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1961

60th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

Rory Donaldson writes, “Dear Classmates, since reading Cito’s somewhat touching note in the last edition, I’ve been inspired to write something that doesn’t sound too syrupy. What can one who is turning 79 possibly say—except I’ve many positive memories—many from my two years at CA. My family and I are well. Louisa and I are still isolating in Central Park, the old Stapleton renamed. What I mostly do is maintenance, cleaning, and exercise. We too have gotten into Ancestry.com and have uncovered some fascinating stories. I’m still reading, writing, and intent on using my “mail-in ballot.” No plans for tomorrow, or the next. Doubling down on staying low and listening to tons of music (jazz and punk largely). I wish you all well. Next year is our 60th reunion—Wow! Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to see a few of you then—although I’ll need a map to find my way around campus. Until then, Rory” Kent Drummond rode his fat tire e-bike in the Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb. The e-bike portion is just an exhibition, so there weren’t any classes or prizes, but Kent reports it was a lot of fun. He rode a borrowed bike last year and was first to the summit. This year he was riding his own bike. Kent says, “I rode a more powerful bike last year and made it to the summit in 1:04. This year I wanted to see if I could do it on my own bike, complete with monster tires. I made it in 1:30, so I am pleased with the result.”

Kent Drummond ’61 at the summit of the Pikes Peak Hill Climb

1962

John Ragsdale still teaches at the University of Missouri Law School in Kansas City. Classes in environmental law, historic and cultural preservation law, water law, and Federal Indian Law are held online at the moment, but the subjects are fascinating. John spent July in Breckenridge, Colo. with his wife Lisa, daughter Sydney, and her boyfriend. Sydney and Lisa are both UMKC law graduates. Sydney currently works for the Innocence Project. The family enjoyed hiking, golf, tennis, and social distancing and plan to return for skiing during the winter break. Read about Gary Dwyer on pages 22 and 92.

1964

Bob Keyser was honored to have one of his photographs included in the release of the book, Remembering Cheetahs, a new and special coffee table book. He had two images of the final 100 chosen from nearly 3,000 pictures entered into the competition for the final ten needed for the book. Bob writes, “I am so very proud to have one picture chosen, along with some

Photo by Bob Keyser ’64

amazing worldwide well-known wildlife photographers who will also have pictures in the book.” This is the fifth in the series of books, “Remembering Wildlife.” In addition, Bob and his wife Sarah spent nearly 30 days at their home in Glen Ridge, N.J. They drove so they could stay in their “bubble.” Bob says, “It had been about five months since seeing the now 18-month-old granddaughter on Sarah’s side. We never went in her daughter’s home but always visited in the backyard with masks. But now, we are recognized and part of her growing vocabulary. We have a lot of miles etched on our bodies, but it was well worth the trip.” 1965

Greg Lewis marked the end of his 56th summer in Aspen, where he has lived year-round since 1969. While involved in a couple of entrepreneurial business endeavors, his primary focus is writing. Greg is completing a novel in rhyme called Chasing Wonder, which will be published before the end of the year. In addition, he is several months into a memoir of a legendary Aspen and Baltimore personality, Leonard “Boogie” Weinglass, who grew up poor in Baltimore, was a star athlete, feared street fighter, and who started Merry-Go-Round retail fashion stores and grew the business to almost 1,500 stores across the U.S. Greg writes, “I’m in a fabulous relationship with an inspiring woman, and I look forward to my 66th year of skiing in Aspen.” Joel Schulman retired from the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center of Ophthalmology after 32 years of dedicated service to residents, medical students, and patients. Following his graduation from CA, Joel received a BA from Goddard College in Chicago. He received his medical degree from the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, did his internship at the Devers Eye Clinic, Good Samaritan Medical Center in Portland, Ore., and completed his residency in 1979. Joel received a retina disease fellowship at the University of Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary. Following two years in private practice, he entered a second fellowship program at University of Illinois in vitreoretinal surgery. Joel served as an assistant professor at the University of Texas in Galveston before joining LSU as an associate professor of ophthalmology with tenure. His responsibilities included resident teaching, clinical duties, and mini-rotation for third year medical students. In addition, Joel has authored numerous chapters in books and articles. Joel’s philanthropic endeavors in the Shreveport community include co-founding the Red River Lions Club, Hope House Homeless Outreach, Essilor Vision Foundation, Eye Care America, and Pool of Siloma Medical Ministry. He was honored for his work with the Louisiana Volunteers in Action Program.

