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Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage Alumni Association PAID 459 UCB PPCO Boulder, CO 80309-0459 Alumni MagazineSpring2018 SCORES BIG CU ART MUSEUM SHARKIVE! NOWJANUARY 2018 In “The Rehearsal Artist,” a new work by CU Boulder dance professor Michelle Ellsworth, the artist rotates inside an eight-foot-diameter wooden wheel. The audience sees only her head, encased in a box with an assortment of loose items — dolls, food, tiny furniture, plants. Ellsworth is fixed in position, but the objects all move, prompting reflection about “the nature of stability.” The New York Times proclaimed the work, performed at the American Realness festival in New York in January, “eccentric and marvelously original.”

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There was a time when I lived a few blocks down the street from an art mu- seum with no entrance fee. When I was out and about running errands, I’d sometimes pop in to see my favorite , Van Gogh’s “Night Café.” I’d go straight to it, imagine the inner lives of its figures, picture myself in the scene, marvel over the thickness of the paint and brushstrokes — evidence of Van Gogh’s own hand. The whole visit would last five minutes. Then I’d be on my way, pleasantly jolted by a brief encounter with genius. In Boulder, the CU Art Museum’s increasingly rich collection offers its own delightful opportuni- ties for communing with artistic splendor. Thanks to the pending arrival of the Sharkive (page 15), visitors — you, perhaps? — will be able to behold work by legends of print- making, including Red Grooms, John Buck and Betty Woodman. COVER “Elvis,” Red 15 The Sharkive 29 Drone Racer Stopping by could Grooms: ©Shark’s Ink., CU Boulder acquires a major trove of . Jordan Temkin (Art’14) is a $100,000 pro. make your day. Lyons, Colo. Illustration Admission’s free. courtesy Bud Shark. 21 The Bridge 33 Research on the Road ABOVE Jordan Temkin Avery Bang’s (MCivEngr’09) nonprofit has built CU Boulder researchers take a creative approach Eric Gershon (Art’14) is a paid member of hundreds of footbridges in poor regions world- to studying cannabis. the Drone Racing League wide. Next up: A bridge in a U.S. boomtown. (DRL), which holds competi- tions worldwide in places as 37 @Last diverse as sporting arenas 25 Life after Death on the Internet How Google came to Boulder. and abandoned shopping As our lives go digital, CU’s Jed Brubaker is study- malls. Photo courtesy DRL. ing what happens to all that data after we die.

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STOP THE VIOLENCE We’re not systematically addressing the Your work focuses on violence pre- the Colorado State Patrol. They follow Beverly Kingston (PhDSoc’05) directs underlying root causes of violence. We vention in young people. Why’s that? up on every report. Many incidents in our CU Boulder’s Center for the Study and need to put resources into supporting The best violence prevention begins early state have been prevented by taking that Prevention of Violence (CSPV). Here she the healthy development of our kids, our and continues through childhood and positive action. discusses preventive measures for children schools and our communities. adolescence — we’ve tested effective pro- and mass shootings, and what needs to be grams to prevent violence throughout the Given your subject of study, how do done for the violence to end. What can we do about mass life course. We also have intervention pro- you avoid feeling sad, overwhelmed shootings? grams for those youth already engaged in or scared? Do you define violence the way the I use the tip of the iceberg analogy. At violent behaviors that can substantially re- I can get discouraged because these rest of us do? the tip are the shootings — what make duce the likelihood of serious violence and shootings keep happening and we keep I use the Centers for Disease Control and the news. We were called quite a bit offer enormous cost savings to society. repeating the same information over and Prevention’s definition of violence, which after Las Vegas, and what we say is, over again with little sustained change. says youth violence occurs when young ‘You’ve got to look underneath.’ We What do you make of the way we But I get really excited and hopeful be- people between the ages of 10 and 24 know 20 to 25 percent of middle school talk about violence in the U.S.? cause we do know so much about how intentionally use physical force or power students report being bullied in the We’ve talked about violence in a limited to prevent violence. After the Newtown to threaten or harm others. At our center, past 30 days. Eighteen percent of our way over time. If we were actually to put shooting, I was new to my job and I we don’t only focus on violence. We also high school kids have seriously consid- in place the key aspects of what makes reviewed the 2001 Surgeon General’s look at anything that gets in the way of ered suicide in the past year. In middle nurturing environments, we’d be taking Report on Youth Violence to prepare for positive, healthy youth development. school, it’s about the same. Twenty- action to reduce violence. We also need talking to the media. I was shocked to see three percent of high school students to have public conversations about how that in the intro of the report, it said we What attributes do violent people reported being in a physical fight in the racial disparities have affected the social have everything we need to know right tend to share? past year at school. determinants of health and how those now to prevent violence. I wonder what it We talk about risk and protection factors, There’s a lot of hurting kids, and a factors have impacted violence. is going to take to act on what we have. similar to risk factors for cancer or heart lot of lower levels of violence going on. I have a friend who works with victims. disease. The more risk factors you have, Mass shootings are going to keep hap- When confronted with violence, how Her three-year-old son was killed in the ’90s such as a teenager engaging with delin- pening if we don’t take a comprehensive should a person react? in a drive-by shooting in Northeast Park Hill. quent peers or weak prosocial ties, and the public health approach to addressing What we’ve known since Columbine and She said one of the things she started ask- fewer protective factors you have, such youth violence and these sufferings of these mass shootings is a lot of people ing herself afterward was, ‘What were the as supportive parents, the higher the likeli- our children. The good news is we know have information about the shooter. They kids who shot my son not getting, and how hood of problems and violent behaviors. a lot about what works to prevent vio- saw red flags and warning signs, but can we give it to them?’ That drives me. lence. If we were able to put into place didn’t know what to do with them. In Col- America seems especially violent. what works, we could reduce violence orado, we have Safe2Tell, an anonymous Condensed and edited by Christie Why? by 30 percent. bystander reporting system answered by Sounart (Jour’12).

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CU Boulder Law Professor Named to State Supreme Court In May 1971, a riot broke out on The Hill, resulting in arrests and the destruction of several businesses. MELISSA HART JOINS OTHER COLORADO JUSTICES WITH BUFF TIES RIOT OF ’71 By 10:45 p.m. the police gave up trying It was the worst Hill riot ever. to control the crowd, which had grown to It lasted three days. 600, and retreated to 13th and Euclid as In her role as direc- professor — left the court for a position Three police cars were overturned. rocks, beer bottles, taunts and fists flew. tor of Colorado Law’s on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jones Drug lost $23,000 in merchan- From 10:45 to 11:30 p.m. the rioters Byron R. White Center, (That seat came open when its prior oc- dise to looters. “systematically trashed The Hill,” Melissa Hart brought cupant — former visiting Colorado Law The Colorado Bookstore sustained especially targeting the businesses most a lot of distinguished professor Neil Gorsuch — joined the U.S. $25,000 in losses. It bricked up its hostile to street people. judges to CU Boulder. Supreme Court last April.) signature two-story windows rather than Looters raced across Broadway to hide Now she’s become one herself — in The Colorado Supreme Court has at replace them. their loot under campus shrubbery, and December, Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper least two other members with strong Cops in riot gear cleared the streets cops lay in wait to nab them. named the CU law professor to the state Buff ties: Justice Nathan B. Coats with tear gas — twice. At 11:30 p.m. police in riot gear and Supreme Court. (Econ’71; Law’77) is an alumnus. Chief There were so many arrests a tent jail gas masks marched down 13th Street An expert in constitutional law, Justice Nancy E. Rice has been an ad- had to be set up. from Euclid drenching The Hill with Hart first came to CU in 2000, after junct law professor since 1987. The spark was struck Thursday, May tear gas. a pair of prominent legal clerkships, a Hart will continue to teach a course 20, 1971. Sunday night a crowd of about 300 law firm job in Washington, D.C., and at CU. Boulder police executed a version returned to The Hill for another round. experience as a trial attorney in the U.S. The law school will name a new direc- of what today is called broken-window This time 140 police officers fired tear gas Department of Justice. tor for the Byron R. White Center for the policing — arresting 30 street people (aka and repeatedly charged the rioters, who A graduate of East High School in Study of American Constitutional transients, hippies and freaks in the par- dispersed into the surrounding residential and Harvard Law School, she Law, named after former lance of the day) on mostly minor charges neighborhoods, where clashes continued served as a U.S. Supreme Court clerk for U.S. Supreme Court like blocking sidewalks, disorderly for the next four hours. It wasn’t totally former Justice John Paul Stevens. Justice Byron R. conduct, jaywalking and talking dirty in over until Tuesday, May 25. “I am really excited to join the six White (Econ’38). public (yeah, you could get arrested for Hardly any CU students were involved. justices currently on the court in working that back then). The thing about the riot that made the to make sure that our system is efficient EG On Friday, May 21, a large crowd con- most lasting impression on me was the and fair — that the work it does is clear gregated on The Hill, “angry and looking bricking up of the Colorado Bookstore. and transparent, and that it works for for trouble,” leading Hill merchants to To this day I still feel pangs about that people all over Colorado,” call the cops. when I walk past the building, which is Hart said after Hicken- Fourteen more arrests ensued. now a Walgreens. For me it’s an epitaph looper announced her A larger, angrier crowd gathered Satur- for the counterculture. appointment, according to day night. Since 1971, the riot has faded from The Denver Post. Dennis Dube (Jour’71), who cov- memory, even legend. Chances are most Hart — whose grandfather ered the riot for a local magazine from alumni have never heard of it. The Hill Archibald Cox served as U.S. a nearby rooftop, reported that around has reinvented itself two or three times Solicitor General under John 9:30 p.m. about 50 people surged across (and is currently doing it again). The F. Kennedy and as Watergate College Ave. from the Charcoal Chef businesses change. Continuity comes special prosecutor — had toward five cops alongside the Hilltop from the customers who, thanks to the previously made the shortlist for a Building, where the police had a new time machine across the street, remain seat on Colorado’s seven-member iStock/MarkusBeck / substation, “with one freak running full forever young. Supreme Court, in 2015. speed across College and round-housing She got another shot after Allison an officer in the face.” Paul Danish (Hist’65) is a Coloradan

H. Eid — a former Colorado Law Photos by © Colorado Law (headshot) Things deteriorated fast from there. columnist.

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JOHN GRISHAM LIKED IT To Speak Arapaho Bestselling novelist John Grisham found an article DIGITS by Colorado Law professor Paul Campos so compel- PRESERVING THE LANGUAGE OF AMERICA’S GREAT PLAINS ling, he calls it the inspiration for his latest book, The VARSITY LAKE Rooster Bar. CU Boulder scholars are helping to a dissertation that explores how Arapaho As Grisham — author of the The Firm, The Pelican rescue the Arapaho language, once a grammar helps its speakers complain Brief, The Client and other huge bestsellers — publicized major tongue in the Great Plains region, about other people without naming the new book late last year, he repeatedly cited Cam- from near extinction. them directly. pos’ 2014 nonfiction article inThe Atlantic, telling Part of the Algonquian family of But with so few speakers and scarce CBS This Morning that it “really opened my eyes. It languages, Arapaho has fewer than 200 other resources available, the language was a great piece. The novel was quickly born from living speakers and no fluent speakers project can help fill the void, she said. that.” Million gallons of water, under the age of 60. Initially established in 2003 with a Campos’ article, “The Law School Scam,” is about the at capacity For the past 15 years, CU linguistics grant from the Colorado Endowment for perils for students and society of expensive for-profit professor Andrew Cowell, and more the Humanities, the expanded website law schools with questionable admissions standards. 2.1 recently doctoral student Irina Wagner now contains a variety of resources, Three students attending a fictional for-profit law (Anth, Ling’14; MLing’14), have collected including an Arapaho-English dictionary, school are at the center of The Rooster Bar. and documented many hours of oral pronunciation guides and bilingual cur- After the book came out, Grisham sent Campos a copy histories, stories and conversations from riculum materials. It also features Native and a note. 1888First bridge built; Native American elders in Wyoming and American stories, prayers and name lists. “It was nice, needless to say, to have a story like that replaced 1935 Oklahoma. Their work has blossomed Find audio clips of spoken Arapaho on featured in a John Grisham novel,” Campos told the into the Arapaho Language Project — a the Arapaho Language Project website: Boulder Daily Camera. website providing language learners with Colorado.edu/csilw/alp. tools for incorporating Arapaho into Additional clips are available on the their everyday lives. CU Boulder Today website — search the HEARD AROUND CAMPUS “In reality, for the language reclama- words “Arapaho” and “gossip,” and scroll tion to work, young parents should be to the bottom. “LET’S SAY YOU SEE A speaking it,” said Wagner, who’s been on GREAT WHITE SHARK Thousand square feet, the project since 2014. She’s working on By Amanda Clark (MJour’19) surface28 area AND YOU ARE SCARED AND YOUR BRAIN WANTS TO FORM A MEMORY OF nííhooyóó' IT IS YELLOW WHAT’S GOING ON. YOU Date irrigation ditch HAVE TO MAKE NEW starts4 feeding/ lake,1 a manmade water source henéécee PROTEINS TO ENCODE for campus irrigation hinén BUFFALO systems MAN THAT MEMORY.” bóoó ROAD — CU Boulder scientist Charles Hoeffer, on his recent research about the role of the protein AKT.

héébe kooníini'íin SOFT ROBOTS Date ditch supply/ is HELLO HOW ARE THINGS? CU Boulder engineers are developing a new breed of 11 1 shut off for season, “soft” robot that can handle fragile objects, such as lowering water levels fruit, yet also lift heavy ones, such as a jug of water. Made of various elastic materials and liquids and powered by electricity, the versatile, self-healing robots depend on something like artificial muscle to generate “the adaptability of an octopus arm, the speed of a hummingbird and the strength of an elephant,” said Christoph Keplinger, the mechanical engineering pro- fessor whose research group leads the work. For more details, see CU Boulder Today online. Resident red-eared Search “flexible robots” and “octopus.” slider turtles (approx.) 9 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Illustration by Dan Page 12Coloradan SPRING 2018 10 LOOK SPECIMENS

Dipper Cinclus mexicanus

Asian Clam Corbicula fluminea

Damselfly Hetaerina americana

Coryphodon Coryphodon

Elephant’s Head Pedicularis groenlandica

LIFE IN COLORADO’S FRESHWATER The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History is home to nearly 5 million objects and specimens. Twenty-eight of them star in a new exhibition of photographic prints called “Life in Colorado’s Freshwater,” now on display at the museum and nearby on campus. View them all online at colorado.edu/cumuseum/exhibits.

