Phi Beta Kappa David Litschel (Art’74) has been a photographer for over 30 years. He retired in 2010 from Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, Calif., where he lives, after teaching photography and serving as provost. David continues photographing his travels and his work can be found on pages 66-67 in this issue and at www.davidlitschel.com.

Posted Dec. 1, 2011

The book Path of Beauty (St. Martin’s Press), written by Boulder resident Chris Brown (Art’74) last year, has been well-received. It contains personal photos and essays of the Grand Canyon and was a finalist in the Banff Mountain Book Competition. The book received five stars from Goodreads.

Posted Mar. 1, 2012

While working at the Internal Revenue Service in Washington, D.C., Lawrence “Larry” Duran (PolSci’74) earned his law degree from Georgetown University. For 25 years, he served as an attorney for state and local governments in California, including the California Legislative Counsel’s Office, the Sacramento County Counsel’s Office and the Sacramento City Attorney’s Office. He serves as a federal administrative law judge with the Social Security Administration in Moreno Valley, Calif.

Posted Mar. 1, 2012

Even though Jane Petrowicz Stahl (MEdu’74) retired from teaching English, she continues to be very active in her community of Boyertown, Penn., by working with several art galleries and studios. She and her husband began “Bear Fever,” which has inspired artists to design and paint 59 bears on display throughout the area. She was named the Pennsylvania Art Education Association’s 2011 Outstanding Friend to Art Education for her efforts.

Posted Mar. 1, 2012

The photography of Patricia “Trish” Wright (Art’74) was featured last year at the Ceres Gallery in Manhattan and at the Art in Architecture Gallery in Ottawa. Trish lives and teaches on Long Island and is working toward her doctorate in education at Columbia University. Her three sisters and one niece also are CU graduates: Cheryl Wright Green(Art’69) of New York, N.Y., Alanna Wright-Jones (Art’71) of Colorado Springs, Colo., Joanne Wright (Fren’76) of Sudbury, Mass., and her daughter Tracy Wright Deshmuk (Soc’06) who works as an ESL instructor in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

Posted Mar. 1, 2012

Filmmaker Paul Hirschberger (Mktg’74) is working on a documentary about the Kraft-IFL, Israel’s American-style tackle football league that consists of 500 players on 10 teams in six different cities. His focus is the cooperation among Muslims, Jews and Christians when they are playing, and how sports can create possibilities for personal, social and political transformation. The Natick, Mass., resident expects the film to be completed in December. 

Posted Jun. 1, 2012

The book Caravan of Thieves (Dutton) by David Rich (MEngl’74) was published in August. The fast-paced thriller is an emotional father-son tale described as a cross between Ocean’s Eleven and A Few Good Men. As a former screenwriter, this is David’s first novel. He lives in Ridgefield, Conn.

Posted Sep. 1, 2012

On May 18 there was a reception for Christopher Brown’s (Art’74) show with fabric artist Judith Trager at NCAR in Boulder. The show featured a dozen of his landscape photographs as well as quilts made by Judith that were based on the photographs. Christopher also is promoting his book Path of Beauty: Photographic Adventures in the Grand Canyon (St. Martin’s Press)Learn more at www.ChrisBrownPhotography.com.

Posted Sep. 1, 2012

At the annual meeting of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in College held in Raleigh, N.C., William Myers (MMath’74) received a distinguished service award. William has more than 20 years of service to the consortium. He worked seven years as membership secretary and as treasurer since 1997. He lives in Belmont, N.C.

Posted Sep. 1, 2012

Bradford Morrow’s (Engl’74) novel The Diviner’s Tale (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was published in January 2011. The Diviner’s Tale is a journey of self-discovery, an unorthodox murder mystery and a look at the world of dowsing, the ancient act of using a forked branch or stick to locate underground water or minerals. Bradford is founder of the literary magazine Conjunctions and is a professor of literature at Bard University. He lives in New York, N.Y.

