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THE Campaign comes to Campus The University of Denver will

host the first Presidential Debate

of 2012 on Wednesday, Oct. 3,

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Features 26 The Great Debate The University prepares for its moment in the global spotlight. By Leslie Petrovski

30 Banner Years The Newman Center celebrates a decade of artistic excellence. By Greg Glasgow

34 Here we go, DU! Here we go! New coaches, new players, a new conference—it’s a big year for the Pioneers. By Pat Rooney

Be part of DU history Departments 4 Editor’s Note 6 News The University’s new brand 12 Academics debate2012.du.edu Campaign-themed video games 16 Arts Laleh Mehran’s Denver Art Museum exhibit 19 People Join us as we get the Training women for political office 21 Q&A conversation started College Republicans chair 22 History Presidential visits to campus 24 Research Eye-tracking device 39 Alumni Connections

On the cover: The University will host the first presidential debate of 2012 on Oct. 3; read the story on page 26. This page: The Newman Center for the Performing Arts celebrates its 10th anniversary in Editor’s Note Editor’s Note

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Publisher Kevin A. Carroll It’s no coincidence that the University is rolling out its new branding platform and new logo (see story, Managing Editor Greg Glasgow page 6) just before we host the first presidential debate

of 2012. If we’re showing our best face to the world, Senior Editor we want to be sure we’re doing it in a way that really Tamara Chapman lets people know what a great institution this is. The new brand highlights the things the University does Editorial Assistants Amber D’Angelo Na (BA ’06, MPS ’12) best: giving students the chance to collaborate with Kelsey Outman (’13) professors and with one another; providing the kinds

Jeffrey Haessler of experiences that make for lifelong memories; and Art Director Craig Korn, VeggieGraphics instilling students with a sense of purpose as they head out to change the world. As we prepare for the debate on campus, we’re already seeing the brand Photographer come to life in a myriad of ways. Collaboration? We have departments from Wayne Armstrong all across campus—from parking and maintenance to Alumni Relations and Undergraduate Enrollment—working together to plan for the big day, and Contributors a number of student committees are giving undergraduate and graduate Kristin Altman • Jordan Ames (BA ’02, MPS ’10) • Chris Chavez • Valerie Finholm • students a say in how it all goes down. Steve Fisher • Dan Hazard • Kathryn Mayer As for those important experiences, some students will be lucky enough (BA ’07, MA ’10) • Leslie Petrovski (BA ’82, MA ’91) • Pat Rooney • Shara Rutberg • Chase to score a ticket to the debate hall on Oct. 3. For the rest of us (and for Squires (MPS ’10) • Kevin Williams alumni, too), there’s DebateFest—a free, ticketed festival featuring live music, local vendors and debate viewing on huge outdoor screens. Not to mention Editorial Board Kevin A. Carroll, vice chancellor/chief market- the Debate Event Series, which is bringing big names like Time editor-at-large ing officer • Thomas Douglis (BA ’86) • David Von Drehle and New York Times Washington correspondent David Kristine Cecil, associate vice chancellor/interim executive director of alumni relations • Sanger to campus in the days before and after the debate. (Read more about Sarah Satterwhite, senior director of the debate and related events starting on page 26.) advancement communications • Amber Scott (MA ’02) • Laura Stevens (BA ’69), The crux of the new brand is that the University of Denver is a “catalyst director of parent relations for purposeful lives.” At the moment, the presidential debate is uniting us all with one purpose as we address the many challenges surrounding Oct. 3 and Printed on 10% PCW recycled paper prepare for the excitement the event will bring to campus and to Denver. But The University of Denver Magazine (USPS 022-177) is I have a feeling the momentum we’re creating right now will carry us into published by the University of Denver, Division of Marketing and Communications, 2199 S. University 2014—the University’s sesquicentennial year—and well beyond. Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. The University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) is an Equal Opportunity Institution. Periodicals postage paid at Denver, CO. Postmaster: Send address changes to University of Denver Magazine, University of Denver, University Advancement, 2190 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80208-4816. Greg Glasgow Managing Editor

4 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Campus Update When Dorothy McNeese walked across the stage at the University of Denver Commencement ceremony on June 8, it was a moment decades in the making. McNeese, 78, already had a bachelor’s degree and a graduate certificate, but she had always wanted a master’s degree. With her new master’s in environmental policy and management, McNeese is believed to be the oldest graduate of DU’s University College.

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Rocky Mountain spirit University unveils new logo and branding platform By Tamara Chapman

Over the summer of 2012, the University of educational journey and inspired by Denver’s Denver began unveiling a new branding platform Rocky Mountain spirit of exploration and and visual identity that will help define and openness. differentiate the institution for local, national and This approach to education is supported by international audiences. an emphasis on collaboration, vast opportunities “After a year of market research and for experiential learning, a culture dedicated development, we have learned that many people to creating positive impact, and the diverse know of the University of Denver, but they don’t perspectives, from local to global, that color day- know enough about us. We are going to change to-day life on campus. These attributes, Carroll that fact,” says Kevin Carroll, vice chancellor of explains, align closely with the University’s the Division of Marketing and Communications mission and vision. They also capture a decade’s and the University’s chief marketing officer. worth of focus on program and curriculum “The branding platform grew out of months development. of research,” he explains. “We developed the From this platform, Carroll adds, new, fresh new branding platform and identity by asking and contemporary communication will be created. thousands of people from across the U.S. and in The research also helped shape a new Experiential our community what our university means to logo that includes the date of the University’s Learning them.” founding, 1864, and features signature campus The research helped to clarify the buildings and a mountain backdrop. DU has long University’s identity within a crowded and Already, the new logo has been incorporated emphasized the value competitive education marketplace. The Division into the University’s website, its major of hands-on learning. of Marketing and Communications worked with publications and an array of way-finding signs a host of stakeholders—among them current installed in midsummer. In addition, the brand Undergraduate and graduate students get the chance to supplement classroom knowledge with hands-on experiences—at the Mount Evans Field Station, the Colorado Capitol and the Denver students, their parents, alumni, faculty, staff platform informs marketing materials across the and Denver-area employers—to explore the institution’s many divisions. Art Museum, to name institution’s strengths and distinctive attributes. Carroll expects the brand platform will just a few. Some Incorporating insights gleaned from this not only help the institution communicate with students even journey research, the new brand platform brings to life various audiences, it also will play a critical role in DU’s vision: to be a great private university strategic planning. outside the region dedicated to the public good. “The brand expresses “You can be confident in knowing that our with internships that how we put our vision and values into action,” brand positioning is truly a reflection of what introduce them to the Carroll says, “and it is the lens through which we we know and believe about the University of set and carry out attainment of our goals.” day-to-day realities Denver,” he says. “Everyone in the University The new platform is brief and easy to community is an ambassador for our brand, and that characterize their remember: The University of Denver is a catalyst we must unite to reflect this essence in all that we future professions. for purposeful lives, ignited by a personalized do, every day.”

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Pioneers Top 10 Sources for news and information about the 2012 election

Factcheck.org 1 This is a great site for looking up claims that are disseminated through news, campaign messages and email messages.

Votesmart.org 2 This website gives quick access to key voting in five categories: backgrounds, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and performance evaluations.

C-SPAN.org/Campaign2012 3 C-Span is offering extensive coverage of the campaign. BUSINESS PBS.org/special/election-2012 Knoebel hospitality students mentor refugees 4 PBS is hosting a special page and Twitter feed on the election: #pbsElection. Many immigrants who come to the United States have a tough time finding employment because of language barriers and a lack of job skills. Cheri Young, associ- Thomas.loc.gov ate professor in the University of Denver’s Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Man- Look up pending or passed federal legislation. 5 agement, has incorporated service learning into the classroom by asking her students Gallup.com to mentor new immigrants on ways to bolster their job skills. 6 Gallup shares polling Students who took Young’s Managing Human Capital in Hospitality course last on elections and related spring were asked to train and counsel 10 refugees looking for jobs in the hospitality topics. industry. Young has established a relationship with Denver’s African Community Cen- People-press.org NEWS ter (ACC), which helps refugees who have fled to America after suffering persecution in their home countries. The Knoebel students worked directly with refugees through 7 (Pew Research Mike McDonald/Shutterstock.com Center) ACC’s Commercial Food Safety and Service Training Program, a 90-hour course that This nonpartisan public opinion provides hands-on education about food service sanitation, customer service and research organization studies American work culture. political trends, public opinion and public “The opportunity for our hospitality management students to work with people policy. from very diverse backgrounds is immense,” Young says. “This innovative program allows our students to get real-world experience by acting as employment mentors Publicagenda.org to the ACC refugees. The hospitality industry often is a gateway to employment for 8 This nonpartisan nonprofit site provides data on what the public thinks about issues ranging from those with limited English language skills or education. I want my students to learn education to foreign policy to religion. that caring for your employees is the right thing to do and ultimately can increase the profitability of a business.” Latinotimes.com/politics The students are mentoring new arrivals from Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Somalia, South 9 LatinoTimes has a page dedicated to politics Sudan, Liberia, Congo and Bhutan/Nepal on job-hunting skills, interviewing techniques and the election. and the various skills needed to work in the food-service and hotel industries. The Thegrio.com/politics Knoebel students are learning management skills such as developing training programs 10 The Grio is an African-American news site, and employee manuals and conducting job interviews. Two additional students from now owned by NBC News. Knoebel also participated by researching best practices potential employers can use when hiring immigrants. Compiled by Lynn Schofield-Clark, associate professor in the media, film and journalism studies department

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News BRieFS

Molly Tomkins, Jing Wan and Lian Duan, from the Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, took first place at the fourth annual Global Spa & Wellness Summit student challenge in Aspen, Colo., June 3–6. The students’ winning concept was a spa marketed to teen girls. The students were awarded $1,000, a trophy and a certificate of achievement. The Walt Disney Co. has invited

Carlo Dainese the team to Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, In April, the Lamont School of Music launched Fla., to present the concept to executives and to comment on Disney’s new spa for kids. “Expanding Horizons,” a new world-music concert and lecture series. New York-based jazz group Trio Tarana, along with Lamont student ensembles, performed on A team of graduate students April 13, and Corinna Campbell, a doctoral candidate at from the Daniels Harvard University’s music department, spoke May 1 on College of Business took first Surinamese Maroon music and dance. place in the 2012 Aspen Institute’s Business & Society The University’s Office of Technology Transfer has partnered with International MBA Daniels against four Case Competition, other top business the Innovation Center of the Rockies (ICR) to help commercial- held April 13 in school programs. ize inventions and intellectual property developed by University New York. The The case, written researchers. The ICR was chosen after a national search in part Daniels College team by the Yale School initially competed of Management, because of its roster of volunteer mentors and advisers who will against more than challenged students help find pathways to market for DU technology. The nonprofit 1,000 students to integrate corporate organization will provide a program manager who will work representing 25 of profitability and the world’s leading positive social and closely with DU researchers and the Technology Transfer Office business schools. environmental impact to translate highly technical material into understandable language, The final round of in a real business identify potential commercial utility and work with the mentoring team. competition pitted scenario.

8 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Psychology Professor Wyndol Furman has received two awards for his research on close relationships in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood: the 2012 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, presented by the International Society of Behavioral Development, and the 2012 John P. Hill “New Media Influence on Campaign Memorial Award from the Society for Politics,” a May 11 panel discussion Research on Adolescence. held as part of the Presidential Debate Event Series, brought together media and political experts to discuss The Division of Athletics and Recreation the effects of Facebook, Twitter, blogs achieved an unprecedented 100 percent and other new media on presidential participation rate among student-athletes and other campaigns. Panelists were and staff in annual giving during the 2011–12 David Weigel, a political reporter calendar year. A total of 326 student-athletes LAW donated to the Pioneers Reinvesting for Slate magazine and MSNBC; in Denver Excellence (PRIDE) Legal institute’s political consultant Brent Blackaby; Fund, while 128 full-time Kourlis wins Jay Newton-Small, a congressional athletics employees prestigious John correspondent for Time magazine; contributed to the Pioneers for Marshall Award and Dorian Warren, an assistant Pioneers professor of political science at program. Rebecca Love Kourlis, Columbia University. The panel was director of the Institute for the moderated by Seth Masket and Peter Hanson, both assistant professors in Advancement of the American DU’s political science department. Legal System at the University of Denver, is the recipient of the 2012 John Marshall Award, To celebrate the 100th presented by the American anniversary of the discovery of cosmic Bar Association Justice Center. rays, DU hosted a The award recognizes those three-day conference, dedicated to improving the “Centenary Symposium administration of justice. 2012: Discovery of Recipients are chosen based Cosmic Rays,” in June. More than 50 on their work to promote scientists came to justice-system reform and campus to discuss public awareness. developments in the field over the past century.

