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1960s Jan Boles (’65) recently published a historical booklet titled A Public Silence Broken: The Murderer Harry Orchard’s Forgotten Family. The booklet tells the story of Florence and Olive Horsley, the wife and daughter Harry Orchard abandoned before he assassinated Gov. Frank Steunenberg and became one of Idaho’s most infamous criminals. Boles’ findings currently are on display at the Robert E. Smylie Archives he oversees on the second floor of Sterry Hall. A Public Silence Broken also is posted on the C of I website. In September, the booklet received front-page coverage in the Idaho Statesman.
George Venn (’67) recently released his seventh book, a memoir titled Keeping the Swarm: New and Selected Essays. The book is a collection of 11 personal essays “packed with sweetness and stinging from 50 years of writing about the Northwest.” Venn was an English major at the C of I, where he also played varsity tennis and was active in choir, theatre and Prospectus literary magazine. He enjoyed a long career as a literary historian, editor, linguist, educator and Pushcart Prize-winning poet, retiring in 2002 as a writer-in-residence and English professor at Eastern Oregon University. Keeping the Swarm, which features a photo by C of I archivist Jan Boles (’65) and various references to Professor Louie Attebery (’50) and other C of I characters, is available through the publisher’s website at www.wordcraftoforegon.com.
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Teri Degler (’70) is a top-selling author in Canada. Her latest release, The Divine Feminine Fire: Creativity and Your Yearning to Express Your Self, is a book about “the creative, transformative power that exists within each and every one of us.” The book, published by Dreamriver Press, is available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Degler studied English at the C of I and earned a master’s degree from the University of New Mexico. She resides in Toronto with her husband and daughter.
Graydon Stanley (’80) has been hired as vice president for student services at North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene. Stanley, who also earned his master’s degree in school counseling from the C of I in 1986, previously served as dean of students at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls.
The Rev. Steven Hammond (’72) is the 2012 winner of the Athena Award, an honor that recognizes professional excellence, service to the community, and assisting women in attainment of their professional goals and leadership skills. Hammond serves as the pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Alpena, Mich., and also works as a licensed physician assistant. He helped establish the Alpena Free Clinic, which has provided free health care to more than 2,000 uninsured individuals. Gerry Nutt (’75), a lifelong teacher, coach, administrator and advocate of high school activities, retired as athletic director of Middleton High School in 2011. During an exemplary 36-year career, Gerry held leadership positions in many professional organizations, including the Idaho Athletic Administrators Association and the Idaho State Coaches Association. He was honored as Idaho Coach of the Year in track and football as well as Idaho Athletic Director of the Year. Nutt served the Idaho High School Activities Association in numerous positions, directing state tournaments and sitting on the Board of Directors and Classification Committee. In August, he was inducted into the IDHSAA Hall of Fame in Boise. Marcia Wing (’76) has been honored by the Idaho State Bar for her work on the Bar’s Professional Conduct Board, which hears formal complaints against attorneys. Wing has served three terms on the board, which considers sanctions against lawyers accused of breaking the Idaho Rules of Professional Conduct. Wing worked at Moreton & Company before her retirement. She is active in many organizations including Rotary Club, the Learning Lab, C of I Alumni Relations and Chamber of Commerce Leadership Boise.
pharmacogenomics at the University of California-San Francisco. Barber’s dissertation produced several major pieces of work, including a software package of his own creation called
1990s Jack Cafferty (’97) and Ashley (Syphers) Cafferty (’97) celebrated the arrival of a baby son, Jett Jameson Cafferty, on Sept. 21. Jett weighed 7 pounds, 4 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. He is Jack and Ashley’s second child, joining his older brother, 3-year-old Jasper. Jack is the director of development at the C of I and the family lives in Boise. Matt Ellsworth (’99) has accepted a new position as the government affairs manager at Northwest Mining Association in Spokane, Wash. Ellsworth has spent the past 13 years working in various capacities for United States Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter (’67). Neva Geisler (’94) has joined Create Common Good, a social enterprise company that uses food to change lives by providing job training to refugees and other populations with barriers to employment through experiential programs relating to food and food service. Geisler will serve as director of community engagement for Create Common Good, utilizing her wealth of experience working with community outreach, engagement and corporate partnerships.
Pythoscape, which is used as a tool to sort, organize and develop hypotheses using sequencing data. He also was involved on an award-winning collaborative project with the Herschlag Lab at Stanford University studying more than 1.5 billion years of enzyme evolution and helped author a paper on the evolution of apoptosis with the Wells Lab at UCSF. Upon graduation, Barber was hired as a computational scientist at the South San Francisco company Nodality, which makes personalized medicine diagnostics for immune-related disorders. Barber will work with staff immunologists to translate what they discover into statistical models and software.
Michael Pearson (’97) has been hired as the financial executive officer for the Idaho Department of Fish & Game. Pearson currently lives in Meridian with his wife, Gillian, and two fantastic children, Jack and Ginny. Sean Rogers (’94) recently completed a 14-state musical tour. Rogers’ arrangement of “Silent Night” for solo hand bells and piano was published by SONOLOGY music, and his arrangement of “The Church’s One Foundation” will be published in April. Rogers recently finished his third solo CD of improvisations, titled Spirit.
2000s Alan Barber (‘06) recently completed his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences and
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Molly (Bullard) Lipps (’07) was married to Michael Lipps on August 25, 2012. Bullard studied English and was a USCSA All-American skier at the C of I. The couple resides in Salt Lake City. Travis Guy (’06) recently finished a six-month backpacking trip from Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to Cusco, Peru, via the Andes Mountains. Guy deferred graduate school acceptance