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UN I V ER S I T Y O F MAGAZINE

UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE

Jose Guerrero harnesses the power of the poem

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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. That’s 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 student’s financial need, and the average amount not covered by financial aid—the “need gap”—is 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. We’ve 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 DU’s 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 we’re 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, we’ll have added more than $150 million to our student aid endowment. If we’re successful at this, we can close the need gap. Just think what might be possible—a 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 Denver’s 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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Editor’s Note Feedback DU Update 8 News TEDxDU 11 People English Prof Bill Zaranka 13 Research Big-rig pollution 14 Arts Rock posters 17 Q&A Tsunami expert Dennis Powers 18 History DU and 9/11 21 Sports Hoopster Chris Udofia 22 Views Campus from above 25 Essay About to fly Alumni Connections Academics Online courses

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Office of the Chancellor Mary Reed Building | 2199 S. University Blvd. | Denver, CO 80208 | 303.871.2111 | Fax 303.871.4101 | www.du.edu/chancellor

On the cover: DU student Jose Guerrero is making a name for himself in Denver’s 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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Feedback
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 Dudley’s? Blair and I were housemates when we were at DU. Thanks for sharing his story.”
—Walt McDowell (BSBA ’74)

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Kevin A. Carroll

On “Team colors,” about the Crimson and Gold Inn near campus:
“We called it C&G’s. 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 D’Amato and Alex Hasulak, founders of Love Grown Foods granola:
“Since trying this at the International Women’s 5K in Colorado in May I have been searching high and low for this product. I’m going to check out Kroger now!!! I hope I can find it!!! I love it.”
—June

Managing Editor

It’s inevitable when we publish a themed edition of the University of Denver Magazine that something gets left out—stories we didn’t know about or didn’t have room for. Thanks to our readers, we’re now aware of a handful of alumni-owned restaurants that
Justin Edmonds

Chelsey Baker-Hauck (BA ’96)
Assistant Managing Editor

Greg Glasgow
Associate Editor

Tamara Chapman
Editorial Assistant

Comments from our online readers
On “Good taste,” about Professor Jack Kinnamon and his research on taste buds:
“Dr. Kinnamon’s classes were among my favorite—he gave the most interesting lectures and demonstrations. He’s doing such interesting work!”
—Sara Shanahan (BA ’11)

didn’t make our summer 2011 “DU-licious” food edition. You’ll find stories about those restaurants— Zingers, White Fence Farm, Blue Bonnet Café and the New York Deli— online at www.du.edu/magazine. What you tell us matters. Your story ideas fill the magazine and DU’s news website, DU Today (www.du.edu/today). Your opinions shape the University and its magazine. Please keep the feedback coming. Write us at [email protected] 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 DU’s architecture. It’s important that we know what we’re 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.

Amber D’Angelo Na (BA ’06)
Art Director

Craig Korn, VeggieGraphics
Photographer

“Great to see you followed your love for wine. There is always room for another great restaurant.”
—Jule Gassenheimer (BSBA ’74)

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Contributors

Richard Chapman • Ann Cooper • Justin Edmonds (BSBA ’08) • Andrew Fielding • Jessica Glynn • Cliff Grassmick • Kristal Griffith (MBA ’10) • Jeffrey Haessler • Doug McPherson • Pat Rooney • Nathan Solheim • Chase Squires (MPS ’10) • Kevin Williams
Editorial Board

Join the discussion! Read stories and post comments of your own at www.du.edu/magazine

Morton in the ’60s

Chelsey Baker-Hauck, editorial director • Kevin A. Carroll, vice chancellor/chief marketing officer • Thomas Douglis (BA ’86) • Jeffrey Howard, executive director of alumni relations • Sarah Satterwhite, senior director of advancement communications • Amber Scott (MA ’02) • Laura Stevens (BA ’69), director of parent relations

Printed on 10% PCW recycled paper

Chelsey Baker-Hauck Managing Editor

The University of Denver Magazine (USPS 022-177) is published quarterly—fall, winter, spring and summer—by the University of Denver, University Communications, 2199 S. University Blvd., Denver, CO 80208-4816. The University of Denver (Colorado Seminary) is an Equal Opportunity Institution. Periodicals postage paid at Denver, CO. Postmaster: Send address changes to University of Denver Magazine, University of Denver, University Advancement, 2190 E. Asbury Ave., Denver, CO 80208-4816.

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.

