2011 Fall: University of Denver Magazine

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Dear Readers: Lately there has been much discussion about the cost of higher education in the United States, and there is no question that education at a top private college or university is an expensive proposition. The sticker price at DU is $52,770 per year, including tuition and fees, room and board, and indirect costs such as books, transportation and personal expenses. Thats still substantially lower than the sticker price of our private competitors across the nation. The cost of a University of Denver education is mitigated by financial aid from a variety of sources, including DU itself (discounted tuition), endowments, federal and state governments, and private foundations. More than 85 percent of our undergraduates receive some amount of financial aid based on need, merit, or both. Still, we are unable to meet every students financial need, and the average amount not covered by financial aidthe need gapis nearly $7,000 per year. This funding gap is the principal limitation that we face as an institution. A primary focus of Ascend: The Campaign for the University of Denver is to raise funds for student financial aid, ensuring that the best and brightest students are able to enroll and remain at the University, regardless of their financial background. (Read more about student scholarships beginning on page 45 of this issue.) A DU education is worth the investment. Weve worked hard to control the growth of our operating costs while improving on the exceptional educational environment we offer our students. We have wonderful academic programs with a 12:1 student to faculty ratio, and 70 percent of our undergraduates study abroad through DUs Cherrington Global Scholars program. An enhanced career services program is providing more placement opportunities for students, and the Academic Commons project is transforming Penrose Library into a technology-rich collaboration and learning space. We have great faculty and students, a beautiful campus that hums with intellectual vitality, and an extraordinary location in the great city whose name we bear. Our emphasis on excellence attracts nearly 15,000 applicants to our undergraduate programs and more than 10,000 applicants to our graduate programs every year. We have become more selective in admissions, and the academic credentials of our entering students have steadily improved. Since 2005, the proportion of our undergraduate students who were in the top 10 percent of their high school classes has risen from 35 percent to nearly 50 percent, and average test scores have gone up dramatically. All of this has contributed to the quality of the intellectual and cultural life of the University community. At the same time, nearly 20 percent of our undergraduates receive federal Pell grants (need-based grants for students from lower-income families), and the proportion of domestic minority students at DU has nearly doubled. The proportion of international students has doubled as well. The need for financial assistance continues to grow. We are well on our way to meeting that need. The Ascend campaign already has raised more than $80 million for financial aid since its start in 2006, and were now offering a pool of dollar-for-dollar matching funds for gifts of endowed student scholarships$25 million for undergraduates and $10 million for graduate students. In just the past year, we matched $8 million in gifts for undergraduate financial aid endowments and nearly $1 million for graduate aid. When the campaign is completed, well have added more than $150 million to our student aid endowment. If were successful at this, we can close the need gap. Just think what might be possiblea future that is virtually unlimited for our students. Please help us make that future a reality.
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Dog Days
Heidi Ganahl is having a howling good time as head of the Camp Bow Wow empire.
By Tamara Chapman
The Nature of Sound

Images by Wayne Armstrong
A portrait series explores the otherworldly talent of Lamont School of Music students.
Brain Power
By Doug McPherson
Concussion expert Kim Gorgens is helping young athletes keep their heads in the game.
Shouting to be Heard
By Greg Glasgow
Raised in one of Denvers poorest neighborhoods and incarcerated at 16, Jose Guerrero was going nowhere fast. Slam poetry helped the DU student turn his life around.
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On the cover: DU student Jose Guerrero is making a name for himself in Denvers slam poetry scene; read the story on page 40. Photo by Justin Edmonds. This page: Twilight Call, a portrait of junior percussion major Jackson Stevens, is part of a series of photo illustrations by photographer Wayne Armstrong; see more on page 30.
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On the profile of Blair Taylor, owner of Barolo Grill and Enotec Imports:
Great guy and extremely knowledgeable when it comes to food and wine. Does anyone remember Dudleys? Blair and I were housemates when we were at DU. Thanks for sharing his story.
Walt McDowell (BSBA 74)
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On Team colors, about the Crimson and Gold Inn near campus:
We called it C&Gs. Within walking distance from campus at the edge of the 1-mile alcoholfree zone that existed until the Draught Board opened in the student union circa 1969 (pun on Vietnam War selective service draft board, of course). Remember celebrating my 18th birthday there with my fellow freshman roommates like it was yesterday.
Rich Herz (BSCHE 70)
On the profile of Maddy DAmato and Alex Hasulak, founders of Love Grown Foods granola:
Since trying this at the International Womens 5K in Colorado in May I have been searching high and low for this product. Im going to check out Kroger now!!! I hope I can find it!!! I love it.
June
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Its inevitable when we publish a themed edition of the University of Denver Magazine that something gets left outstories we didnt know about or didnt have room for. Thanks to our readers, were now aware of a handful of alumni-owned restaurants that
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Comments from our online readers

On Good taste, about Professor Jack Kinnamon and his research on taste buds:
Dr. Kinnamons classes were among my favoritehe gave the most interesting lectures and demonstrations. Hes doing such interesting work!
Sara Shanahan (BA 11)
didnt make our summer 2011 DU-licious food edition. Youll find stories about those restaurants Zingers, White Fence Farm, Blue Bonnet Caf and the New York Deli online at www.du.edu/magazine. What you tell us matters. Your story ideas fill the magazine and DUs news website, DU Today (www.du.edu/today). Your opinions shape the University and its magazine. Please keep the feedback coming. Write us at du-magazine@du.edu or comment on magazine stories online. And please take a few minutes to complete our online reader survey. Simply go to www.du.edu/magazine and click on the Tell us what you think link. Readers who complete the survey by Sept. 30 may enter a drawing to win one of 50 copies of Built for Learning, a coffee-table book about DUs architecture. Its important that we know what were doing well and what we could do better, what you want to read more (or less) of, and whether the magazine is effective in keeping you connected to DU. Tell us what you think. After all, this is your magazine.
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I met Peter Morton (Hard Rock Life, summer 2011) in September 1966, when he was an incoming freshman at DU. He was assigned to a second-floor room at Johnson-McFarlane Hall. I served as the resident adviser for the floor, as I was in the first year of working on an MA in Student Personnel Services (headed by Eunice Hilton and Barbara Mertz). On the day of his arrival, I learned Peter was from Chicago. His father, Arnold Morton, introduced himself to me (not in the presence of Peter) and said: My son can be a real handful, so here is my card. If he gives you any trouble get in touch with me right away! Of course, I never had to call Mr. Morton, but Peter had a look and attitude about him and I knew he would be a huge success in life. We certainly have not been disappointed!
Chuck Larson (MA 68) Pawleys Island, S.C.
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Thank you to John Vaccaro (BA 59, MA 64) of Escondido, Calif.; Sterling Nelson (BSBA 56, MBA 71) of Evergreen, Colo.; and Don Cushing (BA 56, MA 62) of Highlands Ranch, Colo., who wrote in to identify the football players
who appeared in the photo on page 51 of the summer issue. Bob Huber (BS 59) is pictured standing; seated, left to right, are Ben Miller (BFA 60), Willie Jackson (BS 57) and Ed Stuart (BA 58).
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DUs Native Student Alliance hosted a spring powwow, New Beginnings, on May 21. The event showcased Native American drummers and dancers of all ages and honored Native American students who graduated from DU in the spring, including Tina Trujillo (BSBA 11), pictured at left in yellow. More than 20 Native American vendors from Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico sold handcrafted art and jewelry at the powwow; food was provided by Denvers Tocabe American Indian Eatery, founded by alums Ben Jacobs (BA 05) and Matt Chandra (BA 05). Around 1 percent of DU undergraduate and graduate students are Native American or Alaskan Native.
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Changes in America since Sept. 11, 2001 1 The global war on terror to capture and kill
transnational terrorists and support U.S. allies with counterterrorism assistance
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TEDxDU spotlights radical collaboration

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paralyzed woman walked across the stage, a pair of poets rapped about making their voices heard, and four masked men created a world of sound on an enormous marimba. As emcee Hilary Blair said, Its a very TEDxDU kind of day. Scientists, inventors, spiritual leaders, students and teachers dazzled the crowd May 13 at the second annual TEDxDU, a celebration of ideas worth spreading. Underscoring the theme of Radical Collaboration, speaker after speaker took the stage at DUs Newman Center for the Performing Arts and detailed their own accomplishments and the teamwork necessary to achieve them. Ramona Pierson had the crowd holding its collective breath as she described going for a run, getting hit by a car and waking from a coma 18 months later. After 50-some surgeries, the hospital was out of options and sent her to a senior center in Denver. The senior citizens held an emergency meeting, Pierson said. They asked each other, What skills do we have? This kid needs a lot of work. The seniors taught her to speak (and curse), walk with a cane and generally get on with life. It was people working with people to rebuild me, Pierson said. Now a successful entrepreneur and inventor, Pierson is developing new education approaches focused on differentiated and personalized instruction. Shes working with DUs Morgridge College of Education to develop an educational ecosystem that applies an algorithm to match individual learning needs and instructional materials in real time in a technology-rich environment. DU student Andrew Steward earned a tearful standing ovation when he related his
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and Iraq, with approximately 6,000 U.S. casualties and more than $1 trillion spent Department of Homeland Securitywith an annual budget of more than $40 billion American civil liberties, and a greater government focus on intelligence Administration for tightened airport security
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5 Creation of the Transportation Security 6 The largest public entitlement program

Students and others watched the sold-out TEDxDU event at TEDxDU Active, a satellite viewing event in the Driscoll Ballroom.
the September 11th Victim Compensation Fundever implemented campuses for its clandestine service
7 The CIA begins open recruiting on college

lining up in the correct places to turn a basic round cell into a form as simple as a fruit fly or as complex as a human. Amanda Boxtel, a former ballet dancer and skier who suffered a spinal cord injury 19 years ago and hasnt walked since, walked on stage wearing bionic eLEGS designed by fellow TEDxDU speaker Eythor Bender. Amputee Lacey Henderson, a DU cheerleader, told of the doctors, prosthetists, friends and family who made her active life possible on one leg. I am radical collaboration, she said. Based on the global TED conferences the acronym stands for technology, entertainment and designTEDxDU is an independently organized event licensed by TED.
Mens ice hockey joins new national collegiate conference

The University of Denver mens ice hockey program will play in a brand new conference starting in the 201314 season. DU is a founding member of the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference, along with Colorado College, Miami University, the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the University of Nebraska-Omaha and the University of North Dakota. Members of the new conferencewhich was announced in Julyboast four NCAA national champions, 14 NCAA Frozen Four appearances, 12 conference regular-season championships and nine conference tournament championships among them. All six founding members were participants in the NCAA ice hockey championship tournament in 2011. The common thread among all institutions is a commitment to maintain a highThe University of Denver has captured quality level of college hockey, says DU head its fourth consecutive Learfield coach George Gwozdecky. Sports I-AAA Directors Cup, which Five of the new conferences recognizes the best NCAA Division I schools2011 NCAA Division I ice hockey national champion Minnesota-Duluth, non-football school. After sending nine Colorado College, DU, Nebraska-Omaha teams as well as individuals from three and North Dakotacurrently are members sports programs to NCAA postseason of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. competition in 201011, the Pioneers Miami competes in the Central Collegiate finished No. 54 overall among all Hockey Association. All six schools will conDivision I schools. DU was the highest tinue playing in their current conferences through the 201112 and 201213 seasons. ranked Sun Belt Conference and Front Additional institutions may join in the future. Range program for the fourth straight
journey out of mental illness and implored people to have compassion. When someone breaks an arm, we write all over the cast. When someone has a mental problem, we run the other way. Why is that? he asked the audience. Steward said he wanted to bring the issue of mental illness into the light. If youre out there and youre going through what I went through, he said, you are not alone. Science took center stage when DU roboticist Richard Voyles shared his vision of robots of the future, which he said will come in the form of structural computational polymerssmart rubber and thinking gel. Biology Assistant Professor Todd Blankenship explained how cells collaborate,
8 More college courses on terrorism, Middle 9 A new holiday, Patriot Day, celebrated
on Sept. 11
East politics and religion, and non-Western foreign languages
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Compiled by Karen Feste, Josef Korbel School of International Studies professor, director of DUs International Security Program and graduate director of DUs Conflict Resolution Institute
Watch videos from TEDxDU at www.tedxdu.com, including: Denver rocker John Commons crowd-sourced music video Autistic animal rights activist Temple Grandin on Different Kinds of Minds The Interfaith AmigosRabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie and Imam Jamal Rahmanon Breaking the Taboos of Interfaith Dialogue Artist Morehshin Allahyari on Collaborative Art in Countries of Conflict Christopher Hill, dean of DUs Josef Korbel School of International Studies and former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, on international diplomacy
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Closing a chapter
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ormer English Professor Bill Zaranka, who served as DUs provost from 19892001, says he doesnt really know how he ended up in the job. It certainly was not part of his plan. As a writer, all he wanted was isolation and huge blocks of free timethe exact opposite of being an administrator. The University was having a tough time during the 1980s, and Chancellor Dwight Smith asked me to serve as dean, recalls Zaranka, who retired from the University at the end of spring quarter 2011. I thought it would be for two or three years20-some years later I finally came back to English. It still does puzzle me that somehow that happened. Dan Ritchie, who served as chancellor while Zaranka was provost, says Zaranka was extraordinarily committed and always put the University before himself. Bill understood as well as anybody could that the future of the University was all about quality, Ritchie says. It was about delivering in our academic programs and all of our programs the highest possible quality, and if we did that and did it consistently we would be enormously successful. A poet from Elizabeth, N.J., Zaranka came to DU in 1969 because it was one of only two schools in the country that offered a PhD in creative writing and literature at that time. After earning his degree in 1974, he taught as an assistant professor for three years at the University of Pennsylvania before returning to DU in 1978 to chair the creative writing program. He published two volumes of original poetry, Blessing (Wayland Press, 1986) and A Mirror Driven Through Nature (Sparrow Press, 1981). His trademark stylea combination of parody and poetryled to his best-known work, a parody of The Norton Anthology of Poetry called The Brand-X Anthology of Poetry (Applewood Books, 1981). It spanned the beginning of English literature to about the 1980s.
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Career outlook brighter for this years graduating seniors

Raising temps cuts costs in DU buildings
Recent grads contribute to student scholarships
Nagel Art Studios provide function and inspiration
Visitor parking rates to rise

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Professor Jeff Jenson named fellow at American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
Mens swimming is best academic team in nation
Penrose employee wins Amazon novel contest

DU staffer Gregory Hill won in the general fiction category of the 2011 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. His winning entry, a novel titled East of Denver, will be published in June 2012 by Penguin Group. Hill also received a $15,000 advance. Hill, 38, who has worked as a book buyer at Penrose Library since 2002, was one of thousands of writers who entered the contest for unpublished novels earlier this year. He survived three rounds of cuts to become one of 100 semifinalists before Penguin editors moved him to the final three. Amazon customers read excerpts from the finalists and voted for the winner. Hill and the other finalists (the contest also has a young adult fiction category) traveled to Amazon headquarters in Seattle in June for the announcement of the winner. According to a press release, East of Denver tells the story of Shakespeare Williams, who returns to his familys farm in eastern Colorado to find his widowed, senile father living in squalor. Facing the loss of the farm, Shakespeare hatches a plot with his father and a motley crew of his former high school classmates to rob the local bank. The story is based on Hills own past growing up in Joes, Colo. (called Dorsey, Colo., in the book), and his more recent experiences watching his fathers battle against Alzheimers disease. In a review that appeared on the contest website, Time magazine book critic Lev Grossman praised East of Denver for its dark humor: This is writing on par with that of top-flight black-comic novelists like Sam Lipsyte and Jess Walter, and it deserves to be read.
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DU purchased
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renewable sources in 201011. The EPA has recognized DU as the largest green power purchaser in the Sun Belt Conference.
The purchase is equivalent to eliminating the atmospheric carbon dioxide release from the electricity use of more than 1,000 homes over the course of a year, or the equivalent of the carbon dioxide release of 2,000 cars in a year.
Ive always loved writing poetry and always had a fondness for listening very hard to other poets who have exerted strong influences on my own work, he says. I enjoyed imitating the great poets I loved in a humorous way, one that pays them profound homage. As he returns to the discipline from which he came, getting back to unfinished poems and anthologies that need updating, Zaranka also plans to immerse himself in his myriad avocations, including astronomy,
composing, geology, machining and videography. Even with so much to keep him busy, he says it was difficult leaving DU. Ill always be a part of it, he says. My sons went to DU. Ive been very fortunate to see it go from where it was when I first came to the glorious thing it is now: a beautiful campus and wonderful faculty, tremendous administration, great physical plant and highly selective, excellent students. Its going to be hard to leave the people and the place.
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Students of service
In May, DU was named to the 2010 Presidents Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service. The honor recognizes DU as a leader among higher education institutions for supporting students, faculty and staff in volunteerism, service learning and civic engagement. During the 200910 academic year, more than 1,400 DU students were involved in service learning and at least 4,000 students performed community service.
Lamont School of Music welcomes new director

