, but in working life. Then Colorado said they were interested. son who’s already skilled at soccer. The NFL? The main obstacle is having people trying That’s my aim. Hopefully I have another What were some highlights of your Your goal going into that camp was... to block you with their hands. good year and someone knocks on the soccer career? In the beginning, it was ‘Let’s just have door. But I’m happy to be at CU for as I played Under-19s for the Australian some fun while playing soccer.’ I was work- Have you been tackled yet? long as they’ll have me. I love it here. schoolboys team. We crossed the ditch ing as well, and I was making pretty good We tried to run a fake play against UCLA and beat the Kiwis, which was good for coin. As I got older, I saw it more as an op- and they were onto me pretty quickly. Interview by Eric Gershon. Condensed us. I played very briefly on a pro level. portunity to have another crack at playing I dropped the ball, which wasn’t my and edited.

51 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 52 53 FALL 2018 Coloradan Coloradan FALL 2018 54 their 60th anniversary on years,” writes Herb, who retreats for women July 5. The couple writes was admitted for a flare veterans and women that they still attend up of his chronic obstruc- with cancer and chronic many CU football and tive pulmonary disease. illness. Originally from basketball games, and Buffalo, she now lives 50s, 60s & 70s FALL 2018 look forward to returning For more than in upstate New York to Boulder every few ’65 45 years, on Middle Saranac Notes years to revel in the maj- Douglas Kimmel (Psych) Lake with her husband, esty of the Flatirons. “Go has been a champion for Burdette Parks, and their Buffs! Thank you forever the LGBTQ community. dog, Merlin. for our cherished time He received a lifetime there,” they write. achievement award from Some might political advocacy non- say that Steve After 40 profit EqualityMaine for ’70Frenzl (Mktg) worked years of his distinguished service an “odd” job while ’62research, Jean-Paul as a psychologist working attending CU. In the late Valette (PhDEcon) with the LGBTQ com- 1960s, he worked as an and Rebecca Loose munity. Doug lives with apprentice at Boulder’s Valette (PhDFren’63) his husband in Hancock, Howe Mortuary. A retired published the book Maine, where they were marketing manager, Navajo Weavings with legally married in 2013, Steve recently published Ceremonial Themes: on their 44th anniversary. a two-volume fictional- A Historical Overview In 1969, the couple had ized memoir of his days of a Secular Art Form. a wedding ceremony in (and nights) working at Rebecca’s parents were Boulder at the United the mortuary, Coffee & introduced to Navajo Protestant Center. Donuts with the Dearly rugs by their neighbor, Departed. In addition to famed archeologist Earl Fran Yardley his book, he published Morris (Psych1914; (Thtr) pub- the Life-Alone Planner, MA1916). “Their love of ’66lished the book, Finding a free, digital workbook these beautiful weavings True North: A History to help survivors prepare was passed on to me, of One Small Corner for life without their loved and then also to my hus- of the Adirondacks. It ones. Visit his blog at band,” writes Rebecca. outlines Fran’s journey coffeeanddonuts.biz. In the 1970s, the couple with her late husband, N. Stephen Kane acquired a Navajo Jay Yardley, as they (PhDHist) published blanket and began inves- revived the historic his new book, Selling tigating its history and and long-abandoned Reagan’s Foreign Policy: origin. Over the next four Bartlett Carry Club in Going Public vs. Executive The usual ho-hum of daily commuting took a fun turn during the annual Tube to Work Day on Boulder decades, they assembled the Adirondacks. In Bargaining in May 2018. Creek. This year’s July 11 event caused a splashy, wacky traffic jam of inner tubers dressed in costumes. a collection of more than 1999, Fran co-found- Stephen is a former U.S. 100 ceremonial-themed ed Creative Healing State Department officer textiles, published sev- Connections, a nonprofit and American University For Richard nated $500,000 to the The book captures the eral articles in American organization offering professor. He holds a B.A. “Dick” Colorado Chapter of the American ethos about Indian Art Magazine and ’54Knowlton (Econ, Geog) Alzheimer’s Association. money, and scripts the curated two museum and Nancy Knowlton Before retiring, Dick financial meltdown of exhibits of Yeibichai (A&S’57), Alzheimer’s was the CEO of Hormel 2008. “That’s gotta weavings. hits close to home. Dick Foods Corporation, be a first for an expat is in the late stages where he had worked for 30-year Colorado CPA On June 16, WE WANT of the disease, writes nearly 40 years. gone rogue and turned ’64 Herb Davis Nancy. To help bol- novelist,” he writes. Dee (PhDPhys) and wife YOUR NEWS! ster the search for a Graydon and wife Bonnie live in Donne celebrated their cure, the couple do- “Dee” St. George, Utah. 50th wedding anniver- Write Christie Sounart, ’55Hubbard ’s (Acct) novel sary in a not-so-ideal Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER At the Altars of Money Thomas place: The emergency Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS was the No. 1 best seller Richard (Econ) room. “ER or no ER, it’s [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT on Amazon related to ’58and Ann O’Malley Spoor still a joy to be together COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN wealth management. (CommDisor) celebrated and in love after all these