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INTERNATIONAL OBITUARY University part of new initiative to bring more Former library school dean dies at 93 international students to Colorado Margaret Enid Knox Goggin, former dean of DU’s A new statewide initiative to encourage international students to Graduate School of Librarianship, died June 10 in Gainesville, attend Colorado colleges and universities was announced in July at a Fla. She was 93. press conference at the University of Denver. Goggin had degrees from Maryville College, Peabody StudyColorado, a partnership among the state, the business com- College and the University of Illinois. After working in munity and institutions of higher education—including DU—will work to libraries in Tennessee, Ohio, Washington, D.C., and the attract international students through unified outreach efforts. University of Illinois, she became an assistant professor of In academic year 2010–11, more than 7,000 international students library science at the University of Florida in 1949. In 1968, from more than 100 countries studied in Colorado. More than 1,300 of she was hired by the University of Denver as full professor and those students studied at DU. “Their presence here enriches all of us in many different ways. It dean of the library school—a post she held until 1979. raises the bar of the intellectual climate for the entire university,” Uni- In 1980 she was the inspiration behind and co-founder versity of Denver Chancellor Robert Coombe said at the press confer- of what is today the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar. ence. “It’s a truly wonderful thing for us at DU, but for the city and for She remained on the DU faculty as a professor until 1984, Colorado as well.” attaining emeritus status in that year. In retirement, she International students bring more than $235 million to the Colorado served as interim director of collection management at Emory economy each year, said Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia. University from 1986–88. She also worked as co-owner of “Our students benefit from the presence of international students,” Book Seminars Inc. from 1986–95 and as owner of Margaret Garcia added. “It’s a win for all of Colorado, not just the institution.” K. Goggin Books beginning in 1994. FOR OUR STUDENTS The Academic Commons at Penrose Library

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From the desk of Bin Ramke, English professor sized Empire State Building. “It was my son’s toy, 1 Ramke illustrated his poem “Phrases” in part and when it broke, it stopped being a toy and with an old photograph of him and his brother became art,” Ramke says. on the steps of the Louisiana state Capitol in Baton Rouge. 5 Ramke likes this antique bottle of bug spray because of the marketing 2 A longtime origami enthusiast, Ramke often language it uses—“Sure death starts a new class by teaching students how to to flies.” “You would not use this fold an origami crane. language in contemporary advertising unless you were using it with some 3 Ramke saved these typeballs from an IBM degree of irony,” he says. Selectric typewriter as a reminder that “writing is a physical activity.” He wrote his first book on a 6 A gift from a friend with whom he watched manual typewriter. the Coen brothers’ dark comedy classic, this Fargo snow globe depicts the 1996 movie’s gory 4 Many items on Ramke’s desk reflect his “wood chipper” scene. interest in miniatures, including this former piggy bank that depicts King Kong climbing a pint-

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Game theory First-year seminar lets students design campaign-themed video games By Greg Glasgow What is a first- To teach first-year students about the says. “I’m planning on making them switch halfway machinations of campaign politics this fall, through. I want them to actually look at issues on year seminar? computer science Professor Scott Leutenegger both sides, but more importantly, I want them to First-year seminars are designed intends to speak to the freshmen in a language he see the techniques that politicians use to inform— to provide incoming freshmen knows they will understand. or misinform—the public.” with an in-depth academic He’s having them create their own video games. Another aim is to teach students about the “You have this medium that kids want to socially conscious gaming movement pioneered by experience that hints at the kinds engage with—they’re all gamers, and the idea of designers like Rafael Fajardo, an associate professor of classes they will take during playing a game is just completely normal to them,” in DU’s emergent digital practices program. their senior year. In the intensive Leutenegger says. “So you have this opportunity Games such as Fajardo’s “Juan and the Beanstalk,” classes, students develop the to inject some sort of political commentary or to about Colombian farmers, or “Oiligarchy,” a big shape opinions through the game play. It’s not oil-themed game by Italian team Molleindustria, kinds of academic skills that just killing zombies; it could be a game where deliver a message about society. And designing such will prepare them for successful you’re a campaign manager and you have to coach a game, Leutenegger says, is even more educational college work, including writ- your candidate on whether to use negative attack than playing it. ing, critical reading and think- techniques or patriotic chest-thumping.” “When you have to actually make the game, ing, discussion, argument and Leutenegger’s first-year seminar, Election and you have to decide on the message that you Games, was inspired by the presidential debate the want to get across, it’s the same as writing a paper. debate. The seminars also help University will host in October. Using a simple They have to do the same background research,” he freshmen feel like part of the DU programming language called Scratch, students says. “When you write a paper, about the only thing community: A student’s first-year will team up to design games that take a cue from an instructor can do to stop you from going all over seminar instructor serves as his presidential politics. Once the games are finished, the place is say, ‘You are limited to four pages.’ Well, students will take turns playing the games designed when you have to write the code for this game, you or her academic adviser and by their classmates. have to do the art for this game, that’s much more faculty mentor throughout the “They are going to create board games and of a constraint than limiting the number of pages. It freshman year. Scratch games that are basically making campaign forces the designer to hone that argument down to pitches for one candidate or the other,” Leutenegger the bare minimum.” Donor spotlight Tony Singer endows new painting professorship By Kristin Altman Courtesy of Tony Singer Everett Anton “Tony” Singer (BA ’70) “We are all deeply touched by Tony’s doesn’t consider his job work. Retired generosity and trust,” says Anne McCall, co-owner of the print business Four dean of the Divisions of Arts, Humanities Seasons Litho Inc., Singer founded the and Social Sciences. “This professorship website VintageAutoPosters.com. will enable us to strengthen our painting “My company combines the three program by creating a fertile academic things I love: aesthetics, printing and cars,” environment in which we can attract top- he says. “I channeled my creative juices notch faculty who will help students foster into my printing business and then into their passion for art.” vintage automotive posters. It was my time Singer’s gift will be used to increase as a painting student at DU that opened my the number of full-time faculty in painting. eyes to being able to express my aesthetic The endowment will fund faculty salaries vision in many different entrepreneurial and research related to painting. paths.” “It was clear to me that DU has In June, Singer made a gift to the fantastic physical spaces for students in the University of Denver’s School of Art and art program to explore their art,” Singer Art History to provide opportunities for says. “It seemed to me that what the School art students to have similar revelatory of Art and Art History needed was more experiences. The Everett Anton Singer support of its people. I wanted to fund the Endowed Professorship in Painting is the faculty within the program and enable the first endowed faculty position for the art school to attract well-known, motivating school. teachers to guide art students.”

PARTNERSHIP DU helps Colorado Public Radio meet fundraising goal The University of Denver helped Colorado Public Radio (CPR) kick off its latest fundraising drive in style, aiding the station in raising more than $80,000 over the first six hours of the nine-day effort. The pledge drive began June 6 with a University challenge grant: $10,000 if CPR received 1,000 pledges in six hours. The station exceeded that goal by 79 pledges and raised $83,347 within the challenge grant time period. “Colorado Public Radio is about curiosity and expanding awareness and expanding horizons, and by partnering with that and supporting that, DU is showing itself to be an organization in the community that really supports thoughtful conversations and understanding the world around us,” says CPR membership director Jim East. The relationship between the University and CPR goes back to 1970, when KCFR (“Colorado Free Radio”) started as an on-campus station licensed to the University. The station started carrying programming from National Public Radio in 1973, and in 1984 it separated from DU, moved to a building near campus and became a community-licensed public radio station. In 1991, KCFR merged with Grand Junction public radio station KPRN to form Colorado Public Radio.

University of Denver Magazine UPDATE 13 Campus Update 2012

CommencementWayne Armstrong Graduate Date: June 8

Number of graduates: 812

Speaker: William Dean Singleton, chair and founder of the MediaNews Group chain

Message: “You’re all guaranteed at least one job: cleaning up my generation’s mess. We screwed it up big time, and I apologize on behalf of my generation.”

Undergraduate Date: June 9

Number of graduates: 952

Speaker: Roger Birnbaum, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and co-founder of Spyglass Entertainment

Message: “No one can tell you what to do with your life. No one knows better than you. If you don’t know yet, that’s OK, that’s wonderful, that’s being young. But don’t wait for others to tell you. Don’t wait for the answer to appear in a city or a boyfriend or girlfriend because it won’t—or worse, you’ll be given the wrong answer. Many office buildings are filled with people fulfilling other people’s expectations.” Ce Shi

14 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 One to watch Sam Estenson, intercultural communications and foreign languages By Kelsey Outman

Balancing campus activities, schoolwork and conducted similar research in Germany and fun can be a challenging task, but one DU student Denmark. Commencement tackles all three and makes it look easy. Estenson also is involved in planning for Junior Sam Estenson, the Undergraduate the presidential debate Oct. 3, serving as student Student Government president, is involved in a coordinator for the DebateFest that will be held on multitude of activities at the University. Originally campus the same day. “We’ve been collaborating from the small town of Northfield, Minn., with all the different stakeholders and making sure Estenson saw attending DU as an adventure. that the student voice is heard and that students “Colorado has this image of excitement and are excited about it because it’s going to be such a opportunity—that’s why we’re the Pioneers,” he defining moment for DU,” he says. says. “For me, choosing DU was choosing a riskier Carl Johnson, director of campus activities option. Now that I’m here, I realize what a perfect and Estenson’s student government adviser, fit it is.” believes Estenson will have a huge influence Estenson is pursuing a dual degree in during his time as president. intercultural communications (a self-designed “I have great faith in Sam,” Johnson says. “He major) and foreign languages (Spanish, German has great leadership qualities and has the ability to and Japanese), with minors in leadership and do great things.”

business. He has been on Wayne Armstrong the Programming Board for the past two years; he works as a foreign language tutor at the Center for World Languages and Cultures, where he also is a board The University offers member; and he leads campus tours as part of courses in 10 foreign Team 1864. languages: Arabic, Estenson’s passion Chinese, French, for learning about other cultures stemmed from his German, Hebrew, gap year before coming to Italian, Japanese, Latin, DU, when he traveled to Russian and Spanish. Japan through the Rotary Youth Exchange. The The Center for World experience, he says, “opened Languages and Cultures a completely new window offers specialized to the world.” instruction in less Funded by a Partners in Scholarship research commonly taught grant, Estenson traveled languages, including to Spain and Latin Bosnian, Hindi and America this summer to research the intersection Tibetan. of youth culture, language and geography. He has

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Mass media Mehran takes on science, politics and religion in new museum exhibit By Greg Glasgow

