A Library Built for the Block Plan, p. 10 Bulletin WINTER 2017 Students look out at the Colorado Springs skyline and watch storm clouds roll in on the last evening of their Priddy Experience Trip. The students spent three days volunteering on Pikes Peak where they helped maintain trails. A publication for alumni, parents, and friends. • Vice President for Communications: Jane Turnis • Co-editors: Jennifer Kulier, Leslie Weddell • Production and Editing: Kirsten Akens ’96 • Creative Director: Felix A. Sanchez ’93 • Photo Editor: Jennifer Coombes • Design: Dina Snow • Copy Editing: Helen Richardson • (719) 389-6603, (719) 389-6256 (fax), [email protected] • THE COLORADO COLLEGE BULLETIN (122-860) is published four times per calendar year by Colorado College, 14 E. Cache La Poudre St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3294. General Series 599. Bulletin Series 505. PERIODICALS postage paid at Colorado Springs 80901-9998 and at additional offices. POSTMASTER: Please send ADDRESS CHANGES to Colorado College Bulletin, Alumni Records, 14 E. Cache La Poudre St., Colorado Springs, CO 80903-3294. The Bulletin is also available online; to stop receiving a printed copy, email [email protected] and let us know. CONTENTS 10 Built for the Block Plan — and the Planet 16 Peak Profiles: CC Scholarship Recipients Tell Their Stories 22 From the Medieval to PHOTO BY BY PHOTO the Modern NOAH BRODSKY ’20 BRODSKY NOAH From the President 2 Campus News 3 Athletics 8 On the Bookshelf 24 Point of View 32 ABOUT THE COVER Chas surveys the crowd at the library dedication First Person 34 during Homecoming Weekend. The photo was Student Perspective 36 taken through the window —which also serves as a writing wall — in the Tutt Library Experimental Class Notes 38 Classroom on the first floor of the library. Students in the class Creativity and Logic created mind A Message from maps to describe ideas around risk and innovative Your Alumni Board 43 thinking. The words also could suggest some of Milestones 44 CC’s values for student learning and exploration. Photo by Jennifer Coombes. www.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin | 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT PHOTO BY JENNIFER COOMBES BY PHOTO RIGHT: President Jill Tiefenthaler listens as Daniel Rodriguez ’18 discusses his findings from the work he completed for his summer research project at the SCORE Symposium during Family and Friends Weekend. Dear Alumni, Parents, and Friends, s we move from one season into expressed sincere gratitude for the Ritt has become the intellectual hub of Aanother, I am pleased to share the Kellogg ’90 Memorial Fund, which campus and we are proud that it is built latest Bulletin with you. Autumn over the past 25 years has enabled to be a net-zero energy facility. at Colorado College is a special hundreds of students to explore the time, and Fall 2017 was particularly natural world while honoring the These were exciting celebrations of memorable. Starting with Family and memory of an alumnus who deeply significant achievements benefiting Friends Weekend in early October, loved the outdoors. We also dedicated our students and faculty, but we the college held 10 days of events that the Ahlberg Outdoor Education have much more to accomplish! included the first-ever Art Week and Center Annex, a stunning addition to That is why during Homecoming we concluded with Homecoming. More our Outdoor Education building. announced Building on Originality: than 2,500 members of the extended The Campaign for Colorado College, CC community, families, alumni, Artists and art scholars, including a major fundraising initiative that and friends, joined us on campus Native American composer and artist will allow us to realize our mission to to celebrate the successes we have Raven Chacon, and several of CC’s provide the best liberal arts education cultivated over the last several years. alumni artists, joined us during in the country. Over the months to Art Week to launch the Colorado come, you will hear much more about During Family and Friends Weekend, Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado the campaign and the ways you can we dedicated the East Campus College. Our alliance with the FAC help achieve our goals. Housing Community, which is broadening our academic program includes eight new residences, a and providing new creative opportuni- Colorado College’s story is being beautiful central courtyard, and ties for the CC and Colorado Springs written every day. I hope you enjoy a vibrant community center. We communities. the many articles in this issue that named the spaces in East Campus capture the energy on campus, and for distinguished former students Homecoming was an excellent I invite you to continue to be a part including Life Trustee and Colorado opportunity to bring