Joel Schulman ’65

1966

Guy Modica reports the only change in his life is that his son Jesse and family moved to Boulder, where Jesse is a Doctor of Physical Therapy. His company is Fullswift. Jesse trains athletes of all type to perform at their very best. Jesse’s son Kai is an amazing lacrosse player. Guy says, “I’m good, despite all the insanity, fires, and poisonous smoke in our lives, not to even mention this deadly virus that is trying hard to find us all, YIKES!” 1968

Steve Gordon writes, “I thoroughly enjoyed the last normal weekend, March 8, eating, drinking, and having merry conversation with my Yale classmates at a mini-reunion in Miami. COVID-19 stalked the gathering unrecognized. While exposed, I didn’t get (very) frsick. The incident holds an existential message. When the pandemic closed the Canadian border, I didn’t show up for work in April, and reneging on a commitment wounded me. Since age is a major risk factor for severe infection, I avoided work until starting telemedicine in July. Though most docs my age have retired, I found myself unexpectedly on unemployment. Remote medicine, just starting to ramp up when the virus hit, will remain part of the clinical landscape. It holds the promise of improving the efficiency of a wasteful system. Still, I used my free time to good advantage: tending my garden and my beloved fruit trees; bicycling in the cool of the mornings; target archery in the afternoon; occasionally bow fishing invasive jumping silver carp on the weekends; and reading pestilence literature: Love in the Time of Cholera, A Journal of the Plague Year, Martin Arrowsmith, The Great Influenza, The Plague, The Masque of the Red Death. With the exception of The Great Influenza, the authors get the disease details wrong and the human details right. In particular, Martin Arrowsmith’s depiction of how plague comes to ravage a Caribbean island has frightening parallels to our own government’s mishandling of the current viral outbreak. The pandemic will change everything.” 1969

Don Dodge and Jana still enjoyed traveling and learning in the summer of COVID-19. Their driving trips included states with less COVID-19 infection. First trip was a golf and gallery tour of historic Santa Fe, N.M. Later they drove to Cody, Wyo. to tour the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. From there, a sobering visit to the Heart Mountain Japanese Internment Camp in Powell, Wyo. Finally, Don and Jana headed to Montana and the Little Big Horn Battlefield and the battle of the “Greasy Grass.” 1970

Rescheduled 50th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

50th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

Peter Theodore has a new Goldendoodle pup. Peter reports since he’s pretty much house-ridden, she gets all the attention she deserves. In Virginia, everything is virtual, and Peter continues to teach music one-onone, although via Skype. 1974

Read about Preston DuFauchard on page 24. 1975

Hugh Alexander is preparing for an exhibit of his automotive artwork at Pacific University in Oregon. Thirty images will be presented. He continues to hike, ski, and bike throughout Colorado. Linc Jackson and his wife Casey are biking through COVID-19. Thailand was shut down very tightly for several weeks. Residents were only allowed to leave their house for necessities. Police roadblocks prevented them from traveling out of their own small county. Because they live right by the mountains, they did lots of mountain bike riding every day for two months. Linc reports Thailand has been COVID-19-free for the past 90 days, and so in Phuket, most local stores are open with safety procedures. Unfortunately, many, many businesses have closed permanently and the tourist spots are all empty—empty beaches, empty restaurants, empty stores. One diversion for Linc has been Zoom calls with classmates.

1976

Sarah Boxer continues to write for the New York Review of Books. Her most recent article in the September 2020 issue is “Back to the Drawing Board,” a review of Lynda Barry’s Making Comics. Sarah calls the graphic book, “the perfect tonic—part doodle, part manual, part therapy.” Check it out while sitting at home! Gary Coombs was among the many university faculty who transitioned to online teaching during spring and will be fully online again in the fall semester. He is a professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Gary reports, “It was not a goal of mine to do so, but life throws curveballs! I am considering an early retirement at the end of spring. My son, Garth III, just completed his PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Harvard and has a post-doc fellowship there for the coming year. Younger son Kenny is now a homeowner in Portland, Ore. and riding out the COVID pandemic. Amy and I have spent the summer at our Delaware Beach house, where I am writing this as storm Isaias rages outside, shaking the house. We are with my 91-year-old father and our son, Garth.”

