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Alumni Notes
Ignacio Alcala De Leon (MA ’75) received his PhD
in finance from the Business School at Columbia
University. He is the CEO of his consulting firm
Alcala De Leon Y Asociados, S.C. which specializes
in strategic reprofiling of business concerns.
Salvatore (Sal) Andriola (BA ’53) received a PhD in
romance languages and a juris doctorate degree.
Currently he is a retired administrative law judge.
Prior to retirement, he handled and wrote decisions
on 3,330 labor law cases. Also, he held faculty
positions in the romance languages at UCLA
and California State University at Chico.
Salvatore also had a five-year career as an operatic
baritone in California, Arizona, Nevada, and
Mexico. He has a pending publication of 100
short stories, some about his undergraduate days
in Boulder. He is widely traveled and continues
to have a full life which has included three wives,
four grandchildren, and two great-grandsons.
Chris Blackwood (BA ’80, MA ’88) currently is
the managing director at Davidson Fixed Income
Management, an investment advisory firm located
in Denver, Colorado. He served as the senior
economist to the governor of Colorado from
1980 to 1986 and as the senior financial economist
at Boettcher & Company from 1986 to 1988.
Robert Castellino (BA ’85) is a master photographer,
author, publisher, speaker, and the founder
and CEO of Whispering River, LLC. He has a
permanent exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution
in the Hall of Geology, Gems & Minerals and a
permanent photographic exhibit at the Reed
Photo Gallery. He also wrote an article for the
master photographers’ column featured at www. takegreatpictures.com. Robert was the
keynote speaker at CU Boulder’s President’s
Leadership Annual Graduation Ceremony in
2000. He has written five books, the most recent
being Boulder: Yesterday & Today—A Photographic
Retrospective. For this book he received an honorary
award from the Boulder Historical Society
for his contribution to Boulder History.
Doug Daniels (BA ’90) received his master of arts
degree in telecommunications from the University
of Denver in 1995. He is currently the vice
president of sales at LOC-AID Technologies in
Denver, Colorado.
Ann Ezzell Ellis (BA ’66) currently is the owner
and CEO of Mile High Productions, LLC, in
Loveland, Colorado. The company produces
major trade shows. In 1968 she received a computer
programmer excellence award. She has two
daughters: Alisa B. Burns (CU-Boulder, BA
Biology ’92, and two juris doctor degrees, University
of Denver ’95 and NYU, tax law, ’97) and
Belinda Burns Paredes (Colorado College ’94).
James G. Force (BA ’69) received his MBA from
Tulane University in 1979. He is retired from the
US Coast Guard and currently is sailing the
Bahamas and Caribbean.
Devon Lynch (PhD ’05) has spent the past two
years at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at
the University of Denver, Colorado. Starting in
fall 2007 he will be an assistant professor in the
Department of Economics at the University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
Robert Miller (BA ’02) has been accepted into the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies where he intends to
study international economics. He will spend his first year in
Bologna, Italy, and his second in Washington, D.C.
Thomas Noel Osborn II (BA ’63, MA ’70, PhD ’73) is currently the
CEO of TEAM International which is headquartered in San
Antonio, Texas and Mexico City. TEAM International is a Network
Associate of the Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro,
North Carolina. Twice a Fulbright Professor to Mexico, 1970 and
1973– 76, he was a tenured full professor in the Business School,
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Also, he was named
the Bicentennial Professor by the American Chamber of
Commerce of Mexico, 1976. With kind permission from the registrar’s
office, Thomas returned to Boulder in December 2005 to “receive” his degree earned 32 years ago. It turned out that he “marched” next to Stephanie Martin, who was also receiving her
PhD in Economics.
Satya Prakash Singh (PhD ’74) joined Panjab University Business
School in India after completing his doctorate studies and retired
in 2005 after serving for over three decades as reader, professor,
chairman, and dean. He made significant contributions to Panjab
University, of which he credits much to the foundation of his
learning at CU-Boulder.
Piya C. Sorcar (Econ BA ’01, Jour ’01, Bus ’01), a doctoral student
in learning sciences and technology design/international comparative
education at Stanford University, is the executive director
and founder of Interactive Teaching AIDS, an animation-based
health curriculum to teach HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention in a culturally sensitive manner to young adults in developing
countries. Two initial versions of her application are in production—
an Indian research version led by a U.S.-based development
team and a general Asian version sponsored by Medical Research
Information Center in Korea. Piya recently presented the
project at the international AIDS education consortium held at
Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Also, she was elected to the
Board of Directors for XRI Inc., a California-based nonprofit
specializing in rich media Internet-based medical education.
www. InteractiveTeachingAIDS.org
Philip Staehelin (BA ’91) has joined the international management
consulting firm A.T. Kearney as a director after leaving his position
with T-Mobile Czech Republic. Still based in Prague, he will be
covering CEE countries focusing mainly on telecommunications
and utilities. In addition to the career change, he welcomed the
birth of daughter Alexa in October 2006, and is working to complete
his housing development, www.vojanka.cz, in September
2007.
Jonathan Visbal (BA ’79) holds an MBA from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business. Currently he is the global technology,
communications, and media practice leader for Spencer Stuart,
an executive search consulting firm, and works out of the San
Mateo, California, office.
Christian K.Winicki (BA ’02) received his juris doctorate from
Florida Coastal School of Law in May 2006. Currently he is the
assistant district attorney, 7th Judicial Circuit, Volusia County,
Florida. Having played on the University of Colorado Men’s Rugby
team from 1999 to 2002, he is now a member of the Daytona
Beach Rugby Club.