Standing inside the giant cube that’s at the you’re the host and the parasites are coming to heart of Laleh Mehran’s temporary, site-specific feast—there are a lot of interpretations.” installation at the Denver Art Museum, you may Mehran started working on the piece two feel like a ruler looking down on his subjects, years ago at the invitation of museum director or like a character in AMC’s zombie show “The Christoph Heinrich. It addresses her trademark Walking Dead,” about to be devoured. issues of science, politics and religion, but it also is With its motion-sensitive video screens that inspired by the unconventional architecture of the send a horde of computer-generated, head-like DAM’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building. spheres swarming toward each new visitor, the “I teasingly call this a collaboration between piece—titled Men of God, Men of Nature—puts a myself and the architect Daniel Libeskind, because visitor at the center of some kind of big event, but I would never have made a cube in a white-wall the specifics are open to interpretation. gallery,” says Mehran, who built the structure in “Basically they’re masses, however you decide collaboration with her husband, Chris Coleman, you see that,” says Mehran, an associate professor also an assistant professor in the emergent digital of emergent digital practices at the School of Art practices program. “But in this space, where and Art History. “Whether you’re there to bestow nothing is perpendicular, a cube just works. It words of wisdom onto the masses and they really feels so alive to me.” want to hear it, or you see yourself as a rock star The daughter of Iranian scientists who left and the concert’s begun and fans are coming Iran during the Cultural Revolution in the 1980s, toward you, or it’s a parasitic relationship and Mehran has worked at DU since 2007. Men of God, Men of Nature pays tribute to her Middle Eastern heritage as well: The installation’s cube is inspired by the Kaaba, a sacred Islamic structure that draws millions of Muslims during the annual Hajj pilgrimage; and the outside of the structure is decorated with etchings inspired by the topography of the region. To set the appropriate mood, Mehran and a sound designer put together a soundscape that melds sacred songs, ambient noise from a bazaar and an American shopping mall, the sounds of helicopters, bees and more into a sonic “soup” that is equally soothing and hypnotic. Inside the cube, a deeper rumbling aids further reflection. “On the most ideal level, my piece is a place of contemplation,” Mehran says. “Most of the surfaces are reflective, but at the same time all the reflective pieces are in parts, so you’re constantly getting interrupted—your perfect understanding of yourself or your surroundings is constantly cut or imposed by something else. So ideally it’s a place where you would be reflective about these very deep ideologies that make you who you are and influence the ways in which you make wise decisions about how you understand your position in relation to others and navigate the world.” >>Men of God, Men of Nature is at the DAM

Photos courtesy of Laleh Mehran Photos courtesy of Laleh through Feb. 17; visit www.denverartmuseum.org

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Parent to Parent Coaching your student on internships By Dan Hazard I remember well Mr. Lamberton, my Little League baseball • Mention to family, friends and business coach. He knew just how much to push us, and he knew when to associates that your student is seeking an back off if we were trying too hard. Parents of a college student internship in a given field. require the same diplomacy in terms of the timing and tone of the • Practice interviewing with your student as much as possible, well message we hope will be heard and heeded. before the interview. There is no substitute for the confidence Using the honest phrase “don’t make the same mistakes I did” gained by rehearsing. laid the groundwork for encouraging my college student to begin the • Encourage your student to keep sending resumés and interviewing internship preparation and search sooner rather than later. to secure multiple job offers. Last January, my student shuffled off to the Career Center and • Explain that most internships have many more applicants than received some excellent assistance polishing her resumé and cover openings; rejection is a painful part of any job search. letter. She built a list of internship sites and family connections, • With any internship /job offer, ask for details in writing, such as then sent more than a dozen resumés for a 2012 summer internship. hours, pay, duties, etc. The result was four interviews (both Skype and face-to-face) and two • Send written thank-you notes for any job offers declined. job offers. What can we do as parental coaches when discussing internships? Internships, regardless of the field or duties, provide invaluable • Pick the right time, tone and place to discuss internships. experience preparing a student for the transition to a full-time position. • Share experiences regarding your personal job searches and work challenges. Dan Hazard, of Huntington Beach, Calif., is the parent of senior communications major Brittany Hazard.

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18 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Emerging talent Alumna leads nonprofit that trains women for political office By Tamara Chapman

After years of working in the nonprofit sector Courtesy of Karen Middleton and immersing herself in issues aligned with her passions, Karen Middleton (MA ’07) decided she didn’t just want to promote change—she wanted to make it. A former assistant dean at what is now the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, Middleton wanted to write policy and enact laws. She wanted clout. To that end, Middleton served for six years as an elected official—first on the Colorado State Board of Education and later, from 2008–10, in the Colorado Legislature, where she represented House District 42 and where she was elected majority caucus chair. “I really liked being able to have an impact,” she says. That said, Middleton knew she could get more done if she had like-minded allies—in other

words, more women in office—with whom she women together for seven months of rigorous Mike McDonald/Shutterstock.com could collaborate. preparation. “We train a cohort of women, so Today, with that in mind, she serves as we have women who can support each other as president of California-based Emerge America, a a team,” Middleton explains. Training addresses national program that trains Democratic women everything from public speaking, fundraising and to run for office. With outposts in 10 states, campaign strategies to issues that, historically, have Since it was launched Emerge is hoping to expand its presence across kept women from pursuing office. in 2002, Emerge has the map. Three new offices are in the works, “Most of the women we encounter got trained almost 1,000 including one in Colorado. into politics because they had an issue they were Democratic women to Two years into the job, Middleton, 46, interested in,” Middleton explains. But too many is delighted by how it draws on her many women think that single-issue expertise and run for office. life experiences—as an elected official, as an knowledge gaps undermine their suitability for administrator and as a citizen concerned about office. The Emerge plan helps women develop • 43 percent of Emerge everything from education to women’s issues. strategies to evaluate material and make decisions. alumnae have run for (In addition to her stint at the University, she Since its 2002 founding, Emerge has trained office or been appointed worked with the Western Interstate Commission 1,000 women. Forty percent of participants are to local boards or for Higher Education, eCollege, the White House women of color. In fact, Middleton says, the Project and the National Democratic Institute for organization just helped elect the first Latina in commissions. International Affairs.) the Wisconsin State Assembly. Middleton’s goal at Emerge is to help alter Of the women who have participated in • Of those who have run some troubling statistics: The United States ranks Emerge programming, 150 are running for office. for office, 60 percent 90th in the world in the number of women in “For me,” Middleton says, “it’s all about the have won. elected office; women make up just 17 percent of election results and making sure that they have a the U.S. Congress; and only six states are led by team that wants to help them.” female governors. Eventually, she may run for office again. “I “The numbers are pretty grim,” she wouldn’t rule anything out,” she says. In fact, says. “We’re actually seeing a drop in the state she’d relish the opportunity to legislate and shape legislatures. There’s not very much of a bench in policy alongside other women—but first, she’s most states.” focused on helping them get elected. The Emerge strategy begins by bringing >>emergeamerica.org

University of Denver Magazine UPDATE 19 Campus Update

ATHLETICS Pioneers join effort in support of gay athletes In June, the University of Denver Pioneers became the first NCAA Division I athletes to join the You Can Play Project, releasing videos in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender athletes. DU’s videos were among the first made by colleges after the project launched in March. You Can Play kicked off with a series of hockey-based videos featuring NHL All-Stars saying that shooting, scoring and other skills are important, while sexual orientation is not. DU’s videos—featuring the hockey, men’s and women’s basketball and gymnastics teams—were filmed on campus in early spring. Co-founded by sports marketing executive and DU adjunct professor Brian Kitts (BA ’83, MA ’86), You Can Play is a Denver- based nonprofit organization promoting respect for all athletes based on talent, skill and determination—not sexual orientation or gender

identity. The project also has input from Glenn Witman, a Denver- From left: MacDonald, Lam,Worthman, Lowe and Peronto. based real estate developer and founder of the GForce Sports elite gay hockey program, and Patrick Burke, a scout for the Philadelphia HONORS Flyers. Five students win Fulbright scholarships >>www.YouCanPlayProject.org Five University of Denver students won Fulbright Scholarships to study or teach abroad in the 2012–13 academic year. It is the largest number of DU students to win Fulbright scholarships in more than 10 years. The DU winners include:

Stephanie Lowe, an undergraduate German major, was awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Germany. Michael Peronto, an undergraduate with a major in international studies, received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Russia. Geoffrey MacDonald, a PhD candidate in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, received a Fulbright Research Grant to study in India. Tom Lam, a master’s candidate in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Macau, China. Shaye Worthman, a master’s candidate in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, received a Fulbright Full Graduate Degree Grant to study political economy of development at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Puebla, Mexico. “Completing my PhD in Mexico with this Fulbright grant will give me the academic and theoretical support to better understand the complexities of economic and social development in Latin America,” Worthman says. “Moreover, I will gain the international field experience I need to fulfill my career aspirations of researching and evaluating rural development projects in Latin America while contributing to the larger literature on public policy and rural development strategies.” The Fulbright program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, is the largest U.S. international exchange program. The prestigious and highly competitive scholarship was established in 1946 to build relationships between the U.S. and other countries. 20 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Q&A Vince Szilagyi on College Republicans Interview by Greg Glasgow

n April, senior history, geography and political to me because really everything else relates to Iscience major Vince Szilagyi was elected state politics in one way or another. It’s just a natural chair of the Colorado Federation of College extension of how humans interact with one Republicans. another, so it’s always been something I found fascinating. Q What is College Republicans? A Basically, College Republicans is the youth organization for the Republican Party as a whole. Q Why did you gravitate toward the We’re unaffiliated with the party officially— Republican Party? we’re a nonprofit group and we have our own A I’ve always been pretty conservative. My headquarters, the College Republican National parents are not very politically involved, and Committee in Washington, D.C. Each state has more than giving me any particular ideology, they its own federation, and within each state, each always told me that I should be able to reason individual college has its own chapter. and to argue why I believe what I believe, not just accept what other people say. As a student of history, I’ve seen what happens in the excesses of Q What do you do in your role as state conservatism and the excesses of liberalism, and chairman for the Colorado Federation? I personally believe that conservatism is a better A I represent the state on the national level, and way forward. I’m in charge of coordinating statewide activities. As far as activities, it’s an election year, so it’s going to be very different. We’re essentially going Q There’s a stereotype that all college to be subsumed by larger party organizations and campuses are liberal. Do you feel you’re be the youth or labor wing of the party—doing working against the mainstream here at DU? volunteering, voter registration drives and the A Ironically, College Republicans have far like. We serve mostly as a support network for more success on liberal campuses than they do on conservative students on college campuses. conservative campuses. When you’re surrounded by more conservative ideals, you’re less likely to stand up and defend yourself. If you are used to Q Has politics always interested you? being one of two conservative kids in the class and A Not so much on a personal level, like I’m you’re trying to offer a conservative viewpoint, looking to run for office or anything like that, but you tend to get more passionate and you tend to it’s always been something that’s been fascinating get more practiced.

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Hail to the chiefs The University has played host to presidents and candidates alike By Steve Fisher

While Oct. 3 marks the first time that the University of Denver—or, indeed, Colorado—has hosted a presidential debate, it is hardly the University’s first encounter with the nation’s highest elected office. Over the years, the University has been visited a number of times by sitting, future and former U.S. presidents. The most frequent visitor so far has been Bill Clinton, who has been to campus three times. Here is a timeline of past DU presidential visits.

1911 William Howard Taft made the first presidential visit to campus in 1911. Coincidentally, Taft came to DU on Oct. 3—the same date as the upcoming debate. Taft knew Chancellor Henry Buchtel through Republican party politics. Buchtel had served as the governor of Colorado just a few years earlier.

1950 Three years before he became the nation’s 34th president, Dwight Eisenhower was awarded an honorary doctorate at the Aug. 23 summer Commencement ceremony. Eisenhower spent a lot of time in Denver because it was the hometown of his wife, Mamie. He also knew then-Chancellor Albert Jacobs, who had been provost at Columbia University when Eisenhower was president of that institution.

1960 On Feb. 4, then-Sen. John F. Kennedy came to Denver in an appearance sponsored by the DU Social Science Foundation. He did not actually visit campus; his speech, “The Global Challenges We Face,” was delivered downtown at the Denver Auditorium. The Denver Post at the time described Kennedy as “a possible candidate for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination.”

1961 In an event sponsored by the DU Young Republicans League, former vice president and future president Richard Nixon spoke to an audience of 4,000 at the DU Arena on Sept. 13.

1966 President Lyndon Johnson received an honorary degree at the summer Commencement ceremony on Aug. 26 in the DU Arena.

1979 Future president Ronald Reagan spoke at the arena-fieldhouse on campus on April 8. Though he was not yet an official candidate, it was widely speculated at the time that Reagan would soon announce his plans to run for the presidency.

1997 President Bill Clinton was part of the G8 Summit that met June 21 at the DU-owned Phipps Mansion. The building and its grounds were sold to private buyers in 2010.

