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Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage Alumni Association PAID 459 UCB PPCO Boulder, CO 80309-0459 Alumni MagazineSummer2017 OF FOOD? THE FUTURE COULD ITBE CRICKET THIS ISA NOWMARCH 2017 Wildfires burned about 2 million acres in the United States in the early months of 2017. Here a slurry bomber drops retardant on the Sunshine Canyon fire west of downtown Boulder on Sunday, March 19. No one was injured and no buildings were destroyed. Firefighters fully contained the 74-acre fire by the next afternoon. But residents of more than 400 homes were forced to evacuate temporarily. The wildfire likely began as a campfire, investigators said. Indeed, humans start most U.S. wildfires — 84 percent of them from 1992 to 2012, according to recent research by CU Boulder scientists. See page 7.

1 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan PhotoColoradan by Paul Aiken/ SUMMERDaily Camera2017 2 FEATURES EDITOR’S NOTE

It was a Sunday morning 15 Superfood in April, sunny, not quite Will Americans eat insects? Dave Baugh warm. I was casting (Mgmt'10) and twin brother Lars are betting on it. about for an adven- ture for myself and my daughter Waverly, now 21 American Eclipse almost two. CU astronomer Douglas Duncan has some advice Might CU’s Museum of about this summer's total eclipse: Don't miss it. Natural History be open? Indeed, 10 to 4! Off to campus we 23 Mysteries of the Teenage Brain zoomed in our bright Teenagers think and act differently from grownups. orange Subaru. CU's Marie Banich is helping us see why. We parked at the alum- ni center, marched up Broadway, then weaved 27 Enter the Biography southeasterly past cam- In Kung Fu film star Bruce Lee, CU's Daryl pus cottages, brooks and Maeda sees a symbol of the modern world. bicycle racks. Beneath the climbing sun, remnant snowfall van- 29 No Piano? No Problem ished into crackling earth. Kristof Klipfel's (TAM'17) musical gloves turn There was no one around. any surface into a keyboard. By the museum entrance we paused to soak in the silence of 33 The Risk of Being Undistinguished the adjacent amphithe- Two CU Boulder scholars, one named Zax, find ater, vacant. We bathed value in having a last name that starts near A. in sunshine amid drip- ping snowmelt. Then we communed 37 Girl Power with fossil forms and For years, the Taliban banned music in Afghanistan. butterfly wings. Now the country has its first all-female orchestra — Waverly patted and Allegra Boggess (Mus’07) to thank. petrified wood. I pho- tographed her beside a Triceratops skull. She COVER Among people who eat insects, beheld a scarlet macaw. crickets are a common choice. Photo by All for the first time. iStock GlobalP (cricket) and Givaga (plate). What a place to be a child this university is! LEFT The 69th annual Conference on World Or a full-grown adult. Affairs brought thousands of people to cam- pus April 10-14 for nearly 200 talks, panels Eric Gershon and performances, including an improv aerial dance featuring Lena Gutschank, left. She is a founding member of the German circus research and lobby group Netzwerk Zirkus. Photo by Patrick Campbell.

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1 NOW Wildfire 8 BOULDER BEAT 35 INFOGRAPHIC 49 Sports 65 THEN Paul Danish Sleep Boulder in Summer 5 INQUIRY 55 Class Notes Lucy Sanders 11 LOOK Class of 2017 45 Alumni News 62 Letters CONTACT ERIC GERSHON AT 7 Campus News 13 ORIGINS CU in Court 47 Q&A with the Chancellor [email protected]

3 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2017 4 INQUIRY LUCY SANDERS

COMPUTING POWER You served as R&D vice president How is CU Boulder doing? stand — homogenous cultures lead to Women represent more than half of all new and chief technology officer at Bell CU Boulder has been a long-time and group-think. Corporations need to look U.S. college graduates but receive fewer Labs. How’d you get into computing, active member of NCWIT. The Col- at diversity and inclusion as integral to than 20 percent of computer and informa- and did you ever find yourself think- lege of Engineering and the computer their business practices, not as some- tion science degrees. Former Bell Labs ing, ‘Where are all the other women?’ science department track and analyze thing optional. executive Lucy Sanders (MCompSci’78), My father ran a corporate computing data metrics, consider different approaches leader of the CU Boulder-based National center and my older sister got an early to recruiting, develop new curricular Are any industries or prominent Center for Women & Information Technolo- computing B.S. degree. So it was part of approaches and encourage student companies notably better at recruit- gy (NCWIT), is trying to fix that. our family conversation. I also had a high persistence. They also have amazing ing, retaining and promoting women school math teacher who taught us how outreach efforts that help build the in computing than others? There’s huge demand in our econ- to program BASIC and FORTRAN — she computing/engineering K-12 pipelines. Some are starting to make progress omy for workers with computing encouraged curiosity in us. Recently the College of Arts and Sci- and we are encouraged, but there is still skills and growing interest among Working at Bell Labs was an honor. ences introduced a new B.A. program a distance to go. We advocate public students. Why aren’t there more Although women and other minority that allows even more students to enroll transparency and publication of technical women in computing? groups never achieved representative in computing-related disciplines. CU un- diversity data as a first step. Several interrelated theories exist. First, parity, we were pretty darn close and derstands this is a long-distance race. society has associated computing with much better than what many organiza- What do young women interested in something men do — it has been gen- tions achieve today. What should industry be doing computing ask you most often? dered male. This means society harbors differently? I get a lot of questions about my early an unconscious bias about ‘who does What’s NCWIT’s general strategy for The cultures at many companies, large technical work. It’s pretty amazing tech,’ and it influences what we do: Who drawing women into computing and and small, have been justifiably criti- that a high school student today cares we encourage, who we hire, who we give helping them succeed? cized over the last few years. Often, about the history of the C programming visible technical jobs to, who we promote. NCWIT unites nearly 900 organizations members of historically marginalized language or the UNIX operating system. Second, the popular media has por- across the computing ecosystem to groups are finding unwelcome, if not They want to know everything about trayed technologists in less than flattering significantly increase girls’ and women’s hostile, cultures and find it hard to ‘how it was then’ at Bell Labs. It’s a lot roles — remember the computing geek in meaningful participation. NCWIT serves contribute their ideas. It’s critical that of fun to be around them. One of our Jurassic Park? as a ‘personal trainer,’ providing advice, technical products and services are students was funded by Mark Cuban on Finally, some argue the advent of the resources, tool kits and plug-and-play created by diverse engineers — if many Shark Tank, others started a tech com- home PC led parents to encourage their programs to help them achieve their di- types of people are involved, we will pany that won a best of show award at sons more than their daughters not only versity and inclusion goals. Both women solve problems differently and we will SXSW. They are amazing. to learn more about how to use a com- and men are involved as leaders, essen- solve different problems. puter, but to explore how it works. tial to achieving lasting outcomes. It’s really not that hard to under- Condensed and edited by Eric Gershon.

5 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photograph by Christopher Carruth Coloradan SUMMER 2017 6 BOULDER BEAT By Paul Danish

SUMMER OF '67 About the only people who showed up “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” thundered more or less in real time were the hippies. Editor Eric. “This is the 50th anniversary Most CU students barely noticed. of the Summer of Love! Write something During the spring semester, some Col- about how it came down in Boulder!” orado Daily stories were still putting the Easier said than done, chief. The word hippie in quotation marks. Summer of Love — 1967, in case you’ve The real issues at CU were student forgotten, or weren’t born yet — happened power, education reform and the Viet- SUMMER 2017 on Hippie Standard Time (HST). nam War (which was taking place in News In Hippie Standard Time, things that Terrible Urgency of Now Time). happened last month really happened Students were starting to sweat over next Tuesday. And vice-versa. During the draft. Wildfire’s Human Touch the Summer of Love, things that The Student Peace Union was organiz- happened next Tuesday in Boulder hap- ing teach-ins. WILDFIRES CAN HAPPEN NATURALLY — BUT IN THE U.S., HUMANS START pened last month in San Francisco. And Paul Talmey (A&S’67; MBA’78) and MOST OF THEM con-versa. Got it? I (then a grad student) ran for student Boulder’s Summer of Love started in body president and vice president on a San Francisco in the dead of winter, on student power platform. We won. Jan. 14, 1967. The occasion was the first The Boulder Community Free School Be-In. Psychadelic psychologist Timo- got started. thy Leary, by then fired from Harvard, There was a lot of student activism dropped in to Golden Gate Park to tell — and hippies weren’t into it. Neither people to drop out. was Sigma Nu. It had a meeting over At the same time, he was at a Be-In in whether the brothers should be allowed Boulder on June 2, 1967 (HST), arriving to flash the peace sign. on Sept. 22 (HST). CU’s General Electric College Bowl Other counter-culture A-Listers team won the nationally televised com- from the San Francisco Be-In also petition. Back on campus, the team was made the scene in Boulder — on HST, treated like royalty for winning. (The CU of course. Trivia Bowl was patterned after the show.) Allen Ginsberg materialized at Nationally, the big news that summer Macky on April 14, burned incense, wasn’t the Summer of Love. It was Israel’s chanted mantras and read poetry. He’s seemingly miraculous victory in the Six never really left. Day War and riots in Newark and Detroit. The Grateful Dead did their thing in Still, the counter culture did manifest the Glenn Miller Ballroom — on April on campus a little, as when dozens of 13, 1969. To make up for being late they buses from the Wavy Gravy Bus Caravan jammed until 4 a.m. showed up outside Baker Hall. Jefferson Airplane actually played And that’s the way it was. Next Tuesday. Jennifer Balch thinks a lot about a Americans raised on Smokey the during summer of ’67 — only the concert millennia-old question: How can humans Bear’s warnings might assume all wild- took place in Colorado Springs (Hippie Paul Danish (Hist’65) is a Coloradan coexist with fire’s devastating power? fires should be eliminated. But Balch Standard Space-Time). columnist. The U.S. has experienced some of its said some burns can be helpful. largest wildfires in recent years, and her “There’s a misconception that fire research shows that humans bear much is unnatural in the ecosystem, but it’s of the blame. more complex than that,” she said. In a 2017 study, the CU Boulder ge- Balch began researching wildfire in ographer found that humans ignited 84 southern Venezuela in 2002. There the in- percent of American wildfires from 1992 digenous Pemón tribe deliberately burns to 2012, making fire season a year-round overgrowth to keep it from fueling large phenomenon and increasing annual wildfires. The U.S. may need to intensify firefighting costs to $2 billion. its use of proactive, managed burns to The comprehensive study underscored curb wildfire destruction, she said. the extent that humans can — and do — Balch next plans to use satellite affect the landscape with fire. technology and terrestrial mapping to “Fire is an integral part of human identify areas where humans and wild- existence,” said Balch, who directs the fires are likely to overlap. campus’ Earth Lab. “But we are also vulnerable to it.” By Trent Knoss

7 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Illustration by Richard Mia Collection © iStock/Tar_Heel_Rob Coloradan SUMMER 2017 8 Campus News

FOR HEARTBREAK, TRY…ANYTHING Superfast Marathon We might have more control over the pain of ro- DIGITS mantic rejection than we realize, according to new CU BOULDER SCIENTISTS SHOW THE WAY TO A SUB-2-HOUR FINISH research led by CU Boulder scientists. CU IN 1967 In a brain-imaging study of 40 subjects recent- The average finish time in U.S. mar- kamer, 35, who worked with professor ly involved in an “unwanted romantic breakup,” athons is well over 4 hours. No one’s Rodger Kram of CU’s Locomotion Lab. researchers found that administering a placebo done it in less than 2. As it happened, Adidas promptly came — basically, a fake medicine — diminished both Total fall enrollment But recent CU Boulder research out with such a shoe, the Adizero Sub2, negative feelings and also activity in brain regions affirms that a sub-2-hour finish is pos- two days before the CU paper appeared associated with rejection. sible and calculates how much certain in the journal Sports Medicine — “a very “Doing anything that you believe will help you strategies can help. funny coincidence,” Hoogkamer said. feel better will probably help you feel better,” said “A sub-2-hour marathon could Nike, which sponsors research in CU’s Leonie Koban, a postdoctoral research associ- happen right now,” said postdoctoral the Locomotion Lab, recently intro- ate in psychology and neuroscience and the study’s Tuition$286 per year for Colo- researcher Wouter Hoogkamer, who led duced its own ultralight, super bouncy lead author. rado residents the project and last year finished his marathon sneaker, the Zoom Vaporfly The research paper, first marathon in 2 hours, 44 minutes. Elite 4%. “Frontal-brainstem path- The official world record, held by But featherweight bouncy shoes ways mediating placebo Dennis Kimetto of Kenya, is 2 hours, alone won’t do the trick. The CU study effects on social rejec- 2 minutes, 57 seconds. (A faster finish reported that the runner would also tion,” was published in $ 1,13 4 Tuition per year for in a Nike experiment in May had not need to draft off other runners or get a the Journal of Neuroscience. non-residents (begin- been certified as of press time.) boost from a tailwind of about 13 miles For further details, ning fall 1967) The CU study calculates how an per hour — on a racecourse with a visit colorado.edu/today elite runner — someone already cov- long, slightly downhill stretch. and search “breakup” ering 26.2 miles in just over 2 hours Hoogkamer, a former track athlete and “placebo.” — could shave about 3 minutes. from the Netherlands, ran the Boston FIRSTRalphie run through All the scenarios involve some Marathon on April 17. Nike didn’t have mixture of a friendly racecourse with the Zoom Vaporfly Elite in his size yet, HEARD AROUND CAMPUS Folsom Field a slight downhill stretch, a tailwind or so he wore his regular running shoes. fellow racers blocking headwind — and Even so, he improved his best time by “THERE IS PROBABLY NOT the right footwear. about three minutes, clocking 2:41:03. Sneakers weighing 130 grams, about “I started out a little too fast on the AS MUCH GANG-JOINING 100 grams less than those typically downhills,” he said. worn by the likes of Kimetto, would HAPPENING IN PRISON AS shave a minute, according to Hoog- EG WE ONCE THOUGHT.” Cost to see student pro- — CU Boulder criminologist David Pyrooz, author duction of Oklahoma! at of recent research that casts doubt on the common Macky Auditorium belief that prisons foster gangs.