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OUR OWN INDIANA JONES Museum of Natural History and a professor them flutes, sandals, baskets, bags, Since the 1981 debut of Steven Spiel- If Earl Morris (Psych1914; MA1916) of anthropology. pottery and weapons, Lekson said. berg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first wasn’t the inspiration for Indiana Jones, Understanding the early Southwest Morris studied various native societies Indiana Jones film, various sleuths have you could be forgiven for thinking so: He seems to have been destiny for Morris, throughout the Southwest and Central argued that Hiram Bingham III, who redis- looked the part. who was born in New Mexico in 1889 and America, and was especially influential covered Machu Picchu, seems to match A preeminent archaeologist of the reported finding his first artifact, a dipper in revealing the story of the ancestral the character most closely. But George American Southwest’s bowl, at age three. Pueblo Indians, once called Anasazi. Lucas, who wrote the film’s story, has area and a seminal figure in the study During a four-decade-plus career, he He’s also well known for his discovery said the character was based on a type of pre-European human societies in excavated thousands of artifacts and and reconstruction of the Great Kiva, or — “a soldier of fortune in a leather jacket the broader region, Morris traveled to many ruins, supported by museums, great room, at what today is Aztec Ruins and that kind of hat” common in 1930s far-flung dusty digs in a truck called “Old scientific organizations and universities, National Monument in New Mexico. (His serial films — not on a specific person. Joe,” a fedora shadowing his face. including CU, leading to a scrupulous dwelling there is now the visitor’s center). So, Earl Morris, who died in Boulder in “There are very few places I’ve worked portrait of the region before European Morris worked closely with his first 1956, wasn’t a pop culture archaeologist. where Morris wasn’t there before me,” settlement. wife, archaeologist Ann Axtell Morris, He was a real one, and among the best. said Stephen Lekson, curator of ar- The museum today contains thou- who in 1933 wrote a general interest chaeology at the University of Colorado sands of items Morris unearthed, among book called Digging in the Southwest. By Eric Gershon

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CU BOULDER ACQUIRES A MAJOR TROVE OF MODERN ART.

By Eric Gershon

Queen Elizabeth had just traveled celebrated Colorado studio Buck, Robert Kushner, Betty Wood- and all future works. the Tube, the first reigning British with his wife and fellow artist, Barbara. man and Hung Liu. Major museums in The nearly $1.35 million acquisition, monarch to ride it. Over four years in Britain, the Sharks New York, Chicago and San Francisco years in the making and enabled by The Tate released 90 pigeons in honor participated in a revival of fine art print- own works produced through artists’ benefactors, is among the university’s of Picasso’s 90th birthday. making, learning new techniques and collaborations with the Sharks. And by biggest art purchases to date, and will The Beatles split up, but the Rolling working with the likes of David Hock- mid-2018, the CU Art Museum will have increase the campus museum’s total Stones were still packing Wembley’s ney. The experience set the stage for the greatest Shark’s Ink collection of all holdings nearly 40 percent. Empire Pool. Sharks Lithography, established on Bluff — the complete Sharkive, as it’s called. “This will be one of the most intact, This was London in the early 1970s, Street in Boulder in 1976. In February, CU Boulder announced comprehensive collections of its kind,” and Bud Shark had come to make art. Now called Shark’s Ink, it emerged as its purchase of the signed archival said museum director Sandra Firmin. “We arrived during the heyday of one of America’s premier printmaking impression of every original Shark’s Ink A $750,000 gift from the Kemper swinging London,” said Shark (pictured), studios, a destination for luminaries of print — about 750 original artworks — Family Foundations, UMB Bank provided then in his mid-20s and soon to found a the form, including Red Grooms, John plus more than 2,000 related materials the largest share of the cost.

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CU’s acquisition of the Sharkive customized stone or metal plates. Jasper scenic hillside property keeps in Colorado a major trove of Johns, , Roy Lichtenstein and in Lyons, Colo., in 1998. modern art, and makes accessible to Picasso all made lithographs. “One day I said, ‘I don’t scholars, students and visitors one of Bud Shark discovered the medium in have any work.’” the most thorough collections anywhere Moorhead, Minn., near his hometown He took some contract of a major printmaking studio. The of Fargo, N.D. It was 1966 and he was a projects “to get things thousands of ancillary items related to University of Wisconsin student home rolling,” he said. But his the artworks — sketches, photographs, for winter break. Visiting a gallery where goal was to work with color proofs, correspondence — provide he’d taken painting classes, a new art- artists, participating in a full picture of the artistic process that work caught his eye. the act of creation and led to the finished art. “It kind of looked like a drawing, but jointly owning prints the I knew it wasn’t a Sharks would sell through drawing, because the dealers and galleries or BUD REMEMBERS THE drawing wasn’t on the directly to collectors. “I plan on continuing to print until I can't anymore,” said Shark, above. paper, it was in the pa- Good luck struck early. YEARS TO COME AS INTENSE: per,” he said. “I talked Within months, Cohen came calling. “You have to think backwards and to the gallery director, His London gallery had asked for new in layers,” said Firmin, the museum COLORFUL, DEMANDING, who was a friend at art, and he said he’d do it, provided he director. “Bud really guides artists that point, and said, could work in Boulder with the Sharks through that.” EYE-OPENING. ‘What is it?’ He said, — “a huge break for us,” Bud said. Bud then produces the prints — ‘It’s a lithograph.’” During a month-long stay, Cohen — applying colors one at a time through “Outsiders often think that art is about Back in Madison, Bud found a lithog- whose prior work was the subject of a multiple pressings for each artwork. the object,” said ceramicist Jeanne Quinn, raphy course, and his life’s work. show at The Tate that same summer — After the artist signs the numbered im- a CU associate professor of art, “but At graduate school in New Mexico, he produced six original lithographs. They pressions, typically 40, Bud cancels the really art is about the process.” met two hugely influential people: Fellow sold through his gallery, putting the plates, guaranteeing a limited edition. Shark’s Ink's processes will soon be an art student Barbara Ball, his future wife Sharks’ fledgling Colorado studio on “We don’t know what it’s going to open book. and Shark’s Ink partner, and the rising the radar of international tastemakers. look like until we put all the colors on “People from around the world will British abstract painter Bernard Cohen. “That was a turning point,” Bud said. together,” he said. want to come and study this collection,” Through a printmaking workshop Since then, the Sharks have worked The final prints, which range in size said benefactor Sheila Kemper Diet- called Tamarind, then in Los Angeles, with about 160 artists of all kinds from about 10 by 12 inches to 6 feet rich, a Colorado entrepreneur whose Bud found he enjoyed the process and — ceramicists, painters, sculptors, by 6 feet, sell for between $300 and father founded the Kemper Museum of techniques of lithography as much as the filmmakers, as well as printmakers — to $10,000 each, depending on size, com- Contemporary Art in Kansas City and design of art. Tamarind also suggested render their visions as prints. plexity and artist, Bud said. whose husband, Walter Dietrich, is a a business model in which the master The Sharks do it all with help from past chairman of the CU Art Museum’s printmaker co-owned the artworks with longtime assistants Roseanne Colachis, advisory board. “The ways this collection the artist and marketed them. YOU HAVE TO THINK whose diverse duties include assembling can be studied are endless.” “That experience was what made me three-dimensional prints, and printing Lithography is a printmaking decide I wanted to be a collaborative BACKWARDS AND assistant Evan Colbert. technique that involves pressing printer,” Bud said. IN LAYERS. “We couldn’t do what we do without layers of ink and color into paper with As art school ended, Cohen con- them,” Bud said. nected the Sharks with a For years, Barbara, a writer, painter The first Shark’s Ink artworks arrived studio in London, where and cook, has led production of an at CU in mid-winter, as curators were a printmaking revival was exhaustive Sharkive catalog. She is busy adding museum-quality storage getting underway. scheduled to publish a book about her units for the collection and planning Bud remembers the life, art and recipes in April. ways to make it widely accessible. years to come as intense: Shark’s Ink remains a busy place. Each In late February, a small number of the Colorful, demanding, year about a dozen invited artists come prints went on display. The full collection eye-opening. to work in the 1,800-square-foot studio, arrives this summer, and by mid-2019 After the Sharks became a quiet, tidy workshop with west-fac- most of the Sharkive will be available for parents, family in Colorado ing views of Mount Audubon and vast view by appointment. A major CU Art drew them to Boulder. stretches of land thick with trees. Museum exhibition is planned for 2021. “I was pretty naïve The artists — Bud favors “icono- Curators are also considering future when I opened the stu- clasts” — live with the Sharks, steps traveling mini exhibitions. dio,” Bud, now 71, said in from the studio, putting in long hours They’ll have a growing collection to an interview at Shark's over visits of as long as two weeks. choose from. Ink, which moved to a The artists conceive a design. Bud “I plan on continuing to print until I advises on color combinations, paper can’t anymore,” Bud said. The Ming Sisters: selection and the subtleties and hazards Betty Woodman of lithographic technique. Eric Gershon is editor of the Coloradan.

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1. The Cat: John Buck 2. Spells and Incantations: Jane Hammond 3. Self-Portrait with Liz: Red Grooms 4. Aliens Sans Frontières: Enrique Chagoya 5. Crossing the River: Leaping: Hung Liu 6. Eye Candy: Evan Colbert 7. Wave Warrior: Don Ed Hardy 8. Dulzura: Rafael Ferrer 9. Morning, Noon, Night: Robert Kushner

19 SPRING 2018 Coloradan All images ©Shark’s Ink, Lyons, Colo. Courtesy Bud Shark. Coloradan SPRING 2018 20 URBAN DESIGN

Avery Bang (MCivEngr’09) knows a On social media, local developer simple footbridge can change lives. Zeppelin Development had proposed a The BRIDGE As CEO of the nonprofit Bridges to bridge design that involved putting train Prosperity, she and her team have con- boxcars in the river. AVERY BANG’S NONPROFIT HAS structed more than 250 pathways over “Me being the nerdy bridge engineer BUILT HUNDREDS OF FOOTBRIDGES otherwise impassible rivers in countries thought, ‘That’s not possible,’” Bang said. WORLDWIDE, GIVING ISOLATED LOCALS as far away and far apart as Rwanda, She decided the 17-year-old Bridges IN POOR COUNTRIES ACCESS TO VITAL Bolivia and Haiti. Typically built by locals to Prosperity should pursue its first-ever RESOURCES. NOW SHE’S WORKING ON working with Bridges to Prosperity staff U.S. project — and could do it for $3 A BRIDGE IN A U.S. BOOMTOWN. at a cost of about $60,000, the bridges million by using the same materials they connect nearly one million people to would use for a bridge outside the U.S. schools, medical providers, food and jobs. “We could build this same bridge in By Christie Sounart But not every community that needs a Nicaragua for $100,000,” said Bang, bridge is far away: As Bang sees it, parts noting the permitting and materials cost of Denver could use one, too. is much higher in the U.S. Beginning late this spring, a cable- The organization partnered with suspended footbridge conceived, designed Zeppelin, which pledged $1 million and and funded by Bridges to Prosperity will serves as the developer. Bang’s group be built across Denver’s South Platte separately is working to close the re- River. It will connect the isolated, low- maining $750,000 fundraising gap. income Globeville neighborhood with the To design the bridge, Bang approached booming River North Art District (RiNo) frequent collaborator Scott McNary and nearby Brighton Boulevard. (CivEngr’81; MS’84), founding partner Bang saw a need for the bridge while of Broomfield, Colo.,-based engineering running along the Platte nearly four firm McNary Bergeron and Associates. years ago. RiNo — where she lives and Because the bridge must be built at a Bridges to Prosperity has its headquar- skew with minimal supports in the flood- ters — is a thriving neighborhood rich prone river, he employed a standard in retail stores and groceries, healthcare suspension design with a more than providers, schools and citywide transit 270-foot-long arched walkway, swooping connections. But the Platte and two cables and two giant steel towers.

interstates separate the often-neglected There are plans for a street artist Globeville residents from RiNo’s abun- to adorn it, tentatively called the “Art dance, mainly accessible by car or bus. Bridge.” It is expected to open by fall. “This bridge is about serving a low- For now, Bang said, Bridges to Pros- access population,” said Bang, who studied perity will continue to focus on needs civil engineering at CU and joined Bridges outside the U.S. But she hopes the to Prosperity as a volunteer in 2006 after Globeville-RiNo project proves bridges observing a footbridge project in Fiji. in America can be reimagined to the She became CEO in 2008. benefit of underserved populations. Denver officials have seen the need “There are a billion people in the for a bridge in the area for nearly a world who can’t get to where they need decade, Bang said, but estimate it would to go,” she said. take years and $6 million to build. Some of them are right here in America. Downstream, the Millennium and High- lands footbridges cost $10 million and $5 Christie Sounart (Jour’12) is associate million, respectively. editor of the Coloradan.

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SEVEN DECADES OF THE WORLD TODAY FUN FACTS CU Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs Panels of Selected 2018 ABOUT THE CWA turns 70 in April. the Past Speakers Founded in 1948 as a way to exchange ideas on Traditional Families: Going, Amanda Gorman central issues of our time, the five-day extravaganza Going, Gone Inaugural U.S. Youth Poet Laureate First gathers scores of movers and shakers from all The Importance of Adventure Heather Roff quarters for spirited discussions about the state of Research Scientist for Google conference What Would the Founding the world. Nuclear security, artificial intelligence and DeepMind Fathers Do? climate change will get a hearing this year, among Kate Williams dozens of other topics. And if the past is a guide, (Anti)social Media 1% for the Planet CEO 1948 the lighter side of society will surface, too: Selfies, The Blues Saved My Life Kim Severson Runs for zombies, video games and Tinder have all had their What Water Is Trying to Tell Us The New moment in the sun. York Times How Politics Derailed Science For the full 2018 lineup, see colorado.edu/cwa. food culture Millennials in the Workplace correspondent Anthropology of War

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Brings speakers and 2007 performers JOE BIDEN from across U.S. Vice the nation President and and globe to senator 1966 Boulder RALPH NADER 2016 Consumer advocate, presidential 100 candidate Unpaid partici- pants travel to the conference STEVE WOZNIAK* and are hosted 1970 (ElEngr ex’72; by locals HonDoc Sci’89) 1955 Co-Founder ELEANOR 2004 of Apple Inc. ROOSEVELT ARIANA Former First ROGER HUFFINGTON *Wozniak’s 200 Lady of the EBERT 1973 Co-founder of appearance Panels, perfor- (HonDoc- ANNIE The Huffing- was jointly mances and Hum’93) LEIBOVITZ ton Post arranged with the Cultural discussions Film Critic Photographer Events Board 1961 Regular participant 2007 20,000+ starting in 2002 1970 2017 Live campus audience

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AS OUR LIVES GO DIGITAL, JED BRUBAKER IS STUDYING WHAT HAPPENS TO ALL THAT DATA AFTER WE DIE.