Nancy Cochran, a former music professor at Southern Methodist University (SMU), took the helm as director of DUs Lamont School of Music on Aug. 1. Cochran, former director of SMUs music division, also served as the universitys director of chamber music and coordinator of applied studies and performance. Before coming to SMU, Cochran held the music executive position at Texas Tech University and chaired the instrumental studies division at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where she held a faculty position as professor of horn for 28 years. During her time at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Cochran maintained an active horn performance schedule that included appearances across the United States as well as Russia, China, Japan, Korea, Estonia, Hungary, Poland and England. Cochran also has served as president of the International Horn Society.
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A sniff test for semis

By Chase Squires
or four decades, DU chemistry Professor Donald Stedman has collected, analyzed and categorized just about everything that comes out of passenger vehicle tailpipes. Hes logged tens of thousands of emissions samples from every manner of car, motorcycle and small truck as they whizzed by his ever-present emission detection tools along Denver highways, sporting big signs with smiling cars telling drivers if their cars are running cleanly and $aving You Money. And hes developed inventions ranging from a window shade cleaner to a nickel carbonyl detector. But his latest patent tackles the next big thing: tractor-trailers.
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Motorists may be used to the big rigs emitting columns of tar-black smoke from shiny silver smokestacks, but it doesnt have to be that way. Stedman says with todays engine technologies, the only trucks pumping that much soot into the air are either badly maintained or operated by drivers who simply cheat the system. Modern trucks, properly maintained, shouldnt smoke, he says. Over a five-year period, Stedman developed a practical, unobtrusive method of accurately testing big rig emissions. At a checkpoint, drivers would stop their rigs and then proceed under a canopy equipped with collection tubes at smokestack level. Drivers would be required to accelerate so as to reach a stopping point by a defined time. That would provide an accurate sample of the vehicle under normal load. Instant analysis by use of existing
technologies could alert workers at the tests endpoint if the vehicle is properly tuned and if it should be allowed to continue on. The total test should take less than 30 seconds, Stedman says. Its that accurate, fast, practical measurement that makes his invention perfect for areas where governments are concerned about high amounts of soot and other harmful chemicals in the air. It could be especially handy near U.S.-Mexico border crossings, wheredespite the North American Free Trade AgreementMexican trucks are still not allowed more than 20 miles inside the United States, in part due to concerns over Mexican truck emissions not meeting American standards. Stedmans team worked on his big rig tester in partnership with Environmental Systems Products, the folks who test tailpipe emissions along Colorado roadways. Early on, his crew erected scaffolding to help Los Angeles officials measure emissions from the aging fleet of trucks serving the Port of Los Angeles. Aware of these high emissions, government leaders used a combination of incentives and punishments to push operators to upgrade the fleet at the port. Testing in just a couple of years showed a dramatic decrease in noxious emissions there. With more widespread testing, Stedman feels that one of the biggest remaining sources of vehicular pollution could be tamed, and in the process, tests at the border could ease tensions between U.S. and Mexican leaders over trucking disputes. Im not a politician and Im not interested in making money, he says. But I am in favor of cleaning the air. In some respects, the auto emissions problem is solved if people would buy newer cars and maintain the old ones. But trucksno ones solved that problem yet.
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The art of rock n roll

By Greg Glasgow
ooking for tips on effective resum design? Talk to Brad Klausen. The DU art grad was working for a design firm in Los Angeles when a newsletter from the Pearl Jam fan club caught his eye. Inspired by what he saw, Klausen (BFA graphic communication design 98) designed a Pearl Jam poster of his own and put his name and phone number in one corner. He mailed it off to Seattle, along with an inquiry about creating artwork for the band. The answer, he says, was thanks, but no thanks. Eight months later, he got the phone call that changed his life. [The band] put [the poster] up on their wall where they put other things fans send in, and they just kept it up there, Klausen says. Then they decided they wanted to get an in-house graphic designer, and my poster was on the wall and my phone number was on it, so they called. Klausen ended up working for Pearl Jam for nine years, creating T-shirts, newsletters, album art, posters and more. He worked directly with members of the band on albums such as Lost Dogs and Riot Act, but when it came to posters, he says, the band was remarkably hands-off, letting him draw whatever came into his mind. Poster ideas can come from anywhere, he says: song lyrics, current events, the history of the city in which the concert is taking place. A lot of times ideas just sort of appear, he says. Its very strange. I would walk my dog all the time and she would play Frisbee, and Id go out at night with a set of headphones on and play Frisbee with her and Id come back full of ideas. I often dont feel like these ideas are necessarily mine; some of its picking up on whats out in the ether. In 2009 Klausen took another leap, leaving the Pearl Jam family to go solo. His one-man company, Artillery Design, still produces Pearl Jam posters, but hes also done work for bands such as Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, the Black Keys
and Widespread Panic. In December 2010, Akashic Books put out a book of his work titled From a Basement in Seattle: The Poster Art of Brad Klausen. It shows the development of 70 of his concert posters, from initial sketch to finished product. The way the music industrys going,
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people arent buying CDs anymore, Klausen says. Theyre buying stuff on iTunes. I think the poster gives you something tangible, something you can actually keep. And its art; its something you can hang on your wall and decorate your house with. >> www.artillerydesign.com
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Mens lacrosse team finishes best season yet

The 201011 DU mens lacrosse team turned in the greatest season in program history, culminating with the teams first-ever trip to the NCAA Final Four. While the magical season ended with a 148 loss to eventual NCAA champion Virginia in the national semifinals on May 28, the team can look to a host of other accomplishments. The Pioneers won the inaugural Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) tournament championship as well as the ECAC regular season title while going undefeated in conference play. Signature victories abounded throughout the season. DUs first NCAA tournament victory in program historyover Villanovawas also the first NCAA lacrosse tournament game played west of the Mississippi. DU then went on to beat a powerhouse Johns Hopkins team in the NCAA quarterfinals to advance to the Final Four. The regular season brought wins against Ohio State in the eighth annual Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Showcase and an upset of defending national champions the Duke Blue Devils in New York. This is a special group of student-athletes, head coach Bill Tierney says. They worked hard, came together as a cohesive unit and believed in themselves all season. What they achieved was remarkable. The season also brought DU its highest-ever rankingNo. 4and by seasons end, a 153 record.
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Author Dennis Powers on the 1964 West Coast tsunami

Interview by Amber DAngelo Na
Dennis Powers (JD 66) grew up near the New Jersey shore, where he sailed, surfed, water-skied, kayaked and fished. He has channeled his love of the sea to pen five maritime books. His first, The Raging Sea (Citadel, 2005), was about the devastating 1964 tsunami that crashed down the West Coast and centered in Crescent City, Calif.
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The earthquake was a 9.2 magnitude that ruptured off Alaska at 7:36 p.m. on Good Friday. The tsunami traveled 2,000 miles to center on Crescent City, then traveled around the world twice. The killer wave came in around 1:45 a.m. That one measured 25 feet high and went inland 1 miles. Thirty city blocks and 289 businesses and homes were destroyed. It smashed into fuel tanks and flamed electrical lines, creating fires that looked like World War II night naval battles. Cars were pummeled, buildings snapped off their foundations. Thirteen people drowned and scores of people were injured.
Underwater disturbanceslandslides or volcanic eruptionscan cause tsunamis, but most earthquakes dont. For a destructive tsunami, an earthquake must be severe, its got to be offshore, and there has to be an up-anddown motion. This creates the ingredients for a truly massive tragedy. Thats exactly what happened in the 2004 Indonesian and 2011 Japanese tsunamis. A tsunami is basically energy thats flowing through the medium of water. Its amazing to watch the way the disturbance works around continents. It refracts off underwater obstacles, finds channelsits almost like a living, breathing thing. Whats the likelihood that the U.S. will experience another tsunami?
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The West Coast is part of the ring of fire where 80 percent of all earthquakes that can cause tsunamis take place. The Cascadia Subduction Zone fault line lies approximately 50 miles off the West Coast. It ruptures every 300 years or so, and the last one was in 1700. One estimate is that theres a 50 percent chance of a major eruption off the U.S. West Coast in the next 50 years. National Geographic has stated that if such an event occurred, more than 10 million people would be adversely affected. >>www.dennispowersbooks.com
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Remembering Sept.11
By Amber DAngelo Na
Sept. 11, 2001, DU lost three of its own in the deadliest terrorist attack ever on American soil: Kathryn (LaBorie) Yancey-Salazar (attd. 77) was a flight attendant on United Flight 175, which hit the south tower of the World Trade Center; Robert Ploger III (BA 65) and MariRae Sopper (JD 96) were passengers on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. On campus, many DU professors stopped their planned lectures to discuss the unfolding events with students. University representatives called to check on every student who was from the New York or Washington, D.C., area. DUs Counseling and Behavioral Health Center extended its hours and provided counseling to students, faculty and staff. Counselors also visited the dorms, where they accompanied resident assistants to check on students. The outreach resulted from a meeting Campus Safety held on the afternoon
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of Sept. 11, where University representatives declared students safety their primary concern. The meeting also led to heightened security and surveillance on campus. By the next day, reports emerged that people of Middle Eastern descent in the U.S. were falling victim to hate crimes because the 9/11 attackers were from the Middle East. DUs Office of Internationalization responded by warning the Universitys 130 Middle Eastern students to be extra vigilant and offered the International House as a safe place for DUs approximately 1,000 international students to gather. The Study Abroad Office also contacted the 200 DU students who were studying abroad with guidelines on how to stay safe in foreign countries. After noticing a downturn in business at DU-area Middle Eastern restaurants in the days following the attacks, thenChancellor Dan Ritchie helped organize a lunch on campus to promote tolerance and understanding. On Sept. 26, in partnership
with the Iliff School of Theology and the University Park United Methodist Church, DU paid nine restaurants to cater the Gathering at the Table in Grace and Peace, which drew more than 3,500 people. It changed the whole mood on campus and largely in Denver, Ritchie says. We went to it being an atmosphere of understanding and support for these people who really suffered more than we did. It demonstrated the spirit of the University. We have nice people who care about other people, and this really showed how compassionate our students are. Everybody was smiling and hugging. It was very nice. To give the community an opportunity to express its compassion for the attack victims, DU organized several memorial events on campus. On the evening of Sept. 11, DUs Campus Activities office held a candlelight vigil on the south side of the Ritchie Center, where hundreds of students, faculty and staff members assembled. On Oct. 1, the College
of Law held a day of unity and remembrance. Students, alumni, faculty, staff and members of Denvers legal community read aloud the names of all the missing and known victims, then students organized a peace march around the Park Hill campus. After the dust settled, people struggled with the fear of living in a post-9/11 world, so on Nov. 7 then-Provost Robert Coombe held a daylong conference devoted to the subject. It drew 1,700 attendees. One year later, DU partnered with
Colorado State University to form the Bridges to the Future lecture series to understand and learn from the tragedies and stimulate ongoing civic dialogue about the nations history, values, dreams and hopes for the future. The inaugural year included speakers such as former astronaut and U.S. Sen. John Glenn, thenGov. Bill Owens, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel. The 201011 Bridges series was devoted to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. DU plans to mark the anniversary with a remembrance coordinated by the University chaplain, a memorial event hosted by the law school and a campus luncheon catered by Middle
Eastern restaurants on Sept. 12. The meal will be organized by the Provosts Office and modeled after the one Ritchie organized 10 years ago.
Editorial Assistant Amber DAngelo Na (BA 06) was just starting her freshman year at DU in September 2001. Read her essay about life at DU on 9/11 at bit.ly/DUMagEssay
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I was in the Coors Fitness Center working out that morning and watched it go across all of the TVs. It wasnt until I was talking to others in the locker room that I realized what had happened. When I got to work at DUs Center for Academic and Career Development, we were abuzzmany of our students had New York or Washington, D.C., connections, and we tried to support them in tracking down family members and friends. I had a class that morning, too, but we just sat and stared at the televisionthere was no way we were going to critique literature.
Samantha (Watkins) Brzozowski (BA 03, MA 09)
Driving across the country for my sophomore year at DU, I remember seeing the New York skyline accented by those two buildings that dwarfed the rest of the city. Though New York seemed a world away, the effect of these events had a large impact on the DU community. There was an immediate surge in patriotism. We all knew the world had completely changed forever.
KC Becraft (BSBA 05)
As a 17-year-old New Yorker, this day was a big shock to me. I had classes that day, but I knew what was happening was so momentous that I couldnt tear myself away from the screen. I found a few pictures in my albums of the twin towers and everyone wanted to see them. Because of this some lifelong relationships developed, and I believe we all became closer due to our shared trauma.
Arielle Sokol (BA 05)
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I was a freshman at DU that year. I got to DU a few weeks before classes started to participate in Army ROTC. When I got back to campus I turned on the TV in my dorm room and couldnt believe my eyes. It was surreal. After much thought I decided that a military experience would be a worthwhile venture. I spent 4 years as a field artillery officer and I deployed twice to Iraq. Sept. 11 was a defining moment for me because it changed the active mission of the United States Armed Forces. No more peacekeeping missions [or] humanitarian missions. We went to war.
Kit Lancaster (BSBA 06)
I have distinct memories of waking up and reading the initial reports online and spending the entire morning in front of the TV in the old J-Mac lounge on the first floor. Ill never forget the reactions from my peers who had relatives and friends who worked in the towers and [were concerned about] the uncertainty of their whereabouts. Ill also never forget the second session of my natural sciences class, Our Dynamic Earth with Professor Michael Kerwin. Dr. Kerwin stopped class to process the events with us. It made a big difference for me in how I processed the event.
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Florence (Dunning) Sikes