Mystery solved

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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2011-2012 SEASON
Ballet Hispanico OCTOBER 1, 2011 Jane Monheit OCTOBER 18, 2011 “Abraham Inc” NOVEMBER 12, 2011
Co-Presented by Mizel Arts & Culture Center
Funds contributed by New England Foundation for the Arts

Featuring David Krakauer, Fred Wesley, and Socalled

Anonymous 4 DECEMBER 8, 2011
25th Anniversary Tour

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New hockey conference Breakthrough novel award Lamont director Historic lacrosse season Supreme Court case Sustainability award

“Vivaldi Pyrotechnics” JANUARY 29, 2012
Europe Galante - Fablo Biondi, Conductor Vivica Genaux, Mezzo-Soprano

Chucho Valdés FEBRUARY 14, 2012 L.A. Theatre Works MARCH 1, 2012
“The Rivalry”

Boston Brass & Imani Winds MARCH 21, 2012
Miles Davis Tribute
Co-Presented by Augustana Arts

“The Sinking of the Titanic” by G. Bryars APRIL 15, 2012
JACK Quartet with Payton MacDonald and Young Voices of Colorado
Co-Presented by Friends of Chamber Music and Historic Denver, Inc.
Funds contributed by WESTAF and National Endowment for the Arts

AXIS Dance Company APRIL 28, 2012
Funds contributed by WESTAF, New England Foundation for the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts

Brad Mehldau Trio MAY 11, 2012

Special Opening Performance - Timothy Andres, piano

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Founding Partners include 9News, The Denver Post and Porter Adventist Hospital.

DU’s 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 Denver’s 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
Justin Edmonds Rich Clarkson & Associates

TEDxDU spotlights radical collaboration
By University Communications Staff

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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, “It’s 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 DU’s 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. She’s working with DU’s 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

2 Invasion and occupation of Afghanistan

and Iraq, with approximately 6,000 U.S. casualties and more than $1 trillion spent Department of Homeland Security—with an annual budget of more than $40 billion American civil liberties, and a greater government focus on intelligence Administration for tightened airport security

3 A new federal government agency—the 4 The Patriot Act, which restricts some

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 Fund—ever 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 hasn’t 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 design—TEDxDU is an independently organized event licensed by TED.

Men’s ice hockey joins new national collegiate conference
The University of Denver men’s ice hockey program will play in a brand new conference starting in the 2013–14 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 conference—which was announced in July—boast 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 conference’s recognizes the best NCAA Division I schools—2011 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 Dakota—currently are members sports programs to NCAA postseason of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. competition in 2010–11, 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 2011–12 and 2012–13 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 you’re out there and you’re 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 polymers—“smart 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

10 More news coverage of terrorism,

foreign policy, wars and armed conflict

We’re # 1 We’re # 1

Compiled by Karen Feste, Josef Korbel School of International Studies professor, director of DU’s International Security Program and graduate director of DU’s Conflict Resolution Institute

Watch videos from TEDxDU at www.tedxdu.com, including: Denver rocker John Common’s crowd-sourced music video Autistic animal rights activist Temple Grandin on “Different Kinds of Minds” The Interfaith Amigos—Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie and Imam Jamal Rahman—on “Breaking the Taboos of Interfaith Dialogue” Artist Morehshin Allahyari on “Collaborative Art in Countries of Conflict” Christopher Hill, dean of DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies and former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, on international diplomacy

season as well.

—Media Relations Staff

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Look for these stories and more news at www.du.edu/today

PEOPlE
By Jessica Glynn

Closing a chapter
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ormer English Professor Bill Zaranka, who served as DU’s provost from 1989–2001, says he doesn’t 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 time—the 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 years—20-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 style—a combination of parody and poetry—led 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 year’s 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
Fleetwood Mac’s lindsey Buckingham to play Newman Center

Professor Jeff Jenson named fellow at American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
Men’s 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 family’s 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 Hill’s own past growing up in Joes, Colo. (called Dorsey, Colo., in the book), and his more recent experiences watching his father’s battle against Alzheimer’s 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.”
—Greg Glasgow

GREEN DU
DU purchased

kilowatt-hours of power generated from

15 million

renewable sources in 2010–11. 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.

“I’ve 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. “I’ll always be a part of it,” he says. “My sons went to DU. I’ve 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. It’s 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 President’s 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 2009–10 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 DU’s Lamont School of Music on Aug. 1. Cochran, former director of SMU’s music division, also served as the university’s 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.
—Kristal Griffith
Wayne Armstrong

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. He’s 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 he’s 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 doesn’t have to be that way. Stedman says with today’s 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, shouldn’t 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 test’s 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. It’s 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, where—despite the North American Free Trade Agreement—Mexican 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. Stedman’s 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. “I’m not a politician and I’m 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 trucks—no one’s solved that problem yet.”

