Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Alumni Association 459 UCB PPCO Boulder, CO 80309-0459 CLASS GOLD HEADSBACK TO OLYMPIAN ARIELLE FRIENDSHIP AT ALTITUDE ALUMNA FIRST BLACK THE LIFEOFCU’S TRIUMPH ANDTRAGEDY: RODEO KINGS ALSO INTHISISSUE: AMPUTEE ATHLETES PLAYING FIELDFOR LEVELING THE RUNNERS BLADE Alumni MagazineSummer2018 NOWJAN. 28, 2018 Boulder’s Third Flatiron is notorious for drawing climbers with wild ambitions. Since the 1950s people have summited in all kinds of gear, including roller skates. At least one man climbed naked. In January, CU Boulder senior Rilyn VandeMerwe (EnvDes’18) put his own stamp on the tradition: He made the climb in a wet suit, snorkel, goggles, prop oxygen tank and flippers. He and two friends reached the summit in less than two hours. “I am constantly trying to find new ways to explore and have fun in Chautauqua,” he said. In addition to the scuba ascent, VandeMerwe established what he calls the “Flatiron Triple Crown” — climbing the first, second and third Flatirons while carrying along a hobby horse. His next goal? Climbing all 54 Colorado fourteeners by the time he graduates in the fall. He’s got 14 to go.

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In Boulder this spring 15 Blade Runners there was fresh talk of A CU professor helps a new generation of bears: Observers noted amputees compete at the highest levels of sport. their curiosity about life east of Broadway, prompting questions 19 Rodeo Kings about how to ensure In The Last Cowboys, Pulitzer Prize-winner John harmony among their Branch (Mktg’89; MJour’96) introduces America species and ours. to its most successful rodeo family. Perhaps, some say, bear- safe trash cans, required west of Broadway, would 21 Lucile be wise east of it, too. CU sleighted its first black woman graduate, As far as anyone Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones (Ger1918). noticed, bears kept out A professor’s work spurred it to make amends. of CU’s campus trees this year. But animal life abounds here, 27 The Gold Life, Post-Bronze refreshingly so. Come Snowboarder Arielle Gold (Psych’20) won an spring, ducks court in Olympic medal in South Korea. Look for her the pond atop the water around campus this summer. cascade by the Woodruff Cottage. Migrating geese squawk on the sward. 31 Digital Frontier American robins banter CU Boulder pioneers a MOOC-based graduate in the morning. degree in electrical engineering. One April afternoon I spied 10 bunched turtles sunning on a single log in 33 Dreamers Among Us Varsity Lake. The turtles About 100 CU Boulder students are undocumented will lounge in the lake all immigrants with federal DACA status. They’re summer and fall. doing amazing things amid profound uncertainty. CU Boulder’s cher- ished proximity to natural grandeur is more than 37 From Free-Throws to F-35s a matter of adjacency; Tucker Hamilton (AeroEngr’02) and Aaron we nourish wildlife here. Frey (AeroEngr’02; MS’03) met as kids. Now Wandering campus aim- they fly fighter jets together. less but alert, your cup could runneth over.

COVER “I just want everyone to be able to move like I can,” Eric Gershon CU’s Alena Grabowski said of her work with athletes who compete in prosthetics. Photo by © iStock/filrom.

LEFT Alan Sanchez (AeroEngr’17; MS’18), one of about 100 CU Boulder students with federal DACA status, has his sights set on a career in spacecraft propulsion. Photo by Glenn Asakawa.

DEPARTMENTS

1 NOW Scuba 8 BOULDER BEAT 25 INFOGRAPHIC 47 Q&A with the Chancellor 61 Letters Paul Danish New CU Buildings 5 INQUIRY Ming H. Chen 49 Sports 65 THEN 11 LOOK Who’s Here 43 Alumni News 1968 7 Campus News 55 Class Notes CONTACT ERIC GERSHON AT 13 ORIGINS 88.5 KGNU 45 CU Around [email protected]

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IMMIGRATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS as a refuge for immigrants, with inclu- these subjects are critical to established ity trap’ that sees immigrants as law- Ming H. Chen, associate professor at sionary immigration policies, but voters subjects like Constitutional law and breakers and the purpose of policy as Colorado Law, directs the CU Immigration there have approved ballot initiatives to American politics. My students are ex- enforcement. It is vital that folks engage Law & Policy Program and serves on the restrict public benefits for undocumented tremely motivated, and know that learn- on the front lines when children and Colorado Advisory Committee to the U.S. immigrants, affirmative action for racial ing about these subjects matters to the community members are being deport- Commission on Civil Rights. minorities and bilingual education in pub- world. My colleagues and the university, ed. It’s also important to recognize that lic schools. My first political experiences too, are seeking expertise and guidance. there are many kinds of immigrants and You’re working on a book titled Con- were community organizing and voter If there is a silver lining to all the strife, that they’re all vulnerable. structing Citizenship for Noncitizens. registration to oppose those initiatives. it is that we have opportunities to teach What’s it about, in a nutshell? Although some of those initiatives and learn on a daily basis. Where are you from originally and For the last decade, U.S. immigration would later be overturned in court, es- what brought you to Colorado? policy has focused nearly exclusively on sentially, we lost. That left me feeling two Have many CU students or DACA re- I was born in the United States to immi- enforcement: Stopping unlawful entry, things that continue to shape my career: cipients come to you seeking advice? grant parents who migrated as inter- stopping criminal aliens and stopping One, there is a lot of important work still My interactions have been primarily with national students to a western public foreign terrorists. My book argues that to be done, and, two, non-majoritari- DACA students and international stu- university (Montana State) and have now this is a mistake, and that immigration an institutions like courts or agencies dents. It’s been challenging to level with lived in the U.S. longer than in their native lawyers, scholars and policymakers con- play an important role in shaping public students who want comfort and encour- countries of China and Taiwan. We lived cede too much when they focus all their policy. We cannot rely on the principle agement about how uncertain our legal largely in California with significant time energies on responding to immigration of ‘whoever gets the most votes, wins’ environment is right now and to tell them on the East Coast before I began this enforcement. Instead, I argue that they to achieve just results, especially when that, like them, the experts are wonder- faculty position at CU. need to advance a conversation about we’re talking about immigrants and ing what happens next. The law school CU has been an interesting place to immigration and citizenship that includes minorities who lack equal footing. hypotheticals are now realities. What work on civil rights and immigration. I integrative goals alongside enforcement used to be a question of ‘what if’ is now a really appreciate that CU is a flagship and moves away from the fixation on Are domestic political events question of ‘what now.’ public university that draws students from formal status to the exclusion of other changing the way you teach or all over the nation and is the first choice of forms of membership. what you research? If you could make one major change so many students in the western U.S. and Mostly in the sense of urgency rather to current U.S. immigration policy, increasingly abroad. It is for that reason How did you decide to focus your than in core content. There was a time what would it be? that it needs to be thoughtful and engaged career on immigration law and when race and immigration were seen To broaden the dialogue around immi- about immigration and civil rights. civil rights? as marginal issues in the academy, and gration policy and our conception of I attended a California public high school those studying them had to strive for re- who are immigrants in the U.S. There Interview by Lauren Price (MJour’17). in the 1990s. California is thought of spect. There is no longer any doubt that is the danger of falling into the ‘illegal- Condensed and edited.

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FRANK AND ME of anti-Nazi, Red Army and protest I wouldn’t have gotten to know songs, like “Joe Hill,” “Katyusha” and Frank Oppenheimer if I hadn’t crashed “The Peat-bog Soldiers,” a haunting song the Conference on World Affairs sung by concentration camp inmates. (CWA) party at his house. It was my favorite album when I was It was 1968 — Tet, protests, draft card four years old. burnings, pot, acid, LBJ calling it quits, I had no idea what the songs were the McCarthy and Kennedy campaigns, about until years later, of course. But Martin Luther King’s assassination and Robeson had one of the greatest voices News SUMMER 2018 the world’s first heart transplant. The God ever put into a human being. The panelists had plenty to talk about. songs still resonate with me. I knew Frank’s backstory. He was Frank found me reading the album Utterly Trivial (and Totally Worth It) J. Robert Oppenheimer’s kid brother, notes. I told him about how Songs of the and also a brilliant physicist who’d Free Men had been my favorite “chil- DIE-HARD VETERANS OF CU’S TRIVIA BOWL TEST THEIR METTLE AGAIN worked at Los Alamos. dren’s” album. In 1949 he admitted that he and Without a word, he fired up an an- The band was back together. show business and the like. his wife, Jackie, had been in the cient phonograph, and for the next 15 Three-quarters of it, anyway. Over five days each spring, 64 teams Communist Party as students. In the minutes we listened to the old songs. Children of a Lesser Godzilla — an faced off in a bracket-style contest under McCarthy era, the admission made And quietly bonded. iteration of the 1991 CU Trivia Bowl’s bright lights in the Glenn Miller Ballroom him professionally radioactive. For the One of the 1968 CWA speakers was winning team, The Godzillas Must — for bragging rights, a trophy with Mick- next eight years they lived on a ranch Scott Newhall, executive editor of the Be Crazy — reunited Dick Shahan ey Mouse ears and the sheer fun of it. outside of Pagosa Springs. San Francisco Chronicle. The bowl’s last regular Eventually Frank began teaching He said American newspapers needed year was 1993, amid physics at Pagosa Springs High School. young journalists “who won’t compro- fading interest. Several of his students promptly took mise with editors and publishers.” But every so often, first prize at the state science fair. But “So hire me,” I said (in so many the die-hards reconvene. Frank didn’t have a teacher’s certifi- words). And he did. Paul Bailey (EnvDes’83; cate. So he was sacked. That’s when Newhall also helped Frank get MA’94) and Dan Rec- then-CU President Quigg Newton a gig in San Francisco — creating tor (Edu’73) led the hired him to teach at Boulder. a revolutionary, hands-on science latest effort. Fast-forward to 1968. The CWA museum called the Exploratorium. It If turnout was modest parties were legendary. Conference par- transformed the world’s ideas about and the setting less Hol- ticipants, some of the planet’s wittier museums and science education. lywoodesque — 16 teams people, would down a couple of drinks, The Oppenheimers got a condo on of four tested their mettle network and show off for each other. the twisty block of Lombard Street. I over three days at the It was a great party — especially used to visit them there. Frank taught Williams Village Center after I found the records. me a lot of things, mostly things that — The CU Trivia Bowl was a defining element of campus culture. — it was a delight to savor I’d gone downstairs to use the john. like the songs on the album — I didn’t for Shahan. The basement was full of Frank’s old really understand until years later. (Engl’71; PhD’85), Sandy McVie and His powers of instant association books and 78 rpm records, including Frank died in 1985. He was the Dave Wallack, plus fresh recruit Harry were on display when the modera- Songs of the Free Men, a World best professor I never took Hawthorne (DistSt’74). The occasion, tor listed about a dozen female song War II-era album by Paul a course from. in April, was a three-day revival, 50 years characters and asked which recording Robeson, the singer, actor after its debut, of the CU Trivia Bowl, artist’s ouvre contained them all. and far left activist. Paul Danish (Hist’65) is a the live, game show-like trivia tourna- “Bruce Springsteen!” he called out It was a mash-up Coloradan columnist. ment that helped define cultural life at — correctly — after buzzing in. CU Boulder starting in the late 1960s. Godzilla made it to the quarterfi- “On Friday morning of each trivia nals. In the end, Some Guys Walk Into bowl week, there would be people a Bar, a team of conspicuously young standing in line outside the UMC to get participants, won. seats,” said Shahan, a retired Boulder Shahan was okay with that. The librarian who played in about 15 bowls latest bowl had done its job. starting in 1975. “It brought it all back again,” he said. In its heyday, the bowl attracted hundreds of players from around campus For Dick Shahan’s commentary and sam- Photo courtesy K.C. Cole, © Exploratorium and far afield. Modeled on the relative- ple questions, visit colorado.edu/coloradan. ly earnest GE College Bowl, popular Search “Boogie (With Your Baby).” nationwide in the 1960s, CU’s version emphasized pop culture: Sports, music, EG

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Kale Aplenty THE VIOLINIST DIGITS The Grammy-winning Takács Quartet, based at CU RALPHIE-SHAPED CU BOULDER GETS SERIOUS ABOUT GREENS Boulder since 1986, has a new member for the first time SWIMMING POOL in more than a decade. Harumi Rhodes, a CU Boulder Drivers on U.S. Hwy 36 zoomed past assistant professor of violin, has joined the globe-trot- a new sight at Williams Village this ting classical ensemble as second violinist. Founding spring — a vibrant purple glow ema- second violinist Károly Schranz retired from the group nating from the second floor of the May 1, after more than 40 years. The quartet, which complex’s Village Center dining hall. originated in Hungary in 1975, now has an even number Opened at CU Rec Center The source was CU Boulder’s of women and men for the first time. newest and perhaps most unusual greenhouse, a 3,000-square-foot facility on site that can grow as many as 6,000 plants at once and is on track to become the primary source for the dining hall’s greens. Thousand gallons of There’s no dirt here: The plants are water (volume) housed in 137 eight-foot-tall hydropon- ic grow towers that deliver water and nutrients to the plants without the HEARD AROUND CAMPUS need for soil. The greenhouse climate is a steady 65 degrees during the day “IMAGINE 20,000 PEOPLE and 55 at night. Lights automatically turn on as sunlight dims. TRAPPED IN A METAL “When you see something being grown right in front of you, you have BOX FOR DAYS. THAT’S more appreciation for your food,” said PRETTY SCARY.” CU farm manager Alex Macmillan. The greenhouse provides lettuce, — CU Boulder engineering professor Keith Por- kale and arugula for the Village Center ter, who recently estimated the number of people salad bar and chefs. Each tower yields likely to get stuck in elevators following a major Months in use, annually, San Francisco Bay Area earthquake. up to three pounds of food each give or take month. If there’s surplus in the future, the extra greens will be available to other CU dining halls and campus A LOVER’S TOUCH catering units. When Pavel Goldstein’s wife, Alexandra, was in labor “Nothing gets wasted here,” said with their daughter, Alexandra felt less pain while he Macmillan, the sole farmer for the was holding her hand. Pool volleyball net and greenhouse. “The appetite for greens This made Goldstein wonder: “Can one really de- basketball hoop at CU is pretty crazy.” crease pain with touch, and if so, how?” When students are on summer So the CU Boulder postdoctoral researcher devised break, he’ll experiment with basil, dill an experiment, and the results are in: A loving human and parsley. touch can, indeed, ease physical pain. Student users on a He was pleased with his first small In a study published in the Proceedings of the National sunny summer day batch of crops, in March — about Academy of Sciences, he and collaborators found that 35 pounds of food in all. He initially women subjected to mild heat pain reported less dis- grew the greens in small, spongy, foam comfort when they held hands with their partners than cubes in the greenhouse, then moved they did without the benefit of touch. them to the grow towers, where they The study, involving 22 heterosexual couples, bathed in continually circulating water showed that holding hands synchronized the couples’ and fertilizer. After about a month, it breathing, heart rate and brain waves, which correllat- was all ready to eat. ed with diminished pain. “The kale is getting out of hand,” he “It appears that pain totally interrupts this inter- said in April, pointing to the flourish- personal synchronization between couples and touch ing towers. “And the arugula has gone brings it back,” said Goldstein, of CU Boulder’s Cog- wild on me.” nitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab. For additional details, visit CU Boulder Today and search Weekly movie and mu- By Christie Sounart (Jour’12) the phrase “lover’s touch.” sic evening (summer)

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OUR NEXT GUEST IS... Larger-than-life cultural figures make their way to CU Boulder every year. Spring 2018 offered a conspicuous bounty, with live appearances by, among others: Pundit Ann Coulter, comedian Hasan Minhaj, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Olympic medalist Aly Raisman, astronaut-physician Mae Jemison and hip hop artist Common (all pictured). David Sedaris was here, too. Who’s on deck? Stay tuned.

