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1 WINTER 2017 Coloradan ColoradanPhoto by WINTER Glenn Asakawa 2017 2 FEATURES EDITOR’S NOTE

Marvels of human daring 15 Megafire and ingenuity have Wildfire, a familiar phenomenon in the Amer- brought us to sea bot- ican West, is getting worse. Michael Kodas of toms and mountaintops, CU Boulder’s Center for Environmental Jour- to the moon and back. nalism reports. There’s serious talk of human travel to Mars. Yet our species’ 23 A Family Tale creativity and self-con- A 2012 accident paralyzed Marty O’Connor fidence can also blind (Film’10) below the shoulders. Then he went to us to the natural world business school with a trusted study buddy at whence we sprang and his side. of which we’re part. We forget that towns and cities and the comforts 25 Where’d My 14er Go? of civilization are our A new way of measuring elevation in the U.S. creation. We emerged might cost Colorado a couple 14ers. from something less tame and predictable, and we remain subject to 29 A Houseful of Tepleys its forces. One house on The Hill. One family. Four Often of late, nature generations of Buffs. erupts to remind us. In 2017, hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico 31 MOOC and submerged Houston Online education gains steam at CU Boulder. as wildfires vaporized swaths of the American West, most consequen- 35 Ramen King tially in California. Japan went crazy for Ivan Orkin’s (Jpn'87) Fire demands attention ramen. Now America has the fever. in the West. As Michael Kodas of CU’s Center for Environmental Journalism 39 Ancient Beasts of Australia explains in our cover sto- What killed them off? A CU scientist with an ry, wildfire has grown far Arctic pedigree thinks he’s found the answer in more ferocious, a trend the hot Australian interior. expected to continue. We’ve often engi- neered our way to safety. Kodas shows us just COVER Wildfire in the U.S. is what we’re dealing with. likely to get a lot worse. Photo by Michael Kodas. Eric Gershon

LEFT A quiet moment outside Old Main. See a medley of campus doorways on page 11. Photo by Casey A. Cass.

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1 NOW First Snow 8 BOULDER BEAT 21 INFOGRAPHIC 49 Sports 65 THEN Paul Danish Wildfire World War I 5 INQUIRY 55 Class Notes Lori Peek 11 LOOK Portals 43 Alumni News 61 Letters CONTACT ERIC GERSHON AT 7 Campus News 13 ORIGINS Gold Record 47 Q&A with the Chancellor [email protected]

3 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 4 INQUIRY LORI PEEK

NATURAL HAZARDS in rural eastern Kansas — my grand- we don’t mitigate risk, we’re going to is to provide actionable information. It Lori Peek (PhDSoc’05), a CU Boulder parents’ house was hit by a tornado continue to see these bigger disasters. is not effective to just say: ‘A hurricane sociology professor, directs the university’s and their barn was destroyed and their We must keep our eye on the prize and is coming, get out of the way.’ It is im- Natural Hazards Center. house was badly damaged. Fortunate- work on reducing the risks we face, portant to offer concrete steps people ly, they were fine. I still have such vivid which means building smarter, more can take in light of their social context. Floods, hurricanes and wildfires: memories of my three brothers and my sustainably and with a climate-resilient 2017 has been devastating in the parents and I going down into the cellar framework so we don’t see more Are there certain regions in the U.S. U.S. Have you been unusually busy? outside of our house when tornado mega-catastrophes. that are more vulnerable to disasters? Yes. We have been compiling resources warnings would be issued. There is no place that doesn’t have for community members, stakeholders Has there been an increase in nat- some hazards risk. However, some and others to help educate and inform Your book with Alice Fothergill ural disasters, or are more people places have much higher exposure, as these disasters are unfolding. We also (PhDSoc’01), Children of Katrina, just living in vulnerable areas? and some hazards are much more run a quick-response grant program that focuses on the long-term effects of The number of reported natural disas- frequent and severe. New Orleans, Mi- helps deploy researchers into the field Hurricane Katrina on children. What ters in the U.S. has tripled over the last ami, New York City, Los Angeles, San so they can gather data and launch lon- are they? 20 years. Some of the explanations Francisco and Houston are what we ger-term studies. There have been a lot Something Katrina really taught us is for the increase are related to climatic call disaster hotspots, because they of inquiries from media outlets. that the most destructive and disrup- changes, population growth and un- have large concentrations of people tive disasters can have truly life-altering sustainable development in hazardous and infrastructure in highly hazard- What sparked your interest in study- consequences for children. When chil- areas. There is no one simple answer prone regions. ing the sociology of hazards and dren experience life threat or multiple for why we are seeing bigger disasters, disasters? displacements, these sorts of things but we must understand these complex What is the most important thing peo- I arrived as a new graduate student at CU can disrupt education, peer networks causes if we ever hope to reduce them. ple around the country need to learn in 1999 and had the incredible fortune to and family networks and can have from our recent natural disasters? be hired as the graduate research assis- long-standing implications for their Are there positives that have come Disasters of this magnitude are not in- tant at the National Hazards Center. I fell health, development and well-being. out of increased media coverage? evitable. There is a possibility to reduce in love with the possibility of taking social What I’ve found most positive and the risk we are all facing, but that is scientific knowledge and applying it for Has the U.S. made progress since heartening is that there has been a lot going to take time, resources, sound the betterment of humanity. Katrina on hurricane recovery? more evidence-informed reporting, science, leadership, focused attention While we have improved in terms of really drawing on the expert knowledge and collective action. Have you ever directly experienced our emergency response, we have that is out there. In addition, leaders a natural disaster? continued to build and develop in areas have come on TV and been doing Condensed and edited by Lauren Price No, but when I was a child — I grew up that are subject to natural hazards. If something that we recommend, which (MJour’17).

5 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan WINTER 2017 6 BOULDER BEAT By Paul Danish

THE TRIP residents of a Quechua Indian village In 1968 CU architecture student Bob 12,000 feet up in the Andes. White (Arch ex’71) was sitting in his red The Automobile Club of Argentina 1962 4x4 Chevy truck in Circle, Alaska threw a reception for him. (just shy of the Arctic Circle), out of money, food, gas and options. START He pulled out a map and realized he was as far north as you could drive on a road. WINTER 2017 So he decided to drive to Tierra del News Fuego at the southern tip of South America. “Giant decisions are sometimes made Circles in the Sand on the spur of the moment,” Bob said. Recently he sent me a book he wrote A CU ECOLOGIST TACKLES A MYSTERY IN AFRICA recalling the adventure. It’s titled The Trip. START: And a splendid broth of a trip it was. Circle, Alaska Barren circles of red sand, 30 to 100 Sure enough, in fairy circles where wa- Bob was chased by a grizzly bear while FINISH: feet wide, form a Swiss-cheese pattern ter and nutrients were both added, the camping near Lake Louise in Canada. Tierra del Fuego across hundreds of miles of arid grass- grasses grew back — the circles started He drove across the frozen Yukon TRANSPORT: lands in the Namib Desert of southwest to “die.” Adding resources had decreased River as the ice was breaking up under 1962 Chevy 4x4 Africa. No one knows why. Local legends competition among plants, which other- his wheels. call them footprints of the gods. wise fight for them in the low-nutrient, In Mexico, he tried his hand at bull FINISH Scientists have proposed various dry environment. fighting. (The bull won; Bob landed in a causes for these “fairy circles,” as The findings suggest fairy circles form pile of fresh bull stuff.) And then there’s the possible en- they’re also known, including hungry when starved plants die, freeing resourc- He dined with a contingent of Los counter with a South American Yeti termites and underground gases wafting es for their neighbors, which grow tall Indio’s de los Colorados, said to be while camping in the mountains of up and killing patches of grass. Now around the dead patch and form the headhunters, who served him the head Tierra del Fuego. a CU Boulder team is going back to characteristic ring. of a capybara, a giant rat, as the entree. Back in Boulder, Bob became a basics as it tries to solve The chief showed him how to suck out successful builder; the San Francisco this enduring ecological the eyeballs and the brains. Townhouses on West Pearl Street are his mystery. signature project. In 1975 he got elected “We just went to the HE DINED WITH to the City Council, where we served principles of how eco- together for four years, and became systems work and didn't HEADHUNTERS. deputy mayor. let how cool these were Today he lives on St. Croix in the distract us,” said Nichole He crossed the Honduras-El Salva- American Virgin Islands. Alexander Ham- Barger, professor of dor border as the 1969 Soccer War was ilton’s mother is buried on his property. ecology and evolutionary breaking out and was pinned down in a His latest adventure has been surviv- biology, who’s closing in firefight that went on for hours. ing Hurricanes Irma and Maria. on answers after years He had a chance meeting and several “Young men in their twenties are of research. beers with Thor Heyerdal of Kon Tiki driven to do things that seem off the wall It’s no wonder it’s taken fame at a bar in Panama City, after which later in life,” he said. “Whatever it is that a while: Just getting to the Heyerdal invited him to sail across the drives them drove me.” fairy circles, which can Atlantic on a reed boat. last for up to 60 years, is a challenge. The promising results are still only He translated a radio broadcast of the Paul Danish (Hist’65) is a Coloradan In April, Barger and her team “pieces of the puzzle,” Barger said: The first moon landing into Spanish for the columnist. traveled six hours southeast from initial cause and what perpetuates the Windhoek, Namibia’s capital, into the circles might be different. She noticed, NamibRand Nature Reserve, far from for instance, that in fenced circles, in- gas and groceries. They continued in accessible to zebra and oryx, the grasses an all-wheel-drive truck over sandy also grew back, indicating grazers might roads and dunes to follow up on an play a role in maintaining fairy circles. ongoing experiment. On her last day in Namibia, a local Two years earlier, Barger had added guide asked Barger, “What’s causing the water, fertilizer and insecticide to some circles in the hills?” circles to see if she could “kill” them by She’d never heard of those circles — a changing the conditions they form in. The new mystery for her next trip. hypothesis: Plants organize into the strik- ing pattern simply due to competition. By Ula Chrobak

7 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Nichole Barger Photo courtesy Bob White Coloradan WINTER 2017 8 Campus News

HEARD AROUND CAMPUS To Finland, with Love DIGITS “IN BOULDER YOU’RE SATURN FINALE A STUDENT’S MUSICAL HOMAGE TO A NATION WINS A HEARING BEFORE THE AMBASSADOR MORE LIKELY TO HEAR The dramatic September end of NASA’s Cassini THE WHOOSH OF mission concluded a It was Conor Brown’s first visit to the daughter of Finland’s 2009 two-row 20-year run aboard the the Finnish embassy in Washington, button accordion champion, a resident A CYCLIST THAN spacecraft for CU’s and he’d brought company: Two violin- of the far-northern town of Rovaniemi, Ultraviolet Imaging Spec- ists, a cellist, a violist, a clarinetist and near the Arctic Circle. Brown had THE SHRILL OF trograph (UVIS), which a singing accordionist. They’d be doing coincidentally made plans to visit helped analyze Saturn’s rings and moons. most of the work. Rovaniemi. Once there, he hunkered A SIREN…” down with the champion to soak in — National Geographic, which his knowledge of the instrument’s out- in October named Boulder A BOULDER sized role in Finnish folk music. “Happiest City in the U.S.” PREMIERE WITH AN The experience inspired Brown to give the accordion a prominent role in his new 1997Year Cassini left Earth EMBASSY ENCORE piece, a three-movement, 20-minute work that had its world premiere at CU Boul- Brown (MMus’18) had largely done der shortly before the trip to Washington. A LEGEND AMONG US his part. Over the prior 18 months or “It really isn’t done until it’s on Dance Magazine this fall named Lorenzo “Rennie” so, he’d composed an original classical stage,” said Brown, who grew up in Harris, an artist-in-residence at CU Boulder, a “Living musical work the group would perform Boulder and studied clarinet at CU Legend,” placing him in the company of Fred Astaire, in a 100th anniversary celebration of during high school, working with facul- Pina Bausch and Misty Copeland, all past honorees. Billion miles traveled Finland’s independence from Russia. ty clarinetist Daniel Silver. A hip-hop choreographer from Philadelphia, Har- 4.9 “It’s contemporary classical music Silver was on hand at the ris has received high praise before: In 2015, The New inspired by Finnish folk texts,” embassy, too — performing York Times called him “the most profound choreogra- said Brown, winner of the Col- the clarinet part in Brown’s pher of that idiom.” lege of Music’s Finnish Jubilee piece before an audience Harris is the founder of Rennie Harris Puremovement, Saturn orbits completed Composition Scholarship. “The of about 150, among them a dance company that preserves and disseminates hip- 294 music is all about trying to tell a contingent of fans and hop culture. He has taught at CU Boulder since 2009. the story in the texts.” friends from CU. Alicia Dance Magazine annually recognizes artists who have Sponsored by Don John- Baker (MMus’17), left, “left a lasting impact on dance.” son (Arch’62) and his wife, played accordion $12MCost of CU-built UVIS Maria, a dancer and and sang. native Finn, the schol- “The am- TWINS AID MARIJUANA RESEARCH arship was intended bassador and As more states consider legalizing recreational mar- to inspire an original other offi- ijuana use, scientists are trying to understand how it composition in cials seemed plays out in people’s lives. Finland’s honor incredibly With a $5.5 million award from the National Insti- while benefiting pleased tute on Drug Abuse, a research team from CU Boulder a promising with how and the University of Minnesota will assess whether CU Boulder the work legalization promotes use, for example, and try to student. turned identify the consequences of use for work, family and After Brown, out,” mental health. There’s little existing scientific evidence. 29, won, he flew Brown The team will study 1,250 sets of previously researched to Europe for 10 said. twins in Colorado, where sales of recreational marijuana days of immer- Days later, have been permitted since 2014, and 1,250 sets of twins Moons discovered sive research. he and the mu- in Minnesota, where it remains illegal. Using the Minne- He’d never sicians recorded sota twins as a control group, the scientists will look for been to Fin- the piece for the behavioral changes in the Colorado twins since 2014. land; it was a first time. “There is clear need for solid scientific evidence,” 453,048 chance to steep Brown again left said study co-leader John Hewitt, director of CU Boul- Images taken by Cassini himself in the lan- the clarinet part to der’s Institute for Behavioral Genetics. guage, landscape and Silver. The study could result in more concrete guide- 6 musical tradition. “I’m just the compos- lines. Colorado and Washington were the first states Brown’s Airbnb er!” he said. to legalize recreational marijuana use, in 2012. hostess in Helsinki, For more details, visit CU Boulder Today online and 9Cassini/ vaporized15 in it turned out, was By Eric Gershon search the words “twins” and “marijuana.” Saturn’s atmosphere

9 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Daniel Kellogg Coloradan WINTER 2017 10 LOOK PORTALS

DOORWAYS OF CU BOULDER There are more than 360 buildings at CU Boulder and thousands of doorways. Have you strolled through some of these? We’ll send a poster of this image to the first 10 readers to correctly identify the location of 7 of the 12 doorways pictured here. Email responses to [email protected].