1978

Kass Patterson is happily living in Greenwood Village, Colo. Kass is in her fifth year operating her own tutoring service,

Peter Theodore ’71 with his puppy Coco

A recent pen and ink drawing by Hugh Alexander ’75

Class of 1975 Zoom visit, Top Row (L to R): George Looms, Linc Jackson, Peter King. Second Row: Tom Woolley, Reed Myer, Peter Sherwood

DenverReadingSpecialist.com. Fortunately, the COVID-19 crisis has not had a negative impact on her business; in fact, tutoring is in high demand to help students navigate the new world of virtual learning. Kass is an avid bicycler on her cruiser and loves vinyasa yoga. 1980

Rescheduled 40th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

1981

40th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

1983

In October of 2019, Paul Wylie took a new job as Director of Sport for the New York State agency, called ORDA (Olympic Regional Development Authority) in Lake Placid, N.Y. His role is to work with various sport entities to bring events and training athletes to the facilities in the North Country of New York. Paul writes, “It’s been quite a change, to say the least, from Charlotte, N.C., where my family and I have been living for the past 14 years, but we are thoroughly enjoying life in a small mountain community where hiking, biking, skiing, and skating are a way of life. My wife Kate and our three kids, Hannah (16), Emma (14), and Caleb (12) moved up after the end of May, so now we are ensconced in this place as a family. Since N.Y. state had the most cases of COVID-19 early on, and I work for the government, the lockdown and restrictions have been a way of life from the beginning. In fact, a large part of my role entailed making plans for how to practice social distancing in the wide variety of sports settings in Lake Placid. The hardest part for us is that N.Y./N.J./ Conn. now have a list of states travel from which requires 14 days of quarantine, so we aren’t able to get across the country to see my sister Clare (Wylie Patton ’79) and my mom and dad who are living with her in Spokane. I do hope that by fall/ winter the cases decrease, so we can travel more readily, and people can travel here. Oddly, the Canadian border, just about 60 miles away, has been closed since March. Lake Placid is also scheduled to host the World Bobsled/Skeleton Championships in February, among other events, and I re-upped my IKON pass in a moment of wishful thinking of getting back to Colorado for skiing. Hope everyone is staying healthy. Come visit us in Lake Placid!”

Paul Wylie ’83 with his family, From Left: Kate, Caleb, Hannah, Emma, and Paul

1984

Gretchen Smith Kneen is jumping and fox hunting with her wonderful horse and enjoying lots of skiing in the winter. Gretchen reports she misses CA now that her children have graduated. 1986

After many years at Girl Rising, Marty Ostertag Adams is now President of Rebel Girls Entertainment. Some of the CA community might know the organization. It began in 2016 with a Kickstarter campaign that launched the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls book series and today the media company is expanding in all directions. The Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls podcast has won numerous awards including the Webby People’s Choice Award. In October 2020, there was a live, online Rebel Girls Rally and the release of the new book 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World. Marty hopes the next venue will be TV and stage. On a more personal note, her eldest “rebel girl” just graduated from high school and will be attending Rollins College. Not content to let Garret Zallen maintain the class record for newest parent, Marc Friedman and his wife Mana welcomed their daughter Kyla. Mommy, Daddy, and baby are all doing wonderfully. Chuck Hornbrook is running for school board in his little town of Tiburon, just north of San Francisco. Check it out chuckhornbrook.com.

Gretchen Smith Kneen ’84 and Gordon Smith ’79 after hunting with English hounds and a huntsman 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World

1987

Che Prasad is proud of his 13-year-old daughter Indigo, who has used her time sheltering in place to create a website for her art. The site includes watercolors based on histologic sections of umbilical cords that look like faces. Che comments, “a pathologist’s daughter indeed!” Read about Audra Robb on page 30.