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Early producers of KGNU’s “Hemispheres” interview program, 1980s. At left: CU sociologist Rolf Kjolseth.

RADIO DAYS FM radio grew rapidly in the late 1960s campus Radio 1190 AM. the tastes of volunteer disc jockeys For David McIntosh, 88.5 will always and ’70s. But attempts to start a CU FM Through a student government role, and providing airtime for pundits and be a magic number. station had come to naught by McIn- McIntosh also helped direct about programs outside the mainstream. Its “I’m a radio geek,” said the Lou- tosh’s arrival as a 23-year-old freshman. $35,000 to a local group called the long-running reggae and hip hop shows isville, Colo., resident, who entered He wasn’t the only student eager to Boulder Community Broadcast Asso- were among the nation’s first, McIntosh CU Boulder as a radio enthusiast in make use of the radio frequency, which ciation, which was starting a local FM said. Bluegrass is a hallmark. The voic- 1976 and became a key player in the offered better sound quality than AM station independent of CU. es of Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky and formation of Boulder’s first nonprofit and attracted an experimental crowd. The cash infusion proved decisive, Juan Gonzalez regularly travel KGNU’s community FM station, 88.5 KGNU. After CU administrators stopped and KGNU began broadcasting May 22, airways, along with “Democracy Now” The station, which began broadcast- pursuing a campus FM station in the 1978, from studios along Boulder Creek. and BBC news, for instance. ing in May 1978, still operates today, early 1970s, students raised about KGNU depended on volunteers from Said McIntosh, who went on to a powered by a small army of volunteers $140,000 for radio projects through the start, and still does — about 250 telecommunications career apart from who keep the music and talk flowing self-imposed fees, said McIntosh now, said station manager Tim Russo, KGNU, “We help our listeners be 24/7. McIntosh, who remains involved (Comm’80; MTeleComm’84). This part of the small paid staff. good citizens.” 40 years later by helping to orient new supported construction of basement The station has also kept faithful to volunteers, tunes in almost every day. studios in the UMC, home today of community radio spirit, deferring to By Eric Gershon

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CU’S ALENA GRABOWSKI IS HELPING A NEW GENERATION OF AMPUTEE ATHLETES REIMAGINE WHAT’S POSSIBLE.

By Lisa Marshall

Hours before student alarm clocks er-limb prostheses for runners, Grabowski, them: Trail running. watched on TV, the humble scientist go off,Alena Grabowski (Kines’98; director of CU’s Applied Biomechanics “I never take for granted the fact that couldn’t help but feel pride knowing she PhD’07) slips on a head lamp and trail Laboratory, has dedicated her career to I can get up in the morning and go for helped get him there. shoes and heads for the hills. helping elite amputee athletes like former a run without even thinking about it,” “It was a huge deal for the Paralym- When she’s in motion, the 60-mile- South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, said Grabowski, 45, who has run 50-mile pic community,” she said. “And for me, a-week trail runner doesn’t think much aka the “Blade Runner,” and German events in Colorado’s San Juan mountains career wise, it was a turning point.” about how her foot hits the ground with long-jumper Marcus Rehm, aka the “Blade and multi-day races through the Italian The daughter of a track coach in each step, how she slightly adjusts her Jumper,” address a controversial question Dolomites. “I just want everyone to be Minnesota, Grabowski started running balance as she rounds each switchback that could make or break athletic dreams: able to move like I can.” not long after she could walk. When she or how her stride might be different if Should runners with prosthetic legs be arrived at CU Boulder as a student in the her calves were made of carbon fiber able to compete alongside non-amputees? UNFAIR ADVANTAGE? mid-1990s, she began translating that instead of flesh and bone. Meanwhile, Grabowski is also devel- Grabowski won’t forget the moment in passion into a unique career. She earned a But when she gets to work at CU Boul- oping a new generation of prostheses August 2012 when Pistorius burst out of bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in CU’s der, that’s all she thinks about. — blades — that could enable everyday the blocks in London Stadium, becom- integrative physiology department, study- One of a half-dozen researchers on the athletes to do things that are difficult, if ing the first runner without biological ing under sports biomechanics researcher planet who specializes in studying low- not impossible, to do today. Among legs to compete in the Olympics. As she Rodger Kram. During post-graduate

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work at MIT, she worked with Hugh collected. But five of seven — including Herr, a famed mountaineer who lost both Herr, Kram and Grabowski — concluded his legs after a climbing accident and now that Pistorius’s blades put him at a disad- develops bionic prosthetics. vantage because they pushed off with less All along, she kept hearing about force than a biological limb would. Pistorius, who was making head- They also concluded the methods the lines for his impressive times in the German researchers used to measure 400-meter, and for rumors that his aerobic energy expenditure were flawed. Bottom line: There was “insufficient evidence” he had a competitive edge, TO CATCH BLADES Herr, Kram and Grabowski concluded. They made their case before the Court THAT FLY LOOSE: of Arbitration for Sport — and won. Pis- A NET BEHIND THE torius (who in 2015 would be convicted of murdering his girlfriend and ultimately TREADMILL. sentenced to more than a decade in pris- on) was eligible for Olympic competition. J-Shaped Össur Cheetah blades gave At the 2012 summer Olympic games, him an unfair advantage. he made history, running the 400-meter In 2008, just as Grabowski was event in 45.44 seconds, the first dou- wrapping up her post-doctoral work, the ble-amputee ever to participate. “No one can just put on a pair of blades and be instantly fast...You still have to train.” International Association of Athletics “For kids who had an amputation and Federations (IAAF) banned Pistorius for adults who had some sort of physical from competing against able-bodied disability — to see this guy push the University of Arkansas. He is the first Contrary to common belief, pros- runners, citing a German study that con- boundaries like that, it opened a door,” double-amputee ever to earn a Division thetic blades haven’t advanced much in cluded his blades allowed him to expend Grabowski said. 1 track and field scholarship. the past decade, she said. For sprinters, 25 percent less energy. She’s worked hard to keep it open. Meanwhile, German long-jumper they feel awkward and cumbersome in When his lawyers scoured the globe Rehm is waiting for science to answer the starting blocks, and they perform for a scientific team that could provide BURDEN OF PROOF key questions about his blade. poorly in curves. For trail runners, the a second opinion, they found Herr, Today, six years after Pistorius’ Olympic His hopes of competing in the 2016 Rio inert limbs can be uncomfortable over Kram and their junior colleague — debut, the IAAF maintains a 2007 rule Olympics were dashed after the IAAF long distances, and they lack the sensory Grabowski. prohibiting mechanical aids, unless an determined he’d failed to prove he had no feedback mechanisms that aid smooth “It was exciting just to be a part of it,” athlete can prove they don’t provide a advantage. Grabowski, who has studied movement up and down hills. she said. competitive advantage. Rehm extensively, determined his prosthe- “I think we can do a lot better,” The team gathered at Rice Univer- Essentially, Grabowski said, amputee sis decreases his run-up speed but provides Grabowski said. sity in Texas, then among the only labs athletes are guilty until proven innocent a more efficient take-off for the long-jump. She envisions a day when impaired with a treadmill fast enough to measure by science. She’ll study amputee long-jumpers further. athletes can choose among various That stance, and similar “It’s an important question, but also blades — models sanctioned by sound polices by high school and an elusive question,” she said. “How science for use in strictly governed com- college governing bodies, can you really determine conclusively petitions, and models for anything-goes puts her rare expertise in whether someone has an advantage or fun-runs, which might, indeed, help high demand. disadvantage?” them push beyond the limits of the In 2016, she provided human body. scientific evidence to the BUILDING A BETTER BLADE Ultimately, blade runners say, athlet- NCAA that paved the At CU, Grabowski has her own state- ic success at the highest level requires way for below-the-knee of-the art treadmill, a shiny $100,000 more than technology. amputee Nicky Maxwell machine that can clock runners at up to “The reality is, no one can just put on to run track at Harvard. 30 mph and measure their force in 3D. a pair of blades and be instantly fast,” In 2017, she persuaded Sometimes she places a net at the back in said Woodhall, the Arkansas runner. the NCAA that — as case their blades come loose. “You still have to train and lift and take with Pistorius — there One morning this spring, 35-year- care of yourself and put in the work. No was no scientific evidence old trail runner and marathoner Steve one wants to have all that work discred- Pistorius at full throttle. Over three suggesting high school sprinter Hunter Hinson, who lost a leg in a lawnmower ac- ited by people saying the only reason you whirlwind days, they and four research- Woodhall, whose legs were amputated cident at age 9, hopped on the treadmill can do what you do is because of your ers from other universities assessed his below the knee in infancy, is advantaged with dozens of sensors affixed to his body. blades. That’s why the work she is doing biomechanics, energy expenditure and by his prostheses. As he ran at various speeds and is so important.” endurance at a lightning 24 mph pace. “I am running in college in large part inclines, fresh data accumulating, In the end, the researchers struggled due to Alena and her work,” Woodhall, Grabowski looked on, contemplating Lisa Marshall (Jour, PolSci’94) writes about to agree how to interpret the data they’d 19, said from his dorm room at the ways to help him and runners like him. academic research at CU Boulder.

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John Branch (Mktg’89; if the Mannings had a few more NFL Bill, especially, wants to leave a legacy athletes I know. Two, they go to incredible MJour’96), a Pulitzer quarterbacks and others on the way. for his children and grandchildren, so lengths — literally, sometimes driving Prize-winning sports he’s trying to build the herd big enough 1,000 miles — just to ride a bronc or a reporter for The New York What seems to explain their success? to sustain the coming generations, fueled bull, all without the promise of a single Times, recently published Part of it is genetics, part of it is per- by rodeo earnings. The idea of hinging dollar. And it’s always a long ride home. The Last Cowboys, a book about Amer- sistence. But the secret is Cody. He was a future in the New West to rodeo and ica’s most successful rodeo family, the successful as a teenager in all the riding ranching, two anachronisms of the Old Did reporting The Last Cowboys Wrights of southwest Utah. Branch and roping events, but settled into saddle West, fascinated me. affect the way you see the West? responded to questions from the Colora- bronc. He became the best in the world, I grew up in Golden, Colorado — dan by email. Additional photographs at the best possible teacher to each of his Was there a central question you had “Where the West Lives!” as the arch colorado.edu/coloradan. brothers and, eventually, his own sons. in mind as you reported it? over Washington Street downtown Is there still a place for these people shouts — and spend a lot of time Bill and Evelyn Wright have 13 chil- How did you first encounter the as the outside world closes in? Their bouncing around the West for The dren and many grandchildren. How Wrights, and what made you realize traditions are being trampled by the New York Times. But I certainly think many compete in rodeos, and how their story might be worth telling churning wheels of change, including a bit more deeply when I see broad many national titles have they won? at length? urbanization, federal-land debates, global rangeland, barbed-wire fences, herds Seven of those 13 children are boys, and A former editor told me about this warming and drought. It might chase the of cattle and sun-baked men in cowboy they’ve all competed in big-time rodeo. big family from Utah with a bunch of Wrights off their precious land. That’s hats. I wonder how many more genera- Right now, five of the Wright brothers bronc-riding boys. It wasn’t just rodeo the crux of the story — how to build a tions that way of life will last. are pro cowboys, and three have won that made the story interesting. It was future while holding on to the past. season-long titles in saddle-bronc riding, this family, led by Bill and Evelyn, and If you’ve tried saddle-bronc riding, rodeo’s classic event. Cody, the oldest the land where they ran a modest cattle What did you learn about rodeo that how’d it go? brother, has three boys who have turned operation, on the boundary of Zion you never knew or fully appreciated? I haven’t, and I wouldn’t. But it’s now pro, and one won the title last year. National Park. It’s stunningly beautiful One, it is crazy dangerous. I’ve covered all one of my favorite spectator sports. Think of it this way: The Wrights are to and has been part of the family since the the major sports, and plenty of extreme rodeo what the Mannings are to football, Mormon migration about 150 years ago. ones, and rodeo cowboys are the toughest Interview by Eric Gershon.

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LUCILE

LONG OVERLOOKED, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO GRADUATE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO COMES ALIVE IN A NEW BOOK BY CU BOULDER’S POLLY MCLEAN.