VENTURE CAPITAL A sports-related film editing platform, an adjustable 4,700Students voting in a socket for prosthetic legs and a digital networking Nov. 8 campus elec- platform for aspiring musicians took home the top tion: Topics included prizes at CU Boulder’s ninth annual New Venture the Vietnam War and Challenge competition in April. the legalization of marijuana In all, entrepreneurs won nearly $100,000 in awards and investments. Established in 2009, the challenge is a business de- velopment and mentorship program for CU Boulder students, faculty and staff. Teams form in the fall, de- velop their ideas during the academic year and pitch them to a panel of judges in the spring. The 2016-17 winners are, respectively, Give & Go Pages in The Seer, a (film), ReForm (prosthetic socket) and Gigsicians booklet published by (musician networking). CU student government The challenge maintains lists of winners at colora- evaluating teachers and do.edu/nvc. courses

9 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Illustration by Brian Stauffer © iStock/Eugene_Axe Coloradan SUMMER 2017 10 LOOK CLASS OF 2017

YOUR SHOULD AND YOUR WANT There were six students in CU Boulder’s first graduating class, in 1882. At commence- ment 2017, Friday, May 12, the university honored nearly 6,300 students — more than 4,600 undergraduates and 1,600 graduate and professional students. Commencement is a big day for all graduates — and important enough to Chi- dobe Awuzie (Mgmt’16), the 60th overall NFL draft pick, that he skipped his first day of pro football camp to walk in the Folsom Field ceremony. In fact, despite the demands of also playing Division I football, Awuzie finished his degree in just three-and-a-half years. CU Boulder’s 2017 cohort also included the largest Air Force ROTC commissioning class in the nation and 10 students who earned straight A’s every semester, among all manner of other standouts. In addressing the graduates, Kate Fagan (Comm’03), ESPN writer and former Buff basketball star, offered a thoughtful take on how to assess one’s circumstances at any given phase of life. "Life is best when your ‘should’ and your ‘want’ are aligned,” she said. “When they're divergent, ask yourself why."

11 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photos by Glenn Asakawa and Casey A. Cass ORIGINS CU and the SUPREME COURT

SALT OF THE EARTH Byron White (Econ’38) secured a place in the annals of American law when he joined the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. His one-time clerk Neil Gorsuch, a former visiting Colorado Law professor and the court’s newest justice, won his place in April. By then, Wiley B. Rutledge (Law’22) lay deep in the history books: The first CU Boulder graduate to serve on the nation’s highest court joined in 1943. Often overlooked due to his short tenure — he died six years later — Rut- ledge nonetheless established himself as a model of collegiality whose amia- ble, humble, tough-but-fair ways helped stabilize a group of quarrelsome peers. “Wiley Rutledge had this real skill of making people feel valued and that they were heard,” said Craig Green, a Temple University law professor who has written about Rutledge. A committed advocate for child labor laws, Rutledge used his brief Supreme Court tenure to bolster freedom of speech and religion, the separation of church and state and limits on executive power. Born in Kentucky in 1894, Rutledge studied in Tennessee and at the Univer- sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He began law school at Indiana University while teaching high school, but left to work full time and save money. He and his wife, Annabel, resettled in Albuquerque, taught and kept saving. In 1920 Rutledge resumed law school at CU. Again he taught, at the now van- ished Boulder State Preparatory School. Rutledge earned his degree, joined a local firm and then CU’s law faculty. In 1939, after serving as law dean at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Iowa, he became a judge, named to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Four years later, he was on the Su- preme Court. A tireless worker with high blood pres- sure, a smoking habit and a taste, Green said, for “meat and potatoes,” Rutledge died in 1949 after a stroke. He was 55. A half-century later, a major biog- raphy appeared. Author John Ferren called it Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court. The title says it all.

By Eric Gershon

13 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photo courtesy Rutledge family Coloradan SUMMER 2017 14 SUPERFOOD

WILL AMERICANS EAT INSECTS? DAVE BAUGH AND TWIN BROTHER LARS ARE BETTING ON IT.

By Eric Gershon FOOD SUPERFOOD

Lithic Nutrition founders Lars (left) and Dave (Mgmt'10) Baugh blend their cricket protein pow- der into a smoothie.

Kurt Perkins rarely eats before 10 Nutrition, a start-up health foods com- starting with flavored cricket bars and Americans may find the thought of a.m. and usually not until afternoon, a pany founded by former U.S. Marine cricket-protein powders for mixing eating insects unappetizing, but else- practice he calls “intermittent fasting.” Dave Baugh (Mgmt’10) and his iden- into smoothies and baked goods. None where in the world bugs are a dietary When the time comes, he reaches for a tical twin brother, Lars, a University of of their products look anything like staple. A 2013 United Nations report protein bar made of cricket. Arizona graduate. insects or insect parts, and their pack- estimates that at least two billion hu- The Colorado Springs chiropractor For all Perkins’ enthusiasm about mans eat insects, primarily said fasting promotes health by mini- the Baughs’ bars, he isn’t oblivious to in Asia and Africa, but also mizing strain on the digestive system. the challenge they face in selling Amer- BILLIONS EAT BUGS in Latin America. Beetles, He likes cricket bars because of their icans on insects as food. caterpillars, bees, wasps and exceptionally high protein content and “The biggest hurdle is going to be West- WORLDWIDE crickets are common fare. keeps a supply on hand for patients, too. ern culture,” he said. “The ‘ick-factor.’” As the Baughs and “I brought ’em home to my kids — The Baughs, 28, know it, too: aging bears no bug imagery, though it’s a handful of other insect protein five, three and a one-year-old,” he said. “There’s a huge education component clearly labeled “cricket protein.” entrepreneurs see it, bugs could, and “They chowed it down. It passed the to the whole thing,” said Dave, who “This is a nice easy way to ease should, have a place in the U.S. diet, kid taste-test.” discovered insect-eating while sta- people into it,” said Dave, who lived too. The brothers know of a handful of Perkins gets his flavored cricket bars tioned in Asia with the Marines. in Arnett Hall at CU and played water domestic competitors, one of which, — blueberry vanilla, banana bread and That’s why the amiable brothers, polo. “Everybody’s used to what pro- Utah-based Chapul, appeared on the dark chocolate brownie — from Lithic clean-cut and quick to laugh, are tein bars look like.” reality TV show Shark Tank in 2014 and

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ultimately received an investment from products. They emphasize that humans The timing was right, too. In high “If there’s a window of opportuni- Mark Cuban. are well adapted for processing insects, school, both brothers had their sights set ty to go for it, it’s now,” said Dave, The marketplace has sent other en- having eaten them for millennia. on CU Boulder. But the twins agreed it mindful that he and Lars are young, couraging signals. “We’re giving you what your body’s was important for them to experience unencumbered bachelors. In March the Wall Street Journal ran used to,” Lars said. life separately for a while, so they flipped a front-page story about insects as Then there’s the environmental a coin to decide who would apply. Dave BUG BANQUET an emerging food fad titled “Millen- benefit: Raising crickets is less resource won, and they’d been apart ever since, at To be sure, Lithic is still a start-up. The nial Entrepreneurs Think Americans intensive than farming cattle, a tradi- times separated by oceans and conti- brothers, who have mainly financed Should Eat More Bugs.” In April the tional protein source for Americans. nents. They were ready to reunite. Lithic from savings, are still living Baughs were invited to participate in Growing one pound of cricket protein In fall 2014 a business plan began with mom and dad and have yet to pay Twitter’s annual “snack fair” at the requires less than one gallon of water, taking shape. Within six months, themselves a salary. As of May, they firm’s San Francisco headquarters. according to the UN report “Edible Dave, then stationed in San Diego and were personally making and packaging And Amazon has agreed to add Lithic Insects: Future Prospects for Food and surfing before work most days, told every one of their cricket protein bars. products to its inventory this summer, Feed Security,” which runs nearly 200 his commanding officer he planned to But good things are happening. starting with pure cricket flour. The pages. For one pound of beef, it takes resign to start a bug-food business. By early 2017 demand had grown flavored bars, which retail for $2.99 2,500 gallons. “‘You what?’” Dave said, recalling the sufficiently to warrant plans for mass each and typically sell in variety packs commander’s reaction. “‘That sounds production through a third-party man- of 12, will come next, the Baughs said. THIS IS THE ONE crazy! I don’t understand.’” ufacturer. This will allow the brothers They believe one consumer cat- Dave was the first of the twins to give Lars left his job, too, and in Septem- to devote more of their time to sales egory will be especially receptive: bugs a try. It was 2013 and he was in ber 2015 the brothers moved in with and marketing. Hard-core, diet-conscious athletes Asia with the Marines. During a jungle their retired parents in Centennial, Already they’re regulars at trade — “people,” Dave said, “who might survival exercise with the Thai military, Colo., and got to work. shows and food fairs, and they make already eat things considered different the Thais began roasting whole grass- They applied for and received FDA appearances at gyms that stock their for the nutritional benefits.” hoppers and crickets over an open fire and other licenses. They rented a bars. In January they participated in a and offered to share. 1,000-square-foot factory-warehouse “Bug Banquet” hosted by Linger, said WHY EAT INSECTS? “I’m a try-everything-once kind of in Aurora, east of Denver, Advocates of insect-eating, or ento- guy,” said Dave. “I said ‘absolutely!’” and they began import- mophagy, cite a few basic arguments for Roasted and salted, they tasted “kind ing finely ground cricket it, all practical: Bugs are plentiful, nu- of like a potato chip,” he said. powder from a farm in I'M A TRY-EVERY- tritious and generally easy to cultivate When Lars, then working in corporate Thailand. They also hired at low environmental cost. sales in Denver, saw a picture of Dave a contract food scientist THING-ONCE KIND Crickets, for example — the Baughs and his snack on Facebook, he remem- to help develop their first use a tropical species, Acheta domesticus bered reading an article about insect products, the all-natural OF GUY. — offer more calcium per gram than protein and eventually began wondering flavored protein bars, introduced in to be Denver’s only restaurant with in- milk, more iron than spinach and more if there might be a business in it. mid-2016. sects on the menu (cricket-and-cassava vitamin B12 than salmon, they said. The twins’ entrepreneurial bent was Along the way, they raised more than empanada, for instance). In April they Crickets are also rich in protein: Pure well established. As preteens they'd col- $12,000 through a Kickstarter cam- flew to San Francisco for the Twitter cricket flour is 67 percent protein by lected and resold stray hubcaps and golf paign, won CU Denver’s business plan event. And in May they planned to weight, they said, compared with about balls. And while living apart for nearly a competition and its $9,500 prize and attend Los Angeles’ Annual Bug Fair 35 percent for lean ground beef. decade, they exchanged ideas for future assembled a board of advisors that in- for the second year running. Said Dave: “This is a superfood.” enterprises. cludes Justin Gold, founder of Justin’s Amid all this, they’re filling orders The brothers cast insect protein as an “We began thinking, ‘This is the one,’” Nut Butters, the Boulder firm acquired for paying customers: One Tennessee alternative to better-known protein-rich said Lars. “‘We could be on the leading last year by Hormel Foods, maker of family regularly orders two pounds food sources, such as whey and soy edge of a food supply revolution.’” Skippy and Spam. of 100-percent pure cricket flour for blending into smoothies and pancakes. “That’s our ultimate goal,” Dave said, “to get that normalization in the American diet.” Protein-Rich Hooking more Americans on insect Non-GMO LITHIC BARS protein will take time, and bugs may All Natural never become a staple food source. But Sustainable as the Baughs' fellow industry pioneers Soy Free have observed, another critter, once Gluten Free 100% PURE ignored, has managed to find a secure Lactose Free CRICKET

WHOLE CRICKETS niche in the national cuisine. Paleo FLOUR “At the turn of the [20th] century,” Dave said, “nobody ate lobster.”

Eric Gershon is editor of the Coloradan.

19 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2017 20 ASTRONOMY

Strange things happen when the Duncan himself will lead 275 people moon eclipses the sun. to Jackson Hole, Wyo., where the party American Once, while chasing a total solar will watch the eclipse at Grand Teton eclipse by boat in the Galapagos, CU National Park at 11:34 a.m. MST. He astronomer Douglas Duncan found chose the location four years ago after ECLIPSE himself surrounded by surfacing determining the area is likely to have whales and dolphins. clear weather. (Two total eclipses he’s CU ASTRONOMER DOUG “It was clear they knew something witnessed have been clouded out.) DUNCAN HAS SOME ADVICE weird was happening,” said the profes- Other prime viewing locations ABOUT THIS SUMMER’S TOTAL sor, who’s witnessed 10 total eclipses in include Madras, Ore.; St. Joseph, Mo.; ECLIPSE: DON’T MISS IT. spots around the world. “They watched and Nashville, Tenn., according to the eclipse and then went away.” greatamericaneclipse.com. The eclipse By Christie Sounart Another time, in Bolivia, he saw will be seen longest near Carbondale, a herd of llamas stop to observe an Ill. — for 2 minutes, 40 seconds. eclipse for three full minutes. Anyone observing a total solar Duncan, who is the outgoing director eclipse should use a pair of certified of CU’s Fiske Planetarium, can appre- solar filters, known as “eclipse glasses,” ciate these reactions: When the earth, or a handheld solar viewer — easily moon and sun perfectly align, he said, purchased online — to block the sun’s the sky “looks like a black hole into the visible and ultraviolet rays. Sunglasses, heavens” surrounded by pink flames. binoculars and cameras generally do “People scream, applaud and cry,” not offer comparable protection. he said. “It gets cold and all of the col- “The sun is powerful enough to burn ors of the landscape start to change. paper when concentrated by a lens,” said It’s like you’re in a dream.” Duncan. “That would happen in your eye This year, it will be easier for if you stared at it unprotected.” Americans to experience a total solar eclipse than it’s been in decades. On Aug. 21, 2017, the sun will be obscured IT'S HARD TO completely for roughly 2-minute bursts across a 70-mile-wide strip FORGET A TOTAL from Oregon to South Carolina. The last total eclipse over the contiguous SOLAR ECLIPSE. U.S. happened in 1979. At around 10:15 a.m. PDT on Aug. Astronomy educator Cherilynn 21, residents of Salem, Ore., will be Morrow (PhDAstro’88) of Boulder among the first in the U.S. to see the has seen three total solar eclipses, phenomenon. About 90 minutes later, including one during a trip to the residents of Charleston, S.C., will be Mediterranean Sea led by Duncan. She among the last. In all, a total eclipse plans to watch this year’s eclipse with will be visible in 12 states. friends and colleagues in Oregon. People in every state will see a “At the moment of totality,” she said partial eclipse, according to Duncan, of her first experience, in Baja in 1991, who’s studied the sun and stars for “I felt as if I were suddenly immersed more than four decades. But getting in a surreal twilight, as if the sun had TOTAL into the total eclipse’s direct path, he just set in all directions at once…in the SOLAR said, is worth the extra effort. middle of the day!” ECLIPSE “No one who has seen a total eclipse Duncan, who retires from Fiske this OF 2017 has ever forgotten it,” he said. “It’s the summer to focus on teaching at CU most amazing natural thing you’ll ever and producing videos for NASA, is al- Peak see in the sky.” ready looking beyond August’s eclipse: Eclipse A total eclipse is visible somewhere In July 2019, he’ll be on a ship racing on Earth every year or two, but to see another just off Tahiti. rarely so close to home. Americans are preparing to take advantage of For more information, visit eclipse2017. Aug. 21, 2017 Greatest the opportunity: Hundreds of public nasa.gov/events and colorado.edu/eclipse. Duration: viewing events are scheduled at parks, 2m 40.2s libraries, museums, breweries and Christie Sounart (Jour’12) is associate town centers around the country. editor of the Coloradan.