Marc Friedman’s daughter, Kyla

From Left: TJ Giordano (10th Grade), David Kimball (7th Grade), and Tom Kimball ’89 Memories from the wedding of Abby Wadsworth Serfass ’94, From Left: Former faculty member David Wadsworth, Kristine Martin (who attended CA through 5th Grade), Adam Serfass, Abby Wadsworth Serfass ’94, Alissa Nostas ’94, Lodi Siefer ’94, and David Wadsworth II ’86

1989

Tom Kimball and his son David vacationed this summer outdoors at Lake Tahoe, Calif. with CA friends. Christy Polumbus has taken a new job in Whitefish, Mont. She is working at North Valley Hospital as the Marketing & Community Relations Manager. 1990

Rescheduled 30th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

Katherine Henschen Hauff met her husband Eric in July 2017, and since then, there has been a whirlwind of change. The couple married on June 30, 2018, and Kiki gained two stepdaughters, ages 16 and 15, and two dogs. She worked her way into a layoff package in the fall of 2019, which she reports was a total blessing, given that Eric travels the world for work and she was traveling the country, and the girls live in Georgia. The family’s last international trip was to Kenya. After that, there were monthly trips to Atlanta until the pandemic. With national travel finally opening up in June, Eric’s youngest, along with her two friends, hopped on a plane and everyone had, as Kiki says, “a not bummer summer” at Camp H2, their Colorado home. For three kids from Georgia, Colorado did not disappoint. Every day was a new adventure, SUP, hiking, Red Rocks, Wax Trax, and a four-day road trip to Durango.

1990 alumna Katherine Henschen Hauff’s family, First Row (L to R): Jeremiah, Brynna, Ashley. Second Row: Lucy (charcoal lab), Eric, Kiki, Murphy (golden mutt) From Left: Alisha Elliott and Norm Harris ’94, holding their daughter Emory

1991

30th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

1994

Norm Harris and his partner Alisha Elliott were thrilled to have a baby girl on January 14, 2020. Norm reports Emory is a bright, spunky, energetic, healthy, and loving baby. Lauri Keener has been busy painting and raising a little social justice warrior with her husband David. Abby Wadsworth Serfass and her husband Adam celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in June. Since they couldn’t host the big party they had been planning,

Phoenix Lawson, daughter of Lauri Keener ’94

Tucker Ladd ’99 at his new Trouts Fly Fishing location Aaron Goldhamer ’99 and Tess Vigil Goldhamer ’00

Abby and Adam emailed snapshots of photos from their wedding album to friends and family far and near. Abby writes, “It was a great way to reconnect with people we haven’t seen in ages.” 1995

Rescheduled 25th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

Nathan Reed writes, “Greetings! Wow, what a weird time we are experiencing. As far as an update goes, I am living in the Chicago area but am in the final quarters of my online MBA through the University of Denver. Both the location and pivot in degree came as a result of an unexpected and traumatic departure from academia. Though the journey has been difficult and anything but linear, I believe my cumulative experience affords me the ability to make some unique contributions to the space of Diversity & Inclusion. That is what I’m hoping will come of my degree from DU. Am I completely done with school after that? Stay tuned.... Hope things are as well for you as can be expected during this pandemic.”

From Left: Sarah and Nat Robinson ’99, Ginny and Chris Robinson ’99

1996

25th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

1997

Megan Young worked long hours at Boom Supersonic to prepare for the October 7 rollout of the supersonic demonstrator, XB-1. It is the first independently developed supersonic jet in history and proves key technologies for the future Boom commercial airliner, Overture. The rollout was live-streamed and can be seen at: boomsupersonic.com/xb-1. Megan is the VP of Marketing at Boom and has gotten to know fellow CA alumna Erin Fisher Young ’09, who is the lead of mechanical systems at Boom.

