| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | December 2001 |
Table of Contents
Active Undergraduates Spread Success Across Campus and Continents
Classics Graduate Program Marks Many Successes
Lively Lectures Abound This Year
Meet Bekki Richards, an Innovator in Distance Education
Legio XIIII Invades CU's Campus
Alumni Secure Prestigious Positions
Friends of Classics at CU-Boulder
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News from our Alumni
Mary Bridges Jenson (BA 1982) teaches world history at Broomfield High School and recently spent her second summer digging at Contrada Mella, a pre-historic to 1st century BC site, in southern Italy, with Professor Paolo Visona. Mary enjoys receiving news from the Intercollegiate Center in Rome and would love to hear from others who have the same CU Classics and ICC connection.
John Thorburn (PhD 1993), assistant professor at Baylor University, recently published “Euripides’ Ion: The Gold and the Darkness” CB 76.1 (2000) 39-49 and “The Third Stasimon of Euripides’ Alcestis” SCI 19 (2000) 35-49. John’s translation and commentary on the Alcestis will be published in a few months by Edwin Mellen press.
Georgia Irby Massie (PhD 1994), who teaches at Louisiana State University, has finished the page proofs and indices for a Hellenistic Science Sourcebook, which she co-edited with Paul Keyser (PhD 1987) for Routledge. Georgia teaches several Latin, Greek, and ancient civilization courses and also manages two web sites at LSU. She recently read a paper at the Louisiana Classical Association drawing parallels between the Turnus-Aeneas duel in Aeneid 12 and the final fight scene in the martial arts film “Bloodsport”, which is about an annual martial arts competition in Hong Kong.
Jeremy Mondejar (MA 1997) visited the department in November on his way back to visit family after completing a stint teaching English in Taiwan. Jeremy looks forward to a PhD in Religious Studies.
Bob (MA 1997) and Jennifer Smith (MA 1997) visited the CU campus in the first week of August. Both are living in Tulsa, Bob’s hometown. Bob is working as a computer consultant and is teaching Latin at the community college level. Jennifer is teaching middle school and has just been offered a position as an instructor in Roman History at Oral Roberts University. They passed through Boulder on their way to a Montessori conference in Breckenridge. Both send their greetings to fellow alumni.
Tracy Dickinson (MA 1998), a resident of Hanover, New Hampshire, has accepted a position teaching Latin at Woodstock Union High School for the spring semester. She also does pottery, working as an assistant in a studio class in exchange for studio time.
Jonathan Gottsegen (MA 1999) stopped by the department in July. He was traveling to Colorado to vacation with his wife Dana and son Jack. Jonathan teaches Latin at the Harvey School in Westchester County, New York, where Jonathan is from. He enjoys his job and enjoys being near his parents, but still misses Colorado and its beautiful weather.
Chris Kintzel (BA 1998, MA 2000) has been accepted into the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University in Washington, DC and looks forward to beginning his program.
Bleys Kueck (BA 2001) has accepted a job teaching Latin to 6th, 7th and 8th graders at the Baker Laboratory School, which is associated with National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois, a school at which all students take Latin. Bleys teaches a number of students using First Latin and Latin is Fun, and works on building language skills in both English and Latin as well as doing various cultural activities. National-Louis University and the Illinois Classical Caucus, under the leadership of Bleys’ colleague Rickie Crown, are organizers of the Latin Pedagogy Workshop held annually in July.