55 FALL 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Patrick Campbell Coloradan FALL 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE BILL DENO

WHEN EIGHT CU ALUMS GATHERED IN SIENA, ITALY, THIS SUMMER, THEY HAD A LOT OF CATCHING UP TO DO: IT HAD BEEN 45 YEARS SINCE THEY'D STUDIED ABROAD TOGETHER IN 1973. FRANK CEFALI (GER’75) DESCRIBED THE TRIP KLAUDER’S CHAMPION If constraints sometimes led to AS “A REJUVENATION OF MIND In 1918, Charles Z. Klauder wanted to buildings at odds with Tuscan vernacular, tear down Old Main. It didn’t harmo- the departures sufficiently synchronize AND SOUL.” nize with the new style the Philadelphia with CU Boulder’s dominant aesthetic architect envisioned for CU’s campus. to preserve it, he said: “This campus has The university’s first building survived, continued as no other one has done to and a M.A. from Temple Geggiano, a small estate Scholar in Chile and of course, and years later, in the 1980s, commit to a style.” University in Philadelphia outside of Siena where Slovakia, Susan is work- Bill Deno (Arch’72; MA’73) oversaw a After high school, just after World and currently lives in Silver their Italian professor, ing with three Mapuche top-to-bottom renovation that rotated War II, Deno began pursuing his boy- Spring, Md. Bianchi Bandinelli, had elders in rural Patagonia, Old Main’s chapel a full 90 degrees. hood dream of becoming an architect. hosted a farewell pranzo Chile, to create a trilin- Deno, who retired as CU Boulder’s Initially, he attended a two-year college Since leav- (lunch) in 1973. “We were gual (English, Spanish, campus architect in 2002, forgives in Los Angeles, learning technical ing Boulder, grateful and awed that Mapundungun) book Klauder his readiness to demolish the illustration and alphabetic graphics. This ’72Cathy Crosby (MPhil) we could repeat that based on a Mapuche cherished landmark and, truthfully, never led to work with a Seattle firm that sold writes that her pro- experience in his honor folktale. The book, which really held it against him: Klauder’s neon sign advertising. fessional career has 45 years later,” said Mary will be illustrated by subsequent work was too good. After assignments around the West, included working at the Bellotti (Jour’74). “This Mapuche students, is “CU Boulder from many sectors has he accepted a transfer to Colorado, in Los Angeles Crime Lab reunion was a gift of a supported by a National been called the most beautiful public 1960. Already married, he began taking as a senior criminalist lifetime. My only regret Geographic Society university in the United States, bar classes at what today is CU Denver, and as a chemistry is that we did not do Explorer Grant. In fall none,” said Deno, 90, who began his while working full time. teacher at Santa Monica it sooner,” said Susan 2018, Susan will travel to association with CU Boulder in the late In 1969, Deno enrolled at CU Boul- College. In 2015, she Levitt Given (Bio’75). the University of Vilnius 1960s, as a 30-something undergraduate. der, earning two architecture degrees. published the book A Other attendees included in Lithuania to work as a Klauder — the most influential archi- He joined CU’s planning office as a Good Catholic Girl: Pro- Elaine Catalano (Ital’74), Fulbright Specialist. tect in CU Boulder’s history — and his student, and assumed campus architect choice IS Pro-life. She Jim Hagerty (Geol’75), work star in Deno’s 1994 book Body and duties in 1983. teaches science to her Joanne Hindlemann Carolyn Soul and in the new Centennial edition granddaughters and oth- Berger (Ital’74; MDes’82) Stefanco he self-published this year. er little ones at Hidden and Annette Bowman ’79(Hist), president of the Urged by CU President George Nor- ITALIAN Gems, her daughter’s Amendola (PE’73) in College of Saint Rose lin, CU hired Klauder’s firm in 1918 to INSPIRATION pre-K school in L.A. memory of husband Gary in New York, won a expand and aggrandize what then was Amendola (Hist’73), who Helen Gurley Brown a modest campus. Between then and Deno thinks of the campus as an ex- When eight died Dec. 11, 2017. Genius Grant, and Saint 1938, when Klauder died, he designed quisite park, and visits often. Sometimes CU alums met Rose was invited to join 15 buildings in a distinctive style that he leads tours in a motorized cart. ’75up in Siena, Italy, this Susan Cooke the BOLD Women’s defines CU Boulder still — textured His dream tourist is Charles Klauder. summer, they had a lot Barfield Leadership Network by local sandstone facing, reddish clay tile Even if CU hasn’t always lived up to his of catching up to do. It ’78(MEdu), professor the Pussycat Foundation. roofs and limestone trim. Deno calls it vision, Deno said, “It would be great fun.” had been 45 years since emerita at Montana State The foundation provides “Tuscan vernacular,” a reference to the they'd studied abroad University Billings, has a $100,000 grant to Saint Italian source of Klauder’s inspiration. Body & Soul: A Partnership of Archi- together in 1973. Frank dedicated her life to Rose’s President’s Fund As campus architect in the 1990s, tecture and Academics at the University of Cefali (Ger) described advocating for and edu- and $1 million to fund a Deno encouraged firms designing Colorado Boulder is available at the CU the trip as “a rejuvenation cating the public about program to benefit wom- major new buildings to adhere to ru- Book Store. of mind and soul.” The international minorities. en student leaders at diments of this style, even when using group revisited the Villa di A previous Fulbright the college. different materials. By Eric Gershon