2000 President Clinton appeared at Sturm Hall April 12 for a town hall meeting on gun control.

2008 On Jan. 30, a past president and a future president appeared on campus on the same day, both at Magness Arena. Former president Bill Clinton made a morning appearance as part of wife Hillary’s presidential campaign, and future President Barack Obama made an evening campaign stop. Denver hosted the Democratic National Convention a few days later.

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Campus Update

The eyes have it Engineering students opening doors for patients with limited mobility By Chase Squires

Imagine being able to control the world mobility. Students set the prototype on his face and The Department of around you with just a glance. adjusted the eye-tracking module. They had him Electrical and Computer A team of University of Denver engineering glance to the corner of a computer screen, then Engineering performs students figured out a way to do just that. They to the other corner as they dialed in the system to cutting-edge research in imagined a way to help people with severely limited track his pupil. mobility control their environment simply by They turned on an electronic “keyboard,” a several areas, including moving their eyes. Then they set about making that screen filled with the letters of the alphabet, and safety, security and vision a reality. had Abram focus on a letter. Abram glanced, and rescue; computer vision, Students John DeWitt, Jeff Evans, Peter a cursor moved. He let it hover, and the letter Neilson and Jordan Rath toiled for an entire “clicked.” pattern recognition and academic year, working with Professors Peter Laz There was an audible sigh of relief from the image understanding; and Mohammad Mahoor and adjunct Professor team. nano-electro-mechanical Bob Johnson in a senior engineering class to create This year, a new group of students will look a workable, affordable device that allows a user to pick up where the last team left off, making devices; and renewable to move a cursor about a computer screen just by the design sleeker and more durable. Similar energy and power moving his eyes. devices already exist, but they work best in strictly electronics. Visit www. They tackled the challenge throughout the controlled environments with equipment costing 2011–12 academic year in collaboration with tens of thousands of dollars. What the DU team du.edu/ece for more Denver’s Craig Hospital, one of the country’s best- set out to create was a real-world system—a information. known facilities specializing in long-term care and less-expensive option that is durable enough to use rehabilitation of patients with spinal cord injury and every day. traumatic brain injury. “We were specifically trying to make the sys- The team was challenged to create five pairs tem more useable, as well as try to make it a low- of eye-tracking glasses and deliver them to Craig cost option,” Laz says. “The vision was to create Hospital’s adaptive technology lab for testing. In some systems that will be low cost—$100, $200— June, students, professors and patients converged and that could create a new market where people with hospital researchers for a road test. could take this home and use it in their house.” Scott Abram sat patiently in a wheelchair inside the lab, a room crammed with devices and See video of a patient using the eye-tracking glasses at prototypes aimed at helping those with limited www.du.edu/eyetracker

24 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Ad Magness Arena Wednesday, October 3 Be here in spirit, grab a ringside seat! TUNE IN OR LOG ON When the University takes center stage to host the first Presidential Debate of 2012, millions of people worldwide will be watching. It’s a first for DU, Denver and the Rocky Mountain West!

C-SPAN coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. MDT, including a welcome by Chancellor Bob Coombe. Debate is 7-8:30 p.m. MDT on major networks.

Visit debate2012.du.edu for the latest on the Debate, related events and tapping in through social media. Are you in the Denver area October 3? Come to DebateFest on campus!

Live music, activities, food vendors and a real-time, outdoor telecast of the debate! Registration opens September 15. debate2012.du.edu/news/debatefest.html

University of Denver Magazine UPDATE 25 Photo illustration by Craig Korn

The Great Debate Great The The University prepares for The Great Debate its moment nce a university has agreed to host a presidential debate, the questions in the global start to pile up pretty quickly. Who needs security clearances? How do spotlight. Oticketholders get inside the Ritchie Center? Where’s everyone going to park? What happens if it rains or snows? By Leslie Petrovski And what about the networks that want to air their morning shows from (BA ’82, MA ’91) campus in the days leading up to the debate? What about faculty and staff who work in the area that will become the fenced-off secure zone? Where do students fit into all of this? All these questions and more are now the province of David Greenberg, the University’s vice chancellor of institutional partnerships. Working with constituents and committees across campus, Greenberg is keenly focused on one date: Oct. 3, the day the 2012 presidential candidates will square off in Magness Arena in the first presidential debate of the 2012 election. “It’s a big deal,” says Greenberg, de facto project manager for the event. “The logistics are really mind-blowing.” On Oct. 31, 2011, the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD)—the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that has sponsored the events since 1988— selected the University of Denver as a debate host, making DU the first university in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain region to host a presidential debate. “We’ve been told that since it is the first debate of the series, involving a sitting president and taking place at such a critical time for world and national affairs,” observes Chancellor Robert Coombe, “the debate at the University of Denver may be one of the highest-rated television programs in all of 2012, approaching the Photo illustration by Craig Korn numbers of the Super Bowl.”

University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 27 he University’s Wayne Armstrong Parking Services and Campus road Tto the debate began Safety to Alumni Relations in March 2011, when the and University Technology chancellor and Board of Services. A separate student Trustees authorized the committee is planning events institution to make a bid to related to campus life. become a debate host for the Serving as a presidential 2012 election season. Eleven debate site also comes with other schools submitted a price—$1.65 million, an applications, among them amount the University has debate veterans Hofstra, been courting donors to cover. Washington University (in “If you look at universities Saint Louis) and Wake Forest that have previously held University. debates,” Greenberg explains, The CPD had a long list “a lot of them have done of criteria: an air-conditioned it repeatedly: Washington hall of at least 17,000 square University, Hofstra, Center feet; nearby parking that can College. Obviously their “Everything keeps me up at night,” says David Greenberg, vice chancellor of accommodate 30 television metrics have proved it to be a institutional partnerships and de facto project manager for the presidential debate. remote trucks, trailers and worthwhile endeavor.” “We want it to appear to outsiders that it worked effortlessly and gracefully. And that satellite trucks up to 53 feet people come away with a great impression of the University—not just the physical Cathy Grieve (MA ’75, in length; a 20,000-square- plant, but also the people who populate the University. That’s what we want.” PhD ’79), executive director of foot (minimum) media filing Conference and Event Services center in the same facility. at DU, was part of a team that But meeting the CPD’s minimum specs may not have been met in late 2011 with the other schools selected to host debates this the only reason the University landed the big event, says Associate year. Professor Seth Masket, chair of DU’s political science department. “They said, ‘Just picture CNN, ABC, all the networks on the “At least part of it has to be that Colorado has become a pivotal campus green, everybody broadcasting live from the University state in presidential elections,” says Masket, author of No Middle of Denver,’” says Grieve, who has served on the debate steering Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and committee since the application process began. “That just resonated Polarize Legislatures (University of Michigan Press, 2011). “While it with us. You’ll never be able to purchase that type of exposure.” used to be reliably Republican, the state has become very competitive over the last decade, and it’s seen as the key to the increasingly competitive Rocky Mountain region. By some measures, Colorado is the ‘swingiest’ of the swing states. It’s well balanced between he University’s selection as a debate site has yet to generate Democrats and Republicans, and it has shown a tendency to switch the publicityT wattage that leads to changes in matriculation. Emily allegiances from election to election. So a lot of the campaign will be Forbes, director of communication for the Office of Undergraduate waged here in Colorado.” Admission, explains that the entering class of 2016 was too far along For the CPD’s part, the priority is ensuring a seamless in the enrollment process for the debate to matter. “We should see it broadcast. The specter of the 1976 technical glitch that stopped the not only next year, but also the following year,” she says. “With this first debate between President Gerald Ford and challenger Jimmy age group, having a nationally prominent event on campus may be Carter for 27 minutes looms to the point that the CPD would forgo just as big an influence as the debate itself.” geographically distributing the debates in favor of locations they But for the students already here, the debate is an eagerly know can get the job done. anticipated event that will define their time at the University. “This is much larger than one campus and one city,” explains “To hear that there will be an estimated 200 million CPD Executive Director Janet Brown. international viewers is incredible,” says junior and student body At the University, the debate is being handled by a seven- president Sam Estenson. “I expect our image to skyrocket around the member steering committee, along with a 27-member organizational U.S. and around the world. This adds prestige to the degree we’re committee made up of representatives from offices ranging from receiving and the prospects we will have down the road.”

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The 2012 presidential debate at DU— here’s how you can get involved! H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

Check out debate2012.du.edu for a list of lectures and events happening Come Attend a Debate to Event Series on campus before and after the campus lecture debate. Scheduled speakers include award-winning author and science DebateFest, an outdoor advocate Shawn Otto on “Science and Antiscience in Event Series watch party featuring live the U.S. Elections” (Sept. 13) and David Sanger, chief music, voter registration Washington correspondent for The New York Times, on his and live debate viewing latest book, An Age of Reckoning: Obama’s Surprising Use of on giant screens, will American Power. (Sept. 20) be held from 3–9 p.m.

Oct. 3 on the south end H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H of campus between the Coverage of the Oct. 3 presidential debate at the University Mary Reed Building and of Denver begins at 6:30 p.m. MDT on C-SPAN. The debate Penrose Library. Admission itself begins at 7 p.m. on most major networks. Keep an eye is free, but tickets are Watch on debate2012.du.edu to find out how you can share your required. Register and the debate-watching experiences with other alumni and parents get more information at debate in real time. debate2012.du.edu. H

Of course the topic on everyone’s mind—students, faculty, staff, In addition, more than 5,000 campus community members and alumni and neighbors—is tickets. Everyone wants to sit in Magness neighbors are expected to attend DebateFest, a free outdoor watch Arena the night of the debate. party on campus that features live music, family activities and debate The CPD controls tickets, which will be allocated among a viewing on giant screens. “Issues Alley,” a walkway lined with tents variety of groups, including the presidential campaigns and the and tables, will find organizations championing diverse issues, while University. The University intends to allocate its student tickets via a “food truck rally” will introduce Denver’s vibrant mobile-cuisine a random lottery system. scene to the national and international media. Those who aren’t lucky enough to attend the main event Estenson, student coordinator of DebateFest, sees the chance to will have plenty of exposure to campaign issues. Mindful of the work on an event of this magnitude as a great resumé builder. But educational potential surrounding the event, the University has more than that, he views it as an extraordinary life experience. mounted a Debate Event Series that so far has featured appearances “I think this Oct. 3 and this fall will be talked about for by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (BA ’74, PhD ’81); yearsand years and will be in every graduation speech for the classes former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; retired four-star Gen. thatexperienced this,” he says. “We’ll all be able to say, ‘I was on George Casey (MA ’80); and PBS journalist Ray Suarez. (Visit campus for the presidential debate.’ That will be an experience we all debate2012.du.edu for a schedule of remaining events in the series.) share.”

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The Newman Center celebrates a decade of artistic excellence.

