Class Notes

After graduating from CU, rocket scientist Bob Waldo (Aero’48, MS’49) worked on F86s at North American Aviation in Englewood, Calif. He then worked at Aerojet, an aerospace company in Los Angeles. Bob has a doctorate and two master’s degrees in economics and business. He served as dean at the business school at the University of Puget Sound for 29 years. Bob last designed a boat, SES100A, for the Navy and tested it in Puget Sound. He and his wife live in Tacoma, Wash.

Rex Simms (ElEngr’53) and his wife Joy were pleased to read the article about Virginia Wheeler Patterson (Jour’46) “A Boulder Legend” in the June 2013 Coloradan. “Gingy” was the matron of honor in their wedding in 1953. After graduating from CU, Rex was in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps until 1965 and has been living in Atlanta since 1957. He retired from consulting engineering in 2010. Rex and Joy have four married children, six grandchildren and one great grandson. They celebrated their 60th anniversary on June 3.

Counsel Greg Martin* (Law’59) was elected to the CU-Boulder Directors Club board in June. He has practiced law since 1959 in the areas of criminal defense, plaintiffs’ personal injury and products liability. He lives in Boulder.

*Directors Club Member

With a career in international development work Craig Hafner (A&S’60, MGeog’74) began as a Peace Corps volunteer in the first group of teachers going to Tanganyika, now Tanzania, in 1963. Afterwards he worked in Kenya with a medical missions group as a volunteer bush pilot. In 1975 Craig served as the associate Peace Corps director of rural development in Sierra Leone. Craig and his wife live in Boulder and periodically serve on the board of the nonprofit Friends of Tanzania, which his wife helped start.

The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry honored Laurel Richardson (PhDSoc’63) with the Lifetime Achievement Award in qualitative research. In April Laurel announced the publication of her book After a Fall: A Sociomedical Sojourn that addresses key issues of health delivery through a personal narrative of her experience in a rehabilitation facility. Laurel lives in Worthington, Ohio.

Lawyer and political cartoonist Carlton Stoiber (A&S’64, Law’69) consults on international and nuclear law from Washington, D.C., where he and his wife Susanne Alexander Stoiber (A&S’65, MPubAd’67) have lived since graduating from CU. In the spring they rafted and hiked the Grand Canyon with the Colorado Mountain Club. Carlton is chair of the Nuclear Security Working Group of the International Nuclear Law Association. He has been a political cartoonist since 2006 and his cartoons have been published by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine. He is editorial cartoonist for 1540 Compass, the web magazine of the United Nations Security Council Committee that implements UNSC Resolution 1540 on weapons of mass destruction.

In June Beverly Morrato* (A&S’65) was elected to the University of Colorado Directors Club board. She lives in Centennial, Colo.

*Directors Club member

Author Mathew Zachariah (PhDEdu’65) wrote an autobiography, Making Anew My Home: A Memoir. The book has several pages dedicated to his time at CU-Boulder as well as his role as a professor at University of Calgary in Canada. Mathew lives in Calgary.

Fifteen years ago Philip Hart (Soc’66) served as project manager and on the building committee for the West Angeles Cathedral in south Los Angeles. Since then, the cathedral’s senior pastor became the presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ International; church member and co-chair of the capital campaign Denzel Washington won an Oscar award; and Earvin “Magic” Johnson, co-chair of the capital campaign, became an owner of the Dodgers. Philip has been a member of the church since 1990.

Member of CU-Boulder’s Directors Club W. Harold “Sonny” Flowers Jr.* (Engl’67, Law’71) received the Kenneth Norman Kripke Lifetime Achievement Award from the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association. He accepted the award at the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association’s 16th Annual Spring Dinner at the Denver Marriott City Center. He lives in Boulder.

*Directors Club member

Duane Morris appointed partner Sheila Slocum Hollis (Jour’71) to the board of advisers of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS). IAALS is a national, independent research center at the University of Denver dedicated to improving the process and culture of the civil justice system. Based in the Washington, D.C., office, Sheila works in energy transactional and regulatory law and international and administrative law before government agencies. She was named one of the “50 Key Women in Energy Worldwide” and received the 2011 Lifetime Achievement in Energy in Platt’s Global Energy Awards.

Last summer John Gottschall (MMus’73, DMus’83) published the book Bach Chorales Proclaiming the Gospel. It contains all of the four-part Bach chorales from his Cantatas and Passions. The chorales contain the German text and a vertical English text, along with keyboard format for congregations and ease of study for scholars. Johns lives in Corbin City, N.J.

Howard & Howard Attorneys announced that L. Judson Todhunter (PolSci’73) was named to Chicago’s Top Rated Lawyers list for 2013. LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbel collaborated with ALM media to provide a list of attorneys to help buyers of their legal services identify and select the top legal talents. L. Judson focuses on business and corporate law, commercial litigation and creditors rights. He lives in La Grange, Ill.

In May CU couple Dave Wolach (Acct’73) and Sarah Hendrickson Wolach (Psych’73) traveled to China. They spent time at the Shibaozhai Temple along the Yangtze River.

As a member of CU-Boulder’s Alumni Association board for seven years Doug Nelson* (Anth’77) never forgot to remind the board chair that the CU Fight Song must be sung at every meeting. In May board members thanked Doug for being their No. 1 cheerleader, the voice of reason for many years, fearless in asking tough questions and driving from Kansas for three-hour executive committee meetings. Doug’s board term ended in May. A financial planner, he lives in Bonner Springs, Kan., with his wife and daughter.

*Lifetime Member

On Jan. 5 John Suthers (Law’77) appeared in The Denver Post for becoming the second-longest-serving attorney general in Colorado history. He was sworn in on Jan. 4, 2005, by Gov. Bill Owens. Duke Dunbar, who served 22 years from 1951-73, has the longest tenure. John lives in Colorado Springs, Colo.

In April the White House invited photographer James Balog (MGeog’77) to attend a screening of his Oscar-nominated documentary Chasing Ice. That same month James received the Outstanding Alumni Award at CU’s Sustainability Awards Ceremony. James has been a leader in photographing, understanding and interpreting the natural environment for three decades. He founded the Extreme Ice Survey and brought worldwide attention to climate change through Chasing Ice. He is author of seven books and develops high school and college-level curricula. James lives in Boulder with his wife and daughters.

In March Mark Busby (PhDEngl’77) published his second novel, Cedar Crossing. Much of the novel is set in 1964 when the main character, a college student, is assigned to interview his grandfather about a notorious hanging in Henderson County, Texas, in 1899. In fall 2012 Mark returned to teaching full time in the Texas State University-San Marcos English department after serving for 21 years as director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State. He resides in Wimberley, Texas.

In May Hillary Kramer Fritz (Engl’78) was recognized for her stellar term on the CU-Boulder Alumni Association board. Her advice and guidance helped launch last year’s Back to Boulder Homecoming Weekend, which will be an annual university tradition. Her daughter attends CU, following on the heels of her son Matt Fritz (Engl’09). She and husband Dain Fritz (Comm’77) live in Westport, Conn.

Longmont, Colo., resident Barb Silverman (Art’78), her husband and two children are all graduates of CU. She writes that her fine arts degree has proven beneficial for her marketing endeavors that have included the promotion of the new drinking system CrysteLife HealthH₂O and working as a real estate broker in luxury home sales.