57 FALL 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 58 cloud services to help as board president for She previously spent Cisco expand its enter- the foundation Lawyers more than 18 years as a prise.“I’ve come a long Lend-A-Hand to Youth, buyer at various Col- way since I wrote soft- which provides grants orado-based biotech ware on punch cards at to mentorship programs companies and organi- FALL 2018 CU in the early ’80s!” said for Chicago’s underprivi- zations, including the 80s & 90s Chet, who wrote the first leged youth. He resides in University Corporation for Notes portfolio management Western Springs, Ill, with Atmospheric Research system ever used to man- wife Jennifer and their and Seagate Technology. age the CU Endowment two daughters, McKenzie Fund back in 1983. and Maeve. Lisa M. Wolfe (Psych), a Cyndi Boman Todd Cason ’90professor at Oklahoma Thompson (Hist; Law’91) City University, received ’85(Mktg) writes that she ’88graduated from medical the honors program’s is now vice president at school in May 2018 from Distinguished Faculty Cinder, a business journal Midwestern University Award and also the in Portland, Ore. Cyndi, in Chicago. Next stop: A University Outstanding who is a licensed financial pediatrics residency in Faculty Award. Her Bible planner, joined Cinder Brooklyn, N.Y. study DVDs, “Uppity in 2015. She currently Women of the Bible,” and serves on the board of After 19 years companion commentary, directors for the Financial of full-time “Ruth, Esther, Song of Planning Association of ’89family life, Michelle Songs and Judith,” were Oregon and Washington. DuPuis Bradford (Soc), published in 2010 and a former member of 2011, respectively. Rob Stites the CU Boulder Alumni (MBaSci) Association staff, has Herb IIisaurri ’86presented a workshop joined Chick-fil-A in Schroeder The usual ho-hum of daily commuting took a fun turn during the annual Tube to Work Day on Boulder titled “The Power of Peer Atlanta as a senior supply ’91(PhDCivEngr) received Creek. This year’s July 11 event caused a splashy, wacky traffic jam of inner tubers dressed in costumes. Review” at the Capability chain administrator. the George Norlin Counts 2018 International Michelle and her hus- Award from CU’s Alumni Conference in Reston, band, Reed Bradford Association for his work Boulder-based (DMus) has been writing Tracy, who started her Va., May 1. He pub- (ArchEngr’86), have two as vice provost for the author Phyllis citations in The Music journalism career in Vail, lished a book, which he sons and are celebrating Alaska Native Science ’80J. Perry (PhDEdu) has Index. He wrote a has won two Murrow started as a CU graduate 31 years of marriage. and Engineering Program written more than 90 book review of James Awards and received student, titled Organized Tracie Olson Ste- at the University of Alaska books and she’s still Strain’s new Percussion three regional Emmy Proverbs: Contrasts in phens (Mktg) writes she Anchorage. The program, going strong. In 2017, Dictionary in the Spring nominations. Wisdom from the Holy received a national rating which he founded in she received the Lifetime 2018 issue of the National “I’ve traded the Rockies Bible. Rob works for as a USA Gymnastics 1995, works to eliminate Achievement Award from Association of College for the Cascades, of which CACI, a multinational judge. Outside of gym- biases against Alaska the Colorado Authors’ Wind and Percussion I have a beautiful view professional services and nastics, Tracie works as Native students and League. She has four Instructors (NACWPI) during the few weeks per information technology a contracts analyst for a empower students to suc- books that she plans to Journal. Geary, who is year when the weather company, where he is a government contractor. ceed in STEM disciplines. publish this year: Missing a retired music profes- clears!” writes Noel project manager for quali- Bones in June; Buddies, sor, has written for the Ludwig (Geol), forest wa- ty assurance. Bullies and Baseball and NACWPI Journal since tershed program manager Timothy S. Tomasik All About Julia Morgan in 1984. He currently resides for the Mount Baker- (Advert) was named a August; and It Happened in Stevens Point, Wis. Snoqualmie National fellow in the American in Rocky Mountain Tracy Lehr (Jour) Forest in Washington. College of Trial Lawyers. WE WANT National Park in November. received the California Chett Rubenstein President-elect of the State Capitol “Woman of (Acct) left Hewlett Illinois chapter of the YOUR NEWS! For 50 years, the Year” award for her Packard Enterprise to American Board of Trial Geary Larrick coverage of California’s join Cisco as director of Advocates and a mem- Write Christie Sounart, ’84 devastating Thomas Fire Cloud Services Incuba- ber of the International Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER and Montecito mudslides tion. In this role, Chett is Society of Barristers, he Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS on Santa Barbara’s utilizing his decades of now serves on its board [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT ABC-affiliated TV station experience in web-based of governors. Away from COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN KEYT and social media. software and enterprise work, he has served