By Clint Talbott

21Photo SUMMER courtesy 2018 the Buchanan Coloradan Archives Coloradan SUMMER 2018 22 HISTORY LUCILE

In the narrow columns of newspaper Lucile Berkeley Buchanan was born in story under the headline “Color discrimi- living with another man for 22 years in a type, Polly McLean sensed a bigger story. 1884 in Denver. Her family lived on land nation drove a girl to suicide.” home they purchased together. A story with layers of triumph, heart- purchased from P.T. Barnum, the circus Lucile, too, faced discrimination. In 1937 Lucile again returned to break and betrayal that revealed hard mogul and cynic known for his “sucker She had applied for her first teaching school, enrolling in graduate studies in truths about the history of the University born every minute” quip. job in 1905 in a company coal town in English literature at the University of of Colorado and America itself. Lucile became the first person in her Huerfano County, Colo. Chicago. She was 53. For decades, CU Boulder’s official family to graduate from not one, but two, She didn’t get the posi- She retired from teaching history recorded that the first black Colorado universities: In 1905, she was tion, despite the work of in 1949 and returned to Den- woman to graduate from the university, the first African American to graduate a newspaper editor who ver to live in the home built Ruth Cave Flowers (A&S’24), earned with a two-year degree from what now is condemned the racial by her father, the former her degree in 1924. But in 2001 McLean the University of Northern Colorado. prejudice thwarting her. slave who became a teamster learned from an old newspaper report After a long career as a school teacher, So, Lucile left Colorado and street commissioner. that the first had actually graduated in mainly in Arkansas and Illinois, she lived and taught in Little Rock There she lived until she 1918. Her name was Lucile Berkeley in Denver until her death in 1989, when and Hot Springs, Ark. was 103, when Colorado Buchanan Jones (Ger1918), and she’d she was interred in an unmarked grave. In 1915 she enrolled at Adult Protective Services lived to age 105. Lucile entered Polly McLean’s life in the University of Chi- deemed her a danger to her- By the time McLean, a CU Boulder 2001, as McLean researched an assign- cago, studying German, self and forcibly placed her media studies professor, read the Rocky ment she’d given her women’s studies Greek and British poetry. in a nursing home. Lucile Mountain News story, it was nearly a class: Uncovering the history of black Returning to Colorado, she was blind and had no family decade old. And yet Lucile remained women in Boulder. continued with German at willing or able to help. A obscure, even at CU. During a visit to the CU Heritage CU. “The black intelligentsia at the end court-appointed conservator sold her Center in Old Main, McLean read a of the 19th and into the early decades of home and paid her bills. 1993 Rocky Mountain News article about the 20th century viewed Germany as a Even in old age and confined to the HER STORY IS her that carried the arresting headline ‘spiritual fatherland,’” McLean writes. nursing home, Lucile was a dutiful citizen. PART TRIUMPH, “She was CU’s first black female grad: A Also, Lucile knew the work of W.E.B. The Rocky interviewed her and other cen- pioneer buried without a headstone.” Du Bois, the sociologist, historian and tenarian voters in 1988, when she was 104. PART TRAGEDY. The paper quoted Doris and Larry activist who had studied in Berlin and A lifelong Republican, Lucile told the Harris, who had purchased Lucile’s had an affinity for Germany. Du Bois Rocky that Franklin D. Roosevelt was the “That set me on this journey,” Mc- Denver home after the state of Colora- argued that blacks needed a liberal arts only Democrat she might have support- Lean, the campus’ first tenured black do forced her into a nursing home. The education to battle racial inequality. ed, because, “Over the years as I look woman, said at the inaugural Lucile Harrises noted that they’d bought the By spring 1918 — six years after back, there were many good things he Berkeley Buchanan Lecture in April. home, a mini Queen Anne on Raleigh Charles Durham Campbell (Math did for the people.” Over the next decade, McLean ex- Street, for $70,000. They wondered 1912) became CU’s first African Amer- As for her loyalty to the GOP, Lucile humed Lucile’s story, fragment by elusive why the estate hadn’t yielded enough ican graduate — Lucile had earned said: “Lincoln was a Republican. That’s fragment, elevating her to her rightful money for a headstone. (A stone a CU degree, too. Her mother, two all I need to know.” place in CU’s history. In a book to be Lucile had purchased for herself long sisters and a niece traveled to campus Much of the historical material published this summer, Remembering before her death had been destroyed, for commencement, held in Macky Au- McLean unearthed came from dogged Lucile: A Virginia Family’s Rise from Slavery and it appears the publicly appointed ditorium. There were 168 members in investigative reporting, which involved and a Legacy Forged a Mile High (Univer- conservator of the estate didn’t order a the class. Lucile was the lone African poring over musty public records and sity of Colorado Press), McLean brings new one.) American. But she was never called to interviewing people around the country. Lucile to life and corrects the record in The Rocky also quoted a CU spokes- the stage to receive her diploma. Ad- Key information came from old newspa- painstaking, at times painful, detail. woman saying the university would ministrators instead sent a classmate to pers, including black newspapers. McLean’s work also led CU Boulder to correct its records to reflect Lucile’s sta- slip it to her offstage. It was a newspaper story that helped make a public gesture of atonement for a tus as CU’s first black woman graduate. ensure a headstone now carries her searing act of bigotry 100 years ago, when But eight years after the story ran, the name. In 1993 Frederick John Walsen Lucile was barred from walking across records were still inaccurate. SHE LIVED TO BE (Jour’39), grandson of the founder of the Macky Auditorium stage to receive By the time McLean was on the case, 105 YEARS OLD. Walsenburg, Colo., read the Rocky article her degree. At Commencement 2018, the the Harrises had divorced and moved, that ultimately alerted McLean to Lu- university invited McLean to accept Lu- taking with them boxes of memorabilia Embittered, Lucile vowed never to cile. Walsen, who died in 2000, arranged cile’s diploma, a move Chancellor Philip Lucile had left behind. But, in bits and return to campus, and never did. and paid for Fairmont Cemetery in P. DiStefano called “long overdue.” pieces, with tenacity and cajolery, Mc- After taking a job as a teacher in Kan- Denver to add her name to an existing The symmetry was striking and poi- Lean fashioned a compelling portrait. sas City, she married John Dotha Jones in family headstone. gnant: CU’s first black woman graduate 1926 and took his name. Within a decade It reads: “Lucile B. Jones, June 13, 1884 finally received the respect due her IF THEY KNOCK YOU DOWN he’d abandoned her. She filed for divorce, — Nov. 10, 1989 — First Black Woman thanks to the dogged work of McLean, a Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones’ story is claiming he’d committed adultery and Graduate University of Colorado.” fellow CU pioneer. part triumph, part tragedy. been cruel and habitually drunk. One of her sisters, Laura, commit- Lucile later told friends and fami- Clint Talbott (Jour’85), a 1998 Pulitzer CHILD OF SLAVES ted suicide in 1899 while attempting to ly he’d been killed in a duel. In fact, Prize finalist, joined the CU Boulder staff The daughter of emancipated slaves, become a teacher. The Rocky covered the McLean writes, Jones died in 1965, after in 2008.

23 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Book jacket courtesy University of Colorado Press Coloradan SUMMER 2018 24 INFOGRAPHIC CAMPUS BUILDINGS

STUDENT RECREATION CHAMPIONS CENTER AEROSPACE ENGINEER- CENTER EXPANSION Home to CU’s football ING SCIENCES Includes remodeled weight and athletic administration. Now under construction on THE EVOLVING CAMPUS and cardio spaces, climbing Includes athletic facilities, East Campus, this facility wall, ice rink, tennis courts sports medicine clinic, will house the aerospace Since Old Main, CU’s first building, went up in and buffalo-shaped outdoor strength training centers, con- engineering program. Includes 1876, structures have mushroomed around the pool. ference and meeting rooms, indoor space for testing expanding campus. In the last 20 years alone, CU Square Footage: 83,000 coaching and administrative unmanned aerial systems and Year: 2014 offices, dining facilities and tracking satellites. Boulder has developed 29 buildings and additions the football team’s locker Square Footage: 176,000 totaling nearly 4 million square feet. There’s even a room and lounge. Year: Opening fall 2019 Square Footage: 224,432 building dedicated to a supercomputer. For those EATON HUMANITIES Year: 2015 of you who haven’t been back to campus lately, ADDITION Home to classrooms, auditoria here’s a sampling of the newcomers, plus some old and offices. It’s connected by a friends for reference. We couldn’t fit them all! limestone link to the Woodbury Arts and Sciences Building, built in 1890. Square Footage: 61,438 Year: 1999

JENNIE SMOLY SUSTAINABILITY, ENER- CARUTHERS BIOTECH- GY AND ENVIRONMENT NOLOGY BUILDING COMMUNITY (SEEC) Faculty, staff and students Acquired and renovated by from the BioFrontiers Institute, the university in 2013, this the Department of Chemical building and an adjacent and Biological Engineering new lab facility house more and the Division of Biochemis- than a dozen programs and try occupy this huge building. industry partners. Square Footage: 405,957 Square Footage: 289,000 Year: 2012 Year: 2013 VISUAL ARTS COMPLEX Houses the CU Art Museum and the Department of Art and Art History. The complex includes exhibition galleries, studios, community workshop spaces and a 200-seat auditorium. Square Footage: 179,802 Year: 2009

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CENTER FOR ACADEMIC The building, C4C for short, SUCCESS AND features key student services ENGAGEMENT ROSER ATLAS CENTER and programs, such as WOLF LAW BUILDING WILLIAMS VILLAGE EAST Sitting atop the Euclid Auto- ATLAS is home to research, career services, international This LEED Gold-certified RESIDENCE HALL park near the UMC, this new virtual-reality and audio education and counseling building gets 88 percent of Opening fall 2019, the new building will house key units labs and a hacker space. It and psychological services. its energy from renewable 770-bed residence hall will of the Office of Admissions also contains a two-story, It’s also home to the campus’ sources. It’s home to the be located on the south side and eventually various stu- 2,700-square-foot black largest dining center and its 10 three-story William A. Wise of Baseline Road at approxi- dent and academic services. box studio. micro-restaurants. Law Library. mately 35th St. Square Footage: 114,000 Square Footage: 70,740 Square Footage: 317,286 Square Footage: 183,609 Square Footage: 178,000 Year: Opening summer 2018 Year: 2006 Year: 2010 Year: 2006 Year: Opening fall 2019

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If it’s summertime, Arielle Gold flexibility to study, train and compete on 2014 Olympics in Sochi, Russia, she’d (Psych’20) is living like a true Boulderite. the world stage. dislocated her shoulder in a training The GOLD She shares a house on The Hill with A professional snowboarder since age run, promptly ending her shot at a med- fellow students. She picks up shifts at 13, Gold already has invested nearly a al before she could try for one. Life, Post- a nearby smoothie shop, Rush Bowls, decade of work in her craft. It paid off The injury, coupled with extreme where she chats with customers and in February with a bronze medal in the emotional pressure, challenged her dines on as many peanut butter bowls women’s halfpipe competition at the immensely for the next couple of years. Bronze as she pleases. She spends time with 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, With the help of a sports psychologist her horse, Sparky, during visits home to South Korea. She’s the university’s first and a huge amount of training, she set Steamboat Springs. And she keeps fit. current student to win an Olympic med- her sights on the 2018 Olympics. SNOWBOARDER ARIELLE This summer she also expects to take al, one of 13 other Buff medal winners “For the past year, 90 percent of GOLD WON A MEDAL AT THE classes on campus at CU, a rare treat for and among more than 85 Buffs to have my thought process was about snow- OLYMPICS IN FEBRUARY. the newly minted Olympic medalist. competed in the Olympic Games. boarding,” said Gold, who grew up in THIS SUMMER, YOU MIGHT “I love sitting in a classroom and With three X Games medals — in Steamboat and lives there part-time in SEE HER AROUND CAMPUS. learning in person,” said Gold, 22, a globe- 2013, 2016 and 2018 — and a 2013 World the off-season. “I was visualizing ev- trotting junior who’s completed most of Championships gold medal, Gold’s erything and doing everything I could her CU Boulder classes (and three years bronze in Pyeongchang brought her a physically and mentally to be ready.” By Christie Sounart of high school) online, allowing her the new sense of accomplishment. In the In Pyeongchang, winning a place

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age 2, is most interested in equestrian medicine, but sees herself taking care of other animals, too, including her dream patient: A white tiger. “Tigers in general are some of my favorite animals because of how fierce they are,” she said. “I used to have a tiger jacket several years ago that I loved, then my dad bought me a newer one this winter that is closer to a white tiger. [It] makes me feel like I’m channeling the energy of a tiger!” When the time for snowboarding ends, the Colorado Buffalo might even try life as a Ram, should Gold make a match with Colorado State University’s renowned veterinary school. “Arielle has always loved animals, all animals,” said her father. “She’s been particularly involved in rescuing dogs who are in kill shelters, and she’s fostered and found homes for 12 dogs, I believe, so far… I think her experi- ence as an elite athlete, with all that is required to achieve those results, will serve her well in becoming a vet, and in being a great one.” For now, Arielle is taking things one season at a time. Summer 2018 means Rush Bowls on The Hill, a psychology or writing class at CU, and, especially, downtime with her Boulder friends. Someday, Olympic bronze medalist Arielle Gold aims to become a vet. In the meantime, she has an eye on another Olympic appearance. Said Gold: “They knew me as a person before they knew me as a snowboarder.” on the podium came down to the last of early 1080, a tough three-rotation trick Olympics. One evening, she took five Contact Christie at [email protected]. three runs. She’d fallen on the first and she’d only landed about a dozen times. of the gold-medal-winning U.S. women’s earned a low score on the second. In be- “I tried to think about laying it all out hockey players to the slopes for some ARIELLE GOLD FAST FACTS tween, Gold called her brother from the there,” she said. “Taylor said I just have nighttime snowboarding. mountain to vent and refocus. Taylor to go for it — I didn’t want to have any “For some of them it was their first AGE: 22 Gold, also a professional snowboarder, regrets about holding back.” time,” said Gold. “I told them they were HEIGHT: 5’4” was watching from Colorado. After an excruciatingly long wait — 11 better than I was my first time.” SPORT: Snowboarding (halfpipe) riders followed Gold’s Soon after returning to the U.S., Gold OLYMPIC MEDAL: Bronze, Pyeong- final run — she emerged dislocated her shoulder in her final com- chang, 2018 I WANTED TO BE A VET with the bronze. Amer- petition of the season, the early-March TOP PUMP-UP SONG: “8 Mile” by ican Chloe Kim took Burton U.S. Open in Vail. She took it in Eminem BEFORE I WANTED TO gold and China’s Jiayu stride, tweeting, “Dislocated my shoul- FAVORITE TRAINING SPOT: Laax, Liu silver. der, bruised my sternum and destroyed Switzerland BE A SNOWBOARDER. “When we knew she all the nerves in my left butt cheek, but PRE-COMPETITION RITUAL: Eat a had actually won the other than that we cool. #thriving.” full meal and listen to music “I mostly just told her how good bronze, my wife and I just collapsed in Gold plans to return to competition PRE-WORKOUT MEAL: Oats with her riding was looking, and any small each other’s arms sobbing tears of joy for later this year with an eye on another almond milk and almond butter adjustments or ideas I thought could Arielle,” said Gold’s father, Ken Gold, Olympic appearance. FAVORITE TRICK: Michalchuk help her put her run down,” said Taylor, who watched from the stands in Pyeongc- Ultimately, she aspires to become a (pronounced “Mi-kal-chuck”), a slow 24, who competed in the 2014 Olympics hang. “The fairytale actually came true.” veterinarian. halfpipe backflip in the halfpipe. After the competition, an ecstatic “I wanted to be a vet before I wanted ROLE MODELS: Fellow Olympians During her final run, Gold blasted Gold stayed in South Korea for about to be a snowboarder,” she said. Taylor Gold (her brother) and gold Eminem's “8 Mile” and threw down an two weeks to watch the rest of the Gold, who rode her first horse at medalist Kelly Clark

29 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Photo courtesy Arielle Gold Coloradan SUMMER 2018 30 TECH DIGITAL Frontier

CU BOULDER PIONEERS A MOOC-BASED GRADUATE DEGREE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING.