Innovative. Dynamic. On the move.
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The art of rock ’n’ roll
By Greg Glasgow

ooking for tips on effective resumé 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. “It’s very strange. I would walk my dog all the time and she would play Frisbee, and I’d go out at night with a set of headphones on and play Frisbee with her and I’d come back full of ideas. I often don’t feel like these ideas are necessarily mine; some of it’s picking up on what’s 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 he’s also done work for bands such as Built to Spill, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, the Black Keys

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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 industry’s going,

Images courtesy of Brad Klausen

people aren’t buying CDs anymore,” Klausen says. “They’re buying stuff on iTunes. I think the poster gives you something tangible, something you can actually keep. And it’s art; it’s something you can hang on your wall and decorate your house with.” >> www.artillerydesign.com

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Men’s lacrosse team finishes best season yet
The 2010–11 DU men’s lacrosse team turned in the greatest season in program history, culminating with the team’s first-ever trip to the NCAA Final Four. While the magical season ended with a 14–8 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. DU’s first NCAA tournament victory in program history—over Villanova—was 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 ranking—No. 4—and by season’s end, a 15–3 record.
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Author Dennis Powers on the 1964 West Coast tsunami
Interview by Amber D’Angelo 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 1½ 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 disturbances—landslides or volcanic eruptions—can cause tsunamis, but most earthquakes don’t. For a destructive tsunami, an earthquake must be severe, it’s got to be offshore, and there has to be an up-anddown motion. This creates the ingredients for a truly massive tragedy. That’s exactly what happened in the 2004 Indonesian and 2011 Japanese tsunamis. A tsunami is basically energy that’s flowing through the medium of water. It’s amazing to watch the way the disturbance works around continents. It refracts off underwater obstacles, finds channels—it’s almost like a living, breathing thing. What’s 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 there’s 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 D’Angelo 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. DU’s 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. DU’s Office of Internationalization responded by warning the University’s 130 Middle Eastern students to be extra vigilant and offered the International House as a safe place for DU’s 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, DU’s 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 Denver’s 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 nation’s 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 2010–11 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 Provost’s Office and modeled after the one Ritchie organized 10 years ago.
Editorial Assistant Amber D’Angelo 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 wasn’t until I was talking to others in the locker room that I realized what had happened. When I got to work at DU’s Center for Academic and Career Development, we were abuzz—many 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 television—there 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 couldn’t 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 couldn’t believe my eyes. It was surreal. After much thought I decided that a military experience would be a worthwhile venture. I spent 4½ 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. I’ll 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. I’ll 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.”
—Brian Elizardi (BA ’04, MA ’06)

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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. Sikes—who died in July 2009—was so passionate about her vocation that she donated a portion of her estate to DU’s 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 DU’s 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 Florence’s 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 Denver’s 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.”
—Amber D’Angelo Na

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 Convention—an international treaty that protects the copyrights of literary and artistic works essentially forever—in 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.”
—Amber D’Angelo Na

hroughout any basketball season, there are countless moments when the pressure mounts and the intensity flares to redhot levels. It is during these moments—perhaps as the final seconds are ticking away in a tightly contested game, or as the head coach gathers his troops to design a climactic play—when Chris Udofia’s smile shines brightest. Now a sophomore on the University of Denver men’s 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 team’s unofficial tension-breaker, it is the power forward’s 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 2011–12 season. “I was a little nervous about that at first, because I’m always joking around,” Udofia says with what soon may be a signature grin on campus. “It’s 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 Udofia’s 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