By Lisa Marshall

If Jed Brubaker were to die tomorrow, his husband, Steven, would become the steward of his Facebook page. His profile picture would remain as it is today, a neat headshot of the 36-year- old assistant professor sporting a goatee, pale blue glasses and a slightly mischie- vous smile. His cover image might be switched to the lake in Utah where he’d like to have his ashes spread. Above that picture would be a single word, “Remem- bering,” carefully chosen to alert visitors that he was gone but, in this sacred online space, not forgotten. Brubaker has painstakingly thought through this scenario, not because he is obsessed with death or Facebook, but because it’s his job to think about it. As one of the few scholars in the nation to study what happens to our data — including our social media presence — after we die, he’s been instrumental in developing Facebook’s Legacy Contact, the feature that enables users to determine the postmortem fate of their profile. Now, as a founding faculty member in CU Boulder’s new informa- tion science department, he’s working to further improve the ways people expe- rience death online, via new algorithms, apps and features designed to sensitively

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acknowledge a fact tech companies have more minutes of scrolling confirmed his tended to ignore: People die. sinking feeling. “In social computing, companies think She was dead, but Facebook had con- I'M THAT GUY — about designing for all kinds of different tinued to send out birthday reminders aspects of our lives — wedding anni- and advance her age in her profile. On- THE DEATH GUY. versaries, birthdays, you name it,” said line, she was 23. In the flesh, she never Brubaker. “But they have overlooked per- made it to 20. Like Comment Share haps the most profound one of all, which “It was eerie,” he recalls. is when those lives come to an end.” Not long after that, Facebook launched That’s where he comes in. a well-meaning algorithm called “Re- at all — by “memorializing” or freezing with for decades, for instance, we are “I’m that guy,” he said. “I’m the connect” which sent a message to users their account. The profile still existed for now subjected to more individual deaths death guy.” encouraging them to “share the latest people to post on, but no one had access than any generation that has come before news” with Facebook friends who hadn’t to control it or manage it. us. That raises sticky questions. PATHWAYS logged on for a while. The launch, shortly In some cases, adolescent users died “How are you supposed to grieve the Brubaker’s circuitous career path wound before Halloween, was a PR disaster, as suddenly, leaving behind a profile photo death of someone you would have oth- through the arts, psychology and tech many users got messages nudging them their parents found objectionable (a erwise forgotten?” he said, noting that before leading to a nascent field that to post on the walls of people who hadn’t party pic, a snarky cartoon). When loved when people grieve too openly online, manages to incorporate all of the above. logged on for good reason. They’d died. ones asked to have the photo changed, they’re often accused of “rubbernecking” Growing up in Utah, where he was “It was a technical screw up with very Facebook — lacking any idea what the or “grief tourism.” an avid dancer, he dreamed of a career deep social consequences, but how could deceased person would have wanted — In one recent study co-authored with in theater. But his empathetic nature Facebook have done any differently?” would decline. In one case, a grieving Katie Gach, a doctoral student at CU’s drew him toward psychology. He earned Brubaker recalls. “If people are dead, father who was not friends with his son ATLAS Institute, the duo analyzed thou- that degree at University of Utah while they can’t remove their own accounts, on Facebook asked if he could be added sands of online comments responding to doing web design on the side, a gig that and if Facebook doesn’t know they are as a friend so he could participate in the the deaths of Prince, David Bowie and detoured him into the tech startup world dead, how can they exclude them from remembrances. He couldn’t be. actor Alan Rickman. They found that for five years. these algorithms? It was a bigger prob- Once the company got wind of Bru- commenters routinely mocked others. Once that life ceased to fulfill him, he lem than anyone realized at the time.” baker’s research, it enlisted his help, not Some even dissed the dead. pursued a master’s in communication, As Brubaker watched heartbroken only to provide insight into the problem, “These people were fighting in what culture and technology at Georgetown family members express their frustration but to help solve it. was essentially an online wake. This University. When his adviser suggested on social media — one woman was asked In February 2015, when Brubaker was would never happen in a normal, pre- he get a PhD in information science, he to contact a friend who had recently still a student, Facebook launched Legacy news-feed world,” said Brubaker, who shot him a blank look: “I said, ‘What is been murdered; another was encouraged Contact, allowing users to designate a believes subtle changes could be made information science?’” to post on the wall of her deceased son steward of their account who could write to algorithms so the most toxic online — he arrived at his next a final post, change or update profile comments (which tend to get the most research project. or cover photos, add friends and even clicks) don’t necessarily rise to the top. I HOPE DEATH IS A He would spend the download photos to share with loved He and his students are also mulling next five years interview- ones not on Facebook. outside-the-box ideas that could some- LITTLE BIT KINDER ing hundreds of social The carefully chosen word “Remember- day extend the way we interact with the media users about their ing” would gently indicate the person had dead via their data. TO PEOPLE. encounters with postmor- passed, while inviting visitors to interact. Want to go to grandma’s favorite tem accounts. “It can often be so hard for young re- restaurant and order her favorite dish on “He saw this issue searchers to get the outside world to care her birthday? Maybe you could tap into emerging and took it upon about their research,” said Hayes. “To her Yelp data to find out what it was. himself to completely have Facebook launch this product based Missing an old friend? Maybe you The field, which explores the messy redefine a new research area,” said Gillian on his research while he was still writing could summon a data-driven, holographic intersection of social science and com- Hayes, a professor of informatics at UC his dissertation was just amazing.” representation of her. puter science, seemed a perfect fit. Irvine and Brubaker’s adviser at the time. Brubaker knows this sounds creepy. “I tend to gravitate toward the stuff A KINDER, GENTLER WAKE But there was a time when photographs that doesn’t make sense yet, where the DIGITAL TOMBSTONE Brubaker continues to work with or videos of the dead seemed creepy to fundamental research question is WTF?” Almost overwhelmingly, people he Facebook to study and refine Legacy the living. As technology changes, we he said. interviewed about their interaction with Contact, and his research has inspired change too. In 2009, while working toward his the pages of dead loved ones said they other social media companies to explore “Whether it will be acceptable or not PhD at the University of California liked having a sort of “digital tombstone” how they deal with user deaths. all depends on how it is designed,” he said. Irvine, he was scrolling through the where they could post messages, share At his Identity Lab on the CU campus, How would he like to see his own Facebook page of an acquaintance when stories and grieve. Brubaker also has begun exploring other memory live on? he sensed something odd. But privacy settings often had sad challenges related to online discourse “I just hope that as a result of my work, Posts on her “wall,” or digital message unintended consequences. about life, identity and death. death is a little bit kinder to people.” board, seemed to come mostly on birth- At the time, Facebook managed Because social media enables us to re- days and carried a somber tone. A few member deaths — if it learned of them discover acquaintances we haven’t spoken Lisa Marshall writes for CU Boulder.

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JORDAN TEMKIN IS A $100,000 PRO.

By Christie Sounart

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Boosted by ESPN and the drone community, Temkin emerged as a leading figure in drone racing. Racers perform tricky maneuvers, such as careening through hoops and around obstacles.

Before they brought him money and transported into the air. more drone-friendly than Boulder — and Temkin emerged as a leading figure in a measure of celebrity, drones offered “I absolutely fell in love with that,” he entered races across the U.S., many of drone racing. Jordan Temkin (Art’14) a way to said. “Just the idea of being able to fly.” which featured up to 150 competitors. stand out. The adrenaline rush was the same one Temkin’s performances caught the Eager to distinguish himself from his he felt while ski racing. And he wanted attention of the New York-based Drone TEMKIN IS THE fellow art students during his senior more of it. Racing League, founded in January 2016 year at CU, Temkin realized he could The rewards have been more than he by a former Tough Mudder executive. WORLD’S FIRST use drones to capture footage from imagined — cash prizes, free trips, a TV The league invited Temkin to compete unique angles. A skier and photographer show on ESPN and two racing contracts in its inaugural season against 11 other PROFESSIONAL from Seattle, he envisioned aerial action with the Drone Racing League (DRL). racers in a series of five competitions shots of his friends on mountain bikes The transition from art student to across the U.S. He readily accepted. The DRONE PILOT. and skis. drone racer was swift. races were filmed in locations as diverse All he needed was a drone of his own. After graduating in 2014, Temkin as the Miami Dolphins’ football stadium, In DRL’s second season, he again took So he built one, using inexpensive worked full time at a Boulder sandwich the former Bell Labs headquarters the championship — filmed in London parts he bought online and a frame fash- shop and continued building, flying in New Jersey and an abandoned Los — and another $100,000, year-long con- ioned on his 3D printer. and racing drones with a few others Angeles mall. tract. His parents were in attendance. All around Colorado. The 10-episode series aired on ESPN told, DRL’s first two seasons attracted Unlike his leisurely flights in fall 2016. It highlighted competitors’ more than 55 million broadcast views in I FELL IN LOVE WITH through Boulder’s canyons top-speed thrills as they raced through more than 75 countries, said Gury. and over trees, competitive the dark venues and darted among flashy, “I can see myself doing this for as THE IDEA OF BEING racing required him to master neon-lit obstacles. The inevitable crashes long as I can get away with it,” said tricky maneuvers such as were spectacular. Temkin, who adopted the pilot name ABLE TO FLY. careening through hoops and Temkin won the championship, its “JET,” his initials. around obstacles at speeds one-year, $100,000 contract and the title Temkin occasionally prepares himself “It took me about six months before sometimes reaching more than 100 “world’s first professional drone pilot.” for competition by setting up a course I was actually having fun with it,” said miles per hour. He always wore goggles “Jordan is able to stay in the zone and filled with hula hoops and soccer goals Temkin, 26. “It was more frustrated that allowed him to see only what the concentrate when it counts,” said Ryan with the nets cut out. But that’s not his tinkering up until then.” drone saw, referred to in the drone Gury, DRL’s director of product and favorite way to practice. After a few troublesome attempts, world as flying “FPV,” or first-person technologies. “I remember his first race Instead — as he did at the start of it Temkin successfully flew his drone in view. Crashes were — and still are — at Bell Labs. He crashed out of the first all — he prefers to grab his drone, drive September 2014 with a GoPro camera common. few heats and was doing quite poorly. to the mountains, slip on his goggles and strapped to it. Standing in Boulder’s As drones became more familiar in When I approached him to see how he fall into the reverie of flight. Chautauqua Park, he pulled on a pair society at large, so did competitive races. was managing, he smiled and said, ‘All “I get to go to the very top of moun- of goggles that live-streamed Flatirons The cash prizes grew. And Temkin often good, man. I just have to win the rest.’ tains,” he said. footage as he controlled the drone from emerged the winner. And then he did.” the ground. He quit his job at the sandwich shop, Boosted by the ESPN broadcast and Christie Sounart (Jour’12) is associate He felt as if he himself was being moved to Fort Collins — which was the fast-growing drone community, editor of the Coloradan.

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RESEARCH On the Road

CU BOULDER SCIENTISTS TAKE A CREATIVE APPROACH TO STUDYING CANNABIS.

