CU Boulder BuffALUM Notes: Recognize Anyone?

July 2010 National

Dear Alum, Ah, summer! A time to hang out and do very little, or maybe it’s your time to be active in the great weather.  The campus is languid, though there are occasionally small groups of students slacklining or playing golf with tennis balls (which my dog often finds in Varsity Lake). And there are also the inevitable groups of high school students with parents in tow being shown around campus by student ambassadors. If you’ve moved or changed e-mail addresses, let us know. And don’t forget, you can always find the latest alumni happenings at cualum.org. Connect with other alums and access our Ask a Buff service at the online Forever Buffs Network (see information on the right). Programs Get a discount on Shakespeare Celebrate summer and get your bard on with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival! CU alumni are invited to an exclusive savings of $10 off any orchestra seat to the 2010 summer season running until Aug. 8. This season the featured plays are The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Thornton Wilder’s American classic, Our Town, and the beloved musical The Fantasticks. Purchase online here or call 303-492-0554. Use code BUFFALUM to save. (Offer not valid at preview performances; subject to availability; cannot be combined with another offer; not valid with previously purchased tickets.) Memphis gets our “Featured Chapter” nod A new and very active chapter with moderate event attendance, the Memphis, Tenn., alumni chapter is the first Buffalum Notes Featured Chapter! The group is receiving recognition for its persistence in offering and carrying out events that promote loyalty to CU and substantial Buff pride. Past events include a happy hour chapter launch in August 2009, a holiday party and watch parties for football games. See below for their current events. Their new website is here. Congratulations for your perseverance and Buff spirit, chapter leader Scott Seltzer (Kines’95) and all the Buffs in the heart of Graceland! Go here to find the alumni chapter near you. New York is happening! Thursday, July 22, 7-9 p.m, join New York City alumni for a happy hour at Public House, 140 E. 41 St. between 2nd and 3rd. Limited to 100 people. More information here. Wednesday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m. the New York chapter will be at Citi Field in Flushing, Queens, to watch the Colorado Rockies play the Mets. They have a block of 40 tickets that are sure to go fast. Go here for information and tickets. Maryland Buffs: show your pride The DC Buffs alumni chapter is raising scholarship money through CU-themed Maryland license plates. Maryland residents, please e-mail your mailing address here to have the license plate application sent to you. A minimum donation of $50 for the DC-area alumni chapter scholarship fund and a one-time $25 fee to the Motor Vehicle Administration are required. Please contact Scott Hellmuth for more information at 303-735-2893. Save the weekend, CU vs. Cal Join Buff alums and fans as we take on the Cal Bears at our big away football game of the year in beautiful Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 11. We’ve reserved hotel rooms for CU fans at a downtown San Francisco hotels. Pregame party and separate game tickets are available. Rooms and tickets are going quickly. Go here for links to hotels and ticket information and to make your reservations soon! Memphis goes for the pandas and polar bears and more Saturday, July 17, 9 a.m. is the play date for the Memphis Buffs kid friendly day at the Memphis Zoo. Organizer Scott Seltzer (Kines’95) says, Even if you don’t have children and love going to the zoo like I do, please join us.” Friday, Aug 14 is an evening of baseball with the Redbirds when the Colorado Springs Sky Sox come to town. This game was advertised in the June Coloradan, the chapter’s first published event Saturday Sept. 4, CU vs. CSU watch party Information is here for all these events. Baker Hall is 75! One of the oldest dorms on campus, Baker Hall, turns 75 years old in 2011. Many of you have special memories of Baker Hall, and we would love to hear your stories. Did you meet your college sweetheart in Baker? Your best friend? What was your favorite part about living in Baker? Please send stories, pictures or questions to the Baker Hall director Megan Harris (Soc’06) by Oct. 5. Get your beautiful CU campus wall calendar The spectacular wall calendar with CU-Boulder scenes that in the past was a paid membership benefit is back this year and on sale for a modest $12.49. With the launch of Forever Buffs all 270,000 alumni and students are included in Alumni Association services and it’s not economically feasible to send it to all. We’ve improved this year’s calendar by enhancing photo quality, adding lunar phases and using reader-friendly print. Check it out and order the calendar here. Here are blogs to help you navigate new media The Alumni Association launched two blogs this year ― Geekspeak gives you the latest high-tech tips on evolving technologies, and Click & Drag is for Buffs who still feel like the Internet, e-mail and Skype are foreign. Contribute to CU Natural Resources Law Center receives boost From