Florence (Dunning) Sikes (BA theater 55, MA theater 60) dedicated her life to helping others achieve success in theater and performance. Sikeswho died in July 2009was so passionate about her vocation that she donated a portion of her estate to DUs theater department to support the hopes and dreams of aspiring performers. Sikes gift amounted to almost $250,000. Each dollar will be matched by a DU fund that supports the performing arts. We are humbled and encouraged by this support, says Anne McCall, dean of DUs Divisions of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. It is a great example of philanthropy for us all. The department plans to use the money for experiential programs to support students professional growth. Programs receiving funds could include senior theater projects and mentoring sessions and workshops with professional actors, producers, directors, choreographers, playwrights, designers and casting agents. What was near and dear to Florences heart was the ability to affect students by providing experiences, says theater department Chair Rick Barbour. We will weave her into our story. People will get to know the name Florence Sikes, and there will be a constant awareness of her permanent generosity. Sikes was born in 1933 to members of a traveling theater troupe in the Midwest, but during the Depression, Sikes parents were forced to leave the show. As a young girl, Sikes performed comedy acts with her father to entertain troops preparing to fight overseas. Sikes passion for drama carried over into high school and college. While studying at DU, Sikes discovered her talent for technical theater and worked on plays including Three Men on a Horse and Bernadine. After graduating, Sikes taught speech, English and theater at Denvers North High School, then at schools in Texas, Florida and California. She was very strict but was beloved by the kids she had in the theater, says Patsy Campbell, Sikes sister. They just loved the fact that she was such a great director. In 1977, Sikes became a speech coach for TV news anchors, traveling around the country to help newscasters improve their diction and presentation. I think she considered her true memorial to be the people who had benefited from her teaching and direction, Campbell says. She really wanted to be remembered as somebody who was dedicated to excellence in the theater and presentation of news.
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Music professor takes copyright case to the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear Golan v. Holder, a case concerning copyright law, this fall. DU music Professor Lawrence Golan (pictured) is the lead plaintiff in the case, which claims that current U.S. copyright law has made it prohibitively expensive for smaller orchestras to perform copyrighted music. It used to be that artists lost copyright protection of their work after a number of years, and the work would enter the public domain, where anyone could purchase reproduction rights for a one-time nominal fee. Public domain allowed arts groups of all sizes to perform, display or reproduce that artwork as often as they wanted. When the United States signed on to the Berne Conventionan international treaty that protects the copyrights of literary and artistic works essentially foreverin 1989, many pieces of music, paintings, books and films that had been in the public domain regained copyright
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protection, meaning that anyone wanting to perform, display or publish a work must pay fees and receive permission from the original artist or his or her descendants to present that work. Golan, who also serves as conductor of the Lamont Symphony Orchestra, says that in the case of a musical work, reinstating copyright protection means paying an average of $500 each time an artist or group wants to perform a work by a composer whose work was previously in the public domain, such as Prokofiev, Shostakovich or Stravinsky. The Golan lawsuit, which challenges current copyright law, has gone through the federal District Court and the 10th Circuit Appeals Court system twice during the past 10 years. Composers live to have their music heard, Golan says. You could interview any of a thousand living composers and ask them, One-hundred years from now, if you had a choice between your music being under copyright and not being played versus in the public domain and being played all over the world, I guarantee all composers would say they want their music heard.
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hroughout any basketball season, there are countless moments when the pressure mounts and the intensity flares to redhot levels. It is during these momentsperhaps as the final seconds are ticking away in a tightly contested game, or as the head coach gathers his troops to design a climactic playwhen Chris Udofias smile shines brightest. Now a sophomore on the University of Denver mens basketball team, the integrated sciences major already has made his mark in the Pioneers locker room with his quick wit and engaging smile. While Udofia and his timely quips are emerging as the teams unofficial tension-breaker, it is the power forwards improved play that will be integral as DU heads into its final season in the Sun Belt Conference. DU joins the Western Athletic Conference after the 201112 season. I was a little nervous about that at first, because Im always joking around, Udofia says with what soon may be a signature grin on campus. Its fun sometimes to lighten things up, because sometimes guys can be too serious. I think it helps me in the long run to relax. There is no need to be uptight when you are in overtime or anything like that. As long as you are poised and have a sense of relaxation about it, it can be good for the team. The 6-foot-6 forward already has used his witty personality to fit in with his teammates, yet it is Udofias surging play, not his quirky jokes, that should keep Pioneers fans smiling. Expected to make an immediate contribution in the frontcourt, Udofia struggled out of the gate as a freshman as he adjusted to the college game. However, Udofia eventually found his niche, appearing in all 30 games during his rookie campaign (four starts) and averaging 8.3 points and
4.4 rebounds while recording a team-leading 39 blocked shots. The thing that is nice about Chris is that when a lot of kids come up today and get recruited, for some reason they feel entitled. They are told they are good their whole life, says head coach Joe Scott. It is kind of refreshing to have a kid that knows hes good but doesnt think hes good. There is a difference. He knows hes good because of how he goes about his business every day. Udofia admits the learning curve during the first few months of his college career was steeper than he originally expected. Always one of the bigger players on the floor when he suited up for Jesuit Prep High School in his hometown of Irving, Texas, Udofia struggled to assert himself against the even
bigger competition he faced during his first few games with the Pioneers. Those struggles seemingly are in Udofias rearview mirror, and he expects to improve as the Pioneers look to leave the Sun Belt on a winning note. It was pretty rough at first, and I still have plenty to learn, Udofia says. But I feel like Im a lot more comfortable now. Im more flexible with the movements and what Im doing. The biggest difference is just the size of the athletes. In high school I was always the biggest guy. Now Im probably one of the smaller guys out there. You just have to use your talents and abilities, like my long arms and reach, to get an advantage out there. The mens basketball season begins Nov. 11; single-game tickets go on sale in mid-October. >>www.denverpioneers.com
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his recent aerial photo of campus shows landmarks such as the Mary Reed Building, Penrose Library and Johnson-McFarlane Hall, as well as recent additions like Katherine A. Ruffatto Hall and Nagel Hall. The inset aerial photo of Hilltop Stadium, where DU played football until 1960, was taken by Steven Carhart (BSBA 71) in fall 1967.
I was flying with my friend Eric Barnum (BSBA 70) from Toledo, Ohio, Carhart says. I shot the photo from the small plane we were in. I was a freshman living in the Johnson-McFarlane dorms. We buzzed the campus and there came the shot.
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Vanessa Teck, intercultural communications and digital media studies

A lot of students make the journey to college to find themselves. Some, like Vanessa Teck, know their path long before. I think just being Asian-American, being considered a minority, really made me passionate about diversity, the DU junior says. I wouldnt want what my parents suffered through to happen again. Refugees from Cambodia, her parents faced numerous hardships. Ever since Teck learned of their struggles, shes been a champion for social justice and inclusivity. So much so, in fact, that the 20-year-old intercultural communications and digital media studies major came to DU on a Martin Luther King Scholarship, which promotes inclusive excellence. I realized I wanted that to be a part of my life, she says. I saw how much change needed to be done. Not one to sit idly by, she got to work immediately. She was accepted to the Pioneer Leadership Program and became a resident assistant. She serves on student government and is part of the Excelling Leaders Institute. Shes also a member of the Asian Student Alliance, is part of Joint Councilwhich brings together groups that promote diversity on campusand was involved in DUs 10th annual Diversity Summit in May. Oh, and shes a freelance graphic designer on the side. Vanessa is a mentor, leader, artist and amazing scholar, says Tracey Adams-Peters, director of DUs Center for Multicultural Excellence. I am so excited to have been able to know Vanessa though the tireless work she does to advance inclusive excellence at DU and in the community as a whole. Some of that tireless work includes flags that were planted around campus featuring different facts from around the world, helping develop a curriculum about breaking social barriers at Thomas Jefferson High School, and working as the marketing lead for the Diversity Summit, which drew 650 people. DU really pushes for inclusive excellence, says Teck, who won an Outstanding Second Year Student award at the Office of Campus Activities Pioneer Awards ceremony in May. All of the students are willing to learn and be a part of it. This fall shell take her talents overseas as a study-abroad student in Cambodia and Vietnam. A lot of people tell me to take a break, she says, laughing. When I go to club meetings that is my break; it doesnt feel like work at all.
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DU has received a
of Sustainability in Higher Education (www.aashe.org). DU is one of 13 schools nationwide to achieve gold recognition. Sustainability initiatives at the University include the campus-wide implementation of singlestream recycling, food composting in residence halls, lighting retrofits, a vehicle fleet running on compressed natural gas, bike sharing, an undergraduate minor in sustainability studies, the addition of green parking spaces that reward drivers of cleaner running vehicles, and the purchase of carbon offsets and energy derived from wind turbines and other sustainable sources. DU received points for innovative social sustainability programs including Daniels College of Business initiatives in microfinance and the construction of a net-zero energy housea home that draws no net energy off the power grid.
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cant believe shes applying to college, my daughter says, voice trailing off in misery. I keep bursting into tears. The people at work think Im losing it. The she in question is my daughters only childthe girl about to fly the nest at the end of this school year. My granddaughter has been her moms complete focus since 1989from chickenpox to carpools, bad hair to bad dreams. Perhaps theres a layer of working-mom guilt in play? What can I say without being tactless? My girls too close to the empty nest to see the possibilities yet. Little does she know! Ive been there, done that. I once called it my horrible year: It shook my foundations and rattled my relationships. In six brief months my daughterthe oldestgot married; my youngest son (my baby) joined the Army at 17 and left for boot camp without a backward glance; my father died when he fell from a ladder while trimming trees; anda last small, camels-back-breaking strawthe family dog died of liver cancer. Quadruple whammy! Two months later, still reeling, I left for a year abroad. My partner would work, but without a work permit, Id fill my time keeping busy and being wifely. I managed the only optionbut bouts of emptiness snuck up and swamped me. I hiked five days a week. I watched soap operas after lonely lunches. I slept too much in the afternoons. I thought endlessly about us two, child-free again. Did we still like each other enough to spend so much unadulterated time together? Was it time to adjust expectations down or to dream big new dreams? Our year away was the jolt I needed, a rite of passage. I came back with resolutions and energyand a new appreciation of the man Id married 25 years before. Yes, we still knew how to laugh and invent adventures. The surge of creativity that came with menopausal hormones propelled me into a new career. I morphed from home mom into writer. My nest may have been empty except for rare holidays when family gathered, but
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my head was full. I lived and breathed writing class assignments and ideas for stories. The hours, days, weeks, reclaimed from mothering, were just what I needed for a new start. It would be a fairy tale to say I am now rich and famouslife rarely works that way. But Ive had enough success to stroke an ego that had become a tad ragged in the mothering years. Ive learned much about myselfwhat I can do, what I dont want to do, and how to say no. I revel in my extending family and our together times, but Im also happy to see them go again. Life is good in this empty nest.
So how can I tell my daughter that without belittling the value of her last 18 years? I know now that mothering doesnt end; it morphs. I loved the toddlers, I lasted out the teens, but Im passionate about the mellow adult relationships that came next. I feel a jolt when I see red-headed tots acting up in the grocery store. But its nostalgia for remembered simpler timestimes that werent simple when I was living them. So Ill say to my girl, Hey, sweetheart, empty nest doesnt mean empty life or empty heart, it merely means that you have to drain a little jaded lifeblood to make space for the next phases possibilities to flood in.
Ann Cooper, past Brit and present Coloradan, is a teacher-on-the-trail and has written 10 nature books for children. Her poetry and essays have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Poet Magazine and Sistersong and in several anthologies, including Grow Old Along With Me (Papier-Mache Press) and An Intricate Weave: Women Write About Girls and Girlhood (Iris Editions).
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Its always yappy hourpun courtesy of dog lover Heidi Ganahlat Camp Bow Wow. If you dont believe it, just tune in to the Bow Wow webcams, which take you deep inside one of the doggie day and overnight camps. There you might find a boxer prancing around a lazing sloe-eyed basset hound or a pedigreed Labrador retriever gamboling with a Heinz 57 mutt. This is Ganahls vision of heaven. This is her built-fromscratch expression of entrepreneurial energy. This is her puppy. Ganahl, who received a masters degree in health care administration from DU in 1999, has made pet play pay. Shes the brains behind the Camp Bow Wow empirea Boulder, Colo., based corporation with 110 franchises in 40 states, an in-home pet care operation, a pooch-training program and, befitting its location, a mantra: Its all about the dog. The up-and-coming company is run by a pack of officers
whose titles eschew pomp, though they do reflect alpha order: marketing mutt, S.O.S. dog, legal beagleand, of course, top dog. The pun-loving Ganahl (her 2010 self-published inspirational memoir is titled Tales From the Bark Side) is the top dog in question, and in just over a decade, she has positioned her company as a mover and shaker in an emerging pet-services marketplace. In addition to approving mentions from The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Online and CNN Money, Camp Bow Wow earned a No. 72 ranking on Entrepreneur magazines 2011 list of the 105 Fastest-Growing Franchises in North America. Previously, Entrepreneur also deemed Camp Bow Wow the countrys 26th fastest-growing woman-owned business. I am very passionate and very optimistic, says Ganahl, 45, explaining her success. And I am pretty fearless when it comes to business.
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ith her company in steady growth mode, Ganahl has taken on additional challenges by launching the Bow Wow Buddies Foundation. Its three-pronged mission focuses on finding foster and lifetime homes for unwanted animals, promoting humane education and treatment, and investing in research for pet illnesses and diseases. To fulfill its mission, the foundation underwrites a scholarship at Colorado State Universitys Animal Cancer Center. It also works with individual franchises to provide foster care and expedite adoptions for homeless pets. To date, Ganahl says, the Camp Bow Wow empire has fostered more than 5,000 critters. True to Ganahls approach to business challenges, the foundation experiments with programs and initiatives that aim to address problems at their root. One of its pet projects, dubbed On Our Way Home, offers renovation grants to animal shelters. Think Extreme Makeover for Shelters, Ganahl quips. By helping them incorporate play areas and socialization yards, On Our Way Home attempts to increase the live release rate at shelters. (The first On Our Way Home grant was awarded to the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in December 2010.) Its about letting the dogs have fun while they are waiting for their forever home, Gahahl explains. Its also about saving their lives. When dogs have the chance to be dogsto romp and cavort they are more likely to reveal their happier, tail-wagging selves to potential owners. That means they are more likely to be adopted, and once adopted, more likely to adjust to their new homes.
At the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, CEO Lisa Pedersen welcomes efforts like these and credits Ganahl with fostering a collaborative environment among private-sector pet businesses and nonprofit agencies. Shes trying to create leadership among private entities, Pedersen says of Ganahl. And in doing so, shes at the forefront of an emerging trend that unifies the various players interested in animal welfare issues. At the national level there is conversation about partnerships and recognizing that for-profits can be great partners for nonprofits, Pedersen says. For Pedersens agency, collaboration with Camp Bow Wow has proved invaluable. The Humane Society of Boulder Valley occasionally will send an unadopted animal to a Camp Bow Wow franchise in hopes that it will romance one of the business customers and subsequently find a new home. It gives us a chance to market our animals a little differently, she says, noting that this strategy often places pets with owners who didnt know they were in the market for a new animal. Ganahl, meanwhile, is looking for new ways to contribute to the happiness and well-being of mans best friends. Theyre so instinctual; theyre very basic beings. They have such good heartedness, she says. How we treat them says a lot about our culture and our society.
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hen it comes to dogs, Ganahl is not just fearless; shes passionate. Thats in part because canines have played key roles in her coming-of-age and comeback stories. She got her first doga little Benji dog that the vet had found on the streetsfor her third birthday. Daisy lived for years, a faithful companion until Ganahl enrolled as an undergraduate at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In her 20s, Ganahl married for the first time. She and her husband, Bion Flammang, shared much in commona love of dogs, naturally, a thirst for adventure and a hankering to collaborate on a business. But what business? I was always very entrepreneurial as a kid. I always knew I wanted to start my own business, but I didnt know what it could be, Ganahl recalls. Finally, lightning struck. Ganahl and Flammang were always off on some caper and always in something of a pickle. We were looking for a place to keep our dogs. We had two great rescue dogs. And we were kind of wearing out my family. So we wrote the business plan for Camp Bow Wow. The plan was consigned to a desk drawer for the time being, ready for implementation when opportunity obliged. In the meantime, Flammang turned 25, and to honor this milestone, Ganahls parents gave him a gift that complemented his soaring spirit: a flight on a stunt plane. The plane crashed, and Flammang was killed. Ganahl was 27. In the following weeks, when mustering energy was nearly impossible, her dogs juiced her into action. They needed walking, feeding, attention. They needed much, and they gave much. Theyre the ones who got me out of bed every day, she says. Before long, Ganahl had remarried and given birth to a daughter. She also lost, through bad investments and ill-considered loans, a large portion of the $1 million insurance settlement from Flammangs death. Not surprisingly, she says now, her second marriage didnt last. Five years later, [I was] a single mom, doing pharmaceutical sales, but I [didnt] really enjoy it, she explains, noting that though the job paid well, every day was the same. It offered no variety. I called it the golden handcuffs. Her brother, Patrick Haight, came to the rescue with a dogcentered solution to her malaise. What about that tucked-away business plan? Why not pool their talents and bring it to fruition? Within hours of Haight broaching the idea, the pair was on the prowl for suitable space. We started driving around Denver that week looking for the first location, Haight recalls. In 2001, with $83,000 left from the insurance settlement, Ganahl and Haight opened the first Camp Bow Wow on Broadway in Denver. Haight handled the day-to-day operations and Ganahl addressed marketing and promotion, all while continuing her day job. The pair eventually relocated to the intersection of Santa Fe
Drive and Mississippi Avenue. Curiously, the Bow Wow debut preceded a boomlet of doggie day care outlets in the Mile High City. We were the third one in the Denver metro area, Ganahl says. Now there are over 100. The first year offered lessons in just how obsessive dog owners can be, just how much trouble their precious pooches can get into and how dogs can foil even the best-laid marketing plans. After installing webcamsCamp Bow Wow was the first doggie day care center to do soGanahl and her brother discovered the hard way that periodic monitoring can stoke owner anxiety as well as calm it. My dog doesnt look like its having fun, Ganahl says, reprising a typical call. Can you do something? Or, The ball is stuck in the corner. Can you go and get it? In no time Ganahl and Haight learned not to litter the play area with toys. After all, the ball inevitably got stuck in the corner. Plus, for all their gregariousness, dogs dont like sharing. Nor are they always on their best behavior and ready for prime time. Haight recalls one afternoon when a newspaper reporter and photographer visited Camp Bow Wow, a press opportunity Haight and Ganahl hoped would stimulate interest in the business. As if on cue, the media team walked into the dog room and all of the canines embarked on a mating ritual. Hey, no humping! Haight called to the dogs. Those immortal words became the lead of the story. After quitting her pharmaceutical job and opening a second Camp Bow Wow in 2003, Ganahl decided to franchise the operation. Since then, her firm has grown like the proverbial big-pawed puppy. In 2010, the brand did about $50 million in sales, while the corporation realized about $5 million. Even in a down economy, the franchises have enjoyed growth: Sales at the franchise level are up 20 percent year over year. A lot of it was just timing, Ganahl says, contemplating the companys good fortune. It has been an interesting ride and really being tenacious about values. Those values can be summed up in an unofficial motto: Dont put the dollar before the dog. Whats next for Camp Bow Wow? Because franchise growth has been checked by diminished access to capital, Ganahl has been busy cooking up partnerships with corporate campusesperhaps high-tech firms competing for talent and eager to offer a Camp Bow Wow benefit. Shes also hoping to partner with hotel chains. Rather than turn away patrons with pets, they can send Fido off to Camp Bow Wow and his owners to the presidential suite. As those initiatives unfold, Ganahl also is negotiating with Denver International Airport to move her corporate headquarters to the site. The new office will include a Camp Bow Wow for travelers. You could park there, leave your dog and get a ride to the terminal, Ganahl says. The airport location also would serve as a demonstration site for would-be franchisees, who could fly into Denver, study the operation and then fly homeall without ever having to rent a car.
Its about letting the dogs have fun while they are waiting for their forever
The Nature of Sound