By Trent Knoss

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The most unorthodox cannabis research same tests under the influence. The that same year in Colorado, they began strains used in official federal government lab in Colorado is always on the move. result: A before-and-after snapshot that exploring potential avenues for studying statistics average between 5 and 6 percent You may have driven behind it on Foot- keeps the CHANGE Lab on the right a drug with major question marks not THC content, but those sold recreation- hills Parkway on its way to a testing site. side of the law. only about its ability to impair, but also ally in Denver and Seattle average closer You may have walked past as it idled on a “We’re able to add the elements of lab- its potential to alleviate inflammatory to 20 percent — a staggering reality check neighborhood lane, collecting blood sam- oratory control that we would like to have conditions such as arthritis, diabetes, that made national news. ples from a volunteer. The nondescript in place without dosing the volunteers or anxiety and insomnia. “If you’re studying Dodge Sprinter does its best to keep a providing the products,” Bidwell says. In the background, wine or tobacco, for low profile, but you may already know it Afterward, the van rumbles off to its CU’s long, fraught ATTITUDES example, you study by one of its nicknames: The CannaVan, next appointment with fresh data that will association with mari- ARE CHANGING. the stuff people say, or The Mystery Machine. help answer key questions. But a larger juana loomed large. The actually use,” Vergara A van that drives around studying one remains: Why is studying an import- school has worked hard to dissolve old said, adding that the research only stoned people! In Boulder! The snarky ant public health matter so complicated? stereotypes, symbolized by photos of a underscored the need for up-to-date jokes practically write themselves. But haze-filled Norlin Quad every April 20. information on cannabis. look closer and it becomes apparent HARD SCIENCE (The campus is designated as smoke- Legal cannabis continues to face uncer- that the unusual project, led by CU’s For now, cannabis has gained a nation- free and prohibits marijuana use, tainty. Federal enforcement could change CHANGE Lab, is succeeding where past wide foothold. Over the past five years, possession and distribution.) any time. Colorado lawmakers could enact cannabis research efforts have stalled. eight states have legalized recreational Erring on the side of caution would have new laws affecting recreational usage. “People always want to talk about the use and 29 states allow medical marijuana been understandable. Still, the CHANGE Dispensaries and regulators maintain a van, which is really just a mobile phar- prescriptions. In 2016, cannabis sales in Lab pushed ahead with ambitious proposals, wary truce. But the CHANGE Lab’s work macology lab,” said assistant professor totaled $6.7 billion; they poking and prodding at the guidelines to has buoyed optimism that the underlying Cinnamon Bidwell. “It’s gotten a lot of are expected to continue growing by 25 find ways of doing meaningful research science finally could start catching up. fun names, but it’s actually one of the percent annually through 2021. with one hand tied behind its back. “I hope our efforts and our ex- most important tools we have to study “Attitudes are changing and have been “We went back and forth with uni- periment designs embolden other cannabis use.” for a long time,” said professor Kent versity leadership, and they were super universities to pursue these kinds of Cannabis research requires a mix of Hutchison of the CHANGE Lab and the helpful in terms of trying to problem studies, too,” Hutchison said. creativity and caution. Despite Colo- Institute of Cognitive Science. solve with us,” Hutchison said. He's planning more studies designed to rado’s legalization of adult recreational Widespread legalization created a The group also found a natural ally in test hypotheses about positive uses of the use in 2012, the plant remains illegal boom in readily available cannabis prod- assistant professor Nolan Kane, a CU drug. Cannabis may be able to help wean federally. Researchers at federally funded ucts. In terms of THC, the plant’s main biologist who had been pursuing ways users off opioids, for example, or help the universities like CU may not handle, psychoactive ingredient, several common to sequence cannabis DNA. Kane, who elderly with pain and inflammation. He store, consume, purchase or provide marijuana strains average close to 15 co-founded the Cannabis Genomic also wants to examine cannabis use by cannabis to research subjects without percent potency — a four-fold increase Research Initiative with postdoctoral military veterans to see whether it allevi- putting their institutions in potentially since the 1990s. But cannabis edibles are student Daniela Vergara, wanted to create ates or exacerbates post-traumatic stress serious legal jeopardy. even higher, and some concentrates can a compendium of strains and decode the disorder, a divisive topic among veterans. The van offers a workaround. After even approach 95 percent potency. With plant’s genetic mechanisms. In 2016, Bidwell secured nearly it arrives at an off-campus private such wide-ranging options and little or “Cannabis is fascinating because it has $900,000 from Colorado’s Department of no trustworthy science lots of genetic differences, which is why Public Health and Environment to study to refer to, the public is you can do so many things with it,” Ver- high-potency cannabis use with her mobile navigating blind. gara says. “It’s used for hemp fiber, paper, laboratory. The award, coupled with “Research has lagged oil, and the seeds are edible… There are funding for Hutchison from the National behind significantly,” literally hundreds of compounds that can Institute on Drug Abuse, represented a Hutchison said. “And be extracted from it. But without further watershed moment for the lab. The van that’s the crux of the study, we still don’t really know why it project officially had the green light. problem: Consumers with interacts with our body the way it does.” Bidwell will soon have operated the van no information.” for about a year. Her team has started a Bidwell added: “In the REALITY CHECK crowdfunding campaign to acquire a sec- context of a research Kane and Vergara had encountered the ond one, in hopes of expanding its work. study, nobody has assessed same frustrating restrictions, but hit on Meanwhile, she hopes data collected by how intoxicating these the idea of acquiring DNA data from the current Dodge Sprinter helps fill the products are or studied independent testing laboratories and cannabis information gap. the effects on behaviors then partnering with a seed company to “I think individuals are savvy and they such as driving.” compile genetic information from sample want to base their personal decisions or residence, a non-CU-affiliated volun- Enter the CHANGE Lab. Co-directed plants. Third-party groups aren’t subject personal medical decisions on empirical teer enters and completes a series of by neuroscientists Bidwell, Hutchison to the same restrictions as CU, and a data,” she said. “Right now, they don’t cognitive tests as well as a blood draw. and professor Angela Bryan, it began spreadsheet wouldn’t break any rules. really have that and so they’re grasping Then he reenters his home, consumes in 2012 as an outgrowth of the group’s In 2016, the duo (working with Bidwell for straws.” a high-potency cannabis product and interest in addiction and cognitive and Hutchison) published genomic re- comes back to the van to retake the function. With cannabis on the ballot search showing that the common cannabis Trent Knoss writes about science for CU.

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It’s hard to believe now, but there In the 1980s and ’90s, he and partners that go for it,” said Schell, who at 57 was a time when there was no Google were building companies from scratch. sports thick ringlets of blond hair worthy in Boulder. One of them, it turned out, would of a cinema surfing champ. “You get No 700-employee (and growing) prove to be a Google magnet: In 2006, excited about something and you want @LAST workforce. the tech giant acquired @Last Software, to see if you can bring it to life.” No multi-building campus at Pearl and establishing a Boulder beachhead that Like the ’80s, ’90s and early 2000s, 30th Streets with aspens in the lobby, has evolved into a major U.S. office. the Google era has also been exciting for HOW GOOGLE CAME TO indoor fire pit and lovingly restored 1961 Google moved into its new, $131 million Schell, who moved to town in 1978 as a BOULDER. camper for meetings. Boulder site in December. CU freshman from Steamboat Springs, No chatter about how the world’s Today, Google is both a marquee one of five Schell siblings to attend CU most famous search engine would figure local employer and — along with Boulder. By Eric Gershon in the life and rhythms of this small, outposts of Twitter and Microsoft — a After working for Google for about iconic city. powerful symbol of Boulder’s flourish- a year, he embarked on a series of For Brad Schell (ArchEngr’82), the ing tech industry. adventures — boat-building school in pre-Google days were a happy blur: “There’s a lot of people in this town Maine, Spanish lessons in Guatemala, a

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tour of Baja by camper, kite surfing in and sketches he’d made over the years for the Pacific Northwest and an array of easy-to-use 3D modeling software. Esch business endeavors in tech, real estate liked them, and they founded @Last in and wind energy. Most mornings you an office at 10th and Pearl in Boulder. can find him at Boxcar Coffee Roasters Their core product, SketchUp, was on Pearl, an intended for animated and anybody who friendly emi- SOME @LAST wanted to nence grise of the ENGINEERS RAN design in 3D, Boulder tech Schell said scene. INTO SOME GOOGLE — “a 10-year- From time to old or the time, he drops ENGINEERS AT A highest-profile by Google’s new architect in the offices, where TRADE SHOW... world.” many members In a burst of the former @Last crew still work, of brain work Schell called “the best six including site director Scott Green — weeks of our professional life,” the @Last the top Googler in Boulder. founders created a prototype and lined up “We still talk about how damn much investors. Though initially of interest to fun it was,” Schell said. professional designers — architects, land- The short version of the @Last-Google scape architects, engineers — SketchUp story goes like this: had a simple interface that captured “the Scott Green, left, Google’s Boulder site director, with Brad Schell, at Google in January. Keen to work for himself, Schell in 1989 spirit of drawing,” Schell said, making it co-founded CadZooks, a small Boulder possible for amateurs to use it. For redoing people could use SketchUp to insert 3D SketchUp team remains in Boulder, as software firm that vastly simplified the the family kitchen say, or designing a creations into Google Earth? do many original @Last employees — production of complex construction woodworking project or making a castle One day in 2005, Schell recalled, some at Google, others at start-ups of drawings, largely automating what once for history class. someone at @Last’s offices said to him, their own. required intense labor by skilled draftsmen By 2005, @Last had two small offices “Schell, do you know there’s a guy from “There are hundreds of absolutely able to think in 3D. After California-based overseas and about 50 employees in a new Google in the conference room? You fascinating, inspiring stories from this Autodesk acquired CadZooks in 1996, space behind the Starbucks on Pearl. ought to go in and meet him.” town,” Schell said. Schell stayed on for a while, then turned Around that time, some @Last engi- He did, and the encounter led to a Of @Last’s story, he’ll say this: “Let’s toward new possibilities. neers ran into some Google engineers subsequent tête-à-tête at Trident Book- admit it — it is fun that we had a part in When Joe Esch, a software developer at a trade show. They discovered a sellers and talk of a partnership. Google being here.” he knew, suggested starting a new com- mutual admiration and kept in touch. Months later, Schell’s cell phone rang pany in 1999, Schell shared some notes Wouldn’t it be cool, they all thought, if as he passed through a Boulder alleyway. Eric Gershon is editor of the Coloradan. It was another Google executive: “Would you entertain an acquisition?” IN BRIEF By early 2006, the deal was done. Over a three-day weekend, Google 1982: Brad Schell (ArchEngr) gradu- remodeled @Last’s offices, installing, ates from CU Boulder. among other things, an eye-popping snack bar. 1989: He co-founds CadZooks, a “All of us are fairly food-motivated,” Boulder firm that makes software for Schell said of the former @Last crew, 3D construction planning. marveling, more than a decade later, over the “extreme makeover.” 1999: Schell co-founds @Last Soft- ware. The Boulder firm produces software for “anybody who want[s] to MONTHS LATER, design in 3D.”

HIS PHONE RANG. 2006: Google acquires @Last, plant- ing a flag in Boulder. “Somebody said to me, ‘Schell, can we eat this stuff?’” 2014: Google announces it will build Google continued to iterate and im- a multi-building campus at 30th and prove SketchUp, ultimately selling it to Pearl Streets for up to 1,500 workers. Trimble, a California-based producer Googlers can eat (or just meet) inside this 1960s-vintage camper in the new Boulder office. of positioning tools, in 2012. Trimble’s 2017: Google moves in.

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41 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Coloradan SPRING 2018 42 DINNER WITH 12 BUFFS April 19-22, alumni and students across the U.S. will dine 2018 TRIPS together during the fourth annual Dinner with 12 Buffs. More than 30 alumni hosts as near as Boulder and as far away as New Jersey will open their homes to an intimate group of Buffs for a casual meal and camaraderie. Last year, financial executiveErik Evans (Math, Phys’00) hosted a fajita dinner for 15 alumni in his approximately 600-square-foot apartment on SPRING 2018 Manhattan’s Upper East Side. There was CU talk, of CANADIAN ROCKIES News course, but another theme emerged. Aug. 17-25, 2018 “Mostly we talked about the struggle,” said Evans. “The struggle of daily life in New York City and what Ten Years of Forever Buffs each of us did. It was a really welcome reprieve.” Lisa Corboy (Mktg’91) hosted several students ALUMNI ASSOCIATION CELEBRATES A DECADE OF DUES-FREE MEMBERSHIP in Louisville, Colo., for salmon, and will host again this year. Joining the texas exes, the alumni the alumni association, including “We have two children at CU now, so we love association of the University of Texas at Coloradan magazine, one-on-one career staying in contact with the student body!” she said. “It WINES OF THE Austin, costs $60 annually. Penn State? counseling sessions, tailgates, young helps keep us young.” PACIFIC NORTHWEST $50. UCLA? $100. alumni events, Homecoming Weekend Students and graduates of the past decade are en- Sept. 9-18, 2018 After you graduate from CU Boulder, and discounts ranging from insurance to couraged to attend. Register at colorado.edu/alumni. it costs nothing. Zero. Zilch. You’re hotels to movie tickets. Plus, alumni part of the CU Boulder Alumni receive invitations to chapter Association automatically. events in cities around the ALUMNI ASSOCIATION TIDBITS It hasn’t always been country (and 10 foreign Join us for Buffs at the Ballpark this this way. cities, too). summer. Each family-friendly event at a As recently as 2007, an To commemorate the pro baseball park starts with a pre-game annual membership was $45. initiative’s 10th anniversary, reception. All attendees receive a Buffs-themed ball PEARLS OF ITALY But in 2008, following a the CU Boulder Alumni cap. Sites include Houston, Atlanta, Seattle, Los An- Sept. 27-Oct. 8, 2018 student vote authorizing a Association will offer even more geles and San Francisco. Dates and details at colorado. one-time fee for incoming students, events, stories and benefits this year to edu/alumni. alumni association leaders introduced reconnect you with your alma mater — the Forever Buffs model — dues-free whether you spent one year here or nine Nominate a CU alum, faculty or staff membership for CU Boulder alumni of — and show you what it means to be a member or a student for an Alumni all class years. Forever Buff. Association Award by April 4 at “All of our programs serve a singular Jimmy Calano (Mktg’78), a former colorado.edu/alumni/awards. Past win- purpose,” said Ryan Chreist (Kines’96; alumni board chair who helped lead the ners include Grammy winner Dave Grusin (Mus’56), CHINA, TIBET AND MPubAd’09), assistant vice chancellor initiative, sees it as being part of a special astronaut Scott Carpenter (Aero’49; HonDocSci’00) THE YANGTZE RIVER and executive director of the alumni club. He felt the Buff spirit recently when and women's basketball hall of famer Ceal Barry. Sept. 27-Oct. 15, 2018 association. “We want to strengthen he saw CNBC “Squawk Alley” anchor your connection to CU Boulder without Carl Quintanilla (PolSci’93) on TV. The Alumni Association’s annual nation- the burden of membership fees.” “I thought of Carl not as a commenta- wide day of service, Buffs Give Back, is Today, all Buffs enjoy the benefits of tor,” he said, “but as a Buff like me.” May 19-20. Past projects have included tree maintenance in Atlanta, trail clean- up in Seattle and food sorting in Nashville. Find out more at colorado.edu/alumni. GRAND DANUBE There are new alumni chapters in Bal- PASSAGE timore, led by Jeff Spitz (EnvDes’14); Oct. 5-20, 2018 Charlotte, S.C., led by Kate Kliebert (Engl’07); and Spain, led by Adam For more information Mackstaller (Fin’95). In London, Sigrid Keough about the Roaming Buffs (Comm’89) took the reins as chapter leader. travel program, email roamingbuffstravel The Big Red rivalry is back! On Sept. @colorado.edu, call 8, the Buffs take on the Cornhuskers in 303-492-8484 or 800- Lincoln, Neb. Join us for a free Buffs Bash 492-7743 or visit at Pinnacle Bank Arena before kickoff. colorado.edu/alumni.