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bigger competition he faced during his first few games with the Pioneers. Those struggles seemingly are in Udofia’s 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 I’m a lot more comfortable now. I’m more flexible with the movements and what I’m doing. The biggest difference is just the size of the athletes. In high school I was always the biggest guy. Now I’m 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 men’s 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 wouldn’t want what my parents suffered through to happen again.” Refugees from Cambodia, her parents faced numerous hardships. Ever since Teck learned of their struggles, she’s 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. She’s also a member of the Asian Student Alliance, is part of Joint Council—which brings together groups that promote diversity on campus—and was involved in DU’s 10th annual Diversity Summit in May. Oh, and she’s a freelance graphic designer on the side. “Vanessa is a mentor, leader, artist and amazing scholar,” says Tracey Adams-Peters, director of DU’s 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 she’ll 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 doesn’t feel like work at all.”
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can’t believe she’s applying to college,” my daughter says, voice trailing off in misery. “I keep bursting into tears. The people at work think I’m losing it.” The “she” in question is my daughter’s only child—the girl about to fly the nest at the end of this school year. My granddaughter has been her mom’s complete focus since 1989—from chickenpox to carpools, bad hair to bad dreams. Perhaps there’s a layer of working-mom guilt in play? What can I say without being tactless? My girl’s too close to the empty nest to see the possibilities yet. Little does she know! I’ve been there, done that. I once called it my horrible year: It shook my foundations and rattled my relationships. In six brief months my daughter—the oldest—got 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; and—a last small, camel’s-back-breaking straw—the 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, I’d fill my time keeping busy and being wifely. I managed— the only option—but 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 energy—and a new appreciation of the man I’d 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 famous—life rarely works that way. But I’ve had enough success to stroke an ego that had become a tad ragged in the mothering years. I’ve learned much about myself—what I can do, what I don’t want to do, and how to say no. I revel in my extending family and our together times, but I’m 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 doesn’t end; it morphs. I loved the toddlers, I lasted out the teens, but I’m 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 it’s nostalgia for remembered simpler times—times that weren’t simple when I was living them. So I’ll say to my girl, “Hey, sweetheart, empty nest doesn’t mean empty life or empty heart, it merely means that you have to drain a little jaded lifeblood to make space for the next phase’s 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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Heidi Ganahl is having a howling good time as head of

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It’s always yappy hour—pun courtesy of dog lover Heidi Ganahl—at Camp Bow Wow. If you don’t 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 Ganahl’s vision of heaven. This is her built-fromscratch expression of entrepreneurial energy. This is her puppy. Ganahl, who received a master’s degree in health care administration from DU in 1999, has made pet play pay. She’s the brains behind the Camp Bow Wow empire—a 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: It’s 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 beagle—and, 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 magazine’s 2011 list of the “105 Fastest-Growing Franchises in North America.” Previously, Entrepreneur also deemed Camp Bow Wow the country’s 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 University’s 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 Ganahl’s 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.) “It’s about letting the dogs have fun while they are waiting for their forever home,” Gahahl explains. It’s also about saving their lives. When dogs have the chance to be dogs—to 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.

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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. “She’s trying to create leadership among private entities,” Pedersen says of Ganahl. And in doing so, she’s 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 Pedersen’s 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 didn’t 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 man’s best friends. “They’re so instinctual; they’re 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; she’s passionate. That’s in part because canines have played key roles in her coming-of-age and comeback stories. She got her first dog—“a little Benji dog that the vet had found on the streets”—for 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 common—a 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 didn’t 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, Ganahl’s 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. “They’re 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 Flammang’s death. Not surprisingly, she says now, her second marriage didn’t last. “Five years later, [I was] a single mom, doing pharmaceutical sales, but I [didn’t] 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

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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 webcams—Camp Bow Wow was the first doggie day care center to do so—Ganahl and her brother discovered the hard way that periodic monitoring can stoke owner anxiety as well as calm it. “My dog doesn’t look like it’s 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 don’t 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 company’s good fortune. “It has been an interesting ride and really being tenacious about values.” Those values can be summed up in an unofficial motto: “Don’t put the dollar before the dog.” What’s 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 campuses—perhaps high-tech firms competing for talent and eager to offer a Camp Bow Wow benefit. She’s 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 home—all without ever having to rent a car.



It’s 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: You’re at a symphony, and the show is about to start. The audience quiets, the conductor lifts his hands, and then—sound explodes from silence. n Photographer Wayne Armstrong was trying to capture that moment on the verge of creation in his portrait of Travis Jürgens (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 way—relating natural elements to the musician’s personality or instrument or both. n “I wanted to bridge the gap between art and photography—it’s 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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Siren
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 bassoon’s shape and “mesmerizing” sound, Armstrong says.
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Rhapsody in Red
Piano pedagogy master’s 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

It’s a sunny, cool day in late March 2011, and Kim Gorgens has good reason to be smiling. The psychologist and clinical associate professor in DU’s 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 week’s 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, who’s 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, who’s 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. They’re dedicated, good people.” It appears some in the field are equally smitten with Gorgens. “She’s filled with intelligence, leadership and a sense of humor, and she’s 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 Colorado’s 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, she’s interested in a lot of things. A quick scan of her curriculum vitae proves it: She’s 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. “I’m a follow-your-nose type. I don’t 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 world’s 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 it’s at for me.’” Peter Buirski, dean of DU’s 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, she’s a natural leader, and people want to work with her, not just for her ideas, but also because she’s so personally engaging, accepting and welcoming.”