Portraits by Wayne Armstrong Text by Chelsey Baker-Hauck
Imagine: Youre at a symphony, and the show is about to start. The audience quiets, the conductor lifts his hands, and thensound explodes from silence. n Photographer Wayne Armstrong was trying to capture that moment on the verge of creation in his portrait of Travis Jrgens (opposite), a second-year orchestral conducting student at the Lamont School of Music. The image, The Calm Before, is one of a series of portraits interpreting the relationships among music students, their instruments and their artistry. n Armstrong combined studio and stock photography with lighting and other effects to compose dramatic, otherworldly scenes. He connected each to nature in some wayrelating natural elements to the musicians personality or instrument or both. n I wanted to bridge the gap between art and photographyits still a picture but with the complexity of a work of art, Armstrong says. I took a cinematic approach; each one is a mini-movie with a theme. n And, he says, I was hoping that people would write their own stories on these images.
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Alaina Oltrogge, a sophomore horn major, told Armstrong a story about French horns being used to summon ships. He knew then that he wanted to create an image around a water motif, and that all portraits in the series would relate to nature.
Improving Silence
The Zen-like setting in a bamboo grove captures the calm demeanor of Valane Adam Lusk, a woodwinds major who graduated in June 2011. It also reflects the bassoons shape and mesmerizing sound, Armstrong says.
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Rhapsody in Red
Piano pedagogy masters student Gergana Argirova specializes in the work of the Romantic composers, so Armstrong envisioned a romantic setting. Although he photographed Argirova on a Lamont stage, she materialized in a moonlit forest.
Moonlight Aire
The portrait of sophomore flutist Niki Robins evokes wind, Armstrong says. Robins is barely tethered to the ground; the birds symbolize notes flying from her instrument.
>> Watch student performances and find more images in the Nature of Sound series at bit.ly/DUMagNature
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Concussion expert Kim Gorgens is helping young athletes keep their heads in the game.
By Doug McPherson
Its a sunny, cool day in late March 2011, and Kim Gorgens has good reason to be smiling. The psychologist and clinical associate professor in DUs Graduate School of Professional Psychology has just scored a major victory in the fight against brain injuries among high school athletes. On March 30, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed into law the Jake Snakenberg Youth Concussion Act, legislation that will help prevent concussions among school-aged kids. Gorgens spent the better part of two years working with physicians, nurses, school officials and leaders of several Colorado organizations to draft the position paper that became Senate Bill 11-040. Colorado state Sen. Nancy Spence submitted the bill to the Legislature on Jan. 14. It feels great to see it pass, Gorgens says. I feel like we did it right. We took our time and involved all the stakeholders. Snakenberg was a high school freshman football player in Colorado who died during a game in 2004. Doctors believe Snakenberg suffered an undiagnosed concussion in the previous weeks game and had not fully recovered before returning to the field, subjecting his brain to further injury.
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The Snakenberg Act requires that coaches receive education on how to recognize a concussion, that players be removed from the game if a concussion is suspected, and that student-athletes be cleared by a medical professional before returning to play. Having this [bill] pass means so much to our family. To have something so positive to protect so many kids, it truly does add some purpose to what happened to Jake, says his mother, Kelli Jantz, whos a nurse at a Denver-area hospital. Jake was an amazing, caring young man with a big heart who looked out for the underdog. He looked out for other people, and this would make him proud. He would think it was the right thing.
turns out Gorgens was the perfect choice to help the group draft the legislation. After earning her doctorate in psychology from Southern Illinois University in 1998, she started focusing on brain injury rehabilitation and has since become a national expert on traumatic brain injury. She performs national outreach, education and policy work on brain injury and its resulting disability. She also offers consulting and supervision services on brain injuries for clinics along the Front Range, and she has a small clinical practice where she offers individual and family counseling related to traumatic brain injury. Gorgens, whos in her 10th year at DU, says she became interested in head injuries because of their prevalence. If you asked 10 people on the street about it, each one would have a story about brain injuries or strokes or something related, Gorgens says. And the people in the field are amazing. Theyre dedicated, good people. It appears some in the field are equally smitten with Gorgens. Shes filled with intelligence, leadership and a sense of humor, and shes been an effective DU ambassador for traumatic brain
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injury, says Kenny Hosack, director of provider relations at Craig Hospital, who worked with Gorgens on the concussion bill. Her contribution to the field has been enormous. That contribution is echoing far beyond Colorados borders. Gorgens is now working on research at the Denver-area Veterans Administration hospital in hopes of improving the way psychologists measure soldiers cognition before and after battle. This summer she presented her work at a federal symposium in Washington, D.C. Gorgens research has ended up in many settings: professional journals, encyclopedias, articles and public forums. Last year she spoke about concussions at TEDxDU, an independent event modeled on the renowned TED brand of dialogue. Brain injury is just one of Gorgens many areas of expertise. By her own admission, shes interested in a lot of things. A quick scan of her curriculum vitae proves it: Shes researched and studied everything from serial rape, domestic violence and interpersonal aggression to emergency medicine, animal care and brain injury. The door is wide open, she says. Im a follow-your-nose type. I dont stick around long enough on one topic to get tired of it. Her work has long been aligned closely with news headlines. Amid a flood of military suicides last year, she worked with Fort Carson soldiers on suicide prevention and stress management. And when the Chilean miners were trapped, CNN got her thoughts on the psychological issues they were facing.
and in clinics, but being a paramedic turned the light bulb on with the immediacy of the moment and being able to offer something that could really help. I was doing psychological triage and relaxation training in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. And in class, her newfound uses for psychology only crystallized her future. The school had one of the worlds best rehab programs with amazing faculty who helped shape my way of thinking and taught me to see the pragmatic part of my education, she says. The degree was psychology, but I saw myself as a scientist, a researcher and a critical thinker. I began to think, This is where its at for me. Peter Buirski, dean of DUs Graduate School of Professional Psychology, says Gorgens students describe her as a rock star. She conveys sophisticated content with energy and excitement, and her enthusiasm is contagious, Buirski says. She does innovative work in traumatic brain injury, shes a natural leader, and people want to work with her, not just for her ideas, but also because shes so personally engaging, accepting and welcoming.
of all the work shes done, Gorgens says shes most proud
of a paper she co-wrote with fellow professional psychology faculty member Jenny Cornish highlighting the need for disability sensitivity training for professionals. Theres some data that says something like 70 percent of faculty arent aware of laws around disability accommodations in the classroom, Gorgens says. Wait, what? How did we miss that? Thats my soapbox, if I have a soapbox. We have to get it. Getting it to Gorgens is not only knowing how to work with and communicate with those who have disabilities, but also appreciating their differences.
GorGens career started taking shape during

graduate school at Southern Illinois, where she studied psychology by day and worked part-time as a paramedic by night. Psychology didnt gel for me until I worked as a paramedic, she says. Id seen clients in an outpatient setting
We often view them through an impairment lens and say, Oh, you have a disability, and we miss the richness of the ways they identify themselves, she says, offering the example of the hearingimpaired. The deaf dont see themselves as disabled; its just that they communicate with a different language, and that gives their lives a real richness. Its tragic to overlook that and not allow them to tell us who they really are, she says. If anyone needs to understand these issues, its psychologists. Cornish says she was struck by Gorgens enthusiasm for the work. I could tell it was very meaningful for her, and it was her gift of empathy that made the paper possible, Cornish says. Gorgens empathy for the disabled comes from a very personal place: growing up outside of Boston with a father who has postpolio syndrome and a mother with a hearing impairment. Her father, Richard Gorgens, was a pioneer in assistive technology and showed her how powerful advocacy and access can be. Family ties inform her interest in brain injuries as well. Her TEDxDU talk centered on her 9-year-old son, Vander, who plays soccer and wants to play football and learn to ride a unicycle. When the family goes skiing, Yes, he always wears a helmet, you bet, she says. As for Gorgens? You might be surprised. Me? Well, I do ski and I do have a helmet, but I dont always wear it. Im like 50-50 on the slopes. And when she shows up without a helmet, she says, her son gives her the look. He just stares at me like Im not wearing my skis, like Im forgetting something really important.
>>Watch a video of Kim Gorgens TEDxDU talk at bit.ly/DUMagGorgens
ConCuSSionS by the numberS

