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In February 2021, members of the Alpha Phi Chapter of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority celebrated 50 years of sisterhood via a Zoom reunion. Pictured: Marje Roelfsema Kaspar ’73, Sara Orlino (Gamma Phi Beta Foundation director of development), Weslee Klein ’72, Margaret Myers ’72, Lise Van Arsdale Hansen ’73, Angie Dimit (Gamma Phi Beta Foundation chair), Amy Reichman ’75, Connie Cohrt ’75, Trina Jacobson ’73, Barb Floyd Rustad ’71, Lucy Bates Jolas ’74, Terry Hartel Woodrow ’73, Cindy MacLeish Eley ’72, Alison Northcutt Miller ’71, Lisa Garrett Smith ’73, Martha Freeman ’71, Linda Head Corrie ’71, Elena Hannan ’72, Marcia Vigil ’73, Deb Lanning Angell ’74, Ann Carlile Klotz ’71, and Jean Steffen Hamilton ’73. Not pictured: Jane Byerley ’73 and Lou Nordin Morton ’73.
1976
Lynn Morris has been inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame after being honored Sept. 30, 2021, at the annual International Bluegrass Music Association Awards Ceremony in Raleigh, North Carolina. Lynn, a banjo virtuoso, is the first person to twice win the coveted National Banjo Championship in Winfield, Kansas. She began performing in the United States, Canada, and Europe after earning an art degree from CC. She was the first woman elected to the IBMA board of directors, has been named IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year three times, and Traditional Female Vocalist for the Society for Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America seven times.
1977
JENNIFER COOMBES
family were ranchers. After earning his J.D., he became chief legal counsel for Roy Romer, then Colorado governor, in 1986. Four years later, Ken was appointed as director of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources. There, he wrote the Great Outdoors Colorado Amendment and created the Youth in Natural Resources program, both of which continue to support the health and future of Colorado’s environment.
ABOVE: During Family and Friends Weekend in 2006, Ken Salazar ’77 spoke to a packed house at Kathryn Mohrman Theatre on the CC campus to discuss immigration issues facing Americans.
Ken Salazar was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to Mexico on Aug. 11, 2021, and assumed his duties Sept. 2. Ken earned a bachelor of arts in political science from CC and a juris doctor from the University of Michigan, and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from CC in 1993. Ken was born and raised in Colorado’s San Luis Valley, where four previous generations of his 26
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Meg Glover Henderson ’72 realized that people celebrating her daughter’s engagement in Green Mountain Falls, Colorado, represented 2 1/2 generations of CC graduates. Front row, from left: Melissa Walker ’72, Liz Speir ’72, Bruce Henderson ’72, Caroline Creyke ’65, and Les Goss ’72. Back row, from left: Meg, Erika Williams ’93, and Scott Craig ’95.
1987
Ellen Stein was named marketing director at First SouthWest Bank, a mission-driven community development financial institutions bank serving southern Colorado, in March 2021. Ellen spent 25 years in nonprofit development, media, and communications. She oversees the marketing for the bank’s six branches, the Community Fund, and nonprofit sponsorships.
1988
Ken was the first Latino elected to Colorado statewide office when he was elected attorney general in 1998. He served until 2005, when he was elected a U.S. senator. He was the secretary of the interior from 2009 to 2013; one primary focus was to ensure that national parks and national monuments were inclusive of the country’s indigenous and minority communities. In between these accomplishments, Ken has been in private practice, most recently as a partner in the WilmerHale law firm, representing clients in energy, environment, natural resources, and Native American matters. Ken was on the CC Board of Trustees as a volunteer for nine years and has been an honorary member of the board for 17 years.
Winter 2021/22
Three classmates gathered in Maui, Hawaii, in the summer of 2021 after a long separation during the Coronavirus pandemic. From left: Katy McNitt Jensen, Maryrose Kohan, and Kimberly Race.