55 FALL 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Patrick Campbell Coloradan FALL 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE CHRISTINE AHN

For the last four years, the Defense Language Keith, who is a physical Philip Staehelin (Econ, Institute, a United States therapist, spent three IntlAf) has had his eyes Department of Defense weeks at the Hospital of on the prize. He’s been educational and research Hope in Mango teaching designing 3D printed institute in Monterey, anatomy and physiology eyeglasses to help the Calif. After serving in the for nursing students. His more than 1 billion people Army for 10 years, he be- wife Jennifer, who is a in developing countries came the head of IBM’s physician, and their two who struggle with vision security operation center daughters, Olivia and impairments. He is testing (SOC), among other po- Emma, worked at Hospital 50 prototype glasses this sitions, and helped build Baptiste Biblique in summer before moving similar units for Walmart, Adeta, Toga. “We always them to manufacturing. Vodafone, Shell Oil, Sony enjoy our trips to Togo, and Apple. seeing old friends, making Chris Calvert new friends, and working (BioChem) Keith with the great people of ’94co-founded the cyber- Schroeder Togo,” said Keith. security firm Respond ’95(Kines) and his family In May 2015, Christine Ahn and several other women peacefully walked across the DMZ. Software, which utilizes returned to their home Lija Fisher automated intelligence in Rushville, Ill., in late (Thtr) pub- on cybersecurity teams. April after completing a ’96lished her first novel, PEACE ACTIVIST then convened in Seoul for a women’s After graduating from fifth month-long mis- The Cryptid Catcher. When the day came, peace symposium. CU, Chris attended sion trip to Togo, Africa. The children’s adventure Christine Ahn (PolS- With no formal Korean peace agree- story tells of a boy in ci’98) grappled with ment signed yet, Ahn forges on, with search of the Loch Ness mixed emotions. Maguire and many others at her side. Monster and Bigfoot. In May 2015, she trav- “[Her] work of bringing Korean “I’VE TRADED THE Lija, who was born in eled to the demilitarized zone (DMZ) women [from both] North and South Istanbul, Turkey, became separating North and South Korea for a and international women together for ROCKIES FOR THE fascinated with cryptozo- peace walk organized by Women Cross dialogue has shown the importance of ology after reading about DMZ, a group she founded to foster women and civil community in peace- CASCADES, OF well-organized hunting peace on the Korean Peninsula. making,” Maguire told the Coloradan. parties that tracked Ahn, an American citizen who was born Encouragement helps. After the WHICH I HAVE A cryptids, or legendary in South Korea and lives in Hawaii, and walk, Ahn faced public accusations of creatures, in the wilder- 30 other women activists planned to cross being under North Korean government BEAUTIFUL VIEW ness. The next book in the two-mile-wide zone on foot to call for influence. South Korea placed her on the series, The Cryptid a final end to the Korean War. Fighting a blacklist — via orders of then-pres- DURING THE FEW Keeper, will be published stopped in 1953, but the countries never ident Park Geun-hye, who is now in 2019. signed a formal peace agreement. imprisoned for political corruption — WEEKS PER YEAR prohibiting her from traveling to her Tim Morshead THE COLD WAR IS native country. WHEN THE WEATHER ’98 (Arch) was “The Cold War is still raging on in named a partner for STILL RAGING. South Korea,” said Ahn, who frequently CLEARS!” WRITES San Francisco-based comments on Korean affairs for the architecture firm WRNS Upon arrival, she learned of a possible news media. NOEL LUDWIG Studio. Tim’s portfolio acid attack by protestors. It was a busy summer for her on that includes an expansion “I recall this sinking feeling of being so front, given President Trump’s con- (GEOL’84), FOREST of Microsoft’s Silicon excited to see my three-year-old daughter troversial summit with North Korean Valley campus and the and husband, who had traveled from Ho- leader Kim Jong-un. WATERSHED Betty Irene Moore School nolulu to meet me at the other side of the She favorably viewed the June of Nursing at UC Davis. DMZ, but being terrified that they might summit, arguing that peace between PROGRAM MANAGER The promotion marks a be the victim of such an attack,” she said. the U.S. and North Korea is vital for new era of leadership Ahn decided to walk anyway — at the inter-Korean peace. FOR THE MOUNT within the firm, known for front of the line. “For true peace and understanding architecture that values Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and No- to take place, it will take people-to- BAKER-SNOQUALMIE beauty and sustainability, bel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire people engagement, from civil society Tim writes. WRNS serves of Northern