By Eric Gershon

Bob Erickson has won 13 patents, new degree represents a major evolution co-founded two companies and earned the that takes advantage of MOOCs, a class title “CU Boulder Inventor of the Year.” of online course characterized by low-cost, Doing new things is old hat for him. frequent (sometimes continuous) enroll- Lately he’s been at it again, leading a ment opportunities, virtually unlimited large cast of CU engineers and digital class sizes and extreme flexibility for learning experts who are developing a new students to watch video instruction and way for students to study engineering from complete assignments, all untethered to afar — and earn a CU Boulder degree in it. the traditional semester schedule. This fall, CU plans to offer the world’s CU Boulder now offers nearly 45 first MOOC-based graduate degree in MOOCs, mostly in engineering and electrical engineering, a program that including “Introduction to Power Elec- grew out of a massive open online course tronics,” an updated version of Erickson’s Erickson developed five years ago. debut 2014 MOOC, plus hundreds of Anyone with an Internet connection other online courses. The university offers will have the chance to earn a bona fide about half a dozen online degrees, though CU Boulder master’s degree in electrical none entirely organized around MOOCs. engineering at their own pace, without The new program represents a step setting foot in Colorado and at a far forward for both CU and for engineering lower cost than studying on campus. education generally. With the program, CU broadens access There’s no admissions application, to graduate-level engineering training and there are no prerequisites — not and enters the company of other online even a bachelor’s degree, though the science education innovators, such as the curriculum assumes competence in Georgia Institute of Technology, which advanced mathematics. Students will be drew attention in 2014 with a fully online, able to enroll online anytime through low-cost master’s in computer science. the online MOOC platform. Course- “Expanding access to the technological work is largely machine-graded. world and increasing our global engage- Students pay as they go, making ment is what our college is all about,” said progress toward the degree with each College of Engineering & Applied Science successfully completed course. They Dean Bobby Braun, who came to CU also can earn credentials short of a from Georgia Tech in 2016. degree, such as certificates. Much of the Students will pay about $20,000, or course content will be available for free, about half the cost of CU’s campus- without the option of a credential. based equivalent. A growing number of traditional CU leaders believe the new online nonprofit universities are offering credit- degree will attract motivated learners bearing online courses and degrees at unlikely to enroll at any American campus various costs and with varying degrees — full-time professionals and foreign of flexibility. residents unable to move to the U.S. CU Boulder hasn’t announced addi- “It is finding a new market,” said Erick- tional MOOC-based degrees yet. But son, who recruited fellow CU electrical don’t be surprised if it does. engineering professors to develop the “In every discipline on campus,” Pro- curriculum with the campus’ Office of vost Russell Moore said in February, “our Strategic Initiatives. faculty are looking at new ways to teach CU has offered various forms of distance and conduct research.” learning for decades, including less-flexible online engineering degree programs. The Contact Eric Gershon at [email protected].

31 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Illustration by The Heads of State Coloradan SUMMER 2018 32 STUDENT LIFE

DREAMERS Among Us

ABOUT 100 CU BOULDER STUDENTS ARE UNDOCU- MENTED IMMIGRANTS WITH FEDERAL DACA STATUS. THEY’RE DOING AMAZING THINGS. BUT PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE ISN’T EASY.

By Eric Gershon

Alan Sanchez thinks far ahead in time and far away in space. With one course to go for a joint bachelor’s-master’s degree in aerospace engineering, the CU Boulder student has set his sights on a career in spacecraft propulsion. Long-term, he’s ready to ride all the way to Mars to help develop a viable human habitat there. Here on Earth, he’s been doing all the right things to cultivate the hard and soft skills that will come in handy as a member of high-stakes technical teams. Besides immersing himself in phys- ics, fluid dynamics and philosophy, he’s worked a series of paid jobs while attending school full-time, including roles with the CU-based National Snow and Ice Data Center and the engineering college's Precision Laser Diagnostics Lab. He’s been a resident adviser in Libby Hall, a private tutor and a child- care provider at a Boulder school where immigrant parents learn to speak and read English. Sanchez (AeroEngr’17; MS’18) has an internship with Tesla now. On the side, he’s a competitive breakdancer. But more than time and space stand between him and his ambitions.

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“I’m not a U.S. citizen or a permanent with existing DACA protections to renew. resident,” he said. The government stopped taking first- Sanchez, 23, is one of an estimated time applications, but a separate court 1-4 million people in the United States ruling in April could force it to resume. born in a foreign country, brought to Were DACA to go away, CU stu- the U.S. as children and raised here dents like Sanchez and Zhang could without legal immigration status, often be subject to arrest and deportation to referred to as “Dreamers.” He came to countries that are as foreign to them as Colorado from Mexico at 8 months old Colorado is familiar. and grew up in Denver, the youngest Besides the personal cost to students of three children of undocumented and their families, the U.S. would lose immigrant parents. His father operates the benefit of the skills they acquired an HVAC repair business, his mother here, said Violeta Raquel Chapin, a runs a liquor store. clinical professor at Colorado Law At CU Boulder, Sanchez is one of School who co-advises the Inspired about 100 undocumented students Dreamers with David Aragon, assistant with temporary relief from deportation vice chancellor for diversity, learning under the federal Deferred Action for and student success. Childhood Arrivals policy, or DACA, “And I think we lose any kind of moral established in 2012. It also offers a authority to say that we try to do things Social Security number and permission that are right and decent,” Chapin said. to work. For Sanchez, his immigration status “I always had at least one job,” said Alan Sanchez. “There were periods when I had three.” Without work, most DACA students has complicated the pursuit of intern- couldn’t afford to attend CU, given ships in his chosen field, even with family circumstances and their ineligi- firms eager to have him: In many cases, Washington, D.C., public defender. Zhang must look out for herself, too, bility for federal financial aid. Even with federal rules forbid aerospace and “You meet with people in the most of course. She wants to move up in the multiple jobs and in-state tuition, many defense contractors from employing challenging moments in their lives. You world, and has been offered a summer can barely afford it. foreign nationals. listen to them, hear feelings, anxieties internship with a Denver firm she’d like “I always had at least one job,” San- CU Boulder, like many universities, has and emotions. I try to do that as often to join full-time. But she doesn’t know chez said. “There were periods when I publicly declared its support for DACA as I can.” if she’ll be able to take it, given her had three.” and taken steps to help DACA students Sanchez isn’t the sort to dwell on immigration status. DACA helps, but hardly resolves the navigate the extreme uncertainty of life negative thoughts. He’s an engineer, “You feel so helpless,” she said. predicament of students like Sanchez and amid shifting federal immigration policies. and engineers are pragmatic. He’s got One thing Sanchez and Zhang can do is Shiyan Zhang (Acct, Fin’18), who met Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano joined problems to solve and an opportunity share their stories, two among millions. through the Inspired Dreamers, a cam- more than 700 university leaders who at Tesla to seize, an opportunity that Twice in recent months Sanchez has pus advocacy group founded by DACA signed an open letter drafted by Pomona could spawn others. addressed CU Boulder alumni audi- students. DACA doesn’t make them citi- College declaring that “DACA should There’s meanwhile the business of ences, once in Los Angeles, once in zens or provide a pathway to legal status, be upheld, continued and expanded,” living and making plans amid profound Washington, D.C. and it’s valid for two-year stretches only, calling the policy “a moral imperative uncertainty. Sanchez wants financial “I have lived most of my life in a and a national necessity.” security, so he’s been looking into Roth state of limbo, not knowing exactly CU has started a relief IRAs. He’s working to set up a scholar- where I stand and who around me I HAVE LIVED MOST fund to help students ship for first-year CU Boulder students would like to see me fall,” he said at the meet emergency expens- who can’t afford to live on campus, CU Boulder Next conference in Los OF MY LIFE IN A STATE es, including $495 DACA as he once couldn’t. He tries to make Angeles. “It means the world to me that renewal application fees, time to dance. CU Boulder is openly supportive of OF LIMBO. and expanded financial Sanchez worries less about himself DACA students, and I can’t thank them aid for tuition. Chapin and his siblings, he said, than about his enough for that.” leaving them perpetually in limbo. said she and her CU law students have undocumented parents, who are ineligi- Afterward, an alumnus approached him “You cannot plan for the future,” said helped at least 50 students fill out and ble for DACA. and offered a ring as a token of solidarity. Zhang, a Grand Junction (Colo.) High file renewal applications. “There’s nothing to protect them,” “When you graduate, give this ring School graduate whose parents brought She also lends her ear to students he said. to the next DACA student you think her to the U.S. from China via Botswana wrestling with fear and frustration as It weighs on him. should have [it],” Sanchez said the man when she was 5 years old. “So you learn they try to set a course for their lives The needs of Shiyan Zhang’s younger told him. to live in the moment.” amid national discord over immigration siblings in Grand Junction add urgency Soon Alan Sanchez will have two de- That doesn’t make the moment policy. She’s invited all of them to her to her own search for stability. Their grees from a leading American aerospace comfortable: In September, the Justice home for a barbecue in June. parents have divorced. From Boulder, engineering program. He’d like to put Department said it would end DACA. “It’s a little bit of a social worker Zhang helps look after the kids, taking them to work for America. Federal courts have temporarily aspect, which I’ve always embraced as a responsibility even for registering them blocked the plan, allowing individuals defense lawyer,” said Chapin, a former for school, she said. Contact Eric at [email protected].

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TUCKER HAMILTON AND AARON FREY ARE TEST PILOTS FOR THE U.S. MILITARY’S MOST SOPHISTICATED FIGHTER JETS EVER. THEIR JOURNEY TOGETHER STARTED IN MIDDLE SCHOOL.

By Christie Sounart

37 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan ColoradanPhoto SUMMER by Chad 2018 Bellay 38 MILITARY FROM FREE-THROWS TO F-35s

Two F-35 fighter jets zoom over the the most sophisticated military fighter CU for a master’s degree in aerospace engulfed his plane, and he ejected into Pacific Ocean. The pilots, charged jets in history, and the Defense Depart- engineering; the Air Force commissioned the ocean. The other jet’s pilot died with completing a live missile test, are ment’s largest ever acquisition program, Hamilton the day of graduation. instantly. Hamilton floated in the ocean, focused, confident and prepared. Even in at more than $1 trillion. Hamilton and Hamilton, then a lieutenant, moved alone for hours, until a 25-foot fishing a test mission, lives depend on it. Frey are among some 20 total test pilots to Florida, completed pilot training with boat rescued him. They’re not alone. A fleet of aircraft, for the F-35, also known as the Joint the Navy and, later, the Air Force, and But Hamilton remained a pilot, and boats and about 100 control room com- Strike Fighter. For their August missile became a combat-ready F-15 fighter pilot. became an advocate for new safety municators follow their every move on test last year with the 461st Flight Test After a stint in Germany, he spent time measures. He was the first pilot to this summer day. Squadron, they were two of just 13 pilots in Afghanistan with the MC-12 intelli- test the Automatic Ground Collision A pair of missiles fires from one jet, who could have flown the mission. gence, surveillance and reconnaissance Avoidance System on fighter jets — striking their targets: Airborne drones. Hamilton uses one word for their re- aircraft unit. His interest in engineering, technology that corrects an airborne The other F-35, armed with its own peated encounters in life: “Serendipity.” technology and flying drew him to apply plane in an emergency. It has since missiles, holds fire amid the explosion. “Being able to develop the most for test pilot school. In 2011 he was been installed on several aircraft and among 10 pilots selected saved eight lives so far. to train at Edwards to “I know the experience made him a become a F-35 test pilot. better pilot,” said Frey, who’s encoun- “I wanted to develop tered frightening situations of his own. leading-edge technology “Managing risk is part of the job.” and get it into the hands of In 2016, four years after their hallway our warfighters,” he said. meeting, Hamilton became director Meanwhile, after briefly of operations for the 461st Flight Test working on satellites in the Squadron, which tests all three variants private sector, Frey joined of the F-35 fighter jets: The F-35 A, for the military, in 2004. conventional takeoffs and landings; B, “I always was inter- for short takeoffs; and C, for landing on ested in flying airplanes aircraft carriers. Frey’s name was listed as and the military,” he said. a test pilot with the squadron. “When I was working as “I didn’t realize Cinco was in my an engineer, I realized, ‘If squadron,” said Frey. “I walk in and, I want to do this, I need again, there he is!” to do this now.’” The F-35s — made by Lockheed He joined the Marines, Martin — are top of the line, with became an officer and technologies, weapons, sensors and deployed to Afghanistan equipment never used before. twice, flying combat Endless scenarios for each variation missions and serving as an need testing by the squadron. Hamilton instructor pilot. While in and Frey have tested all aspects of each Afghanistan in 2012, he variant of the single-seat planes. too was accepted into the “I will go take the jet to over 800 Edwards test pilot school. mph at 2,000 feet, pulling 9 gs making When Frey arrived in sure the system is safe and works,” said California for training, Hamilton. “It’s our job to take it to The moment — painstakingly calculated advanced aircraft to ever take to the Hamilton had just finished the program. the extreme.” and rehearsed — simulates the highly skies, with one of my buddies from The two passed each other in a hallway. Today, Hamilton remains commander complex air-to-air scenario F-35 pilots middle school, was a complete kick,” “Fast-forward to 2012, 10 years nearly of F-35 developmental test efforts at could encounter in real combat. All total, he said. to the day [from CU graduation],” Edwards, leading nearly 1,000 people. the day’s mission costs $1 million. As 13-year-olds, Hamilton and Frey said Hamilton, now married with four In October, Frey, a married father of Air Force Lt. Col. Tucker “Cinco” attended the same birthday parties and children. “And I’m walking through the twins, was promoted to operations Hamilton (AeroEngr’02) and Marine played on the same basketball team. Ham- U.S. test pilot school about to graduate, officer of the Marine Operational Test Maj. Aaron “Amber” Frey (AeroEn- ilton was a forward. Frey played guard. and Aaron Frey walks by in his Marine & Evaluation Squadron 1 at the base. gr’02; MS’03), were the pilots that day, in “As I recall, he was a little taller than I flight suit. He tests the F-35s in extreme military August 2017. They first met at Evergreen was,” Frey joked. “I said, ‘Dude what are you doing scenarios, such as landing an F-35B in Middle School in Evergreen, Colo. Later, The boys from Evergreen lost touch here?!’” frigid temperatures in Alaska. they reacquainted as fellow aerospace after enrolling at different high schools, The two briefly caught up. They’d “Our wives know each other, our kids engineering majors at CU Boulder, and then reconnected in Air Force ROTC both known danger. play together,” said Frey. “Once you’re again — nearly 25 years later — as two of and aerospace engineering classes during In early 2008, for instance, Hamilton squadron mates, you really stay in touch the U.S. military’s ace test pilots. their first semester at CU in 1998. was involved in a 500-mph, mid-air for the rest of your life.” The F-35 jets, based at California’s In 2002, they again went separate collision with another jet during a F-15 Edwards Air Force Base, are considered ways and lost contact: Frey stayed at flight over the Gulf of Mexico. Flames Contact Christie at [email protected].