By Greg Glasgow

When students from the Lamont School of Music But first and foremost, the Newman Center is home to the began moving into the brand new Robert and Judi Newman faculty and students of the Lamont school, who rehearse in Center for the Performing Arts in fall 2002, classical guitar its top-floor practice rooms, perform in its acoustically perfect Professor Ricardo Iznaola noticed something interesting. concert halls and record in its state-of-the-art digital studio. “The students immediately began to perform better in the “I know some other music schools in the area that have seen new halls,” says Iznaola, a Lamont faculty member since 1983. it and call it the Taj Mahal of music buildings, and that’s what “It’s a psychological thing in the performing arts that you live up we all felt like when we moved in,” says Joe Docksey, former to the venue. There was an immediate sense of seriousness and director of the school. “All of us just couldn’t believe that we excellence transmitted by the building itself.” were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time to Ten years later, that building remains a crown jewel of the move in to what probably is the nation’s finest music school.” campus and one of the University’s most visible faces to the Prior to 2002, the Lamont School of Music was located on larger Denver community. Its climate-controlled, wired- DU’s Park Hill campus, along with the Sturm College of Law and for-sound rehearsal studios are a key selling point for music the Women’s College. Then-Chancellor Dan Ritchie had the students and faculty. Its Byron Theatre, with more than 40 stage vision of a united central campus, and Lamont led the charge. configurations, is home base for DU’s theater department. (The law school and the Women’s College followed in 2002 Its concert halls of various sizes make it a favorite rental for and 2003, respectively.) Incorporating classic materials such as local music, dance and theater groups. And the center’s very limestone, travertine marble and sandstone—and modeled after existence gave birth to Newman Center Presents, a concert European concert halls—the Newman Center is made up of six series that brings international names in classical, jazz, dance, individual buildings, each separated from the others by a 2-inch opera, theater and more to campus every year—and often gives gap that ensures acoustical isolation. It was designed as a music Lamont students the opportunity to interact and perform with school and performance venue that would stand the test of time, the visiting artists. and it’s not hard to imagine a 100th anniversary celebration that “It was an opportunity to select and bring to the campus and finds the structure just as impressive as it is today. the community this eclectic array of artists from around the “I think what the University did in setting its sights that high and world,” says Newman Center Executive Director Steve Seifert, then fulfilling those expectations is a real community service,” who programs the Newman Center Presents series. “From the Seifert says. “It’s great for students and faculty—everybody gets beginning, we asked ourselves what already exists in the city, to rehearse and play here, and I really do think it draws the best because we don’t need to re-create something that’s already out of them, and they go out into the next phase of their careers here. We asked, ‘What can we do that would add to the cultural with a background that would be really hard to get in a different fabric of the city?’ And the idea of doing a multidisciplinary, kind of facility. multicultural series in the performing arts is what we settled “But it’s also really great for the community to experience the on, with a high component of artists who had never been kind of art that happens here,” he continues. “They can hear the here before. By the end of our upcoming season, we will have difference; they can see the difference; they can connect with produced 138 different shows, 53 percent of which are by artists the artists in a way you don’t in other theaters, and the sense is, who had never appeared in Denver before.” ‘Really, that’s the way it’s supposed to be.’”

University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 31 Student productions at the Newman Center give young actors and musicians a taste of what it’s like UNIVERSITY OF DENVER to stage a performance in a world-class facility, whether DU THEATRE they’re on stage or working behind the scenes. Annual musical productions such as Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny SENIOR CAPSTONE Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (2010) and Bill Russell and Henry Krieger’s Side Show (2011) are joint efforts between the theater department and the Lamont School of Music, while opera productions unite students FESTIVAL from Lamont’s opera theater department and musicians in DUNIT? the all-student Lamont Symphony Orchestra. WHO ...AND TO WHOM?

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University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 33 Here we go, DU! New coaches, new players, a new conference— it’s a big year for the Pioneers.

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By Pat Rooney Photos courtesy of University of Denver Athletics

pring typically is the season of new beginnings, but at the University of Denver, fall is the time of change—at Sleast when it comes to athletics. As new and returning students prepare to fill the seats of Magness Arena to cheer on their Pioneers, there are changes happening behind the scenes that should make the 2012–13 season one of the most exciting in University history. The biggest change on tap for 2012–13 is DU’s long- awaited move to the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), as 10 teams—men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s golf, gymnastics, women’s soccer, women’s swimming and diving, men’s and women’s tennis, and volleyball—leave the Pioneers’ longtime home in the Sun Belt Conference to embark on new regional rivalries against the likes of Utah State, New Mexico State and Idaho. In hockey, head coach George Gwozdecky will embark on his 19th season with DU in what should be a historic campaign. The upcoming season will be the Pioneers’ final year in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, which has been the program’s home for more than 50 years. DU is a founding member of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, which will begin competition in the 2013–14 season. “We are fortunate to have enjoyed some great success in the past, and this upcoming year promises to be another outstanding year for our Denver Pioneers,” says Peg Bradley- Doppes, vice chancellor for athletics and recreation. “From our inaugural year participating in the WAC to our hockey team competing on the ice in the historic WCHA for the last season—combined with the excitement surrounding us hosting the presidential debate this fall—we look forward to another banner year.” >>www.denverpioneers.com Here we go, DU! Here we go! HOCKEY The Pioneers will lack some of nation by a freshman defenseman, the firepower they boasted last year, and junior David Makowski, who as the team’s top two scorers, Drew scored 30 points as a freshman Shore and Jason Zucker, opted to before enduring an injury-marred forgo their college eligibility to sign campaign last year. pro contracts. Gwozdecky will face an However, the cupboard is hardly intriguing situation at goaltender as bare for Coach George Gwozdecky’s Sam Brittain, Juho Olkinuora and crew. Junior Nick Shore emerged as a Adam Murray battle for playing consistent scoring threat last year, and time. Brittain missed the first half of Gwozdecky has expressed confidence last season while recovering from that a group of sophomore forwards knee surgery, and Olkinuora took that includes Ty Loney, Zac Larraza advantage of the opportunity to and Daniel Doremus could develop produce a team-best 2.18 goals- into steady goal scorers. against average. Sam and Juho have all shown that DU should pack plenty of “We’ll be good up the middle they can give us a chance to win. scoring punch along the blue line with with Nick Shore,” Gwozdecky says. They realize the situation, and they sophomore Joey LaLeggia, whose 38 “Right now, we don’t have a No. 1 all want to be the guy. It should be a points last year were the most in the goalie. They’ll have to earn it. Adam, healthy competition.”

The bad news for head coach Joe Scott is that the Pioneers will have to make up for the graduation of Brian Stafford, who started all 124 games during his career (a school record) before finishing fourth on the program’s all-time scoring list. The good news? DU returns three starters and should be an immediate force in the WAC. Guards Brett Olson and Royce O’Neale hope to make the sort of second-year jump put together last year by junior Chris Udofia. Udofia shared the team lead in scoring and emerged as a premier defender, recording 72 blocked shots while earning the Sun Belt Conference Defensive Player of the Year award. Early indications are that senior Chase Hallam will return to form after missing the SBC Tournament last year due to a back injury that initially stirred fears about surgery. Hallam avoided surgery and should resume his role as the Pioneers’ jack-of-all-trades. Replacing Stafford’s keen shooting eye from three-point range is Chris Udofia a concern, but Scott expresses hope that one of the three incoming freshmen guards—Nate Engesser, Jalen Love or Bryant Rucker— might ultimately fill that role. “With Royce we basically return four starters, which is great for any team,” says Scott, whose club went 22–9 last year. “We’re trying to find out who the number five, six and seven guys will be. I think we’ll be versatile enough that we’ll have options. We’ll be able to go bigger, and we could go smaller. I like that we’ll have different ways to go to fill those roles.” MEN’S BASKETBALL 36 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL Curious though she was, new to know who the starters are, and head coach Kerry Cremeans didn’t I’ve been able to form my own immediately review video of her new opinion. team and players in action from last “For this team, we’ll have season. Cremeans wanted a fresh, to outwork our opponents,” she untainted perspective once she finally continues. “We’re not going to be got the Pioneers into the gym. big, but we’ll be capable of playing And what has she learned aggressive defense. And we have about her DU squad? Although a veteran point guard who knows the Pioneers have lost Kaetlyn how to push the ball up the court.” Murdoch, who ended her career That point guard, senior as one of the program’s all-time Emiko Smith, already has rewritten leaders in scoring and rebounding, the DU record book by compiling a Emiko Smith DU is well-stocked at the guard program-best 533 assists during her position as Cremeans implements first three seasons. Smith increased an up-tempo style of play. her scoring average by nearly “I have not watched much film four points last season and will be of the team, and that has been on expected to make a similar jump purpose,” Cremeans says. “I didn’t this year to help offset the loss of want to know the stats, didn’t want Murdoch.

VOLLEYBALL Faimie Kingsley Coach Jesse Mahoney has hit the ground running since he was hired in January, and he hopes that theme remains in effect during his inaugural season with the Pioneers. Mahoney, who helped lead Colorado State University to the NCAA Tournament during each of his seven seasons as an assistant with the Rams, wants DU to play at a quicker pace. “The biggest thing is that our offense will run quite a bit faster,” Mahoney says. “With the size we have on the outside, we need to get the ball outside quicker. We spent most of the spring getting a feel for what that’s like. Defensively, the intensity of this group from the time I got here to now—it’s a different animal.” The Pioneers, who went 13–15 last season, have a few holes to fill with the graduation of As Kingsley rounds into form, Mahoney says he expects Alyssa Bonelli and assists leader Julia Cawthra, but those losses improved play from junior Colleen King and senior libero Lyndi could be offset by a healthy return to form from Faimie Kingsley. Johnson. Kingsley earned first team All-Sun Belt Conference honors “I hate to single anyone out, because everyone has been doing after leading the team in kills and blocks. However, a recurring a great job, but those two both had very productive springs,” problem with shin splints forced her to undergo surgery in January Mahoney says. “One of the nice things about this group is our to insert a rod into her tibia. (Kingsley endured a similar procedure depth. There will be a lot more competition for spots, which will on her other leg two years earlier.) make the whole group better.”

University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 37 Campus Update MEN’S SOCCER

The Pioneers will look to press the reset button after a discouraging 2011–12 season. A year of high expectations spiraled into a 5–11–3 disappointment that included losses in five of the Pioneers’ final six games. DU scored only 26 goals all season, and head coach Bobby Muuss has spent much of the offseason attempting to reshape the mindset of his players. Muuss and his coaching staff also are instilling a more attack-oriented strategy in hopes of Drew Beckie igniting a fire in DU’s stagnant offense. “Throughout the winter and spring, everything we did was about being more competitive,” Muuss says. “We’re changing our system of play a bit. In the past, we’ve been more of an absorbing team, and then we’d transition out of that. We’re looking at a more attacking setup.” The Pioneers will have the luxury of taking NCAA title. Hukari, a 6-foot-7 Colorado native, played in 11 games more chances offensively with the presence of sophomore goalie at UCLA in 2010. Oliver Brown, whom Muuss puts into the same category as former “They’re coming here from other schools where it didn’t DU netminder and current D.C. United standout Joe Willis. work out, and they have things they want to prove,” Muuss says. Muuss hopes the addition of two transfers, Ryan Dodson and “Our freshman class is also very, very good. By far the best we’ve Reid Hukari, helps jump-start the Pioneers’ offense. Dodson arrives had on paper. If we believe in what we’re doing, I think it can be an from the vaunted program at North Carolina, which won the 2011 exciting year.”

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Jeff Hooker has compiled a 270–101–33 tied for the second-most in the program’s record as he enters his 21st season as DU’s history and allowed Hamilton to earn the Sun head coach. The Pioneers have won at least Belt’s Player of the Year Award. 13 games in each of the past six seasons, Also returning to the pitch are junior and yet few of Hooker’s many talented midfielder Nicholette DiGiacomo and teams have entered a season with as much sophomore defender Sam Harder, both of firepower as the 2012 squad. whom earned first team All-Sun Belt honors “I don’t want to say it’s the same team last year. as last year, but it’s pretty close,” Hooker Given the amount of talent on the says. “But what we took away from last year field, the Pioneers are poised for a run is that we didn’t win anything. We didn’t at a conference crown in the team’s win the Sun Belt regular season, which we first season in the Western Athletic had high hopes for, and we didn’t win the Conference. Sun Belt Tournament and missed the NCAA “It’s going to be the most competitive Tournament. We’re looking to do the little that the WAC has ever been,” Hooker says. things to change that.” “It will be all new for the players and the DU returns its top seven scorers from coaches, and that part is cool. Different road 2011, a group that includes junior Kristen trips, different teams. We’ll have more direct Hamilton, whose 16 goals in a single season flights and less puddle-jumpers.”

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Alumni Connections

The staff of the 1971–72 Clarion poses for a photo beneath a Richard Nixon election banner. Nixon beat Democrat George McGovern in the 1972 showdown—the first presidential election in which 18-year-olds were allowed to vote. From left to right, top row: Lee Kovel, Judy Frye, Rich Lemer, Lynne Brown, Bob Meek, Karen Smith, Bob Brandt, Richard Brown, Steve Soucheray, Vic England, Christopher Wood. Bottom row: Ron Caspari (seated), future Secretary of the Interior Gale Norton, Chris McClaskey, R.C. Wihera, Ann Wilson and Brenda Bitter.