21 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan ©PRAKASH MATHEMA/Getty Images Coloradan SUMMER 2017 22 HEALTH

Mysteries of the TEENAGE Brain

TEENAGERS AND YOUNG ADULTS THINK AND ACT DIFFERENTLY FROM GROWNUPS. CU SCIENTIST MARIE BANICH IS HELPING US SEE WHY.

By Lisa Marshall

Marie Banich vividly remembers the day she first saw a human brain up close. It was a Friday morning in 1983. She was standing in a frigid basement morgue, one of two graduate students among a group of University of Chicago medical students. The air was thick with the odor of formaldehyde. Her instructor was headed straight for her with a pale, lesion-riddled slice of gray matter from a cadaver cupped in his hands: “What do you think this person died from?” he asked, pushing the specimen closer. “And then the world started to go dark,” said Banich, who raced to a nearby sink. She was mortified, but returned for the following week’s brain cutting lesson, lured by pure fascination with the then-little-understood 3-pound organ. She wanted to know more: What made her mom a leftie? Why was her dad so good at building things? And what was going on inside her own brain to enable her to, in her early 20s, grasp things she couldn’t as a teen? “I was fascinated early on with this idea that variations in the structure and func- tion of the brain actually shape the way we experience our world,” she said recently over coffee at a North Boulder café. Now a professor at CU, Banich literally wrote the book on cognitive

23 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Illustration by Dan Page HEALTH MYSTERIES OF THE TEENAGE BRAIN

neuroscience: The fourth edition of coordinate your behavior — what some her 1997 textbook Cognitive Neurosci- might refer to as your free will — that ence comes out later this year. And, as a is all still developing.” pioneer in the use of functional mag- The frontal lobes, which serve an ex- netic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain ecutive function, and the white matter, imaging in adolescents, she’s helped which helps different regions talk to shed light on why teenagers and young each other, continue to refine well into adults think — and act — differently early adulthood, for example. from adults. This year, she and other CU Meanwhile, the unfinished teen brain researchers joined a landmark multi-cen- interacts with the world uniquely. ter study that will follow 10,000 children In a series of studies in the early 2000s from age nine for 10 years to explore funded by the MacArthur Foundation, precisely how their brain changes and Banich and colleagues showed that teens what factors shape the change. lack a mature ability to conceptualize “Over the years, we’ve learned that ad- the future, have less self-control, are less olescence is an incredibly important time organized in their decision making, are for brain development, when the brain more vulnerable to peer pressure — and is particularly malleable and receptive are much more sensitive to reward than to its environment,” said Banich, of CU to punishment. By the early-to-mid 20s, Boulder’s Institute of Cognitive Science these traits tend to fade. For teenagers, "the carrot is huge and the stick is practically invisible," said CU scholar Marie Banich. and Department of Psychology and Neu- Said Banich, “In adolescence, the roscience. “But we only have broad brush carrot is huge and the stick is practi- strokes. We need a clearer picture.” cally invisible.” In one 2016 study of 466 adults who learning and memory. They all rely on Work by her and others helped had used marijuana, Banich found that fMRI as a tool. Instead of examining one MAPPING THE TEEN BRAIN influence the U.S. Supreme Court’s the earlier they started, the less devel- slice of brain at a time, they can measure Early brain research focused on dis- 2005 decision to abolish the death oped their white matter, which plays 40 slices, each divided into a 64 by 64 eased or injured brains. Neuroscientists penalty for juveniles and 2010 decision a key role in helping different parts of grid, every half second for a half hour would pore over the brain of someone to eliminate, for them, most life sen- the brain communicate. Those subjects during one scan of a healthy human. who had died tences without reporting early or frequent drug use also Currently, the center is one of 21 with cognitive parole. showed alterations in the shape of cer- test sites nationwide for the federally deficits, looking IN ADOLESCENCE, Banich’s early tain brain regions — one associated with supported Adolescent Brain Cognitive De- for lesions as writings also reward, another with memory. velopment (ABCD) study. It has already clues to which THE HUMAN BRAIN inspired a new Just what this means for behavior or begun testing teenagers. regions contro- generation of cognition is still to be determined, but Banich, who serves as co-principal in- lled what func- IS STILL A WORK IN neuroscientists. Banich said it suggests that “if you start vestigator with CU professor John Hewitt, tions. “She was a early and use marijuana a lot, there are director of the Institute for Behavioral The 1990s PROGRESS role model,” likely to be lasting effects on the brain.” Genetics, hopes the study will fill in some advent of fMRI, said UC Berke- In contrast, the experience of exercise of the many remaining gaps in our under- which measures blood flow as a proxy for ley psychology professor Silvia Bunge, or intellectual stimulation might fuel standing of the teenage brain. Is there a brain activity, allowed researchers to study who read Banich’s early work as a grad- positive brain development, she believes. phase when the brain is most sensitive healthy, living subjects and look beyond uate student and recently discussed a A self-described nerd who grew up to the effects of drugs? Of excess screen structure to see how the brain func- new Banich paper with her students. feeling out of place in a “stereotypical time? How great a role does genetics play? tioned. And because fMRI was painless, “She was part of the first generation New Jersey town where the guys wanted In her rare spare time, Banich travels — it could be used on minors. of researchers doing brain imaging re- to be football players and the girls want- sightseeing in Italy, hiking in Sedona — to Banich was hired at CU in 2000 in search to study human cognition, and ed to be cheerleaders,” Banich credits “press the reset button” on a brain she part because of her expertise in fMRI she has moved mountains to advance her parents for encouraging her to travel knows is prone to obsessing about work. techniques, then relatively new. She this field.” and to go to college. She also cares for her mother, who worked with colleagues at CU An- “Looking back on it I think I was recently had a stroke, and pursues other schutz to get a neuroimaging program PRUNING THE GRAY MATTER fortunate to end up in a really beautiful projects aimed at divining the neurological off the ground. At a time when teens are biologically environment for my brain in my late underpinnings of addiction, which afflict- At the time, scientists thought the hardwired for risky behavior, their teens and early 20s — it was the right ed one close family member, and mental teen brain had fully developed because brains may also be especially sensitive stimulus at the right time.” illness, which drove another to suicide. it was about the same weight and shape to the consequences of it. “All of these life experiences have really as an adult brain. But Banich’s work has As Banich explains it, the teen brain is FUTURE FRONTIERS humbled me and made me realize the limits shown otherwise. like a bush that’s leafing out in spring- In 2012, Banich founded the Intermoun- to what I know about the brain,” she said. “If you look at basic cognitive time, then selectively pruning itself to tain Neuroimaging Consortium at CU “There’s still so much work to be done.” abilities, they are pretty mature by age suit its environment. Exposure to drugs Boulder, bringing together neurosci- 16,” she said. “But if you look at the or trauma, for example, may stunt that entists from across the region to study Lisa Marshall (Jour, PolSci'94) writes systems that allow you to control and natural development. everything from addiction to pain to about health, science, running and parenting.

25 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photo courtesy Marie Banich Coloradan SUMMER 2017 26 Somehow it had escaped Daryl Mae- him a celebrity in Asia. The most famous da’s notice: The Museum of Modern of these in the U.S., Enter the Dragon, Art in New York was hosting a retro- reached theaters about a month after his Enter the spective of Bruce Lee’s films. death, in Hong Kong, following a bad This was in January. reaction to medicine. As luck would have it, a New York Maeda, an ethnic studies professor, said BIOGRAPHY Times reporter reached out to ask the he’ll focus on Lee as an early, extraordi- CU professor about Lee, tipping him nary example of a person who forged a IN BRUCE LEE, CU’S DARYL off to the show. new type of truly cross-cultural identity MAEDA SEES A SYMBOL OF THE “I cleared my schedule and jumped at a time of accelerating global move- MODERN WORLD — AND THE on a plane,” said Maeda, who teaches ments of people, information and ideas. SUBJECT OF HIS NEXT BOOK. a course called “Bruce Lee and the The defining synthesis of Lee’s Trans-Pacific” and is at work on a book cross-cultural existence was the hybrid By Eric Gershon about the martial arts star. form of martial arts fighting on display in his films. He mixed ele- ments of karate, taekwondo THERE'S NO BRUCE LEE and escrima (or kali) and incorporated aspects of BEFORE BRUCE LEE. Western boxing, fencing and dance also. Lee died in 1973 at age 32. He’d Typically cast as an avenger — phys- made just a handful of major films, ically small, but tough, brave, skilled of which three reached U.S. theaters and finely chiseled — Lee basically during his lifetime. invented the Asian American tough guy, But, as with James Dean, Janice Joplin conquering generations of unflattering and Jim Morrison, early death seems stereotypes about Asian men and be- only to have amplified Lee’s fame. Maz- coming a symbol of pride for Asians and da made him a central figure in a Super other racial minorities. Bowl ad as recently as 2014. His films, which appeared in the Maeda thinks Lee, already the twilight between the civil rights subject of several documentaries and and black power movements, biographies, is overdue for a deeper were hugely popular among analysis than he’s received. American blacks, according to “Studying Bruce Lee is actually a way Maeda, who aims to publish his of exploring how we come to occupy a book within two years. globalized world,” he said. “Bruce Lee is a kind of a multifarious Born in San Francisco in 1940 while figure who can mean different things his Chinese father was singing opera to different audiences,” he said. “He there, Lee grew up in Hong Kong, where contains a multitude within himself, he trained in martial arts and dance and and as a result of that people are able to appeared in about 20 minor film roles. identify with various parts of his image Later he studied philosophy and and his being.” drama at the University of Washington And yet Lee was one of a kind — and opened a martial arts school in making him an appealing subject for an Seattle. In the mid-1960s he made his ambitious book. way to Hollywood and found work in Said Maeda: “There’s no Bruce Lee television, on The Green Hornet. before Bruce Lee.” Between 1971 and his death, he starred in four films that quickly made Eric Gershon edits the Coloradan.

©Bettmann/Getty Images No Piano? No PROBLEM

ALL YOU NEED ARE KRISTOF KLIPFEL’S MUSICAL GLOVES.

By Christie Sounart

29 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2017 30 MUSIC NO PIANO? NO PROBLEM

Kristof Klipfel (TAM’17) disap- He continued drumming his fingers, links electronic instruments and en- As far as Klipfel is aware, none of peared for a moment. encased in a pair of black construction ables them to communicate. the other music gloves on the market “Sorry, I get into this,” he said dis- gloves covered in buttons, switches Basically, he said of the gloves, “It’s a have as much flexibility in sound as tractedly, absorbed in the blues beats and wires connected to his laptop. wearable electronic musical instrument.” his do. But for now, he has no plans to he was making on the fly. The harder he pressed, the louder the Klipfel is not the first person to patent or commercialize his product. Satisfied with his rhythm, he looped sound of specific notes played. Flexing develop musical gloves. the track on his laptop and began his fingers triggered a sensor that But his are unique in overlaying new notes in the key of A. adjusted overall volume and sound dis- their ability to generate tribution. By flicking any note in any key for a switch on the side major, minor, blues and IT'S A WEARABLE of a finger, he could pentatonic scales. shift from piano to A musician since 6th ELECTRONIC MUSICAL drums or saxophone. grade, when he began Software on his playing saxophone, INSTRUMENT. laptop recorded it all. Klipfel eventually “You’re always in learned dozens of Music boomed, though no instrument the right key and the right scale,” said instruments, including was in sight. the inventor, a 22-year-old senior from the trombone, drums No traditional instrument, anyway Reno, Nev. and piano. He started — Klipfel was making music through Klipfel calls his device MIDI mo- composing electronic Klipfel invented a solution for creating electronic music fast: Gloves. the gloves on his hands, using an ordi- tion gloves. MIDI stands for musical music in high school. nary table as his keyboard. instrument digital interface, which Klipfel designed the gloves in spring 2016 for a course on wearable I KNOW NOW I CAN technologies in the AT- LAS Institute, part of CREATE SOMETHING the College of Engineer- ing & Applied Science. PRETTY COMPLEX “I got tired of playing piano, then jumping to FROM SCRATCH. the computer and back and forth,” he said. “I’m just trying to graduate,” Klipfel He realized MIDI might offer a said. “I wanted to do something off solution. the wall and really cool. This ended up “The gloves as a whole are a MIDI being that.” controller,” he said. “They send specific Making the gloves introduced him signals to the music software, which to other interests and has inspired him then interprets the signal and triggers to consider careers in virtual reality, any sound I define within the program.” robotics, web development or game The gloves were Klipfel’s first expe- development, he said. rience with circuitry and robotics, and Between now and graduation next he spent a lot of time on Google figur- fall, Klipfel will devote himself to the ing out how to make everything work. drone racing club he started at CU, The project cost him about $300. hiking around Boulder and creating a “I advised Kristof to start with one video game with his brother. He’s also sensor on his glove and go from there,” working on another ATLAS side proj- said Alicia Gibb, his instructor. “He ect called Paper Mech, which aims to came in the next class with five sen- get children interested in mechanical sors working on one glove. From that engineering by using paper and house- point, I knew these gloves were going hold items to make things move. to be epic.” “There’s always new stuff that I’m In March, Klipfel took the gloves working on,” he said. “I know now to Hiyoshi, Japan, for the Tangible I can complete something pretty Embedded and Embodied Interactions complex from scratch.” conference. There he showed them off for hundreds of people at a student Christie Sounart design challenge — and walked away (Jour’12) is associate with the award for best project editor of the implementation. Coloradan.

31 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photos by Patrick Campbell Coloradan SUMMER 2017 32 ALPHABETISM

The Risk of Being UNDISTINGUISHED

TWO CU BOULDER SCHOLARS, ONE NAMED ZAX, FIND VALUE IN HAVING A LAST NAME THAT STARTS NEAR A.