There are an estimated 1.6 to 3.8 million sports-related concussions in the United States every year. For young people ages 1524, sports are the second leading cause of traumatic brain injury behind only motor vehicle crashes. 16.8 percent of high school athletes suffering a concussion had previously suffered a sportrelated concussion, either that season or in a previous season.
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A 2007 study by researchers at Ohio State and Nationwide Childrens Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, reported that concussions accounted for 8.9 percent of all injuries to high school athletes in the nine sports studied (boys football, soccer, basketball, wrestling and baseball and girls soccer, volleyball, basketball and softball), almost double the 5.5 percent reported a decade earlier. According to research by The New York Times, at least 50 youth football players (high school or younger) from 20 different states have died or sustained serious head injuries on the field since 1997.
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The current rates of concussion per 100,000 high school player games or practices (athletic exposures) are as follows: 60 for football 35 for girls soccer 30 for boys lacrosse 20 for girls lacrosse 17 for boys soccer 17 for wrestling 16 for girls basketball 11 for softball 10 for boys basketball 10 for field hockey 5 for boys and girls volleyball 6 for baseball
At least one player sustains a mild concussion in nearly every American football game. Anecdotal evidence from athletic trainers suggests that only about 5 percent of high school players suffer a concussion each season, but formal studies surveying players suggest the number is much higher, with close to 50 percent saying they have experienced concussion symptoms and fully one-third reporting two or more concussions in a single season.
One study estimates that the likelihood of an athlete in a contact sport experiencing a concussion is as high as 20 percent per season. Once an athlete has suffered an initial concussion, his or her chances of a second one are 3 to 6 times greater than an athlete who has never sustained a concussion. A third of high school players in one recent survey reported two or more concussions in a season. Source: www.momsteam.com University of Denver Magazine Fall 2011
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I never told you you were a bad mother because I knew it would hurt your soul But your soul is my least concern because now my concern is that freakin hole in my sons heart
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neighborhoods and incarcerated at 16, Jose Guerrero was going nowhere fast. Slam poetry helped the DU student turn his life around.
By Greg Glasgow Photography by Justin Edmonds
Its a few minutes past 9 on a Sunday night at Denvers Mercury Cafe, and Jose
Guerrero has just finished reciting Father Love, his poem that goes into gut-wrenching detail about what its like to be a young, single dad. Five judgesvolunteers from the audiencehold up their scoreboards, the numbers barely visible in the dim room. A packed house of poetry fans and young poets awaiting their turn at the mic cheers the high scores and boos the low. F*** the score, clap for the poet, the emcee instructs. The audience complies. His scores are just average, but that doesnt rattle Guerrero. He knew he wouldnt make it past the first round when he was assigned the dreaded one-slot: the first poet of the night. Its what slammers call score creep: Scores tend to get higher as the night goes on and the judges get more enthusiastic. The first slot usually doesnt move on; its just kind of how slam works, he says with a shrug. He also allows that he might have made a tactical error. I dont think I chose the right poem, says Guerrero, a 19-year-old DU sophomore whos been slamming since he was 17. It was too slow; it wasnt the [right] type of poem. I usually use that for my last round so that it brings it home. On this occasion it didnt do it. It was strategy that backfired a little bit.
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Welcome to the cutthroat world of slam poetry, where the wrong poem can sink you just as fast as the one-slot, where the audience is encouraged to express its pleasure or displeasure with the judges and with the poets themselves, and where a legion of Denver kids come every week to pour their souls out on stage. Conceived in 1984 by Chicago poet Marc Smith, the poetry slam is a competitive event in which poets perform original pieces of three minutes or less and are judged by members of the audience. At the end of each round the highest-scoring poets advance until only one is left standing. Its become particularly popular among young poets, who congregate at community centers and coffeehouses around the country to share their work and hang out with others of their kind. Denverthe Mercury Cafe in particularhas become one of the hottest slam scenes in the country for youth and adult poets alike. It feels like home, Guerrero says before the slam, standing on the sidewalk outside the Mercury and taking a drag off a friends cigarette. I come and see all my friends here and hang out with them. The adult poets are like my mentors. Chief among those mentors is Denver poet Ken Arkind, who coaches the citys Minor Disturbance youth slam team. In July Guerrero made his second trip with the team to Brave New Voices, an annual youth poetry competition in San Francisco. In 2010 the team took fourth place and was featured in an HBO special on the event; this year Minor Disturbance finished third. I think theres a level of honesty and a freshness in the youth world of poetry that does not always exist in the adult world, Arkind says. I think its something that can be threatening to adult poets, and I kind of enjoy that, to be honest. I know I compare my own work to the young peoples work far more often. If I dont believe its as honest or as blatantly straightforward as what they do, its not worth my time. Arkind knows the power of a poem, the effect it can have on an awkward teenager who takes the mic for the first time and is amazed to discover that people are actually listening to what he has to say. You ever seen a question mark turn into an exclamation point? Thats exactly what their spines do, Arkind says. You know that 14-year-old: Your hands are too big for your body, your feet trip over themselves on purpose, you get yelled at for everything you do, and your spine does that thing where you just suddenly hunch over. But eventually, when you start to speak louder, your chin lifts on its own because you need to do that in order for people to hear you. Your chin gets higher and your back straightens and you walk more confidentlyI can guarantee you that I wouldnt have had
three assault tickets by the time I was 15 if I had had this program when I was that age. Which means he knows some of Jose Guerreros painborn in El Paso to a pair of Mexican immigrants, raised in a poor part of west Denver, in trouble with the law before he knew how to drive. Jose comes from some of the hardest circumstances you can in a city like this, Arkind says. He made some mistakes as a young man, he really did. Thats kind of where he came from. You had to be hard; you had to be tough. When he first walked into the youth slam, he acted like he was walking into a hip-hop battle. Everybody was his enemy. And it confused some of the kids at the beginning. They were like, Why is that guy always going so hard? Because he has to. Guerreros journey to the slam stage began when he was a student at La Academia, a private school run by the nonprofit Denver Inner City Parish. A visit from Cafe Cultura, a Denverbased arts group for Latino poets, sparked the high school seniors interest in poetry. An actor since age 15 with Chicano theater Su Teatro, Guerrero already had an advantage when it came to speaking on stage. The night he read at Cafe Cultura for the first time, a reporter from La Voz newspaper happened to be in the audience, and a few lines of Guerreros poem were reprinted in the next days edition. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, he says. I was really excited about that, then I found out theres a huge [poetry] scene in Denver. So I went over to the Mercury Cafe and I got to slam, and in my first slam I won. So I just kept going back and got really hooked. Suddenly the 17-year-old had a venue to talk about the things that affected him most: growing up Latino in one of Denvers poorest neighborhoods. Becoming a father at 17. Watching his sons mother withdraw and eventually disappear, leaving Guerrero as the boys primary caretaker. She wanted to be my girlfriend but she didnt want to be a mom, he says of the girl who was just an acquaintance when she became pregnant with his child. I didnt want that at all. She realized I was never going to be with her again and she leftshe didnt care anymore. She still lives in Denver, but I have no idea where I could find her, how to contact her. When I was 17 my life stopped, and I couldnt do the things that I used to do, he continues. And that was a good thing, because I was getting into a lot of trouble, not just in school but with the law. I was incarcerated a couple of times. Poetry and my son helped me realize that I had to get my life together and I had to snap out of my little stage that I was going through.
Part of getting his life together involved applying for and receiving a Daniels Fund scholarship, which he used to attend DU. In addition to his classwork and taking care of his 3-year-old son, J.T., Guerrero performs his poetry in schools around the region and works with Denver-based activist hip-hop band the Flobots, helping to conduct poetry workshops at the groups community center. There he teaches young writers one of his favorite mantras: Your voice is a weapon. I feel like sometimes in society, especially brown people and especially when youre young, you feel like your voice isnt important, that what you say doesnt matter, he says. When I say your voice is a weaponyour story can impact someone. Your story can change someones life. I encourage people to use it in a positive way, but sometimes you use your voice to protect against society and to educate others about the problems society faces so theyre not dumb about it. Hes written about capitalism, about politics, about indigenous
history, about the Mexican sweatshops called maquiladoras. When he was young, his mother worked in one. I feel like I definitely have a mission, being a poet, he says. I feel like there are responsibilities you must carry when youre a poet, and that when youre on stage youre responsible for what youre telling your audience. I feel an obligation to my audience to tell them the truth and to tell them about things they may not be exposed to through society sometimes. Guerrero also uses his poetry to explore his ethnic heritage. His experiences at Su Teatro and La Academia connected him to Denvers Latino community and made him aware of his place in it. Before La Academia I wasnt too fond of my skin. I wasnt much aware of my identity, Guerrero says. It wasnt that cool to be Mexican to me, and I didnt appreciate it much. I didnt understand why just because of my skin I was different to some people. La Academia not only made me understand it but they made me proud
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of it. Thats something that really helped me later on in life. It made me see that people could do positive things and it didnt just have to be negative things that came out of our neighborhoods. Its interesting to feel that your people have already achieved so much. My mom, she got a sixth-grade education and so did my dad. It made me set higher standards for myself.
Guerrero is making a name for himself in the Denver slam scene, both as a solo poet and as a member of Minor Disturbance. In April he won the citys youth poetry grand slam. Cafe Cultura founder Bobby LeFebre, who has known Guerrero since the days when both were acting at Su Teatro, says the young poets future is bright not only because of his performance skills, but because of his ability to write eloquently about the things he feels. When youre choosing what youre writing about or youre writing about the things youre passionate about, naturally theres emotion there, says LeFebre, who currently is working on an arts and culture degree through DUs University College. Joses work is so full of passion and emotion because he really believes what hes saying. It differs from other performance arts like acting because there youre performing somebody elses work, somebody elses story, somebody elses words. But with performance poetry and slam poetry its you, your experience and an audience listening to your interpretation of the world around you. Hes at a point now where the evolution is happening quickly and he is progressing both in writing and his presence on stage, LeFebre says of Guerrero. Give him a couple more years and hes going to be at the top of the game among all poets in the nation. His talent is young, and he has a lot of fire. If he continues to do this, theres no doubt in my mind that hell do very well. Guerreros major at DU is still undecided. He started out in business but is now thinking about some mix of sociology and theatera blend of disciplines that will complement and fuel his career as a performance poet and possibly an educator of kids who want to explore the growing art form. People like Ken Arkind and his motivating team are out there teaching kids the power of their voice and how far it [can] take them, Guerrero wrote in a paper on slam poetry for one of his classes at DU. It is beautiful to me that people are trying to use poetry to heal people. Organizations like this are the organizations that change the world. They have found a way to feed children assets like confidence, creativity and expression in a way where they can enjoy themselves and heal their wounds at the same time. Poetry is very powerful, and if used in the correct manner, poetry can change peoples lives.
>>See videos of Jose Guerrero performing his poetry at bit.ly/DUMagSlam University of Denver Magazine Fall 2011
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Floyd Doc Buchanan (BA 48, MA 50) of Fresno, Calif., in April 2011 was named grand marshal of the 97th Clovis Rodeo in Clovis, Calif. Doc was superintendent of the Clovis Unified School District for more than 30 years. He has five children, nine grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
a small private practice since the 1970s, and he consults with the Solano Countys Catholic Social Services and the peer support program at Napas Vintage High School. Harry Gee (MM 54) of Terre Haute, Ind., is a professor emeritus at Indiana State University. He has established a graduate scholarship in the Lamont School of Music to pay one-quarter tuition for two students in 201112 and 201213. Myron Micky Miller (JD 54) of Englewood, Colo., was inducted into the Colorado Business Hall of Fame in 2011. Micky has spent his career in real estate development and has been involved in the development, acquisition and management of 50 million square feet of commercial real estate in more than 40 cities in six countries. He also founded Miller Global Properties, a 30-employee firm that he co-chairs today.
1964 (JD 64) of Rockport, Texas, Jim Cooper-Hill
spent two years lobbying on Capitol Hill for a U.S. court to sue Iraq for the mistreatment of one of his clients, who was kidnapped and tortured by Iraqi soldiers. Jims efforts resulted in the passage of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. After that, Jim and two other attorneys formed a partnership and together have represented terrorism victims families in lawsuits against Iraq, Libya and the Republic of Sudan. Chuck Goldberg (JD 64) of Denver received a Benemerenti medal from Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput. Pope Benedict XVI granted the award to Chuck, making him the first non-Catholic to receive the honor in more than 25 years. Chuck also will receive the 2011 DU Law Stars Alumni Professionalism Award for exemplifying ethical conduct and professionalism, dedication to pro bono activities and community service, and loyalty to the Sturm College of Law. Burt Riskedahl (MSW 64) of Bismarck, N.D., has retired from the North Dakota judiciary after more than 26 years as a trial court judge. He works part time as a mediator in family law cases and serves as a member of the North Dakota State Board of Medical Examiners.
develop the social work program at Texas Tech University and joined its faculty in 1971; he taught there for 33 years. Michael Pomeroy (BSBA 66) of Camas, Wash., is trust administrator at Riverview Asset Management Corp. Michael is a certified trust and financial adviser and a member of the Estate Planning Council of Portland, the Estate Planning Council of Southwest Washington and Rotary International.
at Iowa State University for the past five years. Lindy is a retired librarian. The couple has two children and one grandson. Tom Sharp (JD 69) of Steamboat Springs, Colo., was elected president of the Colorado River Districts board of directors in January 2011. Tom previously was vice president of the board. The Colorado River District protects and develops the waters of the 15 counties within the Colorado River Basin. Carol Williams (MSW 69) of Vacaville, Calif., earned a master of public health at the University of California-Berkeley in 1973. She later supervised Solano County Childrens Protective Services, where she started the countys independent living program for teens in foster care. After 20 years in child welfare, Carol moved to adult services to start a new program that provides services to in-home caregivers. Carol retired in 1998 but continues to work part time.
was a part-time federal magistrate judge from February 2009 to June 2010. He previously was a member and mediator of Dispute Resolution Group Inc., a Colorado nonprofit engaged in alternative dispute resolution. Laird also was president of the Colorado Bar Association and the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He is a certified civil trial advocate for the National Board of Trial Advocacy. He and his wife, Barbara, have two daughters.
1972 (BA 72, JD 75) of Michael Burg
1949 McHugh (BFA 49) of Patricia (Tool)
1968 (JD 68) of Littleton, Colo., Peter Willis
Sacramento, Calif., showcased her watercolor paintings of Italy, France, Greece, California and New Mexico in the 5ive by 5ive Destinations exhibit at Park Fine Art gallery in Sacramento in March and April 2011. Robert Munsey (BA 49) of Billings, Mont., was inducted into the State University of New York at Albany athletics hall of fame in October 2010. Robert started and coached the schools cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field programs and led the teams to multiple national championships.
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works for law firm Kutak Rock. Christian Living Communities honored Peter with the 17th annual Earthen Vessel Award for his legal volunteer work.
Colo., retired in 2003 after practicing law for 44 years. Jack and his wife, Joan, have two children and seven grandchildren and have traveled extensively throughout the world. David Silburn (BA 57, MSW 64) of Charlottesville, Va., and his wife of 53 years, Elaine, moved to Charlottesville to be closer to their daughter and her family.
1969 Good (MS 69) of Ames, lindy (Harmon)
Iowa, and her husband, Bill, have been volunteer house parents at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity
1971 (JD 71) of Grand Junction, laird Milburn

Colo., serves as a member of and mediator for Conflict Resolution Services Inc. Laird
Greenwood Village, Colo., was named one of the 10 lawyers of the decade by Law Week Colorado. Michael is a trial lawyer and founding shareholder of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine. He has won many high-profile cases and obtained combined settlements, judgments and verdicts of more than $1 billion. He also is an adjunct professor at DUs Sturm College of Law. Howard kenison (JD 72) of Denver will receive the Outstanding Alumni Award at the 2011 DU Law Stars Dinner on Sept. 21. The award is granted to a DU law graduate who
1953 (MSW 53) of Iowa City, Iowa, 1962 Verne kelley and his wife, Pat, earned PhDs from the UniRichard Bingham (MSW 62) of South
versity of Iowa, and Verne became director of the community health center. Now retired, they volunteer with visual and performing arts programs at the University of Iowa. Verne also helped establish a school of social work near the Ural Mountains in Russia.
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The Office of Alumni Relations has challenged alumni chapters around the country to raise money to help build the new Academic Commons at Penrose Library. The challenge, which Alumni Relations launched on July 1, encourages each of the 13 participating chapters to raise at least $25,000 by June ACAdemiC CommoNs, south elevAtioN reNderiNg 30, 2012. Each chapter that meets the fundraising goal will have a study room named after it at the library when the building re-opens in 2012. Participating chapters include Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Phoenix, Twin Cities, Atlanta, Chicago, Southern California, Northern California, Portland and Seattle. The main goal is to show our students that there is a vibrant Pioneer community supporting DU, says Hallie Lorimer, director of alumni programs. To motivate individuals to take part in the challenge, each person who donates $250 or more can have a commemorative plaqueshaped like the spine of a bookdisplayed in the interior of the library. The plaques can be inscribed with the donors name, a family name or the name of someone the donor wants to honor. A $250 gift buys a two-inch plaque, and a $500 gift buys a three-inch plaque. Lorimer says the challenge is meant to be fun and to build camaraderie among alumni and the various chapters. Chapters will select their own method of raising money, which could include soliciting individual donations or hosting local fundraising events. The Alumni Relations website, www.du.edu/alumni, features a fundraising thermometer displaying each chapters progress toward its goal. Were hoping everyone gets to $25,000 so each chapter will have their own room, Lorimer says. The competition is also about who gets there faster, making it fun more than anything else. >>www.du.edu/alumni
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Elaine Markell (MSW 53) of Newark, Del., worked for Jewish Family Services of Delaware then for the Delaware Division of Public Health. She also headed the states sudden infant death syndrome program, participated in a cleft palate program and was the social work anchor for the first high school wellness clinic in Delaware. The states National Association of Social Workers chapter named her social worker of the year in 1992.
Hero, Vt., served on the staff of the West River Mental Health Center in Rapid City, S.D., for seven years after graduation, then moved to Vermont in 1969 to work at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He retired in 1996 as clinical associate professor of social work in the department of psychiatry. Today, Richard and his wife, Anne, live in a house they built.
British Columbia, was the honorary consul for the Republic of Bolivia and ranking executive member of the Vancouver Consulate Corps. He became a sole practitioner in the early 1970s and continues to serve a few loyal clients from his home office. Stewart stays active during the winter months by playing senior mens hockey. He and his wife, Marlene, have two children and one grandchild. David Erickson (JD 66) of Evergreen, Colo., wrote and edited United States District Court for the District of Colorado: 19922008 History (The Tenth Judicial Circuit Historical Society, 2010), which includes a history of the federal court in Colorado and profiles of deceased judges. He co-authored the article Two Alternatives to Litigation: An Introduction to Arbitration and Mediation in the Handbook on Mediation, Second Edition (American Arbitration Association, 2010). David also recently completed the 27th annual update of his 2,000-page business law book, Colorado Corporate Forms: Legal and Business (Thomson Reuters, 2011). Jerry Matthews (MSW 66) of Lubbock, Texas, worked at the Texas Department of Public Welfare as a child welfare supervisor for three years, then as a training specialist covering a 40-county region. He helped
1954 (MSW 54) of Napa, Calif., Don Feiner
worked as a houseparent at the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children in Denver after serving in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He has worked as director of Napa State Hospital Childrens Center and as director of mental health for Solano County in Northern California. Don also has maintained
Marlow Ediger (EdD 63) of North Newton, Kan., will have manuscripts published in Reading Improvement and the College Student Journal. Marlow co-authored Teaching Social Studies, a university textbook. He was reappointed as a member of the External Examination Committee to appraise PhD theses for Alagappa University in India. His biography will appear in the 2012 edition of Whos Who in America.
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is a partner in the law firm Duane Morris. She was the 2010 recipient of the Energy Bar Associations Paul E. Nordstrom Service Award, which recognizes exemplary longterm service or a significant example of public service by a current or past member. Sheila has been a member of the Energy Bar Association for more than 25 years and was the first woman president of the Federal Energy Bar Association and the first director of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commissions Office of Enforcement. Jared Johnson (JD 73) of Littleton, Colo., has conducted administrative law hearings for the state of Colorado for almost 20 years and has written a bridge column in The Denver Post since 1976. From the late 1960s to the 1980s he wrote about rock music for a variety of newspapers and interviewed many artists, including Elton John, Rod Stewart, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, the Who and Jimi Hendrix. Jared has traveled to 90 countries and more than 70 of the 100 worlds largest cities. Stanley lipkin (JD 73) of Denver practices family law with the Law Office of Stephen J. Harhai. Stanley is on the Best Lawyers in America list, is a Super Lawyer and also is a fellow at the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He earned an executive sommelier certificate through the International Wine Guild and enjoys traveling, fly-fishing, skiing and spending time with his three children and four grandchildren. Sarah Simmons (JD 73) of Tucson, Ariz., was appointed presiding judge of the Pima County Superior Court, where she has administrative authority over the superior court, justice court and municipal courts. Sarah previously practiced law at firms in Tucson and was presiding judge of the family law bench.
Commission, volunteers for Meals on Wheels, is a member of Sonoma Plaza Kiwanis, serves on the American Association of University Womens local scholarship committee and is treasurer of the Vintage House senior center. She also serves on the boards of the Committee on Ministry and the Northern California Nevada Conference United Church of Christ and is vice moderator of the First Congregational Church of Sonoma. John McCall (MSW 74) of Denver is the owner and founder of Le Concierge Internationale in Denver. He retired in 2006 after a 22-year career as a teacher and counselor for Springfield City Schools in Ohio, the Denver Public School District and the Cherry Creek School District. Since retiring, he has been building the concierge business he started when he was a student. lawrence Myer (JD 74) of Montpelier, Vt., is a partner in the central Vermont law firm of Rubin, Kidney, Myer and DeWolfe, where he has practiced law since 1984. He lives with his wife, Bonnie, and their two Bernese Mountain Dogs. Lawrence and Bonnie have three children and one grandchild. They enjoy hiking, sailing on Lake Champlain and biking.
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Every January for most of the past two decades, DU alumnus Patrick Grant (MBA 73) has sat tall in the saddle at Denvers National Western Stock Show, shepherding the annual event through another 16-day exhibition. Corralling 16,000 head of livestock. Welcoming cattlemen, ranchers and rodeo hands from 45 nations. Raising the curtain on 42 shows and special events and working dawn to dark so more than 640,000 city slickers a year can feel like cowboys for a day. Its been my career, says Grant, the events longtime chief executive. Its been my life, and its been a serious passion and commitment for the past 20 years. But no roll in the hay. Steering the 105-year-old Denver tradition through snow and cold and gloom of night on a cramped, creaky 100-acre campus beneath Interstate 70 has often felt as challenging as negotiating a cease fire at the OK Corral. No more. The National Westerns famed president, CEO and 2011 winner of the Founders Day Evans AwardDUs highest alumni honorhas hung up his spurs and unsaddled his horse. On Nov. 1, 2010, Grant transferred day-to-day wrangling authority to successor Paul Andrews and took a step toward the National Westerns futurecharting the events next 100 years as head of the long-range planning group. Its good to have Pats background and ability while I learn the job, says Andrews, a former executive vice president at Kroenke Sports. Hes not only a great leader but a man who shows respect for others. Highest on the list of long-range challenges is determining whether the stock show should seek greener pastures, and where. One plan on the table is to join forces with the Nashville-based Gaylord Entertainment Co. to move the event to a site near Denver International Airport that also would include a Western-themed hotel and conference center. We have come to no final conclusion at this time, Grant says carefully. But we know that at our current location we are seriously constrained as to acreage and outmoded buildings and grounds. We certainly feel the pressures. The National Western is counting on Grant and the experts hes rounded up to recommend a plan. It wont be easy, Grant allows, but it will be his final service in stirrups. A capstone to two decades aiding the community and helping preserve the heritage of the West. A final service to the National Western. A show of true grit. >>Watch a video about Patrick Grant and the National Western at bit.ly/DUMagGrant
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1976(JD 76) of Lindsborg, Kan., was Jay Emler
named majority leader by the Kansas Senate in January 2011. Jay has been a member of the legislature since 2001. He currently is chair of confirmation oversight and vice chair of the Committee on Kansas Security and serves on the committees for commerce, utilities, and ways and means. Jay also serves on the Governors Council on Homeland Security and as a member of the National Council on State Legislatures Task Force on Homeland Security. Jay is of counsel with the Weelborg and Emler Law Office. Martha Marti Markley (BA 76) of Chesterfield, Mo., wrote Mood Blitz: Bipolar Disorder: An Onslaught of Mania and Depression (LinkUp Publishing, 2010). In the book, Marti shares insight to help people with bipolar disorder alleviate pain in their lives and find hope in their therapeutic plan.
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Bryan Welch (BA English 81) says people should cut pessimism out of their lives and practice positive visualization to achieve happiness, abundance and sustainability. Welch says people have a responsibility to create a sustainable world for themselves and for future generations. The key to accomplishing this, he says, is for people to stop focusing on the obstacles to sustainability and instead form a collective, positive vision for the future they want to create. He wrote Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want (B&A Books, 2010) to spread this message. Welch grew up on a farm in New Mexico, where he developed an emotional bond with
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Mary (king) Arnold (BA 74) of Sonoma, Calif., was named 2011 Alcaldesa for Sonoma, where she has lived for 24 years. The honorary position recognizes her broad spectrum of community service. Mary also was named 2011 woman of the year for the 6th Assembly District of California. She serves on the Sonoma County Library
1977 (JD 77) of Pittsburgh has Brian Ashbaugh