Ireland marched with her. to business,” she said. “That is my hope NATIONAL FOREST clients out of offices in No one threw acid. The peace walkers and what I have been long working for.” San Francisco, Seattle, punctuated their symbolic stroll by rally- IN WASHINGTON. Honolulu and New York. ing with thousands of other supporters, By Christie Sounart (Jour’12) 57 FALL 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by David Guttenfelder; courtesy Christine Ahn (headshot) Coloradan FALL 2018 58 around the world gather to evaluate and score the SARAH DANSER exams’ free-response sections. Jennifer is (EPOBIO’13) PARTICI- responsible for over- FALL 2018 seeing the scoring of PATED IN DISCOVERY 00s & 10s more than 100,000 tests. Notes Additionally, she helps CHANNEL’S “NAKED develop tasks and ques- tions for future exams. AND AFRAID XL” FOR Minnesota THE SECOND TIME. Lawyer ’05Magazine named Patrick Fenlon (Psych) an “Up also received a $10,000 Boulder restaurants & Coming Attorney.” He NSF award. Amanda Frasca Food and Wine specializes in busi- teaches seventh-grade and Pizzeria Locale ness litigation, and math at Altona Middle and Denver restaurant was recognized for his School in Longmont, Tavernetta. She was “professional achieve- Colo., where she resides named one of this year’s ments, leadership and with her husband and two “Sommeliers of the Year” community involvement children. by Food & Wine maga- throughout his first zine, and was featured 10 years of practice,” Natalie Koster in an article titled “Liquid according to the maga- (MAGerm) Diet: Sommelier Carlin zine. In his spare time, ’07wants to bring the world Karr Crushes LaCroix and Patrick serves on the to CU. The associate Tastes 50 Wines Before board of directors of director of international Dinner Service.” Carlin Neighborhood Roots, recruitment and outreach lives in Boulder with her a Minneapolis-based at CU won the Robert husband, Adam, and their organization supporting L. Stearns Award from dog, Coche. farmers markets and the CU Boulder Alumni small businesses. Association for her Paul Thompson work. She is also a tour (MBA) opened The ho-hum of daily commuting took a fun turn during Tube to Work Day, July 11, on Boulder Creek. This year, leader for the Council ’09the Red Rocks Beer Adam Creapo of International Schools Garden in downtown ’06(Jour; MEdu’13) com- (CIS) and leads dozens of Morrison, Colo. He writes Jordan Lipp Andrew Cary Juli Rasmussen pleted his eighth year recruitment tours around that his philosophy on (Econ, PolSci) (Bus, Hist) (Jour) of teaching, the past the world. running a beer garden is ’00joined the law firm ’01writes that he is now a ’02and Aaron Clymer three in Denver Public simple: Good beer, fast Childs McCune LLC as partner at Select Sales (MechEngr’12) won the Schools. Adam is a Carlin Karr service and easy access. a managing member. He Agency, which specializ- software competition Go senior team lead and (Comm) drinks He is eager to host CU writes that he will continue es in the sale of horses. Code Colorado. They English language de- ’08wine for a living: She’s watch parties for alums in his practice in outdoor He co-founded the firm were the first team from velopment specialist. wine director for the the area. recreation, ski law and in 2009. For the past 10 the Western Slope to win He spends half his time commercial litigation years, he has sold horses in the competition’s five- coaching teachers and and as an adjunct law that have run in the year history. The team, half in the classroom. He professor at the University Kentucky Derby and at which included two other lives in Denver with wife of Denver Sturm College Royal Ascot in England. members, won $15,000. Amanda and their 5-year- WE WANT of Law. He is author of The company’s most old son, Colt. Product Liability Law & famous horse, Tepin, won Jennifer Amanda Menihan Procedure in Colorado, the 2015 Breeders’ Cup McNabb (MEdu) won the Presiden- YOUR NEWS! First Edition (CBA-CLE Mile. “One day I hope to ’03(PhDHist) was named tial Award for Excellence Books 2015). raise thoroughbreds in chief reader for the in Mathematics and Sci- Write Christie Sounart, Colorado, where they can Advanced Placement ence Teaching from the Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER receive superior high-alti- exam in European National Science Founda- Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS tude training; it works for history. Each June, AP tion and the White House [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT the U.S. Olympic team!” teachers and college Office of Science and COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN he writes. faculty members from Technology Policy. She

55 FALL 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Patrick Campbell Coloradan FALL 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE HAYDEN DANSKY