11 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photos by Casey A. Cass Coloradan WINTER 2017 12 ORIGINS THE GOLD RECORD

CHATTANOOGA CHOO CHOO tradition for their own mega-selling the soundtrack of the 1941 movie Sun to forget your troubles and dance,” In 1958, the Recording Industry Associ- artists, and RIAA later established a Valley Serenade. said Miller’s daughter, Jonnie Miller ation of America (RIAA) began awarding formal certification program. The film’s success spurred record Hoffman (A&S ex’67). gold records to musicians for albums It’s all thanks to a peppy song about sales, and the song hit Billboard's No. In 1942 Miller, who attended CU or songs selling at least 500,000 units. a train. 1 spot in November 1941. It remained for three semesters starting in 1923, Elvis Presley racked up 90. “‘Chattanooga Choo Choo’ was enlisted in the But the gold record had actually the most popular record Miller ever military and made its debut as a symbol of com- made,” said Dennis Spragg, author of IT MADE YOU WANT TO FORGET founded the mercial success in music more than a Glenn Miller Declassified and senior Glenn Miller decade earlier. The first one went to consultant to CU Boulder’s Glenn YOUR TROUBLES AND DANCE. Army Air Force Big Band leader Glenn Miller (A&S Miller Archive and American Music Re- Band. Two years ex’26; HonDocHum’84). search Center. “It was in the Billboard there until “A String of Pearls” — an- later a plane carrying him to a Paris In 1942, Miller’s record label, RCA top 10 for 21 weeks in a row, and was other Glenn Miller song — bumped it in performance vanished over the English Victor, wanted to recognize him for No. 1 for nine weeks in a row.” February 1942. Channel. He was never seen again. selling a groundbreaking 1.2 million re- Written by Mack Gordon and Harry “Choo Choo” was a source of bright- But his music — and his gold record cords of his single “Chattanooga Choo Warren, the song tells of a man trav- ness in somber times. During its run on — remain with us today: Hoffman re- Choo.” During a live broadcast, the eling from New York via train to meet the charts, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor cently donated it to CU. You can view label presented him with a framed copy his beloved in Chattanooga, Tenn. and America entered World War II. it at the Heritage Center in Old Main. of the record sprayed with gold paint. It was first recorded by Glenn Miller “With an upbeat message and a Other record companies adopted the and His Orchestra and appeared in lively tempo, [the tune] made you want By Christie Sounart (Jour’12)

13 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photos from Glenn Miller Archive Coloradan WINTER 2017 14 NATURAL DISASTER

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WILDFIRE IS GETTING WORSE. A REPORT FROM THE FRONT LINES.

By Michael Kodas

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I didn’t intend to go to prison or to photograph a handful of men digging a Suddenly, the wind shifted and the STATISTICS get overrun at a wildfire. I also didn’t line of dirt around a small grassfire. But flames subsided. Spared, he went back to plan to spend years of my life chasing as I focused my camera, I heard angry work and the guard led me away. I still “megafires.” shouts and saw a bulldozer-sized man have the photograph. 1995 I was just excited to see my first with a badge running at me. I’d strayed While that fire was tiny, the incident wildfire. onto the grounds of a state prison. The sparked my enduring curiosity about the firefighters were all inmates. The guard phenomenon of wildfire, which has since tackled me. grown much worse — especially in the THEN THE BLAZE “You can’t just walk in,” he screamed. American West, where I live today. “And they can’t just walk out.” With as many as 30,000 people join- BLEW UP. Then the blaze blew up, threatening ing the battle against wildfires during to overtake a firefighting inmate. I tried busy fire seasons — by October, more of U.S. Forest Service's fund- It was 1986 and I was a young pho- 16%ing spent on wildfires to photograph him running for his life, land had burned in 2017 than in all but tojournalist in Connecticut trying to fully expecting the guard to grab the two years since national recordkeeping document a blaze reported over the camera or handcuff me. Instead, he began — the U.S. must get firefighters police scanner in my car. picked me up, pointed me at the action wherever it can: Correctional facilities, 2015 When I saw the smoke, I climbed and stepped back. I photographed as the the National Guard, the Air Force Re- over a couple barbed-wire fences to conflagration bore down on the prisoner. serve, battalions of the U.S. Army and even Australia and New Zealand. The growing demand for firefight- ers reflects a new reality. In the 1970s around 3 million acres of U.S. land burned in an average year. During the 52%of U.S. Forest Service's fund- first decade of this century, that figure ing spent on wildfires topped 7 million. Prior to 1995, the U.S. annually averaged less than one fire ex- ceeding 100,000 acres in size — the U.S. 1970 Forest Service’s criteria for a “megafire.” Between 2005 and 2014, the nation aver- aged 9.8 fires of that size yearly. It’s not just trees burning. Seven times more homes burn in wildfires today than did in the 1970s. Budgets are going up in smoke, too. In 1995 the U.S. Forest Service spent 16 percent of its funding on wildfires. In 2015 it was 52 percent. acres of U.S. land burned in And some 85 percent of firefighting 3Man average year costs are related to less than 2 percent of the fires — the epic conflagrations known as megafires. 2050 But what exactly is a megafire? As a Ted Scripps Fellow in Environmental Jour- nalism at CU Boulder in 2009, I started trying to figure that out by pursuing the biggest, most destructive fires on Earth. I visited the scene of the Black Saturday fires in Australia that killed 173 acres could burn people with an explosive force equiva- 20M lent, by some measures, to 1,500 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. The story there was the climate, which 1997-2017 drove temperatures and drought so severe that the fire risk was literally off the nation’s fire danger scale. In Israel, I attended memorial services for the Mount Carmel fires that killed 44 people, including a police commissioner, the police chief of Haifa, 36 prison guards of wildfires are started by humans8 4% The author's first encounter with wildfire, at a Connecticut prison in 1986. Here, an inmate runs for his life. and a 16-year-old volunteer firefighter

17 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Michael Kodas NATURAL DISASTER MEGAFIRE

Forest Service scientists predict that annual acres burned could reach 20 million in the decades ahead. The 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire near Prescott, Ariz., killed 19 of the nation's most elite wildland firefighters. whose mother drove him to the fire “19 Firefighters Dead While Battling mile Canyon Fire that exploded outside and Tania Schoennagel, a researcher because he didn’t have a driver’s license Arizona Wildfire,” it read. Boulder on Labor Day, 2010. None of with CU’s geography department and yet. In that nation, where nearly 70 That led to a dozen reporting trips those devastating fires, including the percent of the forests were planted in the to Prescott, Ariz., home of the Granite Waldo Canyon Fire that burned into the last century, the new abundance of trees Mountain Hotshots before all but one city of Colorado Springs, met the Forest HUMANS START has resulted in thousands of wildfires in a member of that elite firefighting crew Service’s megafire criterion. landscape with no history of natural fire. was killed in the Yarnell Hill Fire. After- My original definition of megafire was MOST OF THEM In Indonesia I witnessed fires so vast ward, I came to measure megafires more the first of many misconceptions I aban- that, for 40 days in 2015, they released by their effects than their size. doned during a seven-year-long wildfire INSTARR, showed that beetle-killed more greenhouse gases than the entire By Arizona standards, the Yarnell reporting project, often with the help of trees weren’t changing the behavior of U.S. economy. Smoke from those fires Hill Fire was tiny. Yet it destroyed CU researchers. fires much. sent half a million people to the hospi- more than 100 homes and killed 19 of When I started researching mega- And it was hard to continue thinking tal. Those huge fires grew out of small the nation’s best wildland firefighters, fires, I believed that the decades of wildfires as purely natural disasters the greatest loss of firefighter during which the U.S. was extinguish- after research by Jennifer Balch of CU’s lives since 9/11. Each of the ing every natural wildfire had left Earth Lab showed that over two decades, IT'S NOW HARD TO drivers of the huge fires I’d the nation’s forests overgrown with humans started 84 percent of them. seen overseas — the warming too much woody fuel, driving the With Forest Service scientists pre- SEE WILDFIRES AS and drying climate, forestry increase in wildfire. But research by dicting that the amount of land burning practices that made wood- Tom Veblen, who runs CU Boulder’s in the United States will double in PURELY NATURAL lands more prone to intense Biogeography Lab, and Rosemary coming decades — to 20 million acres burns, human development Sherriff (PhDGeog’04) showed that a year — it’s important that the nation DISASTERS. that introduced new fuels and just 16 percent of the ponderosa pine sort through the myths about wildfires, sparks to vegetated wildlands forests on Colorado’s Front Range regardless of whether they meet an blazes set by farmers and multinational — challenged the doomed hotshots. showed increased fire severity due to arbitrary definition of megafire. corporations to clear land for fields I saw small but unusually volatile fires fuels building up after past fires were For the inmate firefighter I photo- producing goods consumed around the take lives, destroy homes and damage extinguished. Most of the rest of those graphed decades ago, I’m sure the tiny world, most notably palm oil, which can infrastructure and resources. Those, I forests have always been prone to se- grassfire that nearly burned him alive be found in about half the items in any realized, were far more “mega” than blaz- vere fires. That’s something to consider was “mega” enough. U.S. grocery store. es of 100,000 acres burning in remote before we build houses in there. In June 2013, just a day after I returned wildernesses, as they always have. I thought the vast swaths of dead Michael Kodas is associate director of CU to Colorado from overseas, a tweet from Colorado, for instance, broke its lodgepole pines left behind by beetle Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journal- a Boulder firefighter led me to reconsider “most destructive” fire record four times infestations couldn’t help but make ism. This story is adapted from his most recent how we’ve been defining megafire. in four years, beginning with the Four- wildfires worse. But studies by Veblen book, Megafire.

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MILLIONS GETTING WORSE Says Kodas: Wildfires are growing more destructive in the United States, especially but not only in the American West. In 2015, a record 10 million U.S. acres burned, including tens of thousands “THE BIGGEST AND in Colorado. Tennessee experienced one of its worst wildfires in 2016. The blazes will likely become more costly in the U.S. and abroad, according to Michael BADDEST OF THEM Kodas, associate director of CU Boulder’s Center for Environmental Journalism and author 2050 of the new book Megafire. In one recent year, 75 million acres burned in Russia alone. ARE STILL TO COME.” (est.) 20

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government spent on wildfires in LONGER “fire-prone open space” FIREFIGHTERS 15 decade before 2013, up from killed in Yarnell Hill Fire, southwest of annual wildfire season in $1 billion in 1990s Prescott, Ariz., June 30, 2013 western U.S., 2015 vs. 1970 14

MAJOR Too much vegetation 13 FACTORS — fuel for fires — due to forest management A RECORD: CONTRIBUTING practices 12 10 MILLION U.S. TO WILDFIRES: ACRES BURNED IN 2015 11 Counterproductive Increased human political and economic development in or near 10 decisions about wildfire wildfire-prone areas 2017 9

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AVERAGE ANNUAL ACREAGE BURNED PER DECADE ACTUAL ANNUAL ACREAGE BURNED BY YEAR son’s full-time study partner and aide “Marty was really struggling to figure At commencement exercises last — shuttling him between home and out what his future was going to look like,” May, Judy pushed Marty onto the stage A FAMILY campus, pushing his wheelchair to class- said Judy, a former sixth-grade teacher with in his wheelchair, then stepped back to es, taking notes. At home, she created a business degree from Notre Dame. let him have his moment of triumph. study guides and taped the notes to the Marty had always been entrepreneur- Marty received his degree. Tale walls of Marty’s room, so every page ial, so she encouraged him to consider Then teary-eyed officiants turned to was within his sight. business school. He was anxious about Judy and presented her with a degree of A 2012 ACCIDENT PARALYZED “I couldn’t turn the pages of a book by it, but in fall 2015, he entered the MBA her own, an honorary MBA, prompting MARTY O’CONNOR BELOW myself,” said Marty, who’d been a mem- program at Chapman in Orange, Calif., an ovation from the crowd. THE SHOULDERS. WHEN HE ber of the club snowboarding and men’s armed with a mouth stick for operating “I certainly never expected any recog- WENT TO BUSINESS SCHOOL, volleyball teams at CU Boulder. his phone and voice recognition software nition,” Judy said. “I did what I did out A STUDY BUDDY JOINED HIM After his CU graduation, Marty, orig- on his computer. of love for my son.” FOR EVERY CLASS. inally from Anaheim, Calif., moved to Initially paired with a note taker, Mar- After commencement, she and Marty Newport Beach. He worked in sales for ty saw he needed more. Judy was already took a break. Judy visited her ailing By Janice Podsada a packaging supplier, TricorBraun, and helping him study. So she became his mother in Florida and Marty began spent a lot of weekends at the beach. on-campus assistant, too. plotting his next career move. “I was living the life,” he said. For two years, she attended every one This fall Marty started a job in business Marc Fawaz couldn’t help but Then one hot day in August 2012, of Marty’s classes, helping with every development with DIVERTcity, a Los An- notice the unusual dynamic between while out with friends after a long day assignment and every exam. geles startup that’s developing programs Marty O’Connor (Film'10), an MBA of golf, a dehydrated and fatigued Marty “I quickly got over that awkward and facilities to make action sports more candidate in his marketing manage- stood up, lost consciousness and fell feeling of going back to school with my accessible and affordable for urban youth. ment class at Chapman University, and down the stairs of a fire escape behind a mother,” Marty said. It’s a CU Boulder reunion of sorts: Marty’s assistant. Newport Beach restaurant. Last year, with commencement on the Marty’s former CU roommate David Marty was paralyzed from the shoul- “I don’t remember the rest,” he said. horizon, Marty approached university Monhait (Arch’11) and Zachary Adam- ders down and couldn’t take notes or use The fall injured Marty’s spinal cord. officials to ask if they would consider son (Mgmt’11), founded the firm. a computer without help, so an assistant His parents, then living in Tierra Verde, recognizing his mother’s contribution. Judy’s back in Florida, caring for her made sense. Fla., moved back to California to care for “I couldn’t have done it without her,” mother. But she was unusually doting, Fawaz him. It took two years of physical therapy he said. If she sees Marty less now, she still thought, even tender. to tame the spasms in his legs. The school's leadership agreed and sees him often. “You can fire your assis- No wonder: “Yeah, that’s my mom,” In time, Marty regained strength, if proceeded to make secret plans with tant,” she said, “but you sort of have to Marty, now 30, told him. not mobility, and he began to consider Marty, avoiding telltale texts or emails. keep your mom.” For two academic years, from 2015 what to do with the rest of his life. “I didn’t want my mom seeing anything to 2017, Judy O’Connor served as her It wasn’t obvious at first. popping up on my phone,” said Marty. Janice Podsada is a freelance writer.