1999

In July, Tucker Ladd moved his Denver business, Trouts Fly Fishing, to 1025 Zuni St. in Lincoln Park, in a building that backs up to the South Platte River. Out back, the store has installed a 60-foot wooden deck, where Tucker said he plans to set up picnic tables, folding chairs, fire pits, and coolers. The fly shop teamed up with Denver Beer Co. to have kegs installed and local beer on tap at all times. Nat Robinson married Sarah Rauenhorst on July 17, 2020. The couple had a small and socially distanced family wedding. Nat says, “It all worked out.” 2000

Rescheduled 20th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

Tess Vigil married Aaron Goldhamer ’99 on September 12, 2020, just over two decades after their CA Prom date in 1999. The couple had planned to celebrate with many family and friends from across America. Due to the pandemic, only immediate family members were in attendance at the Vigil home and garden in the Highlands. Shane Boris ’00 officiated and was joined by Tess’s parents and former faculty members Angel Vigil and Sheila Olson, Laura Goldhamer ’02, and Matron of Honor Sarah Vigil Wilkinson ’05. Tess and Aaron plan to celebrate with friends in 2021.

2001

20th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

The children of Caroline Hollis ’01, Anton and baby Julian Laura Goldhamer ’02

Caroline Hollis, husband Gernot Zacke, and son Anton welcomed the newest member of their family in May 2020, Julian Hollis Zacke. The family still lives in San Francisco, but spent July in Colorado so the boys could enjoy the mountains and great weather.

2003

2002

Laura Goldhamer released a perfect COVID-19 birthday song, “Another Year Older, Another Year Wise” into the world on September 4, 2020. Laura says, “It’s been a good while since I released any music, and this song feels like the best way to kick it off again. I have been sending this recording to friends and family to celebrate the many strange flavored birthdays happening during COVID, and I’m hoping that others will do the same. It seems high time to provide a catchier alternative to the boring old happy birthday song (which is also heavily copyrighted), and I would love to have this tune be in the public domain/creative commons and available for anyone to use. Please lend your help by sharing my social media posts, making it available for immediate enjoyment far and wide, and spreading cheer to all the b-day party people who are turning ‘Another

Year Older, Another Year Wise’!” Laura can be found on Instagram, Facebook, and Bandcamp. In April, Ali Frick joined three friends in starting a law firm in New York City. Kaufman Lieb Lebowitz & Frick LLP, kllf-law. com. The firm specializes in civil rights litigation from police and prison abuse to housing discrimination to employment discrimination, and more. Ali writes, “It’s been a crazy and exciting time to be starting a business, while working from a tiny desk in my bedroom and also taking care of my two children, Lyra, age 3, and Leo, age 1. We’re counting down the days until daycare reopens!” Alec Norton has launched his new endeavor for college-age students, a gap program for 17-22 year-olds. DownWest Semesters inspires and educates the next generation of leaders by offering thoughtful adventures rooted in the stories, histories, mountains, rivers, and deserts of the West, focused on backpacking, biking, and leadership. 2004

Corey Hennegan

and his fiancée, Kelsie Alec Norton ’03 Chaudoin, moved to

Ali Frick ’03 and her family on a recent trip to Colorado, From Left: baby Leo, Ali, Drausin Wulsin, and Lyra

Charlottesville, Va. from the Bay Area after Kelsie accepted the Associate Head Rowing Coach position at UVA, her alma mater. She had been at Stanford as their Associate Head Coach for the last few years. Corey was supposed to begin a two-year vocational school to obtain his 1600-ton license to operate tugboats, but that was postponed due to COVID-19. Fortunately, he was offered a job with Norfolk Tug Company as a deckhand and is currently working in Jacksonville, Fla. on a dredging project. Corey’s work schedule is 14 days on and 14 off, so he writes that it’s totally doable to travel back and forth from Norfolk, Va., and the company will get him to where he needs to go. Corey’s ultimate goal is to become a tugboat operator. He had gotten pretty burned-out, working his sales job for a startup in the Bay Area and was looking for something different. Corey says, “I had a commercial fishing job in college and had forgotten how much I enjoyed working on the water. I also have, almost by coincidence, a lot of friends who work in the maritime industry, and they really encouraged me to make the transition. The majority of them work on tugboats, and they guided me through the whole process. It’s a really fascinating, heavily regulated industry, that really requires a lot of credentialing and work to advance, which is what I was looking for. It’s cool to be an integral part of the global supply chain. So, long story short, I left my sales job a year ago and started working on

Corey Hennegan ’04 with his parents and fiancée, From Left: Kelsie Chaudoin, Barry and Cheri Hennegan, and Corey Jake Roper ’05

boats, first dinner cruises and ferries, and now tugs. I couldn’t be happier. I hope to have a license in the next 3-5 years. Charlottesville is a great little town, and I’m really enjoying it so far. If any CA students or alumni are looking for advice on the maritime industry, feel free to contact me.”