By Eric Gershon

Alex Cauley and Jeffrey Zax may come By midlife, they’ve found or de- from opposite ends of the alphabet, but veloped ways to stand out and thus they see eye to eye on certain things. overcome the alphabetical bias. They agree, for instance, that the first “We don’t believe anybody’s got it letter of a person’s last name can make out for people with initials at the end of a big difference in life, and they’ve got the alphabet,” said Zax, whose research evidence to prove it. focuses on inequality. In a recent study, Zax and Cauley Another bit of good news (for some peo- (Math, Econ’12; PhdEcon’18) — a CU ple) is that the bias does not seem to apply Boulder economist and graduate student, to those who are somehow distinguished respectively — found that having a sur- — positively or negatively. The conspicu- name starting with a deep-alphabet letter, ously smart or dim and especially attractive such as Z, can be a significant disadvan- or unattractive, for example, tend to be tage. The reverse is also true, they said. noticed by teachers and others in influential Specifically, people with deep-alphabet positions, and thus get attention and oppor- surnames are less likely to perform well tunities irrespective of their surnames. in high school and less likely to attend Take Zax, for example, who would go college. If they do attend college, they’re to Harvard and become a professor. As more likely to drop out. And they’re less a child in Rochester, N.Y., his aptitude likely to land a highly desirable first job. for learning helped him stand out, he “I always thought there was going to believes, neutralizing any disadvantage be some effect,” said Cauley. “I didn’t his last name might have conferred. think it would mean this much.” “I kind of enjoyed being at the end of The CU study relied on information the list,” he said. “I was never concerned from nearly 3,300 men who graduated that I was somehow being disregarded.” from Wisconsin high schools in 1957 Similarly, Cauley, who was born in Russia and are also part of a separate long- and resettled in Wyoming as a teen, ap- term project called the Wisconsin pears immune to alphabetism: He’s noticed Longitudinal Study. no relevant difference in life since adopting Other scholars have noted conse- his stepfather’s last name at age 24, he said, quences of alphabetical ordering. Zax and although C is 10 places ahead of M, the Cauley are the first to study the influence initial of his original surname, Mikhaylov. of the first letter of the last name. But it’s been bothering Zax that, at The good news for the world’s commencements, for instance, the ear- Wagners, Youngs and Zwicks is that al- ly-alphabet graduates get all the applause. phabetism's effects seem to disappear by “By the time the Rs are going across age 35, said the researchers, whose paper, the stage,” he said, “a third of the audi- “Alphabetism: The effects of surname ence is gone.” initial and the risk of being otherwise So he tries to strike a blow against undistinguished,” is in peer review. alphabetism when he can. In his CU Zax and Cauley suggest the bias stems classes, he hands back papers and tests from the common use of alphabetical in reverse alphabetical order. ordering as an organizing method and “I’ve been doing that for 15 years,” propose that people farther from A are he said. more easily overlooked and therefore get fewer opportunities, at least early in life. Eric Gershon edits the Coloradan.

33 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Illustration by David Plunkert Coloradan SUMMER 2017 34 INFOGRAPHIC SLEEP

THE LIGHT OF THE GREAT OUTDOORS “Modern environments can significantly delay American adults don’t sleep enough: On the average our circadian timing, and late circadian work night, we come up 30-90 minutes short of what timing is associated with many health our bodies need for long-term health, according to a consequences. But as little as a weekend poll by the National Sleep Foundation. THE

Maybe we should go camping more often. camping trip can reset it.” CAMPING __ Kenneth Wright Recent research by CU Boulder sleep experts Ellen Information from: Kenneth EFFECT Stothard and Kenneth Wright show that exposure to Wright study, “Circadian Entrainment to the Natural the natural light and total darkness available outdoors Light-Dark Cycle across helps reset our internal clocks in as little as two days Seasons and the Week- SLEEP — a weekend camping trip. By resetting our clocks, end,” published in Current Biology; CDC; the National TIPS we get a chance to establish a more satisfying sleep Sleep Foundation; the pattern back at home. American Sleep Association M T W T F FUN S S FACTS One weekend of ABOUT camping can reset our SLEEP internal clocks

hours of sleep adults Avoid caffeine, alcohol 7-typically need 8 daily and large meals near for long-term health bedtime 73%

of U.S. adults watch -day camping trips can TV before bed U.S. average on work nights: jumpstart production of the2 sleep-regulating Be regular: Go to bed hormone melatonin, and wake up at the 6 hours promoting sleep at an same times daily 31 minutes earlier time z of Americans find lav- U.S. adults z ender a relaxing scent have a sleep z before bed disorder; insomnia Get bright natural 50-70 is most Camping is especially light, especially in the common effective at resetting our morning Exposure to million internal clocks because electric light it exposes us to far at night delays more natural light than natural sleep we get in the typical rhythms built environment Average number of pillows per U.S. adult

Shut off smartphones and laptops two hours A pattern of delayed before bedtime sleep is associated Our bodies respond with obesity, diabetes, quickly to the natural mood disorders and light/dark cycle other health problems

35 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan © iStock/lechatnoir Coloradan SUMMER 2017 36 GIRL Power

FOR YEARS, THE TALIBAN BANNED MUSIC IN AFGHANISTAN. NOW THE COUNTRY HAS ITS FIRST ALL-FEMALE ORCHESTRA — AND ALLEGRA BOGGESS TO THANK.

By Christie Sounart

37 SPRING 2017 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2017 38 AFGHANISTAN GIRL POWER

Afghan music sounded from the for asylum in Australia in the 1990s, orchestra in Davos, Switzerland. From returned to his home country in 2006 the concert hall’s front row, Allegra to develop Afghanistan’s first dedicated Boggess (Mus’07) listened with pride, music school, established in 2010. and cried. The 30 young women on With support from donors, includ- stage were making history. ing the World Bank, the U.S. Embassy Zohra, Afghanistan’s first all-female and the German government, ANIM orchestra, kicked off its debut Europe- enrolled dozens of children, focusing an tour at the World Economic Forum primarily on providing opportunities for the country’s most vulnerable popula- YOU COULD BE BEATEN FOR tions: street vendors, orphans and girls. LISTENING TO MUSIC. “I believe that all kids, regardless of in Switzerland in January. Boggess, their gender, should have access to their mentor, flew from Colorado to music education,” Sarmast said in a help supervise the student musicans, 2013 documentary from Al Jazeera’s the youngest of whom was 12. For her, Witness series. “I will do my utmost to the performance culminated five years’ provide more opportunity to the girls, work at the Afghanistan National In- given the challenges they are facing in stitute of Music (ANIM), the country’s this country.” only music school. Today, there are more than 65 girls “I don't think I've ever felt so proud among the school’s 250 students, who or so grateful in my entire life,” said Bog- range in age from 10 to 21. gess, a pianist who moved from Denver “I wish her to study and become to Afghanistan in 2011. “I was proud somebody,” one student’s mother, of each one of those girls, especially remembering how hard they worked over the many rehearsals we had and how many battles they fought at home, in their community and in society in general to get where they are now.” Named after a Persian music god- dess, Zohra was formed at ANIM in 2014. Boggess, 33, was a teacher in the school and helped encourage the young women to form the ensemble after they requested special Afghan arrangements to play on their own. Their enthusiasm reflected dedi- cation and bravery. Making music in Afghanistan was risky until recently: The Taliban outlawed it as un-Islamic. “When the Taliban banned music in the 1990s, all the musicians either had to leave or had to hide their instru- ments and take up menial jobs,” said ANIM students play Western and traditional Afghan Boggess. “You could be beaten for even instruments, such as the qashkarcha, pictured. listening to music.” Despite the Taliban’s overthrow in clothed in a burka, said in Witness. “I 2001, musicians are still sometimes want her to be free and bare-faced.” targeted by religious conservatives. It ANIM was Boggess’ reason for living remains rare to see instruments in the in a war zone. streets, Boggess said. But in Kabul, After graduating from CU, she felt Afghanistan’s capital, ANIM provides called to teach music to children out- safety for aspiring musicians. side the U.S. While teaching in India Ahmad Sarmast, an Afghan musicol- at a school for impoverished children, ogist who fled the country’s civil wars she visited Afghanistan and ANIM. Her

39 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photos courtesy Allegra Boggess Coloradan SUMMER 2017 40 bomber blew himself up in the auditori- um. One man was killed and 16 wounded, including Sarmast, who had shrapnel in his head and damaged eardrums. The experience changed Boggess, who did her best to fill in for Sarmast as he healed. “To think I could have died — that was the first time I realized, as passion-

I WAS PRETTY SCARED. BUT NOT ENOUGH NOT TO GO.

ate as I was about teaching music, I wasn’t ready to die for it,” she said. “It was the first time I was really afraid. I would leave the house and wonder, ‘What is going to happen to me?’” Boggess battled with her decision about whether to stay. “I was still excited and happy to be there, because I felt like part of a family,” she said. “But it was a really tough time. It was hard to come to the realization that I needed to leave.” Last August, after more than four The Zohra Orchestra is Afghanistan's first all-female orchestra. It practices in the country's only music school, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. years, she returned to Denver, where she took a job at Starbucks — “the opposite of my job in Afghanistan” — brief experience in Kabul left her want- Boggess, an experienced pianist stan,” said Patterson, now a professor and taught piano. ing more. She joined the faculty full and oboist, learned traditional Afghan at the University of Memphis. But she kept in touch with members time in August 2011, despite the AK-47s music from her colleagues and began Boggess also invited David Korevaar, of Zohra as they prepared for their in the streets and suicide bombings. arranging folk songs for her students her former CU professor. He went to concerts in Europe. And when they “I was pretty scared,” she said. “But to play on the piano. In time, she Kabul for two weeks in May 2016 to made their debut on the world stage, not enough not to go.” provided music and instruction to the work with pianists and flutists behind she was with them — with the 18- and Boggess, the youngest of three Zohra Orchestra. the school’s thick walls and manned 19-year-old female conductors and with sisters, arrived in August 2011 and saw With Afghan and other international steel gate. freshman Aziza, who, though tiny in there was plenty to do. colleagues, she worked six days a week, “We’re just validating the mission stature, learned to play double bass. “When you ban music, a country’s cul- often spending free time practicing with by being there,” he said. “The fact that “I remember when and how each of tural heritage is at stake,” she said. “The students who wouldn’t bring their instru- I can do this and share music with those girls joined the ensemble,” said school is working to bring that back.” ments home for fear of public rebuke. students who are really hungry for it — Boggess. “To think back to that time At times, other CU there’s nothing better in the world.” and then to fast-forward to watching alumni served as guest But Korevaar, who still teaches at them perform in Europe — it was in- teachers alongside CU, fears for the school’s future amid credibly emotional for all of us.” Boggess, including cellist continuing turmoil in Afghanistan. He In August, Boggess begins a new job Kimberly Patterson follows the news daily, with a frighten- as director of orchestra at Rabun Gap, a (DMus’12), her husband, ing event involving Boggess in mind. Georgia boarding school. guitarist Patrick Sut- On Dec. 11, 2014, Boggess helped “I’m already talking about how I Most of the school’s incoming ton (DMus’14), and conductor Joel organize eight students for an evening can get girls from Afghanistan to that students could not name traditional Schut (MMus’12). performance at a Kabul high school. She school to study,” she said. Afghan instruments such as the rubab, “Even with the unstable political went home with a headache, leaving the related to the lute, or the sitar, a environment, ANIM has become a students with Sarmast. As the children Christie Sounart (Jour’12) is associate plucked stringed instrument. beacon of hope in war-torn Afghani- performed on stage, a teenage suicide editor of the Coloradan.

41 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photo courtesy Allegra Boggess Coloradan SUMMER 2017 42 43 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan MAROLT HEADLINES GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY In 1990 Bill Marolt (Bus’67) made a bold decision 2017-18 TRIPS that proved historic: Then CU’s athletic director, he extended the contract of Buffs football head coach Bill McCartney. The team won its only national cham- pionship the next year. The moment was one of hundreds that defined an illustrious career. Marolt — a member of the 1964 Olympic U.S. Ski Team with Billy Kidd (Econ’69) CHINA CONNOISSEUR SUMMER 2017 and Jimmy Heuga (PolSci’73) — also served as an & TIBET News Olympic ski coach and as president and CEO of the Oct. 3-18, 2017 U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. This year, he’ll be the keynote speaker at the annual Two Buffs, One Amazing Race Golden Anniversary Club Breakfast on Friday, Oct. 27, at Folsom Field’s Touchdown Club. He and the rest of A BUFF SENIOR AND A FORMER STUDENT FOUND THEMSELVES PAIRED ON the Class of 1967 will be honored at the event, led by REALITY TV — AND IN THE HUNT FOR $1 MILLION emcee Wayne Hutchens (Mktg’67), former president and CEO of the CU Foundation. All alumni from 1967 Last June Floyd Pierce (ApMath, season, which followed 11 teams of and earlier are welcome. The breakfast takes place HOLIDAY MARKETS Econ’17) raced around the world for one two as they deciphered clues, complet- during Homecoming Weekend, Oct. 26-29. Nov. 27-Dec. 5, 2017 million dollars as a contestant on CBS’ ed physical challenges and navigated Register for the Golden Anniversary Club breakfast at The Amazing Race. foreign cities — all while avoiding elim- colorado.edu/homecoming/reunions or call Hailee Koehler at Doing it was fun, he said. Keeping it ination at designated checkpoints. 303-492-5593. to himself wasn’t. In the show’s first episode, Boulder resident Becca Droz (Anth ex’12) chose Pierce ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TIDBITS as her teammate. They CU Boulder now has its own wine — made the CU connection one red, one white. About a decade PATAGONIA on their way to Los Ange- ago, San Francisco native Jody FRONTIERS les International Airport. Harris (Econ'99) and his sister, Gingy Feb. 4-20, 2018 After filming wrapped Harris Gable, founded Caspar Estate in July and he was back on a 25-acre property in the Napa Valley foothills. In on campus, Pierce partnership with the CU Boulder Alumni Association, attempted normalcy. they’re offering limited quantities of their 2015 Sau- He kept busy as drum vignon Blanc and 2014 Cabernet Sauvignon as part of major for the marching the new Forever Buffs Alumni Wine Collection. Visit band during football foreverbuffswine.com to order your bottles. season and he planned ASTOUNDING a Boulder version of Get the scoop this Homecoming ANTARCTICA Floyd Pierce and Becca Droz in Tanzania during The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race for on some of CU’s most compelling Feb. 12-25, 2018 students during Home- research in a series of mini-lectures. Then a rising senior, he couldn’t tell coming Weekend. Douglas Duncan, director of Fiske anyone other than immediate family and Participants chalked up his enthusiasm Planetarium; Kathryn Hardin, a certain professors until the first episode to his devout interest in the show, which brain injury expert; Jim White, director of the Insti- aired in March — nearly a year after he’d he’s watched since grade school. They had tute of Arctic and Alpine Research; and Travis Rupp, been picked for the cast. no idea he’d done the real thing. instructor of classics, art history and anthropology That meant his CU community, When March 30, the day of revela- — and also a brewer at Avery Brewing — will give including fellow leaders in The Herd — tion, came, he and Droz watched the 10-minute BuffTalks on Oct. 27 in Old Main. CRUISING TAHITI & CU Boulder’s student alumni association first episode with about 150 of their FRENCH POLYNESIA — the Golden Buffaloes Marching Band family members and friends at Boulder’s In April Buffs across the U.S. met for Feb. 13-23, 2018 and the President’s Leadership Class, Rayback Collective beer garden and a meal during the third-annual (and had no idea he’d visited Italy, Panama or food truck park. biggest yet) Dinner with 12 Buffs. For more information Tanzania during his summer break. Or “Best night of my life,” Pierce tweeted Thirty-seven volunteer Buffs hosted about the Roaming that he’d be on national TV. afterward. nearly 250 young alumni and students in 24 locations Buffs travel program, “The entire experience was surreal,” Other big nights were to come: The from New York to Houston to San Diego and points email lisa.munro@ he said. Buffs survived until episode 10 (of between. One alum treated 11 Buffs at a Santa Monica colorado.edu, call Pierce, a Boettcher Scholar from 12) — broadcast the night before we restaurant. “Great people, great CU memories,” 303-492-5640 or Highlands Ranch, Colo., was one of 22 went to press. For a wrap-up story, visit tweeted Melinda Lee Ferguson (IntlBus’94), who 800-492-7743 or visit contestants on the reality show’s 29th colorado.edu/coloradan. attended a dinner in New York. colorado.edu/alumni.

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Courtesy of University of Colorado Heritage Center THE INNOVATION UNIVERSITY How are you seeing this mindset One of your three campus impera- present itself in students? tives, along with developing tomor- We have a robust venture capital and We’ve come a long way, baby. row’s leaders and positively impacting start-up accelerator system supported humanity, is to be the top university by the community to help students bring for innovation. Why is this important? their innovations to the marketplace. A lot has changed on campus since a photographer Innovation is what makes the university Two examples just this spring: A battery snapped this shot of graduation in 1905. This building, run more efficiently, gives our students made of spent brewery water that will once the university library, is home to theater and dance. the skills and mindset to be impact lead- store renewable energy, and an adjust- ers and drives new discoveries that cre- able socket for amputee limbs. Both of Magnificient trees now tower over Norlin Quad. And today’s ate new products and technologies that these resulted in student companies that graduates are genuinely excited enough to flash at least a impact humanity and our economy. will impact humanity. smile. Let’s break this down. How does it We haven’t even mentioned facul- make the university more efficient ty yet. The tradition of commencement—whether a century ago or and why is this important? That could be a whole other conversa- The more efficiently we run, the less tion. But, briefly, faculty have founded ev- today—marks a momentous milestone. What remains true dependent we are on tuition and state erything from Engineers Without Borders, is that gifts from generous alumni support the journey. funding for financial support. It’s one impacting 2.5 million people, to pharma- reason we’ve been able to offer a four- ceuticals reaching millions worldwide in year tuition guarantee and single-digit the fight against serious illness. It seems some things haven’t changed. increases for new students. Our chief financial officer is offering innovation This initiative seems personal to you. Give now and continue the tradition. workshops and seed-grant funding to We have a rich legacy of innovation. Dig- staff to pursue innovations. The resulting ital depth of field on your cellphone cam- Any Gift. Any Amount. Every Year. ideas have been inspirational — drones era began in a CU Boulder lab. The laser for exterior building maintenance inspec- was developed by a CU alumnus in 1960, tions, interpretative earbuds to cross and the first object printed by 3D printer the language barrier, especially among — a plastic cup — was made by an alum- maintenance staff, a scholarship pilot nus in 1983. His company, 3D Systems, program to incorporate nontraditional recently helped surgeons reconstruct giving.cu.edu forms of achievement in admissions cri- the facial bones of a young man injured teria. These are just a few of five dozen by a landmine in Zimbabwe. When our 303-541-1395 submissions she received, and it gets university can impact humanity in such the whole university thinking creatively. important ways, it feels very personal. 800-405-9488

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BUFFS BITS Four Buffs were selected during the NFL STATS Draft in April: Chidobe Awuzie (Mgmt’16), Ah- kello Witherspoon (EBio’17), Tedric Thomspon (Soc’17) and Jordan Carrell (Comm’16). QB Sefo Liufau (Econ’17) was among four others who signed as undrafted free agents. ... Former Buffs runnerLaura Thweatt (Soc’11) was the top American finisher in Pounds nose tackle News SUMMER 2017 By Jennifer Osieczanek the London Marathon. She finished sixth in 2 hours, Javier Edwards 25 minutes, 38 seconds. … Golfer Jeremy Paul (A&S’19) was able to (Mgmt’18) turned pro in the midst of the Buffs’ spring squat five times during Lacrosse: Emerging Powerhouse season and immediately entered a Web.com Tour team strength testing event. He fired rounds of 72 and 78, but missed the IN THIRD VARSITY SEASON, CU WOMEN GO 15-2, UNDEFEATED AT HOME cut at the United Leasing & Finance Championship. … The CU women’s distance medley relay team won a national title at the NCAA Indoor Championships. … Men’s basketball coach Tad Boyle will serve as one of Points amassed by de- two assistants to Team USA coach John Calipari (Ken- cathlete Isaiah Oliver tucky) during the Men’s U19 World Cup this summer. (StComm’18) at the Cal- ifornia Invitational, the most by a Buff in more SLOPE STARS than 40 years The Colorado ski team finished second at the NCAA Championships in March as two Buffs swept their races, taking four of eight individual titles back to Boulder. Petra Hyncicova (IntPhys’17) won both women’s Nordic races at the NCAAs in New Hamp- Sports Oliver partici- shire, and David Ketterer (Phys’20) swept the men’s pates in at CU — he’s alpine races. Hyncicova and Ketterer were named also a defensive back National Skiers of the Year by the U.S. Collegiate Ski on the football team Coaches Association. During the season, Ketterer won seven of 13 races, tying CU's alpine record for single-season victories. The Buffs, seen here playing against Stanford, this year earned their first NCAA Tournament berth. Five wins were in the slalom, two in giant slalom. Hyncicova won five of eight races, including three of four freestyle events. Three years ago, a group of 21 fresh- team wrapped up its home slate without Both Hyncicova and Ketterer return next season, men and two sophomores embarked a loss by beating Stanford for the first plus 10 others from the 2017 squad. That’s good on the first season of NCAA women’s time — on Senior Day. The Buffs capped news as CU looks to end its two-year national title Points down for CU men’s lacrosse at Colorado. The young Buffs the regular season with three consecu- drought. It hosts the 2018 NCAA Championships in basketball before rallying finished 11-8 in 2014. tive road wins at San Diego State, Saint Steamboat Springs March 7-10. to beat Washington State Fast-forward to 2017, when the Mary’s and Cal, scoring a school record in the Pac-12 Tournament, group of women that comprised coach 24 goals against Saint Mary’s. a CU postseason record Ann Elliott’s first CU recruiting class There were 10 regular-season games in emerged as a force. which the Buffs held the lead from the The Buffs finished the 2017 regular first goal onward. CU scored 18 or more season with 15 wins, 2 losses and went goals eight times. undefeated (8-0) in Boulder. The season Junior Darby Kiernan (IntlAf’18) led included CU's first appearance in the the way during the regular season with Women’s basketball’s record in JR Payne’s MPSF Tournament title game (a 16-11 48 goals and 20 assists. Senior Johnna first season as coach loss to USC) and the Buffs' first-ever Fusco (Comm’17) was next on the team NCAA Tournament berth. with 43 goals and nine assists, while CU started the season with an 11-10 senior goalie Paige Soenksen (Chin, overtime victory over No. 9 Northwest- IntlAf’17) was 14-2 in 16 games played ern, Elliott’s alma mater. By early March, and made 127 season saves. Races David Ketterer the Buffs surged into the top five na- The Buffs’ two regular-season losses won during his freshman tionally (No. 4) for the first time after an came at Stony Brook (ranked No. 5/6 season, tying the CU upset, on-the-road win over Penn State, at the time) and at Southern Cal (then alpine single-season then No. 6 and unbeaten. On April 7, the No. 9). Freshman David Ketterer proved himself an alpine champ in 2017. record

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ANCHORS AWEIGH fore he went to a regatta and we raced Ryan Davis (AeroEngr’19) of Sugar with him. It’s really cool how quick you Land, Texas, has skippered the resurrec- can pick it up. tion of CU’s dormant sailing club. New boats are on the way, and regattas at the Tell me about the crowdfunding Boulder Reservoir are on the horizon. campaign you did with the university. What’s your favorite part about Our goal was $17,000, which included sailing? new boats from Old Dominion Univer- It’s a big mix of just being out in the sity and Virginia — well, they’re used sun, being on the water, just the wind boats, but new to us — new sails, some in your face, you’re making this boat miscellaneous fixing costs, just some go fast. It’s pretty cool. To make it real- new rigging and small parts and ship- ly, really go fast, it takes some skill. ping. We raised $12,650 and so that put us at enough to buy the boats and to What’s the most intense sailing ex- cover most of the shipping costs. So, perience that you’ve ever had? we hit the real goal. We aren’t going I’ve had times when I didn’t think I’d be to buy new sails just yet and we aren’t able to get the boat back in. I was out going to be able to fix up all the things, on a Sunfish, which is a smaller one-per- but we’ll have better, sailable boats son boat, almost like a learner boat. It’s here that are all going to be standard got a big sail, so when the wind really so we can host regattas and races. starts to blow and you’re going down- wind, there’s not a good way to slow What kind of boats are you yourself down, so you have to go down- getting? wind to get back home and you’re just They’re called 420s and they’re called going to haul doing it. I actually pitch- that because they’re 4.2 meters long. poled the Sunfish, which is where you So, it’s a two-man dinghy with a main drive the bow into the water because sail and a jib. the wind is coming from behind you. What does it mean for you to get So, you flipped it? these new boats? I didn’t flip it all the way over. Boats It means we’ll be able to establish a capsize a lot. That’s kind of what they valid program. Colorado hasn’t been do when you’re in heavy wind. And active since 2011 or 2012 in the South- when it goes over the front, it’s just east Region, which is the competitive a scary feeling. It kind of stopped, region we’re a part of. A lot of people threw me forward and the boat went know that we’re starting up again but over. I didn’t know if I’d be able to get don’t really take the Colorado sailing it back up — the sail ended up getting program seriously because we’re just wrapped around the mast. It was a really new, not too organized and we’re whole storm of problems. also not very good. If we get these new boats here, we can really get organized When you got back on dry land, did — I believe we can recruit a lot more, you decide you needed a break? we’ll be able to host our own races, get Exactly. I was like, ‘Yep, not doing that people on the water, gain the respect again for a while.’ of the rest of the region.

How did you hear about the CU Are there any totally unrealistic sailing team? sailing scenes in movies that make I did a lot of research and ended you cringe? up finding an old Facebook page. I Pirates of the Caribbean. Those boats showed up at a meeting, and I was like, turn very slowly. And you can't go ‘Cool, all right, let’s do this.’ whichever way you want. You have to go with the wind. It's a lot harder than Do you have people on the team people might think. who have never sailed before? Yes. It’s a lot of fun. We have one per- Condensed and edited by Jennifer son who had been to one practice be- Osieczanek.

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53 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan 36 years and for the AFTER A CAREER Tinley Park Illinois Fire Department, where he IN MUSIC ON THE was assistant chief for 40 years. He achieved SUMMER 2017 LAS VEGAS STRIP, the designation of chief 40s, 50s, 60s & 70s fire officer and served for Notes TIMOTHY COOPER 25 years on the MABAS 24 Hazardous Materials (MMUS’77) KEEPS Response Team that re- sponded to all HAZMAT ACTIVE IN THE ARTS. calls in the southern sub- urbs of Chicago. Samuel A CHOIR HE DIRECTS writes that he and wife Marcia have retired to IS HEADED TO Myrtle Beach, S.C., and CARNEGIE HALL. are enjoying the weather. After work- ing for the Year for Pueblo, Colo. 20 years advocating for ’72Chemithon Corporation, Sandy will be honored by public education in Colo- an industrial gas supplier the Women’s Foundation rado and has worked as in Seattle, Wash., for of Colorado at their annual a journalist and attorney. 38.5 years, Brian W. fundraiser in June. She has Linda is president of MacArthur (ChemEngr) been active as president the Brett Family Foun- retired last August. or founder of more than 50 dation, which invests in Following his retirement, organizations in the com- organizations working he vacationed in Maui. munity and was previously for social justice and named to the Pueblo Hall advocates for disadvan- For the past of Fame, among numerous taged teens. She and seven football other honors. She and husband Steve Brett live ’75seasons, Phil Caragol husband Marvin Stein in Boulder. The couple (Comm), known to many (Bus’62) have two daugh- has three children and Folsom Field attendees ters and five grandchildren. five grandchildren. as Buffalo Phil, has run The couple resides in through the stadium on CU Boulder gets visitors of all kinds. Here, Oz, a 150-pound Great Dane, and 5-year-old Daric meet outside Old Pueblo, Colo. Samuel Paul game day with a furry Main. Daric visited the LEGO exhibit “Hit the Bricks” with his family. Its roughly 1 million bricks form a playful Cummins horned buffalo helmet version of CU, depicting Macky, Folsom Field and other campus icons. Joyce ’70(Edu) has now retired adorned with a mullet Earickson from both of his jobs. He and CU beer koozies. ’69(Ital; MA’71) has worked simultaneously worked It all started after his Mary Grills David W. (Fren) was elected to as a high school teacher, as a plant manager at return to Boulder seven Broadhurst Geyer (ElEngr) Save the Children’s hospital chaplain and Akzo Nobel Coatings years ago, when, during ’47(Engl) has written a num- ’57has moved to Santa Fe, board of trustees. Irv pastoral counselor, and in Matteson, Ill., for his first game back in ber of short stories and N.M., from Carlsbad, has 40 years of business also with autistic and reminiscences. One of her Calif. He is still working management experience disabled children. Joyce, recent stories was featured in support of the United and currently serves who was featured in in the book World Wars - States Air Force Mission as a senior advisor for CU’s Arts and Sciences Memories and Reflections Assurance Team and Chrysalis Ventures, a pri- Magazine, has lived in of Boca Grande Families, performing independent vate equity and venture California, Australia, Italy WE WANT which was published by the risk assessments on capital firm. He and wife and Guatemala, embrac- Boca Grande Community rocket launches of na- Cathy, the former U.S. ing life as a wanderer. YOUR NEWS! Center in Florida. Mary tional interest. He enjoys Ambassador to Latvia, In March CU Regent lives in Denver. Santa Fe, where he lives live in Louisville, Ky. Linda Shoemaker (Jour) Write Christie Sounart, just five minutes north of was the keynote speaker Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER the plaza downtown. Sandra Fuchs at the CU Women Suc- Boulder, CO 80309, DECADES OF CLASS Stein (Edu) ceeding Symposium at [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT In February, ’64was named Chamber of CU Colorado Springs. COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN ’63 Irv Bailey Commerce Citizen of the She has spent more than 55 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan SUMMER 2017 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE TOM SHEPHERD