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ANYONE OUT THERE? The note asked pass- lecture course, now in its significant issues our IN BRIEF: Students in “Pathway ersby to report when and second year and open to planet faces.” to Space,” the gateway where the balloons landed. undergraduates of all ma- Led by Chris Koehler • CU space minors released 170 balloons course for CU Boulder’s As of mid-February, jors with a minor in space, (Aero’92; MMechEngr’94), space minor, released 170 about 25 people from as is part of CU Boulder’s director of the Colorado • Attached to each was a note and $1 balloons during a Jan. 18 far away as Texas had sub- multi-year, campuswide Space Grant Consor- class meeting. mitted online reports, said Grand Challenge, “Our tium, with participation • They’ve landed as far away as Texas Attached to each was a Courtney Fell of CU’s Office Space. Our Future.” from dozens of other CU note — and a $1 bill to draw of Information Technology, The challenge aims to faculty, “Pathway” helps • Space minor open to students of ever y major the attention of people which helped develop “transform the landscape students identify areas happening upon remnants “Pathway to Space.” of space exploration and of interest in space to • Part of CU’s Grand Challenge that returned to Earth. The talk-show-format find pathways to address pursue further.

45 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan SPRING 2018 46 THE PRESIDENT’S VIEW BRUCE D. BENSON

THINKERS, DOERS, DREAMERS I was talking with Apple co-founder I was a student at CU when I attended my (and CU alumnus) Steve Wozniak first Conference on World Affairs. I frankly (ElEngr ex’72; HonDocSci’89) before don’t remember which sessions, but after he gave the keynote address at the all, it was more than 50 years ago. 2016 event, and I asked what drew him I do know that during my time on cam- to the CWA. He told me he liked the pus in the early 1960s the CWA featured atmosphere of diverse ideas and being Henry Kissinger (long before he was a around so many out-of-the-box think- household name), architect and inventor ers. That’s high praise and great insight Buckminster Fuller, the then-president from someone who is as out of the box of Costa Rica and several ambassadors, as they come. living up to its slogan, “Bringing the Griffin is also working to expand the World to Boulder.” role of students in the conference and The conference was about 15 years considering how it can enhance their old then, but it already had a reputation experience and help prepare tomorrow’s as a preeminent gathering of thinkers, leaders. The CWA is contributing to a doers and dreamers. This April, it cele- broader campuswide effort that chal- brates its 70th year, and it’s as strong lenges students to engage in the world as ever. Under the leadership of political beyond campus. science professor John Griffin (Law’95), I hope my fellow alumni are proud, as the venerable CWA is at the forefront of I am, that their alma mater hosts such a our efforts to ensure CU is a place where remarkable event. And I hope many of discussion and debate thrive. you will take the opportunity to return The conference is a great vehicle for to Boulder this spring for this milestone furthering conversations that engage occurrence. If you can’t do that, you’ll be people across the intellectual spec- able to watch live and archived videos trum. Its program committee actively of sessions on the conference website. seeks out diverse voices as it consid- The CWA is unique to our university, one ers speakers, making for a lively and of the things that sets us apart from our engaging event. peers. At age 70, it’s as vibrant as ever.

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STATS 1/13/18 CU’s first-ever men’s basketball win at UCLA News SPRING 2018 By Jennifer Osieczanek “Never Again”

CU ATHLETICS INTENSIFIES EMPHASIS ON MENTAL HEALTH CU skier Petra Hyncicova competed for the Czech Republic in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea. It happens to buffs. Meanwhile, Buffs4Life, a nonprofit Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan group of CU Athletics alumni formed AT THE OLYMPICS, A BRONZE FOR GOLD Salaam (Soc ex’95, pictured) committed in 2005, has started a campaign called Snowboarder and current CU student Arielle Gold suicide in 2016. CU linebacker Drew “Never Again,” which reconnects former (EPOBio’20) won a bronze medal in the halfpipe in Wahlroos (A&S’03) took his life in 2017. football players with each other in hopes PyeongChang in February. She scored 85.75 (on a 100 Times CU men’s In 2004, Gabe Oderberg (Comm, of creating a support network. Leading scale) on the last of three runs to earn the medal. basketball has beaten Hist’03), ended his life at 23. Bill Roe the initiative are former head coach Gary Gold, who hopes to attend veterinary school, was one AP Top 15 teams back- (Soc’95), who left CU in 1979 for the Barnett and long-time CU coach and of six Forever Buffs competing in the Winter Olympics. to-back (No. 4 Arizona NFL, and Ray Cone (PE’84), also killed NFL alumnus Brian Cabral (Rec’79). Casey Andringa (Bus’19) of the U.S. Olympic Free- State and No. 14 Arizo- themselves. “I recruited both Rashaan and Drew,” style Ski Team finished fifth in the men’s moguls event. na,1 both in January) CU Athletics has intensified its focus on Cabral said. “These losses affected me Competing for the Czech Republic, current CU skier the mental health of CU’s student athletes, deeply. Working with Buffs4Life after Petra Hyncicova (IntPhys’18) finished 45th in the Sprint adding campus resources, participating in 24 years of coaching at CU allows me to Classic qualification race and 47th in the 15K skiathlon. a major multi-school study of concussion help others who may be in need.” Brian Hansen (Mktg’17), a 2010 silver medalist, com- 4:36.05 effects and fostering a support network for CU is leading the way on a Pac-12 peted for the U.S. in speed skating for the third time. He Fastest women’s mile former football players. research initiative to study concus- finished 15th in the 1,500 meters. within the state of “Our work is important because life sions in student athletes. The goal is Joanne Reid (Math’13; MTechMedSoc’17) finished Colorado, run by Dani is difficult at times,” said Buffs sports to establish best practices and clinical 86th in the 7.5K sprint biathlon (cross country skiing plus Jones (IntPhys’20) psychologist Chris rifle shooting) for Team USA. Feb. 2 Bader. “We serve Kendall Wesenberg (Mktg’12) finished 15th in the our student ath- skeleton for Team USA. letes by providing a Visit colorado.edu/coloradan for more details about safe space for them how CU’s Olympians performed. Search “PyeongChang.” to process through the trials of life… to talk through BUFFS BITS Former Buffs coach Ceal Barry, now their successes and senior associate athletic director for internal opera- concerns without tions, was selected for the Women’s Basketball Hall Preseason ranking for judgment.” of Fame. Barry was a four-time Big Eight Coach of CU women’s lacrosse In January CU the Year and is the winningest coach in CU athletics added another li- history across all sports with 427 wins. … Spencer 17 censed counselor, Dinwiddie (Comm ex'15) won the skills challenge at Erin Ruben- NBA All-Star Weekend in Feb. … Becca Rasmussen FIFTEEN king (Fin’10; (Neuro’17) was selected by the North Carolina Courage Division I offers for MPsych’14), 20th overall in the NWSL Draft. The NWSL is a women’s basketball to help serve the nearly 375 student infrastructure around traumatic brain women’s professional soccer league. … Jim Hansen player Peyton Carter athletes on campus. The incidence of injuries and treatment. (AeroEngr’92; MS’93), a Rhodes Scholar who was a (IntPhys’21) suicide among NCAA athletes is highest Meanwhile, research about the first-team All-Big Eight offensive guard and member among football players, according to connection between concussions and of CU's national championship football team, received a 2015 study published in the journal chronic traumatic encephalopathy the NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. It recognizes Sports Health. (CTE) continues. The recent sale of Sa- collegiate and professional achievements 25 years after Bader and Rubenking make them- laam’s Heisman trophy will help. It sold college athletics careers end. Hansen is superinten- Women’s69-65 basketball win selves available to all student athletes via for $399,608, some of which will support dent of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Marine at Utah after starting email, text and, of course, in person. CTE-related research in his name. Meteorology Division. the game down 16-0

49 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Photo courtesy CU Athletics Photo courtesy CU Athletics Coloradan SPRING 2018 50 SPORTS Q&A BRITTANY FAN

HEAD GAME rain at times, I can’t complain. and we’re all looking forward to the state, because you need to practice like Brittany Fan (Advert’18), one of only two spring season. I think we’ve got some you are playing a tournament so you can Hawaiians ever to compete for CU women’s What’s your lowest score for an 18- wins and top finishes coming our way. replicate it on the course. Sometimes I golf, set a freshman record for stroke hole round? meet up with friends or teammates and average three years ago — 74.87 over 31 7 under par (65) at the 2017 USGA Wom- Do you have personal goals for the have friendly competitions. rounds. Now a senior, Fan talks about her en’s Amateur qualifier here in Colorado. season? practice routine, a pair of holes-in-one My goal is to improve my ranking, lower You’re a business major. What and the hard truth about mini-golf. Ever sink a hole-in-one? my scoring average and increase my stands out to you about the busi- I’ve had two so far — once when I was distance. I have been working towards ness side of golf? How’d you get interested in golf? playing a round with my dad in Hawaii, these goals, and I’m excited to get back I am an advertising major with a business Before golf, I was interested in singing and the other in the last tournament we into season this spring. minor. I decided to do this because it can and dancing. One day I went to pick up had this fall 2017 season. not only help me professionally, but also as my brother from golf practice with my How has your game changed since an athlete. Advertising and business teach- dad, and while we were waiting for him What iron do you find yourself reach- you’ve been playing in Colorado? es me about how to brand myself and how to finish, my dad got a bucket of balls. I ing for most often? I’ve become more consistent with my to create ideas and bring them to life. started hitting some just for fun, and the It depends on the length and conditions of technique, but the biggest difference that next thing I know, my brother’s coach the course we play, but usually I have a ton I have noticed is in my mental game. I am Any thoughts about life after CU, comes over and starts to give me some of mid irons coming in — 8s, 7s and 6s. more experienced, mature and I handle related to golf or not? pointers. After making slight adjustments, situations better than when I first got here. My plan is to play professionally. After I am I was hitting the ball significantly better. In practice, do you spend more time done with that, I plan to work in business. If you’ve ever seen a child’s eyes light driving or putting? Is there a course you’re dying to up, that’s essentially what happened that Putting is where the scoring is at. Everyone play, but haven’t yet? How’s your mini-golf game? day. And after that, I was hooked. I just can hit the ball, but what separates the I’d love to play Augusta, which is where Mini-golf is way harder than it looks! First kept wanting to get better and better. good from the great is putting. I try to de- they hold the Men’s PGA Masters tourna- off, the clubs aren’t even like normal vote at least half of my practice sessions to ment. There is a lot of history and pres- clubs, so I struggle quite a bit! Usually When did you start playing seriously? putting and short game and the other half tige behind that course. mini-golf courses are outrageous and Age 12, which is pretty late to start golf. to swing technique and mental focus. kinda goofy, so I just have fun and enjoy Most kids start around 6 or 7. Are you able to play for fun and sim- laughing about it. What should we expect of the CU ply enjoy the links, or do you feel You grew up in Hawaii. Did you play women’s team this spring? competitive whenever you’re on a See video at colorado.edu/coloradan. year-round? We’ve got a solid team this year. Every- golf course? Yes! Although we did get some heavy one has been working hard to improve, Most of the time I am in a competitive Condensed and edited by Eric Gershon.

51 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Photo courtesy CU Athletics Coloradan SPRING 2018 52 53 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Coloradan SPRING 2018 54 Jim’s first assignment in civil rights law, the STEPHEN MCCAFFREY murder of Viola Liuzzo outside of Selma, Ala., (A&S’67) WON THE after the 1965 March to SPRING 2018 Montgomery. Jim, who 2017 STOCKHOLM 50s, 60s & 70s lives in Washington, Notes D.C., served as deputy WATER PRIZE FOR assistant attorney gen- eral for 25 years under HIS WORK ON INTER- seven consecutive U.S. presidents. NATIONAL WATER

John Cernac RIGHTS. (Pharm) and ’59his Pueblo Blende Drug store received the Gov. John Hickenlooper. writing and research Most Valuable Award He previously served projects. She lives in last summer from the on the Colorado Centennial, Colo. Independent Pharmacy Securities Board and Cooperative at their the Colorado Utility University of annual meeting in New Consumer’s Board. At the Pacific Orleans. He and his CU, he served on the ’67distinguished law wife, Charlotte, are Alumni Association’s professor Stephen active CU supporters board twice and is a McCaffrey (A&S) is a and members of the CU Advocate. He lives leading world authority Directors Club. They with his wife, Leslie on international water can be found tailgating (Engl’62), in Colorado rights. He won the 2017 before home games and Springs. His daugh- Stockholm Water Prize also traveling to road ter Dana Jussaume for his exemplary work games. (Hist’94) and son-in-law in the field. He focuses Dave Eck (PolSci’84) on the sustainable and Writer and attended CU, and his peaceful management mediator granddaughter Emily of shared waters and ’60David Evans (Phil) Eck (Mus’20) attends works with scholars, writes a blog for the university now. legal practitioners and Psychology Today called policy-makers. Stephen Old Main was CU Boulder’s first campus building, built in 1876. Now it’s home to several departments, “Can’t We All Just Get On Oct. came to CU on a foot- including the CU Heritage Center. Along?” He shared an 14, 2017, ball scholarship in 1963. Emmy Award for his ’65Colorado Black Women contributions to the TV for Political Action Colorado Carl Cerveny CU degree. Chandler’s other Washington, show The Monkees. honored Clementine Springs (Mktg) and parents, Chris Cerveny D.C., theater commu- He also won the Los Washington Pigford ’68awarded John Conway ’51his wife, former Wheat (Fin’84) and Lori nity members. The Angeles Superior (CommDisor) for her (Zool; PhDBio’75) a Ridge, Colo., mayor Chandler Cerveny Anderson-Hopkins Court’s “Outstanding Gretchen Gasser (Fin’84), preceded him, Award for Excellence Case of the Year Award” Cerveny (PhysTher’54), as did great-grandpar- in the Theater Arts in 2000 and 2001 for report that grandson ents Albert Cerveny was presented for the successful mediations. Chandler Cerveny (CivEngr’27) and Martha first time on Nov. 20, His website is www. (Fin’17) graduated Christoffers Cerveny 2017. William lives in HelpUsHealAmerica. WE WANT from CU in December. (Art’26). Arlington, Va. com. David lives in Chandler represents South Pasadena, Calif. YOUR NEWS! the fourth generation For the next Jim Turner’s of the family to earn a 20 years, an (Law) book John Herzog Write Christie Sounart, ’56annual award funded ’57Selma and the Liuzzo (Advert) retired Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER by William Hopkins Murder Trials, published ’61from his third state Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS (Soc) and life partner by the University of board, the Colorado [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT Richard Anderson will Michigan Press, was re- Dental Board, Jan. 1. COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN benefit actors and leased in 2018. It details He was appointed by

55 SPRING 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Amanda Clark Coloradan SPRING 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE MITCHELL KAPLAN

