Alumni News

Jim Broderick-King (MA 1994) has accepted the position of Assistant Principal of Academics, Curriculum, and Faculty Development at Regis Jesuit High School, Girls’ Division. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he will teach one Latin class and moderate the Classics Club. In the fall he will also begin the Administrative Leadership and Policy Study Program in the University of Colorado at Denver School of Education. Jim and his wife Charisse are the parents of two daughters, Madeline (4) and Amelia (17 months).

Susan Pomerleau (MA 1999) is busy taking classes at Colorado College this summer in preparation for entering the field of Latin education. Following graduation, she spent her time between Frisco, CO, and Jackson, WY, enjoying many outdoor activities, especially skiing. She moved back to New Hampshire in 2000 and split her time between New Hampshire and the north shore of Massachusetts, working in Real Estate with her family.

Josh Watson (MAT 1999) has left his Latin teaching job at the University of Denver High School to move to Honolulu, Hawaii, where his wife has accepted a research position.

George Paganelis (MA 2000) completed a master’s degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after obtaining his MA in Classics and began work as the inaugural curator of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection at California State University, Sacramento, in September 2003. The Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection comprises the holdings of the former Speros Basil Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism and consists of nearly 70,000 volumes, including reference and media materials, approximately 1,500 rare titles, 120 linear feet of archival materials, and a small collection of artwork and artifacts. With its focus on the Hellenic world, the collection includes early through contemporary materials in religion, philosophy, the arts, literature, history, political science, and international relations relating to Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East. There is also a broad representation of languages, and George reports “I can say unequivocally that my background in Classics was instrumental in helping me land this job”.

Elle Tauer (BA, 1997; MA, 2000) stopped by the department full of news and enthusiasm. Having earned her JD from the University of Denver, Elle has worked in divorce law, state regulatory law, and currently, tax law. In sum, her Roman Law class at CU has paid big dividends. She lives in Colorado and is now working toward a master’s in accounting.

Will Martin (Classics minor, 2001) will begin PhD studies in English at the University of Texas, Austin in the fall.

Bekki Richards (MA, 2001) stopped in Boulder in May on her way to the annual meeting of the Colorado Online Learning Consortium. Bekki serves as Latin instructor for this organization and teaches Latin I, II, III or IV to 75-100 Colorado high school students each year. Colorado Online offers thirty different courses, and Latin ranks at the top in the number of students it attracts every year. Last year Bekki’s online Latin students took the National Latin Exam for the first time. Bekki also holds the contract to teach Latin to students of Aventa Learning, which includes ten state-level virtual high schools and 100 district-level virtual high schools. For Aventa, she offers Latin I-II and Greek I. She plans to add Latin AP courses to the curriculum in fall 2005. Bekki can be reached at rrichards@onlinelatinschool.com. This summer she will participate in the NEH program “Houses of the Mortals and Gods”, in which a select group of secondary Latin teachers will study for a week at the College of Notre Dame, Maryland, before spending five weeks studying in Rome.

Joanna Kingsbury (MAT, 2003) and her husband Matthew welcomed son Ezekiel in September 2003. Joanna is currently teaching Latin to a group of seven students in the Credo Academy, a home-school cooperative in Parker, CO.

Jude Morris (MA 2003) has been hired as an adjunct professor in the Foreign Language Department to teach a four semester sequence of Beginning and Intermediate Latin classes at Santa Rosa Junior College in California’s Sonoma Valley.