39 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Photo by Chad Bellay Coloradan SUMMER 2018 40 41 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2018 42 SOUTH PARK ANIMATOR JOINS CU BOULDER NEXT When South Park joined Comedy Central’s lineup more 2019 TRIPS than 20 years ago, Eric Stough (Film’95) was the first person hired by creators Trey Parker (A&S ex’93) and Matt Stone (Art, Math’93). He’s never looked back. Now producer and lead animator for the taboo-shat- tering animated satire, Stough has won five Emmys and a Peabody Award for his work — and stands as the inspiration for the beloved character “Butters.” LEGENDS OF News SUMMER 2018 In April, at the second installment of CU Boulder THE NILE Next — the university’s large-scale, multiyear road Jan. 22-Feb. 2, 2019 show — Stough regaled the Washington, D.C., audience Reviving the Rivalry with tales of his days at CU (where Parker encouraged him to join the film department) through the present IN SEPTEMBER, THE BUFFS AND THE CORNHUSKERS LOCK HORNS FOR THE day, in which South Park-themed mobile and console FIRST TIME SINCE 2010 games are part of American culture. “All facets of my life echo the foundation given to me When Bill McCartney was hired as “62-36. My first live football game and went by CU,” he said during the conference’s closing remarks. CU’s football coach in 1982, the Buffs with my new girlfriend. Been married to that For videos of CU Boulder Next in Los Angeles and TANZANIA had lost 18 in a row to the Nebraska beautiful lady for almost 13 years now!” D.C. and information about next year’s San Francisco MIGRATION SAFARI Cornhuskers. Charles Jacobs and Denver events, visit colorado.edu/next. Jan. 23-Feb. 3, 2019 Four years later, CU beat Nebraska 20-10 at Folsom Field. The crowd tore “In the early ’80s our car wouldn’t start while down the goal posts. we were parked at a small shopping cen- ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TIDBITS “I remember they kept the score- ter. We were worried about getting to the Northern Nevada now has an alum- board lit up for a week,” James Brodie game and along came a carload of Nebraska ni chapter led by Tiffany Smith (Engl’83) wrote on Facebook in response Huskers who fixed our car for us — fun day!” (Acct’92). … The Grand Valley chapter to a call for memories of the fall classic. Sherry Holt-Burgos (MEdu’82) in western Colorado, led by Matt The Buffs’ win injected new life into Jennings (Hist’05; MPubAd’14) and Katie Larson RADIANT RHYTHMS the annual matchup, which continued “The only way I could get a ticket for the (Comm, Psych’05), hosts monthly mixers every third Feb. 10-23, 2019 until CU left the Big 12 conference for Saturday night nationally televised game Friday of the month at the Ale House on 12th St in the Pac-12 in 2010. in the late ’80s was to work security for the Grand Junction. On Saturday, Sept. 8, the Buffs travel game. It was a very cold night. As the game to Lincoln to resume the old contest was winding down I made my way to the at Memorial Stadium. CU will host sidelines. The game was tied and I was on Plan a trip to Boulder Oct. 25-28 for Nebraska in 2019. the Nebraska sideline. Nebraska had the ball Homecoming Weekend 2018. At- Based on the avalanche of responses in CU territory and set up for a game-win- tend the Alumni Awards Ceremony, to the CU Boulder Alumni Association’s ning field goal. As time expired Nebraska’s BuffTalks, reunions, the Buffs on Tap WONDERS OF April Facebook post — more than 1,300 kick was blocked and the ball rolled my way. craft beer and wine event, the Parade and Pep Rally VIETNAM AND in all, from alumni and friends alike — Once out of bounds, I picked it up and ran on Pearl Street and Ralphie’s Corral tailgate. CU CAMBODIA Buffs Nation is primed and ready. out on the field holding it high.” football plays Oregon State Oct. 27 at Folsom Field. Feb. 12-26, 2019 Hundreds of stories emerged about David Ward Register at colorado.edu/homecoming and receive a missed Thanksgiving dinners, snowball free Homecoming T-shirt while you’re here. fights between fans,Eric Bienemy’s “Sitting in the hospital holding my newborn (Soc’01) four fourth-quarter touchdowns daughter while watching CU throttle the and the typically freezing weather. Corn 62-36!” The CU Boulder Alumni Association Here are snippets from Daryl Eggers Jr. received 1,399 scholarship applications some of our favorite this year, including 385 from legacy appli- anecdotes, as shared on cants. It awarded 96 scholarships, including 41 to legacy DAZZLING Facebook. Read dozens students, worth more than $170,000. DOWN UNDER more at colorado.edu/ Feb. 13-March 1, 2019 coloradan. Search “Nebraska” and “tradition.” The Alumni Association is hosting its For details, email first golf outing Monday, July 30, at the roamingbuffstravel Register for our Buffs Bash Boulder Country Club. Proceeds benefit @colorado.edu, call tailgate before the big game at student scholarships. To join as a sponsor, contact Tricia 303-492-8484 or 800- colorado.edu/alumni/football at [email protected]. Visit colorado.edu/ 492-7743 or visit buffsbash. alumni/golf2018 to register to play. colorado.edu/alumni.

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GRAD BASH places, such as the Virgin Martin, Charles Schwab hang under the Forever IN BRIEF: On May 3, nearly 3,000 Islands or London. Some and Comcast NBC Univer- Buffs archway at Com- graduating seniors were staying in Boulder. sal. Other students were mencement. • A week before • A rainy morning gave celebrated the end of the All stood on the threshold heading directly into grad- A week later, on May Commencement 2018, way to sunshine for spring semester during of something new. uate programs at Cornell, 10, the university awarded Grad Bash, an annual At the event’s Career Columbia, Stanford and, of more than 8,000 degrees nearly 3,000 seniors the entire event for farewell celebration Services booth, students course, CU Boulder. The to graduates of the fall attended Grad Bash, CU Boulder’s newest hosted by the CU Boulder wrote their future em- Game of Life-themed party 2017 and spring and Alumni Association at ployers on whiteboards included free food, drinks, summer 2018 classes. the Alumni Association’s Forever Buffs. Koenig Alumni Center. and posed for photos. prizes and the opportunity Oregon Gov. Kate Brown annual backyard Some students were Companies with incoming to sign a gigantic “Class of (EnvCon’81) delivered the soon heading for faraway Buffs include Lockheed 2018” banner that would main address. send-off party.

45 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Photo by Patrick Campbell Coloradan SUMMER 2018 46 Q&A WITH THE CHANCELLOR PHILIP P. DISTEFANO

WHAT’S NEXT? adaptable and flexible, prepared as We’ve been hearing about a program 360-degree employees, citizens and called CU Boulder Next. What is it? leaders. They want to spread their We are connecting with alumni, donors, wings and see how far they can fly. parents and prospective students in cities That’s why we have minors and certifi- across the United States in an ambitious cates in business, leadership, entrepre- program that explores the questions neurship, technology, arts and media, “What will CU Boulder look like 5, 10 or 20 and even a space minor open to all years from now? What will our students, students. But what will be the expecta- research and discoveries look like?” tions of the next generation of stu- dents? At CU Boulder Next we explore How are you answering those the future of learning and teaching. questions? Through TED-style talks and breakout Where can I go to see CU Boulder sessions. We are joined by some of the Next? university’s most innovative and creative It’s an eight-city, six-state tour through faculty and students to showcase the 2021, with stops in San Francisco, people, research and advancements Houston, New York, Chicago and of propelling us as we develop tomorrow’s course, Denver and Boulder. You can leaders, become a leading innovation find the full schedule at colorado.edu/ university and impact humanity in unprec- next. This year we’ve been to Los An- edented ways. geles and Washington, D.C. These are all places where we have a lot of alum- What can people expect to learn? ni, supporters and current and prospec- Faculty are demonstrating how engineer- tive students and parents. ing can solve modern medical challeng- es, the future health and human safety What has been the response to CU benefits of satellite imaging and how art Boulder Next? helps explain the world around us — to The programs have been very well at- name just a few. This spirit of innovation tended, and our audiences have been clearly filters to our students, and we enthusiastic about what’s next for CU hear from them on how they are already Boulder. They have been fascinated impacting humanity! It’s inspiring. by the work and discoveries of our stu- dents and faculty. For me, I get to talk What will your future students look with alumni and friends old and new, like? and I look forward to seeing more in the They are showing us they want to be coming months.

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News SUMMER 2018 By Jennifer Osieczanek Lacrosse Lays Claim to a Title WINS PAC-12 REGULAR SEASON TITLE, FALLS TO STANFORD IN CONFERENCE FALCONS DRAFT OLIVER Years in a row a Buff CHAMPIONSHIP GAME — BUT STILL MAKES NCAA TOURNAMENT One Buff heard his named called during April’s NFL has been RMISA’s Male Draft, and as many as nine others will get a chance to Alpine Athlete of the It’s fun to be first. “We got frustrated, we did dumb things earn roster spots this summer. Year. In 2018: Skier Ola In 2011, the CU men’s and women’s and we weren’t tough enough to battle (StComm ex’19) became the fourth CU Isaiah Oliver Johansen (Fin’19). cross-country teams both won at the back against a team that’s very tough,” defensive back drafted in the past two years when the inaugural Pac-12 championship meet. CU coach Ann Elliott said after the loss. Atlanta Falcons picked him in the second round (58th In 2012, Tad Boyle’s basketball squad The tournament started in promising overall). He’s leaving CU a year early but believes he’s won four games in four nights to claim fashion. CU had earned a first-round ready to face the NFL’s big-time receivers. the first Pac-12 men’s conference title. bye, then cruised past Oregon 16-6 in the “Being a bigger corner, this what I pride myself on, In 2018, CU women’s lacrosse second round. going into those games and being able to stop them,” became the first-ever regular season But Stanford came out hot in the Oliver, who also was a two-time All-Pac-12 athlete in the FIVETimes this season Pac-12 champs after finishing 9-1 in the title match at Prentup Field, on April decathlon, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. lacrosse player Darby conference and 12-4 overall. CU’s lone 29. Leading 7-2 at halftime, the Cardinal Oliver was the only Buff drafted, but he’s not the only Kiernan (IntAf’18) was conference loss was in overtime at USC. padded its lead with three goals in 34 one moving on to pro football. named Pac-12 Player of the Week. In one game Unfortunately, Buffs lacrosse fell short seconds and four total in the first 2:35 of Running back Phillip Lindsay (Comm’18) will get a of yet another first: Seeded No. 1 in the the second half. shot with his hometown team after signing a free agent she set a CU record conference tournament, held in late The loss meant the Buffs, then ranked deal with the Denver Broncos. CU’s all-time all-purpose with 10 points. April in Boulder, the team ran into a No. 14 in the nation, had to rely on an at-large yards leader tweeted, “I want to thank the @Broncos 2-seed Stanford squad bent on redemp- bid to reach the NCAA Tournament. and @johnelway for believing in me and seeing what I tion. The Cardinal, which had lost two They got it, and advanced to the round can bring to the program. I look forward to repping my regular-season games to the Buffs, steam- of 16 — the only Pac-12 team to do so — home state. #303 #DenverMade #NFL.” 9:16.78 rolled CU 15-6. before falling to Florida 13-9. CU receivers Devin Ross (Soc’17) and Shay Fields New American record (Soc’18) signed with the Titans and Redskins, respec- time in the 2-mile race, tively. Offensive linemanJeromy Irwin (Comm’17) is set in April by Jenny headed to the Saints. Safety Afolabi Laguda (Econ’17) Simpson (Econ, will try to catch on with the Rams. Four additional Buffs PolSci’09). were invited to participate in NFL rookie mini-camps.

BUFFS BITS Bob Beattie, who coached CU’s first ELEVEN national championship ski team, died April 1 at 85. Buffs who earned All-America honors at Beattie coached the Buffs for nine years and led CU the 2018 NCAA Skiing to back-to-back NCAA championships in 1959 and Championships. 1960. He also was the head coach of the U.S. Olym- pic Alpine Ski Team when Billy Kidd (Econ’69) and Jimmie Heuga (PolSci’73) won silver and bronze medals, respectively, at the 1964 Innsbruck, Austria, games. … Senior John Souza (Econ’18) was named the Pac-12 Men’s Golf Scholar-Athlete of the year. At the time of the announcement, the economics major had Date30th in April Jen- a 3.32 GPA. … Men’s golf finished second to USC in ny Roulier Huth the Pac-12 Tournament in April. The Buffs’ previous (Comm’03) was named best finish in the tournament was fourth, in 2014. … women’s basketball In April, women’s tennis beat Utah for the first time coach at University of since joining the Pac-12. Northern Colorado.

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HALL OF FAMER obic exercise. Distance running, biking, What will it take to make women’s What is your greatest achievement Ceal Barry coached women’s basketball getting outdoors, vitamin D, all that. It’s sports as popular as men’s? at CU? at CU Boulder for 22 seasons, winning just good for the soul. I watched Title IX being implemented. I would probably say the coaching peri- more games — 427 — than any other The reason women’s sports do not sell is od. It’s hard to be a coach, and I chose CU head coach in any sport. Now a CU I assume that means you’re active because the mainstream media don’t cover to stay here 35 years. I wanted to Athletics administrator, she’ll be inducted and out there doing things. What does them. There’s got to be numerous stories, choose a place that I loved and commit into the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame your workout schedule look like? not just one story. And I don’t think spon- to it. I think the championships and the this summer. Here Barry talks about It’s real basic. I walk. I do hot yoga. I bike. sors pay for advertisement. Advertisement attendance, the people that we attract- blazing trails, her greatest achievements I wish I could say I lifted weights more, pays for television exposure. [The men’s ed to the games — and the community with the Buffs and the singer who made but I do lift weights some and occasion- basketball NCAA Tournament deal] is $8 really enjoyed watching our teams, how her love her given name. ally play pickle ball. In the summer I play billion over eight years. Women don’t even they played, how they conducted them- golf. I’m usually outside every day. have a contract. ESPN has a contract with selves. Those things were probably my When did you start playing the NCAA, but it is to televise all (women’s) greatest achievement. basketball? You were a part of the first class of sports. Softball, golf, basketball. Why? I played outdoors on the driveway with women’s basketball players at Ken- Because nobody’s paying money. Why? What was the last book you read or my brothers and all the boys on the tucky to receive an athletic scholar- Because nobody knows anything about the TV show that you’ve binged? street. I was really conflicted inside. This ship. What does that mean to you? coaches, the athletes, the history, the com- The Americans. And book: I read Un- was in the ’60s. I was 13 or 14. None of I never really thought about it, being the petition. When it’s on, they’re interested. wanted Advances by Laura Kipnis. the girls did that, but I really wanted to first class of players getting scholarships. They’ll go, ‘Wow, that was a good game,’ play. I loved it. But I was kind of like, ‘I’m Now, wow. It’s a real piece of history at but there’s not enough awareness. Favorite musician/artist to listen to? probably not supposed to be here.’ that school, especially a school that really You’re going to laugh. I love Journey. I’m a That was a weird time for girls in sports. celebrates its male athletes with men’s What does it mean to you to be in- big Journey fan. I’ve always liked Journey. basketball. To kind of break into that cul- ducted into the Women’s Basketball I like KD Lang. And, of course, Adele. My Why do you think it’s important for ture and their world. You know, it’s civil Hall of Fame? first name is Adele. And I hated that name girls to play sports? rights. To be a part of the civil rights that Once again, it’s the history of it. This Hall of until Adele became popular and then I was I think for their physical and mental women would get equitable treatment in Fame is with my peers. These are people like, ‘I’ve got the greatest first name.’ And health. Statistics show the incidence of the athletics department. I experienced I grew up with, people I sat in the bleach- my mother’s first name is Adele. heart disease, stroke and obesity in our not being allowed in the athletics depart- ers with, people I competed against for re- country is severely on the rise. … One of ment to the transition of ‘OK, we’re gon- cruits, to win a championship. It’s flattering. Condensed and edited by Jennifer the best antidotes for depression is aer- na let them in, but we don’t want ’em.’ It’s humbling. Osieczanek.