FOOD FOR THOUGHT donated by Ideal Market in North Boul- CARLIN KARR (COMM’08) To Hayden Dansky der. They didn’t know what to expect (EvoBio’11), it didn’t for the first meal, and brought enough DRINKS WINE FOR A LIVING: make sense: Every year, food to fill 30 stomachs. nearly 40 percent of all Hundreds of hungry people showed up. SHE’S WINE DIRECTOR FOR food grown in the United “I would hear all the time that the States was ending up in landfills as tens meal in the park was the healthiest meal THE BOULDER RESTAURANTS of millions of U.S. residents lived in folks ate all week. So we decided to do food-insecure households. more,” said Dansky, executive director FRASCA FOOD AND WINE AND “I wanted to do something about since 2012. that,” said Dansky, who grew up in In addition to the weekly meals, the PIZZERIA LOCALE AND DENVER North Carolina and moved to Boulder in group formed BFR, which today shares its 2008 to attend CU. knowledge, resources and real-time data RESTAURANT TAVERNETTA. SHE Today Dansky, 28, is executive director through a website and the Food Rescue and co-founder of Boulder Food Rescue Alliance — a BFR-led peer-learning WAS NAMED ONE OF THIS YEAR’S — the first in a series of affiliated food network that connects food rescue orga- rescue organizations that have sprouted nizations across the country. Food rescues “SOMMELIERS OF THE YEAR” BY in cities around the country. can now be found in Denver, Colorado The organization’s innovative model Springs, Fort Collins, Seattle, Jackson FOOD & WINE MAGAZINE. takes food accessibility to a new level Hole, Charlotte and Chicago. by transporting soon-to-be wasted food “A lot has been done, but there’s directly from local grocery stores straight still lots to do,” said Dansky, who also In June, Stu helps businesses design fully survived 21 days on to doorsteps. With the help of hundreds performs spoken-word poetry around Gillespie (Law) custom travel experiences a desert island after being of volunteers and BFR’s eight-person Colorado. “I continue to question why ’10became the second — from hikes in Sri Lanka dropped 12 miles from staff, food is picked up from Boulder-area nonprofits are run a certain way and why person to summit Lookout to cheese tours in Holland the shoreline on a life raft. grocery stores 15 times a day, every day of food systems run in certain ways as well. Mountain in Golden, Colo., and Belgium — as a way Michelle Newhart the week, entirely by bicycle. When I started working on this project, in a sport called “stand of building community (PhDSoc) and her hus- To date, BFR has delivered more than I didn’t know how to do anything. That’s up spike” (SUS), which among their customers. band have published a 2.4 million pounds of food — primarily both the hardest and my favorite part. I combines cross-country Mark Simmons (Econ) book titled The Medi- fruits and vegetables — to food distri- get to learn every day.” skiing and endurance and brother Chris are calization of Marijuana: bution centers and pantries, as well as to A central part of BFR’s mission is lis- long boarding. Stu is embarking on a six-month Legitimacy, Stigma, and low-income housing sites, daycares, elderly tening to and giving a voice to the people a staff attorney for the road trip to the southern the Patient Experience. homes and preschools. By providing access the organization serves, said Dansky. environmental advocacy tip of Argentina to raise Michelle teaches sociol- to food in places organization EarthJustice, money and awareness ogy and works as an where people where he specializes in for the Range of Motion instructional designer at already gather, protecting public lands Project (ROMP), a Den- Mt. San Antonio College the organization and wildlife. Stu was ver-based organization in California. removes barriers formerly a professional that provides prosthetics to access, such as cyclist in Girona, Spain, for amputees from under- Sara Staley transportation, from 2004 to 2006. served populations in the (PhDEdu’14) time restrictions When Curt Hammerly U.S. and Latin America. ’14and Bethy Leonardi and stigma. (EnvDes) isn’t working as Through their clinics, (PhDEdu’14) won the The orga- technology manager for ROMP delivers a prosthet- Kalpana Chawla Award nization took CU’s environmental de- ic for just over $1,000. from the CU Boulder shape in 2011 sign program, he’s making Alumni Association for after Hayden art, usually ceramics. Sarah Danser their work around topics saw research by Curt makes mugs, pots, (EPOBio) par- of gender and sexual di- Caleb Phillips planters and accessories, ’13ticipated in her second versity in schools. The two (MCompSci; as well as posters. He survival challenge on research associates and PhD’12) that sells his work on Etsy. He Discovery Channel’s instructors in CU’s School concluded started making art after he “Naked and Afraid XL.” of Education founded A enough food is wasted daily in Boulder “You don’t know what people need broke his neck and need- She was dropped in Queer Endeavor, an initia- and Broomfield Counties to feed every- until you really ask. Food is this tool that ed a creative outlet. South Africa’s Selati tive providing educators one there who goes hungry. enables us to have these relationships in River Basin, near Kruger with guidance, vocabulary In partnership with the national food order to understand what people really Molly McShea National Park. The show and tools for developing access organization Food Not Bombs, want, and what they really need,” said (Fin) and her premiered May 6 and ran school cultures that are Hayden, Caleb and three others started Dansky. “Food connects people.” ’11sister founded Livalit for 12 weeks. For her first safe, supportive and ac- hosting a free weekly meal outside Travel in 2017. The firm challenge, she success- cepting of LGBTQ youth. the Boulder Public Library using food By Amanda Clark (MJour’19)