2005

Jake Roper won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Educational/Informational Series. Will Simmons and his fiancée Jasmine are pleased to announce the birth of their son Cannon William Simmons born on June 13, 2020. He weighed 4 lb. 6 oz. Adrian Green and his family are still enjoying life in the San Francisco Bay Area. 2006

Sarah Robinson Elkins and Brian Elkins ’02 are thrilled that their daughter Emmylou started Pre-K at CA this year. She’s in the Class of 2034! Sarah graduated with a Masters in Social Work from the University of Denver in August. Evan Simmons and his wife Gisa McCray Simmons are the proud parents of Taylor Rosalyn, born on August 6, 2020, weighing 5 lb. 10 oz., and 19 in. long. Evan reports, “We are just so in love with our new addition to the family. With Will’s baby boy born in June, it’s been baby season all summer for our family!”

Cannon William Simmons, son of Will Simmons ’05 Adrian Green ’05 with his family, From Left: Marley, Chanel, and Adrian

2007

On February 28, 2020, Jake Corkin and his wife, Amber, welcomed their third child, Virginia “Vinnie” Brooks. The five of them live in Southern Utah, where Jake works remotely as the Product Manager for a technology startup. They enjoy all the outdoor activities that St. George has to offer, including hiking, mountain biking, and pickleball. Jake writes, “It is a really happy place for our family. My parents actually retired here, so we

Taylor Rosalyn Simmons, daughter of Evan Simmons ’06

Jake Corkin ’07 and his family, First Row: Johnny. Second Row (L to R): Charlie Marie, Amber, Jake, and Vinnie. Jon Davis ’08

have the great blessing of being close to grandparents too!” Read about Alec Devereaux on page 28. Taylor Garrett and his wife Sarah welcomed Miles Ellsworth Garrett on April 14, 2020. He was born in San Francisco; however, the family moved to Milwaukee in July to be close to family and escape the extreme heat and unlivable air quality of the Bay Area. Ben Hock and his wife Andrea are happy to announce the birth of their first child, Lily Genevieve Hock, born September 3, 2020. 2008

Jon Davis continues to write, produce, and release new music, despite the ups and downs of the pandemic. He released his first single on March 26, 2020 in the first week of the shutdown in New York City. Three releases later, and just over 200,000 streams internationally, Jon is humbled and grateful for all of the support he received on this journey. September marked the announcement of his extended play (EP) album, featuring seven tracks that preview the full studio album set scheduled for 2021. Jon’s request, “Please help me spread the word by listening, enjoying, and sharing this music with your friends and communities. Thank you for believing in me and empowering me with the courage to follow my dreams.” Find Jon’s music on his website, officialjondavis.com, or Spotify. Courtney Engle had a busy spring despite the pandemic. She was hired by Titleist as an intellectual property and aerodynamic engineering researcher and moved to Massachusetts in June. She scrambled to get her home listed for sale and as Courtney writes, “to improve my fluency with a coding language they use, but I haven’t touched in almost a decade. Haha!” Courtney is enjoying her new job.

Daughter of Ben Hock ’07, Lily Genevieve Hock

2009

Katarina Niparko made a big move in her career. She is now an attorney for Fisher Phillips, a national labor and employment law firm representing employers. Katarina is one of the attorneys in the Denver office. Her practice focuses on representing and counseling clients in a range of complex issues, including trade secret protection and covenants not to compete, employee defection, employment discrimination claims, employment termination, and employment policies, handbooks, and HR training.