THE TRAVELER downtown and he has family and CU ROZ BROWN (MUS’79) HAS Long before Tom Shepherd began friends nearby — but he’ll be on campus moving tons of fresh berries around the a bit more often now. RETURNED TO RADIO AFTER A world, he moved a single football from He said his top priorities as board Boulder to Lincoln, Neb. — by bicycle, chair will involve promoting opportu- CAREER WITH BALL AEROSPACE. in the snow, wearing jeans. nities for alumni to engage with CU Then a first-year Buff from California, and each other, using data analysis to SHE’S A NEWS PRODUCER AND Shepherd (Bus’78) had a little help from better assess alumni programming and his friends: He was one of about a dozen making service to CU rewarding for MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DI- members of a relay team raising money for his fellow volunteers. charity by hauling a game ball to the Octo- “I’m so energized by the enthusiasm,” RECTORS AT BOULDER’S KGNU ber 1975 CU-Nebraska football matchup. said Shepherd, who succeeded Brian “It was an early storm,” said Shepherd, Cowan (Mktg’79) as chair on June 1. 88.5 FM 1390 AM. director of logistics for Driscoll’s, the “It’s an honor to be on the board now.” global fruit supplier, and the new chair Shepherd, who lived for spells in of the Alumni Association’s advisory Kittredge, Arnett and Andrews Halls Folsom, Phil watched elected to serve as the with Fairchild Publica- board. “Once we had traveled east of and on The Hill, has deep Buff roots. disheartened students president of the Society tions and at radio station town a ways, the snow stopped.” Besides his mother and wife, one of his and alumni in the stands for American Archaeol- KBOL in Boulder. She He remembers a bright moon, the two sons, Bryan (Mgmt’05), is a Buff. So and decided he wanted ogy from 2017 to 2019. and husband Rob live chill of night, the wide open spaces of are assorted aunts, uncles and cousins. to do something about it. She and husband Alan in Los Angeles, Calif., eastern Colorado and Nebraska. A few days before arriving on He writes that he’s proud Reed (Anth’76; MA’78) with their two daughters, The riders took turns pedaling stretches campus for April’s board meeting, to serve as the Buffs’ are retired from Alpine Caroline and Jennifer. of the 500-mile journey on a pair of ten- Shepherd saw off Bryan, who moved positive and friendly Archaeological Con- speeds while the others cruised ahead in with his family to Europe for a year- 64-year-old superfan sultants, the cultural After 16 years a van. They used lighters to melt ice from long work assignment. and cheerleader. He and resource company they as media re- the bikes’ derailleurs. “We’re going to miss him,” Shepherd wife Susan Blickhahn founded in 1987. Two ’79lations manager for Ball The mission was a success — the ball said, “but he’ll be following the Buffs Caragol (Jour, Psych’75) of Alpine’s new owners Aerospace, Roz Brown arrived at Memorial Stadium. For CU, from Belgium.” live in Boulder. are also CU alums: son (Mus) has returned to her the game was not: Nebraska won 63-21. Charles Reed (Anth’05) radio roots as a news “The Buffs scored first and it was all By Eric Gershon Mark Busby and Rand Greubel producer for Boulder’s Nebraska after that,” said (PhDEngl) pub- (Anth’84). KGNU and a member of Shepherd, who lives in ’77lished a book of poetry the station’s board of Salinas, Calif., with wife titled Through Our Years: Boulder directors. She proudly Karen (EPOBio’78). Occasional Poems 1960- County district watched her youngest He doesn’t cycle much 2017. Many of the poems ’78attorney Stan Garnett daughter, Grey Grimm now, but he plays trum- reflect Mark’s years in (Hist; Law’82) has (Art’16), graduate from pet, fishes (fly) and runs Boulder. decided not to make a CU last year. marathons — nine so Timothy Cooper second run for Colorado Thomas Walek (Jour) is far, in places as far flung (MMus) has retired after Attorney General. He ran a senior consultant of stra- as San Francisco, Estes more than 20 years as unsuccessfully in 2010. tegic public relations at Park and Tahiti. a music director and Stan is now in his third Meyer Capital, a market- Work takes him on the composer on the Las term as Boulder’s DA. In ing agency in New York. road, too, often to Mexico, Vegas strip, but he re- March, he and his wife, Tom began his career as where Driscoll’s sources mains a part of the city’s Brenda, celebrated their a financial journalist cov- many of its berries, but vibrant arts community. 39th anniversary. The ering global development also to Asia, South America He maintains a recording couple lives in Boulder. at the Chicago Mercantile and Europe. As director of studio and is current- At the Lippin Group, a Exchange. He is a mem- logistics, Shepherd literally ly musical director at brand communications ber of the National Press makes sure the trains (and temples Bet Knesset firm, Pamela Ruben Club and on the informa- trucks, cargo planes and Bamidbar and P’nai Tik- Golum (Comm) has tion advisory board for container ships) run on vah. The choir he directs managed notable client CU Boulder’s College of time while keeping the ber- and accompanies at First accounts, including Media, Communications ries at a target temperature Christian Church, Las Ve- Dick Wolf and his Law & and Information. The just above freezing. gas, has been selected Order franchise, various Pennsylvania native grew Shepherd gets to Boul- to sing at Carnegie Hall projects for the Disney up in Connecticut and der five or six times a year on Nov. 19, 2017. Channel and the Emmy now lives in New York with — his mother, Blanche Susan Chandler Awards. Previously Pam wife Nobuko and their Shimpfky Shepherd (MAnth) has been worked as a journalist son, Andrew. (HomeEcon’46), grew up

57 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Tom Shepherd Coloradan SUMMER 2017 58 Broadway tours and In February, in September. His Cirque du Soleil, Kate Matthew memoir, Beamish Boy, Amberg (Ling) has ’91Alvarado (Span) spoke at recounts his struggle started her own business. the second annual Latin with addiction and how Following a long-time America Port Expansion he overcame it. Albert SUMMER 2017 interest in family history, Summit in Cali, Colombia. returns to Colorado 80s & 90s storytelling and genealo- Matthew works for Musco every year to teach at Notes gy, she started Creating Lighting, a company that the Shambhala Mountain Memories Now, which specializes in sports are- Center. digitizes and stores na and event lighting. His Emmy Award-winning family photographs and role is promoting brand journalist Tim Wieland documents. Kate, who development in South (Jour) has been news di- has lived in Las Vegas for and Central America. rector at CBS4 in Denver 10 years, is a member of Steve Fleischli since 2004. He serves APPO, the Association (Econ, EPOBio) is senior as guest faculty at the of Professional Photo attorney and director of Poynter Institute and on Organizers. the water program for the board of Habitat for Humanity of Metro Den- ver. He was recognized DONN CALKINS in 2010 by the Denver Business Journal as a 40 (HIST; MA’91; LAW’96) under 40 winner for his HAS LEFT THE LAW work in the community. Valerie Arnold FOR A LIFE IN SCIENCE. (Engl; MA’97; ’93Law’00), a broker with Beebe Bahrami (MCD- the Natural Resources Windermere Real Estate Bio) works as a fulltime Defense Council. His in Fort Collins, Colo., was freelance writer spe- work focuses on water recently named a trustee cializing in travel, food quality, the role of water of the Poudre River and wine, archaeology, security in climate-pre- Public Library District spirituality and outdoor paredness programs and and to the transportation The Indigo Girls performed with the CU Symphony Orchestra at Macky Auditorium in April, recording the session live. adventure pieces. In the relationship of water board for the City of Fort March Beebe gave a to energy production. Collins. Valerie also was reading at the Boulder Albert Flynn DeSilver selected for Leadership Dennis Mann taught math to middle, countable,” appeared in Book Store to promote (Art), a poet and nonfic- Fort Collins, a program (EPOBio) works high school and college the International Journal her two new books, Café tion writer, has written that educates partici- ’81as an emergency room students. He’s also visit- of Knowledge, Culture & Oc: A Nomad’s Tales a new book, Writing as pants on the needs of the doctor in Dayton, Ohio. ed six continents in five Change in Organizations. of Magic, Mystery and a Path to Awakening: community and strength- He also teaches in Wright years, after being inspired Finding Home in the Dor- A Year to Becoming an ens leadership skills. State University’s emergen- while teaching math in Lawyerist, dogne of Southwestern Excellent Writer & Living Sara McCabe (Anth, cy medicine department. rural Tanzania. an online France and Café Nean- an Awakened Life. It is Econ) produced the Susan Fox-Wolfgramm ’84magazine for small-firm dertal: Excavating Our scheduled for release feature documentary John Alsup (Bus) is a professor lawyers, named the web- Past in One of Europe’s (Math), profes- of management in the site of criminal defense Most Ancient Places. She ’83sor of math education college of business at attorney Patrick Mulligan visits with family in Boul- at Black Hills State Hawaii Pacific University. (PolSci; Law’87) as a top der several times a year. University in South The Organization Studies 10 law firm website in Dakota, has received the Research Network named the nation. Patrick’s son, Donn Calkins WE WANT university’s Distinguished one of her 2016 articles CU junior Colin Mulligan ’89 (Hist; MA’91; Faculty Award, the winner of the International (Econ’18), designed the Law’96) retired from his YOUR NEWS! highest honor it bestows Award for Excellence. The site for the Denver firm, law career in 2012 and is on faculty. John has article, “Towards Strategi- Mulligan Breit. now pursuing a PhD in Write Christie Sounart, cally Sustaining Business biomedical science, with Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER Students’ Careers in a After 18 years a focus on virology, at Boulder, CO 80309, DECADES OF CLASS Globalized Workplace: in entertain- The Ohio State University. [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT The Importance of Being ’86ment management, The Greeley, Colo., native COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN Responsible and Ac- including work with lives in Columbus, Ohio.

55 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan SUMMER 2017 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE MARJANE AMBLER

In March, YELLOWSTONE Even twitchy dogs were not to be BUSINESS INSIDER the pres- Marjane Ambler (Engl’85) learned ignored. “One night our dog was making ’96ident of Colombia to share the road with bison. That’s what these strange cries and quivering,” she NAMED APPLE’S appointed César you do when you live in Yellowstone said. “The next morning, we discovered a Ocampo (PhDAeroEngr) National Park. grizzly bear under the porch.” KATE BERGERON director of the na- “You’d be snowmobiling and you Ambler spent her days writing: “Every tion’s Administrative wouldn’t see them at night because writer’s dream is to have these long (MMECHENGR’95) Department of Science, they’d be covered in snow,” said Ambler, blocks of uninterrupted time.” Technology and who lived year-round inside the majestic, Days would go by “when the only AMONG THE MOST Innovation. He has pre- 2.2 million-acre park for nearly a decade. interruption was the shadow of a swan viously worked for NASA After her husband, Terry Wehrman, a across the window,” she said. POWERFUL FEMALE and as a professor of heavy equipment operator, was hired by To foster community, the park resi- aerospace engineering the National Park Service in 1984 to pack dents held weekly potlucks. ENGINEERS OF 2017. at the University of Texas the park’s roads for snowmobilers, the Talk of religion or politics was dis- at Austin. couple moved from Atlantic City, Wyo., couraged. Instead residents discussed SHE IS VICE PRESI- to Lake Village, a tiny community 30 “snowmobiling — things we had in Jagged Peak miles past Yellowstone’s East entrance. common,” Ambler said. DENT OF HARDWARE Energy, Inc., Home was a quadraplex occupied by a She found friends she might have ’97recently named John dozen residents — eight park employees, overlooked elsewhere. ENGINEERING AND Roesink (Geol; MS’05) some with spouses. There were no cell- In April, the plows arrived. In May, its vice president of de- phones, no Internet and for most of their the park gates opened. A KEY PLAYER ON velopment planning and residency no television, said Ambler, 69, a “It was like moving to the city, except geoscience. John lives semi-retired journalist and author. the city came to you,” she said. THE TEAM THAT in Denver with his wife, In winter, work revolved around In 1993, Ambler and Wehrman left for Heather. snow — shoveled from roofs to prevent Colorado and Mesa Verde National Park. DEVELOPS MAC AC- collapse, groomed for snowmobiles. Today they live in Atlantic City and Lake Of his latest Ambler, a lifelong skier, once spurned Havasu, Ariz. CESSORIES, SUCH AS book, Ultimate the noisy machines. But from Novem- Leaving Yellowstone was a shock. ’98Glory, David Gessner ber to April, the park’s roads closed to “We’d lived there so long, we didn’t know THE MOUSE AND KEY- (MEngl) writes: “It is the cars and trucks. what was normal,” she said. “Suddenly story of the 15 years of “For five months of the year, we could walk to the post office.” BOARDS. SHE HAS my life I spent dedicat- snowmobiles carried the milk, eggs, Looking back, Ambler finds it hard ed to playing Ultimate hamburger and any guests brave to imagine who she’d be without the BEEN WITH THE COM- Frisbee braided to- enough to visit,” she wrote in her 2013 Yellowstone experience. gether with a history of book, Yellowstone Has Teeth: A Memoir “It’s a place that really gets into PANY SINCE 2002 that strange sport. The of Living Year-round in the World’s First your soul.” last six of those years National Park. AND LIVES IN LOS were spent playing for Ambler soaked in the park’s beauty, By Janice Podsada the Boulder team, and learning to recognize mice, GATOS, CALIF., WITH Colorado plays a key role coyote, otter and bison in the book… Wildness tracks. HER HUSBAND, MIKE. has always been a key With few lights to can- theme for me and those cel out the stars, the night were wild years. But sky shimmered. 3 Hikers, the story of three Inc., works with people this is also a book about “One got the sense of Americans imprisoned in in leadership roles to nonconformity during being very small,” she said. Iran and their families’ fight teach them how to build the age of Reagan, When the temperature to rescue them. The film successful and engaged about what it means dropped, Yellowstone Lake involves scholar Noam teams of employees. to dedicate yourself to moaned as it froze, as if Chomsky, political expert Since graduating, David something that many “someone were running a Gary Sick, boxer Muham- has served as president others consider ridicu- finger around the rim of a mad Ali and actor Sean of the Colorado chapter lous. In this way it is a giant wine glass.” Penn. Sara and husband of the National Speakers portrait of an artist as a Ambler learned Mother Eugenio live in California Association and recently young Ultimate player. Nature was boss: “If it with their son, Ronan. released an award-win- And, more directly, it was 20 below, you’re not ning book, Winning Well: is also about my own going to that concert.” David M. A Manager’s Guide to simultaneous struggle to Bison and bears could Dye (PolSci), Getting Results Without become a writer, another kill, so “you always ’95founder of Trailblaze, Losing Your Soul. ‘ridiculous’ pursuit.” looked both ways.”