BOOKS AND MOVIES It was a novel that inspired Kaplan TIMM FAUTSKO (MSOC’72) When Mitchell Kaplan (Engl’76) to apply to CU Boulder. Captivated by a launched Books & Books in Miami character in Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums WAS INDUCTED INTO THE 2017 in 1982, the business was the size of a who writes poetry on a mountaintop, Kaplan one-bedroom apartment. envisioned Boulder as an “exotic land of ATHLETIC WALL OF FAME IN Still, Kaplan, then 27, filled the tiny mountains and snow,” he said. “I saw CU for bookstore with more than titles — he the first time the day I got there.” CANTON, OHIO. brought in real live writers, unusual at Professor Sidney Goldfarb’s literature the time. Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis courses — which included histories of the Singer was among the first. “great bookstores,” such as Shakespeare $30,000 grant to update (Fren) spent 25 years My home was a big 1920s “From the beginning we established and Co. in Paris and Manhattan’s Gotham and replicate part of in the culinary arts, lodge. The Forest Service ourselves as the store where literary Book Mart — made a deep impression on his CU Boulder Ph.D. becoming a Certified was there during the day- events took place alongside the selling of Kaplan, not least for their role as defend- thesis, completed under Executive Chef in 1989 time, I was alone at night. books,” Kaplan has said. ers of First Amendment freedoms. Robert Gregg, on the and a member of the This lent some Shining Early on, he also set about putting Mi- After CU, he tried law school in Wash- biology of the honey ant, American Academy of pizazz to the week I ami on the literary map, helping found ington, D.C., but found himself spending Myrmecocystus mexi- Chefs in 1994. In 1998, teach at L.A.’s Juvenile the Miami Book Fair in 1984. The annual more time in bookstores than in the law canus. John will compare he received a J.D. from Hall — the San Gabriels weeklong festival now hosts hundreds of library. He left after two years, returned the location and den- West Virginia University are visible from the yard. authors and draws hundreds of thou- to Miami, taught high school English, sity of ant nests in the College of Law. He has Students considered sands of participants. then yielded to his persistent urge: to Garden of the Gods from since specialized in my lesson: Photography “In the 1980s, Miami was off the radar become a bookseller. June to September 2018 criminal defense and has to prompt reflections screen,” said Oren Teicher, head of the When he opened the first Books & with what he found in served several years as about this ‘alien’ place. American Booksellers Association, a Books, he had a lot to learn: “I knew 1975 to see if the abun- an adjunct in the WVU Challenged: Why would trade group based in New York. “It wasn’t more about Pablo Neruda and Thomas dance of this ant species College of Law. Nearing we ever go there? a place where publishers wanted to send Pynchon than I did about interest rates has increased or de- retirement, he is touring Eventually sugar pines their authors. He helped change that.” or bank charges,” he said. creased and how to best the National Parks and and wildflowers cast their Over the next three decades Ka- It’s been a risk that paid: “I’ve been manage the park for this fulfilling other buck- spell. They got it, and flew plan, now 63 and originally from Miami able to make some small contribution to unusual ant in the future. et-list items. He lives in outside the walls.” Beach, added seven more South Florida Miami becoming a world-class city.” John retired from the Morgantown, W.V. Fremont, Calif., res- stores. The flagship store occupies a University of Scranton in ident George Whaley 9,000-square-foot building with a spot on By Janice Podsada August 2016 and plans to Timm Fautsko (PhDBus) is co-editor the National Register of return to Colorado and (MSoc) was of the Society for Case Historic Places. live in Durango. ’72inducted into the 2017 Research’s Business His labor of love would Athletic Wall of Fame Case Journal. George become a landmark for Las Vegas res- in Canton, Ohio, for is an emeritus profes- bibliophiles. In 2015, ident Stephen meritorious service sor of human resource Publishers Weekly named the ’69Grogan (Engl) donated by Walsh University. management for San business “Bookstore of the 32 boxes of documents Timm, a four-year varsity Jose State University’s Year” citing its “outsized relating to his career in basketball letterman management school. influence” on independent journalism, politics and from ’63-’67, belongs to bookstores “and the liter- casino gaming to the Walsh’s 30-point club, When Laura ary culture at large.” special collections and was named outstanding Lee Carter’s “You have to be able archives of the University alumnus in 1987, and ’77(AsianSt; MHist’88) to communicate to your of Nevada, Las Vegas. serves as a trustee at career as an academic customers that value isn’t In his current role as the university. librarian ended in 2004, only measured by price,” president of Navegante she became a freelance said Kaplan. “There is value Game Technologies, he Shelley writer. She’s since in meeting an author, being assists game developers Diamond (Phil) published four books a place where ideas are and inventors. At CU, he ’74served as artist-in-resi- on midlife psychology. shared, value in bringing was awarded the Shubert dence for the U.S. Forest Four years ago, she and writers into the schools.” Fellowship in Playwriting Service, San Gabriel her husband moved to Recently he developed a and was founding editor Mountains, which spans a rural southern Colorado, publishing arm and a part- of the campus alter- huge region between Los where she writes a blog, nership with film producer native newspaper CU Angeles and the Mojave. “Adventures of the new Paula Mazur. Their first fea- Perspective. She wrote, “My project old farts,” and wrote A ture-length movie, The Man had to serve the commu- Memoir of Retirement: Who Invented Christmas, Wiley nity and environment I From Suburbia to Solar in with Christopher Plummer, ’70 Newbold was privileged to live in. Southern Colorado. was released in November. 57 SPRING 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Mitchell Kaplan Coloradan SPRING 2018 58 Architects’ National 2030 Commitment Working MICHELLE R. Group. Its aim is for architects to design all HOUSER (JOUR’81) buildings and develop- SPRING 2018 ments as carbon-neutral WAS NAMED CHIEF 80s & 90s by 2030. Nathan and wife Notes Fran live in a midcentury OPERATING OFFICER modern home on a ravine in Highland Park, Ill. — OF THE TESLA the closest thing to the Boulder terrain in the area, FOUNDATION. he writes.

Denver ABC- in the Army and Army international pilot, stays affiliate KMGH National Guard. He de- in a lot of hotel rooms. To ’84hired Holly Gauntt (Jour) ployed four times during document the interesting as news director. Holly his military career and carpet patterns he sees all has worked in newsrooms served as an Army avia- over the world, he started across the country, includ- tor in active flight status. an Instagram account ing in Seattle, Philadelphia He plans to continue called @MyHotelCarpet. and Baltimore. She is a re- working in aviation. He In November his daughter, gional chairperson for the writes that he is currently Jill, posted the account Radio Television Digital the state Army aviation to her own Instagram News Association. officer for the California page and called for it to Musician Geary Larrick Army National Guard and have more followers. Her (DMus) wrote a review of lives in Northern Califor- request went viral, and a book about jazz flutist nia, where the fires and within a few days, 536,000 Herbie Mann published floods have kept him people followed his page. in the December 2017 busy. He and wife Tamyra The story was covered by issue of Music Educators have five children. several major news out- Journal. Geary performs lets, including ABC News on solo marimba each Eric and Buzzfeed. Bill lives in For the third consecutive summer, Dead & Company is coming to Boulder. The band, which includes week in Stevens Point, Grosgogeat Dallas with his family. guitarist John Mayer and Grateful Dead members, will play two concerts at Folsom Field, July 13 and 14. Wisc., where he is a re- ’87(MChemEngr) joined com- tired music professor from puter software company In San the University of Wiscon- ANCILE Solutions Inc. as Francisco, Golden, Colo., age 32. She strives to live operating officer of the sin-Stevens Point. CEO. Previously he was ’91Suzanne DiBianca resident Gina a life that is not defined Tesla Foundation, a think CEO of FocusVision, a (Comm) is executive ’80Meagher (MCDBio) by her conditions. tank focused on work- In November market research technol- vice president of corpo- published her second force development and 2017, Daniel ogy company. rate relations and chief book, The Nitty-Gritty Dawn Bjork education related to au- ’86Blumstein ’s (EPOBio) philanthropy officer at of Managing Diabetes: (Mktg), a 15-year tonomy and autonomous seventh book, Bill Young Salesforce. She is a hall of Personalizing Your ’81member of the National technology. She previ- Ecotourism’s Promise (Econ), an fame member of the San Approach through Speakers Association ously managed advanced and Peril: A Biological ’90 Determination, (NSA), was elected transportation, aerospace, Evaluation, was pub- Perseverance & Balance. president of the Colorado cybersecurity and clean lished by Springer The book addresses chapter, the largest tech economic develop- International Publishing. how personality, attitude in the U.S. A software ment efforts at the Los Dan is a professor and and self-advocation can trainer who speaks on Angeles County Economic former department chair WE WANT impact Type 1 diabetes. technology issues, Dawn Development Corporation at UCLA. He spends his Gina was diagnosed with is a Microsoft-certified and worked as a political summers studying mar- YOUR NEWS! Type 1 diabetes at age 17 trainer and owner of The communications consul- mots near . and with celiac disease at Software Pro. She lives in tant in Southern California. Thirty-two years after Write Christie Sounart, Centennial, Colo. receiving his commis- Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER Nathan Kipnis sion from CU’s Army Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS Michelle (EnvDes) was ROTC, Lou Carmona [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT R. Houser ’83named co-chairman of (OrgMgmt) will retire this COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN ’81(Jour) was named chief the American Institute of summer as a colonel

55 SPRING 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Peter Burke Coloradan SPRING 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE GREGORY CRICHLOW

JONATHAN TREISMAN (COMM’92) IS DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR AEG WORLDWIDE, THE WORLD’S LARGEST SPORTS ENTERTAIN- MENT COMPANY.

Francisco Business Times’ all of Colorado’s four- PhD’00) won a Most Influential Women in teeners, plus Denali and Governor’s Financial Bay Area Business. Aconcagua. On Sept. 15, Literacy Award in he encourages alumni to Wisconsin for her efforts After working join 380 million others in to increase financial ’92 for 17 years removing litter or trash literacy among the state’s TALKING ABOUT REVOLUTIONS multi-gold-medalist who reinvented as executive assistant in their neighborhood, citizens. Rebecca serves Sweet on chocolate? There’s a shop in himself as a pro cyclist, Crichlow came to CU Boulder’s dean park, trail, river, lake, on the board of directors Denver’s Five Points neighborhood you back to Colorado to study architecture of engineering and open space or favorite for SecureFutures, an or- might want to check out — a bikeshop. at CU and joined the cycling team. applied science, Sharon mountain peak. “Our goal ganization that empowers Gregory Crichlow (Arch’95) has “My first ride was a real eye-opener,” Powers (Comm) is in a is elimination of trash/lit- teens through financial transformed a former drug den into a he said. “I was dropped by the group and new position at the CU ter to enjoy clean spaces, education. boutique bike shop that also sells artis- left somewhere near Lyons — I realized ATLAS Institute as senior rivers and oceans,” he anal bean-to-bar chocolate. there was a lot more to the sport than assistant of partnership writes. Matthew The story dates to 2009, when the just getting on a bike and going.” engagement. She lives in Easley Great Recession brought the American He eventually left competitive cycling Superior, Colo. Last fall Keith ’98(MCompSci; PhD’00) economy to its knees, dramatically slow- to focus on architecture and attend grad- Jonathan Treisman (Fin) and was promoted to brigade ing work for Crichlow, then employed as uate school at the University of Illinois. (Comm) is the new direc- ’94Melissa Downham general in the U.S. Army an architect. But Crichlow has remained committed tor of global partnerships (Advert) of Denver took Reserve. His children “I had to make a decision to use a to life on two wheels: He doesn’t own a for AEG Worldwide, the their two children on a pinned on his new rank different skill set,” he said. car and cycles everywhere, as do his two world’s largest sports and trip to Africa. They visited during a Jan. 6, 2018, By 2011, the wheels were in motion to children, ages 13 and 9. entertainment company. Tanzania’s Ngorongoro ceremony in Golden, turn a 400-square-foot Downing Street And, of course, he owns a bike shop AEG Global Partnerships Crater, where the giraffes Colo. He is now the cyber space with no roof into a place where that doubles as a neighborhood gather- oversees sponsorship “kept poking their heads deputy command gen- locals could come for bike repairs and ing place. sales and activation for up like out of Jurassic eral for the 335th Signal frame fabrication, and also chocolate. “My hope is that we’re creating a more than 135 venues, Park,” Keith writes. Command (Theater) in He’d often noticed the building while space where everyone feels welcome and sports franchises, music They also camped in the Atlanta, Ga. biking to his architecture job nearby. It respected as our immediate neighbor- tours and more. Part- Tarangire National Park. became Chocolate Spokes, the subject of hood context evolves,” he said. ners include the Staples Nate Hukill a recent short film of that name. The bow tie is a nod to Crichlow’s Center, London O2 Arena, Musician (Fin) and Luke grandfather, who wore them also, and to Coachella, Los Angeles Michael S. ’99Düster (Fin’97) lead his own attitude toward work. Kings and the Taylor Swift ’95Young’s (IntlAf) praise Boulder-based CRG, AN ARCHITECT “I listen to clients and make their and Elton John tours. and worship band, The a healthcare-focused SHIFTS GEARS. wants and needs come to a tangible Ninth Measure, re- investment firm that reality,” he said. “My appearance is a Serial entrepre- leased its debut album, manages more than $3 Opening the business wasn’t the first reflection of how seriously I take this.” neur, inventor Homecoming, last fall. billion in institutional major gear shift for Crichlow, the rare Crichlow decided to sell chocolate ’93and search-and-rescue Michael, who is a vocalist capital. The firm also cycleshop owner who wears a dress shirt bars alongside handlebars partly because volunteer Steve Jewett and guitarist, was the supports technologies, and bow tie on the job. of his own fondness for them, and be- (Geog) is founder of main song writer. The products and services in After finishing high school in Aurora, cause he believes fine chocolate reflects Clean Trails, creator of album is available on the life sciences indus- where he played ice hockey, he’d lived the studio’s attention to craftsmanship. National CleanUp Day. Amazon. try. Nate, the president, with his grandmother in New York “People come in just to buy chocolate He is the U.S. host of and Luke, managing for a year. There an interest in archi- — nothing to do with bikes,” he said. World CleanUp Day, Last February, director, studied abroad tecture gathered momentum. Dually Now, that’s sweet. which this year is Sept. Rebecca together in Shanghai in inspired by the city’s aesthetics and by 15. Steve has climbed ’97Neumann (MEcon; the ’90s. Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden, a By Sarah Tuff Dunn