23 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo courtesy Chapman University Coloradan WINTER 2017 24 Where’d My 14er Go?

A NEW WAY OF MEASURING ELEVATION IN THE U.S. WILL YIELD THE MOST ACCURATE RESULTS YET — BUT MIGHT COST COLORADO A COUPLE 14ERS.

By Christie Sounart Illustration by Tim O'Brien

25 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 26 , NEW HEIGHTS WHERE D MY 14ER GO?

At 14,001 feet, Colorado’s Sunshine geographers also. which assumes a simple ellipsoid model of Earth. In Peak is barely a “14er” — and might not “Measurement uncertainties will be contrast, the new method accounts for the complex be one for long. The status of Huron within centimeters now instead of feet,” and evolving shape of the planet. Peak, 14,003 feet, is also in jeopardy. said van Westrum, who works for NOAA “People know the Earth is round, but because it’s In fact, all of Colorado is expected to in Boulder and is responsible for the spinning, it kind of blobs out into an ellipsoid,” van lose about two feet of elevation. Seattle survey’s terrestrial gravity measurements. Westrum said. “And with mountains and valleys and will lose three feet. Florida will stay “In Seattle right now, if you wade into things like that, we know the Earth isn’t a perfect about the same. the ocean, the current height system will ellipsoid. It looks more like a lumpy potato.” indicate you’re about three Scientists on the project, called GRAV-D, short for feet above sea level.” Gravity for the Redefinition of the American Vertical ACCURACY WITHIN NOAA is the National Datum, measure gravity’s pull near the Earth’s sur- Oceanic and Atmospheric face. They use the data to create a model of Earth’s CENTIMETERS Administration. Current geoid — a mathematically derived approximation of official elevations date from global mean sea level. INSTEAD OF FEET. the 1980s. Measuring distance from this global mean to the top The new measurement of landmasses will yield new, highly accurate elevations. Blame it all on better science. system is a far cry from the old way of In order to map Earth’s lumpy potato shape, NGS For the last five years, U.S. govern- doing things: For hundreds of years, uses gravity meters developed by Tim Niebauer’s ment scientists have been redefining terrestrial elevations were measured by (PhDPhys’87) company, Micro-g LaCoste in Lafay- elevation — height above an agreed- hand from sea level using rulers, levels ette, Colo., in addition to NASA satellites that collect upon reference point — using a new and brass markers. gravity-related data. method that involves satellites and While largely accurate when done Niebauer’s machines, which range in size from airborne gravity-measuring machines to correctly, this method is extremely small toasters to barrels, use mirrors and lasers to determine a new baseline for measuring tedious and costly, said van Westrum. measure gravity, said van Westrum, a self-described the heights of landmasses. Basically, And in places like Colorado, rugged “gravity guy” who worked at Niebauer’s company for they’re establishing a new “zero.” terrain and extreme distance above sea 15 years before joining the NOAA survey. Scientists Once complete, in 2022, the de- level make it difficult to precisely mea- deploy the machines on slow-moving GRAV-D air- cade-long project will provide the most sure. In Alaska, it’s nearly impossible. craft and on the ground. precise measurements ever. It’s an easier task in flat, seaside states “You’re getting a picture of the Earth from outside The revised elevation data will help like Florida. of the Earth,” said Niebauer, who commercialized his organizations like FEMA determine “The new system can cover the gravity meters after perfecting them at CU’s JILA, a more exact U.S. flood plains, for exam- entire continent quickly, and also joint institute of the university and the National Insti- ple, according to Derek van Westrum keep it up to date as the Earth slowly tute of Standards and Technology (NIST). (PhDPhys’98), a scientist with NOAA’s changes, something you can't easily do To ensure that GRAV-D is as precise as possible, National Geodetic Survey (NGS), which with an army of folks with rulers,” van survey scientists have undertaken parallel projects sets federal standards for surveying and Westrum said. across the U.S. using both old and new measurement mapping activities. The updates will aid The new survey method also improves systems and comparing results. Van Westrum led a THE land surveyors, oceanographers and upon GPS-based elevation mapping, Colorado project that measured elevations between Durango and Walsenburg, for instance. Initial data NEW shows similar results from the two methods. GRAV-D still has five years to go before it becomes METHOD the new standard for measuring elevation. Once it’s in effect, in 2022, a NOAA team will continually CAN monitor agents of geologic change — such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and the movement of tectonic SURVEY plates — all of which influence Earth’s dynamic shape. As the shape changes, so will global mean sea level and THE ENTIRE the elevations of landforms. “You’ll be able to go anywhere with a GPS and CONTINENT know exactly where you are, latitude, longitude and how far above the surface of the geoid you are,” said QUICKLY van Westrum. While it’s possible that some places could gain AND KEEP elevation, in general they’ll lose it, van Westrum said — imperiling Colorado’s shortest 14ers. Like poor UP TO DATE Sunshine Peak. AS EARTH Christie Sounart (Jour’12) is associate editor of the The team uses ground-based and airborne machines to measure gravity's pull near the Earth's surface. Coloradan. MORPHS.

27 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce Illustration by NASA/JPL/University of Texas Center for Space Research Coloradan WINTER 2017 28 A Houseful of The plaque at 1145 Grandview Ave. went grandmother, whom he never knew. “Ed- up in the mid-1990s. “Tepley House,” it ucation was important to her. She went TEPLEYS declares. “C. 1907.” to prison twice over it [in Russia].” Yet for years after the old home on The house remained in the family long ONE HOUSE ON THE HILL. ONE FAMILY. The Hill became a Boulder landmark, enough for Bill to live there in the 1970s FOUR GENERATIONS OF BUFFS. and for some time before, the only way and ’80s. He and friends paid his parents, Bill Tepley (Pharm’87) could get inside who managed the house as a rental prop- By Eric Gershon was to knock, introduce himself and ask erty, about $60 each per month. Nine of to poke around for old times’ sake. 15 Tepley Buffs lived there at some point. Access is simpler now: In August, his Bill’s parents came to Boulder for younger daughter, Grace Tepley (Intl- home football games, usually dropping Af’18), moved into the turreted Queen off food for their renters and sometimes Anne-style home, just off Broadway doing their laundry. Over the years, Bill — extending the family streak to four helped his father replace the house’s successive generations of Tepleys in plumbing and insulation. They repainted residence while attending CU Boulder. it top to bottom. “Grace is in one of the rooms I stayed In 1988, as Bill’s parents entered old in,” said Bill, 57, a Denver pharmacist age, the family sold the home. with a fondness for hats and a gig as the After the city landmarked the house bassist in a cover band called The Vinyls. — the plaque honors the architecture, Grace’s sister, Savannah Tepley the Tepleys and also former occupant (MechEngr’15), passed on an earlier Wiley B. Rutledge (Law’22), CU’s first chance to advance the streak, making a alumnus on the U.S. Supreme Court — practical decision to live by the engi- Bill would double park while friends neering center — clear across campus hopped out to take a look. — where most of her classes met. Decades went by. If the streak itself is remarkable, so is In fall 2015, Grace Tepley, then a the story of its start. sophomore, made her move to resume Early in the 20th century, Bill Tep- the streak. ley’s paternal grandparents, Katherine She strode to the door of 1145, (Hist’30; MA’32) and Leo (MD1917) introduced herself and asked for the Teplitzky, fled Russia for New York landlord’s number. She called, only to after their release — in Leo’s case, escape learn the house had already been leased — from the Siberian lockup where they’d for the next year. been political prisoners, according to But the landlord, who’d bought the family lore and research. Katherine’s house from the Tepleys, gave Grace first offense: Teaching peasants to read. Leo’s: dibs for 2017. All she’d have to do was “backing the wrong horse,” Bill said. round up roommates. The couple came to Boulder, changed their name and worked as custodians in CU’s stables. Leo helped lay sidewalks. THE AMERICAN Leo eventually worked his way into DREAM, MANIFEST. medical school and became a psychiatrist. He and Katherine migrated to Denver Once she had — and not before — the and had three children, including Bill’s aspiring lawyer, now 22, gave her dad the father, Eugene (A&S’36; Law’39), a fu- good news. ture CU gymnast specializing in the flying “I knew he’d call our entire family,” she rings, a lawyer and a political candidate. said. “I didn’t want it to fall through.” The Grandview house entered the Bill sees 1145 Grandview as a symbol, picture after the Tepleys’ marriage foun- not just of his own family. dered. In 1924 Katherine and the children “In a time where people are saying, moved back to Boulder and into No. 1145. ‘Immigrants, we don’t need ’em,’ you The kids all went on to study at CU look at my family, they came here with — as did Katherine, who attended along- no language and no skills and had to side daughter Victoria. Katherine earned change their names to get jobs — and two degrees in history, then taught at yet they turn into the American dream,” CU and the University of Denver. he said. “It all goes through that house.” “She was what I would call a pro- gressive woman,” Bill said of his Eric Gershon is editor of the Coloradan.

29 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan WINTER 2017 30 MOOC

ONLINE EDUCATION GAINS STEAM AT CU BOULDER.

By Eric Gershon

Illustration by Harry Campbell 31 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 32 ONLINE ED MOOC

Whenever CU professor Robert ty’s main platform partner. By 2020, the MOOC ("massive open") is easy to join. within a 180-day period, is shorter and less Mazzeo offers “Exercise Physiology,” an electrical engineering department alone Anyone with an internet connection can technical, for example. It involves fewer upper-level undergraduate course popular expects to add at least 50 more. participate by visiting a provider website, and less-detailed tests. And successful with aspiring doctors, it fills quickly. So “MOOCs were once branded the such as coursera.org, registering, picking completion of the MOOC doesn’t confer does the waiting list. He and a colleague death-knell of the university and then they a course and clicking the first lesson. CU academic credit. each teach the class once a year to a com- were proclaimed dead, but, in reality, they Learners can watch instructional videos Kuskin’s group believes MOOCs serve bined total of about 230 students. remain a fascinating field of play,” said and consume other course materials the university’s fundamental mission and In June, Mazzeo, a member of the English professor William Kuskin, who as (readings, quizzes, projects) for free. To key interests in several ways. integrative physiology faculty and an avid vice provost and associate vice chancellor be evaluated and eligible for a certificate They fulfill the broad mandate of pro- tennis player, introduced an online version for strategic initiatives oversees MOOC of completion, students pay a fee, typi- viding public education, and they amplify of the course called “The Science of Exer- development. “It’s an arena that uniquely cally less than $100 on Coursera. CU’s renown. At least one CU depart- cise” that also has proven popular — on a merges teaching and research in ways capa- vastly greater scale and far beyond Boulder. ble of reaching the entire globe.” By early November, more than 35,000 MOOCs are just one form of online THE HYPE HAS DIED people worldwide had at least sampled the education, and not the only one offered course, a MOOC, or massive open online by CU Boulder. The School of Continu- DOWN, BUT MOOCS ARE course. Nearly 800 were on track to finish ing Education offers a variety of paid it, many for fun and at no cost, others for online courses open to the public, for HERE TO STAY. a certificate of completion and a $49 fee. example, and the campus has eight fully A new cohort of students enrolls every online graduate degree programs, mostly two weeks. There is no cap on enrollment. in engineering. But MOOCs are prolifer- Two years ago, Mazzeo hadn’t even ment has reported that its MOOCs have “Based on the number of new students ating fastest, largely because production heard of MOOCs. When he did, from helped attract full-time, degree-seeking joining each week, ‘Science of Exer- requires only one professor and a small Russell Moore, the university provost, students to campus. cise’ is on track to be the most popular team, and most of the faculty work is up Mazzeo seized on the potential for prop- Teaching through new media also course in the history of CU,” said Cory front rather than continuous. agating the core message of his teaching prompts professors to reevaluate how and Pavicich (Engl, Hum’04) of CU’s digital Besides “Science of Exercise,” CU and research — that “exercise is medicine” what students ought to learn. This can lead learning initiatives unit, which helps Boulder MOOCs include “Kinematics: — at an exponentially greater rate than them to modify and improve traditional faculty design MOOCs. Describing the Motions of Spacecraft,” possible on campus. classroom courses. MOOCs emerged about a decade ago. “Graphic Design,” “Business Analytics for Working with a CU team of learning And MOOCs are a source of revenue, The 2012 debut of delivery platforms Decision Making” and “The Dynamics of design experts, Mazzeo condensed and modestly so far for CU, but with potential with ties to Stanford, Harvard and MIT Group Communication.” Others scheduled simplified the lectures from his semes- for significant growth. led to a sustained burst of attention and for debut are “Social and Emotional Learn- ter-long campus course, shot a series of Many universities have raced ahead in a New York Times headline dubbing it ing and the Teacher,” “Roots and Shoots,” videos and developed new quizzes that online education, among them Arizona “The Year of the MOOC.” The medi- a collaboration with the Jane Goodall could be scored by software or other State and the University of Florida, which um was hailed as a way to offer online Institute, and “Active Optical Devices.” students in the course. Within months, bring in tens of millions of dollars through learning to mass audiences at minimal “The mission of a university should be thousands of people around the world their programs, including online degree or no cost, amid intensifying concerns to provide educational were enrolling in “Science of Exercise.” programs. The University of California about the high cost of traditional cam- opportunities to stu- “I’m reaching populations I never Berkeley offers an online master’s program pus-based higher education. dents and reach as many thought I’d reach in my career,” said in public health, and Georgia Tech offers Mazzeo, who marvels over students’ loca- online master’s programs in computer tions, which he surveys on an electronic science and analytics. MIT offers a pair The hype has died down, but MOOCs dashboard on his office computer: Botswa- of online “MicroMasters” credentials that have shown they’re here to stay and that NEW na, Qatar, Algeria, Nepal, Iraq, India and can lead to admission to an accelerated they can coexist with campus-based scores of others. At least two-thirds of all on-campus master’s degree. instruction while drawing huge num- STUDENTS: people enrolled in CU Boulder’s MOOCs In time, CU Boulder expects to increase bers of additional off-campus learners. live outside the U.S., according to Pavicich. its share of paid online certificates and Coursera, one of the most prominent THOUSANDS. All this means the campus and MOOC degree programs, according to Pavicich. MOOC platforms, edX and Udacity now as possible,” said Juliet Gopinath, the versions of Mazzeo’s course complement MOOCs offer a foundation for that offer thousands of courses, commonly electrical engineering professor who de- rather than compete with each other. effort while immediately serving a greater developed by professors at established veloped the optical devices MOOC. “The “These are truly new students for number and variety of learners than the universities, including CU Boulder. online forum allows us to reach non-tradi- the University of Colorado Boulder,” university ever has, he said — both new- After a modest start in MOOC develop- tional students and provide opportunities Pavicich said. comers to higher education and people ment in 2013, when CU introduced its first to those for whom it might be otherwise Mazzeo’s MOOC covers the same who simply want more of it. four courses, including “Introduction to impossible. Personally, I also hope that basic concepts as his in-the-flesh course, “We are past the point where you can Power Electronics” and “Comic Books and it helps underrepresented groups as well “Exercise Physiology.” But it’s not the same assume you’re done learning when you’re Graphic Novels,” the university is rapidly as those in Third-World countries who course, and isn’t intended to be. 22 or 23,” Pavicich said. “You should expect growing its slate. As of November, nearly struggle to find the time and opportunity The MOOC, which consists to learn throughout your life.” 25 MOOCs developed at CU Boulder to receive an education.” of four modules that can be were available on Coursera, the universi- As the name MOOC suggests, a completed at the student’s pace Eric Gershon is editor of the Coloradan.

