The '50s

Dick Johnston ('50) served for four years as a director and four years as president of the NorthPark East Association in Westminster. The association's tennis courts, swimming pool and clubhouse were recently named after him. During Johnston's term as president, the Colorado chapter of the Community Associations Institute named NPEA the best large homeowners' association in the state.
Richardj23@earthlink.net

Fred Hobbs ('54) was inducted into the Broadcast Professionals of Colorado Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in September. Hobbs began his broadcasting career as a teenage student disc jockey on Denver's first FM radio station, KFEL-FM, in 1948. While at CU he worked at KBOL-AM in Boulder. After serving in the Army, Hobbs returned to KBOL, then worked for KDEN, KLZ-AM and TV (now KMGH), where he was a state government reporter and weekend anchor. He began a public relations career in 1972 as the media relations director at CU but returned to TV as news director of KWGN-Channel 2 in 1977. He left television to return to PR for the AMC Cancer Research Center from 1982 to 1985. In 1989, Hobbs founded Public Relations Associates, which he headed until semi-retirement in 2000. He taught PR classes as an adjunct instructor at the SJMC for 10 years, retiring in 2001.
frhobbs@comcast.net

John Dart ('58) received the lifetime achievement award from the Religion Newswriters Association in September. He reported on religion for The Los Angeles Times for three decades and is now the news editor for the biweekly The Christian Century.
jdartnews@aol.com

The '60s

John Chapman ('63) is the community wildfire protection plan coordinator for the Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance in Denver.

Donald B. Cofman ('64) returned to the United States in 2006 after 13 years overseas. He retired in 1995 after a 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service and settled with his Turkish-born wife, Oya, in Ankara, Turkey, where he worked as a journalist, business consultant and association executive. Their plans are to spend much of the year in the Washington, D.C., suburbs near their five grandchildren but to return each summer to their vacation home on the Aegean coast of Turkey.
Don.cofman@verizon.net

The '70s

Luan Akin ('72) retired from Denver's KCNC-Channel 4 in May. Akin has been a fixture in Denver media, even meeting and marrying her husband on company time. But ever the journalist, Akin got a shot of a funnel cloud as she flew back to Stapleton International Airport before leaving for her honeymoon.

William Blackwell ('73) is an attorney with a focus on entertainment law. Blackwell represents musicians and screenwriters in Beverly Hills and says he's always looking for a screenplay that could turn into "the next big movie project."
wwblackwell@hotmail.com

Steve Sander ('74), director of strategic marketing for the city of Denver, coordinated the city's marketing efforts for the Democratic National Convention, developed the marketing strategy for the city's 150-year anniversary celebration and helped launch Denver's Greenprint marketing initiatives.

James Aucoin (MA '76) is the author of "The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism," published in 2005. A Korean translation was more recently published by the Korea Press Association. Aucoin spent 14 years working in newspapers and is now an associate professor of journalism at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He received his Ph.D. in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1993.

Tom Brock ('76), the CEO and publisher at Brock Publishing, says he is "still in business after 31 years." The company produces Boulder Magazine, House and Garden Magazine and several custom publications.
tom@brockpub.com

Terry Frei ('76) is the author of "'77: Denver, The Broncos, and a Coming of Age," his third book.

Steve Krizman ('77) is the associate vice chancellor for communication at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Science Center. Previously, he was at Kaiser Permanente as director of corporate communications and at the Rocky Mountain News as an assistant city. He has also worked at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Boulder Daily Camera and the Longmont Daily Times-Call.

Steve Mease ('77) is the communications director at Champlain Valley Exposition. He lives in the Burlington, Vt., area.

Jim Saccomano ('77), vice president of public relations for the Denver Broncos, is the author of "Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Bronco Football."

Tom Walek ('79) is the agency founder and president of Walek & Associates Inc., one of the largest and fastest-growing independent financial and corporate public relations firms in the United States. In October, he announced the opening of the company's second office in Hong Kong, where it will represent Marco Polo Pure Asset Management, Abax Global Capital and London-based Hedge Fund Intelligence.
Twalek@walek.com