57 SPRING 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Gregory Crichlow Coloradan SPRING 2018 58 director of the nonprofit is director of program fashion boutique run out Going Places, inspired by management operations of a refurbished 1956 a GoFundMe campaign at Northrop Grumman Mercury camper trailer she ran from fall 2016 to Technology Services. She selling vintage and new spring 2017. She raised lives in Herndon, Va. men’s and women’s SPRING 2018 more than $80,000 to clothing and accessories. 00s & 10s buy a new bike, lock and Musician Mark Jordan Valutas (Mgmt) Notes helmet for all 650 students Nowakowski married Toby Jacobs Oct. at the North Charleston, ’06(MMus) released his first 7 in Bermuda. CU friend S.C., elementary school album, Blood, Forgotten, and business school where she taught. Katie through the world’s largest study-buddy Jennifer left teaching to run the classical label, Naxos. The Hessenbruch (Acct, nonprofit full time. album received a glowing MS’08) was a brides- Boulder resident review in Gramophone maid. Other CU alumni in Peter Booth (Jour) was magazine. He also com- attendance were Brittany elected a shareholder in posed the soundtrack Burgess Ramsey the Denver office of na- to the documentary (Mktg’07), Anjuli Singhal tional law firm Polsinelli Discovering Tolkien, (Psych’07), Annie Teten PC. Peter lives with his which aired nationally on Behrent (Psych’07) and wife, Lisa Schneider EWTN in November. He Noelle Wesolek Andres (Engl’96), an adjunct is serving his second year (Mktg’07). After honey- instructor at as assistant professor mooning in Thailand, the Community College, and of music at Kent State couple relocated to San their children, Sidney Ivy University, Stark, where Diego, Calif., for Toby’s and Sebastian. he lives with his wife and job in biomedical engi- Chris Deardorff’s three children. neering at NuVasive. (Fin, MBA) marketing This April Dustin Sanza Former member of the U.S. ski team Molly Bloom (PolSci ex’02) was portrayed by actress Jessica agency, Market Com- (Fin) is running the Boston After graduating Chastain in Molly’s Game, a 2017 film about Bloom’s time leading an underground celebrity poker ring. pass, has been renamed Marathon in honor of from CU Margot Magic Flight Studios. Martin Richard, who was ’08Hensler Phelps (Astro) The company is based in killed in the 2013 Boston worked at Caltech, help- R. Ashby Pate to help people become real institutions and one-on-one Superior, Colo. Marathon bombing. Dustin ing install the Advanced (Engl) will partici- estate investors. Mark lives with clients since 2002. He Last year Preston committed to raise $7,500 Laser Interferometer ’00pate in this year’s Alabama in Greeley, Colo. lives in Los Angeles with Dyches (Astro) concluded for the Martin W. Richard Gravitational-Wave State Bar Leadership Last April Zach his wife and one-year-old his service as the public Charitable Foundation Observatory (LIGO) in Forum to train the next Mueller (Span; Nurs’04; son, but writes he makes a information officer for Inc. This will be Dustin’s Hanford, Wash., and generation of legal leaders. PhD’06), a registered yearly trip out to Boulder to NASA’s Cassini mission, second marathon. Livingston, La. During her Ashby, of counsel at nurse with more than recharge. as that spacecraft ended time on the team (three Lightfoot, Franklin & White 17 years in healthcare, its dramatic final year of Adam members of whom won LLC, also is vice chair was named chief nursing Daniel Livesay operations by making a Laughrey (Fin) the 2017 Nobel Prize in of the state bar’s Senior executive of Medical (Psych) wrote final plunge into Saturn. ’07and his wife, Kristie, Physics), she patented an Lawyer-New Lawyer Task City Healthcare, where ’02Children of Uncertain He now serves as the lead started a business in optics cleaning process. Force and chair of the he’s worked since 2011. Fortune, which delves into for public engagement Longmont, Colo., called She then completed her Access to Justice subcom- He oversees the nursing the 18th-century migration special projects at NASA’s The Hop. It is a mobile doctorate in gravitational mittee, which reviews rural practice, education, oper- of elite mixed-race indi- Jet Propulsion Laboratory Alabama’s legal needs and ations and research for 14 viduals from Jamaica to in Pasadena, Calif. challenges. hospitals in North Texas. Great Britain. An assistant Christy Predaina He lives in Dallas. professor at Claremont (Astro, CompSci) was Mark Ferguson Laboratory Conditions, McKenna College, he awarded the Society of WE WANT (Fin) has flipped a short film Robert Scheid focuses on early American Women Engineers’ 2017 ’01more than 120 houses and (Jour, Mgmt) edited and and Atlantic history, Emerging Leader Award. sold more than 1,000 as a starred in, made the film examining the intersection She was recognized for YOUR NEWS! real estate agent. In 2013, festival rounds this year. of race, family and slavery her leadership capabilities he started Invest Four More It stars Marisa Tomei in North America and the while developing the next Write Christie Sounart, and Minnie Driver, both Caribbean. generation of engineers Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER Academy Award winners. and for advancing an Boulder, CO 80309, or DECADES OF CLASS In addition to editing, Rob- Katie innovative approach to [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT ert has been acting and Blomquist (Soc) systems engineering COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN teaching editing through ’05is founder and executive collaboration. Christy

55 SPRING 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy STXfilms Coloradan SPRING 2018 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE MARISA KELLOGG