57 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Marjane Ambler Coloradan SUMMER 2017 58 puts it, “Ashby may have the Steier Group, a museums and galleries. the most interesting national capital cam- She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. resume of any lawyer paign fundraising firm, practicing in the State as a campaign manager. J. Ernesto of Alabama.” He’s also He previously served as ’04 Ortiz-Diaz SUMMER 2017 recorded two albums development director for (MSpan) has received 00s & 10s of music and written a the Catholic Alliance in tenure at Macalester Notes children’s book. Ashby Denver. Paul is currently College in St. Paul, Minn. and wife Christine have conducting a campaign His interests include two daughters. planning study in Reno, Latin American and Nev. He and wife Lisa 19th-century literature Graham Frank have three children. with a focus on narrative (Fin; MBA’07) Former CU Buffs and poetry. ’01joined Breckenridge women’s soccer player Grand Vacations as vice Ashley Grosh (BusAd, Travis president of real estate Econ) was named to Macy (Hum) development. Graham the Denver Business ’05published The Ultra joins BGV from Vail Journal’s 2017 40 under Mindset: An Endurance Resorts, where he over- 40 list of influential Champion’s 8 Core saw project management. young people working in Principles for Success He and wife Shawnna business. Ashley is vice in Business, Sports, have two children. president of environmen- and Life in 2015. The Christine Peck tal affairs for Wells Fargo former CU track and (EPOBio) is co-founder and has partnered with cross-country runner of Wannaplé, a company Buffalo Sports Properties has finished more than whose goal is to provide to help conserve water 120 ultra endurance children with access to throughout the west. She events in 17 countries, the benefits of play. She and husband Michael and once set a record recently launched Silly live in Denver with their for the Leadman series, Street, a line of games and two children. which involves a trail toys to help children de- In June, Olivia Koski running marathon, 50- velop curiosity, empathy (EngrPhys, Ger) published mile mountain bike race, and creativity. She lives in Vacation Guide to the Leadville 100 Mountain Four CU engineering students (pictured here mid-leap) designed a course for the annual Red Bull Slopesoakers competition, Minneapolis, Minn., with Solar System. The Bike Race, 10k road run held in April at Colorado’s Copper Mountain Ski Resort. The course included jumps, rails, water, snow and a giant swing. her husband, Stephen. book is part of her work and Leadville 100 Run, with the Intergalactic all above 10,200 feet in Entrepreneur Travel Bureau, a public the Rocky Mountains. He Michael Cinefemme, a non- than 50 hotels across the and con- outreach STEM program and wife Amy have two Chessa (Engl) profit organization that U.S. His career allows ’02sultant Aaron Perry about humans in space. children. They live near ’00and Alison Herlands supports female pro- him to merge passions (MGer) works with social Olivia works as head of Evergreen, Colo. were married on Feb. 11 fessionals in the film for travel and digital enterprises to enhance operations at Guerilla at the Loeb Boathouse industry. Michelle is technology. Chris loves company culture and Science, an organization Sydney in New York’s Central currently working on a spending time with his holistic balance. He has that creates and plans Bergen Park. Michael works documentary titled Red wife and two kids, trav- a new book, Y on Earth. installations for festivals, ’07Hafliger (Soc) and as a trial lawyer with Star and a narrative fea- eling and hiking. He has Aaron and his partner, Gersowitz Libo & Korek ture titled The Rebel. been recording music in Winter Wall, also offer in Manhattan. The cou- In April, Chris Newton Boulder with Motion for workshops for com- ple met in January 2011 (Engl), director of ecom- Alliance, a band he and panies, colleges and during a criminal-law ori- merce for Stonebridge friends started in college. community groups. WE WANT entation at the Brooklyn Companies, published a R. Ashby Pate (Engl), District Attorney’s office. book on growing online a former associate Scott Fields Filmmaker Mi- businesses titled How to justice of the Supreme (EnvSt) was YOUR NEWS! chelle Kantor (Film) Acquire Your First Million Court of Palau, an island ’03recently appointed head is co-founder of Customers: Scaling country in the western coach of the men’s Write Christie Sounart, Your Online Business by Pacific, has returned lacrosse team at NCAA- Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER Laying the Foundation for to Alabama, where he Division III Westminster Boulder, CO 80309, DECADES OF CLASS Growth. At Stonebridge is of counsel at Light- College in Fulton, Mo. [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT Chris is in charge of dig- foot Franklin & White in Paul Gesterling COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN ital marketing for more Birmingham. As his firm (Econ, PolSci) has joined

55 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Daniel Milchev / Red Bull Content Pool Coloradan SUMMER 2017 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE DAN MACKIN

Houston office as an PACIFIC CROSSING sulting firm AppliedTrust. Out on the R. ASHBY PATE associate in the law firm’s It was the nights that most unnerved open ocean, plans reveal what they are: commercial litigation Dan Mackin (ElEngrCompEngr’08). Mere intentions. (ENGL’00), A FOR- practice. Amanda has “Staring off into the blackness is really They encountered days of strong experience in appellate an unsettling feeling,” he said. waves and high winds with intermittent MER ASSOCIATE matters, including those The sensation was most acute in the lake-smooth days offering brief respite. assigned by the State Bar middle of the Pacific, as the 34-year-old After each churning of the sea, they JUSTICE OF THE of Texas Appellate Section IT executive, his father and two ship- picked off marine life that had washed Pro Bono Committee. She mates sailed from Hawaii to California on aboard. Some creatures found their way SUPREME COURT lives in Houston. a 38-foot Lagoon Catamaran “the size of a into crannies. Stench haunted the boat. studio apartment that you can’t leave.” Sometimes it exuded from Dan, who OF PALAU, IS BACK In April, The voyage, last July, was his father’s found showering futile given the constant Elizabeth idea. Tim Mackin, a retired civil engineer damp. Then one of the toilets broke. A IN ALABAMA AND ’15Hernandez (Jour) in Parker, Colo., had been sailing for nearly few times they had to troubleshoot and returned to Boulder to five decades and still nursed an ambition. repair technical issues amid tossing seas. PRACTICING LAW. report on the university “An ocean crossing has been on my They slept in three-hour shifts. that taught her a thing or bucket list. I just wanted to do one before An anomaly in the high pressure two about reporting. Prior the end of my days,” Tim, 60, said in a system pushed them 600 miles north Aaron Hafliger institute’s board for a to landing the Boulder short YouTube film about the voyage, of course, taking them nearer Alaska (Econ’05) were mar- three-year term. At 31, Daily Camera’s higher Trans Pacific Crossing, filmed by Dan and than California. ried in February in Diego is the youngest education job, Elizabeth edited by his brother-in-law, Jeremy Dubs. But then there were the sublime Mexico. The couple board member and dug deep as a fellow For Dan, of Lafayette, Colo., the main moments — calm, moonlit nights, long honeymooned in Belize. hopes to contribute at the Center for Public appeal was having a grand adventure father-son chats, insight amid isolation. Sydney works for a fresh vision for the Integrity, an investigative with his father. This was the man who’d “It made me realize how small we are Realities for Children examination. Diego also newsroom in Washington, taught him to sail — on lakes near Keller, as individuals,” said Dan. Boulder County, a is a member of the CU D.C. Before that, she Texas, where they’d lived, and on trips in When they reached California, father nonprofit organization Boulder Latino Alumni called the Denver Post Belize, the Bahamas, Virgin Islands and and son agreed that arriving was the that partners with the Association’s board. home for two years, first Sea of Cortez. But they’d never lost sight trip’s high point. CU Guardian Scholars New Jersey native as an intern and then as of land for more than a day. As so often is the case, it was the program to provide full Blake Baldwin (Mktg) a staff reporter cover- With two other crewmembers contrib- journey itself that provided lasting scholarships for former is one of 12 finalists ing breaking news and uting mechanical and nautical skills and lessons. Dan reflected amid that vastness foster care youth. Aaron competing on the latest education. When she’s good cheer, the team set sail from Oahu on what mattered most to him: relation- is a commercial real season of Food Network not filling her reporter’s and arrived in Oxnard 22 days later — ships, communication, being a better estate broker in Denver. Star, which premiered notebook, she enjoys about a week late due to rough waters. person, a better husband, making the Their wedding bands are June 4. Blake recently reading and writing but “I went into it with a plan,” said world a better place. inscribed with Buff motto switched careers, en- detests arithmetic. Dan, who loves plans. “Immediately, it “I also realized,” he said, “that “WTTF” — Welcome to tering the culinary world Alexandra Alonso was useless.” maybe I’m not as much of a sailor as I the Fight. after years of marketing (Span) has been named Being in control and having a plan thought I was.” In February, Jasmine and account manage- executive director of the are great traits for the chief operating Fry Cloud (MArtHist) ment for tech start-ups. Colorado Latino Lead- officer of the Boulder IT security con- By Beebe Bahrami (MCDBio’86) lectured at Truman State ership, Advocacy and University on the history Joe Mekulski Research Organization. of papal ceremonies. (Econ) was At 28, Alexandra will be Jasmine is currently an ’12hired as the newest the youngest executive assistant professor of art broker at the Baltimore director of the nonprofit history at the University office of KLNB, a organization since it of Central Missouri. She commercial real estate was founded in 1964. lives in Blue Springs, brokerage and services Before joining CLLARO Mo., with her husband, firm. He will assist with in 2015, she worked as Nick, and their daughter. tenant and landlord an editorial assistant at representation activities the Denver Post. In October, in the Baltimore and the American Washington, D.C., metro- On Dec. 6, ’09Institute of Certified politan areas. Andreas Public Accountants ’17and Allison Deptolla appointed Diego Baca Amanda (MLing) welcomed a son, (Acct, MS) to the CPA Laviage Benjamin Victor Deptolla. Examination Board of ’13(Comm, PolSci) joined The couple also has a Examiners and to the McGlinchey Stafford’s young daughter, Clara.

57 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Dan Mackin Coloradan SUMMER 2017 58 CLASS NOTES In Memoriam Edith Burnett Morris (Art’33) Bernard A. Mulder (MechEngr’49) William L. Howard (A&S’53) Velma Ingram Delliquadri (A&S’38) Joseph W. Murphy (Mgmt’49) Dolores Oparil Jones (Engl’53) Eleanor Carlson Flanders (Jour’38) Laura Greenwood Thomason Gerald Starbuck (MechEngr, Laurence J. Kipp (MA&S’39) (A&S ex’49) Mktg’53) Galen L. Helmke (A&S’40) John J. Tobin (Bus, Law’49) Barbara Summers Wilking Antoinette Sax Sanburg (A&S ex’40) Milton J. Waxman (EngrPhys’49; (Pharm’53) Franklin S. Prout (Chem’41) MMath’50) F. Jerome Thomas (A&S’53) Martin A. Buffo (ElEngr’42) Donald M. Campbell (PE’50) Alvan W. Boothe (Mktg’54) Kathryn Drexel Dickerson (A&S’42) James W. Cozens (DistSt’50) Donald G. Iverson (Zool’54; Dorothy Larson Gonzoph (Jour’42) Richard A. Culver (MusEdu’50; MD’58) Robert B. Ramsey Jr. MA’50) John A. Laswick (A&S’54) (ChemEngr’42) Frieda P. Honeck (MEdu’50) Robert A. Norton (Math’54; Aileen Jewell Deffke (DistSt’43) Ruth Rahm Johnson (PE’50; MEdu’58) Dorothy Cochran Donnen (A&S’43) MEdu’68) Donald K. Watson (CivEngr’54) M. Margaret Roosa Lawrence John E. Martin (MElEngr’50) Benjamin F. Bailar (Geol’55) (Mus’44) Harry K. Nier Jr. (Law’50) Dolores Hughes Brown (A&S’55) Donald M. Mitchell (ElEngr’44) Patricia Hollingworth Owens William E. Carnahan (Jour’55) Barbara Johnson Suddath (A&S’44) (Art’50) Stacey Henderson (A&S’55) George H. Swerer Jr. (A&S’44) Donald D. Petersen (Pharm’50) Gilbert J. Leong (MAcct’55) John C. Twombly (ElEngr’44; Stanley L. Roberts (Econ’50; Carolyn Joyce Scavo (A&S’55) PhDA&S’59) Law’51) Gloria Wright Madison (A&S ex’55) Shirley Robbins Dierdorff (A&S’45) William E. Russell (A&S’50; Law’53) Frederick J. Pattridge (Law’55) Katherine T. Kawamura George W. Thompson (MMgmt’50) Betty L. Peters (MusEdu’55) (Jour ex’45) K. Bill Tiley (A&S’50) Melvin L. Twaddle (MEdu’55) Ilene Pitts Kistrup (Nurs’45) Marilyn Rees White (MMusEdu’50) Harlan E. Branby (Fin’56) James C. Meece (ElEngr’45) Jerry J. Ahlman (MechEngr’51) Margaret Cell Brindell (MChem’56) Beryle W. Wright (MechEngr’45) Chester F. Bruski (CivEngr’51) Ronald K. Campbell (PE’56) Wells M. Corliss (ElEngr’46) Nancy Chapman Collier (Edu’51) Ann H. Dowler (Bus’56) Martin C. Hofheinz (ElEngr’46) Barbara Joyce Dennerline (A&S’51) Ebba M. Granat (Pharm’56) Ronald D. Ditmore (Pharm ex’58) Laurence A. Boxer (Hist’61) Patricia Hickey Jump (Edu’65) Eleanor Hogan Robb (A&S’46) William D. Detweiler (Fin’51; MS’57) Donna Martin Heid (MusEdu’56) Donald W. Kelly (A&S ex’58) Patricia Cunningham Carroll James H. May (MA&S’65) Leonard J. Challain Henry S. Fingado (A&S’51) Dale R. Johnson (MechEngr’56) James R. McGregor (Mktg’58) (A&S ex’61) Robert F. Wilshusen (ElEngr’65) (MechEngr ex’47) Robert E. Hagerott (ElEngr’51) William J. Kostka Jr. (Jour’56) Gary L. Anderson (ElEngr’59) Donald A. Houlehan (DistSt’61; Karl T. Benson (MApMath’66) Donna Taylor Corliss (Bus’47) Arthur W. Hiner III (A&S’51) Nancy Sullivan Mortensen Robert B. Butts (Mktg’59) Law’64) Will B. Betchart (CivEngr’66; Keith H. Gilmore (MechEngr’47) William V. Johnston (Bus, (Edu’56) George S. Dreher (Econ’59) Harrell H. Hurst (Bus’61) MS’67) Roger L. Logan (Geog’47; ElEngr’51) James D. Orner (Geol’56; Acct’62) Marlene Kinser George (A&S ex’59) Carolyn Street Irish (PolSci’61) Simone H. Christopherson MMgmt’51) Robert E. Loup (Econ, PolSci’51) D. John Ridings Jr. (A&S’56) Patricia Durbin Gonzales (Mgmt, Kenneth M. Johnson (Chem’61) (A&S’66; MFren’73) Margaret Carswell Lyddon Donald M. Milliken (CivEngr’51) Suzanne G. Robbins (Mus ex’56) Mktg’59) William V. Williams (A&S ex’61) John B. Friedlund (Advert’66) (A&S’47) Fred A. Robirds (Pharm’51) Bobbie R. Watkins (A&S’56) Jack E. Johnson Jr. (RealEs’59) Charles J. Carlson (PE’62) Robert D. Hall (MGeol’66) Eugene L. Nooker (MechEngr’47; Francis J. Thomason (Acct’51) William B. Williams (Jour’56) Carol Jaros Jones (Soc’59) Larry D. Collom (A&S’62) Frederick M. Magee (A&S’66) MS’49) William E. Wright (Mgmt’51; Terry Wulfekuhler (Mktg’56) Irene Langseth Olson Margarett Johnson Furey (Fren’62) Bruce A. Tippett (A&S’66) Robert H. Rawlings (A&S’47) MHist’53; PhD’57) Jeanne Weare Barthell (A&S’57) (HomeEcon’59) William G. Gray (A&S ex’62) Mary Harding Baer (MA&S’67) Edward B. Wilkey (Bus, Richard Albert (Fin’52) Delton G. Crosier (MechEngr, Joseph Petta (MMgmt’59) Edwin W. Marshall (ElEngr’62) Sheila Aggeler Barnes (A&S’67) MechEngr’47) Robert H. Birkby (Mgmt, PolSci’52; Mgmt’57) Sonya J. Read (Bus’59; MBA’60) Rhonda Holderman Mast (Nurs’62) Jon E. Hanshew (Mus’67) Rudy J. Anselmi (Pharm’48) MA’60) Richard G. Gebhardt (A&S’57; George A. Stephens (MA&S’59; Nancy Miller Shea (A&S’62) Verlin F. Rockey Sr. (EngrPhys’67) Margaret Carlisle Ardell (A&S’48) Jean Hoel Brown (A&S’52) MS’58) PhDEdu’73) J. B. Spencer (A&S’62) Gloria M. Violette (A&S ex’67) Burton C. Boothby (DistSt’48) Lois Glavins Gilbert (Edu’52) Charles E. Helms (PreMed’57; Donald V. H. Walker (Geol’59) John W. R. Webb (Acct, Fin’62) Curtis E. White (Art’67) Joanne Lang Callard (DistSt’48) Dale M. Harlan (Law’52) MD’60) Phyllis Perkins West (MusEdu’59) Edward G. Brentari (MechEngr’63; Roberta J. Altenbern (MEdu’68) Irving Korr (Pharm’48) Rogers A. Hauck (A&S’52; MS’54) Virginia Strasser Legge (A&S’57) John C. Wouters (Bus’59) MA&S’70) Mark W. Cappone Jr. (MMgmt’68) John S. Moore (Pharm’48) Evelyn Towbin Richmond Charles F. Murray (Fin’57; Law’64) David R. Greif (MusEdu’60) Julia Y. D'Elia (Nurs’63; MS’63) Clarence E. Corriveau Ruth Sterling Schmitt (Jour’48) (Jour ex’52) Theodore W. Peyton Jr. (Acct’57) Curtis P. Johnson (Geol’60) Thomas R. Ford (ChemEngr’63) (ChemEngr’68) Mary Groenewold Thompson Nellie Gephardt Amondson Howard M. Tanner (CivEngr’57) Shirley Reams Kelly (Nurs’60; Jack N. Hyatt (Math’63; Law’68) Joyce Rosen Culbertson (Soc’68) (A&S ex’48) (Math’53) Harold N. Walgren (PreMed’57) MS’60) William E. Unrau (PhDHist’63) Barrett C. Miller (PolSci’68) Bonnie Kirkberg Vangundy Wanda H. Apodaca (A&S’53) Barbara Ceder Weber (A&S’57) Suzanne Kullgren Kintzele James B. Westervelt (PE’63; Jamie Kellam Redmond (HomeEcon’48) Gerald W. Bennett Jr. (Law’53) Daniel J. Desmond III (A&S ex’58) (A&S’60) MS’64) (Dance’68) Annette Bailey (A&S ex’49) Jack Blumenkrantz (PhDPsych’53) Richard D. Lowery (CivEngr’60) Susan Stone Epstein (A&S ex’64) Harold A. Viereck (MMgmt’68) Harold R. Brock (CivEngr’49) Charles E. Butcher (Mktg’53) To report a death, call 303- Marilynn W. Marshall (Nurs’60) John P. Hamer (Acct’64) Jack P. Witter (Mktg’68) 541-1290 or 800-405-9488, Warren Culpepper (Acct’49) Edward J. Currier (CivEngr’53) Patricia Gallagher Mehling (Edu’60) Leonard O. Lookner (A&S’64) Gary R. Bebee (AeroEngr, email [email protected] Donald B. Davis (Fin’49) Leroy A. Dahm (Chem’53; Jarrold R. Schaefer (Chem, John E. Amos (A&S ex’65) Mgmt’69) or write Processing, 10901 W Walter L. Dinwiddie (Mgmt’49) ChemEngr’57) 120th Avenue, Broomfield, Zool’60) Hannah Steuart Dinkel (A&S’65) George E. Farrell II (MNurs’69) Elizabeth Hansbury (A&S’49) Robert J. Dalton (A&S ex’53) CO 80021. Please include date Richard A. Smith (Jour’60) Jerold W. Donaldson (Hist’65) Rose M. McGinn (MNurs’69) Jack Lawrence (Math’49) Marilyn Robinson Detweiler of death and other relevant in- Robert T. Adair (ElEngr’61; MS’66) Doreen J. Geibel (Mus’65) David J. Minear Archibald McKinlay IV (A&S ex’49) (Jour’53) formation. Gunnar Bovre (ElEngr’61) Charlotte York Irey (MThtr’65) (PhDCommDisor’69)

59 SUMMER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan SUMMER 2017 60 Edward A. Nuccio (A&S’69) Rick A. Harrison (MEcon’75) Hugh C. Unangst (MChemEngr’85) Thomas F. Ullmann (CivEngr’69) Mark P. Shuman (Econ’75; MA’77; Robert A. Ackerman (Chem’86; Judith Fauri-Lee (Edu’70; MA’76) Law’80) MD’90) Margaret Haentjens Stone (Soc’70) Douglas J. Warner (MCDBio’75) Christina M. Kauffman Christopher R. Hanson (Mgmt’70) Brian G. Gamble (A&S ex’76) (PhDEdu’86) SUMMER 2017 John R. Harris (MA&S’70) Michael A. Levine (Geog’76) Susan J. Shoulders (PhDSoc’86) Mary Wilson Nooney (MA&S’70) Jo Ruth Liska (PhDComm’76) Megan Yoder Wenninger Burt L. Snyder (Law’70) Ann Raymond Luce (MArtHist’76) (A&S ex’86) Susan Stewart Stater (Nurs ex’70) Ronald G. Thomas (ArchEngr’76) Cliff L. Howard (A&S ex’87) Thomas A. Barnes Jr. (PolSci’71) Janet E. Timothy (MNurs’76) Tony Bowe (Bus’88) YELLOW GRASS Herman B. Coble (MMus’71) Madison W. Holloway Laura Kriho (Psych’88) Another great issue of Ida E. Bosen Murphy (PolSci’71) (PhDPsych’77) Salvatore P. Miceli (AeroEngr’88; the Coloradan. I loved John R. Cosgrove (Edu’72) Frank J. Schuchat (Hist’77) MS’89) every page. Nice job. John W. Coughlin (Law’72) Joseph A. Digregorio (Econ’78) Anna J. Norris (MFren’88) I especially loved the Marthann Woods Hoffman Kenneth D. Fink (A&S ex’78) Brian D. Taylor (Engl’89) cover photo. The yellow (Edu’72) Stephen J. Hall (MHist’78) Stephen C. Hayes (Engl’91) grass brings me back to John S. Moberly (Hist’72) Rose Gabaldon Lucero (MEdu’78) Frederick A. Steele Jr. (Engl ex’91) CU territory. John C. Nicol (ChemEngr, Fin’72) Carol Sims (Fren’79) Joseph M. Winkler Gary Meehan Emil M. Olson (MBA’72) Ann H. K. Winston (Acct’79) (MMechEngr’91) (MArch’76) Eileen Glendinning Shoemaker Arthur L. Cooper (PolSci’80) Maria E. Garcia (Soc’92) Goffstown, N.H. (Fren’72) Mary D. Lind (Edu’80) George A. Heldrich (Hist’93; Hedayat Abedi (MChemEngr’73; Richard W. Scully (MGeol’80; MEdu’06) PhD’76) MCivEngr’84) Cecilia M. Oballe (IntlAf’93) Cleopatra Jaramillo Estrada Frank Dell'Apa (Engr ex’81) Hwee C. Ong (MLing’93) (Psych’73; MEdu’74) Howard F. Pudder (A&S ex’81) Michael C. Sultan Jr. (Acct’93; Kenneth M. Geisert (A&S ex’73) Anna M. S. Leffingwell (PolSci’82) MS’97) Richard L. Henkel (ChemEngr’73) David Maslowski (MEdu’82) Mark A. Thompson (RealEs’94) Susan S. Ratterree (Psych’73) Lucia D. Rivera-Aragon Jacqueline E. Bell (Law’95) George M. Zeitler (A&S ex’73) (PhDEdu’82) Robert S. Weinhold (MJour’95) Dennis P. Koehler (MPsych’74) Kevin W. Barry (PolSci’83) Molly Houck Gorrell (Geog’97) William D. Leighton (Psych’74) Ken M. Miller (Comm’83) Pamela S. Trawick (Engl’99) Harold E. Nylander III (Mktg’74) Tami L. Thatcher (PolSci’83) Lisa M. Hardaway Jeraldine Akolt Tucker (Rec’74) Gregory S. Beebe (Jour’84) (PhDAeroEngr’00) Lawrence J. Haskin (Acct’75; Jeanette D. Bartick (PolSci’85) Kristen J. Schulz (PhDChem’03) MPubAd’78) Mary Lisa Garlanger (PolSci’85) Chad R. Kreft (Hist’06) Katherine Sirles Vecitis DRUMM’S MAPS Mr. Gorsuch's whereabouts at the Sunken Gardens (PhDSoc’09) Very interesting article on should've been left out. (i.e. The Sink) Anthony M. Stagg (A&S ex’10) Henry Drumm [Origins, Amparo Humphrey Nancy Pike Hause Timothy E. O'Crowley (Fin’11) Spring 2017]. I have used (Span’85; MA’89) (Jour’53) James R. Munden (EnvSt, his old maps of Lafayette. Arvada, Colo. Lawrence, Kan. Geog’14) Peter Johnson Ryan A. Khamis (Geol’16) (CivEngr’79) CU IN THE FAMILY LETTER TO Ammar Al-Shami (IntlAf ex’17) Lafayette, Colo. I really enjoyed your PAUL DANISH Andrew U. Fugoso (Soc ex’17) article about legacy fam- I always look forward Raymundo Ollada GORSUCH ilies [“CU in the Family,” to your column. The (AeroEngr ex’19) My name is Amparo Spring 2017], especially Winter 2016 one [“The Collin J. Cross (Bus ex’20) Humphrey and I'm a since it featured my Album”] brings back great Jacob Czajkowski (CompSci ex’20) CU Boulder alumna. I'm family, the Miles. My memories. Remember appalled at the coverage grandmother was Alice when Judy Collins, whom Correction: The Spring — a full two pages — that Miles Pike. Her brother you mentioned, used to 2017 issue of the Coloradan the Coloradan has given was Leslie Miles, Martin play in The Attic, the little inaccurately reported the to Gorsuch in its Spring B. Miles' father. Anoth- basement coffee shop on death of Frederick B. Herman III (Econ’89). He 2017 issue [“NOW,” er brother (also Martin) Broadway? Another mem- is alive and well. We regret inside cover]. Gorsuch is received his M.D. at CU ory: Sitting next to you in the error. known for being a far-right and taught on the medical Prof. Malich's econ class. conservative, popular school faculty in 1901. I I sat behind the late, great Faculty, Staff with the Federalist Society can remember, as a small Buddy Werner in poli sci. I and the Heritage “hard child, being annoyed at flunked out that year, but and Friends right groups.” If CU prides having to stay dressed up you hung in there. Walter Colclasure, Staff itself on being a liberal, after church because we Guy Wood (Jour'67) Wayne Duke, Sports Information open-minded institution, were going to have lunch Angel Fire, N.M.

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Life at CU Boulder shifts gears after commencement but hardly goes dormant. The amphitheater rings with Elizabethan eloquence during the annual Shake- speare festival. Summer session students amble well-trod pathways. This year, for the second in a row, a Grateful Dead offshoot will electrify Folsom Field. Still, come mid-May, a certain serenity settles over campus. Turtles queue along drifting logs on Varsity Lake. Frisbees arc above open lawns. The libraries close a little earlier. The pair in this CU Heritage Center photograph, undated but thought to be of 1950s vintage, seem to be making the most of a pleasant day outside Norlin Library. If you have a favorite memory of CU in summer- time, we’d love to hear it. Write [email protected].

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