of all the work she’s done, Gorgens says she’s 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. “There’s some data that says something like 70 percent of faculty aren’t aware of laws around disability accommodations in the classroom,” Gorgens says. “Wait, what? How did we miss that? That’s 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 didn’t gel for me until I worked as a paramedic,” she says. “I’d 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 don’t see themselves as disabled; it’s just that they communicate with a different language, and that gives their lives a real richness. It’s tragic to overlook that and not allow them to tell us who they really are,” she says. “If anyone needs to understand these issues, it’s 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 don’t always wear it. I’m 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 I’m not wearing my skis, like I’m 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 15–24, 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 Children’s 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 son’s 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.
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Guerrero has just finished reciting “Father Love,” his poem that goes into gut-wrenching detail about what it’s like to be a young, single dad. Five judges—volunteers from the audience—hold 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 doesn’t rattle Guerrero. He knew he wouldn’t make it past the first round when he was assigned the dreaded one-slot: the first poet of the night. It’s 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 doesn’t move on; it’s just kind of how slam works,” he says with a shrug. He also allows that he might have made a tactical error. “I don’t think I chose the right poem,” says Guerrero, a 19-year-old DU sophomore who’s been slamming since he was 17. “It was too slow; it wasn’t the [right] type of poem. I usually use that for my last round so that it brings it home. On this occasion it didn’t 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. It’s 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. Denver—the Mercury Cafe in particular—has 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 friend’s 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 city’s 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 there’s 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 it’s 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 people’s work far more often. If I don’t believe it’s as honest or as blatantly straightforward as what they do, it’s 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? That’s 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 confidently—I can guarantee you that I wouldn’t have had
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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 Guerrero’s pain—born 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. That’s 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.” Guerrero’s 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 senior’s 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 Guerrero’s poem were reprinted in the next day’s edition. “I thought that was the coolest thing in the world,” he says. “I was really excited about that, then I found out there’s 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 Denver’s poorest neighborhoods. Becoming a father at 17. Watching his son’s mother withdraw and eventually disappear, leaving Guerrero as the boy’s primary caretaker. “She wanted to be my girlfriend but she didn’t want to be a mom,” he says of the girl who was just an acquaintance when she became pregnant with his child. “I didn’t want that at all. She realized I was never going to be with her again and she left—she didn’t 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 couldn’t 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.”

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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 group’s 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 you’re young, you feel like your voice isn’t important, that what you say doesn’t matter,” he says. “When I say your voice is a weapon—your story can impact someone. Your story can change someone’s 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 they’re not dumb about it.” He’s 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 you’re a poet, and that when you’re on stage you’re responsible for what you’re 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 Denver’s Latino community and made him aware of his place in it. “Before La Academia I wasn’t too fond of my skin. I wasn’t much aware of my identity,” Guerrero says. “It wasn’t that cool to be Mexican to me, and I didn’t appreciate it much. I didn’t 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. That’s something that really helped me later on in life. It made me see that people could do positive things and it didn’t just have to be negative things that came out of our neighborhoods. It’s 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 city’s 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 poet’s future is bright not only because of his performance skills, but because of his ability to write eloquently about the things he feels. “When you’re choosing what you’re writing about or you’re writing about the things you’re passionate about, naturally there’s emotion there,” says LeFebre, who currently is working on an arts and culture degree through DU’s University College. “Jose’s work is so full of passion and emotion because he really believes what he’s saying. It differs from other performance arts like acting because there you’re performing somebody else’s work, somebody else’s story, somebody else’s words. But with performance poetry and slam poetry it’s you, your experience and an audience listening to your interpretation of the world around you.” “He’s 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 he’s 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, there’s no doubt in my mind that he’ll do very well.” Guerrero’s major at DU is still undecided. He started out in business but is now thinking about some mix of sociology and theater—a 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 people’s lives.”
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The Campaign for the University of Denver

Scholarships keep DU open to the brightest students from all backgrounds. Great students invigorate the academic and social climate on campus. They create an intellectual environment percolating with ideas, a truly fertile ground for learning.

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the University of Denver, we consider named and endowed scholarships a double bonus.

Amrutaa Chinnasamy
Junior finance major Amrutaa Chinnasamy wants to use her studies to improve lives. She has already started. In recognition of her own good fortune, Chinnasamy volunteered at the Gathering Place, a drop-in center for women and children who are experiencing homelessness and poverty. There, she helped children paint piggy banks. “As the children would decorate their piggy banks, we’d start a conversation about trying to save for the future,” she says. Chinnasamy studies at DU courtesy of the Brandenborg Endowed Scholarship and the Taylor Endowed Scholarship from the Daniels College of Business. “These scholarships provided me with strong financial standing. They’ve definitely helped me in that I can pay it forward more quickly in my career,” she says. Chinnasamy is a member of the Mortar Board Honor Society and a gold member of DU’s chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an international organization that recognizes scholastic excellence in accounting, finance and information technology. She plans to continue her studies at DU through a dual-degree program, where she’s on track to earn an MBA.