wave research at the Last fall George Guerin (ArchEngr) passed ON THE MOVE Colorado’s Arise music festival in Au- University of Glasgow. Bryant (MBA) his professional engineer For acrobat Marisa Kellogg gust 2017, she performed a fire dancing In March she will begin ’11was named vice president exam in mechanical engi- (IntlAf’10), adventure is a continuous call. set on stage. a post-doc position and general manager neering. He has five years Take, for instance, the time she was “I’ve performed with fire fans, palm at the Albert Einstein of Colorado outdoor of experience in Colorado part of Boulder’s AscenDance Project, torches, double staffs and a fire hoop,” Gravitational Wave product company Sierra designing mechanical sys- a group of dancers who perform a she said. “I’ve gotten used to the smell of Institute in Hanford, Designs. He previously tems for facilities, plants choreographed routine on a rock wall — burnt hair.” Germany. served as retail and na- and laboratories. without ropes. Off stage, Kellogg teaches adult gymnastics and circus classes. She Since gradua- CIRCUS FILLED A VOID helps her students develop better COMIC ARTIST EMMA ’13 tion, Wisdom spatial and body awareness through Amouzou (Comm) has GYMNASTICS LEFT. activities like handstands, strength OOSTERHOUS worked with Teach for development and partner moves. America and the African Or the period in 2016 she spent in the “Marisa brings her passion for com- (SPAN’17), CREATOR Leadership Academy. jungles of Colombia teaching acrobatics munity, play and collaboration into In 2015, he co-launched in Spanish. Or last year, when she helped everything that she does,” said Fractal OF THE WEBCOMIC his own venture called lead a three-week children’s circus camp Tribe producer Lani Gordon. “Her the HadaNõu Collective, in the tiny town of Talkeetna, Alaska, movement and performance are a direct ALPHABET SOUP, which aims to create population 876. representation of her personality: Fo- resource centers and “Movement is a lifestyle for me,” said cused, committed, connected and skillful.” WAS AWARDED schools that partner Kellogg, 28, who started gymnastics For Kellogg, part of the job is to be students directly with the when she was four. “To me it’s a form of ready for the unexpected. A MARSHALL community to help solve play — using and challenging my body in “Once, we performed outdoors for a real-world problems. different ways for optimal physical and fire festival in below freezing tempera- SCHOLARSHIP. mental well-being.” tures, and it was snowing so hard the Maria LeFebre Originally from Washington, D.C., stage turned into an ice rink,” she said. (Anth) and Kellogg is manager of the Fractal “The obstacles that come up are part of Matt Kramer tional accounts manager ’15Charlie Barkmeier (Econ) Tribe, a professional circus arts troupe the process. Unless someone’s safety is at (PolSci) of for Textron Specialized were engaged Dec. 15. based at the Boulder Circus Center. risk, the show must go on!” ’09Broomfield, Colo., Vehicles. He is an active The couple plans to marry The group combines theatrics with co-founded The member with Colorado in Boulder in 2019. They dance, fire, acrobatics, aerial arts and By Christie Sounart (Jour’12) Application Authority Trout Unlimited. live in Cleveland, Ohio. music for audiences at three years ago in Ann On Dec. 29, 2017, festivals, theaters and Arbor, Mich. The busi- Matthew Evett (Ling) Teacher Rawa conventions. ness guides students and Amanda Fendrick Abu Alsamah “We are made up of on creating stand-out Evett (IntlAf, PolSci’13) ’17(MEdu) writes that she is scientists, programmers, college applications. celebrated their sec- CU Boulder’s first Saudi healers, teachers and Last year, the firm ond anniversary. They Arabian woman to earn activists,” said Kellogg, opened a second office returned to Colorado after a master’s degree with who lives full-time at in Broomfield. Matt aims living in Washington, D.C., an emphasis in teaching the center, located on to mentor CU business post-graduation and now English to culturally and Boulder’s 26th Street, students. His company live in Fort Collins. Aman- linguistically diverse near Jay Road. is actively engaged in da works at Colorado students. Rawa is a sixth Kellogg’s competitive Boulder Startup Week. State University. Matthew grade special education gymnastics career was works in Cheyenne as teacher at Denver’s sidelined by a back On Oct. 19, a speech pathologist at STRIVE Prep-Kepner. injury when she was 16 Nestor Bravo LifeCare. Comic artist Emma years old. But she still ’10(MSpan) became a Attorney Adrienne Oosterhous (Span) was craved active perfor- U.S. citizen at the Scheffey (PolSci) joined awarded a Marshall mance and found an U.S. Citizenship and the Denver office of Littler, Scholarship, which offers outlet in Boulder. Immigration Services’ a global employment and recipients a full ride to “Circus filled a void Centennial, Colo., office. labor law practice. She any university in the U.K. that gymnastics left,” Nestor is vice principal previously clerked for two Emma will work on a mas- said Kellogg. of John F. Kennedy High years for the Hon. Rebec- ter’s degree in comics and In performances, School in Denver and ca Freyre of the Colorado graphic novels starting in she does everything serves as its athletic Court of Appeals. September at the Universi- from partner acrobat- director. He manages the ty of Dundee in Scotland. ics — including counter Spanish curriculum for RMH Group She is creator of the web- balances and adagios Denver Public Schools. ’12 engineer Matt comic Alphabet Soup. — to hand balancing. At 57 SPRING 2018 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Steve Stoytchev Photography Coloradan SPRING 2018 58 CLASS NOTES In Memoriam Margaret Klett Hunker (A&S’37) Curtis H. Baker (CivEngr’51) Nancy Setter Karl (Edu’59) Janet Johnson Howsam (A&S’40) Shirley C. Bauer (MusEdu’51) C. Wills Long (ChemEngr, Mktg’59) Clyde B. Kennedy (Acct’41) Richard G. Irwin (Bus’51) Edward H. Meister Jr. (A&S’59) Evalyn Tomlin Eckman (A&S’42) Marjorie Selters Logan (MusEd’51) Marian Little Reardon (Bus’59) Jean Mills Loeffler (DistSt’42) Robert C. McHugh (Law’51) Norbert E. Stohs (ElEngr’59) Robert E. Kern (ElEngr’43) France Hilliard Reed (Art’51) Eleanor Norton Viereck Henry A. Bosco (A&S’44) Kenneth G. Sletten (CivEngr’51) (PhDBio’59) Katie Peabody McPherson Beverly Leutz Zabka (Hist’51) Carla Anderson Foulk (Edu’60) (A&S’44) William F. Cook (MechEngr’52) Cynthia Cullen Gainelly (A&S’60) Marjorie Zeiger Newmark Eugene Deikman (Law’52) Michael S. Knuths (A&S’60) (Chem’44; PhD’54) Carla Wiebenson Henebry- Francis E. Luethi Jr. (Fin’60) Mary Johnson Moran (Mktg’45) Branscombe (A&S’52) Mary B. Thistlethwaite (EdD’60) Maxine Tribby Parks (Nurs’45) Neil W. Jenkins (Geog’52) Donald O. Todd (ElEngr’60) Marguerite Echternach Noetzli Richard M. McClure Sharon A. Vairo (Nurs, MA’60) Rouzie (A&S’45) (MechEngr’52) Harold L. Baker (MechEngr’61) Lenore A. Westermann (DistSt’45) William M. McMechen (CivEngr’52) David F. Butler (A&S’61) Elizabeth A. Franklin (A&S’46) Robert A. O’Dell (A&S ex’52) F. Paul Clements (MHist’61) Kenneth C. Gruber (MechEngr’46) Genevieve I. Osborn (MA&S ex’52) Betty L. Emery (Math’61) Robert E. Dickman (MechEngr’47) Wallace Worman (A&S’52) Sean Maguire (A&S ex’61) Gladys Cameron Dilorenzo Glenn I. Anderson (ElEngr’53) Allan L. Mandel (A&S’61) (MedTech’47) Thomas R. Flint (CivEngr’53) Allan G. Pulsipher (A&S’61) Jacqueline Stine Gerrish Thomas A. Fuhrman (ElEngr’53) Gary L. Stetzel (A&S ex’61) (CompSci’47) Jane Short Helmchen (A&S’53) Edgar N. Drake II (MA&S’62) Robert Clevenger (CivEngr’67) Eugene J. Castellanos (A&S ex’75) Matthew G. Starbuck (MAcct’91) Frances Paulsen Olson (A&S’47) Lloyd W. Page (MA&S’53) Juliann Purse Lee (A&S ex’62) Diane Clanahan Conn (Psych’67) John A. Davis Jr. (MSoc’75) Andrew W. McKee (Mus ex’92) Olga O. Blumenfeld (MA&S’48) Ann Trucksess Pierce (Art’53; MA’55) George A. Olson (Acct’62) Mary Jess (Engl’67) Jerry L. Pluss (MCDBio’75) Seamus P. McNerney (Phil’92) Charles F. Hix Jr. (MechEngr’48; Patricia Knowles Tilsley (Nurs’53) Lester C. Green (A&S’63) Gale R. Lewellen (A&S ex’67) Lawrence E. Smith (MechEngr’75) Mark A. Thompson (MCivEngr’92) ElEngr’49) Kathryn A. Cain (Edu’54) Lawrence Lomako (Mktg’63) William P. Naylor (MA&S ex’67) Charlotte Wertz Garcia (MEdu’76; Eric B. Autry (Psych’93) Quentin L. Florey (EngrPhys’49) Stanley W. Dreyer (Mgmt’54) C. Dean Miller (EdD’63) Ronald R. Phillipp (Edu’67) MA’81) Andrea L. Casillas (A&S ex’93) Barbara L. Foiles (A&S’49) Jaquelin Vonier Early (A&S’54) Sally Sloan Nelson (PolSci’63) Robert R. Reeder (MA&S’67) Yvonne Van Bebber (MEdu’76) Jared E. Hill (Soc’93) Virginia R. Keehan (MPerServ’49; George J. Haller (ArchEngr, Harold F. Smith (AeroEngr’63) Dorothy A. Wolf (Edu ex’67) Kelley Waite (Engl’76) Robert J. Bertsch (Mktg’94) EdD’54) Bus’54) Donald R. Stribling (ElEngr’63) Dean F. Hill (MChem’68) Barbara J. Wertz (Psych’76) Elizabeth R. Weiher (Acct’95) Helen Grafe Nussbaum (Art’49) Raymond C. Richardson Lynda Kammerlohr Walker James V. Marsden (ArchEngr’68) Lloyd W. Hanson (MMus’77; Brian J. Manzanares (Soc’96) Delvin E. Plaisance (CivEngr’49) (ChemEngr’54) (A&S’63) Harrison B. Albert (PhDChem’69) PhD’84) Buckley Kuhn Fricker (Engl’97) Frank C. Prager (ChemEngr’49) Nancy M. Tuhey (Engl’54) Barrie A. Hattel (A&S ex’64) Rebecca Both Anderson (Span’69) John M. Little III (DistSt’77) Lori R. Honick (Soc ex’98) Marybelle Kettle Potter Josephine L. Cohen (Psych’55) Richard D. McDaniel (MusEdu’64) Steven L. Colthurst (MBA’69) Joseph L. Mapes (PhDEdu’77) Randal C. Hines (MCompSci’99) (BusEdu’49) William S. Knies (Bus’55) Jean Labe Steinberg (A&S’64) Penny L. Dodge (A&S ex’69) Mabel Gormley Preble (Law’77) Bonnie R. Hall (Art’02) Alfred D. Vail (A&S ex’49) John P. Koclanes (Pharm’55) James L. Chamberlin (A&S’65) Renee Baker Kopecky (Edu’69) Cathy L. Schaeffer (Thtr’77) Eric P. O. Finnegan (ChemEngr John W. Andrews (ChemEngr’50) William A. Raley (A&S’55) Gary L. Cryder (A&S ex’65) Kenneth E. Correa (A&S’70) Kenneth R. Woellhof (Comm’77) ex’03) Walter P. Banas (MechEngr, Shirley Branch Ryan (Art’55) John F. Spicuzza (MPE’65) Joseph D. Doolittle (PhDA&S Lois Brodahl Anderton (MEdu’78) Stefano Cordova (Soc’04) Mgmt’50) Robert D. Rider (Mus’55) William B. Anderson (Acct’66) ex’70) Andrew A. Martin (Fin’79) Kurt B. Soper (Fin’04) Gene R. Bartlett (A&S’50) D. Rhoades Schroeder (Geol’55) Neil R. Bankert (ElEngr, Mgmt’66) Hardy Long Frank (PhDA&S’70) Tom R. Pfeiffer (Jour’79) Charles S. Whipple (MechEngr’04) Charles W. Brown (Acct’50) Kenneth A. Sinclair (Acct’55) Matthew H. Capell (MMus’66) Michele Harju Nacy (A&S’70) Marilynn Marlett Carr (MBA’80) Ashley L. McCoy (Comm ex’10) Carrie Anderson Butler (Jour’50) James S. Whitfield (A&S’55) Ronald J. Caporale (A&S’66) William G. Callahan (MGeog’71; Louis G. Gottlieb (MEcon’80) Steven E. Combs Jr. (Fin’11) Harry Friedman (ElEngr’50) Jetta L. Bourne (A&S ex’56) Richard L. Cys (ChemEngr’66) PhD’76) Kevin O. Kricke (A&S ex’80) Nakeya M. Klaren (Soc’13) Edward Gonsalo (A&S ex’50) Richard E. W. Smith (A&S ex’56) Lowell F. Greimann (MCivEngr’66; Richard Diamond (Psych’71) Charles S. Miller (ElEngr’80) Matthew R. Fote (Chem ex’14) O. Winston Hampton (Geol’50; Douglas H. Johnson (Pharm’57) PhD’68) Eileen Mayberry Lantry (MEdu’71) Susan DeVine Baglien (Hist’81) Kelly A. Emery (Acct, Fin, MMgmt’55; MGeol’57) Barbara Boesel Owens (Mus’57; Don H. Kratsch (Acct’66) Gordean B. Linden (A&S ex’71) Richard A. Bunn (Engl’81) MAcct’15) Ruth Cantonwine Hockett (A&S’50) MA’61) John D. MacArthur (PE’66) Donra Vogel Stark (Edu’71) Charles Hansen (Phys’81) Jared J. Pinel (Psych’15) Byron W. Houseknecht (Anth’50) Dennis G. Samson (AeroEngr, Phillip E. Myers (Hist’66; MA’67) Robert E. Warner (Engr ex’71) Sandra K. Hust (A&S ex’81) Julia F. Sarcona (StComm’18) Norman T. 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59 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Photo by Casey A. Cass Coloradan SPRING 2018 60 TOMMY DORSEY remembers that?) saw my me that Ralphie was SIGHTING plight, and offered me the named after Colorado’s Enjoyed the Coloradan, as use of his phone. Need- 29th governor, Ralph always, even if I now seem less to say, the roommate C. Carr. Gov. Carr was SPRING 2018 to peruse the “In Memori- who answered the call adamantly against the am” section first. was not happy, as it was relocation and internment On the short article “The around 1 a.m. He let me of Japanese-American DOORWAYS of CU BOULDER Gold Record,” the photo in, without disturbing the citizens to an internment at the top and center of downstairs tenants, and camp in eastern pages 13 and 14 is of I was able to get a good Colorado, Amache. This Tommy Dorsey. I suspect night’s sleep and get to belief probably ended the photo to its left is also class that morning. Carr’s political career. Dorsey. Maybe you knew There were many other If Ralphie is indeed this and simply did not memorable occurrences named after Gov. Ralph label them. Glenn’s hairline at that address, but space C. Carr, Ralphie is the and nose look different would not permit their namesake of a very from Dorsey’s — actually being reported. It was an noble man. quite a bit. Maybe one has unforgettable school year. Patricia Gasser Law to have seen them both David S. Wood (Engl’52) back in the era to recog- (MSpan’69) Broomfield, Colo. nize this immediately. Boulder Wilson W. Wampler There seem to be several (Engl’49) As a second-year graduate versions about the nam- Denver student in engineering in ing of CU’s magnificent the early 1970s, I made mascot, Ralphie. In the Editor’s Note: Wilson the decision to move from recent issue of the Colo- is correct. The first two Cockerell Hall to near 10th radan [Winter 2017], one photos in the top row and Grandview, about a letter suggested Ralphie of images show Glenn block west of the Tepley was named for Ralph Miller’s contemporary House. This meant a daily Wallace (Hist’68). Tommy Dorsey, not commute across campus I would refer you to the Miller. We should have either on foot or by bike. labeled them. September 2012 issue My usual route took me of the Coloradan, which past 1145 Grandview. says that Ralphie was 1145 GRANDVIEW In seeing the article named after the third son In the Winter 2017 edition photo, I remember that of the Rev. A. Balfour of the Coloradan, I read the house caught my Patterson. This is the with interest “A Houseful eye back then, since version I have believed of Tepleys,” regarding the brick was similar to all these years, and I am Photos by Casey A. Cass the property on 1145 that where I lived, and I sticking with this version! Grandview. It was my first remember the non-90- Barbara J. Belina rental in Boulder, during degree corners at the (Engl’69; MPubAd’81) Readers responded enthusiastically to the winter the 1956-57 school year. front of the house. De- Lakewood, Colo. issue’s poster contest. Thanks to all who wrote in. ANSWER KEY AT: My roommates and I lived spite having a daily trip The following alumni were the first to correctly colorado.edu/coloradan — upstairs (three of us), and across campus, it was identify at least 7 of the 12 doorways. Their prize? search “poster contest.” three others downstairs. one of the best com- The poster! One night I came home mutes I ever had. Thanks late from watching the for the historical nugget 1. Marci Fulton (Hist’96; Law’04), Denver fights in Denver (a bygone on the Tepley House. 2. Sarah Brazier (IntlAf’11), Austin, Texas In response to unexpected era), and while turning Paul Bien 3. Cris Jones (EnvDes’03), Salt Lake City demand for the posters, the key to enter, it broke (MAeroEngr’72) we’re planning an extra 4. Jessica Smith (Neuro’16), Boulder off in my hand. Unable Fairfield, Iowa print run and will make to get in at this point, I 5. Mark Brooks (Hist, IntPhys’12), Lakewood, Colo. posters available for sale. 6. Erin Lencioni (IntPhys’16), Denver If you’d like to reserve tossed small pebbles MORE RALPHIE 7. Michelle Bradford (Soc’89), Peachtree City, Ga. one, please email editor@ at an upstairs window NAME ORIGINS 8. Ida Mae Isaac (ArchEngr’02; MCivEngr’04), Boulder colorado.edu with your in an effort to awaken In the late 1980s, I was 9. Sierra Swearingen (Art, Engl’95; Law’06), Denver name and phone number. one of my roommates. A working at Koenig Alumni 10. Casey Kuchta (MechEngr’16), Aurora; We will notify you as soon neighbor from the Men’s Center and received a Kyle Kuchta (ChemEngr’12), Aurora (tie) as they’re available. Co-op on Broadway (who call from an alum telling

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1. Scott Carpenter PUBLISHER Where do you read the Coloradan? Paolo Estefania (Psych’14) brought his to the Dead Sea . He posted (Aero’49; Ryan Chreist (Kines’96, MPubAd’09) this photo on Instagram with the caption: “I always carry the best reading material!” Thanks, Paolo! HonDocSci’00) EDITOR 2. Vance Brand Eric F. Gershon (Fin’53; AeroEngr’60) be careful, we are causing a 14er or two due to a ASSOCIATE EDITOR most of the fires.” Edd new elevation mapping 3. Stuart Roosa Christie Sounart (Jour’12) GETTING Hamilton wrote, “Inter- system: “13ers are cooler (AeroEngr’60) STUDENT ASSISTANT esting data about the anyway.” Amanda Clark (MJour’19) SOCIAL beetle kill in Colorado not 4. John Swigert Reader reactions to the leading to bigger fires. “Making Guns Safer,” (MechEngr’53) CONTRIBUTORS Winter 2017 issue via I thought once one of which highlights Margot Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86), Michelle Starika Asakawa Facebook: these areas got sparked, Hirsch’s (Class’82) vision 5. Ellison Onizuka (Jour, Mktg’87), Peter Burke (Engl’92), Patrick it would burn for a long, for “smart guns,” elicited (AeroEngr’69; MS’69) Campbell (EnvDes’11), Casey A. Cass, Melissa Cech Many people were excited long time.” strong reactions. Max (Engl’06), Dave Curtin (Jour’78), Paul Danish (Hist’65), Marty Coffin Evans (Engl’64), Kacie Griffith, Trent to learn that New York Rogovin wrote: “Anything 6. John ‘Mike’ Lounge Knoss, Elizabeth Lock (MJour’09), Lisa Marshall (Jour, City restaurateur and less reliable than a (MAeroEngr’70) PolSci’94), Ken McConnellogue (Jour’90), Jennifer ramen master Ivan firearm as it stands Osieczanek, Kelsey Perry, David Plati (Jour’82), Julie Orkin (Jpn’87) of today is a step back- 7. Marsha Ivins Poppen (Engl’88), Clint Talbott (Jour’85) Netflix’ Chef’s Table wards, not forwards.” (AeroEngr’73) is an alum. “That Michael Snyder DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION spicy ramen is still declared: “We don’t 8. James Voss Pentagram Austin my favorite in the need smarter guns… (MAeroEngr’74) city,” wrote Shahar we need smarter Atary (Law’13). John people.” 9. Kalpana Chawla Creach wrote: “Ivan, (MAero’86; PhD’88; Please recycle with magazines. open up a Ramen Of our “Doorways of HonDocSc’'03) house in Norman, CU” poster contest, OK. I’ll eat there Claudia Pia Ho wrote: 10. Steve Swanson every day.” “I love this game, (EngrPhys’83) VISIT US AT From Seaton Thedger which reminds me that WWW.COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN Responding to our cover (Law’06), after reading in I had been living in this story about megafires, “Where’d my 14er Go?” beautiful place. I wanna Scott Carpenter, Carol Morris wrote: “People, that Colorado may lose come back.” Oct. 27, 1964

63 SPRING 2018 Coloradan Photos courtesy Paolo Estefania; NASA Coloradan SPRING 2018 64 THENJULY 31, 1919

From its earliest days, CU Boulder educated men and women both. But it wasn’t until 1934 that the first large- scale women’s dormitory opened. You’d know it as Sewall Hall. It turns out there were plans for an earlier sizable women’s residence, never built. Last October, con- tractors discovered them among other items in a crawl space beneath the Folsom Field bleachers. Dated July 31, 1919, and prepared by the firm of architect Charles Klauder — who designed Hellems and other prominent CU Boulder buildings — the drawings depict a four-floor, boomerang-shaped structure along Broadway, just west of Hale. Here you see excerpts from the blueprints, scanned and reversed to improve image quality. They’re now in safe- keeping at the CU Heritage Center. For more of the story, visit colorado.edu/coloradan.

Illustrations courtesy University of Colorado Boulder/CU Heritage Center

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