 Navajo Women
Betty Reid ('85)
Journalist Betty Reid and photographer Kenji Kawano examine the changing roles of Navajo women as they become business leaders, attorneys, truck drivers, pilots and even presidential hopefuls. Reid is a reporter for The Arizona Republic and also wrote "Keeping Promises" with her husband, Ben Winton, and "Navajo: Portrait of a Nation." |
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 Living Your Unlived Life
Robert A. Johnson and Jerry M. Ruhl ('75)
A book about dealing with a sense of failure or regret in later life. Robert A. Johnson is a noted expert on Jungian psychology, and Jerry M. Ruhl is former director of corporate communications at United Artists and a practicing clinical psychologist. They also wrote "Balancing Heaven and Earth" and "Contentment: A Way to True Happiness." |
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 Obit: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
Jim Sheeler (MA '07)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter with the Rocky Mountain News, Sheeler is currently on the faculty of the SJMC. According to the Chicago Sun-Times: "You probably won't have heard of any of the people eulogized in 'Obit,' but they will remind you of the variety of humans on earth and the absolute certainty that no matter how powerful a personality, eventually the body goes and that what remains stays not only in people's hearts, but in their stories." |
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 News Reporting and Writing
Melvin Mencher ('47)
Now in its 11th edition, this classic textbook has been used by hundreds of thousands of college students. Now retired, Melvin Mencher was an experienced newspaper reporter before he taught journalism classes for years at Columbia University. His "The Sayings of Chairman Mel" was published by the Poynter Institute. |
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 The Milk Memos: How Real Moms Learned to Mix Business and Babies
Andrea Serrette (MA '95) and Cate Colburn-Smith
Journals written by women working at IBM became this unique perspective on balancing family obligations and workplace demands. |
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 The Taylor Ranch War: Property Rights Die
Dick Johnston ('50)
This book reviews 45 years of litigation and controversial court decisions surrounding use of the 77,500-acre Taylor Ranch in Costilla County, Colo., and based on ancient land grants as well as documents more than a century old. |
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 Ropin' the Past
Rich Lyttle ('49)
Longtime Colorado journalist Rich Lyttle died in 2004. Last year, the Rio Blanco Historical Society in Meeker published these stories collected by the Rio Blanco Herald Times, the Meeker newspaper established by Lyttle's grandfather, Irish immigrant James Lyttle, in 1885. Through his column, "Ropin' the Past," he regularly shared his extensive knowledge of local and western Colorado history. |