been practicing construction law since 1977 and is a partner in the law firm Blumling & Gusky. Brian has five children and has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for construction litigation every year from 2006 through 2010.
Nancy Hopf (JD 77) of Centennial, Colo., has retired from the bench as a district court judge in the 18th Judicial District of Colorado and will be joining the Judicial Arbiter Group.
nature and an intuitive understanding of the relationships among people, plants and animals. Welch, who has a masters degree in media policy and management from Harvard, now lives on a farm in Lawrence, Kan., and runs Ogden Publications, which publishes magazines that focus on sustainable and rural lifestyles, including Mother Earth News, Natural Home and Garden and Utne Reader. Beautiful and Abundant presents steps people can take to engage in innovative and positive change in their own lives. Our negativity has prevented our ideas from catching on, Welch writes. If we want to involve people in the invention of a sustainable, prosperous future, we need a different approach.
He encourages businesses to practice innovation and conservation to achieve a balance between profitability and a sustainable business model. The book includes case studies of companies like Google that have used innovation to create success and sustainability. Welch also argues that humanity needs to practice population control to conserve natural resources and prevent detrimental effects to the Earth. I want to live in a world where every human being has access to clean water, healthy food and unspoiled nature, he writes. When we have a vision of a world where the air and water are clean, where the forests and prairies are healthy, then economic and political obstacles are reduced in size. Without innovation and the dynamic change it brings, well continue on our present path toward environmental crisis. >>www.beautifulandabundant.com
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Billie lillie (MSW 77) of Lakewood, Colo., worked in outpatient, inpatient and residential centers and later became a private practitioner specializing in post-traumatic stress disorder and couples counseling. Retired for the past five years, she and her husband, David lillie (MSW 60), travel six months a year in their motor home. They volunteer at state parks in Florida during the winter and for the U.S. Forest Service during the summer at Maroon Bells near Aspen, Colo. Edward Mclaughlin (BSBA 77) of Lakewood, Colo., will join Venoco Inc., an independent energy company in California, as vice president of corporate development. Edward was president of Petro-Canada Resources (USA) in 2007. He joined the company in 2003 as vice president of land and business development. Prior, he was vice president of land and business development for Ensign Oil & Gas Inc. (A class note in the summer issue incorrectly attributed this information to Edward McLaughlin (BSBA 99) of Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.) kirk Samelson (JD 77) of Colorado Springs, Colo., has been a district judge in Colorados 4th Judicial District since 2000. He was named chief judge in 2007. Kirk has six children.
1979 (JD 79) of Denmark, Bruce Deadman
Wis., has joined Davis & Kuelthau as part of the labor and employment law practice group. Bruce has more than 30 years of legal experience and served as a municipal judge for five years. He serves on the national board for Ducks Unlimited, is an elder at First Presbyterian Church in Green Bay, Wis., and plays baritone sax and trombone in the Pulaski Area Community Band and Jazz Band. Suzanne kaller (MBA 79, MLIS 00) of Denver was awarded the Morningstar Public Librarian Support Award by the American Library Association. Suzanne has been a business librarian with the Arapahoe Library District for eight years and started the business special interest group for the Colorado Association of Libraries. Hans Norregaard (BSBA 79) of Oslo, Norway, is vice president at ABN AMRO Bank. Hans previously financed ships and oil rigs for DnB NOR
Bank of Norway. Before that, he was a sale and purchase broker for a large shipbroking company and worked in the oil trading industry. Hans two sons attend DU. Michael ODonnell (JD 79) of Englewood, Colo., was named 2011 Legal Malpractice Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. Michaels national practice focuses on complex civil litigation involving professional liability, product liability, torts, class actions and commercial matters. He has defended more than 100 lawyers and law firms in Denver and around the nation. Mary Peckham (JD 79) of Morrison, Colo., along with fellow lawyers Joane GarciaColson (JD 90) of Palm Springs, Calif., and Fredilyn Sison, co-authored Trial in Action: The Persuasive Power of Psychodrama (Trial Guides, 2010). The step-by-step manual helps lawyers learn the basic techniques of or improve their skills in searching for truth through dramatic methods.
History and Culture, scheduled to open on the National Mall in 2015. Delphia is responsible for membership, fundraising, public relations and support of government relations. Mark Norris (JD 80) of Collerville, Tenn., is a special counsel at Adams and Reese and was re-elected as the Republican Senate majority leader for the next two-year term of the Tennessee Legislature. He also was appointed to the U.S. Department of Economic Development Consortium on Nuclear Energy. After eight years as a county commissioner, Mark was first elected to the Tennessee Senate in 2000. He is a member of seven Senate committees and is chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. Mark also is on the executive board of the University of Memphis Intermodal Freight Transportation Institute and serves on the Southern States Energy Board and the board of the Tennessee Technology Development Corp.
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New York City is a bigand oftentimes scaryplace for newcomers, but John Ritter (BA 72, BS 72) is always there to provide some direction. Whenever I receive a call from a student or a DU graduate who is moving to New York, I try to make it a point to sit down [with him or her] and have breakfast, lunch or a cup of coffee, Ritter says. Some alumni are totally lost. It wasnt so many years ago that Ritterwho was awarded the Randolph P. McDonough Award for Service to Alumni at this years Founders Day ceremonywas a bit lost himself in the Big Apple. New York is very, very different than Denver, he says with a laugh. When Ritter first moved there in July 1974, the alumni association was in its infancy and he had trouble meeting people, making contacts and finding a place to live. He didnt want things to be as tough for future DU students and graduates. I found that my transition was so difficult that when I got involved with the alumni association I wanted to create a group that could help one another, he says. New York will never have the feel of Denver, but at least I can help others move more easily into a new way of life. At roughly 1,200 members, the New York chapter is now considered a model for other alumni chapters. Ritter has been president for the past 10 years, overseeing the groups growth. It hosts numerous events, from holiday parties to business gatherings to social meetups. And when a member has a questionlike where he should get an apartment or whom she should talk to about getting a jobthey often call Ritter. Over the years, Ritter also has conducted Ammi Hyde interviews of prospective students and has served on several DU boards, committees and focus groups. But he says hes just a small part of a greater whole. Even as chapter president, he says most of the credit goes to the other seven members on the board. I dont look at myself as the one, he says, just a little bit of the glue that pulls things together. >>Watch a video about John Ritter at bit.ly/DUMagNYC
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1980 Delphia Duckens (JD 80) of Washington,
D.C., is the associate director for external affairs for the Smithsonians newest museum, the National Museum of African American
1981 (JD 81) of Denver was Jack Finlaw
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appointed chief of staff to the Denver mayor in December 2010. Jack most recently served as deputy chief of staff to the mayor and previously was director of the citys theaters and arenas division, where he was the chief steward of Denvers city-owned public assembly facilities, including the Colorado Convention Center, the venues in the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Visitor Center, the Denver Coliseum and the Crossroads Theatre. Jack also oversaw the construction of the Colorado Convention Center expansion and the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and the design phase of the Boettcher Concert Hall renovation. Ellen Winner (JD 81) of Boulder, Colo., has left Greenlee, Winner and Sullivan to start E Winner & Associates, a new patent law firm in Boulder. A longtime student of shamanism, Ellen recently was accepted to the faculty of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies. After additional training, she will teach workshops at the foundation.
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1982 (JD 82) of Boulder, Colo., Fred Marienthal
was named one of 11 lawyers of the year by Law Week Colorado. Specifically noted were his community service work as a board member for five nonprofits and his work as bond counsel to Metropolitan State College of Denver for its new Hotel and Hospitality Learning Center. Fred focuses his practice on higher education and nonprofit facility financings.
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As president of RBC Daniels, Brad Busse (BS 80) stays pretty busy. Hes one of the most seasoned investment bankers in the world of telecommunications and has completed some of the industrys most significant transactions. But he still finds time to make an imprint where its needed. I felt I wanted to give back to my community, Busse says, and have been involved in a variety of things. Thats one way to put it. This years Founders Day Community Service Award winner served as chairman of the board for the PCIA Foundation (the education and charitable arm of the Personal Communications Industry Association) from 19992001. From 200006, he served on the Governors Commission on Science and Technology for the state of Colorado. Hes on DUs Athletic Affairs Committee, is chair of the executive advisory board of the Daniels College of Business, serves on the Governors Commission on Early Childhood Leadership for Colorado and is on the board of Mile High United Way, where he served as chair from 200810. He also chairs the CEO roundtable for Executives Partnering to Invest in Children. For the past two years, the community could not have had a better champion than Brad Busse, says Christine Benero, president of Mile High United Way. Chicago native Busse has been at it since he came to DU on a swimming scholarship. He eventually became team captain and was president of his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, during his senior year. I think my involvement with the University was a function of the support I got while I was there, Busse says. Hes carried on that involvement and then some, giving money and time to the school and state hes come to love. And though he feels strongly about every organization he works with, he has a special affinity for early childhood care and education. Thats a passion my wife, Lisa, shares with me, he says. Their two kids, 23-year-old Blake and 21-year-old Alison, have learned what it means to give back, regardless of how busy life becomes. You just make the time, Busse says. The investment banking business is a pretty demanding job, but you become pretty one-dimensional if all you do is work. >>Watch a video about Brad Busse at bit.ly/DUMagBusse
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Taryn Armstrong (BA 83) of Soldotna, Alaska, works as a freelance writer for the Anchorage Daily News and had four articles published in the 2011 Alaska Visitors Guide. She also co-hosts two radio shows. Taryn lives with her husband, Todd, on the Kenai Peninsula, where they run a cabin rental business in the summer. Celeste de Baca (JD 83) of Denver married Jesus Quinones in October 2009. Celeste and Jesus have two toddler-age grandsons. Celeste and Jesus golf as much as possible and travel to warmer climates to golf during the winter. Celeste previously was a gubernatorial appointee to the Colorado parole board. Scott Eldredge (JD 83) of Englewood, Colo., was named best medical malpractice lawyer in Law Week Colorados Barristers Best. He also was invited to join the American Board of Trial Advocates. kathie Fliss (JD 83) of Centennial, Colo., accepted a magistrate position with the 18th Judicial District. Kathie currently is assigned to Arapahoe District Court, Division 11. Martha Marty Marsh (MSW 83) of Maryville, Tenn., became director of social work services for ResCare Home Health Services. She still works for the same company (now Amedisys) as supervisor of social work services for the east Tennessee region. Rosanne Sterne (MBA 83) of Littleton, Colo., is a poet, musician and painter. She wrote a chapbook of poetry titled Dancing in the Gaps. A series of 12 of her watercolor paintings was displayed at the Knoll Gallery in Denver in January 2011. Rosanne also works as a consultant to foundations and nonprofits that specialize in the arts. Mimi (Brian) Vance (BA 83) of Houston wrote a series of books called Words By the Handful Stories (Bright Sky Press, 2010) that teach American Sign Language to children. Mimi also produces educational materials, teaches sign language to parents and their young children, trains preschool teachers and works with libraries to incorporate signing into their early education programs. She is married and has two children.
traumatic brain injuries and their families; she also supervises social work students and graduates working toward licensure. kathryn lonowski (JD 84) of Fort Collins, Colo., is president of the Larimer County Bar Association. She and her husband, Wayne, have three children: Sarah, David and Anne. Kathryn was a member of the 2009 COBALT Class sponsored by the Colorado Bar Association.
Parker (JD 95). Georgia and Frank have a general practice and Georgia also is the municipal judge in Grand County. lorin Oden (MA 85) of Salisbury, N.C., is the audiologist at Hearing Lifestyles. Lorin previously worked for a major hearing device manufacturer, then established the audiology department at Carolina Ear, Nose and Throat Specialists, where she worked for 21 years.
in Washington, D.C. Craig also opened the Daily Grind Coffee Company in Vail, Colo., in 1989. Michael Beaver (JD 86) of Castle Rock, Colo., works at Holland & Hart and was recognized as the 2011 Denver-area insurance lawyer of the year by Best Lawyers in America. He has been active in the American Bar Associations Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section for more than 20 years. George Jones (MA 86, JD 86) of Lamoni, Iowa, practices criminal defense. George has taught courses in criminal law and procedure at Graceland University since 2001. In 2010, George worked with the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, training legal professionals in Ecuador and Panama on criminal trial techniques under the accusatory system.
1985 (MIM 85) of Jerusalem Frode Mauring
was appointed in February 2011 as special representative of the administrator to the United Nations Development Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People. He oversees activities in all occupied Palestinian territories, including East Jerusalem, Gaza and the West Bank. Frode previously was resident representative and United Nations resident coordinator in Russia, Kosovo and the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia. Georgia (Parker) Noriyuki (JD 85) of Granby, Colo., relocated to Grand County in 1990. Her law partner is her son, Frank
1986 (BSBA 86) of Minturn, Craig Arseneau
Colo., was appointed to the board of directors of Socially Conscious Coffee, a Denver-based nonprofit that helps coffee harvesters in Brazil achieve sustainable prosperity. Craig is co-owner and president of Vail Mountain Coffee & Tea Co. He previously worked for the Stouffer Hotel and Resort Group in Boston and did marketing for the Coffee Development Group
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married Gino Malara (MSS 92). Valerie has been appointed magistrate for the 17th Judicial District. Gino is CEO of vacation rental business Gondola Resorts Inc.