Amanda VanDyke-gonnerman
Amanda VanDyke-Gonnerman was looking for a university with small class sizes so she could get to know her professors and not feel like “just another number.” The University of Denver offered just the ticket: small classes and a 12:1 student-faculty ratio. In addition to juggling a demanding course load as a senior biochemistry major with a minor in leadership studies, VanDyke-Gonnerman worked as a resident assistant at Centennial Towers and assisted in first-year biology labs on campus. An El Pomar Pioneer Leadership Scholarship, a Young Alumni Endowed Scholarship and the Colorado Masons’ Benevolent Fund Scholarship helped to finance her studies at the University of Denver. “My family couldn’t afford to put me through school. Having scholarships has made it possible to go to school and not have to work a ton outside of school,” she says. In one of her science classes, VanDyke-Gonnerman created a water filtration system. The experience piqued her interest in research and spurred her to continue her education. In fall 2011, she’ll conduct further research as part of her studies in industrial hygiene at Colorado State University.

First, these scholarships pay enduring tribute to

remarkable people—people who have made considerable contributions to individual lives, to their professions and to their communities. Many of these people have DU ties. They’re alumni, professors or former staff members whose potential was nourished by time at DU. Second, named and endowed scholarships pay it forward. by helping to make a DU education accessible and by recognizing the potential in students, they invest in the next generation of leaders, professionals and visionaries. They ensure that our students will have the chance to explore and realize their own potential. As part of Ascend: The Campaign for the University of Denver, we are seeking additional funds for named and endowed scholarships. Please join us as we prepare today’s students for tomorrow’s opportunities.

Elliot Clough
Elliot Clough found in the University of Denver an academic program that allows him to cultivate his scientific and artistic sides. A junior pursuing a double major in molecular biology and theater, as well as a minor in vocal music, Clough is as comfortable on stage as he is in the biology lab. When he isn’t studying, Clough works as an assistant costume designer and prop master through a work-study position in DU’s Department of Theatre. His ambitious agenda is made possible by a long list of scholarships. He received the Leda B. Schwartz Scholarship, a Volunteers in Partnership Scholarship and the DU Provost Scholarship. The funds allow him to attend DU for about the same cost as a state school. “Theater is all about creative, hands-on problem solving, and the science is intellectually stimulating. It feels like a more rounded experience to be working on both,” he says.

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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 County’s Catholic Social Services and the peer support program at Napa’s 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 2011–12 and 2012–13. 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. Jim’s 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 District’s 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 Children’s Protective Services, where she started the county’s 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 school’s cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field programs and led the teams to multiple national championships.

1957 (LLB ’57) of Colorado Springs, Jack Agee

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

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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 DU’s 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.

1966 (JD ’66) of West Vancouver, Stewart Andree

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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 plaque—shaped like the spine of a book—displayed in the interior of the library. The plaques can be inscribed with the donor’s 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 chapter’s progress toward its goal. “We’re 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 state’s 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 state’s 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 men’s 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 Children’s 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 Who’s 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 Association’s 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 Commission’s 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 world’s 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 Women’s 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 Denver’s 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. “It’s been my career,” says Grant, the event’s longtime chief executive. “It’s been my life, and it’s 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 Western’s famed president, CEO and 2011 winner of the Founders Day Evans Award—DU’s highest alumni honor—has 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 Western’s future—charting the event’s next 100 years as head of the long-range planning group. “It’s good to have Pat’s background and ability while I learn the job,” says Andrews, a former executive vice president at Kroenke Sports. “He’s 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 he’s rounded up to recommend a plan. It won’t 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
—Richard Chapman