51 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan SUMMER 2018 52 53 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Coloradan SUMMER 2018 54 arranger, producer and pianist. NATHAN COATS Thomas J. (ECON’71; LAW’77) O’Brien (Bus) ’57and Sharon O’Brien WAS NAMED 40s, 50s, 60s & 70s SUMMER 2018 (Jour’58) celebrated Notes their 60th wedding CHIEF JUSTICE OF anniversary on March 29. They met at CU THE COLORADO Boulder, married in California and have five SUPREME COURT, sons. “How ’bout them apples!?” said Thomas. EFFECTIVE JUNE 30. The couple lives in Fontana, Wisc., on Lake Geneva, south- Bonnie F. professor of geology at west of Milwaukee. McCune Western State Colorado ’66(Psych) published University in Gunnison, On March her fifth book, Never where he taught for 33 8, Peter C. Retreat, a novel that years. (See page 58.) ’59Dietze (A&S; Law’62) tells the story of a sin- received the William gle mom who clashes Tom Baur Lee Knous Award, with an ex-military (MAstroPhys) Colorado Law’s corporate star at a ’69received the 2018 highest alumni honor. business retreat in the Society for Optical Peter grew up in East Colorado mountains. Engineering (SPIE) G.G. Germany and came to Bonnie lives in Denver Stokes Award for his the U.S. in 1955. He with her husband. “lifetime of leadership started his journey in in polarization optical Nebraska, then made At 82 years components.” Prior to his way to CU. He old, Bruce founding Meadowlark was city attorney in ’68Bartleson (PhDGeol) Optics in 1979, Tom Boulder from 1965 to is still chasing “wild” was a scientist for 13 1972 and served three ice. Bruce was featured years at the National terms (1977-1996) on on Colorado Public Center for Atmospheric CU’s Board of Regents, Radio in January for Research in Boulder. In April, the New Mexico Sports Hall of Fame inducted former NFL player John Wooten (PE’59) (right) including two terms as his adventures as a Gary E. Smith (Edu; into its Hall of Honor. John was the first African American to play football at New Mexico’s Carlsbad High chair. Peter resides in “hardcore ice skater” MPubAd’71) and Diane School. Here, he stands with Doug Dorame (PE’81), athletic director at Albuquerque High School. Eugene, Ore. trekking into the wilder- Yokel Smith (MEdu’86) ness to find untouched didn’t slow down Frank ice in some of the cold- after retirement. Gary Martin (A&S) golf game. David winning composer, Montera est parts of Colorado. published his second Trotsky (Acct) was featured in The producer and jazz ’62(Math) was inducted He is an emeritus mystery novel, Two ’42turned 100 on April 3. Albuquerque Journal pianist Dave Grusin into the California His family planned a for using only a single (Mus) is the subject Community College dancing-filled birthday zero-iron club to shoot of a forthcoming Football Coaches Hall celebration in May. He below his age, an 84, at feature-length docu- of Fame in March. He lives in Denver with his the Puerto del Sol Golf mentary, Dave Grusin: completed his 54th wife, Gloria (MusEd’43). Course, despite a long Not Enough Time. Dave consecutive year of WE WANT list of ailments. He has has received eight coaching in 2017. Frank It seems a tournament named af- Oscar nominations, 10 was a member of CU’s YOUR NEWS! nothing can ter him, the annual Dave Grammys and another football team in 1959, ’54slow down David Hall’s Hall 3-club Tournament, 28 nominations. The 1960 and 1961 and a Write Christie Sounart, which takes place every film, which is expected member of CU’s base- Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER December. to be released later ball team in 1960, 1961 Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS this year, will chronicle and 1962. He and wife [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT Oscar and his career as a music Kendel (Engl’64) reside COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN ’56 Grammy- director, composer, in La Palma, Calif. 55 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Doug Dorame Coloradan SUMMER 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE BRUCE BARTLESON

OSCAR AND GRAMMY-WINNING MUSICIAN DAVE GRUSIN (MUSIC’56) IS THE SUBJECT OF THE FORTHCOMING FEATURE- LENGTH DOCUMENTARY DAVE GRUSIN: NOT ENOUGH TIME. DAVE WON AN OSCAR IN 1988 FOR THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR’S SCORE. HE’S WON 10 GRAMMYS. Bruce Bartleson, 83, here with wife Deirdre, seeks out untouched ice for “wild” ice skating.

Miles High and Six Feet County) from 1986 to lecture on the state of CHASING ICE didn’t try wild ice skating until the near- Under, written under 2000. He will be the American science. Bruce Bartleson (PhDGeol’68) is ly snowless winter of 1975-1976. His first the pen name G. Eldon 46th member of the pretty comfortable on thin ice. skate was at Blue Mesa Reservoir, on the Smith. Diane, after a court to be named chief John B. As soon as temperatures drop below upper reaches of the Gunnison River, career of teaching ESL justice since Colorado Elstrott freezing, the 83-year-old resident of which had frozen over and produced an at the university level, became a state in 1876. ’75(PhDEcon) is Gunnison, Colo., resumes his winter expansive sheet of glistening ice. became a volunteer board chairman tradition of “wild” ice skating. Much like “I was pretty much hooked after that,” tutor in Littleton Public Kenneth for MicroBiome backcountry skiers, Bruce treks to some he said. Schools. She also R. Miller Therapeutics, a com- of the coldest places in the state, in his The Blue Mesa Reservoir holds a spe- serves as Gary’s chief ’74(PhDBio) was elected pany focused on the case in search of untouched ice on lakes, cial place in Bruce’s heart because it was editor and first reader. president of the microbiome and how it rivers and reservoirs. the first place he and his wife, Deirdre, The couple reside in board of the National impacts human health. Then he glides on the expanse of ice for went skating together, nearly 40 years Centennial, Colo. Center for Science John, a former chair- hours, surrounded by the peaceful sights ago. They had just started dating and Education. He is a man of Whole Foods and sounds of Colorado’s wilderness. decided to go for a midnight skate under On Dec. 6, professor of cellular Market, recently retired “It’s much different from skating at the full moon. 2017, Mary- biology at Brown from Tulane University’s a rink in Boulder,” said Bruce, emeritus They’ve been skating together ever ’70Lynne Pierce Bernald University and has A.B. Freeman School professor of geology at Western State since. (PolSci) was elected published a new book, of Business after 30 Colorado University. “We don’t want mu- mayor of Saratoga, The Human Instinct: years as a professor. sic or hot chocolate or hot dog stands. IT’S REALLY JUST Calif. Previously, she How We Evolved He served as the first We like miles and miles of black ice for served on the Saratoga to Have Reason, chief financial officer for as far as the eyes can see.” MAGIC. City Council and as a Consciousness and Celestial Seasonings, Bruce is part of the unofficial Gunni- planning commissioner Free Will. In November the Boulder-based tea son County ice “tribe,” which consists of “That night really tied the knot for for the city. 2017, he delivered the company. about 25 dedicated ice skaters who start us,” said Bruce, who has used the same keynote address for tracking ice throughout the state as early pair of speed skates since 1951. Nathan the Colorado Science In May, Brian as Halloween. Sometimes the pristine Safety is always a concern. Coats (Econ; Teachers Association’s Cowan ice is easily accessible; other times the To test if the ice is safe, skaters toss a ’71Law’77) was named annual meeting in ’79(Mktg), president trek in is long, cold and grueling. rock the size of a softball 10 feet in the Chief Justice of the Denver. He will be and CEO of Cowan & Either way, it’s always worth it, said air. If the rock breaks through, it’s unsafe Colorado Supreme back in Colorado in Associates, a manage- Bruce. to skate on. But if the rock bounces off, Court, effective June September 2018 to ment consulting firm “It’s really just magic ... everything the adventure is on. 30. He was appointed celebrate the 50th in Arlington, Va., rolled goes away,” he said. “You start skating on Bruce has never fallen in. Suffice to to the court in 2000, anniversary of CU off of the CU Boulder the ice and you’re kinda like floating in say, he never hits the ice without an ice and had been chief ap- Boulder’s Department of Alumni Association’s space. It’s like powder skiing or diving pick, life jacket and throw rope — and pellate deputy district Molecular, Cellular and board of advisors after into a coral reef. It’s more aesthetic.” something warm to drink. attorney for the Second Developmental Biology. eight years of service, Though Bruce grew up ice skating on Judicial District (Denver He will give a public including two as chair. a flooded baseball field in Chicago, he By Moe Clark (MJour’19)

57 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Dave Kozlowski Coloradan SUMMER 2018 58 Chris Conway (Engl) is the president of 9NEWS’ KIM Spring Back Colorado, an organization that re- CHRISTIANSEN cycles mattresses and provides employment (JOUR’84) IS THE NEW 80s & 90s SUMMER 2018 for individuals who face Notes barriers to employ- FEMALE VOICE OF THE ment. The organization opened in 2012 and has DENVER AIRPORT’S locations in Denver, Colorado Springs and ‘TRAIN CALL’ Fort Collins. ANNOUNCEMENTS. Denver International ’84Airport said Kim raise awareness for he eliminated 1,250 Christiansen (Jour) their continued protec- invasive lionfish from will be the new female tion and operation, and state waterways in a voice of the airport’s to inspire the next gen- statewide competi- “Train Call” announce- eration of national park tion. A total of 26,321 ments. The competition supporters. He has lionfish were removed was open to full-time been photographing during the four-month television anchors and national parks since he competition, which reporters in Denver was 19, when he stud- occurred from the end who have spent at ied under Ansel Adams of May to the first week least seven years in in Yosemite National in September. the city. Kim, who grew Park. This summer he’ll up in Colorado, has photograph the Great On July 14, spent her entire career Basin and Redwoods 2015, all eyes at 9News, working parks. Rob, who lives ’89were on Pluto. Alan as a news writer and in Longmont, donates Stern’s (PhDAstro) new producer, general as- 10 percent of his annual book, co-authored with signment reporter and profits to organizations David Grinspoon, is news anchor. Kim has supporting the parks. Chasing New Horizons: won seven Heartland Inside the Epic First regional Emmy awards Ken Ayers Jr. Mission to Pluto. It tells for spot news, news (MTeleComm) the story of the men Steve Lamos, who teaches English, writing and rhetoric at CU Boulder, is also the drummer for American writing and news ’87was selected as a and women behind the Football, a late-’90s rock band. See a video of Steve playing on campus at colorado.edu/coloradan. reporting. Notable ’Nole by mission that sent the Eric Claman (PolSci) Florida State University. NASA spacecraft New won a seat on the New He also was named Horizons screaming After working closer to her grand- dent Steven Anderson Hartford, Conn., Board the State of Florida’s past Pluto at more than for the federal daughter. (Econ) published his of Selectmen. Prior to 2017 Lionfish King after 32,000 miles per hour. ’81government for 32 years, second book, Wandering entering the political Melissa Mansell Popp Marsha Soul, in February 2018. arena, Eric owned and (IntlAf) retired in 2013. Piccone The science fiction novel operated two fitness Since retiring, she has ’82(Jour; Law’85), part- is the second book of his facilities in Connecticut, battled stage 3 breast ner of Rollin Braswell Reunification series and which he has since sold, cancer, become a Fisher LLC (RBF Law), is a sequel to Wandering and worked as a sales WE WANT court-appointed special was named to 5280’s Star, which was pub- consultant for Twin Oaks advocate for children Denver’s Top Lawyers lished in September Software. YOUR NEWS! (CASA) and moved to list in 2018. Marsha is a 2017. Both books are For the past four Firestone, Colo., to be trial and appellate lawyer set during a time when decades, photographer Write Christie Sounart, and former Colorado members of Earth are and graphic artist Rob - Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER Court of Appeals Judge. attempting to bring the ert B. Decker (Comm) Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS shattered remains of its has been exploring and [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT Colorado once vast interstellar photographing Ameri- COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN ’83 Springs resi- union back together. ca’s national parks to 55 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Zack Littlefield Coloradan SUMMER 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE HOSEA ROSENBERG