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Youd think her job as chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate services for Home Depot would keep her busy enough, but Carol Tom (MBA 81) also finds time to serve on the boards of the United Parcel Service and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and to volunteer for organizations such as the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and the Atlanta Botanical Garden. In 2012 Tom will add yet another title to her already crowded resum: chair of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Im blessed in that I have a lot of stamina, she says. I dont sleep too many hours each night. For all of her accomplishments, Tom received DUs Founders Day Professional Achievement Award in March. Tom began her career as a commercial lender with United Bank of Denver (now Wells Fargo), then spent several years as director of banking for the Johns-Manville Corp. She joined Home Depot in 1995 and rose through the ranks to become CFO in 2001 and executive vice president of corporate services in 2007. One of the biggest challenges in her career came in recent years, when she had to make tough choices in response to an economic downturn that directly affected her companys bottom line. Given our exposure to housing, the mortgage crisis had a huge impact on the Home Depot, she says. From 200609 our sales dropped by more than $13 billion, and our cumulative operating profit declined by about $4 billion. During this time we had to make some very hard decisions. Those decisions included divesting a business, closing stores and reducing workforce, but Home Depot also decided to invest, both in supply chain transformation and in its employees. At a time when many companies were foregoing bonus payments or contributions to retirement plans, we paid merit increases, we paid bonuses to our hourly associates, and we made contributions to 401(k) plans, she says. These investments are paying off. Our customers are happy, our associate morale is great, and we continue to show productivity improvements. >>Watch a video about Carol Tom at bit.ly/DUMagTome
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Ralph Hubregsen (MBA 88) of Denver is vice president of global channels at Symplified, a cloud-computing security company. He grows the companys system of partners, builds domestic and international reseller programs and manages worldwide channel sales for Symplifieds identity and access management suite. ken lund (JD 88) of Littleton, Colo., started as Gov. John Hickenloopers legal counsel in January 2011. He advises the governor and the cabinet on matters such as the constitutionality of bills, lawsuits against the state and preparation of executive orders. Previously, Ken served as managing partner of Holme Roberts & Owen.
1989 (JD 89) of Boulder, Colo., was Jim Martin
one of three people chosen for the inaugural advanced law degree program in entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado School of Law. Jim is focusing on entrepreneurship in the area of green technology laws, policies and technologies.
Mark Tilden (JD 90) of Boulder, Colo., founded the law firm Tilden McCoy in February 2010 after 16 years at the nonprofit Native American Rights Fund in Boulder. He continues his federal practice representing Indian tribes and peoples.
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1990Adelman (JD 90) practices health 1991 Rebecca Cheryn (Netz) Baker (JD 91) has care law in Memphis, Tenn. She left her
partnership and founded her own law firm, Adelman Law Firm, in 2001the same year she had her son, Max. In 2005, she founded Adelman Risk Management Group. Both companies focus on services to the health care industry. Rebecca also is a certified mediator and founded Conflict Resolution
has moved from in-house counsel in the banking and finance sector to the business sector. As a bank officer, Floy has recovered troubled assets and worked out distressed loans and leases for Key Equipment Finance Inc. Melissa (Hila) Tew (BA 92, MA 95) of Columbus, Ohio, is a health systems manager with Allergan Neurosciences. She works in the Columbus and Indianapolis territories.
joined the legal department of Hancock Bank in Gulfport, Miss., where she acts as corporate counsel. Cheryn also was elected to the Mississippi Board of Bar Commissioners for a three-year term that began in July 2010.
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tleton, Colo., practices part time as a contract attorney assisting sole practitioners and small firms with civil and commercial litigation. She has taught contract law, civil litigation and family law at Arapahoe Community College in the paralegal program. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, but after aggressive treatment she is now cancer free. She and her husband of 18 years have three sons, ages 12, 10 and 8. Ted Trimpa (JD 93) of Denver left Hogan Lovells to start his own lobbying firm, the Trimpa Group, which will specialize in public policy advocacy and political strategy at the state and federal levels. Ted was named lawyer of the year by Law Week Colorado.
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Aurora, Colo., was presented with a lifetime achievement award by the Colorado chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Betsy is the international scholar adviser at the University of ColoradoDenver. She works primarily on immigration matters for the universitys international faculty, staff and campus visitors. Betsy previously served as adjunct professor at the Sturm College of Law.
Susie Velasquez (JD 88) of Greeley, Colo., has been appointed to the Colorado Civil Rights Commission by Gov. John Hickenlooper. Susie is an attorney and is serving her second four-year term as Weld County public trustee. She formerly was director of affirmative action and equal opportunity employment at the University of Northern Colorado.
Center of the Mid-South. Rebecca and Max travel frequently to their home in Salida, Colo. Rebecca also founded the Chaffee County Montessori School in Salida in 2006. John Himmelmann (JD 90) of Denver was one of nine attorneys listed in the Denver Magazine feature Top Lawyers: The Best Peer Review Rated Attorneys in the City in the category of commercial real estate. He works with kip Anderson (JD 90) of Littleton, Colo.
Andy McCallin (JD 91) of Denver was honored as the 2010 Outstanding Attorney at the Colorado Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Bar Associations annual awards dinner. Shannon (Thompson) Oury (JD 91) of Lawrence, Kan., is executive director of Lawrence Douglas County Housing Authority. She previously was a partner at the law firm Stevens & Brand and served as attorney for the housing authority, which provides safe, decent and affordable housing to more than 1,100 families.
Family members from left to right: Sandra (Lampe) Dratler, Jerry Dratler, Justin Warner, Diane (Dratler) Warner Bryant, Wendy (Dratler) Selin and Bob Selin. Not pictured: Marq Warner.
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When Justin Warner walked across the stage in June to accept his diploma for a bachelors degree in leadership and organizational studies, his family added one more mark to its tally of DU alumni. Seven members of Warners family have now graduated from DU. Justins parentsDiane (Dratler) Warner Bryant (BA 67) and Marq Warner (BSBA 67, JD 70)were the first family members to graduate from the University. In 1971, Justins aunt Wendy (Dratler) Selin received a bachelors degree in health and recreation, and his aunt Sandra (Lampe) Dratler and uncle Jerry Dratler both graduated with bachelors degrees in accounting. Jerry also received a masters degree in finance in 1972. Justins uncle Bob Selin graduated in 1972 with a bachelors degree in electrical engineering. Wendy and Bob met at DU, as did Sandra and Jerry. It is a great honor to be one of the many within my family to have received our degrees from DU, Justin says. I am very proud to be a part of such a great family and educational tradition. Now that I have finished with the graduation ceremonies, my Aunt Sandra is rooting for me to become the third in my family to receive two degrees from DU. I am extremely proud of our familys seventh graduate, Diane says. The Commencement ceremony was a very emotional time for me. Every family member has wonderful memories of DU. We are all very proud to have graduated from the University. The family remains connected to DU in a number of ways. Diane, Jerry and Wendy honored their mother, Edith Dratler, with a practice room at DUs Newman Center for the Performing Arts, and Diane signed a time capsule for the family at the Newman Centers groundbreaking ceremony in 2000. Our mother came from Germany as a teenager, Diane says. She did not have the opportunity to advance her education. She believed very strongly in education and the arts and always wanted better for her children and grandchildren. We thought that providing a practice room would continue to place value on both her beliefs and those of our family members.
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Worth, Texas, is assistant district counsel for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District, where she is the primary attorney responsible for medical construction. Dawn-Carole also is an instructor in the corps Construction Contract Administration course.
Which alum came to DU on a swimming scholarship and eventually became team captain? The answer can be found somewhere on pages 4964 of this issue. Send your answer to du-magazine@du.edu or University of Denver Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. Be sure to include your full name and mailing address. Well select a winner from the correct entries; the winning entry will win a prize courtesy of the DU Bookstore. Congratulations to Ginni McCann (MSW 88) for winning the spring issues pop quiz.
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band, Alan, welcomed daughter Saoirse Grace on Aug. 3, 2010. Bonnie Clark (MA 96) of Denver had her work featured in the May/June issue of Archaeology Magazine. The article features results of Bonnies research at Amache, the site of Colorados World War II-era Japanese-American internment camp. Bonnie is an associate professor of anthropology at DU. Stephanie Cohen (JD 96) of Livingston, N.J., was appointed to the newly created position of firmwide diversity partner at McCarter & English. Stephanie is based in the Newark office, where she is a partner in the business and financial services litigation group. She will coordinate the implementation of various initiatives designed to enhance the recruitment, development and retention of women and attorneys from diverse backgrounds. Stephanie is the former co-chair of the firms Womens Initiative Steering Committee. Timothy Finkenbinder (JD 96) of Kissimmee, Fla., has served as a senior consultant to the national offices of Deloitte & Touche and as vice president of a $20 million technology firm. In 2007 he started his own law firm, which focuses primarily on immigration and currently is expanding to engage in general business law and bankruptcy. The firm received the 2008 new business of the year award from the Kissimmee/ Osceola Chamber of Commerce. Timothy also serves as treasurer for the Osceola County Bar Association. Timothy married his wife, Laurie, in 2007, and together they are proud parents of a 2-year-old boy, Zane. Rico Munn (JD 96) of Denver was a member of former Gov. Bill Ritters cabinet for four years. He returned to Baker & Hostetler as a partner on Feb. 1, 2011. In 2007, he was appointed executive director of the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. In 2009, Rico was appointed to another cabinet position executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education. Rico also is an adjunct professor at the Sturm College of Law. Ann Norris (MSW 96) of Boulder, Colo., has a thriving private practice that includes clients of all ages. She also manages a Boulder Community Hospital program for seniors. Additionally, Ann serves as a Graduate School of Social Work field liaison, providing a link between the school, its students and their internship agencies.
Otten, Johnson, Robinson, Neff & Ragonettia real estate and land use firmas director of marketing and business development. Heather has more than 10 years of experience marketing professional services organizations. She also is the marketing committee chair for the Center for Legal Inclusiveness and program committee co-chair for the Legal Marketing Associations Rocky Mountain chapter. Roger Jackson (JD 97) of Denver continues to practice intellectual property law with his own firm, Jackson Esquire. Roger is on the board of the nonprofit Rocky Mountain Inventors Association, which offers training to entrepreneurs to get their businesses off the ground. He also is involved with the Rockies Venture Club, helping clients to connect with sources of capital. Patrick linden (BSBA 97, MS 01, JD 01) of Denver joined the Faegre & Benson international law firm as special counsel. Patrick is a former certified National Football League player agent. In his new role, he also will support Faegre & Bensons sports practice group, advising professional and amateur sports organizations on corporate governance, sponsorship and financing activities. Patrick is on the board of directors for the Metro Denver Sports Commission and has served as an adjunct professor at DU. Megan McDowell (MSW 97) of Bernardsville, N.J., and her husband moved to New Jersey from Boulder, Colo., after her sisters husband was killed on 9/11. Megan founded a group of womencalled Heartworkswho meet monthly to do their own spiritual and cognitive work and to give to others. The nonprofit raised more than $65,000 in 2010 for families experiencing trauma, loss and struggle. In addition to money, the group gives handsigned cards, gifts, rides to grocery stores and restaurant gift cards, and it organizes fundraisers for families facing high medical bills. The organizations website is www.njheartworks. org. Amy Ray (MSW 97) of Englewood, Colo., has worked for the Jefferson County Department of Human Services in the family intervention services unit for 13 years, serving as a supervisor for the past two years. Michael Rourke (JD 97) of Greeley, Colo., and Matt Maillaro (JD 98) of Broomfield, Colo., were named top prosecutors of the year by the Colorado District Attorneys Council during the councils annual conference. Amy (Moe) Russell (MSW 97) of Denver is a social worker for Jefferson County Public Schools, where shes assigned to 14 preschools.
Amy was among those who provided mental health support after the Columbine High School tragedy. Amy is married and has a 4-year-old son. She also is a musician. Edgar Seeley IV (JD 97) of Reston, Va., and his wife, Jennafer, welcomed their son, Edgar George Seeley V, on July 12, 2010. Edgar joins big sister Christina Noelle.
Megan kelly (JD 98) of Englewood, Colo., and her husband, Tom, welcomed their fourth baby and first girl, Grace, on April 15, 2010. Evelin lehis (MA 98, PhD 08) was appointed the Distinguished Sonoco Visiting Professor in international business at the University of South Carolina in August 2010. Evelin focuses on teaching, economic research and analysis of macroeconomic development issues. She formerly worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and the European Investment Bank in Luxembourg. Natalie Wilkins (BA 98) of Montevideo, Uruguay, joined the U.S. Foreign Service in May 2010. Natalie is serving her first post as vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo and will work in public diplomacy for the State Department.
She introduces the solution mainly to businesses where infection control is an issue, but also to wherever water quality is a concern. Aaron Huey (BFA 99) of Seattle was one of a dozen U.S. journalists awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship to study at Stanford University during the 201112 academic year. Aaron is a freelance photographer and contributing editor for Harpers magazine. Jennifer (Stotter) koran (JD 99) of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., passed the California bar exam in July 2010 after spending the past four years as a stay-at-home mom. She remains active in Toastmasters International and welcomes contact from DU law classmates. John Mastro (BSBA 99) of Littleton, Colo., was named one of the Denver Business Journals Forty Under 40 in 2011. John is the senior vice president of commercial loans at UMB Bank, where he was the top commercial lender in 2010. He also is auction chairman of the Denver Polo Classic fundraiser and is involved in the Denver Active 20-30 Childrens Foundation and Junior Achievement-Rocky Mountain Inc.
1998 (JD 98) of Black Mountain, kenny Capps
N.C., started his second fiscal year as owner of Kudzu Consultants, a small marketing, promotions and print specialty company. Kenny has a 10-year-old son. Rob Fox (BSBA 98) of New York co-chaired the American Ireland Fund and New York Young Leaders St. Patricks Day Celebration in March 2011 to benefit the Ireland Funds Promising Ireland Campaign. Rob played lacrosse at DU and is still playing and winning championships, including the 2008 and 2009 Vail Shootout Masters Championship in Vail, Colo. Wendy Hess (JD 98) began a new position as assistant director of the Career and Professional Development Office at the University of Arizonas Rogers College of Law in Tucson, Ariz.
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Justin kidd (BA 03) brought along a copy of the University of Denver Magazine on his visit to the Wat Umong Mahatherachan Buddhist temple in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Justin visited Thailand in 2008 for a spring break trip while in law school at the University of California, Berkeley. He now is an assistant attorney general for the state of Oregon and lives with his domestic partner in Salem, Ore. As you pioneer lands far and wide, be sure to pack your DU gear and strike a pose in front of a national monument, the fourth wonder of the world or your hometown hot spot. If we print your submission, youll receive some new DU paraphernalia courtesy of the DU Bookstore. Send your print or high-resolution digital image and a description of the location to: Pioneer Pics, University of Denver Magazine, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816, or email du-magazine@ du.edu. Be sure to include your full name, address, degree(s) and year(s) of graduation.
