Frank Strovas
Frank Strovas ('60), a retired U.S. diplomat known for his familiarity with the African continent, died at his retirement home in South Africa last summer.

Strovas was born and raised in Colorado. After graduating from CU, he was a newspaper reporter before joining the Army for three years. He then returned to the University for a master's degree in political science. In 1967, became a U.S. Information Service officer.

He had been married to South African journalist Cynthia Strovas since 1977. She accompanied him on diplomatic assignments to countries across the world. He retired in 1994 from the U.S. embassy in Pretoria as counselor for press and culture.

Harry Wood
Harry Wood ('49), a former Sacramento Bee photographer who died in March 2004 at the age of 82, is fondly remembered by classmate Charles Rogers ('49) of Murrieta, Calif. Wood and Rogers finished their degrees at CU under the GI Bill after WWII. "Newsgathering jobs were tough to find for new grads in 1949," Rogers wrote. But thanks to his photo training from the late Zell Mabee with Harry Wood as Mabee's assistant, Rogers was hired at The Modesto Bee after graduation. Soon both Wood and Rogers were recalled to duty during the Korean War, Rogers said. Wood taught photography for the Army while Rogers was in the Air Force.

Wood later became a TV photojournalist at KOVR in Sacramento, and when the news operation expanded, he invited Rogers to become a photojournalist in the Stockton-Sacramento market. Rogers retired from that job in 1989. In the meantime, Wood returned to teaching photography, this time at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento until he retired in 1989.

"We remained good friends through all those years, hunting ducks or deer in the valleys and the Sierra, and getting together to recount adventures from the past," Rogers said.