University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 39 1948 The classes George Stovall (BA ’48) of Corvallis, Ore., was honored in April, when the university’s is publicity director for the World War II spring dance concert was dedicated to her. 1939 B-17 bomber crew members of the 483rd Carol established the Lander University Robert Mickey (BA ’39) of Lancaster, Pa., bomb group. He writes a monthly newslet- Dance Company and the school’s dance is a retired professor of religious studies. ter for the members, who are called the program. The concert featured a piece that He taught at Franklin and Marshall College Clipped Wings. Carol choreographed and a dance by one of from 1950–85 and at Colgate University her former students. from 1948–50. Robert also received a master of divinity degree from the Pacific School 1951 of Religion in Berkeley, Calif., and was Richard “Dick” 1958 ordained in the Congregational Church in Goodie (BS ’51) John Manesis (BA ’58) of Fargo, N.D., Berkeley in 1942. of Westbrook, recently published his fourth poetry book, Maine, is retired In The Third Season (CreateSpace, 2012). His and lives with his poetry has been printed in more than 70 1942 wife, Joyce. They literary publications. Virginia (Raum) have two daugh- Lacy (BA ’42) ters. Richard is a Reginald Phelps (BS ’58) of Lincoln, Neb., of San Diego freelance writer recently wrote an accounting book titled is retired and and has written Cover Your Nut: Practical Accounting in Plain lives with her three books. He was a 1992 inductee into English for the Real World (CreateSpace, 2011). daughter Lari. She the Maine Running Hall of Fame. regularly attends YMCA exercise classes, theater 1953 performances and Mildred “Milly” (Janzen) Balzer (MA ’53) concerts and dines of Gwynedd, Pa., published Heldin: Coming with friends. In to Terms (iUniverse, 2011), a book based on 2011, Virginia went on a boat tour of Russia her mother’s life. and a land and riverboat trip through Egypt. She also took a three-month trip around the world 20 years ago. Virginia has been mar- 1957 ried three times. Her most recent husband Carol (McClung) Neubner (BA ’57) of was the late Robin Lacy (BA ’42, PhD Greenwood, S.C., taught dance at Lander ’59)—her DU sweetheart. University in Greenwood for 34 years. She Henry Yost (BS ’58) of South Pasadena, Calif., traveled to Italy, Croatia and Monte- negro with his granddaughter, DU student Hayley Hoffman, while she was studying Recent graduates ascend to the top abroad in Rome last fall.

The University of Denver Recent Graduate Committee, along with other recent graduates in Colorado, has raised more than $35,000 in support of the Ascend campaign. 1962 James Eastin (BA The committee, which includes alumni who graduated within the past decade, rose ’62) of Whitewater, to the challenge set forth by Board of Trustees member Margot Gilbert Frank and her husband, Calif., was a track M Allan Frank, to raise $25,000. They surpassed the goal within six months, and a year after the coach at San challenge was issued, the alumni collectively have raised more than $38,000. The money will Francisco State help fund the new Academic Commons at Penrose Library, opening in 2013. University from Kate Bleakly (BSBA ’02), co-social chair for the committee, thinks the group can have a 1963–65 and acted strong influence within the University community. in movies, television shows and “DU has opened doors for me and helped me achieve my goals on my career path, and as commercials from a proud member of the DU alumni community, it’s now my turn to play a role in ensuring new 1969–98. In 2005, James co-founded the DU students have even better college experiences in store for them,” Bleakly says. “I volunteer Golden Rainbow Center-SAGE, a nonprofit my time on the Recent Graduate Committee, and I donate monthly to the Recent Graduate that promotes health, wellness and social Challenge that’s part of the Ascend campaign. It’s a way for each of us to help ensure that the programs to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and University of Denver is the best it can be.” transgender communities in Palm Springs, A study room in the new library will be named in honor of the Recent Graduate Calif. James was honored by the center at a fundraising event at the Palm Springs Committee and all of the recent graduate donors. In addition, a casino night was held in June at Convention Center in November 2011. the Joy Burns Center, home to the Fritz Knoebel School of Hospitality Management, to thank the alumni for their contributions to the University. >>du.edu/ascend — Kelsey Outman 40 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 1963 Marlow Ediger (EDD ’63) of North New- Profile ton, Kan., received notice that two of his Sloan fellow John Capozzola manuscripts were accepted for publication: “Writing in the Science Curriculum” in In 1942, John Capozzola passed up acceptances to the University of Chicago Education and “Oral Communication Across Law School, the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, a joint Tufts-Harvard pro- the Curriculum” in the Journal of Instructional gram and the Fletcher School of International Law to attend DU as an Alfred P. Psychology. Marlow also co-authored Curricu- lum, School, and Teacher, a teacher education Sloan fellow. textbook. He was appointed as external It was one of the best decisions he ever made, says Capozzola, a retired pro- examiner of PhD theses for Alagappa Uni- fessor emeritus at New York University (NYU). versity in India. And it all happened because his faculty adviser at Pennsylvania State University insisted that Capozzola interview in Philadelphia for the Sloan Fellowship. That William Sterling (BSCE ’63) of Kansas City, Mo., was named a Public Works Lead- adviser, John Ferguson, also persuaded Capozzola to choose Denver over the ership Fellow by the American Public Works more prestigious programs. Association. William has been the owner of “Ferguson changed my life, because had I rejected his wise counsel, I would Sterling & Associates, a consulting service, have missed out on a superb education at DU,” Capozzola says. The University since 2008. also provided lifelong friendships and connections that ultimately led to his job as a profes- 1964 sor at NYU. Tom Burns (JD ’64) of Englewood, Colo., The Sloan Fellowship was in its fifth year was named the 2012 Englewood Citizen of the Year. Tom was mayor of Englewood for when 21-year-old Capozzola arrived as one of seven years and has been serving the com- 10 fellows at DU. A Denver Post article pub- munity for more than 30 years. lished June 14, 1942, says the group, selected from several hundred applicants, was chosen Glory Weisberg (BA ’64) of Englewood, Colo., was named Woman of the Year for based on “qualities of leadership and congeni- 2011 by the Villager newspaper. Glory has ality, along with high academic requirements been the Villager’s society editor for 26 years. in the field of political science, economics, She is involved in many charitable organiza- accounting and statistics.” tions. Before joining the Villager, Glory taught elementary school in the Littleton Capozzola was a Sloan fellow twice. His and Denver school districts. first fellowship was interrupted in October 1942, when he was drafted for service in the Army Air Force during World War II. 1965 After returning to America, Capozzola briefly Fred Tesone (BA ’65) of Louisville, Colo., was awarded the Golden Lion award by the studied law at the University of Pennsylvania, Colorado Sons of Italy. where he met a young nurse, Shirley. The couple married and had three children. They 1967 were married for 62 years, until Shirley died in 2007. Stephen Day (BA ’67) of Renton, Wash., When Capozzola returned to Denver in 1945, he resumed his studies through was appointed president and chief executive the Sloan program. He graduated in 1947 with a master’s degree in business man- officer of American Fast Freight Inc., an agement and went on to earn a PhD at Penn State. ocean forwarder and logistics company. Capozzola was president of Ess-Cee Sportswear Corp. in 1964 when Troy David Weinstein Westmeyer (BSBA ’44), an NYU professor and friend from DU, contacted him (JD ’67) of Denver about a temporary vacancy as a graduate instructor at the university. Capozzola is a trademark and got the job and was appointed a full professor by 1973. His specialty was public copyright attorney. sector labor relations. David was recently recognized and In 1978, Capozzola received the Great Teacher Award from NYU. In 1991, honored as a Colo- the year he retired, Capozzola was awarded the title of professor emeritus at rado intellectual NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. After retiring, he taught for five more property Super years as an adjunct professor. Lawyer. “Everything I’ve achieved, even at NYU, it started at DU with the Sloan Fellowship,” he says. — Valerie Finholm

University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 41 1968 John Browne (BA ’68) of Bainbridge Island, recently wrote a novel, Dead and Not So Marnie Stites (BA Wash., is an attorney in Seattle. He is rep- Buried (Camel Press, 2012)—a thriller set in ’74, MPA ’76) of resenting Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the Army Hollywood, Calif. Colleyville, Texas, sniper charged in the March 11 shooting in recently became Afghanistan. John has represented several Vincent Khapoya (MA ’71, PhD ’74) acquainted with notable criminals during his legal career, of Rochester Hills, Mich., retired from Don Helm (BS including serial killer Ted Bundy and a teen- Oakland University in 2009, after 36 years ’54) of Benbrook, age thief dubbed the “Barefoot Bandit.” of teaching. He was selected as a United Texas, through the Nations monitor during the 1994 South Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce Ambas- African elections and was appointed visiting sador Program. Don recently was awarded 1969 professor of political studies at the Univer- the Ambassadors’ Charles Cox Award for Merry DeBoer (BA ’69) of Denver has sity of the Western Cape near Cape Town, exemplary service and loyal dedication. Marnie authored two books, The Land of the Number South Africa, for six months. Vincent also received the same honor last year. Don is a Zero —an art book about a mathematical authored a textbook, The African Experience lifetime honorary member of the chamber. concept—and Stories From A Doll, which (Prentice Hall). The fourth edition was includes stories from the last four years of published in February 2012. Ron Stock (JD ’74, LLM ’94) of Monterey, her mother’s life. She also is an artist who Calif., is the city administrator of Weed, Calif. has shown work at the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art in Denver. Merry 1974 completed her trilogy of musicals, the Rose Ernest Lawrence (BA ’74) of Oconomo- 1977 Trilogy, in 2006. woc, Wis., wrote a book, Alone with the Past: William Mellor (JD ’77) of Falls Church, The Life and Photographic Art of Roland W. Va., has been awarded the 2012 Bradley Reed (Afton Press, 2012). It is the first book Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley 1971 written about Reed (1864–1934), who pho- Foundation. William is the current president James Conway (BA ’71) of Los Angeles tographed Native Americans in Minnesota, of and general counsel for the Institute for is a TV writer, producer and director. He Montana, Canada and Arizona. Justice, a public interest law firm.

Coming to a city near you! Visit www.alumni.du.edu/DUontheRoad to view the 2012-13 schedule and to register for an upcoming DU on the Road. DU on the Road brings the University of Denver from the foothills of the Rockies to a city near you. Throughout the academic year, complimentary cocktail receptions are held in various cities across the country. These gatherings provide a unique opportunity to speak with University leadership about the latest developments at DU while you mingle with fellow alumni, parents and friends of the university. We look forward to connecting with you as we travel to your city!