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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 Governor’s 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 master’s 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, we’ll 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 Colorado’s 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 O’Donnell (JD ’79) of Englewood, Colo., was named 2011 Legal Malpractice Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. Michael’s 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 big—and oftentimes scary—place 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 wasn’t so many years ago that Ritter—who was awarded the Randolph P. McDonough Award for Service to Alumni at this year’s Founders Day ceremony—was 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 didn’t 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 group’s growth. It hosts numerous events, from holiday parties to business gatherings to social meetups. And when a member has a question—like where he should get an apartment or whom she should talk to about getting a job—they 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 he’s 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 don’t 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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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 city’s theaters and arenas division, where he was the chief steward of Denver’s 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. He’s one of the most seasoned investment bankers in the world of telecommunications and has completed some of the industry’s most significant transactions. But he still finds time to make an imprint where it’s needed. “I felt I wanted to give back to my community,” Busse says, “and have been involved in a variety of things.” That’s one way to put it. This year’s 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 1999–2001. From 2000–06, he served on the Governor’s Commission on Science and Technology for the state of Colorado. He’s on DU’s Athletic Affairs Committee, is chair of the executive advisory board of the Daniels College of Business, serves on the Governor’s Commission on Early Childhood Leadership for Colorado and is on the board of Mile High United Way, where he served as chair from 2008–10. 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. He’s carried on that involvement and then some, giving money and time to the school and state he’s 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. “That’s 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 Colorado’s “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 Association’s 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

1987 Malara (JD ’87) of Denver Valerie (Butler)
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.

Profile Carol Tomé MUltitAskER
You’d think her job as chief financial officer and executive vice president of corporate services for Home Depot would keep her busy enough, but Carol Tomé (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 Tomé will add yet another title to her already crowded resumé: chair of the Metro Atlanta Chamber. “I’m blessed in that I have a lot of stamina,” she says. “I don’t sleep too many hours each night.” For all of her accomplishments, Tomé received DU’s Founders Day Professional Achievement Award in March. Tomé 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 company’s bottom line. “Given our exposure to housing, the mortgage crisis had a huge impact on the Home Depot,” she says. “From 2006–09 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 Tomé at bit.ly/DUMagTome
—Greg Glasgow

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1984 (MSW ’84) of Loveland, Colo., Rosalie Angus

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1988“Betsy” Bedient (JD ’88) of Elizabeth

Ralph Hubregsen (MBA ’88) of Denver is vice president of global channels at Symplified, a cloud-computing security company. He grows the company’s system of partners, builds domestic and international reseller programs and manages worldwide channel sales for Symplified’s identity and access management suite. ken lund (JD ’88) of Littleton, Colo., started as Gov. John Hickenlooper’s 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.

1992 (JD ’92) of Lakewood, Colo., Floy Jeffares

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 2001—the 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.

1993 Morrison (JD ’93) of LitGillian (Cooley)

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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 university’s 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 Association’s 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.

Pioneer generations
When Justin Warner walked across the stage in June to accept his diploma for a bachelor’s degree in leadership and organizational studies, his family added one more mark to its tally of DU alumni. Seven members of Warner’s family have now graduated from DU. Justin’s parents—Diane (Dratler) Warner Bryant (BA ’67) and Marq Warner (BSBA ’67, JD ’70)—were the first family members to graduate from the University. In 1971, Justin’s aunt Wendy (Dratler) Selin received a bachelor’s degree in health and recreation, and his aunt Sandra (Lampe) Dratler and uncle Jerry Dratler both graduated with bachelor’s degrees in accounting. Jerry also received a master’s degree in finance in 1972. Justin’s uncle Bob Selin graduated in 1972 with a bachelor’s 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 family’s 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 DU’s Newman Center for the Performing Arts, and Diane signed a time capsule for the family at the Newman Center’s 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.”

1994 Harris (JD ’94) of Fort Dawn-Carole

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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.

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of Social Work at Azusa Pacific University. She also is a faculty fellow in the Office of Diversity Planning and Assessment. Christine worked in Denver for one year at Servicios de la Raza, then moved back to Southern California, where she worked in community mental health for nine years.

1997 (MS ’97) of Denver joined Heather Baker

1996 (JD ’96) of Denver and her huslaurel Burke
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 Bonnie’s research at Amache, the site of Colorado’s 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 firm’s Women’s 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 Ritter’s 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 & Ragonetti—a real estate and land use firm—as 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 Association’s 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 & Benson’s 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 sister’s husband was killed on 9/11. Megan founded a group of women—called Heartworks—who 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 organization’s 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 Attorney’s Council during the council’s annual conference. Amy (Moe) Russell (MSW ’97) of Denver is a social worker for Jefferson County Public Schools, where she’s 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 2011–12 academic year. Aaron is a freelance photographer and contributing editor for Harper’s 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 Journal’s “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 Children’s 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. Patrick’s 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 Arizona’s Rogers College of Law in Tucson, Ariz.

1999 (JD ’99) of Denver was Aaron Bradford

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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, you’ll 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 Journal’s “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.

2000 (JD ’00) of Denver joined Ingrid Barrier

the Children’s Hospital in February 2011 as a strategy consultant.