57 FALL 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Boulder Food Rescue Coloradan FALL 2018 58 CLASS NOTES In Memoriam Sally Dickinson Moore (Art’41) Wayne L. Gardner (Engr ex’53) Paul L. Wilson (ElEngr’59) Theodore M. Singer (A&S’66) Orrin E. Watson (MechEngr’41) Suzanne Ginsburg Adler Iris Wright Wisniewski (A&S ex’59) Robert M. Wood (Arch’66) Wallace A. De Beque (ElEngr’43) (A&S ex’53) Bernadette M. Borelli (A&S ex’60) Daniel J. Clasen (AeroEngr’67) Mary Elliott Skinner Oliver W. Gushee Jr. (DistSt’53) Weston E. Hulse (Acct’60) Justine Rodriguez Kirk (A&S’67) (CompSciAp’43) Stanley G. Huskey (A&S’53) Leo J. Lange (PhDMath’60) Fern C. Lund (Nurs’67) Jack E. Bridges (ElEngr’45; MS’47) William F. Jackson (A&S’53) Judith Christensen Mikelson Maureen Oddone (A&S’67) Herbert V. Cook (Mktg’45) Margaret Fox Mandel (A&S ex’60) Deah Kidd Piccoli (Engl’67) Charles B. Howard (A&S ex’45) (MedTech’53) Kenneth M. Ohlander Jr. (Mktg’60) Faith Ingalls Rogers (Jour’67) Betty Muth Schneider (Jour’45) Patricia Wilson Martin (Pharm’53) Frank R. Beigbeder (MMgmt’61) Arthur Thomas Biddle (Law’68) Margaret Pannell Fleming (A&S’46) Sharlene Stevens McKibben Patrick H. Butler (Law’61) William R. Clark (ElEngr’68) Betty Longley (A&S’46) (A&S’53) Pat A. Girard (A&S ex’61) Alan L. Dudley (Phys’68) Marilyn Johnston Mertz (A&S’46) Janice P. Rippy (Art’53) William L. Holcomb (Advert’61) Stephen S. Graves (Mktg’68) Wallace K. Reed (A&S’46) Kent R. Rogers (ArchEngr’53) James F. Large (AeroEngr’61) Marron Spencer Honigman Howard M. Rupp (PreMed’46; Gerald E. Rudolph (A&S’53) Richard L. Meyer (Mktg’61) (Edu’68) MD’48) Charles E. Snyder (Engr ex’53) Linda Edwards Morgan (A&S’61) Paul C. Roads Jr. (DistSt’68) Jack R. Williams (CivEngr’46) Katherine Marshall Black (A&S’54) Alan T. Sanborn (Bus’61) Isaac Green (Engl’69; Nurs’75) Mildred Baker Leslie (Nurs’47) Nancy Roberts Buice (MPE’54) Richard J. Spelts (Acct’61; Law’64) John Kelley (Mgmt’69) Charles F. Baker (MechEngr’48) Marian Slininger Gibson Gulardo Harley D. Swanson (A&S’61) Cecilia Linenbrink (PhDA&S’69) Helen Alexander Bell (DistSt’48) (A&S ex’54) Gene R. Arehart (MA&S’62) Robert E. Schuhmacher (DistSt’69) Bob Bown (ChemEngr’48) G. Keith Eberhardt (CivEngr’54) Elaine E. Hoffmann (MEdu’62) Barbara Hougnon Avery Marcia McWilliams Bystrom Donna Greif Hillmar (Edu’54) Marilyn Smutny Jacobs (Soc’62) (A&S ex’70) (A&S’48) Stephen J. Maddock (Geol’54) Eloise M. Johnson (A&S ex’62) Richard K. Cromwell (DistSt’70) Marilyn Moore Drendel (A&S’48) Louis M. Perlmutter (Hist’54) John C. Lockridge Jr. (A&S’62) Cora Mildred Forbush (A&S ex’70) Leonard M. Perlmutter (DistSt’48) Bernard B. Powell (A&S’54) Donald W. McElfresh (CivEngr’62) Edward H. Haffey (Law’70) Robert J. Weinberg (Mktg’48) Gerald E. Abrahms (Geol’55) Donald P. Traut (ChemEngr’62) Yee Chien Hu (PhDChemEngr’70) David E. Brackett Jr. (A&S’49) Frederick A. Esgar (Fin’55) Robert E. Walsh Jr. (Hist’62) Evelyn M. Johnson (MPubAd’70) Ernest E. Faulk (ElEngr’49) Gene E. Fischer (Law’55) Rudolph Gomez (PhDA&S’63) Richard L. Newby (PhDEngl’70) Ernest E. Hampton (DistSt’49) Richard S. Olinger (Mgmt’55) Lorna E. Halldow (A&S ex’63) Hamilton Williams (MMechEngr’70) John Klemenic (ChemEngr’49) William J. Boyle Jr. (EngrPhys, F. Dean Lillie (MPerServ’63; EdD’70) Alan T. Arthur (PhDBio’71) Corlis R. Sapin (MPsych77; PhD’79) Mark W. Yenter (MCivEngr’90) John M. Longway (Fin’49) Mktg’56) Romeda Milliken (A&S’63) John M. Chase (Psych’71) Eloise Malpass (MBA’78) Robert A. Koenig (MBA’91) Mildred Island Lussky (Nurs’49) Boyd R. Brown (Geol’56) Dan Stoica (MA&S’63) Carol G. Guy (MSpan’71) Robert E. Norland (Engr’78) Valerie Rae Silva (Soc’93) Kenneth C. Rothschopf (Acct’49) Bruce R. Johnson (Acct’56) Harry B. Sutliff (A&S’63) Virginia Kerr Lindsley (Edu ex’71) Leon A. White (Rec’78) Chad P. McArthur (Engr’94; William A. Wills Jr. (Mgmt’49) Mari C. McGowan (MEdu’56) Bernard E. Trainor (MA&S’63) Elinor M. Miller (PolSci’71) Donald G. Brotzman Jr. (A&S ex’79) CivEngr’97) Hugh S. Andrew (CivEngr’50) Joyce Furstman Meyer (A&S’56) Travis R. Vardell (A&S’63) Terry Lee Noble (Acct’71) James W. Cooksey (MEdu’79) William A. Pascoe (Law’97) Leona Bobrecker Cohen Dorcas M. Murray (Fren’56) W. Don Budge (MCivEngr’64) Inez Schmidt Prather (Soc’71) Maria Fera (MPhil’79) Robert L. Fairchild (Psych’98) (A&S ex’50) Richard D. Waggoner (MMus’56) John E. Doerges (A&S ex’64) Sheldon R. White (Engr ex’71) Samuel S. Dow (MElEngr’81) Allison Price Groff (Anth’98) Lewis E. Gary (Mktg’50) Philip H. Barry (MechEngr’57) Lonnie Anderson Greenfield Sharene Leonard Owen Janice L. Fraser (MBA’82) David M. Kurtiak (MTeleCom’98) Robert C. Haring (MFin’50) Tracy N. Burt (Fin’57) (A&S’64) (A&S ex’72) Tracy L. Kelvie (EPOBio’82; MD’87) Elias L. Martinez (PhDEdu’98) Chester L. Johnson Jr. (ElEngr’50) Robert D. Colvin (IntlAf’57) Daniel J. Grimm (PE’64) Richard B. Pearce (EPOBio’72) Sherry D. Oaks (MHist’82; Tonya M. Robinson (Anth’99) Jack E. London (CivEngr’50) John P. Fabian Jr. (A&S ex’57) James F. Haley (ElEngr’64) Zoe Norman Shomate (A&S’72) PhDGeog’87) Cory J. Witulski (Math ex’01) Elroy F. Reep (CivEngr’50) Kathryn Meade Garnett (A&S ex’57) Donald E. Harley (CivEngr’64) Janice L. C. Wilfong (Engl’72) Victor D. Phillips (PhDBio’82) Peter B. Castle (PolSci, Soc’02) Jeanne Cauthen Smith (A&S ex’50) Diane Shaw Knipe (A&S’57) Holly Johnson Lanahan (Engl’64) Dwight E. Beman (Mus’73) Donald A. Powell (Geog’82) Samuel L. Sorkin (Law’03) Noble C. Smith Jr. (ElEngr’50) Robert S. Fleming (Geol’58) Margery Mack Mead (A&S ex’64) Susan Chidley (Psych’73; MS’75) Eric O. Anderson (IntlAf’83) Ben Saypol (MMus’04; PhDThtr’11) Robert W. Tobey (ElEngr, Fin’50) Benita Anne Glow (A&S’58) Ted L. Roselius (MBA’64; PhD’69) Frances McCord Hutcheson Richard M. Holmes (Law’83) Brandon T. Shibao (Fin’04) Dorothy Wolff Vale (Mgmt’50) Hugh T. 