past and future of CC’s story. leader William J. Hybl ’64, Nobel together. Along with numerous class Laureate James Heckman ’65, Olympic reunions, and a celebration of the 50 Best regards, figure skaterPeggy Fleming ’70, and years that Music Professor Michael former Senator and Secretary of the Grace ’63, M.A. ’64 has spent teaching Interior Kenneth Salazar ’77. and leading at CC, we dedicated the spectacular renovation of the Charles The weekend also highlighted our L. Tutt Library. The new library, built Outdoor Education program. We specifically to support the Block Plan, 2 | COLORADO COLLEGE BULLETIN | WINTER 2017 CAMPUS NEWS By Leslie Weddell CC Launches $435 Million Fundraising Campaign Colorado College launched a compre- hensive fundraising campaign on Oct. 14, during the dedication of the reno- vated Charles L. Tutt Library. The $435 million campaign is the most ambitious fundraising initiative the college has undertaken in its 143-year history, and is among the 15 largest fundraising cam- paigns launched by a liberal arts college. “We are embarking on this campaign because a Colorado College education is more relevant today than ever,” says President Jill Tiefenthaler. “The aca- demic rigor of our pioneering Block JENNIFER COOMBES BY PHOTO Plan, and our unique place in the Rocky Mountain West have positioned our students, alumni, and faculty to make a difference in the world. Through the campaign, we will invest in the extraordinary potential of a Colorado College education.” Dedicating the newly renovated Tutt Library are, from left, trustees Robert Selig ’61, Susan Burghart ’77 (chair), Robert Ross, The campaign focuses on raising David van Diest Skilling ’55, CC President Jill Tiefenthaler, and Thayer Tutt. funds for scholarships, innovation programming, support for faculty and coaches, and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. Through the campaign, the college has raised nearly $20 million for the library renovation. “Our new library has been made possi- ble by generous gifts from donors who believe in Colorado College,” says Tiefenthaler. “It’s the first library built for the Block Plan and has quickly become the intellectual hub of our “The real value of the Fine Arts Center Financial aid is another campaign pri- Hear questions alumni, parents, and campus, bringing people across all and its collections — and the center’s ority and the college plans to establish friends of the college asked President disciplines together.” potential to enhance our educational 180 newly endowed scholarships. Tiefenthaler about the campaign mission — cannot be quantified,” during an Oct. 16 phone call discus- The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center Tiefenthaler says. “We envision an arts “Our goal is to increase access to Colo- sion at www.coloradocollege.edu/ at Colorado College will transfer to renaissance that engages the entire rado College for qualified students from phonecast, and learn about the the college as a gift valued at more regional community. The center also lower- and middle-income families,” importance of Colorado College’ $435 than $175 million. It is the largest gift complements the strengths of Colo- says Tiefenthaler. “We are making every million fundraising campaign at in Colorado College’s history and the rado College’s Block Plan, and adds effort to move toward not having to www.coloradocollege.edu/campaign. second-largest gift received by a liberal considerable breadth to experiential consider prospective students’ financial arts college. opportunities we offer our students.” situations when deciding admission.” www.coloradocollege.edu/bulletin | 3 CAMPUS NEWS 1 DAY, 202 VOLUNTEERS, 3,400 POUNDS OF TRASH CC’s Day of Service was back for its third annual creek cleanup in Monument Creek in early October. More than 200 partici- pants — 202, to be exact — picked up 3,400 pounds of trash in and around Monument Creek over the course of three two-hour shifts. “The broad goal of the CC Day of Service is to support a culture of community engagement on our campus by raising awareness around stewardship of our local watershed, as well as the numbers of individuals experiencing homelessness in our city,” says Jordan Radke, director of the CC’s Collaborative for Community Engagement. The Fountain Creek Watershed organization partnered with CC to sponsor the cleanup of Monument Creek as part of Nobel Prize From left, Teddy Weeks ’17, Kip Thorne, Zoe Pierrot ’17 (cur- Colorado Springs Creek Week. The three main organizations Winner at CC rently the Physics Department paraprof), and Maddie Lucey ’18. on campus spearheading the event were the Collaborative for PHOTO BY TMDEXTER PHOTOGRAPHY BY PHOTO Community Engagement, the Office of Sustainability, and the KIP THORNE, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics