Notes from the Class of 1978

Dave Curtin (Jour) won a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1990 and currently is the Assistant Director of Executive Communications at the University of Colorado Boulder.

At the Lippin Group, a brand communications firm, Pamela Ruben Golum (Comm) has managed notable client accounts including Dick Wolf and his Law & Order franchise, various projects for the Disney Channel and the Emmy Awards. Previously, Pam worked as a journalist with Fairchild Publications and at radio station KBOL in Boulder. She and husband, Rob, live in Los Angeles, California, with their two daughters, Caroline and Jennifer.

For more than 40 years, Bill Lerner (Comm) has helped grow and develop iPark, his family’s parking garage business (previously known as Imperial Parking Systems), into New York’s largest garage and parking facilities operator. Bill also started the organization Billy4Kids to provide shoes for underprivileged children around the world. 

After 32 years at KCNC-TV/CBS4 in Denver, Donna Perry Gilbert (Jour) retired in 2017. She is now a volunteer at the Denver Dumb Friends League. 

Pam Taylor Yates (Advert), Anne Baldwin Castine (Comm), Francesca Bernhardt Beatty (Comm) and Caroline Bernhardt (Fren) were roommates in college and met up in Boulder for Homecoming in 2019. Pam traveled from New York City; Anne from Greenwich, Connecticut; and Francesca and Caroline from Florida.

Dave Curtin (Jour) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who retired from CU Boulder after 14 years in campus executive communications and 30 years as a Colorado journalist. Curtin’s son, A.J. Curtin (CritMed’19), is a freelance media producer and audio engineer based in Denver.

Rob Reuteman (MJour) retired in 2020 after 10 years on the journalism faculty at Colorado State University and 26 years as an editor at the Rocky Mountain News. He served as state-region editor, city editor, national editor, business editor and a columnist for 12 years before the paper closed. He also served as the 2010–11 president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

Sara Fischer (Jour, Engl) oversees worldwide production for all Shondaland TV series and manages production for development and special projects at the company. Most recently, Fischer led production on Shondaland’s groundbreaking hit, Bridgerton, the most-watched series debut in Netflix history, as well as Inventing Anna. Fischer splits her time between London and Los Angeles.