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59 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan FALL 2018 60 on a trailer ready to travel under Bob Devaney and 21-24, Summer 2018]. to the buyer’s proper- later Tom Osborne. In Having been inducted ty. Quietly, one of the fact, we beat them twice into the CU Heritage Murphy brothers told us during my three years Center’s gallery of FALL 2018 the machines had been at CU and they weren’t notable alumni the same purchased by Frank Op- even the best team in year as Ruth Cave penheimer and his broth- the conference. We Flowers (A&S’24), I am Former CU er Robert for the farm won the conference my glad to see Lucile get physicist property they had bought senior year and beat the her overdue recognition. Frank near Pagosa Springs. best team, Kansas, 20- It reminds me of the Oppen- Shortly after that, 19 in the most exciting story about my great- heimer. Frank Oppenheimer game I’ve ever watched uncle James Herman walked past us. I noticed at any level. Banning. For years, his piercing blue eyes, However, by the time aviation historians and which seemed to be I returned from service his own family thought staring at me. I suspect as a Marine officer in Banning was the first he was wondering why Vietnam, Nebraska African American to a girl in her 20s was at a was king of the heap. earn a pilot’s license John Deere dealership. I attended a game in in the United States, in I would have wondered Boulder easily won by 1926. However, about 10 why a physicist was buy- the Cornhuskers in the years ago we all learned ing farm equipment, if 1966-67 timeframe. All that Emory Malick was Mr. Murphy had not told I recall about the game indeed the first, having us a few minutes before. is they beat us hand- earned his in 1912. Of Irene Eggers ily. What I have never course, the first African (MusEdu’60) forgotten, however, was American woman to earn Wheat Ridge, Colo. departing Folsom Field a pilot’s license was among a boisterous but Bessie Coleman, who WHAT WORD IS THAT? good-hearted crowd of earned hers in France Sleighted, slated, Nebraska fans wearing in 1921. These pioneer sleighed, slighted — what their red cowboy hats pilots are all included the heck is that word on with the white letter N in my Oxford University page 4 [Table of Con- on the front. There was Press online photo tents, Summer 2018]? some good-natured rib- essay “Early African Thanks for giving us bing going on with their American Aviators.” many other good words! declaration of victory Philip S. Hart (Soc’66) Lee Shannon again over our school, Los Angeles (MEdu’72) which I was able to bring Denver to a halt by turning and agreeing that they had Editor’s Note: You’ve the best football team, caught us inserting an e but then calling their at- where none belongs. The tention to what we had: word should be slighted, The great snowcapped THE PHYSICIST AND HIS JOHN DEERE meaning “to treat with Rocky Mountains in the humiliating discourtesy.” background. Knowing PAUL DANISH’S Thanks for reading care- that they were heading As a student in the late fully and for keeping us back to nondescript MEMORIES OF HIS 1950s, I accompanied my on our toes. Nebraska, they had no F-35s father to the John Deere comeback and were Enjoyed the story of the FRIENDSHIP WITH dealership belonging to BIG RED MEMORIES forced to eat humble pie! two CU grads that fly the John and Franklin Murphy I enjoyed the recent Lynn I. Terry (Jour’62) F-35. I graduated from FRANK OPPENHEIMER in Longmont. My father, letters from alumni Sedona, Ariz. CU in 1962 and was the a Boulder County farmer, regarding their memo- first VP and program [SUMMER 2018] had been a customer of ries of past CU games LUCILE manager of the F-35 at the Murphys’ dealership with Nebraska. I have a What an inspiring story Lockheed Martin. BROUGHT TO MIND since I was a young child. favorite I’d like to share. about Lucile Berkeley David Wheaton We noticed a load of Nebraska was not yet Buchanan Jones (AeroEngr’62) A MEMORY: several farm machines the power they became (Ger1918) [“Lucile,” pp. Colleyville, Texas 61 FALL 2018 Coloradan Photo courtesy Stanley Fowler, © Exploratorium Coloradan FALL 2018 62 OF ABOUT CLASS NOTES We each receive our LIST 10 GETTING SOCIAL VOLUME 23, NUMBER 1 own issue of the alumni 10 CU STARTUPS FALL 2018 magazine. My summer issue had Class Notes 1. 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Folsom Field hosts the Ea- gles. The band opened the show with “Hotel Califor- nia” and concluded with a four-song encore: “Rocky Mountain Way,” “James Dean,” “Take It Easy” and “Tequila Sunrise.” Been to a concert at Folsom? Send a memory of your first or favorite to [email protected]. We’ll publish a selection of anecdotes in an upcoming issue.

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