proposed uranium mines in a tiny Northern Colorado town to the aftermath of the Gulf Coast oil spill, natural-resources conflicts are popping up all over the nation. The Red Lodge Clearinghouse (RLCH) project ― a website under the auspices of the Natural Resources Law Center at the CU Law School ― is a distinctive forum for such news, sparking civic engagement and collaboration. The Liz Claiborne Art Ortenberg Foundation recently gave $86,400 to further develop and manage the project. Scholarship honors professor and mentor While studying computer science at the engineering college in the 1980s, Xiaodong Zhang (MCompSci’85, PhD’89) benefited from the teaching and mentorship of then-faculty member Ralph J. Slutz, a computer pioneer who taught CU’s first computer class in 1954. Zhang’s academic career has since taken off, and he chairs the computer science department at Ohio State University. He recently made a first-time gift of $50,000 to the college to honor his college mentor and inspire CU alumni to make similar gifts. His gifts will annually fund two $1,000 scholarships to students with exceptional achievements in computer science. Read this profile of Zhang. Donate to CU-Boulder now. Athletics After joining PAC-10, Buffs explore options On June 11, CU accepted an invitation to join the Pacific-10 conference, becoming the conference’s first new member since 1978. To read more about the Buffs’ move to the “Conference of Champions” go here. For the latest information about Athletic Director Mike Bohn exploring options, go here. How to get single alumni football tickets Single game alumni tickets go on sale on Monday, Aug. 2. Section 215 at Folsom will be reserved for alumni for all home games. View the Folsom Field seating chart (click on the sections to see views from the seats). A link for purchasing alumni tickets for home games, the CSU game at INVESCO and away games will be posted here on Aug. 2. Pac-10 on Plati-‘tudes agenda too As he wraps up his 26th year as CU’s sports information point man, associate athletic director David Plati (Jour’82) writes mainly about CU’s impending move to the Pacific-10 Conference and answers a host of questions in his 90th edition of Plati-’Tudes. A new kind of retirement community is coming soon to Boulder. Buff Photos A Boulder reunion Elizabeth Waldrop Wagner (Hist’01) of Santa Barbara, Calif., hosted a reunion in Boulder for some 15 alums and spouses over Memorial Day weekend. They shared laughter and memories, toured campus and participated in the Bolder Boulder. Elizabeth writes, “several of us married fellow CU alums and several of us are pregnant and expecting future Buffs!” In the photo with the “Monarch of the Plains” buffalo sculpture in front of Folsom Field are (from left) Nathaniel Wagner, Michael Alexander (AmSt’00) of Cheyenne, Wyo., Chris Barlow (Kines’00) of Westwood, Mass., Nicole Winsauer (Comm’00) of Denver, Kara Dukate Yablon (Engl’00) of Denver, Chris Akins (PolSci’99) of Daphne, Ala., Brenna Davis Hise (EPOBio’99) of Boise, Idaho, and Elizabeth Waldrop Wagner. Touring southern Colorado Jane Beard (Hist’63) of Dallas sent this photo of her recent tour of southern Colorado with Virginia Tandler “Wink” Brace (Edu’63) of Centennial, Colo. Their explorations included the Durango & Silverton Railroad and Mesa Verde and Great Sand Dunes national parks. Jane says it was “really fun and all new territory for me. The train ride was relaxing after a long day’s drive from Longmont to Durango. Mesa Verde was amazing, much larger than I envisioned, and the sand dunes looked out of place.” Watch out, Hollywood! Mike Conneen (Jour’04) has a cameo as a reporter in the new action-thriller Salt starring Angelina Jolie. However, he won’t quit his day job, reporting and anchoring for WJLA-TV (ABC) in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter. Zeta Beta Tau reunion a blast A reunion of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity May 21-22 in Denver, Boulder, Nederland and Black Hawk drew 70 members and spouses from across the country. The organizing committee included Ed Diner (PolSci’49), Art Chapman (A&S ex’54) and Ruth Chapman (Soc’73, MA’74), all of Denver, and Don Nogg (Hist ex’51) of Omaha. Art called it “an unqualified success!!” Don reported that at the Saturday dinner “every person there, alumnus, wife and widow, spoke a few words about the memories and the present reunion. It was a warm, wonderful feeling and brought everyone, outgoing or shy, into the group.” Here’s the current fraternity’s website. New Orleans wedding a big Buff draw James Rocco Giacalone (Geog’02) and Adrienne Michelle Wilson (PolSci’01) were married in New Orleans on March 6. The couple met at CU in 2001 as seniors and live in Orinda, Calif., east of Berkeley. Members of the wedding party included Emily Pierce (PolSci’01), Brad Rosenhouse (Mktg’01), Michael Lynch (Psych’03), William Mannella (Psych’01) and Daria Sniezko (Comm’01). Fellow Buffaloes also in attendance were Annie Bleecker (IntAf’03), Nick Aglikin (Mgmt’01), Niquette Kearney (Psych’02), Jamie Ziskin Emmons (Mgmt’03), Craig Emmons (Comm‘03), Jeremy Hunter (EPOBio’00), Elizabeth Lane (IntlAf’02) and John Aires (Fin’01). Send your photos and descriptions for this section to Marc Killinger.

