 
1999 Alumni/ae News Albert Anderson (CivEngr'57) received the 1999 Orley Phillips Award from the American Consulting Engineers Council of Colorado. He is president of Anderson & Hastings Consulting Engineers. Jim Brickey (ChemEngr'67) of Greenwood Village was appointed director of elementary education for the Douglas County School District, a position that has him working with about 28 schools and their principals. He is married and has three children. William Dilley (ArchEngr'51) and his wife, Myra Jean, have launched two aviation businesses - Spectra Sonics Aviation and Ogden Jet Center - and two electronics manufacturing businesses - Spectra Sonics and Spectra Sound - in their hometown of Ogden, Utah. A retired Air Force officer and winner of the 1977 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, he likes to fly his personally restored military jet fighter in air shows across the country. John Clark (CivEngr, Mgmt'64) has completed his term as president of the Colorado region of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The son of Mel Clark (ChemEngr'37), he is a senior project engineer for The Sear-Brown Group, a national engineering and architectural consulting firm, and lives in Fort Collins. Tim Dixon (MTeleComm'94) has been appointed vice president of finance for international operations at Formus Communications. He previously managed a start-up for Formus in Ecuador and served as senior financial manager and operations controller for Galileo International. William L. Firestone (MS ElEngr'49) is still active as president of DCH Technology, Inc., in Valencia, Calif. The company works in the field of hydrogen and other gas sensors and the manufacture of medium and low wattage fuel cells. Mark Fugler (CivEngr'80, MS'89) is an associate professor and chairman of the Civil Engineering Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The only program of its type in the nation, it is designed to develop civil engineers to work in the air transportation and aerospace industries. He and his wife, Jane, live in Ormond Beach, Fla., with their two children.
Frederick Moody (MechEngr'58) was honored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers with its Pressure Vessel and Piping Sward for his work with the thermodynamics of containment systems and other areas of nuclear reactors. A long-time engineer with GE Nuclear Energy Co., he lives in San Jose, Calif. Michael Parker (ArchEngr'86) was recently named one of the 12 Outstanding Young Bankruptcy Lawyers in the nation by Turnarounds & Workouts magazine. He is a senior associate at Fulbright & Jaworski and president of the San Antonio Bankruptcy Bar Association. Richard Parrill (ChemEngr, Mgmt'71) was promoted to corporate technical services manager at the Imperial Holly Corp.'s Sugar Land, Texas headquarters. He and his staff oversee the technical methods and processes for Holly's beet sugar factories. Rorik Peterson (PhD ChemEngr'99) was awarded a Marshall Sherfield Fellowship and is doing advanced study at the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University. Former Georgia Rep. Dick Ransom (ChemEngr'52) and his wife have 10 children and 15 grandchildren. He enjoys competing in mini-triathlons and water skiing tournaments. He worked in nuclear energy at the Savannah River Plant.
Mark Silver (MechEngr'84) teamed up with communications alumnus Jerry Wagner last spring on a specially modified Air Force Boeing 747, dubbed the National Airborne Operations Center. Fifteen years after training together at the CU Air Force ROTC detachment, their mission now is to support the president in times of national emergency. In his retirement, Joseph R. Smith (ChemEngr'48) consults for his safflower oil company, Oilseeds Intl., builds airplanes and spends a quarter of the year in Kona, Hawaii. A 1993 winner of the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award, he and his wife, Joyce, live in Los Altos, Calif. After working as a petroleum engineer with Amoco and later in marketing with Emerson Electric, Charles Strawn (ChemEngr'79) is now in a technical marketing role as director of the global water business segment for Schlumberger in Paris, France. As a member of the technical staff in the vehicle concepts department, Christopher Taylor (M AeroEngr'97) is developing conceptual designs for spacecraft for the Aerospace Corp. He lives in Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Daniel James Winarski (MS Mechanics'73) passed the US Patent Bar Exam and is now a registered US patent agent. A senior engineer with IBM-Tucson, Storage Systems Division, he is also a Lt. Colonel in the US Army Reserves, teaching at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. Daniel's son, Tyson York Winarski (MechEngr'95) was recently sworn in before the Arizona Supreme Court and the US District Court as an attorney, having passed the Arizona Bar Exam. As a patent attorney, he consults with the Phoenix law firm of Halbersen and Venable. He also is pursuing a master's degree in electrical engineering at Arizona State University. Robert Yant (MechEngr'48), having retired as president of Santa Fe Pipeline Construction Co., enjoys fishing and raising registered Black Angus cattle. He lives in Denver.
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Timothy E. Gill (AppMath'76) received the College of Engineering and Applied Science's Entrepreneurship Award on Oct. 5. He is the chairman of Quark, Inc., the Denver-based maker of Quark publishing software.
Kristy Schloss (CivEngr'86), president of Schloss Engineered Equipment in Aurora, was named the national small business exporter of the year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Richard Weingardt (CivEngr'60, MS'64), CEO of Richard Weingardt Consultants in Denver, wrote a new book, "RAUT: Teacher, Leader, Engineer," about former CU President and Professor Roland Rautenstraus. The book, published by the College of Engineering and Applied Science, is being sold to establish a teaching professorship and student scholarship in Rautenstraus's name.