| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | May 2003 |
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Alumni News
Ilse Stratton (M.A. 1988) received an appointment as full-time Instructor of Latin and German at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Ilse has been a lecturer at UCCS since 1985. She retired in 1997 from teaching Latin and German in Colorado Springs high schools, including sixteen years at Rampart HS. Last summer she and her husband spent six weeks in Europe and visited her old friend Reginald Foster in Rome again. Ilse is an alumna of Foster’s summer Latin program. She remains an avid mushroom hunter and serves as the secretary of the Pikes Peak Mycological Society.
Pamela White (B.A. 1991) serves as editor of the Boulder Weekly. Using the pseudonym Pamela Clare, she recently published a romance novel entitled Sweet Release, which earned a favorable review from the Boulder Daily Camera. Sweet Release, set in 1730 in Virginia, tells the tale a British aristocrat stripped of his identity and sent to America as an indentured servant. There he meets Cassie Blakewell, who manages her father’s estate, and the romance begins.
Greg Karras (M.A. 1998) and his wife Susanne Mendelson (B.A. 2002) have returned to Boulder after three years in Vermont where Greg earned his J.D. and M.S.E.L. (Master of Studies in Environmental Law) from Vermont Law School in South Royalton, VT. While in Vermont, Susanne worked as an educational assistant for children with autism and as a speech teacher working along the side of a Speech and Language Pathologist. She tutored Latin during summers. Greg and Susanne visit Greece, Greg’s native country, each summer and, when there, meet up with Professors emeriti Harold and Haroula Evjen. On September 25, 2002. Greg and Susanne welcomed their first child, Konstantinos Grigorios Karras.
Alison Bevin (M.A.T. 1999) has been hired to start the Latin program in the newest high school in the Cherry Creek District, Centennial Trail High School. Centennial Trail will open its doors in August 2003, and Alison will welcome a Latin I class. Centennial Trail will offer an International Baccalaureate Program to its students.
Douglas Doll (M. A, 1995 ; Ph.D. 2000) has taught at the University of Oklahoma for the past two years. Next fall he plans to start school again in St. Louis at Covenant Theological Seminary. He hopes to teach Greek at the seminary while pursuing a degree. Doug, his wife Belinda, and his son Jacob welcomed daughter Kayla Joy to their family on May 30, 2002.
Jonathan Gottsegen (M.A. 1999) stopped by to visit the department last summer. He teaches Latin at the Harvey School in Katonah, New York, his own alma mater. The Harvey School has 300 students and five Latin teachers; it offers Latin I-AP classes. Jonathan, his wife Dana and his son Jack welcomed a new baby into their family this spring. Jonathan’s e-mail address is jgottsegen@harveyschool.org.
Jaime Griffiths (M.A. 2002) teaches Latin I and II at Hill Country Christian School in Austin, Texas.
Mary France (M.A. 2002) is teaching Latin and English at Mitchell High School in Colorado Springs. She teaches two Latin classes, one a first year class and the other a mix of students working at three levels from three different text books. Her goal is to build up the Latin Program so it supports a full-time position and is bombarding the school counselors with “Why Take Latin” information. Mary and her husband, Gary Smith, bought a home in the northern part of town, which enjoys great views of Pikes Peak.