Posted Dec. 1, 2012

As three-time, first-team All-American, former CU skier Vidar Nilsgard (CivEngr’74, MS’76) was the 1971 and 1973 NCAA jumping champion. He was a three-time Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ski Association champion and a four-time member of the All-RMISA Jumping Team. He earned eight consecutive national titles in the 1970s. Vidar was part of the 2012 Colorado Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Class and received recognition, along with 11 others, at the ceremony last fall. He lives in Hamar, Norway.

Posted Mar. 1, 2013

At the Leeds School of Business Distinguished Alumni and Service Awards Ceremony in November Dee Engdahl Perry* (Span’74, MAcct’81) received recognition for service to the school and exceptional achievements in business. Dee lives in Boulder.

*Directors Club member

Posted Mar. 1, 2013

During the spring 2013 semester, Jerry Gorman (PolSci’74) taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law. His course, “Real Estate Transactions,” was offered to second- and third-year law students. He is senior vice president of downstate operations for Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund. “Teaching is something I’ve always wanted to do, and I’m thrilled to be part of such a noted law school as Illinois,” Jerry said. He lives in Champaign, Ill.

Posted Jun. 1, 2013

Last summer the Boulder Book Store presented a night with Gerald Meehl (Indiv’74, MGeog’78, PhD’87), the author of One Marine’s War. This novel describes the experiences of a Marine language officer who tried to prevent needless Japanese civilian and soldier casualties on the islands of Saipan and Tinian. Gerald lives in Boulder.

Posted Jun. 1, 2013

After a 38-year career as a structural engineer Bill Sherman (CivEngr’74) retired from CH2M Hill. He previously worked for Stone & Webster Engineering and for Camp Dresser & McKee. He remains chair of American Concrete Institute Committee 350, Environmental Engineering Concrete Structures. Bill and his wife were married on Flagstaff Mountain in 1971 and plan to retire to the beachfront in Costa Rica. He writes they “will miss the beauty of Colorado but look forward to new adventures in Costa Rica.”

Posted Jun. 1, 2013

Since retiring from the Army as a lieutenant colonel Steve Mongelluzzo (Hist’74) has been anything but inactive. Not only has Steve been doing national and international community service projects as a member of Rotary International, but he and his wife travel extensively. They most recently visited Australia, New Zealand, South America and India. The next trip will take them to Africa. But their favorite destination is much closer — Folsom Field during a Buffs game. The couple lives in Portland, Ore.

Posted Jun. 1, 2014

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey presented Dudley Chelton (Phys’74) the 2013 William T. Pecora Award for achievement in Earth remote sensing. He has been a pioneer in the oceanographic use of satellite data to explore the role of the ocean in Earth’s climate system. Dudley is a professor of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Since retiring as provost at California’s Brooks Institute in 2010, David Litschel (Art) has built houses in Guatemala, Paraguay and Bolivia with his wife through Habitat for Humanity. The couple also helps immigrants and foreign visitors with their English-language skills. David enjoys photography and sells his work through the UK-based stock photography agency Alamy. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Crocker Art Museum, the Toledo Museum of Art, the University of Michigan and the Quincy Art Center. See his work at davidlitschel.com.

Posted Mar. 1, 2015

Academy Award-winner John Melanson (ElEngrCompSci) has received 278 U.S. patents, and has another 91 patent applications pending. His work has contributed to breakthroughs in the fields of audio- and mixed-signal processing and LED controller technologies. The part-time Boulder resident has worked for 15 years at Cirrus Logic in Austin, Texas, and he serves as the company’s senior technical fellow. He won an Academy Award in 2004 for digital audio editing in film. He also has received the Outstanding Inventor Award from the Austin Intellectual Property Law Association.

Posted Mar. 1, 2015

In May Kenneth Miller (PhDBio), a biology professor at Brown University, was awarded the Laetare Medal at Notre Dame University’s commencement ceremonies. It is described as the “oldest and most prestigious award” given to American Catholics. Notre Dame’s president said his work “illustrates how science and faith can mutually flourish.” A cell biologist, Kenneth is co-author of the nation’s most widely used high school biology textbook and has received numerous other honors, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science award for advancing the public’s understanding of science.

Posted Mar. 1, 2015

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