2007 alumnus Taylor Garrett’s family, Miles and Sarah Garrett

Lauren Dungan Dunbar ’12 and husband Marc Dunbar

2012 classmates, From Left: Alexandra Sadler, Lauren Dungan Dunbar, Tessa Bell

Rescheduled 10th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

2011

10th Class Reunion

May 21-23, 2021

VJ Brown is the Director of Fellowship Programs at an incubator, Moonshot Edventures, moonshotedventures.org. Petra Jans Pederson received her PhD in Biomedical Sciences. Read more about Petra and her husband Thomas Pederson on page 26. 2012

Lauren Dungan and Marc Dunbar married on August 7, 2020, in Colorado Springs. CA alumnae in attendance included Tessa Bell and Alexandra Sadler. The couple met at Texas Christian University and have been together since January 2016. Lauren works in international education, and Marc works in wealth management. In addition, Lauren is pursuing an MA in Spanish at Texas State University, and Marc is pursuing an MBA at the University of Texas. They live in Austin, Texas. Brad Klump was promoted to a new position at the University of Northern Colorado as the Director of Men’s Basketball Operations. For the past two years, he served as the team’s Director of Player Development. Brad will oversee the functioning of the men’s program, including day-to-day business operations, team travel, and management of the program’s student managers. He will also coordinate the annual summer basketball camps at UNC.

Nick Bain ’16 is on the ground, flying his electric plane on MIT’s campus.

2015

After graduating from the University of Edinburgh, JP Kneen has found a job doing UI (user interface) and UX (user experience) for a Denver Tech Center company. 2016

Nick Bain graduated from MIT in May 2020 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering. His main interest is vertical takeoff and landing electric planes, which is one reason he is currently living in rural Kansas about 3½ hours from Denver. Nick is working on a small (~20 lbs.) vertical takeoff and landing electric plane designed to fly over agricultural areas with a few cameras imaging at relevant wavelengths. The project is intended to provide imagery at an extremely low cost and high overflight frequency. Nick has been working on the plane for about three years and hopes to commercialize it by doing agricultural imagery. The end goal is to show the possibility for in-flight battery swapping for electric planes to alleviate the range constraint. Nick explains, “Theoretically, the plane as it is now should be able to provide lower imagery costs by increasing the acres imaged per hour (cruising at around 60 mph compared to around 20 mph for a drone) and landing on a robotic platform that swaps out batteries without the need to have a human pilot/operator.” Alex Medema is starting his PhD in Aerospace Engineering at CU Boulder this fall. He is studying upper-atmospheric physics at the AE lab. Boulder was Alex’s first choice, because CU is one of the best places in the country for that line of research, thanks to all of the atmospheric science facilities nearby and the multiple departments at CU that are involved. Alex was a research intern at NASA in the summer of 2019 and has an upcoming paper under review with a physics journal. Alex credits CA faculty members Steven Hammer and Holley McBroom for inspiring him to be where he is today.

Cassie Kneen ’17 walking on the Scottish coast of St. Andrews with her roommate Becca

David Schurman graduated from Brown University and is the Co-Founder of Cloud Agronomics, which provides data to farmers that has never been seen before, imaging around 300 different wavelengths to have extremely sophisticated image analysis. The company offers a full suite of analytical capabilities to customers throughout the agribusiness industry. Cloud Agronomics can aggregate data on a county level or simply a few acres of farmland. The analytics are delivered through a single digital platform. Anna Krutsinger ’18 joined David as an intern in machine learning engineering at Cloud Agronomics. 2017

Cassie Kneen has returned to Scotland for her senior year at St. Andrews University. She was required to do a two-week quarantine before classes began. Golf and fishing provided some normalcy during that period. 2018

Lauren Fossel worked as a cybersecurity intern for the US Air Force. The internship was originally going to be in New York, but with COVID-19, it changed to remote work. Lauren writes, “Though the circumstances were less than ideal, I greatly enjoyed being home in Colorado for the spring and summer. There’s nothing like the Colorado sunshine! I loved getting to run and train in the beautiful Colorado scenery, and also went on a few hiking and rafting adventures!” Lauren is a computer science and astrophysics major at Williams College.

2020

Alex Foreman is attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. n

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