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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 worker’s 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 Women’s Cancer Foundation. Meg also volunteers as the president of the board of trustees for the Colorado Children’s Chorale. She previously was the director of marketing and community relations for DU’s 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 Nature’s 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 General’s 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 board’s 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. “It’s 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 fraternity—Theta Chi— and DU’s 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 Holtzman’s 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 master’s degree at Northwestern University, he knew he also wanted to give back to the community, despite the time commitment. And that’s where the school board came in. “It’s a lot of work … a lot of late nights,” he says. “[But] I think I’ve 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 O’Connor 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. Jon’s 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 Journal’s “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 Guzmán

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 Obama’s 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 General’s 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

Deaths
1930s 1940s
Hugh Thomas (attd. ’35), Watkins, Colo., 7-7-10 Bonnie Bethene Jandt (attd. ’41), Mission, Kan., 12-20-10 lena Archuleta (BA ’42, MA ’51), Denver, 4-3-11 John lefferdink (LLB ’42), Lamar, Colo., 8-30-10 Margaret Harris (BA ’43), Denver, 4-26-11 Robert Flint (BA ’46), Lenox, Mass., 3-14-11 luVerne Murray (MSW ’46), Denver, 4-7-10 Ralph Harden (BA ’47, JD ’48), Fort Collins, Colo., 5-20-11 Raymond Harris (BA ’47), Denver, 2-11-11 Rowland “Putt” Hill (BS ’47), Corpus Christi, Texas, 2-15-11 Walter Bergendahl (BS ’48), Greeley, Colo., 4-30-11 R. Eugene Neher (LLB ’48), Rancho Mirage, Calif., 2-15-10 Maurice Sullivan (JD ’48), Reno, Nev., 11-3-10 Ralph Frizzell (LLB ’49), Louisville, Colo., 12-8-10 Myron “Mike” layton (BA ’49), Seattle, 3-20-11 Alan Markson (BA ’49), Denver, 2-9-11 Geraldine (Shank) Vondy (BA ’49), Denver, 4-10-11 Charleen Wippler (BA ’49), Denver, 3-17-11 Charles Alexander (BA ’50), Albuquerque, N.M., 4-15-11 James Merbs (JD ’50), Anchorage, Alaska, 8-19-10 David Brewer (BS ’51, MBA ’54), Littleton, Colo., 5-18-11 Cynthia Urban (attd. ’51), Manchester, Wash., 3-20-11 Wayne Blair (JD ’52), Klamath Falls, Ore., 11-19-10 Ivan Fugate (JD ’52), Lakewood, Colo., 8-16-10 Edith Neumann (BA ’52), Grand Junction, Colo., 5-17-11 Wilma (James) Jordan (MBA ’53), Caldwell, Ohio, 4-1-11 Samuel Merlo (LLB ’53), Cortez, Colo., 9-4-10 Marty O’Fallon (JD ’53), Englewood, Colo., 1-29-11 Flora Petty (BA ’53), Sun City, Ariz., 2-11-11 Mary Tock (BA ’53), Lakewood, Colo., 4-11-11 Frank Gagliardi (BA ’54), Plano, Texas, 2-6-11 William Malone (JD ’54), Littleton, Colo., 11-8-10 Philip konsella (BSBA ’55), Golden, Colo., 12-29-10 Robert Maize (attd. ’55), Lubbock, Texas, 12-15-09 Clark Crandall (JD ’56), Lakewood, Colo., 7-27-10 Patricia (Arnold) Stockton (BS ’56), Tucson, Ariz., 1-22-11 keith Beery (JD ’57, MA ’59), San Rafael, Calif., 10-6-10 Richard Piccinini (LLB ’58), Sun Lakes, Calif., 8-20-10 Joseph Hebert (BSBA ’59), Park City, Utah, 3-20-11

the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association’s 2010 outstanding young lawyer of the year. He also was recognized as a 2010 Colorado Super Lawyer and a finalist for Law Week’s 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 college’s 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 Foundation’s growing network of human rights heroes on Nov. 20, 2010, at the group’s 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 DU’s 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 Ziblim’s 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 Court’s 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 court’s 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.

1970s

1950s

Corby Arnold (JD ’72), Las Vegas, 9-1-10 Robert Miller (BA ’72), Albuquerque, N.M., 9-21-10 Patrick Dulaney (JD ’76), Denver, 5-18-08 Dwight Riggs (MA ’77), Tucson, Ariz., 1-21-09

1980s

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

1990s 2000s

2008 Broz (MSW ’08) divides her Jon Marie

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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