42 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Profile Lavender farmer Sarah Richards Courtesy of Sarah Richards As a University of Denver student in the 1970s, Sarah Richards definitely inhaled. But it’s not what you think. It was 1972, and 21-year-old Richards and her friends spilled out of the bus that had dropped them on the edge of the town of Grasse, in Provence, France, the center of the French perfume industry. Chatting excitedly, heading into another unexplored corner of Europe during her junior year abroad, Richards suddenly stopped dead in her tracks, transfixed. “Instantly, I could smell the perfume in the air,” she recalls. “It was totally intoxicating. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.” Today, Richards, 40, is the queen of Lavender Wind Farm, a small, aromatic purple kingdom on an island off the coast of Washington. Her throne: a rusting red 1951 Farmall Cub tractor. Richards (BA ’73) grows six different varieties of lavender on nearly nine acres on Whidbey Island. The farm keeps Richards and four to five employees busy year-round, planting, cultivating and harvesting the lavender, then producing a bushel of different products made from the herb. Richards admits she didn’t learn a lick about distilling essential oils or soil science while at DU. She majored in art and French. She had come to Denver from Massachusetts “to ski,” she says, laughing. After graduating in 1973, she embarked on a few decades of work entirely unrelated to organic farming. She returned to school, earned a counseling degree and worked for 10 years as a mental health therapist. “One thing led to another,” she says, “and I found myself on a piece of property I didn’t quite know what to do with.” Richards knew she wanted to farm the land, and she worked with the county extension agent to determine what types of crops would thrive. Surprisingly, the Pacific Northwest has a Mediterranean climate, with wet winters and dry summers. Her Whidbey Island acres are as amenable to lavender as the chalky cliffs of Provence. She recalled her time in France and her love for delightful-smelling things and recognized that her “creative and crafty kind of way of being in the world” would work well with a lavender crop. She says she’s never worked harder in her life, but she loves it. Unlike working in the mental health field, working in actual fields reveals constant progress. “You get to see the results of your work every day, in the land, in the plants growing,” she says. “Every day is a step forward, and you can see it. It is awesome.” “It’s really, really hard work,” Richards continues. “But I never get tired of it. It’s amazing. Every year I look forward to the start of harvest, walking out of the fields with my arms full of fresh lavender. It’s the most wonderful thing in the world.” >>www.lavenderwind.com — Shara Rutberg

University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 43 1985 Marla Ottenstein (BA ’77) of Naples, Fla., James Legg (BSBA ’85) is the new CEO of is a self-employed professional organizer. PHD Virtual Technologies in Philadelphia. She writes a bimonthly column called “Get James previously was vice president of Organized” for the Naples Daily News. Marla worldwide sales and sales operations at recently presented two seminars on organizing Idera and has more than 22 years of man- at the Miromar Design Center in Estero, Fla. agement experience. 1979 1986 Richard McGrath (BA ’86) of Sioux City, Iowa, has been developing an efficient method to observe and assess elementary school procedures and recom- mend new practices. Richard is considered to be a pioneer in Kaizen Education Leadership. 1987 Chris Pfeiffer (BSBA ’87) of Conroe, Texas, and his wife, Linda, opened the Irina (Kusnezov) Donaldson (BA ’79) Homestead House, a high-end furniture of Larkspur, Colo., is grandmother to store, on Feb. 1. Chris previously was baby Alexander Nicholas Donaldson, born a regional sales manager at a store of April 6. the same name in Colorado and was a manager at Louis Shanks of Texas. Chris Frank Schmitzer (MA ’79) of Austin, started his 30-year furniture industry Texas, is the new librarian at the Oak Hill career at American Furniture Warehouse branch library. Frank has been involved in in Denver. the Austin Public Library system for 25 years. 1988 Robert Anderson (MBA ’88) of Spring, 1981 Texas, is a petroleum engineer with Helen Resnik (MSW ’81) of Denver was more than 25 years of domestic and one of 23 women nominated for the 2012 international experience with major Athena Award—the highest honor given oil companies, including ARCO by the Colorado Women’s Chamber of International and Vastar Resources, and Commerce. Helen is managing partner of independent oil companies, including Resnik Partners, a talent-management firm Hunt Oil, Hugoton Energy and Anadarko that helps organizations with leadership Petroleum. Robert also is on the board development, executive coaching and career of directors of CH&P Energy Partners transition. She also serves on the boards of and GeoResources Inc., where he is directors of Rocky Mountain HR People & chief operating officer for the northern Strategy and Dress for Success Denver. region and executive vice president of engineering and acquisitions. 1982 Virginia “Ginni” McCann (MSW ’88) of Brad Frigon (LLM ’82) of Littleton, Colo., Biloxi, Miss., is a retired gerontologist. She has been named a Super Lawyer in the and 24 other retired professionals traveled state of Colorado for 2012. Brad serves to Cuba for two weeks in February with on the board of the National Academy of the Caribbean Cultural Religious Council Elder Law Attorneys and the Special Needs of Long Beach, Calif., to explore Cuban Alliance. communities, culture and religion.

Carita Watson (BBA ’88, MCIS ’98) 1983 of Aurora, Colo., received the Colorado Tammy (Rivera) Berberick (BA ’83) Women’s Chamber of Commerce 2012 of Littleton, Colo., recently completed a Athena Award. Carita has been an executive nine-month volunteer project with Florence at IBM since 1996. Crittenton High School. Tammy created and taught a credit-based leadership class for teen moms. 44 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Pioneer pics While on a yearlong English-teaching stint in Seoul, South Korea, Lindsey Davis (BA ’06, CERT ’07, MA ’08) Which alum was president of a of Rochester, Minn., sportswear company? took a weekend trip to The answer can be found some- Tsushima, Japan, where where on pages 40–50 of this issue. she rode the length of the island on a rented Send your answer to du-magazine@ bicycle. Davis stopped to du.edu or University of Denver model her DU hockey T-shirt in front of one Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., of the island’s many Denver, CO 80208-4816. Be sure to temples. include your full name and mailing As you pioneer address. We’ll select a winner from lands far and wide, be the correct entries; the winning sure to pack your DU entry will win a prize. gear and strike a pose in front of a national monument, the fourth wonder of the world or your hometown hot spot. If we print your submission, you’ll receive some new DU paraphernalia to take Congratulations to Michael Bolas along on your travels. (LLM ’80) for winning the summer Send your print or high-resolution digital image and a description of the location to: Pioneer Pics, issue’s pop quiz. University of Denver Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816, or email [email protected]. Be sure to include your full name, address, degree(s) and year(s) of graduation.

BOOK BIN Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats From the back porch of her childhood up in a place of stunning beauty and invisible danger. Iversen’s memories f u l l b o d y home in Arvada, Colo., Kristen Iversen of riding her horses in the fields surrounding the plant and swimming (PhD English ’96) could see the water in the lake behind her house take on a menacing quality as she docu- bF U u L L r B O d D Ye n tower at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons ments government attempts to conceal the effects of the radioactive g r o w i n g u p i n t h e n u c l e a r plant. waste released by the plant. Intertwined is the story of her family’s own s h a dB o wU Ro f D rE oN c k y f l a t s The plant—built in 1952 on a swath “secret”—her father’s alcoholism. of ranchland along the Front Range In Full Body Burden, which was excerpted by Reader’s Digest in its July/ G RG O R OW W I N I N G G U U P P I N between Denver and Boulder—manu- August 2012 issue, Iversen writes about a legacy of cancers—leukemia,

T H E N U C L E A R S H A D O W T H E N U C L E A R S H A D O W factured plutonium triggers for atomic lung cancer, brain tumors—in plant workers and in residents who lived

O F R O C K Y F L A T S bombs. But Iversen didn’t know that downwind of the plant. She includes stories about her own health prob- O F R O C K Y F L A T S when she was growing up in the 1960s lems and those of family members.

K R I S T E N I V E R S E N and ’70s. Neighbors who worked at the It took Iversen more than 10 years to write the book, which draws k r i s t e n i v e r s e n plant didn’t talk about their jobs—or on extensive interviews, government documents and class-action testi- about accidents, leaks, and the fires that mony about the plant, once designated by the government as the most released plumes of radioactive plutonium into the air, where southeasterly contaminated site in America. winds dispersed the deadly particles over the rapidly growing suburb of The plant was shut down by the FBI and the Environmental Arvada. Protection Agency in 1989 and designated as a Superfund site. In June “Rocky Flats was the big secret of my childhood,” says Iversen, author 2007, the EPA certified the cleanup as complete, despite the warnings of of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats scientists that unsafe amounts of plutonium remain in the soil. (Crown, 2012). “No one knew what they did at the plant; the rumor in A month later, nearly 4,000 acres of the 6,200-acre Rocky Flats site the neighborhood was that they made household cleaning products.” were transferred to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for eventual use as Director of the creative writing program at the University of Memphis a public recreation area. About 1,200 acres of deeply contaminated land and the author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth (Johnson Books, remain off-limits. 1999), Iversen has written a riveting and deeply personal story of growing — Valerie Finholm

University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 45 1990 1992 Judith Kolb (PhD ’90) of State College, Pa., Ray Trygstad (MSSM ’90) of Naperville, Don Seastrum (MLS ’92) of Gunnison, is the recipient of the 2011 R. Wayne Pace Ill., is an industry professor, associate chair Colo., has been asked to participate in the HRD Book of the Year Award for her book of information technology and management opening of a new museum of modern and Small Group Facilitation: Improving Process and and director of information technology at the contemporary art, Museo D’Arte Moderna E Performance in Groups and Teams (HRD Press, Illinois Institute of Technology. On March Contemporanea, in Cerreto Laziale, Italy. Of 2011). 27, Ray received the school’s 2012 School the 32 participating artists, Don is the only of Applied Technology Excellence in Teach- artist from the United States. William Iacovelli (BSBA ’90) of New York ing Award. He also serves as chair of the recently was promoted to executive vice National Board of Directors of the Gamma president at commercial real estate firm Nu Eta national information technology 1995 CBRE. honor society. Jennifer Cline (BA ’95) of New York was promoted to managing director of property management company Rose Associates. Jennifer joined Rose in 2005 as a human resources generalist and most recently served Profile as director. Before joining Rose, Jennifer Politico David Von Drehle oversaw human resources for 15 hospitals in three states as a member of the medical David Von Drehle has covered a lot of presidential debates. But this year will be a first for staffing network. She also spent seven years the longtime political reporter and Time magazine editor-at-large—covering a debate at his old managing staffing posts in the U.S. Army. stomping grounds. “It’s very exciting,” says Von Drehle (BA ’83), who began working at Time in 2006, after 15 1996 years at The Washington Post. “It’s a great way to get students excited about the election; it’s a Larry Ambrose great way to let people in the press and those in politics get a sense of campus.” (JD ’96) of Den- ver was elected Von Drehle will rehash the political sparring match—and discuss election issues and the state president of of journalism today—during his on-campus lecture Oct. 4, the day after the debate at DU. Denver’s Inter- These are subjects about which the seasoned jour- Neighborhood nalist has plenty to say. Cooperation, where he will On who will be the next president: “The public’s lead a new in a sour mood,” he explains. “It doesn’t feel like a year nine-member board of directors. Larry previ- when the public will really fall in love with a candidate. ously was executive director of the Auraria It’s going to be tight.” Foundation, manager of the Pueblo, Colo., convention center, a community college And the media still have a place in politics, he says, professor and a historic preservationist. He despite the proliferation of other communication meth- has founded and been a member of four ods. registered neighborhood organizations since “In some ways, the influence of the media is waning, 1973. Larry and his wife, Jane, founded the because [with social media] there are so many ways for One Sky One World International Kite Fly for Peace, which encourages people to fly campaigns to go at voters directly. But in other ways, kites for peace and the environment on the we are even more important to the campaign because second Sunday of October in hundreds of we’re trying to bring some sort of coherent piece to all locations around the world.

Joseph Moran this noise.” Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96) recently Von Drehle often is one of the first to sort out the babble. His stories (which include an joined Metropolitan State University of explanation of the recent Supreme Court ruling on health care and profiles of everyone from Denver as senior director of marketing. President Barack Obama to commentator and talk show host Glenn Beck) often grace the Previously, she was editorial director at the cover of Time. He also has penned a few books, including the 2003 bestseller Triangle: The Fire University of Denver. That Changed America (Grove Press). Not bad for a guy who says he fell short of his “dream in life” to work for Sports Illustrated. 1997 After being bitten by the writing bug at DU (he was editor-in-chief of the Clarion), he went on Keith Jacobus (PhD ’97) of White Bear to work as a sportswriter at The Denver Post before he was urged to “try out” writing hard Lake, Minn., was named superintendent of South Washington County Schools in news at The Miami Herald. “I did that and never looked back,” he says Minnesota. Keith previously was director of >> David Von Drehle will speak at the University Oct. 4 as part of the Debate Event Series. schools for Douglas County School District Visit debate2012.du.edu for more information on upcoming speakers and events. in Castle Rock, Colo. — Kathryn Mayer

