Class Notes

Colorado native Tim Barr (Mktg) joined McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.’s Denver office as director of business development.

In July, Andrew Hamilton (CompSci) set his third Nolan’s 14 record — a run over the 14 summits over 14,000 feet in Colorado’s Sawatch Range, from Mt. Massive to Mt. Shavano — with a north-south time of 53 hours, 42 minutes. Andrew also holds a 2003 record for riding a bicycle from base to base of all of Colorado’s fourteeners. He and girlfriend Andrea Sansone met while hiking a fourteener. 

In August, Vail Resorts named Geoff Buchheister (Fin) Keystone Resort general manager. Geoff was a three-time NCAA All-American racer on the CU ski team and grew up in Winter Park, Colo.

Sara Alan’s (PolSci) debut young adult novel, A Messy, Beautiful Life, was released by Entangled Teen in October. The story is inspired by Sara’s personal experience with a rare bone cancer in her twenties. She also is half of the comedy duo The Novelistas, which performs about writing and teaches performance to writers. Sara lives in Colorado with her husband and daughter.

In February, Rebecca Neumann (PhDEcon) won a Governor’s Financial Literacy Award in Wisconsin for her efforts to increase financial literacy among the state’s citizens. Rebecca serves on the board of directors for SecureFutures, an organization that empowers teens through financial education.

In August, Vail Resorts named Chicago native Taylor Ogilvie (Hist), currently the general manager of Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin, as the new vice president of the company’s urban ski areas. In addition to overseeing Afton Alps in Minnesota and Mt. Brighton in Michigan, he will continue working as the general manager at Wilmot Mountain.

Nicole Tobin (Art, Eng, Fren) and Brian Wooton (Acct’96) married in 2016. Nicole writes that the couple welcomed son Everett Wooton to the world in 2017 and will be sure to show his CU pride in his CU onesie. The couple lives in Fort Collins, Colo., where Nicole works at CSU.

Over Labor Day weekend, the CU Men’s Rugby Club celebrated its 50th anniversary with an alumni reunion in Boulder. The weekend’s highlight was a match pitting alumni against current CU players. About 40 alumni from all five decades played in the match, including Dan Bludeau (Hist), Jeff Sorenson (MCDB, BioChem’01), Eric DeKruif (AeroEngr’03), Chad Slaby (Comm’03), Marc McGinn (Bus’04) and Charlie Barkmeier (Econ’15). Read more here. Planning for the next reunion, in 2018, has already begun. Email curugby@colorado.edu for details.

Olympic runner Kara Goucher (Psych) has launched a post-workout recovery fashion line with the athletic apparel company Oiselle. Kara graduated from CU with three Division I NCAA championships in cross-country, the 3000m and 5000m. Kara and husband Adam Goucher (Comm’98) have a son, Colton.

Scottsdale, Ariz., law firm Rose Law Group has named Laura Bianchi (PolSci) director of its cannabis department. Laura will continue to serve as the director of its business/corporate transactions and estate planning departments.

Catherine Guzelian Bazile (Mus, PolSci), formerly a member of the energy group at Holland & Hart LLP in Denver, has opened a private practice, Summit Energy Law LLC, in Englewood, Colo. The firm will specialize in matters pertaining to oil and gas title and transactional work.

Tucker Hamilton (AeroEngr) and Aaron Frey (AeroEngr’02; MS’03) are both F-35 test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Tucker and Aaron are two of a handful of people testing all three variants of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Aaron is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps; Tucker serves in the Air Force. The friends grew up together in Evergreen, Colo., and played basketball on the same middle school team.

Emmy-award winning producer Alexis Martin Woodall (Film) was nominated for a 2017 Emmy for her work on Feud: Bette and Joan. Alexis has won Emmys as a member of producing teams for The Normal Heart and The People v. O.J. Simpson. She and husband Dave recently opened a restaurant, Red Herring, in Eagle Rock, Calif.

After working with film studios in Los Angeles after graduation, Mike Callahan (Film) transitioned to the wine industry. He joined Chamisal Vineyards in California as a winemaker in 2014 and has helped start a sustainability project there. Mike writes that he stays busy with various winemaking projects, one of which involved partnering with OneHope wines to produce wines for charity.

James Robertson (Mktg), an attorney at California-based law firm Downey Brand, was named a 2017 Top Lawyer by Sacramento Magazine.

Film editor Nick Houy (Art) won the 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Single- Camera Picture Editing for a Limited Series or Movie for the miniseries The Night Of. Nick lives in New York.

In August, attorney Patrick A. Salvi II (Mgmt) won a record-breaking $148 million jury award for a young woman who was paralyzed when a pedestrian shelter outside O’Hare International Airport collapsed on her in 2015. It is the most a jury has awarded in a personal injury case against the city of Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reported.

In August, Massachusetts native Kendra Tupper (MCivEngr) was named Boulder’s new chief sustainability officer. She worked as the city’s energy services manager for the past three years.

Lindsey Levick Zai (IntlAf) joined the Low Impact Hydropower Institute in Massachusetts as a program coordinator. Lindsey brings with her previous conservation experience, including her time with The Wilderness Society in its Washington, D.C. and Boulder offices.

On Aug. 25, Colorado 18th Judicial District Chief Deputy District Attorney John Kellner (Law) accepted the Freedom Award from the Department of Defense, the highest recognition of employers for their support of employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserve. John is a major in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.