The '70s and '80s

Rich Lathrop ('70) has retired after a 31-year career as a news officer and senior public affairs adviser for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's regional office in Denver. He plans to spend more time oil painting and sculpting. He and his wife live in Boulder.

Edward Augden (MA '73), since retiring from teaching at George Washington High School in Denver in 2000, has been consulting with Paul Stewart, the founder and original curator of the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center. They are researching a book on the contributions made by African-Americans in the settling of the American West. He also does public relations as a volunteer for Arts for All, a diverse group of Denver citizens seeking to secure a nonprofit facility for visual artists, dancers, actors and musicians to work and exhibit or perform. He lives in Denver. eaugden@jeffco.k12.co.us

Marc Wilson ('73) is the founder and CEO of TownNews.com, which helps nearly 700 newspapers publish online editions. It is the largest company of its kind and is based in Moline, Ill. marcus@townnews.com

Randall Hackley ('74) is working for Bloomberg News. rhackley@aol.com

Pat Jorgenson ('75) retired in June from her position as a public affairs officer for the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., and moved back to Colorado. She says, "Life is good. No work, no phone, no e-mail. It's better than dying and going to heaven."

Terry Frei ('76), a sports writer and columnist for The Denver Post since 1995, wrote "Horns, Hogs, and Nixon Coming," a book published this fall about the 1969 Texas vs. Arkansas game. The game represented the last gasp of the Old South and the forces that would replace it in the decades to come.

John Dakin ('79) served as alpine venue press chief for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. He was responsible for the design and implementation of news operations for Park City, Deer Valley and Snowbasin, with primary responsibility for running the Snowbasin news operation. He lives in Vail. jdmarmot@hotmail.com

Ann Leggett ('80) collaborated with fellow CU alumna Roz Brown (MUS '79) on a book called, "Haunted Boulder: Ghostly Tales From the Foot of the Flatirons." Leggett works as a free-lance publication designer and desktop publisher. oceangirl19@earthlink.net

Kaye Bache-Snyder (MA '81) received the 2002 Minnie Award from the Denver Women's Press Club for her writing in nonfiction, personal essays and narrative poetry. She also won first place in creative verse in the annual competition of the Colorado Presswomen. The winning poem, "Boulder from Heartbreak Hill," was published in Slant, a journal of the University of Central Arkansas. Bache-Snyder also teaches workshops at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. She lives in Longmont.

Michael O'Keefe ('82) is an investigative sports reporter with the New York Daily News. He won an Associated Press Sports Editors award this spring, with fellow Colorado alumnus Luke Cyphers, for enterprise reporting on "Bitter Pills," a series about the impact of dietary supplements on sports. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife, Lorna, and son, Aiden. mokeefe@edit.nydailynews.com

Julie Zafiratos ('82) has moved to Los Angeles from Mountain View, Calif., to work in film production. She is finishing her second film project. jzafiratos@yahoo.com

Greg Gorman ('83) has left the Anheuser-Busch company to start a Denver-based advertising agency, Commotion. While at Anheuser-Busch, he directed advertising for Bud Light and Budweiser. His current clients include Sony, Nokia, Ford, 3M and Anheuser-Busch. He lives in Golden with his wife and son.

Marlene Hackman ('87) has been teaching yoga for 10 years and is enrolled in the master's program in body psychotherapy at Naropa University in Boulder. She lives in Superior. marlenesyoga@earthlink.net

Bevin Conn Wallace ('87) is managing editor at Skiing Magazine in Boulder, which was recently acquired by AOL/Time Warner. She had a baby boy, Sean, last December. She lives in Denver. bevinwallace@aol.com