33 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Illustrations by Harry Campbell Coloradan WINTER 2017 34 FOOD

RAMEN King

JAPAN WENT CRAZY FOR IVAN ORKIN’S RAMEN. NOW AMERICA HAS THE FEVER.

By Christie Sounart

35Photo WINTER by Daniel 2017 Krieger Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 36 FOOD RAMEN KING

Ramen wasn’t Ivan Orkin’s calling. cent,” The Japan Times wrote: “You will At first. not taste anything like this anywhere In 2006, Orkin (Jpn'87) was living in else in Japan.” Tokyo with his family, jobless and rest- Acclaimed Japanese ramen critic Hi- less. The U.S.-trained chef tried for three roshi Osaki — who claims to have eaten years to fit in with the Japanese culture more than 23,000 bowls of ramen — called he adored, but struggled to find his place Orkin’s ramen “amazing” and “delicious.” in Japan as a Jewish Long Islander. Success in Japan has since led to two “I felt quite hopeless,” said Orkin, other ramen restaurants and a pizza who had worked at top New York restaurant in New York, a Netflix restaurants, including Lutèce. “I felt documentary and a new life back in the like I was never going to find my way.” United States. His wife, Mari, a native Japanese, As The New York Times put it in 2013, suggested he open a ramen shop. “Ivan Orkin appears to have pulled off a “I didn’t have a clue how ramen was chain of unprecedented feats.” made,” said Orkin. But ignorance was no obstacle. A LOVE FOR JAPAN Orkin developed a unique twist on Orkin’s infatuation with Japan began traditional ramen — thin noodles served when he was 15 years old and worked as in a piping-hot meat or seafood broth, a dishwasher in a sushi bar in Syosset, sometimes with other toppings — a huge- New York. He reveled in trying new ly popular dish in Japanese cuisine. Tokyo dishes, which were radically different Ivan Orkin, who has found success in the U.S. and Japan, has been called “an American ramen master.” alone has thousands of ramen shops. from the frozen meals he ate, and Located in Tokyo’s western suburbs, hated, at home. Orkin’s 10-seat restaurant, Ivan Ramen, When it came time for college, he to Tokyo. On one of these trips, in 2002, A CALL FROM CHEF’S TABLE chose CU Boulder, which offered both he met Mari over a bowl of ramen, and Last year, the crew behind Netflix’sChef ’s a dramatic mountain escape from New married her three months later. The Table, a documentary series profiling York and a Japanese studies program. couple settled in Tokyo, and Orkin began renowned chefs, came calling. At CU, academics weren’t really feeling his way into the future. “Netflix was the first time I ever really Orkin’s thing — “I would make breakfast After Ivan Ramen took off in 2007, allowed a television camera to see my life for my friends and they would do my Orkin added a second restaurant in that closely,” he said, adding he filmed homework,” he said — but he enjoyed Japan and created a popular line of five days in New York and five days in the Japanese program. instant ramen. Tokyo. “It was hard telling everybody “It’s one of my great memories of col- “Ivan’s very analytical, he’s extreme- your innermost secrets.” lege,” said Orkin. “I learned just enough ly intelligent and he’s slightly OCD,” After the episode aired in February about Japanese grammar.” partner Poran said. “I think that’s a 2017, Orkin’s name, and food, grew more After graduating, he moved to Japan combination for success.” famous still. and taught English for three years, a job “It’s completely been one of the most he found unoriginal and uninspiring. He wonderful things that’s ever happened met his soon-to-be first wife, Tamie, and I DIDN'T HAVE A to me,” he said. the couple moved back to the U.S., where CLUE HOW RAMEN These days, Orkin, who lives in the Orkin studied at the Culinary Institute of Hudson River Valley north of New America in New York. There he met his WAS MADE. York, is exploring potential new ramen eventual business partner, David Poran. restaurant locations elsewhere in the “He was like Woody Allen on 12 cups By 2012, ready to return to the U.S., U.S. Meanwhile, he’s also dabbling in of coffee,” Poran said of the young Orkin. Orkin and Mari moved their three sons to the pizza world. He and Poran opened Afterward, Orkin worked under New York. He opened Ivan Ramen Slurp Corner Slice inside the Gotham West Bobby Flay at Mesa Grill and at Lutèce Shop in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood Market to rave reviews. drew media and locals who were curious in New York. When Tamie became and his flagship restaurant Ivan Ramen “The pizza business is a big deal for us,” to sample an American chef’s take on ra- pregnant with their son Isaac Orkin in the Lower East Side. They, too, were said Poran. “We have big expansion plans.” men. Orkin offered homemade noodles (Jpn’19), he accepted a more stable, high- instant hits. The New York Times refers to There’s never really any telling what’s (rare in Japanese ramen), aromatic fla- er-paying job with Restaurant Associates, him as “an American ramen master.” next for Orkin. vors, few (but choice) toppings and light a New York-based hospitality company. These days, he stays out of the kitch- “If there’s anything I’ve learned in double-broth bases made with chicken In 1998, when Isaac was two and Tamie en. Mostly. this life," he said, "it's when I get tired and pork. Obscure-to-Japan ingredients was pregnant with the couple’s second “I still work on recipes, I still train of doing something, I’ll just do some- like roasted tomatoes and rye flour add- child, she died of a sudden illness. Dev- people, but I don’t have a spot in my thing else.” ed to the soup’s appeal. astated and eager for his son to remain restaurant,” he said. “But when there is In a glowing 2009 review titled “Ivan rooted in his mother’s Japanese culture, something for me to do, I’m there all day Christie Sounart (Jour’12) is associate Ramen: Artisan ramen with NY ac- Orkin began taking him on annual trips and all night.” editor of the Coloradan.

37 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photos by Daniel Krieger Coloradan WINTER 2017 38 ANCESTORS

Ancient BEASTS But just a few thousand years after the arrival of 1 MEGALANIA PRISCA humans — the blink of an eye in geologic time and, for An extinct monitor that matter, the history of life — most of the won- lizard related to the of Australia drous beasts were gone forever. A scientific debate has Komodo dragon. raged for decades as to what, or who, did in Australia’s WHAT KILLED THEM OFF? A CU SCIENTIST WITH AN ancient megafauna. And Miller believes he now knows 2 GENYORNIS ARCTIC PEDIGREE THINKS HE’S FOUND THE ANSWER the answer: Homo sapiens. NEWTONI IN THE HOT AUSTRALIAN INTERIOR. “Shortly after human settlement in Australia, the Flightless bird that geological record shows that most of the large animals stood nearly 7 feet By Jim Scott disappeared,” he said. “Reconstructing what activities tall and weighed 400 For Australia’s earliest human im- associated with human colonization might have con- pounds. migrants, who likely floated there from tributed to this remains challenging, but a human cause Indonesian islands on wooden rafts they of some sort is apparent.” 3 GENYORNIS EGGS lashed together more than 50,000 years How did Miller, associate director of CU’s Institute Each was roughly the ago, the wild menagerie of huge animals of Arctic and Alpine Research, who’s spent most of his size of a cantaloupe. and birds prowling the landscape must career charting climate change in the High Arctic, wind have been astonishing. up sifting through Australian sand for the bird eggshells Think rhinoceros-sized wombats, that constitute key evidence? 1,000-pound kangaroos, 25-foot-long Family destiny, perhaps. lizards, ferocious marsupial lions and His father, Robert Rush Miller, a Smithsonian Volkswagen-sized tortoises, said professor fish biologist, was part of a 17-person team Gifford Miller, a fit CU geoscientist who that made a historic nine-month trek through bicycles from home to a cluttered campus northeastern Australia in 1948, collecting plants, office that harbors the skulls of a walrus animals, art and archaeological material produced by and a polar bear he found in the Arctic. Aboriginal peoples. The extinct Australian animals, collec- “I was only two years old, so I don’t have a recallable tively known as megafauna, also included memory of that,” said Miller. “But there were knick- a 400-pound flightless bird that stood knacks from Australia in our home, and I think it was almost seven feet tall and laid canta- locked in my brain as a young child that I was supposed loupe-sized eggs. to go there.”

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window of time lasting just a few thou- sand years, Sporormiella spores disappear from the record, telling us the megafauna population collapsed.” Miller took a roundabout route to becoming one of CU Boulder’s top- tier scholars. After a couple of fits and starts at Mich- igan colleges after high school, he joined VISTA, a domestic version of the Peace Corps. He was sent to Tuluksak, Alaska, a Yup’ik village of just a few hundred people, to help with community development. “I still remember the zip code,” he said. “99679.” He followed that with a brief career as a fur trapper, acquiring his own dogsled team. It took a full day to travel from Tuluksak to the trapping camp, then three days of tending trap lines and another day to get home. “As much as I loved it, I knew it was something I was not going to do for the rest of my life,” he said. “That’s when I moved to Colorado.” He got his academic mojo going at CU A few thousand years after the arrival of humans, a blink of an eye in geologic time and the history of life, most of the wondrous beasts were gone forever. Boulder, earning bachelor’s and doctoral degrees, followed by a postdoc at the Later, in the late 1980s Gifford Miller on the region’s own Big Bird, the almost lia’s Monash University reported a clever Geophysical Laboratory at the Carnegie was working in northern Africa’s Sahara seven-foot Genyornis newtoni. way to paint a portrait of the huge vege- Institution in Washington, D.C., and a Desert — in a spot so dry it has never The team dated Genyornis eggshell tarians that once roamed the landscape. year at the University of Bergen in Nor- rained there in recorded history — trying fragments using a technique called They analyzed a sediment core extracted way, which he calls his “finishing school.” to understand how the climate system luminescence dating — assessing when from the Southern Indian Ocean off the Over the decades, his research in the produced a permanent lake where early quartz grains encasing eggshell fragments coast of southwestern Australia — which Arctic — where human-caused climate humans hunted and feasted on a range of were last exposed to sunlight — as well as has layers much like an ice core — delving warming from increasing greenhouse large animals. The team was investigating more traditional dating methods. Togeth- back 150,000 years beyond the last ice age gases is occurring faster than anywhere sites on the lake’s edge, putting together er they indicate Genyornis disappeared to Earth’s last warm interglacial period. else on the planet — has included a chronology of human habitation. Miller between 54,000 and 47,000 years ago. The core contained chronological layers landmark studies. Two years ago he and was charged with dating ancient ostrich Most telling were the burned Genyor- of pollen, dust and ash washed into the sea his team determined the current level of eggshells, remnants of ancient meals. nis eggshell fragments. over time, indicating southwestern Aus- warming on Baffin Island, west of Green- A colleague suggested Miller visit By looking at amino acids in frag- land, may be as high as it was more than Australia’s interior to investigate a ments burned at one end and not the MOST TELLING 2 million years ago, when sea levels were similar, abrupt change in climate that other, the researchers concluded the several meters higher. coincidentally could also be dated with heat gradient on a single fragment was WERE THE BURNED The globetrotting Miller — who the eggshells of a huge, extinct bird. as high as 1,000 degrees F — a clear recently began a project in Madagascar He went. indication they were partially burned by EGGSHELLS. to study the demise of the 1,000-pound Initially Miller focused on the possible isolated embers, as in a campfire. Wild- elephant bird, Aepyornis, also shortly effects of systematic burning of the fires would have produced sustained, tralia had dense forests 45,000 years ago. after humans arrived — credits his stu- landscape by the earliest human coloniz- across-the-board heat on the shell frag- This would have made the region a hotbed dents as an inspiration. ers. This could have sufficiently altered ments, Miller said. of biodiversity, and perhaps one of the “I’ve been fortunate to have a cadre of vegetation patterns to diminish the Moreover, most of the hundreds of last holdouts for a dwindling megafauna motivated students over the years anxious effectiveness of the summer monsoons discovered Genyornis eggshell fragments population. More important, Miller said, to make their mark in the world of sci- that periodically drenched northern were found in clusters. the core contained spores from the fungus ence,” he said. “They are always challenging Australia, triggering increased aridity in “We believe the evidence is consistent Sporormiella, which snacked on the dung me to explore new ways of doing things. the interior, he said. with early humans harvesting Genyornis of plant-eating mammals. Without them I would not be nearly as Eventually, in 2016, Miller and col- eggs, cooking them over fires, and then “It’s a region with some of the earliest productive, or have nearly as much fun.” leagues reported the first direct evidence randomly discarding the eggshell frag- evidence of humans on the continent, that early humans in Australia preyed ments in the area,” Miller said. and where we would expect a lot of Jim Scott (EPOBio’73) writes about science on Australia’s megafauna — in that case, Last year, he and colleagues at Austra- animals to have lived,” he said. “But in a for CU Boulder.