BOULDER’S TOP CHEF “During our travels, I decided that I CHAUNCEY BILLUPS (SOC When Top Chef: Colorado filmed an wanted to become a chef and not be an episode in Boulder in spring 2017, chef engineer,” he said. EX’99) PLANS TO OPEN A Hosea Rosenberg (EngrPhys’97) He was accepted into the Culinary served as a guest judge. Institute of America, but a mentor en- JAZZ CLUB, RESTAURANT AND The experience elicited strong feelings couraged him to forgo culinary school. from when he competed — and won — “My chef mentor told me, ‘Get a job LOUNGE IN THE HISTORIC FIVE the show in New York in 2009. where you’re going to get paid to learn, “I was super glad to not be a con- rather than pay to learn,’” he said. “It POINTS’ ROSSONIAN HOTEL IN testant,” said Rosenberg, who lives was good advice.” in Boulder and owns two restaurants, Rosenberg worked at Denver and Boul- DENVER, EXPECTED TO REOPEN Blackbelly Market and the newly opened der restaurants and became head chef Santo. “I know how stressful that show at the now-closed Dandelion on Walnut AS A 41-ROOM BOUTIQUE HOTEL is. I would have nightmares about it Street at age 26. In 2008, he was selected when I came home.” for season five ofTop Chef. His $100,000 AFTER NEARLY TWO DECADES winnings allowed him to stay in Boulder, run a OF VACANCY. YOU’RE ONLY AS GOOD AS catering company, food THE LAST PLATE OF FOOD truck, farm and, eventually, his restaurants. Alan, who led the mis- In June 2017, zation that aims to end YOU’VE PUT OUT. All the while, he’s sion, lives in Colorado Alison (Ali) the Korean War, reunite prioritized quality, local with his wife, Carole. ’95Bay (Jour) was ap- families and ensure Stress aside, Rosenberg said the show ingredients and seasonal, creative menus. They have two daugh- pointed deputy press women’s leadership in opened opportunities for him. “Hosea knows we could make more ters and a son. secretary in the Office peace building. In 2015, “I got to cook for some of the best money if we sold commodity food of California Governor Christine helped orga- chefs in the world,” he said — Jacques but refuses to take the easy way out,” Poet, writer Jerry Brown Jr. Before nize a peace walk across Pépin, Lidia Bastianich and Marcus Sam- said Ian Reusch, Blackbelly and Santo’s and teacher that, she served as the the demilitarized zone uelsson, for instance. “It proved to me I director of operations. “That type of de- ’91Albert Flynn DeSilver deputy director for the that separates North and can accomplish a lot in a short amount votion is hard to find in such a cut-throat (Art) won two awards for California Department of South Korea. She is also of time if I’m forced to.” industry, and it makes all the difference.” his latest book, Writing Public Health’s Office of the co-founder of the Nearly a decade later, Rosenberg — a For Rosenberg, he’s challenged to as a Path to Awakening, Public Affairs. Alison has Korea Policy Institute, a married father of a one-year-old — has strive for more. published by Sounds lived in California for 20 think tank that advises firmly established himself as one of “You’re only as good as the last plate True, a multimedia pub- years. American politicians to Boulder’s own top chefs. Santo opened of food you’ve put out,” he said. lishing company based Cassandra Volpe foster diplomacy and in late 2017 off Broadway and Alpine in Louisville, Colo. The Horii (Phys) was friendship with both streets to positive customer reviews, By Christie Sounart (Jour’12) book, which encour- elected president of Koreas. and Blackbelly is, to many, a Boulder ages readers to live an the Professional and staple and is especially well known for awakened life in order Organizational (POD) Retired its meat dishes. to become a better writ- Network in Higher Ed- NBA player With Santo, Rosenberg is tapping into er, won an Independent ucation, a professional ’99Chauncey Billups (Soc northern New Mexican cuisine, a tribute Publishers Book Award organization dedicated ex) announced he will to his childhood in Taos, N.M. and a Nautilus Book to educational devel- open a jazz club, restau- “Here, it’s all about green chili,” he said. Award. The latter cele- opment. She will serve rant and lounge in the Growing up, Rosenberg, 44, often brates “better books for through spring 2019 Five Points’ Rossonian visited Boulder, where his half-sister lived. a better world.” then will join the exec- Hotel in Denver, which When it was time for college, CU was utive board. In 2012, is expected to re-open front of mind. Technical writ- she became founding as a 41-room boutique “I liked the idea of going to college ing consultant director of the Center hotel after nearly two somewhere in the Rockies, close to my ’94Yasmin Naficy (EnvDes) for Teaching, Learning, decades of vacancy. home, but far enough away that I wasn’t writes that she has fund- and Outreach at the Chauncey played 17 reminded of it every day,” he said. ed her film The Rogue. California Institute of seasons in the NBA and He majored in engineering physics She says Professor Technology. is a five-time NBA All- and worked his first college job at the Joseph Juhasz’s film Star. Known as “Mr. Big Boulder Salad Company, then located class and Dr. Alex Christine Ahn Shot” for making late- near McGuckin Hardware. Throughout Hoen’s work with the CU (PolSci) is the game shots, Chauncey college, Rosenberg worked both kitchen Boulder space grant pro- ’98founder and international lives in Denver with wife and engineering jobs, including a stint at gram had a huge impact coordinator for Women Piper and their three CU’s planetarium. After graduation, he on her. Cross DMZ, an organi- daughters. and a friend took time to travel.

57 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Rachel Adams Photography Coloradan SUMMER 2018 58 in the coffee making transfer, marital planning runner. She also set an process. He previously and charitable giving American record in the was the general manag- matters. She is a member 2-mile race in April. She er for POM Wonderful, and past president of the hopes to represent Team a beverage and fruit Pitkin County Bar Associ- USA at the 2019 World extracts company. Kyle ation and a member of the Championships in Doha, 00s & 10s SUMMER 2018 resides in California. Read Rocky Mountain Estate Qatar. Notes our Forever Buffs Q&A Planning Council, a local featuring him at colorado. organization of profession- “If all goes well, edu/coloradan. al estate planners focused I’ll be sending Kevin Walsh (Psych) on the education of ’10Buff love just shy of the joined the firm Brownstein members and the public in North Pole this August!” Hyatt Farber Schreck in estate planning. writes Neil Almy (Fin), the litigation department, who is on a year-long based in Denver. In his Ted Vardell sailing expedition with the practice, Kevin specializes (Comm) and his goal of sailing farther north in construction law and ’08brother Tommy Vardell, than any other vessel commercial litigation. Prior former NFL fullback, in history, through the to joining Brownstein, started the Boulder- Northwest Passage to the Kevin was an associate based nonprofit called very edge of the Polar Ice principal at The Holt Brotherbird Foundation in Cap. The mission, called Group, LLC, where he 2016 to encourage youth the Infinity Exhibition, provided legal services to explore art, music and includes a team of 22 to general contractors, sports. The organization individuals hailing from design builders, sub- has hosted programs 10 countries and is being contractors, architects, at the Temple Grandin filmed as a follow-up doc- engineers, private owners School of Autism, Denver umentary to Sea Gypsies: and governmental entities. School of the Deaf, Malley The Far Side of the World. CU biologist Mel Cundiff and students in his coral reef ecology class during a trip to Cozumel, Mexico. He serves as an adjunct Elementary, OUR Center professor at CU’s College of Longmont, Columbine Bruce Pelz of Engineering & Applied Spanish Immersion (EnvSt) is Brandi N. School of Public Health. Syracuse University. His Sciences, where he teach- Elementary and Mountain ’11co-founder and U.S. Ring (MCDBio, She specializes in public research interests include es a course on the legal Children’s Foster Home. president of the nonprofit ’04EPOBio) was elect- health risk assessment, composition, rhetoric, aspects of construction. Maji Safi Group, which is ed National Junior crisis and risk-based digital media, feminist and Jenny Simpson celebrating its five-year Fellow Vice Chair for decision making, public queer theory and LGBT Ira Bauer- (PolSci) is still anniversary. The mission the American College health and health-care studies. In 2016, he found- Spector (Thtr) ’09running strong since win- of the organization is of Obstetricians and preparedness and ed and created the Digital ’07received the 2017 Betty ning a bronze medal at to “promote health and Gynecologists (ACOG). responses, biodefense Transgender Archive Peabody Emerging the Summer Olympics in disease prevention in Her term began in April and emerging infectious — a publicly available Young Leader of Balboa 2016. She was inducted underserved and impov- 2018 and will run for three disease preparedness and database for transgender Park Award for his into the Colorado Running erished areas through years. Brandi is an obste- response. From 2012 to history. He has been a contributions to fostering Hall of Fame this year and holistic community trician and gynecologist 2013, she served as the member of the Holy Cross awareness for the arts. Ira has been called the great- empowerment and by for Mile High OB/GYN in program manager for the faculty since 2012. is the marketing and com- est American 1,500-meter working predominantly Denver. Integrated Terrorism Risk munication manager for Crystal R. Watson Assessment program for Kyle Redfield the San Diego Civic Youth (MCDBio) is a senior the U.S. Department of (Econ) is CEO Ballet and the founding scholar at the John Hop- Homeland Security. ’06and president of KonaRed artistic director for the kins Center for Health Corporation, a premier Breakthrough Workshop WE WANT Security and assistant pro- K.J. Rawson Hawaiian coffee brand. Theatre, which is celebrat- fessor in the Department (MEngl) was In 2017, Kyle launched ing its sixth year. of Environmental Health ’05promoted to associate the company’s first line Caroline Bess Pearce YOUR NEWS! and Engineering at the professor with tenure by of ready-to-drink cold (Anth; Law’10) became Johns Hopkins Bloomberg the College of the Holy brew coffees. He leads a member of Sherman Write Christie Sounart, Cross in Worcester, Mass. product development to & Howard LLC. Caroline Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER A member of the English find sustainable ways to specializes in estate Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS department, K.J. has a use the coffee fruit, which planning, estate and trust [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT PhD in composition and surrounds the coffee bean administration, wealth COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN cultural rhetoric from and is usually discarded management, wealth

55 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Mel Cundiff Coloradan SUMMER 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE EMMA OOSTERHOUS

A LIGHT IN kids to share their experiences, then NEIL ALMY (FIN’10) IS ON A THE DARK transformed them into art. After the When Emma Oos- internship ended, she posted her com- YEAR-LONG SAILING EXPEDITION terhous (Span’17) ics to Tumblr, and within 30 minutes was growing up in she had more than 100 followers. WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF Colorado Springs, “It was extremely motivating,” said she longed for Oosterhous, who has been creating art SAILING FARTHER NORTH THAN more resources and support related to since she could hold a crayon. gender and sexuality. She’s on a mis- So far, she’s drawn 134 comics, and ANY OTHER VESSEL IN HISTORY, sion to make sure the next generation has more than 400 ideas waiting pa- of queer youth has what she lacked tiently in her inbox. She’s working on THROUGH THE NORTHWEST — and she’s doing it one webcomic at a graphic novel in which the protag- a time. onist, October, is followed around by PASSAGE TO THE VERY EDGE OF Oosterhous is the creator of Alpha- the physical manifestation of trauma, bet Soup, a LGBTQ+ webcomic that which takes the shape of a goblin. THE POLAR ICE CAP. illustrates the trials and triumphs of coming out. Her comics explore a wide array of experiences related to I THINK IT’S JUST with local women and on energy and the environ- the beer brewing process gender identity and fluidity, sexuality youth.” While attending ment, education, health into energy cells for “bio” and relationships — topics like com- IMPORTANT TO CU, Bruce studied abroad and criminal justice. batteries. ing out to loved ones, navigating past in Tanzania and wrote an traumas and feelings of love, rejection GET AS MUCH honors thesis titled “The Nicole Aspiring science and acceptance. OUT THERE AS Future Environmental Chan (Chin, writer Amanda “There is a lot of fear that comes Views of Children ’15IntlAf), Spencer Lahrs ’17Grennell (PhDChem) along with growing up queer. I get POSSIBLE. across Cultures and (IntlAf’17) and Amber was awarded an AAAS a lot of variation in the coming out Socioeconomic Class.” Spawn (Mgmt’17) were Mass Media Science & stories I receive, and I think it’s just Oosterhous provides an online As part of his research, he awarded an Anna Sobol Engineering Fellowship. important to get as much out there space for queer youth to share their surveyed students in five Levy Fellowship, which She will be writing in a as possible so that people don’t have experiences and to show support for Tanzanian primary schools supports graduate newsroom for 10 weeks to flounder in the dark,” said Oos- each other — because, for many, on- and two American elemen- studies in counterter- for PBS NewsHour. At CU, terhous, one of 43 Americans to win line support is the only form available. tary schools. rorism or diplomacy at Amanda used ultrafast a Marshall Scholarship this year. It “Something really special that we Brian Schroy (Jour) is the Raphael Recanati lasers to study biomimetic will fully fund her master’s degree in have today in the digital age,” she said, regional fight manager for International School nanoparticle-enzyme sys- comics and graphic novels at the Uni- “is that we can forge these connections the nonprofit Haymakers at the Interdisciplinary tems that can turn sunlight versity of Dundee in Scotland this fall. with people that we may have never for Hope, which empow- Center in Herzliya, Israel. into fuel. She was also Oosterhous, who identifies as a les- known existed and that we may never ers men and women to In addition to class the senior editor for the bian, started her online comic in 2015 meet in real life, but they are just as learn boxing as a way to instruction, fellows attend graduate student-run blog while she was interning at Inside/Out important and just as influential and raise money for cancer various security trips Science Buffs. youth services, an LGBTQ+ nonprof- can be a lifesaving force of good.” research. After Brian around Israel and take After graduation, Bryce it located in Colorado Springs. Her graduated from CU, he part in special lectures Arai Mawhinney (Acct, project design was simple: She asked By Moe Clark (MJour’19) moved to New York to with leaders in the Israeli Econ, Mktg) embarked on work for a public relations and U.S. military and a one-month expedition agency specializing in other organizations, such to Nepal to work with the outdoor sports. Three as the FBI and NATO. Katie Adamson Conser- years later, he opened an vation Fund, a nonprofit action sports and lifestyle “Bio battery” that promotes endangered PR and marketing com- gurus Tyler animal conservation pany, B Dot Media Group. ’16Huggins (PhDCivEngr) initiatives. While in Nepal, Brian lives in Boulder. and Justin Whiteley Bryce transported camera (PhDMechEngr) received equipment, supported sus- Jackie Fortier an alumni campus tainable honeybee projects (MJour) ac- sustainability award from and helped care for a rhino ’13cepted a position as a CU’s Environmental calf. Bryce currently works public radio reporter for Center. The duo, who for Deloitte Consulting in StateImpact Oklahoma, a co-founded the startup Denver and writes that he collaboration of public ra- technology company hopes to merge his busi- dio stations. Jackie travels Emergy Labs, are trans- ness and environmental around the state to report forming wastewater from interests in the future.