named one of the Denver Business Journals Forty Under 40 in 2011. Aaron works as a civil trial attorney for national law firm Lathrop & Gage. He also is involved with the Denver Bar Association and the Wheels of Justice cycling team. Virginia Clair (JD 99) of Lakewood, Colo., was named national sales and marketing director for Plant H2O Systems distributing RNT Solution, an innovation in water chemistry.
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kerri Hankin (MSW 00) of Cascade, Colo., is executive director of WhimSpire, a nonprofit foster care agency serving the state of Colorado. Nora (Schneider) Heitmann (BA 00) of Centennial, Colo., and her husband, William Scott Heitmann (BA 01), welcomed their second child, son William Thomas, on Jan. 22, 2011. Billy and his big sister, Katherine, already have been spotted cheering on the Pioneers at DU hockey games. Andrew laird (JD 00) of Birmingham, Ala., lives with his wife, Audrey, and children, Andrew and Foster. He is a partner in the law firm Starnes Davis Florie, where he has practiced since 2000. Andrew devotes 100 percent of his practice to litigation, enjoying a diverse practice in the areas of mining liability, construction defect litigation and workers compensation. Thomas Pfennig (LLM 00) of New York and his wife, Daniela, welcomed their first child, Sidney Lennox, on March 31, 2011. Thomas is a senior counsel with Bayer HealthCare.
Serena Pollack (JD 00) of New Orleans is a partner at Lowe, Stein, Hoffman, Allweiss & Hauver. Todd Slagter (JD 00, LLM 00) of Oshkosh, Wis., joined the DiRenzo & Bomier law firm, where he works on estate planning, probate and trust administration, taxation, elder law and real estate issues for business and individual clients. Meg Steitz (MA 00) of Denver is executive director of the HERA Womens Cancer Foundation. Meg also volunteers as the president of the board of trustees for the Colorado Childrens Chorale. She previously was the director of marketing and community relations for DUs Division of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Frank Fajardo (JD 01) of Santa Fe, N.M., is the manager of the New Mexico Office of Guardianship, which provides publicly funded guardianship services for incapacitated adults. His federal career included many years with the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of Personnel Management/Civil Service Commission and the U.S. Air Force (civilian). Eric Truhe (JD 01) and leigh Truhe (MIM 01, JD 01) of Boulder, Colo., are partners at Truhe and Truhe, where they practice criminal defense and guardian ad litem work in metro Denver. Eric and Leigh have a 4-year-old daughter and a 2-year-old son. Cheryl Weill (MSW 01) of Fort Collins, Colo., maintains a private practice, New Vista Therapy, in Fort Collins. She authored Natures Choice: What Science Reveals About the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation (Routledge, 2009), a resource for helping gay people and their families understand the biology of sexual orientation development. lance Wood (JD 01) of Tucson, Ariz., is transitioning to civil litigation after nearly 10 years in the Air Force Judge Advocate Generals Corps. He will work as in-house counsel for
State Farm in its Tucson office, focusing on insurance defense litigation. Lance married Emily Falkner on Oct. 3, 2010, in Tucson.
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Nicholas Sauer (BA 05) was elected to the board of education for District 220 in his hometown of Barrington, Ill., in 2009. The boards youngest member, he already is well respected and shares governance responsibility for a $121 million operating budget, 14 buildings, 1,165 staff members and 9,150 students. Sound daunting? It all comes down to working for the common good, he says. Its been a great honor. Working for the common good is nothing new to Sauer, the 2011 Founders Day winner of the Ammi Hyde Award for Recent Graduate Achievement. At DU, the public policy major was involved in the Pioneer Leadership Program, served as a senior senator for the Undergraduate Student Government and was president of both his fraternityTheta Chi and DUs Interfraternal Council. When it comes to leadership, Nick is in a league of his own, says Brian Elizardi (BA 04, MA 06), a fellow alum who is now a senior academic adviser at Tulane University. Sauer credits the organizations and people he worked with at DU for bringing out and honing his leadership skills. That was a great takeaway from college, he says. After he graduated, more public policy beckoned, and Sauer spent time working on the gubernatorial campaign of former DU President Marc Holtzman. After Holtzmans unsuccessful bid, Sauer moved to the center of the political universe: Washington, D.C. There, he served as a political appointee under George W. Bush, working in the Department of Commerce. He says the experience was edifying and somewhat surprising. The really fascinating thing for me is that Washington is not as partisan as people make it out to be, he says. It was wonderful to work with such a diverse group of people in that capacity. When Sauer moved back home to help with the family cabinet business and work on his masters degree at Northwestern University, he knew he also wanted to give back to the community, despite the time commitment. And thats where the school board came in. Its a lot of work a lot of late nights, he says. [But] I think Ive always had that mindset and that belief system: To whom much is given, much is expected. >>Watch a video about Nicholas Sauer at bit.ly/DUMagSauer
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2002 (JD 02) of Denver was Jon Bender
awarded the 2010 Sandra Day OConnor Award for Professional Service at the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 23, 2010. The award was given by the American Inns of Court for excellence in public interest or pro bono activities. Jons legal practice focuses on corporate, real estate, environmental and professional negligence litigation matters. kate Bleakley (BSBA 02) of Denver is director of sales at Visit Aurora, the tourism office for Aurora, Colo. Kate is responsible for developing new leads for hotel meetings, conventions and visitor-related events. She previously was a sales manager at the Red Lion Hotel in Aurora. James Chandler (JD 02) of Naples, Fla., is a partner in the law firm Agoston & Chandler. His focus is on state and federal criminal defense, family and marital law, and juvenile law. James also is co-founder of Scuba Outfitters of Naples, a Professional Association of Dive Instructors Five Star Dive Center. Crisanta Duran (BA 02) of Denver was named one of the Denver Business Journals Forty Under 40. Crisanta is a Colorado state representative for House District 5 and an active member of the Colorado Young Democrats. She is affiliated with the Colorado Latino Forum, GI Forum and New Era Colorado. Amelia Molly George (BA 02) accepted a tenure-track position at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Calif., where she will teach in the sociology and criminal justice departments. Matt McCune (JD 02) of Edgewater, Colo., was honored with the Daniels Fund Bill Daniels Neighborhood Hero Award after defending a stranger against her knifewielding estranged boyfriend. While fighting off the assailant, Matt sustained several stab wounds, including one to his throat.
2001 (MA 01) is an assistant kristen Adler
professor of cultural anthropology at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Kristen previously was a part-time teaching associate at the University of New Mexico, where she received her doctorate in May 2011.
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2004 (JD 04) of Denver married Andrea Guzmn
Eric Mather on Oct. 10, 2010, in Oranjestad, Aruba. The couple, along with 17 friends and family members, celebrated with a ceremony and reception on the private Renaissance Island. Andrea and Eric live in the University Hills neighborhood along with their two dogs, Cooper and Petey. Since graduation, Andrea has worked in the area of mergers and acquisitions and is now employed by Oracle Corp.
Meagan Partilla (JD 05) of Denver and her husband, Ian, announce the arrival of their daughter, Shaina Ellen, on Dec. 27, 2010. Ashley Wald (MA 05, JD 05) of Denver and her husband, DU law Professor Eli Wald, welcomed their second child, daughter Kersten Dana, on Jan. 11, 2011.
2005 (JD 05) of Denver was named Derek Blass
2006 (MSW 06, PhD 10) has Ziblim Abukari
serve as co-chair of the organizing committee for the fifth International Olympic Committee Women and Sport 2012 Conference. Michelle is the most decorated U.S. figure skater in history and also is a U.S. public diplomacy envoy and member of President Obamas Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. Robyn Schaperjahn (JD 09) of Midlothian, Va., is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and has been attending the 182nd U.S. Army Judge Advocate Generals Corps training program. She trained at Fort Lee, Charlottesville and Fort Benning until Nov. 10, 2010, when she was assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Casey, Korea. She will act as a legal assistant and will spend at least two years in Korea. Doug Wigley (JD 09) of Surprise, Ariz., and his wife, Stacey LaConte, welcomed a baby boy, James David LaConte Wigley, on Sept. 29, 2009.
2009 (BA 09) of Artesia, Calif., will Michelle kwan
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the Colorado Hispanic Bar Associations 2010 outstanding young lawyer of the year. He also was recognized as a 2010 Colorado Super Lawyer and a finalist for Law Weeks 2010 Up and Coming Lawyers. Derek practices in civil litigation with an emphasis on construction defect litigation, medical malpractice defense and commercial litigation at Messner & Reeves. He has been married for more than four years. Terrance Carroll (JD 05) of Denver is the recipient of the 2011 DU Law Stars Bruce B. Johnson Outstanding Young Alumni Award, which is given to a Sturm College of Law alumna or alumnus who has been out of law school for less than 10 years and who is enthusiastically committed to the colleges mission, dedicated to upholding the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct, and known for his or her outstanding contributions to the legal or greater community. Carrie Ann lucas (JD 05) of Windsor, Colo., was named to the Petra Foundations growing network of human rights heroes on Nov. 20, 2010, at the groups 22nd annual celebration of unsung leaders who are making distinctive contributions to civil and human rights in the United States. leanne Milliman (BA 05) of Morrison, Colo., was accepted into the master of library and information science program at DUs Morgridge College of Education. She will begin in fall 2011. In 2007, Leanne completed a registered yoga teacher training in Denver. She currently works for the Jefferson County Public Library.
accepted a position as an assistant professor at Westfield State University in Westfield, Mass. The university has study-abroad and exchange programs with Ziblims native country of Ghana.
2007 (MSW 07) of Sheridan, kelly Carroll
Wyo., worked for Volunteers of America as a substance abuse clinician in a long-term residential treatment program. She was promoted to clinical director of the facility, then to director of outpatient services in conjunction with the residential program, where she supervises the transitional drug-free housing program and a small outpatient program in the Community Re-Entry Center. Brandon Saxon (JD 07) of San Diego had his article The Supreme Courts 2010 Upcoming Employment Docket published in the September/October 2010 issue of The Municipal Lawyer Magazine, published by the International Municipal Lawyers Association. The article analyzed key employment cases that were reviewed during the courts fall term.
2010 (MA 10) of Erie, Colo., Angela Horacek
joined AlloSource, a large nonprofit provider of skin, bone and soft tissue allografts for surgical procedures, as vice president of operations. Angela previously was global vice president of operations and quality at nSpireHealth, which develops and manufactures respiratory care products. Thaine lennox-Gentle (JD 10) of Littleton, Colo., had an article, Piracy, Sea Robbery and Terrorism: Enforcing Laws to Deter Ransom Payments and Hijacking, published in the fall 2010 issue of the Transportation Law Journal.
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Patricia Ruh (MSW 80), Denver, 6-7-10 Robert Thompson Jr. (JD 83), Aurora, Colo., 8-10-10 Ronald Cribbs (JD 84), Gainesville, Fla., 10-20-10 Sharee Paulson (MSW 89), Salt Lake City, 4-21-10
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Michael Harrell (JD 92, MBA 95), Fayetteville, Ark., 11-18-10 kimberley Montanaro (JD 02), Santa Barbara, Calif., 1-3-10 Van MacDonald (MS 03), Denver, 5-20-11 Jason Sonnenschein (MSW 09), Denver, 8-17-10 Maj. Phil Ambard (MGS 10, PhD 10), Colorado Springs, Colo., 4-27-11 John Bazley, professor in the School of Accountancy, Denver, 6-3-11 Alia (kirksey) Celestine, retired Facilities Management & Planning staff member, Grayson, Okla., 2-1-11 Roger Fee (EDD 61), retired Lamont School of Music dean, San Francisco, 12-19-10 laVerne Pritchett, social work professor emerita, Denver, 10-10-10 Edward Small, retired Lamont School of Music staff member, Broomfield, Colo., 1-22-11 Rodney Smith, former events director, San Antonio, 3-27-11 Grace Timms, retired Josef Korbel Graduate School of International Studies staff member, Carroll, Iowa, 1-28-11 We erroneously listed John Sprague (BS 60) in the death notices in our summer issue. He is in fact alive. The magazine regrets the error.
time between Denver and Europe. She has dual careers as a poet/author and as a social worker in private practice, where she specializes in adolescent, anxiety and divorce support. Jon published Offerte: The Burnt Offerings (poetry) in 2008 and Bosco: The Police Dog Who Was Afraid of the Dark, an animalassisted social work therapy tool, in 2010.
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season kicks off Oct. 1 with Ballet Hispanico and continues with Jane Monheit (Oct. 18), Abraham Inc. (Nov. 12) and Anonymous 4 (Dec. 8). >>www.newmancenterpresents.com
Mentoring Join the Professional Network and share your career experience and advice with current DU students and alumni. >>www.alumni.du.edu Local Chapters Just moved to a new
city and dont know anyone? Need to expand your professional network? Want to attend fun events and make new friends, or reconnect with old ones? Join a local alumni chapter: Atlanta; Boston; Northern California; Southern California; Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Minneapolis/St. Paul; New York; Phoenix; Portland; Seattle; and Washington, D.C. To find out how you can get involved, call the Office of Alumni Relations at 800-871-3822 or visit www. alumni.du.edu/chapters.
Enrichment Program Noncredit short courses, lectures, seminars and weekend intensives explore a wide range of subjects without exams, grades or admission requirements. >>http://universitycollege.du.edu/enrichment AHSS Faculty Lecture Series DUs
Humanities Institute offers a free monthly lecture series to showcase the current research, creative endeavors or recently published works of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences faculty. >>www.du.edu/ahss
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ICE HOCKEY Nov. 25 Denver Cup Classic Day 1 Jan. 6 Alabama-Huntsville Family Pass (4 Tickets) $40 $40 $20 $16 $16 $20 Buddy Pass (2 Tickets) $30 $30 $14 $12 $12 $14 Savings up to $22 up to $22 up to $16 up to $16 up to $16 up to $16 BASKETBALL Nov. 17 DU Men vs. Southern Mississippi Nov. 23 DU Women vs. Colorado State Dec. 11 DU Women vs. Oregon Dec. 19 DU Men vs. Wyoming
Alumni Connections Pioneer Alumni Network Join other
Bridges to the Future DUs annual speaker series opens Oct. 10 with Erskine Bowles, White House chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and former co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The free lecture is at 7 p.m. in Magness Arena. Visit www.du.edu/bridges for more information and to RSVP. Homecoming Come back to campus Oct. 2122 to cheer on the Pioneers, watch the parade, enjoy great food and live music, tour campus and more. >>www.du.edu/alumni
Lamont alumni are invited to bring their instruments and join in the second annual jam session at 3 p.m. Oct. 23. Free admission, no tickets necessary. >>www.du.edu/lamont
Denver-area alumni for networking events each month. >>http://alumni.du.edu/PAN mater has been doing since you left. See if DU is coming to a city near you. >>http://alumni.du.edu/DUontheRoad
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Office of Undergraduate Admission is looking for alumni volunteers to conduct interviews of prospective students in major cities throughout the country in early November and late January. Registration opens in September. Contact Ammi Hyde Interview Coordinator Andy Losier at 303-871-7651 or alosier@du.edu with questions. >>www.du.edu/hyde
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Penrose Library put some of the treasures from its Carson-Brierly Dance Library on display in spring 2011 with Ballet Struck: Lillian Covillo and Colorado Ballet, a special exhibit of vintage dance memorabilia. The programs, photographs and scrapbook pictured here were donated by Colorado Ballet co-founder Covillo, who died in November 2010; other objectsincluding the fan, the ballet shoes and the dresser setwere donated by members of the CarsonBrierly board who knew or worked with Covillo.
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