41 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Illustration: Designer: Peter Trusler; © Australian Postal Corporation 2008 Coloradan WINTER 2017 42 THE HERD’S ULTIMATE CHALLENGE CU students’ mental and physical abilities were put to 2018 TRIPS the test during The Herd’s Ultimate Challenge, Oct. 21. Modeled after CBS’ The Amazing Race and co-produced by Floyd Pierce (ApMath, Econ’17) — a participant in the spring 2017 season of the show — the event gave 29 two-person teams a chance at $2,000, half for the winners, half for the CU student group of their choice. The teams raced around Boulder searching for clues CRUISE THE WINTER 2017 at McGuckin Hardware, Hotel Boulderado, the Pearl RHINE RIVER News Street Mall and Macky Auditorium while completing June 27-July 5, 2018 tasks such as balancing three golf balls one atop another, building a planter’s box and completing puzzles. The CU Boulder Next winning team, “Snoopy Goons,” was a duo of U.S. Marine Corps veterans, Christopher Black (EPOBio, Int- NINE-STOP NATIONAL TOUR PUTS CU’S TALENT ON DISPLAY Phys’18) and Allen Dehoff (EPOBio, IntPhys’18). They donated $1,000 to the Student Veterans Association. 4 SEATTLE 7 HOMECOMING 2017 TOWN AND COUNTRY The Alumni Awards Ceremony kicked CAMBRIDGE, OXFORD NEW off the weekend (Oct. 26-29), before AND THE COTSWOLDS CHICAGO 8 YORK a 300-person crowd — plus online July 6-14, 2018 2 3 SAN BOULDER 9 viewership of 4,700. Friday, Olympian Bill Marolt FRANCISCO 5 DENVER WASHINGTON D.C. (Bus’67) served as keynote for the 50-Year and Golden Anniversary Club reunion. Elsewhere, alumni attended microlectures from astronomer Douglas Duncan, speech 1 LOS ANGELES pathologist Kathryn Hardin and others. Koenig Alumni Center hosted 14 brewers and three vintners at Buffs on Tap. Saturday saw the Buffs’ best game of the season — a HOUSTON 6 44 to 28 win over Cal. CRESTED BUTTE TO ASPEN HIKE CHAPTERS AND CLUBS Aug. 2-5, 2018 The Aspen alumni chapter’s September “Entrepreneurship in Ski Communities” February marks the debut of CU Boulder “This exciting program showcases event drew about 140 people, including Next, a nine-stop, seven-state tour for a the phenomenal breadth of academic extreme skier Chris Davenport (Hist’93). … Albuquer- dynamic cast of CU Boulder’s most capti- achievement that makes CU Boulder a top que’s chapter has new leadership: Cassie (Psych’13) and vating faculty, staff and students, offering university for innovation,” said DiStefano. Jarred Langhals (AeroEngr’13). … The 50th anniversary alumni and friends the chance to experi- “We look forward to interacting with of the CU Trivia Bowl, April 2-8, 2018, at CU’s Village ence the latest and best of CU Boulder. alumni, donors, parents and prospective Center will include competitions for students and alumni, SCANDINAVIAN The large-scale tour opens in Los students in cities across the U.S. beginning said organzier Paul Bailey (EnvDes’83; MA’94). Find out TREASURES Angeles Feb. 24 and concludes in Boulder in Los Angeles in February 2018.” more at cutriviabowl.com. Aug. 18-29, 2018 in April 2021, with intermediate stops in Presenters will delve into biosciences, seven major cities. humanities, the arts, engineering, politics BUFFS AT THE BUTTE Initiated by Chancellor Philip P. DiSte- and more. Graduates of the last decade are invited fano, CU Boulder Next is the first event The kickoff in Los Angeles takes to kick off the spring ski season at the of its kind for CU. It aims to showcase and place at the J.W. Marriott L.A. Live on annual Buffs at the Butte weekend in share the bright minds and cutting-edge Saturday, Feb. 24. Following the series of Crested Butte, Colo., Feb. 23-25, 2018. Attendees stay research that are the university’s lifeblood 10-minute expert lectures, nine faculty in a slope-side condo and get a two-day lift ticket. and hallmark. will lead discussion sessions, including Early-bird pricing is available through Jan. 31, 2018, for TREASURES OF PERU A series of brief TED-style microlec- Marie Banich, an expert 0n the teen- $275 a person. Register at colorado.edu/alumni. Aug. 27-Sept. 6, 2018 tures — Buff Talks — forms the heart of age brain, and English professor Adam the half-day event, followed by breakout Bradley, an entertaining authority on the FOREVER BUFFS ONLINE STORE For more information sessions that provide a forum for con- poetry of pop songs. The Alumni Association’s Forever Buffs about the Roaming Buffs versation with the experts. Aerospace The tour resumes in Washington, D.C., Online Store has launched. Get signa- travel program, email engineering, athletics and other campus on Saturday, April 21, at the Washington ture CU-themed items including jewelry, lisa.munro@colorado. units will stage exhibits, allowing attendees Marriott Marquis. San Francisco, Seattle clothing and gifts. Also available is the 2018 alumni edu, call 303-492-5640 to experience extraordinary elements of and Denver will follow in 2019. wall calendar for $15 and the Forever Buffs wine. Visit or 800-492-7743 or visit the campus atmosphere. Learn more at colorado.edu/next. colorado.edu/alumni/shop. colorado.edu/alumni.

43 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 44 45 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 46 Q&A WITH THE CHANCELLOR PHILIP P. DISTEFANO

DRIVING DOWN STUDENT COSTS Refresh us on the tuition guarantee. You made some major announce- We have a guarantee for all incoming ments in your fall State of the Cam- undergraduate students, which locks tui- pus speech about further reducing tion and mandatory fees for four years. the cost of attending CU Boulder. What were the highlights? You made some other headline an- I announced that we are eliminating nouncements in your State of the $8.4 million per year in course-relat- Campus as well. ed and program fees for our students We introduced the new CU Boulder beginning next fall. The amount of the Impact Scholarship, which measures a fees ranges from $1 per credit hour for qualified applicant’s persistence to get to German and Slavic languages to $1,255 college despite economic circumstanc- per semester for the graduate clinical es. And we are supporting our student Speech, Language and Hearing Scienc- leaders in their effort to reduce textbook es program. costs through Open Educational Re- sources — shared electronic educational Does this cover all fees on their tui- materials. The campus is offering to pilot tion bill? this program with up to $1 million. The There are still mandatory fees for select hope is to eventually save students hun- services like the rec center, the bus and dreds, if not thousands, of dollars a year. bike program and student health services. You’re calling these measures The Be How can the university do this? Boulder Pact. What does that mean? This money will come from increased It is a pact with our students and their revenue thanks to higher enrollment families to lower their cost of educa- and improved student retention. This is tion. This pact helps them with financial complemented by savings from improved planning and predictability, and it helps campus operating efficiencies. Our Board our students graduate on time with less of Regents enabled this by endorsing a debt. When I speak of student success, multi-year tuition guarantee so we could I mean success both as a student and forecast our finances to see if we could as a graduate, something I’m very pas- eliminate these fees. sionate about.

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Sweep by the Buffs for News WINTER 2017 By Jennifer Osieczanek 3-0first-ever win against USC in volleyball Dominant Cross-Country Takes Pac-12 Title COLORADO IS SYNONYMOUS WITH CROSS-COUNTRY EXCELLENCE

With a women’s victory at the Pac-12 third women’s conference title in as BOYLE QUESTIONS NCAA DECISION Championships in late October, the many years. Freshman forward Evan Battey (A&S’21) will take Buffs have won 10 of 14 conference team CU’s men finished second to Stanford an academic redshirt for the 2017-18 men’s basketball titles since CU and Utah joined in 2011. by just six points, in what was essentially season after a ruling by the NCAA that he didn’t meet Leading the way this fall was junior a two-team race. UCLA was a distant the requirement of graduating from high school in Dani Jones (IntPhys’20), who claimed third, 56 points behind the Buffs. four years. the individual crown in the women’s 6K Stanford’s Grant Fisher won the Battey repeated ninth grade, partly because of “per- Number of newcomers race with a time of 18 minutes, 57.3 sec- men’s 8K race in 23:44.9, with CU’s Joe sonal and family issues,” CU coach Tad Boyle said. on 13-member women’s onds. Jones, who was named the Pac-12 Klecker (BioChem’20) second, less than “I'm extremely disappointed,” Boyle told cubuffs. basketball team Women’s Cross Country Athlete of the 4 seconds later (23:48.0). com. “It's a little bit ironic to me with all the things Year, is the first Buff to earn an indi- Prior to 2017, the Colorado men had that are going on with college basketball ... North vidual cross-country title since Jenny claimed all six of the Pac-12 team titles in Carolina academic scandal, they lawyer up and fight Simpson (Econ, PolSci’09) won the Big cross-country. the NCAA for two years and they win on a technicali- 8 12 Championships in 2009. “I think our men ran their best race of ty. They get off scot free. There’s an FBI investigation “She was smart and patient,” CU the year,” said Wetmore. “We are smart going on, there’s been four assistant coaches [at other cross-country coach Mark Wetmore said and patient and ran really hard. We knew schools] that have been arrested by the FBI. As of of Jones. “She kept herself within the Stanford was coming in as a team that today, nothing has happened to those four schools. No front the whole time and closed hard.” was a little under-ranked. It was a war ramifications for those sorts of things. … [But] Evan Kaitlyn Benner (ChemBioEngr, and we lost by a couple of points, but I Battey gets punished.” School record for soccer Soc’18) and Sage Hurta (ApMath, am real proud and happy.” Battey, who practiced but could not play during his shutouts in a season ChemBioEngr’19) also finished in the senior season in high school because of the two-year top 10 to lead CU to an 18-point victory The cross-country NCAA championship took stint in ninth grade, is trying to look on the bright side. 14 over Oregon and Stanford, which tied place after the Coloradan went to print. See “It will give me time to get my body in shape,” he said. for second. The win marked Colorado’s colorado.edu/coloradan for an update. BUFFS BITS Dave Plati (Jour’82), associate athletic director for sports information, ended his streak of 410 consecutive CU football games worked when he missed the Buffs’ road game at Oregon State in October on account of health. (“I’ll be fine,” Plati said.) Plati’s streak started Nov. 19, 1983, when the Buffs beat Jersey number of Kansas State. According to Plati, the record is likely Heisman Trophy-winning 502 consecutive football games worked by the late Bob tailback Rashaan Sa- Bradley of Clemson. … Kaitlyn Benner (ChemBio, 19laam (Soc ex’95), retired Soc’18) earned the Pac-12 Women’s Cross Country by the Buffs Oct. 28 Scholar-Athlete of the Year award. She has a 3.93 GPA while majoring in chemical and biological engineering. … Kirsty Hodgkins (MechEngr’20) was named the Pac-12 Women’s Golfer of the Month in October. She claimed medalist honors as the Buffs won the team ti- Football700th win by the tle at the CDA Resort Collegiate Invitational in Idaho. Buffs, notched in a 44- The men’s golf team tied for the team title in its own 28 Homecoming game Mark Simpson-CU Invitational. victory over Cal Oct. 28

49 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Gary Breedlove Photo by Teresa Lee Photography Coloradan WINTER 2017 50 SPORTS Q&A TAD BOYLE

HIGH EXPECTATIONS matter who you played for or where funny, especially in the climate of Division thing for the Coors Events Center. I al- In a preseason interview, CU men’s bas- you played or how much you played, I basketball now, with kids leaving early ways say the student section is the heart- ketball coach Tad Boyle addressed the you’re a Buff for life and we want you to to go to the NBA, we haven’t had any beat of our arena, and when they are value of boisterous fans, pick-up games feel welcome back at our games, in our one-and-dones. But, Alec was a two and here and they are engaged and they are with alumni in the NBA — and offered a office, at our practices. done, Andre was a three and done, Spen- loud and they are pumped up, it perme- formula for a Final Four team. cer was a three and done. If there’s any ates through the whole building. Without Is there something you’re still way we can hit the cycle where we get them, there’s something missing. How has this program changed working on? three of those guys on one team, which since you’ve been here? Oh yeah. A Final Four berth. Competing we actually conceivably could have had Is there something more that you I think the expectation level has changed, for a national championship. We’re still with Alec, Andre and Spencer, that’s what can do to engage them? both internally and externally with our working on winning a Pac-12 regular you have to have to get to a Final Four. I need to do more, because last year we fans and alumni. People hopefully recog- season championship. We’re still working had a drop-off in our student section. I think nize Colorado Basketball as a legitimate on a lot of things. Every day that I wake What does it mean to have Buffs it was noticeable. Now, I’m not a marketing contender in the Pac-12 Conference. I up and I come to work, I think ‘What do I NBA players coming back to campus expert, I’m a basketball coach. I’m not a think there’s an expectation that we are need to do today to make this place bet- interacting with the team? ticket salesman, I’m a basketball coach. going to go to the NCAA Tournament. ter than it was yesterday?’ It was awesome to have those three guys But I am willing and I am able and I am ea- We haven’t won a championship [Pac-12 [Roberson, Dinwiddie, White] back for ger. The first thing we have to do is win. Tournament] since 2012, so I would like What do you think are the missing the Texas State [football] game. I think it to be competing for another champion- pieces? made them feel very good and it certainly With programs on the rise through- ship at some point in the near future. It all starts with recruiting. You have to made our players feel really good. They out the CU Athletic Department, how recruit great players. I look at the players had a chance to play pickup with our does that impact men’s basketball? What are you most proud of? that we’ve had in the last seven years guys, and the pickup games, from what I I think it’s always good to be surrounded We’ve really made a concerted effort and — obviously, Alec Burks (A&S ex’13) heard, were as good and competitive as by excellence. And I’m extremely happy to tie the eras of Colorado basketball was here when we got here, and Cory they’ve ever been. When you’ve got three for all of those programs. That inspires together. If you’re a former player, if Higgins (Soc’11) — but we recruited An- NBA guys in the gym, everybody’s game me and it motivates me, and I definitely you played for [former head coach] Sox dre Roberson (A&S ex’14), we recruited picks up a little bit. want to hold up our end of the bargain Walseth, you’re just as important to us Spencer Dinwiddie (Comm ex’15), we with men’s basketball. as you are if you were Derrick White recruited Derrick White. We got George How important is the student body (Mgmt’17) and you just went to the King (Soc’18) in the program. We recruit- for a home-court advantage? Condensed and edited by Jennifer NBA draft in the first round. It doesn’t ed some very, very good players. It’s They are the number one, most important Osieczanek.

51 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan WINTER 2017 52 53 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Coloradan WINTER 2017 54 Illinois native Ralph Abelt ’52(Acct) is a retired banking executive who WE WANT worked as CEO of Bank WINTER 2017 One in Cleveland in the 40s, 50s, 60s & 70s 1980s and ’90s. Earlier YOUR NEWS! Notes in life, he served in the Write Christie Sounart, U.S. Marines and was Koenig Alumni Center, an active leader in the Boulder, CO 80309, Boy Scouts of America [email protected] in Northeast Ohio. He or fax 303-492-6799. and wife Patricia are the proud parents of three children: Susan, Christopher and Leslie. grandchildren and five After a great-grandchildren. 42-year-long Alan ’67career in the oil and Feuerstein F. Rodney gas industry, Svein ’56(Mktg) is founder and Drake (DistSt; Hasund (MechEngr) CEO of Web Editorial & ’62MD’66) was president of dedicates much of his Content Management, his senior class in 1966. time in retirement to Inc. Earlier in life, Alan Following graduation, volunteering for CU served as an intelligence Rodney did a residency in Boulder. Svein received officer in the U.S. Navy. psychiatry and a fellowship the Alumni Association’s Alan has lectured at in child psychiatry. He is 2017 Leanne Skupa- New York University, a past president of the Lee Award over University of Chicago Washington Psychiatric Homecoming Weekend. and elsewhere on the Society, the Child and The award recognizes use of the internet in Adolescent Psychiatric passionate volunteers web journalism and busi- Society of Greater who serve CU and the ness strategy. Washington and the Alumni Association. He Baltimore-Washington and wife Pauline have After serving Psychoanalytic Society. been married for more as an officer in than 50 years. ’57the U.S. Navy, George Jeannie Marilyn Amelia “Geoie” S. Writer Jr. Thompson Moore (MPE) was (Fin) returned to Denver ’64(Zool) writes: “Jack inducted into the Leba- and founded The Writer (Hist’64; MA’70) and I just non, Mo., Sports Hall of Oct. 26, 2017: CU Boulder broke ground on a new, 144,000-square-foot aerospace engi- Corporation, a home returned from a wonderful Fame. She competed in neering building on East Campus. Mascot Chip, game as always, suited up for the occasion. building company. People-to-People trip to six sports from 1958-62 He’s built more than Cuba with Ambassador at Southwest Missouri 12,000 homes across Vicki Huddleston State [now Missouri Phyllis Gates was a Red Cross nurse Sound, Fla. For 37 years the Front Range, and in (A&S’64). Vicki led the State University]. Mar- Fenger in France during World Charles was a pediatri- 1978 was the youngest American diplomatic ilyn was a pioneer in ’42(Fren) finished writing War I. Phyllis donated cian in Delray Beach, honoree as National mission in Cuba in the establishing girls sports American Red Cross the book to the National where he also was Builder of the Year by early 2000s and was our programs in the public Nurse Beulah Feely World War I Museum active in the establish- Professional Builder study leader on the trip.” schools of Springfield. 1917-1918. The book is and Memorial in Kansas ment of the Morikami magazine. George Jeannie, based on a diary of her City, Mo. In July, Phyllis Park and Gardens. received the Alumni Jack and cousin, Beulah Feely, a celebrated her 95th Charles and Carole, Association’s 2017 Vicki met CU Anschutz College of birthday at her home in who’ve been married for George Norlin Award with artist Nursing graduate who Carpinteria, Calif. 62 years, have traveled over Homecoming Martha extensively, including Weekend, which recog- Jiménez of Charles a four-month cruise nizes alumni who have Camagüey READ THE OTHER Eschenburg around the world. They demonstrated a com- in her DECADES OF CLASS ’51(DistSt; MD’55) retired have two daughters, mitment to excellence in studio NOTES ONLINE AT with wife Carole Degen three grandchildren and their chosen field. Geoie (pictured COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN (Nurs’54) to Hobe two great-grandchildren. has five children, eight right).

55 WINTER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo by Casey A. Cass Coloradan WINTER 2017 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE JOHN WARNER

ADVENTURE DENTIST who spent much of his childhood in MARILYN AMELIA MOORE John Warner has climbed and Denver, answers to yet another calling: skied mountains in the United States The outdoors. (MPE’67) WAS INDUCTED INTO and abroad, raced motorcycles and He and some buddies have skied hut mountain bikes and, by the way, also to hut in Austria, France, Switzerland, THE LEBANON, MO., SPORTS served as a mayor, search-and-res- Italy and Canada. They’ve trained at cue volunteer, orchestra backer and Mount Rainier and climbed Denali and HALL OF FAME. dentist-of-mercy in Guatemala. If life is what you She taught physical Lorrie the terms “rugby” and make of it, Warner education and coached Shepard “reunion.” Planning for (Bio’73) knows the drill. for 30 years at Hillcrest ’70(MEdu; PhD’72), a distin- the next rugby reunion, As a CU Boulder stu- High School. Marilyn guished professor and in 2018, has already dent, Warner liked the writes that retirement dean emerita who has begun. Email curugby@ natural sciences and ini- has brought time for RV been with CU for more colorado.edu for details. tially planned to pursue travels throughout the than 40 years, received medical school. But as an U.S., working out at the the Alumni Association’s Barbara undergrad, he happened gym, golfing and volun- 2017 George Norlin Cooke (Psych; to work with a group of teering at church. She Award over Homecoming ’75MBA’81), Los Angeles CU dentists who were enjoys life in the Ozarks. Weekend. The award rec- Forever Buffs chapter pioneering a protocol to John E. Popovich Jr. ognizes alumni who have leader since its founding stimulate dental-bone (A&S; Law’71) retired af- demonstrated a com- in 1988, received the growth using bone marrow that War- Aconcagua — North and South Ameri- ter 31 years as a district mitment to excellence in Alumni Association’s ner harvested from cadavers. He went ca’s highest peaks, respectively. court judge in the Sev- their chosen field. 2017 Leanne Skupa- on to dental school instead, at CU’s Living at 9,600 feet gives Warner an enteenth Judicial District Lee Award over School of Dental Medicine, and later edge at altitude, he said. in Colorado. In October, Tom Nelson Homecoming Weekend. opened a practice in Breckenridge. Recently, he completed the Double he received an award for (Pharm) and The award recognizes When Warner and his wife, Carre, Triple Bypass, a cycling event in which judicial excellence from ’71Linda McDermott passionate volunteers moved there, Breckenridge was a lot he rode 220 miles and climbed 22,000 the Colorado Judicial Nelson (Mktg’74) sold who serve CU Boulder smaller and his practice didn’t keep him feet in two days. Institute. John lives with Pucci’s Leader Pharmacy and the Alumni too busy. Civic engagement filled the He’s also a seven-time finisher of his wife, Nancy, in West- in Sacramento, Calif., Association. gap. He led the Breckenridge Music In- the Elk Mountain Grand Traverse, a minster, Colo. after 37 years of own- stitute and volunteered for the Summit midnight ski race from Crested Butte to ership. Tom writes that Yusur Wajih County Search and Rescue Group. He Aspen. In 2015, he and teammate Jack After CU, in their retirement years Al-Madani also founded the Summit Huts Associa- Wolfe became the oldest team — com- Ron Scott they hope to visit all 59 ’77(MEngl; PhD’82), tion, a nonprofit that rents backcountry bined age: 123 — to complete the race. ’68(Mktg) spent 14 years U.S. National Parks and associate dean for aca- cabins, and served multiple terms on the In his mid-60s, he skied the Cristo in the private sector, spend time with their two demic affairs at Kuwait town council and as mayor. Couloir, which tumbles down the southern including a stint as gen- grandchildren. University, received the flanks of Quandary Peak, a fourteener. He eral manager of Hotel Alumni Association’s also skied down Torreys Peak, descending Boulderado. He re- Over Labor 2017 George WARNER CHANNELS a route no more than 50 yards wide in turned to CU in the ’80s Day weekend, Norlin Award over spots, with rocks lining both sides. and served as the Buff ’72the CU Men’s Rugby Homecoming Weekend. HIS ENERGY INTO That might sound like a daredevil Club’s development di- Club celebrated its The award recognizes COMMUNITY stunt; Warner insists he’s careful. rector and as assistant 50th anniversary with alumni who have demon- “I don’t want to make a mistake,” he athletic director, helping an alumni reunion in strated a commitment SERVICE. said, adding that he doesn’t want his to raise $14 million for Boulder. The weekend’s to excellence in their former search-and-rescue colleagues to the Dal Ward Athletic highlight was a match chosen field. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he have to collect his body. Center. Ron received pitting alumni against Paul Criscuolo provided free dental care in New Orle- When not pushing limits on skis, the Alumni Association’s current CU players. (Econ) has worked for ans’ Ninth Ward. Later, he volunteered peaks or bikes, Warner channels his 2017 Alumni Recog- About 40 alumni from 40 years in the bever- similar services in Guatemala. energy into community service. It’s nition Award over all five decades played age industry in the U.S. The Guatemalans Warner treated “helped me professionally,” he said, Homecoming Weekend. in the match, including and Asia. He is the CEO lived far from dental clinics. Many had “and helped me be a better person.” The award recognizes David Bennet (DistSt), of Aged Whiskey Man never seen a dentist. His patients sat alumni who connect, who played for CU in Consulting LLC, a Mas- on bags of grain while he mostly pulled By Clint Talbott (Jour’85) contribute and celebrate the spring of 1969. Read sachusetts company teeth and filled cavities. He did this their CU pride through more and see some pho- serving distilleries. Paul without basic diagnostic tools, such as Read a longer version of this story in Col- their extraordinary ser- tographs at colorado. and wife Rhonda live in an X-ray machine. orado Arts & Sciences Magazine online. vice to the university. edu/coloradan. Search Massachusetts. Like many Coloradans, Warner, Search the terms “Warner” and “dentist.”

57 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo courtesy John Warner Coloradan WINTER 2017 58 Cloud Technology Part- Following the death of and wife Kathleen have ners. CTP was recognized their son Corey Walgren three children. as the world’s leading at age 16, Doug Walgren After CU, Bart Lone enterprise cloud consult- (InfSys) and wife Maureen (MusEdu) taught music in ing firm and successfully started a nonprofit in his Colorado public schools WINTER 2017 completed a merger with honor. The mission of for three years. In 1994, he 80s & 90s Hewlett Packard En- Corey’s Goal is to honor and wife Jeanette joined Notes terprise. In addition to Corey and his love of hock- the U.S. Army Bands and helping large enterprise ey by supporting hockey were initially stationed clients with cloud archi- programs through gifts and in Bamberg, Germany. tecture, Chett oversees open dialogue about how Jeanette left the army to development efforts for disciplinary practices in raise their sons, Jason the internal portfolio of schools can better support and Brandon. Bart served software that supports the emotional well-being of 21 years and retired in overall service delivery. students. September 2015. Upon Bart’s retirement the Nancy Daw Michelle Ator couple purchased two Kane (Dance) (PolSci) of businesses in Grand Lake, ’86was appointed edi- ’89Friday, Eldredge & Clark, Colo. — Grand Lake Wine tor-in-chief of National LLP in Little Rock, Ark., & Spirits and Cabin Quilts Dance Society Journal. has become a fellow of & Stitches. She is lead author of the the American College Lisa Mutschler (Law) article “Comparisons of of Trial Lawyers. She opened the Denver-area Personality Dispositions is the fourth woman in real estate brokerage Oct. 26, 2017: CU Boulder broke ground on a new, 144,000-square-foot aerospace engi- and Genetic Inferences Arkansas to achieve this Expert Real Estate. She neering building on East Campus. Mascot Chip, game as always, suited up for the occasion. in Groups of Performing accomplishment since the practiced law earlier in Artists,” published in organization’s inception her career. June in the International in 1950. The September The National Read more at colorado. Ill., before becoming Journal of Music and induction ceremony George Association of edu/coloradan. Search Menard County’s state Performing Arts. took place during the Brauchler ’81Corporate Directors and the terms “rugby” and attorney in 1984. She Stephen Martin (MusE- ACTL Annual Meeting in ’92(Econ, PolSci; Law’05), Puget Sound Business “reunion.” Planning for and husband Al have two du), former band teacher Montreal, Quebec. district attorney for Journal announced the next reunion, in 2018, sons and four grandsons. at Denver’s D’Evelyn High Marti Nault Schuham Colorado’s 18th Judicial Colleen Birdnow Brown has already begun. Email School, was inducted into (Engl) climbed Mount District and a colonel in (MBA) as 2017 Director [email protected] North Carolina the Colorado Bandmas- Kilimanjaro in early Sep- the Colorado National of the Year. for details. native and ters Association’s Hall of tember. She and husband Guard, announced his run Over Labor Day ’84former NFL running Fame. Steve and wife Rox- Rick live in Illinois. for state attorney general. weekend, the CU Men’s Susan E. back Lee Rouson (A&S) anne have two daughters In August he accepted the Rugby Club celebrated Seabrook (Hist) visited the McMichael and two grandchildren. Kevin Keelan Freedom Award from the its 50th anniversary with ’82joined the tax practice Youth Football Camp last Troon, a golf course (Mktg) was Department of Defense, an alumni reunion in group of Eversheds summer in Mayoden, management company ’91hired as a senior account the highest recognition of Boulder. The weekend’s Sutherland as a part- N.C., to share some of his in Scottsdale, Ariz., executive at Virsys12, a employers for their support highlight was a match ner in the law firm’s sports experience. While appointed Tim Schantz healthcare technology firm of employees who serve pitting alumni against Washington, D.C., office. playing for CU in 1981, Lee (PolSci) president. based in Denver. Kevin in the National Guard and current CU players. Susan was previously earned Freshman All Big About 40 alumni from a partner in Buchanan Eight honors. He played Ellen Weihe all five decades played Ingersoll & Rooney PC’s for the New York Giants Gorsevski in the match, including D.C. tax controversy from 1985 to 1991 and ’88(Hum) was named chair Pete Doody (Engl), Rich practice. the Cleveland Browns of the communication Frankenheimer (Econ), from 1991 to 1992. Lee department in Bowling WE WANT Dean Niro (CivEngr’88), In August, Carol works as a motivational Green State University’s Shane Brown (AeroEn- Pope (Engl) of speaker for Sports World School of Media and YOUR NEWS! gr’95; MS’99) and Dan ’83Petersburg, Ill., retired Ministries, traveling to Communication. Ellen Hernandez (InfoSys’98). from the 4th District U.S. schools and church- writes that she and Write Christie Sounart, Appellate Court, to which es. He and wife Lisa have her husband are cel- Koenig Alumni Center, READ THE OTHER she was named in 2008. four children. ebrating the four-year Boulder, CO 80309, DECADES OF CLASS Carol was a clerk to U.S. Chett Rubenstein anniversary of the inter- [email protected] NOTES ONLINE AT district judge J. Waldo (Acct) is a group lead national adoption of their or fax 303-492-6799. COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN Ackerman in Springfield, and principal architect at two wonderful children.

“ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. 55 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Casey A. Cass Coloradan WINTER 2017 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE MARGOT HIRSCH

MAKING GUNS SAFER 20,000 injuries and deaths is possi- MICHAEL WIRTH (CHEMENGR) Guns are controver- ble, and that’s exciting,” said Hirsch, sial in America. There’s who previously had a 25-year career in HAS BEEN NAMED CHAIRMAN AND no escaping that fact. corporate sales. There’s also no Annually, there are 20,000 injuries CEO OF CHEVRON CORPORATION. doubt that gun vio- and deaths in the United States from lence is widespread and accidental shootings and teen suicides catastrophic. October’s mass shooting alone. In all, there are 33,000 gun deaths Reserve. George and wife World: Movie Magic In September, the Banc in Las Vegas, which killed 58 people domestically, according to the federal Marcia have four children. Volume Three: Amazing of California announced at an outdoor country music concert Centers for Disease Control. Artifacts. The book fea- the hiring of Jason and injured hundreds of others, is one “What most people aren’t aware of is New Mexico tures behind-the-scenes Pendergist (Comm; gut-wrenching example. that of the 30,000-plus gun deaths per native Michael information and interviews MBA’00) as its executive Margot Hirsch (Class’82) believes year, two-thirds are suicides,” she said. ’93L. Connor (Law), former with cast and crew about vice president and head there’s a way to minimize the violence Given the emotionally charged nature deputy secretary of the the props featured in all of real estate banking. without wading deep into the fraught of the gun debate, even Smart Tech’s Department of the Interior, eight Harry Potter movies Jason and wife Juliana debate about legislative gun control. free market-based efforts to curb gun vi- joined Boston-based and in Fantastic Beasts have two children and live “We aren’t advocating to take guns olence have found opposition, according law firm WilmerHale. and Where to Find Them. in California. away or to infringe on Second Amend- to Hirsch, who said she and her col- He focuses on envi- Bonnie is a contributing Alanna Rizzo (IntBus; ment rights,” said Hirsch, president of leagues underestimated the “pushback ronmental compliance, writer to CNET.com, Make MJour’03) finished her the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, a from the NRA and the gun lobby.” natural resources and magazine and Journal of fourth season as the Los nonprofit group that fosters innovation in Additionally, she said, it’s been harder Native American law. While Alta California. She lives in Angeles Dodgers’ broad- firearm safety and raises awareness about than anticipated to raise capital for not an enrolled member of San Francisco. caster for SportsNet LA. smart gun technologies. “In fact, gun own- “innovators who are trying to bring these the Taos Pueblo tribe that Alanna also is a passion- ers are our primary audience: They want technologies to market.” his grandfather was part of, For just over ate dog rescue advocate. to keep their families safe, too. This is all The market for guns is not small. Michael is considered the 18 years, John about new technology that would make Americans own approximately 350 mil- first person of American ’96Augenblick (MechEngr) Colorado native firearms safer and help keep them out of lion of them and buy 10 million during Indian ancestry to hold one has been with energy Tim Barr (Mktg) the wrong hands, especially children.” “quiet” years, when there’s no widely of the Interior Department’s technology company ’98joined McCarthy Building Founded in 2013, the San Francisco publicized mass shooting. top two posts. Qnergy. John redesigned Companies, Inc.’s Denver Bay Area-based foundation favors a It’s Hirsch’s hope that investing in an engine that has been office as director of busi- market-based — that is, not govern- smart-gun technology will appeal to Jennifer used in conjunction with ness development. ment-mandated — approach to gun those who see an opportunity to make Alsever (Jour) solar dishes and is being In July, Andrew safety. It has granted $1 million to en- money while helping to make positive ’94has spent the past two redesigned to provide Hamilton (CompSci) trepreneurs honing commercially viable social change. decades building a career power in remote loca- set his third Nolan’s 14 smart guns and gun-safety solutions. Many people, she said, simply don’t in journalism, writing for tions. The generator is record — a run over the 14 In general, smart guns are equipped know about the potential of smart-gun the Denver Post and, being used in Europe, summits over 14,000 feet with a safety feature restricting their technology. for the last 13 years, as Asia and America. In his in Colorado’s Sawatch use to specific individuals, as through a freelancer for Fortune spare time he coach- Range, from Mt. Massive biometric technology. Related safety in- By Clint Talbott (Jour’85) Magazine, The New York es youth hockey and to Mt. Shavano — with novations include various types of safes, Times, The Wall Street lacrosse. He and wife a north-south time of locks and holsters. A longer version of this story is available Journal, Inc. Magazine, Xaviara live in Utah. 53 hours, 42 minutes. “We still have a ways to go, but a in the online Colorado Arts & Sciences Wired and Fast Company. Andrew also holds a 2003 future where we can prevent up to Magazine. Search “Margot Hirsch.” In 2017, Jennifer plunged Jeff Osterkamp record for riding a bicycle into fiction, releasing the (MEngr), a from base to base of all of first two novels in a young ’97senior Ball Aerospace Colorado’s fourteeners. adult trilogy, The Trinity executive and past chair He and girlfriend Andrea Forest Series. Jennifer of the advisory council for Sansone met while hiking writes that she still free- the engineering college’s a fourteener. lances and lives in the BOLD Center, received mountains just outside of the Alumni Association’s In August, Vail Vail. She enjoys reading, 2017 Alumni Recognition Resorts named writing, mountain biking, Award over Homecoming ’99Geoff Buchheister (Fin) skiing and yoga. Weekend. The award Keystone Resort general recognizes alumni who manager. Geoff was a In October connect, contribute and three-time NCAA All- Bonnie Burton celebrate their CU pride American racer on the CU ’95(Engl, Jour) released through their extraordinary ski team and grew up in J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding service to CU Boulder. Winter Park, Colo.

“ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. 57 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo courtesy Margot Hirsch Coloradan WINTER 2017 58 anniversary with an alum- ni reunion in Boulder. The PRODUCER ALEXIS weekend’s highlight was a match pitting alumni MARTIN WOODALL against current CU play- WINTER 2017 ers. About 40 alumni from (FILM) WAS NOMI- 00s & 10s all five decades played Notes in the match, including NATED FOR A 2017 Dan Bludeau (Hist’01), Jeff Sorenson (MCDB, EMMY FOR HER BioChem’01), Eric DeKruif (AeroEngr’03), WORK ON FEUD: Chad Slaby(Comm’03), Marc McGinn (Bus’04) BETTE AND JOAN. and Charlie Barkmeier (Econ’15). Read more at variants of the F-35 Joint wine industry. He joined colorado.edu/coloradan. Strike Fighter. Aaron is a Chamisal Vineyards in Search the terms “rugby” major in the U.S. Marine California as a wine- and “reunion.” Planning Corps; Tucker serves in maker in 2014 and has for the next reunion, in the Air Force. The friends helped start a sustain- 2018, has already begun. grew up together in Ever- ability project there. Mike Email curugby@colorado. green, Colo., and played writes that he stays busy edu for details. basketball on the same with various winemaking Olympic runner Kara middle school team. projects, one of which Goucher (Psych) has Emmy-award winning involved partnering with launched a post-workout producer Alexis Martin OneHope wines to pro- recovery fashion line Woodall (Film) was nomi- duce wines for charity. with the athletic ap- nated for a 2017 Emmy for James Robertson parel company Oiselle. her work on Feud: Bette (Mktg), an attorney at Kara graduated from and Joan. Alexis has won California-based law While traveling in Italy, Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano ran into Jonathan Levy (PolSci’06) and his wife, CU with three Division Emmys as a member of firm Downey Brand, Jamie Garfinkel, who were on their honeymoon. I NCAA championships producing teams for The was named a 2017 Top in cross-country, the Normal Heart and The Lawyer by Sacramento 3000m and 5000m. Kara People v. O.J. Simpson. Magazine. Sara Alan’s eracy Award in Wisconsin (Acct’96) married in 2016. and husband Adam She and husband Dave (PolSci) debut for her efforts to increase Nicole writes that the Goucher (Comm’98) recently opened a restau- Film editor Nick ’00young adult novel, A financial literacy among couple welcomed son have a son, Colton. rant, Red Herring, in Eagle Houy (Art) won Messy, Beautiful Life, was the state’s citizens. Re- Everett Wooton to the Rock, Calif. ’04the 2017 Emmy Award released by Entangled becca serves on the board world in 2017 and will be Catherine for Outstanding Single- Teen in October. The of directors for SecureFu- sure to show his CU pride Guzelian Bazile After working Camera Picture Editing story is inspired by Sara’s tures, an organization that in his CU onesie. The ’02(Mus, PolSci), formerly with film studios for a Limited Series or personal experience with empowers teens through couple lives in Fort Col- a member of the ener- ’03in Los Angeles after grad- Movie for the miniseries a rare bone cancer in financial education. lins, Colo., where Nicole gy group at Holland & uation, Mike Callahan The Night Of. Nick lives her twenties. She also is In August, Vail Resorts works at CSU. Hart LLP in Denver, has (Film) transitioned to the in New York. half of the comedy duo named Chicago native opened a private prac- The Novelistas, which Taylor Ogilvie (Hist), Scottsdale, tice, Summit Energy Law performs about writing currently the general man- Ariz., law firm LLC, in Englewood, Colo. and teaches performance ager of Wilmot Mountain ’01Rose Law Group has The firm will specialize in to writers. Sara lives in in Wisconsin, as the new named Laura Bianchi matters pertaining to oil WE WANT Colorado with her hus- vice president of the com- (PolSci) director of its and gas title and transac- band and daughter. pany’s urban ski areas. In cannabis department. tional work. In February, Rebecca addition to overseeing Af- Laura will continue to Tucker Hamilton (Aero- YOUR NEWS! Neumann (PhDEcon) won ton Alps in Minnesota and serve as the director of Engr) and Aaron Frey Write Christie Sounart, a Governor’s Financial Lit- Mt. Brighton in Michigan, its business/corporate (AeroEngr’02; MS’03) are Koenig Alumni Center, he will continue working transactions and estate both F-35 test pilots at Boulder, CO 80309, READ THE OTHER as the general manager at planning departments. Edwards Air Force Base [email protected] DECADES OF CLASS Wilmot Mountain. Over Labor Day week- in California. Tucker and or fax 303-492-6799. NOTES ONLINE AT Nicole Tobin (Art, Eng, end, the CU Men’s Rugby Aaron are two of a handful COLORADO.EDU/COLORADAN Fren) and Brian Wooton Club celebrated its 50th of people testing all three

55 WINTER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano Coloradan WINTER 2017 56 CLASS NOTES PROFILE JILL SEUBERT

In August, attorney Former Marine teaching. She connect- ONE SECOND “It wasn’t until I was in a room and Patrick A. Salvi II (Mgmt) Corps captain ed with Wayne Asbury By Aug. 5, 2012, Jill there are images being broadcast back won a record-breaking ’07Siddhartha Rathod (MusEdu’72), a music Seubert (PhDAero- from Curiosity and my eyes are some $148 million jury award (Law), a defense attorney teacher retired from the Engr’11) and her team of the first human eyes seeing [them], for a young woman who and founding partner of school and fellow Buff. at the Jet Propulsion it hit me: I am one of those explorers.” was paralyzed when a Rathod Mohamedbhai Tiffany enjoys that they Lab (JPL) in Pasadena, After studying aerospace engineer- pedestrian shelter outside LLC in Denver, received both attended college at Calif., had done every- ing at Penn State University, Seubert O’Hare International the Alumni Association’s CU and ended up teach- thing possible over years, months and worked for the Air Force Research Lab- Airport collapsed on her in 2017 Kalpana Chawla ing at the same middle hours to ensure their calculations and oratory, where she was introduced to 2015. It is the most a jury Award over Homecoming school in California. directions were correct. As Curiosity, the world of spacecraft navigation. Her has awarded in a personal Weekend. The award NASA’s Mars lander, approached the trajectory to CU was settled during a injury case against the city recognizes outstanding Michael Bishof red planet’s atmosphere, all they could campus visit, when she connected with of Chicago, the Chicago career achievement, as (MPhys; PhD’14) do was wait. aerospace engineering professor Penina Tribune reported. well as significant contri- ’11and Cynthia Pekron Their main task was to make sure a Axelrad, her future adviser. butions to the community recently welcomed their satellite orbiting the planet was in a po- She also met future husband Carl In August, or the university within 15 third son, Ignatius “Indy” sition to communicate with Curiosity. Seubert (PhDAeroEngr’11), an Aus- Massachusetts years of graduation. Charles Bishof. Indy “That’s hard enough to do,” said tralian with similar career ambitions. ’05native Kendra Tupper was born in August in Seubert, 34, one of the operation’s Today Carl also works at JPL. (MCivEngr) was named On Sept. 9, Elmhurst, Ill. He joins big navigation and mission design engi- These days Seubert is at work on Boulder’s new chief Kate Goltz brothers Casimir Patrick neers, “but we were also challenged to two new Mars missions. Insight, sustainability officer. ’08Moulton (Psych) and and Ronan Thomas. take a picture of Curiosity right as its launching in 2018, will land and She worked as the city’s Kevin Moulton (Biochem, parachute opened.” then drill into the surface, gathering energy services manager MCDBio’08) were In June, former The window of opportunity would seismic, thermal and other data. Mars for the past three years. married at the Sunrise Buffs track and last one second. Science Mission, launching in 2020, Lindsey Levick Zai (In- Amphitheater in Boulder. ’13field athlete Aric Van Curiosity sent immediate confirmation will rove Mars’ landscape measuring tlAf) joined the Low Impact The couple dated for 11 Halen (Film) competed of its landing — a photo of Mars’ surface surface materials and caching samples, Hydropower Institute in years after meeting their in the steeplechase at from its own camera — but it would be primarily seeking signs of ancient life. Massachusetts as a pro- junior year at a party on the USA Track and Field hours before Seubert’s team’s picture of Seubert also is deputy principal gram coordinator. Lindsey The Hill. Officiant Jared Championships. Last year the descending craft would transmit. investigator for the Deep Space Atomic brings with her previous Leidich (AeroEngr’09) he made it to the Olympic Once it did and she saw the tiny Clock — an unprecedentedly stable and conservation experience, also graduated from CU. trials. Aric lives in Boulder. parachute’s swell floating above massive accurate space-suitable clock intended to including her time with Martian terrain, relief and elation swept aid spacecraft navigation and autonomy. The Wilderness Society in Teju Ravilochan Filmmaker Eric over her. its Washington, D.C. and (IntlAf), a Forbes Stewart (MFA) “I can’t Boulder offices. ’0930 Under 30 social entre- ’16is working on Off Country, believe that I preneur and co-founder an experimental documen- was one of the On Aug. 25, of the Unreasonable tary film and oral history many people Colorado Institute, now known as archive that examines the that played a ’0618th Judicial District Uncharted, a Denver- nuclear landscapes of role in making Chief Deputy District based incubator for three regions in the West that picture Attorney John Kellner entrepreneurs, received — the former Rocky Flats happen,” she (Law) accepted the the Alumni Association’s Plant, the White Sands said. Freedom Award from the 2017 Kalpana Chawla Missile Range and the The image Department of Defense, Award over Homecoming Nevada Test Site. (right) made the highest recognition Weekend. The award The New York of employers for their recognizes outstanding In September, Times. support of employees career achievement, as Rudy von Berg Seubert grew who serve in the National well as significant contri- ’17Jr. (Mktg) and his father, up in a scientif- Guard and Reserve. John butions to the community Rodolphe von Berg, ic household is a major in the U.S. or the university within 15 competed in the Ironman in Sugarloaf, Marine Corps Reserve. years of graduation. 70.3 World Championship Penn., the In October, Tennessee in Chattanooga, Tenn. It daughter of an engineering professor Her highest hopes remain an explorer’s. governor Bill Haslam After gradu- was the first time that a and a mathematics teacher. She avidly “I’d love to be part of the mission appointed Mary Wagner ating, Tiffany pro (Rudy) and his father consumed adventure stories, both that does find evidence of life, whether (PolSci) as a Circuit Court ’10Gambardella (MusEdu) competed in the same fictitious and historical, from Indiana it be ancient life or current life. To trial judge for Shelby took a job teaching music 70.3 championship. Jones to Ponce de Leon. finally be able to answer the question, County, Tenn. Mary is cur- at Lompoc Valley Middle Rudy placed 13th overall; “I always thought that quicksand ‘Are we alone or are we not alone?’” rently the youngest such School in California, where Rodophe placed 2nd in and piranhas were going to play a much judge in the state. she’s in her fifth year of the 60-64 age category. larger role in my adult life,” she said. By Beebe Bahrami (MCDBio’86)

57 WINTER 2017 Coloradan “ex” indicates a nondegree and the year of expected graduation. Photo courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona. Coloradan WINTER 2017 58 CLASS NOTES In Memoriam Lillian McCollum Hale (PE’40) Mildred Kroeger Norstadt Lou Gomez (A&S’61) Ann Rayner Wood (Psych’40) (Nurs’52) Mary V. Harrison-Ranson Margaret Springstead Archambault George W. Powell (Acct’52) (A&S ex’61) (PE’41) Donna Betasso Smith (Advert’52) John O. Maberry II (Geol’61) Edna M. Falk (Engl’41) Eugene N. Catalano (ArchEngr’53) Allen L. Mandel (A&S’61) William F. Dobbs (ChemEngr’43) Gerald D. Dyer (PE’53) M. Eugene Norman Jr. (A&S’61) Eric E. Conn (Chem’44) Robert M. Saucerman (Advert’53) Thomas A. Siratovich (A&S’61) Philip R. Denham (MechEngr’44; Altona Fowler Alexander Isaiah Trice (MPE’61) MA’48) (BusEdu’54) Margaret E. Walsh (MNurs’61) Jean Scogin Prodger (Jour’44) John C. Reinhardt (MechEngr’54) K. C. Eapen (PhDA&S’62) Glenis Sonnenberg Schmidt Richard E. Burnett (MEdu’55; Howard C. Greenwood (Law’62) (DistSt’44) EdD’63) James R. Heffley (Law’62) Leroy R. Cain (MechEngr’45) Leonard B. Hartwich (ArchEngr’55) Lawrence W. Ketter (AeroEngr’62) Maurice H. Gardner (CivEngr ex’45) Mary VanWinkle Nelson (Edu’55) Richard A. Rossmeisl Dorothy Hoover Landrum Betty Korslund Sherrill (EngrPhys’62) (A&S’45) (HomeEcon’55) William D. Thomas (A&S ex’62) M. Alan Brown (Chem’46) Roscoe M. Bolt Jr. (Mgmt’56) Noel E. Wilson Jr. (MMgmt’62) Thomas A. Hanzo (A&S’46) Jerome S. Desanto (Geol’56) Wolfgang H. Berger (MGeol’63) Muriel Blumenthal Holmes Jane Haas Gillenwaters Leslie O. Carson (A&S’63) (A&S’47) (A&S ex’56) Jeff D. Chalk (PhDPhys’63) Jenny Marshall Jankovsky Mary L. Hovland (Nurs’56) Harry W. Gandy (Fin’63; MBA’64) (A&S’47) Laurin R. Johnson (A&S ex’56) Shirley Holaway Troyer (A&S’63) Amos B. Ownbey (DistSt’47) Sue Sivers Pfutzenreuter Ronald T. Adams (A&S’64) Philip G. Serafini Jr. (A&S ex’47) (Mktg ex’56) Charles O. Bush (MechEngr’64) Patricia Bramson Condren Harvey A. Averch (A&S’57) James M. Daily (DBA’64) (Zool’48; MA’50) Bill B. Chandler (Mgmt’57) Ardis E. Kirby (A&S ex’64) Keith J. Ebner (CivEngr’48) Fred M. Greenberg (Mktg, Walter Nilsen (MusEdu’64) Lois Rowe Petre (Soc’48) Pharm’57) Sandra Fuchs Stein (Edu’64) Marjorie Ellen Pryor (Math’48) Margaret Heinricy (MusEdu’57) Aubrey D. West (Hist’64) William H. Walter (AeroEngr’48) James P. Jackson (Law’57) Mary Mummery-Imhof (Nurs’65; Gordon E. Bangs (ChemEngr’49) Barbara Rathgeber Jacob MS’68) Erwin C. Cramp (ChemEngr’49) (A&S’57) Mary Phillipp Pollart (MusEdu’65) Lewis E. Hiigel (MusEdu’49; William L. Jones (Law’57) John H. Read (CivEngr’65) MS’50) Mary Mahoney Maxwell (A&S Ronald G. Smith (A&S’65) Robert M. Twedt (MBiochem’49; ex’57) William W. Willis Jr. (PolSci’65) PhDMicro’52) John G. Peterlin Jr. (MechEngr’57) Roy T. Wortman (MHist’65) Madeline J. Bean-Nelson Susan Schaw Pommer (Econ’77) Bruce E. Kostival (MBA’91) Arthur S. Boss (A&S’50) Rush B. Studinski (Mgmt’57) James R. Sinley (A&S ex’66) (MEdu’70) Beverly Esenwein Seeds Karen Long Knadler (InfoSys’94) Robert C. Brictson (Jour’50; Beverly Erwin Wilson (A&S’57) Paul R. Taylor (MPE’66) John D. Harper Jr. (MPubAd’70) (MEdu’77; MA’89) Ryan P. Doherty (Geol’95) MA&S’53) C. Merrill Hough (MA&S’58) John W. Braden Jr. (A&S’67) Wesley W. Potter (Geog’70; Fay Jeffries Tracy (Anth’78) Lucy P. Ginley (Arch’96; MA’04) Ronald K. Brown (Mktg’50) Karen Leonhard Kelsch (Mus M. Edward Burns Jr. (Acct’67; MBio’74) James M. Wood (Phil’78) Kevin L. Hoisington (Econ’98) Gloria J. Domann (A&S’50; ex’58) Law’72) Gerald M. Snyder (MHist’70) Guido P. Meyer (EPOBio’79) Lee S. Vigil (Jpn’00) MJour’76) Richard H. Pearl (Geol’58) Brian N. Johnson (Hist’67) Stan B. Stanfill (Law’70) Donna M. Watkins (Fren’79) Seana S. Lowe Steffen Richard C. Funk (Mgmt’50) Henry C. Smith Jr. (ElEngr’58) John H. Waller (MElEngr’67) Robert W. Stout (ArchEngr, Benedict J. Casias (Soc’80) (PhDSoc’02) Joe O. Horace (Mgmt’50) Thomas L. 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59 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan WINTER 2017 60 The Ralphie Issue [fall we were, our eyes mere 2017] is fantastic! Thank inches from each other. I you for doing such a will never forget that big, GETTING great job! beautiful eye and that tiny WINTER 2017 Nancy Kane tail! I felt compelled to say SOCIAL (Art’86) something. I said, “You are A sampling of readers’ Brooktondale, N.Y. a beautiful and magnificent online reactions to the ALL ABOUT RALPHIE creature, Ralphie. Thank fall issue: The story on Ralphie As a CU alumnus I recall you for sharing your planet was fun to read. Since with nostalgia Ralphie’s with us.” She replied, “You Upon seeing Drew you invited readers to running at CU football are a kind and gentle soul, Litton’s Ralphie supply more details, games in the 1980s during Joe. You come with good cartoon depicting the you may be interested my wonderful undergrad- intentions.” I so longed to buffed-up mascot in a in how Ralphie got her uate years. But it’s nearly enter her trailer and give cape, Shelly McCune name. She was named 2020: This 1960s-era her a big hug. Greenwood (Bus’81; after Ralph Wallace practice befits neither Up to that moment, I MEdu’00) responded on (Hist’68), who I think CU nor buffalo, which are did not know anything Facebook: “She’s looking was the CU junior class not pets. Today’s Ralphie about spirituality or animal great for her age!” president at the time. would be better served by communication, but I Whether he campaigned being visited in her natural have since learned a lot After reading An- for the distinction, habitat by CU students about both. That incident drew Daigle’s (PhD let alone this form of and the public at a natural started me on a spiritual Engl’16) story on Buffs’ immortality, is debat- environment educational journey with the universe senior tailback Phillip able. My acquaintance venue. It could feature the that continues to this day. I Lindsay (Comm, Soc’17), with Ralph arose as bison’s important role in remember her words, and @rensch025 tweeted: we competed for the both Native American his- have striven to be the kind “Nice little write-up on @I_ attentions of the same tory and in CU’s football and gentle person she CU_boy [Lindsay] in the Southern belle when we history. Free Ralphie! recognized and to be true Coloradan. Class on and all attended St. Aidan’s Ellen W. Gorsevski to my soul. It started with off the field! #gobuffs. Episcopal Church just (Hum’88) my becoming an ardent On Facebook, CU off campus. Again, Bowling Green, Ohio protector of animals, Boulder staff mem- thanks for the great something that continues ber Michelle Bell said, story and the wonderful I was not aware that the to this day. I have strug- “Humble, positive, talent- memories it provoked current issue of the Colora- gled to overcome my ego, ed and kind...He makes for some of us. dan was going to be “The which is, indeed, a lifetime all of us so proud!” Kirk Rider Ralphie Issue.” I would battle. I have always (Engl’67) have submitted the Ralphie considered that moment in Responding to the Grand Junction, Colo. story that beats all others. my life to have been a gift Q&A with Ralphie Thanks for rekindling the from God. Runner Rachel Edson TOP The opening illustration memory of all our beautiful Joe Felice (Soc’18), Facebook com- of our fall 2017 issue, by mascots. (Span’72) menter Debra Price wrote, Drew Litton. In 1969, as a member Aurora, Colo. “We were very honored of the Golden Buffalo to be invited to one of Ral- BOTTOM Trading card Ral- Men’s Marching Band, I OPEN SPACE IN phie's practices recently, phies, also from the fall issue. happened to find myself AURORA where I met Rachel. She Test your knowledge! in the north end zone I always enjoy Paul Dan- clearly loves Ralphie and of Folsom Field, alone ish’s (Hist’65) column, but what she's doing. Both with Ralphie prior to our this time he goofed. He Rachel and Ralphie are EDITOR'S NOTE pre-game performance. said that without its open great ambas- It was a surreal moment, space, Boulder would look sadors for THERE ARE SEVERAL TALES IN but I was immediately like Aurora! Has he been CU.” drawn to her trailer. There to Aurora, the third-largest CIRCULATION ABOUT THE ORIGIN we were, alone in front of city in Colorado? 50,000 people with what Aurora has 14 open OF RALPHIE’S NAME. IF YOU’D felt like a spotlight on us. space areas with a total I went over and pressed of 5,414 acres — he could LIKE TO SHARE YOURS, WRITE US my eye to the grate, and Google it. she did likewise while Charlotte Faris AT [email protected]. wagging her tail. There Aurora, Colo. 61 WINTER 2017 Coloradan SOCIAL BUFFS

OF LIST 10 VOLUME 22, NUMBER 2 WINTER 2017 10 MOVIES MENTIONING OR Coloradan aims to connect, inform and engage readers FILMED IN BOULDER in the life of the University of Colorado Boulder through regular communication with alumni, students, faculty, staff 1. The Big Short, 2015 and friends of the university. It is published four times per year, in spring, summer, fall and winter, by the CU Boulder Alumni Association. Permission to reprint articles, photos 2. Enlighten Up!, 2009 and illustrations may be obtained from the editor.

3. The City of Your EDITORIAL OFFICES Final Destination, Koenig Alumni Center, University of Colorado, Boulder CO 2009 80309-0459; phone 303-492-3712 or 800-492-7743; fax 303-492-6799; email [email protected] 4. Catch and Release, ADDRESS CHANGES 2006 To change your address or remove your name from our mailing list, write or call the Alumni Association 5. About Schmidt, 2002 at the address and numbers above or email records@ cufund.org. Please include your alumni ID number, which 6. Cannibal! The is on your mailing label. Musical, 1996 ON THE WEB Visit www.colorado.edu/coloradan to read the magazine. 7. American Flyers, On Halloween, an eerie mist clung to the Flatirons. Mark Malin (EnvCon'83; PhDSpan'96) 1985 PUBLISHER wrote on CU's main Facebook page: “How many other campuses have a view like that? None!” Ryan Chreist (Kines’96, MPubAd’09) 8. Sleeper, 1973 EDITOR 9. Downhill Racer, 1969 Eric F. Gershon

10. The Glenn Miller ASSOCIATE EDITOR Story, 1954 Christie Sounart (Jour’12) EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Lauren Price (MJour’17)

CONTRIBUTORS Glenn Asakawa (Jour’86), Michelle Starika Asakawa (Jour, Mktg’87), Peter Burke (Engl’92), Patrick Campbell (EnvDes’11), Casey A. Cass, Melissa Cech (Engl’06), Dave Curtin (Jour’78), Paul Danish (Hist’65), Marty Coffin Evans (Engl’64), Kacie Griffith, Trent Knoss, Lisa Marshall (Jour, PolSci'94), Ken McConnellogue (Jour’90), Jennifer Osieczanek, Kelsey Perry, David Plati (Jour’82), Julie Poppen (Engl’88), FOLLOW US Jim Scott (EPOBio’73), Clint Talbott (Jour’85) Facebook facebook facebook.com/ DESIGN AND ART DIRECTION cuboulderalumni Pentagram Austin

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63 WINTER 2017 Coloradan Photo by Glenn Asakawa Coloradan WINTER 2017 64 THEN1918

The United States entered World War I early in 1917. University students and professors across the country enlisted. Campuses became military training grounds. When peace came in late 1918, an estimated 1,000 Coloradans were among the dead, including 55 CU Boulder alumni. Their names are inscribed in the University Memorial Center and carved into the walls of what today is the economics department building.

1 ROTC Band on the quad.

2 Medical detachment. Many fraternity houses were convert- ed to barracks and medical facilities. This house was likely the medical group’s home.

3 Student Army Training Corps linemen and concrete workers. East side of Gamble Field (cur- rent site of the UMC).

4 Outside barracks, east side of Gamble Field, near the old engineering shops.

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