57 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Illustrations courtesy Emma Oosterhous Coloradan SUMMER 2018 58 CLASS NOTES In Memoriam Howard T. Hatton (MusEd’39; Walter F. Seifert (ChemEngr’51) Virginia Roe Anderson (A&S’57) Stephen A. Shern (A&S ex’78) MA’41) Alta Brown Singleton (Acct’51) Jean Wurst Archer (A&S’57) Robert W. Andrews (EPOBio’79; Doris Coon Rood (Mus ex’40) Helen Hanson VanMeter (PE’51) Don J. Arneson (A&S ex’57) MA’88) Marie Fenn Eggers (Engl’42) John Amaya (Pharm’52) Dean L. Christensen (Geol’57) Catherine Deus Canny (MEdu’79; Carol G. Redeker (A&S ex’42) C. Wayne Bills (MChem’52; PhD’54) Richard L. Conklin (PhDPhys’57) PhD’83) Margaret Strawn Reeder Norbert A. Eggering (A&S’52) Waldo R. Dagle (EngrPhys’57) Terry W. Stephen (DistSt’79) (CompSciAp’42) William D. Hart (Fin’52) Shirley Wright Fullen (A&S ex’57) Karen Edwards Kappler (MMus’80) Alfred Rueb (A&S’42) George W. Hermann (MPE’52) Nancy Hoffman Herman Scott C. Casebolt (MechEngr’81) Charline Knudson Scoggin Charles H. Lenhart (A&S ex’52) (A&S ex’57) Christine Brodie Sweet (A&S (A&S’42) Claire Salvo Lundy (A&S’52) Robert J. Hiebner (A&S’57) ex’81) Clark M. Shimeall (Geol’43) Robert E. Nicholas (MusEd’52) Conrad J. Mazurek (A&S ex’57) Ethyl G. Kelham (Engl’82) Irving A. Sofen (ElEngr’43) Carolyn Robertson Ohl (A&S’52) Charles W. Plummer (A&S ex’57) Kathleen Ward Abouzahra Mary Johnston Hennebach Bradford J. Pretti (Econ, PolSci’52) Elizabeth Burgess Sullivan (Anth’84) (HomeEcon’44) Alice Cavender Savage (A&S’52) (HomeEcon’57) Julie Whitmore Bymaster (Engl’85) Robert D. Bergman (A&S ex’45) A. Richard Tagg (A&S ex’52) Owen E. Thomas (A&S ex’57) Judith Leek Sealy (ArtHist’85; Jerry Seifert (DistSt’61) George Oetinger III (A&S ex’68) Ann Williams Burwell (A&S’46) Eugene A. TeSelle Jr. (Hist’52) Norman F. Bull (ElEngr’58) MA’89) Madeline J. Johnson Davis (Bus’62) Ernest L. Pyle (A&S’68) Lester G. Lautman (AeroEngr’46) Robert E. Brooks (A&S ex’53) Krishan M. Chawla (ElEngr’58) Forrest Steven Knox (Bus ex’86) William T. Dixon Jr. (A&S ex’62) Russell E. DeSalvo (Law’69) Louella E. Berkeland (A&S’47) Barbara Hoppock Chambers Samuel J. Dackawich (PhDA&S’58) Marcella Turk Block (Engl’87) C. Jean Fulco (MArt’62) Sarah Russell Etchart (Advert’69) Everette F. Hayes (Acct ex’47) (MusEd’53) Burton J. Dunevitz (PE’58) Geoffrey M. Nester (Econ’87) Russell J. Hammersmith Richard E. Getty (A&S ex’69) Wesley A. Thomas (CivEngr’47) Joanne Atanasoff Gathers Albert G. Gregonis (A&S’58) Jeffrey R. Parks (AeroEngr’87) (MCivEngr’62) Philip B. Ginnelly (Hist’69) Ila R. Walker (Nurs’47) (A&S’53) Gary D. Hase Sr. (ApMath’58) Mary Simonton Laing (PolSci’89) Anne Miler Hasse (Soc’62) Paul A. Hage (ElEngr’69) Adair Appleton Lazell (A&S ex’48) Carol F. Holzer (Edu’53) Judith Bower Henning (Jour’58) Peter C. Meretsky (MArt’89) Stephen L. Leroux (A&S’62) Donna L. McKie (Nurs’69) Pete Coloff (MechEngr’48) Ronald K. Hoyt (Chem, Math, Reed E. Neddermeyer (ElEngr’58) Robin L. Nelson (A&S ex’89) Jan Erik Skugstad (CivEngr’62) Mary Ann Kullman O’Connor Paul E. Riley (Geol’48; MA’50) Zool’53) Judith Woodin Peterson Martha A. Meshak (Psych’90) Mary Ann Taliaferro (MA&S’62) (Psych’69) Lolita Garcia Rutland (Nurs’48) Gail Walmsley Glass (A&S ex’53) (A&S ex’58) Ronald W. Squires (Mktg’90) J. Brent Terry (Hist’62) Alfred Petrick (PhDA&S’69) Jo Sharp Ryden (A&S’48) Vukan Kuic (A&S’53) Edwin H. Ross (Geol’58) John H. McCartney Sr. (Psych’93) Leon W. Butterfield (Edu ex’63) Catherine Dunlap Geisler Willard M. Salzer (A&S’48; MA’50) Robert J. McClelland II (Pharm’53) Neil L. Snider (PE’58) Daniel G. Nylander (ElEngr’93) Alan Cass (A&S ex’63; (Chem’70) Richard L. Speck (A&S’48, MD’53) Carolyn Haag McMurray Richard D. Stacy (PhDA&S’58) Elizabeth S. Townsend (Germ, HonDocHum’99) Michael H. Meyerle (Law’70) Dorothy Martz Watts (A&S’48) (A&S ex’53) Charles H. Vest (PE’58) Jour’93) Charles C. Hawley (PhDGeol’63) Rex G. Abelein (MEdu’71) Esther Wennberg Arnison (A&S’49) Jack W. Montgomery (Mgmt’53) Tom Woodford (A&S’58; Law’61) Patrick D. Buchanan (Fin’94) James B. McCrumb (A&S’63) Margaret Bolan Bigelow (Anth’71) Stanley A. Bardwell (A&S’49, Eva Jaggers Summers (A&S’53) Howard E. Zink (MBaSci’58) Rudy L. Horne (MPhys’94; Diane E. McNalley (Hist’63) Lewis F. Bobrick (A&S ex’71) MD’54) Joan McKay Wallace (A&S ex’53) Michael J. Farmer (A&S’59) MApMath’96; PhD’01) Betty J. Ware (MNurs’63) Lawrence M. Brewster Jr. Don U. Deere (MGeol’49) Lyle O. Wright (ChemEngr’53) Dexter W. Hess (PhDBtny’59) Sara Tallman Kane (Psych’94) Claire Bonfield Williams (Edu’63) (ElEngr’71) Melvin Dinner (PolSci’49; Law’51) Barbara Kreutz Barrett (A&S’54) Dorothy Camerlo Lagmin (Bus’59) Sai C. Kwok (PhDElEngr’94) Henning O. Nilsen (Bus’64) Kathleen A. Finn (Soc’71) Amy M. Johns (A&S ex’49) Arthur R. Cook (MHist’54) Jean Smith Morr (A&S ex’59) Sean Murphy (PolSci’94) William C. 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59 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Photo by Casey A. Cass Coloradan SUMMER 2018 60 from a stroke in 1956. and the content of South- (and hope that) another Many thanks for the western archaeology! activity could be persued article! I majored in anthro- to engage students? That Orin Dale Seright pology, published on would be my challenge to SUMMER 2018 (Engl’55) Mesa Verde archaeology, the program, especially Spring Valley, CA specialized in material since part of the goal culture and for 30 years is to “find pathways to Earl Morris (Psych1914; curated American Indian address the significant MA1916) was a great collections at the Denver issues our planet faces.” American archaeologist Museum of Nature & Thanks for listening! who inspired a generation Science. My long-ago Dakota-Rae Westveer and more of Southwest- “boyfriend” became (Comm’13) erners to get out there my husband, Laurance Boulder to see the remains of Herold (MGeog’56), prehistory, breathe it in, a University of Denver CWA’S 70TH and then study, research professor who made dis- My wife, Alice Higman and pass it on [“Our Own coveries about prehistoric Reich, and I were glad to Indiana Jones,” pp. 13- people’s adaptations to see that the Conference 14]. I was one of them, environment. on World Affairs and its and especially lucky to Thank you — profoundly 70th anniversary were be set in motion by an — Earl Morris! acknowledged [“Info- experience at CU with Joyce Herold graphic,” pp. 23-24], but Earl Morris himself. (Anth’55; MA’59) I was disappointed not to In 1952 I was an Denver see at least a mention of untraveled sophomore Alice’s father, the confer- with a science scholar- RIOT ON THE HILL ence founder and director ship, but not a clue as Love the Coloradan and for 45 years, Howard to what field to use it in. its articles, but this one Higman. Among many My boyfriend, however, [“Riot of ’71,” p. 8] by Paul others, he and long-time had already visited Mesa Danish needs a little more CWA participant Roger Verde and Canyon de info. My boyfriend then/ Ebert were the best of Chelly, and was excited husband now was on friends. Granted, Howard to discover that their The Hill the first night of could be controversial excavator, Morris, was the riots. The reason for at times, but, suffice it to teaching a rare class. He the large crowds on the say, if it had not been for jumped to take it. street to begin with was him, there would be no At a time when profes- that bomb threats were CWA. This was his most sors were generally more called into The Sink and important legacy to CU, formal and detached, Tulagi’s, so they made ev- the institution he loved, Morris invited his class to eryone leave those busy and I would hate to see it CU’S INDIANA JONES I attended the same come to his home on The hangouts. A lot of people forgotten. schools at the same time Hill for a look at his tools milling on the street were Lee Shannon I WAS VERY PLEASED as did his daughters and collections (which not sure what was going (MEdu’72) Sarah and Elizabeth. later formed important on. It was a scary time Denver TO SEE THE ARTICLE Their mother, Ann Axtell holdings at the CU Mu- for sure! Morris, wrote another seum of Natural History). Linda Bowes (Ger’70) Howard ON EARL MORRIS IN very interesting and I went, too, and listened Longmont, Colo. Higman well-received book called and looked as the great THE SPRING 2018 Digging in Yucatan. After man showed us ancient BALLOONS she died, Earl married woven sandals, pots I received my alum EDITION OF THE Lucille Bowman — the containing small desic- mag this week and I principal of Highland cated corncobs and field was disappointed to COLORADAN [PP. 13- School, my first-grade notebooks. With evident read about the space teacher and life-long enjoyment, he told stories minor balloon release 14]. HE WAS A SUPERB friend. They continued to and discussed mean- experiment [“CU Around,” live and entertain in his ings of each piece and pp. 45-46]. I know it SCHOLAR AND SU- charming artifact-filled answered our questions. is not always easy to home in Boulder’s Ge- In that two hours I became avoid generating trash PERB HUMAN BEING. neva Park until his death truly caught in the spell and litter, but I wonder if 61 SUMMER 2018 Coloradan Photo courtesy CWA LISTOF10 VOLUME 22, NUMBER 4 10 BUFFS WHO ARE SUMMER 2018 EXTREME ATHLETES Coloradan aims to connect, inform and engage readers 1. Roger Briggs in the life of the University of Colorado Boulder through (Phys’73; MEdu’90); regular communication with alumni, students, faculty, staff rock climber and friends of the university. It is published four times per year, in spring, summer, fall and winter, by the CU Boulder Alumni Association. Permission to reprint articles, photos 2. Vince Anderson and illustrations may be obtained from the editor. (ArchEngr’93); mountaineer EDITORIAL OFFICES Koenig Alumni Center, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 3. Chris Davenport 80309-0459; phone 303-492-3712 or 800-492-7743; (Hist’93); skier fax 303-492-6799; email [email protected] ADDRESS CHANGES 4. Andrew Hamilton To change your address or remove your name (CompSci’98); from our mailing list, write or call the Alumni Association speed hiker at the address and numbers above or email records@ cufund.org. Please include your alumni ID number, which 5. Dede (Deirdre) Barry is on your mailing label. 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7. Emily Harrington EDITOR At Commencement 2018, 6,063 bachelor’s degrees, 1,487 master’s degrees, 199 law degrees and 414 (IntlAf’07); climber Eric F. Gershon doctoral degrees were awarded to students who finished in fall 2017 and spring and summer 2018. Or- egon Gov. Kate Brown (EnvCon’81) delivered the address. “Once I toured this campus, I was hooked,” 8. Sonya Looney ASSOCIATE EDITOR Christie Sounart (Jour’12) she told the Folsom Field crowd on Thursday, May 10. “I couldn’t see past the Flatirons.” (MElEngr’07); cross-country STUDENT ASSISTANT mountain biker Moe Clark (MJour’19) The Coloradan’s story in the mouth as it fell into and photo with CU’s my tiptoed face. (Dad told 9. Paul Robinson CONTRIBUTORS GETTING Earl Morris (Psych1914; me I was minding someone (Art’11); climber Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86), Michelle Starika Asakawa MA1916) prompted Myron else’s business...a trait I’ve (Jour, Mktg’87), Peter Burke (Engl’92), Patrick SOCIAL Rosenberg to write: “When only enhanced, I fear.) I 10. Giselle Cesin Campbell (EnvDes’11), Casey A. Cass, Melissa Cech Spring issue comments I moved to Boulder with remember we had a whole (MJour’19); (Engl’06), Dave Curtin (Jour’78), Paul Danish (Hist’65), Marty Coffin Evans (Engl’64), Trent Knoss, Elizabeth spotted on Facebook. my parents in 1949, my bunch of crap tied on to the mountaineer Lock (MJour’09), Lisa Marshall (Jour, PolSci’94), Ken father drove a 1941 Buick. roof. This cross-country trip, McConnellogue (Jour’90), Jennifer Osieczanek, Kelsey Of past speakers at the It had running boards, upon prior to the Pennsylvania Perry, David Plati (Jour’82), Julie Poppen (Engl’88), annual Conference on which I would ride home Turnpike, was slow, two- FOLLOW US Clint Talbott (Jour’85) World Affairs [“Infograph- from Lincoln Elementary lane and memorably scenic. Facebook ic”], Sarah Russell wrote: School at lunch. Note the This type of travel was fun, facebook facebook.com/ DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION “Eleanor Roosevelt?? water can next to the driver. and a veritable thrill I have cuboulderalumni Pentagram Austin Oh, wow, that And those are bed rolls never forgotten.” ’55 audi- on the running board. We, Twitter ence was too, slept in parks, or in Regarding CU Boulder’s twitter @CUBoulderAlumni so lucky.” fields along the way. On the new marijuana research #foreverbuffs Please recycle with magazines. front of our car dad hung methods, described in a two-gallon canvas water “Research on the Road,” LinkedIn bag. The wetted fabric, several readers weighed linkedin University of Colorado exposed to the air current, in. Mindy Grinold Bicknell Boulder Alumni VISIT US AT (Rec’84) wrote: “Proud of caused evaporative cooling, WWW.COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN maybe my first recollection my alma mater’s creative Instagram of physics...followed by a approach to much needed instagram @CUBoulderAlumni pickup tailgate hitting me research.” #foreverbuffs

Photo courtesy CWA; Casey A. Cass (top) Coloradan SUMMER 2018 64 THENAPRIL 4, 1968

A motel in Memphis. A hotel in Los Angeles. The streets of Baltimore, Chicago and Washington. Combat zones across Viet- nam. The year 1968 shook with violence. On Tuesday, April 9, the day of Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral, 2,500 people packed Macky Auditorium in tribute to the slain civil rights leader, shot the previ- ous Thursday at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel, pictured. The New York Stock Exchange was still. Major League Baseball canceled opening day. Businesses across the U.S. opened late or not at all.

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