Rookie linguist learns more than Arapaho By Finn Thye (Psych’01, MLing’09) A bottle rocket launched in my mind the night I first thought of going to learn the Arapaho language by living with an elder on the Wind River Reservation. I lay there thinking about how it would be to visit the old heart of our continent, experiencing a different side of the culture I saw splashed around the gift shops in Manitou Springs, Colo., where I grew up wandering the same mountains the Arapaho once inhabited. Read more. Forever Buffs Network About | Log in | Register Ask a Buff | Facebook app Update your information Is your contact information up-to-date? Make sure other Buffs know how to find you on the Forever Buffs Network and that you are receiving our e-mails. Update your profile by logging in here. E-mail fbn@colorado.edu with questions. And, don’t forget to become an Ask a Buff to assist students and other alums with career, relocation and graduate school decisions. Already an Ask a Buff? Inspire others to do the same. Did you know there’s a career counselor solely dedicated to the needs of alumni? Her name is Lea Alvarado and she can be reached at 303-492-6541 or via e-mail here. Need to fill a position in your organization? Hire a CU student or alum. We have more seasoned alumni in our database than ever before! Liberty Mutual partners with the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. For more information, please contact Liberty Mutual at 877-477-6621 or go here. Here are links to your CU, school and college e-mail and web newsletters President Benson’s (Geol’64, HonDocSci’04) e-newsletter Chancellor DiStefano’s e-newsletter Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine – to subscribe e-mail here School of Education Education Views Engineering Alumni News – to subscribe e-mail here CUEngineering magazine 2010 Journalism Bylines Amicus Magazine and LawPoints e-newsletter – subscribe or update your information here Leeds School of Business – e-mail here to receive the e-mail newsletter. Leeds’ magazine Portfolio is here. As a member of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association you receive special discounts and pricing at Colorado National Golf Club. News Briefs Andrews gets the gold Andrews Hall, a dorm located in the Kittredge Complex, last month received the gold rating in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, certification issued by the United States Green Building Council. Read more. First Holocaust liberation photos uncovered The extent to which the Nazis targeted Jews was obscured in the dominant Soviet press during World War II and was suppressed in the Cold War era, during which the Soviets dwelled on the depravity of “fascist troops” murdering “peaceful Soviet citizens.” Read more. Read other CU-Boulder news. Alumni Travel Luxuriant Southeast Asia Join us on a trip through Cambodia and Vietnam March 30-April 12 that includes a seven night cruise on the Mekong River. Last year this trip sold out before we could accommodate everyone who wanted to go. A special feature of this trip is the opportunity to explore Angkor Wat, a UNESCO World Heritage site. For more information contact Clark at 303-492-5640 or 800-492-7743. How about a Buff canal trip? Traveling through the Panama Canal on the Crystal Symphony with CU alumni is not to be missed. Enjoy the luxury of one of the cruise line’s best ships and experience traveling through the locks of this famous waterway February 23 – March 6, 2011. Contact Clark at 303-492-5640 for more information. The CU-Boulder WorldPoints™ Platinum Plus™ card Read more. Get your CU gear Are you all jazzed up following the World Cup? (Go Spain! Viva España!) Time to get a CU full size soccer ball and get out on the field! First ever CU New Opera Workshop goes behind the scenes Getting an opera ready for premiere on stage is a fascinating process involving composers, directors, singers and an entire production team. The first annual CU New Opera Workshop provides a sneak peek at the process July 29-Aug. 7. Renowned Metropolitan Opera tenor and CU NOW guest artist Anthony Dean Griffey will perform a special opening recital Friday, July 25 at the Boulder Public Library. Call 303-492-8008 or visit the CU NOW website for tickets or information. Contest Corner The winner will receive a sharp white CU baseball cap. In what year did Folsom Field become the first major sports stadium in the nation to collect all materials in recycling or compost containers, eliminate trash cans and transform its material collections systems into a zero-waste process? A. 2004; B. 2008; C. 2009. Go to CU’s online Just the Facts for help. Last month’s winner was Brooke Burgner (Comm’08), an admissions counselor at CU-Boulder. She knew that about 500 people died as a result of Chile’s massive 8.8 magnitude quake on Feb. 27. Photo Galleries Visit the Alumni Association photo galleries. Find us on… Get the news first!

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