46 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 2002 Deborah Lockwood (MSS ’97) of Denver Jessica Quinones Connections. In his spare time, Zach prac- was named an STC fellow by the Society (BM ’02) of tices yoga, swims, skis, camps and travels to for Technical Communications. Deborah County Wicklow, Chicago to visit his niece and nephew. has spent 26 years in the communications Ireland, mar- profession. ried Phil Byrne of Maryport, 2005 England, on Sept. Chris Bandemer (JD ’05) of Fort Wayne, 1999 28, 2011, at Los Ind., recently founded Bandemer Law. Alexandra Albright (JD ’99) of Chicago was Poblanos Historic appointed chief compliance officer for the Inn and Organic Chicago Board Options Exchange. Alexandra Farm in Albu- 2006 previously served as an attorney for Kirkland querque, N.M. Paula Broadwell (MA ’06) of Charlotte, & Ellis, concentrating on compliance, litiga- Jessica completed N.C., is the author of All In: The Education of tion and corporate finance matters. a master’s degree in music at the Royal General David Petraeus (Penguin Press, 2012), Conservatoire of Scotland. She is a a book about the current director of the CIA. freelance flautist and publishes articles on 2000 music performance and ethnomusicology. Matthew Harris (BSBA ’06) of Quincy, Josh Ganet (BSBA ’00) and Carli (Dyer) She is pursuing a PhD in tango flute per- Mass., started a company called College Ganet (BA ’01) of Long Beach, Calif., wel- formance at the University of Huddersfield Miner, which offers a product that helps comed a daughter, Lucy Elizabeth Ganet, on in England. colleges and universities analyze student Dec. 22, 2011. outcomes and keep track of their network Zach Robison (BS ’02) of Sycamore, Ill., connections. DU’s network services depart- Martin Garnar recently completed a yearlong administra- ment was Matthew’s first customer. (MLIS ’00) of Denver tive fellowship at University of Colorado is reference services Hospital and was named process improve- Christopher Sutton (JD ’06) of Macomb, librarian at the Dayton ment consultant to a new department in Ill., in May was presented with the Illinois Memorial Library at hospital administration and operations. Geographical Society’s Distinguished Geog- Regis University. In Zach received an MBA in health adminis- rapher Award for his effort to advance the May 2012, he became tration from the University of Colorado- study of geography in Illinois. Christopher the first librarian in Denver and is a board member for the is a geography professor at Western Illinois the history of Regis Colorado Health Administration Alumni University. to be promoted to Association, the Colorado Association of the rank of full professor. Healthcare Executives and Global Health

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University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 47 2007 2008 2009 Jenny Starkey (MS Genevieve Ian Jaffe (MBA ’09) of Denver is project ’07) of Lakewood, Chognard (BSBA director at PingOne, a business cloud net- Colo., recently joined ’08) of Dallas mar- work that has been featured in PC Magazine the Downtown Denver ried Brendon Quick and eWeek. Partnership as market- on Aug. 13, 2011, ing and communica- at Grace Cathedral Lisa Pittari (MSW ’09) of Denver has been tions manager. Jenny in San Francisco. awarded the State University of New York previously was a com- Genevieve works for at Oneonta’s Outstanding Young Alumna munications manager at JP Realty Partners, a Award for her accomplishments in the field Engineers Without Borders USA and a com- commercial real estate of social justice, equity and inclusion. Lisa munications manager at Project C.U.R.E. firm in Dallas. is a member of the Denver Mayor’s Youth In 2010, Jenny was named to the Denver Commission, working on issues that affect Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 list. young people in Denver.

Profile Legislator Crisanta Duran

The first time state Rep. Crisanta Duran met Barack Obama she says. “We debated and discussed and learned about a wide range of was in 2007 at the University of Denver, when she was asked to intro- policy issues facing Colorado and facing us nationally.” duce Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, at an After graduation, she attended law school at the University of Obama campaign rally. Colorado. She was elected to House District 5 in 2009. She’s almost “That is one of the memories I cherish most,” Duran (BA ’02) says of done with her first term and is becoming familiar with the ups and downs the event. of public office. Now, as Obama’s first term approaches an end, he is slated to return “Day to day, like anything, there are always obstacles to over- to Denver in October for the first presidential debate, an event Duran come,” Duran explains. “There were definitely times that I was sees as another chance for the frustrated. The whole debate University to shine. over civil unions, it was frus- “To me, it’s just an incred- trating to see a bill like that, ible opportunity for the where we had enough votes to University to host this debate,” pass but the process became she says. “It’s sort of coming obstructed. That said, I do back full circle. I think it’s very believe very strongly in both exciting for the city.” sides coming together to Duran always has been produce results for the state. excited about politics and ser- Overall, it’s been an incredible vice, ever since she was a little experience.” girl. Her greatest passion lies in “From the time I was creating economic opportuni- young, I always had a dedica- ties for Coloradans. One of tion to community service,” she her proudest moments was remembers. “It’s very simplistic, passing House Bill 1272, which but that’s where it started—just went into effect July 1. It allows that desire to help others and people on unemployment to make sure we have a healthy get skills training or assistance and thriving community.” in starting a new business. She carried that thinking to “We all talk about how DU, where she double majored important it is to create jobs, in Spanish and public policy. and this is truly an example “Both of those have really of legislation that is doing just been tremendous in my abil- that,” she says.

ity to be an elected official,” Armstrong Wayne — Kevin Williams

48 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 2010 Jason Conger (MSW ’10) of Scottsdale, Ariz., has opened Mile High Pyschotherapy, Deaths committed to individual and couples work. Recent grad 1930s among George Gevargis (MBA ’10) of Denver Herb Bergren (attd. 1938), San Rafael, Calif., 3-26-12 fatalities recently started an organic food truck busi- Dorothy Borgeson (BA ’38), Granby, Colo., 6-3-11 ness, “Eat Eatclectic Mobile Eats,” with his Henry Tramutt (BA ’39, MA ’40), Arvada, Colo., 1-17-12 at theater wife, Katy. shooting Lindsay Holtz (MA ’10) of El Paso, Texas, 1940s Delphine (Diegel) Tramutt (BA ’42), Arvada, Colo., 1-5-12 Alex Teves, who was designated a certified consultant by the Esther Nelson (MA ’44), Denver, 3-7-12 graduated in June with Association for Applied Sport Psychology. an MA in counseling Lindsay is a performance enhancement Barbara “Bobbi” Tobias (BA ’45), Denver, 3-21-12 specialist and works with soldiers and their Bert Holder (BS ’48, MS ’49), Livermore, Calif., 4-20-12 psychology from the family members, as well as civilians, to Leslie Howe (BSBA ’48), Hannibal, Mo., 4-24-12 Morgridge College of help enhance personal and professional Henry Hurlburt (BA ’48), Denver, 9-6-11 Education, was among performance. Duane Rames (BA ’48), Mesa, Ariz., 11-13-11 the 12 victims in the Julius Warner (BSBA ’48), Denver, 3-19-12 movie theater shooting Herman Casagranda (BFA ’49, MA ’50), Morrison, Colo., 4-3-11 July 20 in Aurora, Colo. 2011 William Dusterdick (BS ’49), Thornton, Colo., 1-17-12 Teves, a 24-year- Karen Jernigan (MA ’11) of Colorado old Phoenix, Ariz., Springs, Colo., is an elementary school 1950s native, died protecting teacher in the West Bank. She wrote a poem Philip Weinberg (BS ’50), Peoria, Ill., 2-2-12 his girlfriend from that will be published in an international Gwen “Miss B” Bowen (BA ’51), Denver, 3-29-12 gunfire at a midnight poetry book and is a semifinalist for an Imogene Chapman (BA ’51), Helotes, Texas, 3-2-12 screening of The international poetry award. Karen asked David Breternitz (BA ’52), Dove Creek, Colo., 3-5-12 Dark Knight Rises. her students to write poetry about their Herbert Edwards (BS ’54, JD ’58), Harbor Springs, Mich., 5-12-12 thoughts on peace and war. The Hope Bob Ewing (BFA ’54), Santa Fe, N.M., 4-2-12 Police arrested + Freedom Project agreed to publish the Albert “Lee” Gregg (attd. 1957–60), Corpus Christi, Texas, 4-7-12 24-year-old James poems and will sell poetry books to raise Robert Linson (EDD ’57), Muncie, Ind., 5-22-12 Holmes, who had funds for scholarships for West Bank Ed Zemrau (BS ’58), Sherwood Park, Alberta, 4-26-12 studied neuroscience students. at the University of Colorado-Denver, Radina Vassileva (BA ’11) of Aurora, 1960s immediately after the Colo., was one of 75 young professionals J.R. “Jim” Clabaugh (BSBA ’60), Lakewood, Colo., 12-1-07 massacre that wounded nationwide selected to participate in the Max Norton (PhD ’62), Modesto, Calif., 2-21-12 Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Mary Borland (MA ’64), Santa Fe, N.M., 2-25-12 more than 50 other Young Professionals, a yearlong, federally Al Genovy (attd. 1966–71), Kalamazoo, Mich., 3-10-12 audience members. funded fellowship for study and work Tom Teves, Alex’s in Germany. As a fellowship participant, 1970s father, told The Arizona Radina will attend a two-month German Lynn Bretz (MA ’73), Lawrence, Kan., 5-27-12 Republic that Alex “was language course, will study at a German Jane Howell (MA ’74), Billings, Mont., 5-28-12 one of the kindest kids university for four months and will intern Kathleen (Edwards) Barnes (BME ’76), Little Genesee, N.Y., 4-22-12 who always gave of with a German company in her career field Peter Weinstein (BSBA ’77), Downers Grove, Ill., 10-16-11 himself. You won’t find (international affairs and environmental Scott Clark (BA ’78), Lake Forest, Ill., 5-3-12 anyone who has a bad policy) for five months. word to say about him, 1980s and that was true even Mark Godek (BSBA ’80), Epsom, N.H., 3-15-12 before he died.” Cheryl (Schlessman) Bennett (MA ’81), Centennial, Colo., 4-9-11 The Morgridge Webster Atwell II (BA ’85), Vail, Colo., 5-26-12 Let us know College of Education has set up a scholarship Post your class note online at 2000s for graduate students in www.du.edu/alumni, e-mail Sandra Holtz (BA ’00), Milliken, Colo., 5-14-12 memory of Alex Teves. [email protected] or mail 2010s Visit www.du.edu/ in the form on page 47. Alex Teves (MA ’12), Denver, 7-20-12 ascend for details. Faculty & Staff Vincent LaGuardia (BME ’65, MA ’67), former professor of music, director of orchestras and director of the Lamont School of Music, Aurora, Colo., 3-9-12 Ben-Zion Netanyahu, former professor of Jewish history and Hebrew literature, Jerusalem, 4-30-12

University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 49 If you were a debate moderator … We asked some of the people interviewed in this issue what they would ask the presidential candidates if given the chance. “If the euro were to fail, what would be your “Do you believe that the next step?” 2010 Supreme Court ‘Citizens —Sam Estenson, Undergraduate United’ ruling threatens our Student Government president democracy?” —Steve Seifert, executive director, Newman Center for the Performing Arts “Considering that America has fallen from the top spots of many measurable categories (education, health care, “Do you believe the USA needs happiness, etc.), what do you see as the to improve its international relationship between America and the reputation? Why or why not, world at large in 100 years?” and if yes, what would you do?” —Laleh Mehran, associate professor, School of Art and Art History —Scott Leutenegger, computer science professor

“How would you resolve the “Inside your proposals, you crisis in Syria and the negative acknowledge that Medicare is going aftereffects of the Arab Spring, to need to change dramatically over in terms of authoritarian the next generation. Can you explain dictatorships using force why your opponent’s plan for changing against their own people, and Medicare is worse than your own?” what should the U.S. role in —David Von Drehle (BA ’83), editor-at-large, Time magazine resolving that be?” —Vince Szilagyi, senior history, geography and political science major and state chair of the Colorado Federation of College Republicans “ What policies would you propose to create a positive work/life/family balance for the nation’s women?” —Crisanta Duran (BA ’02), Colorado state representative

50 University of Denver Magazine FALL 2012 Join us for Alumni Symposium and Homecoming & Family Weekend 2012 October 26-27

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University of Denver Magazine CONNECTIONS 51 Miscellanea Hair today

One of the strangest items in DU’s archives is a braided lock of hair from New England Revolutionary War hero-turned- traitor Benedict Arnold. The souvenir is part of a collection of memorabilia and letters from the Arnold family donated to the University in 1988. The collection belonged to Arnold’s last living descendant and great-granddaughter, Helen Chadwick. As an elderly woman, Chadwick lived alone in a home near the University. After she died, the papers were left to a neighbor. The neighbor, a DU alumna, donated them to the University.

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