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The '60s
Robert Knight ('67) has completed "The Craft of Clarity: A Journalistic Approach to Good Writing." The book is scheduled to be published by the Iowa State University Press in March 1998. He is night city editor at The Evening Sun in Hanover, Pa., and teaches English part time at a community college in Frederick, Md. Knight received his master's degree from DePaul University in 1995 and has taught journalistic writing at Northwestern University for 14 years.
The '70s
Chris Smith ('75 MA) owns a public relations agency, CC Communications of Long Beach, Calif., where he undertakes a variety of commercial writing, marketing communications and free-lance projects. He has completed his third "client-authored" book called "Mentoring -- The Most Obvious and Overlooked Key to Achieving More in Life than You Dreamed Possible" by Floyd Wickman and Terri Sjodin, published by Times-Mirror. He is also on the staffs of several magazines, including "Wine & Dine -- Food, Wine and Lifestyle," where he is editor-in-chief.
Michael Knisley ('76 MA) is spending the academic year at the University of Michigan after being awarded a Michigan Journalism Fellowship. He is a senior writer for The Sporting News in St. Louis.
Michael Armstrong ('77) has been named to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency Mitigation Directorate with responsibility for initiatives designed to reduce the human and economic costs of disasters. He lives in Arvada.
Gloria Bucco ('78) started a Longmont writing and consulting firm in 1996. She also writes articles on health for national trade and consumer publications.
Rob Reuteman ('78 MA) is business editor of the Rocky Mountain News. He joined the News in 1983 as assistant city editor and has served as state/region editor, city editor and national editor.
 A Colorado Avalanche fan leaps over a fire in the street after the team brought Denver its first pro sports national championship. (Photo by James Keivom) |
The '80sTimothy
K. Coy ('80) was recently promoted to the position of advertorial page
designer/writer at the Rocky Mountain News. In the spring he began co-authoring a column
in the classifieds motorcycle section titled "The Saturday Ride."
William K. Truettner ('81) is public relations manager for Hewlett Packard Co. in Roseville, Calif. He is president of the Public Relations Society of America's Sacramento chapter. Patrice G. Wendling ('81) won the Wisconsin Newspaper Association's award for best business coverage in 1996. She is a business reporter for The Capital Times in Madison. |
Shelley Finegan Wright ('81) is vice president and manager of Blair Television, a national TV sales representative firm in Miami, Fla.
Kurt Chandler ('82) is an author, teacher and free-lance writer in Milwaukee. He won the top award for nonfiction from the Council for Wisconsin Writers and the 1997 Silver Award for excellence in writing from the City and Regional Magazine Association for a Milwaukee Magazine profile of novelist Jacquelyn Mitchard.
Jana Barracks ('83) is a senior producer for Channel 8, the City of Boulder Municipal Channel. She joined the City as publicity coordinator for the Boulder Public Library and moved to Channel 8 when it was founded in 1985.
John O'Laughlin ('83) announced the birth of his son Ryan James in September with the creation of a Web Site at http://members. aol. com/jolaugh. O'Laughlin is promotion and marketing manager for KDVR FOX-31 in Denver. He and wife Alison got immediate e-mail responses to baby Ryan's pictures from friends and relatives all over the country.
Carol Ellingboe ('84) has been editor of Boulder Magazine since 1990 and is also editor of programs for the Chautauqua Summer Festival, the Colorado Music Festival and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. She is engaged to be married to Tom Brock ('76 MA).
Tracey Williams ('84) is a reporter for the Aurora Sentinel.
Clint Talbot ('85), editor of the Colorado Daily, won first place for editorials from the Colorado Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Graham Hill ('86) is community development director for Trans2 in Boulder. He helped create a provision in Colorado, signed into law in April, that allows neighborhood electric vehicles to operate on local streets.
David Algeo ('87), business reporter for The Denver Post, was named Health Reporter of the year by the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado for coverage of health care legislation and the conversion of nonprofit medical systems to for-profit corporations. Algeo was also recognized by the Mental Health Association of Colorado and the Colorado Alliance for the Mentally Ill for his coverage of health care legislation during the 1997 session.
Karen Barancik ('87) is associate counsel for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in Springfield. She married Robert Bernoteit in April.
Ed Duffy ('87) is a partner in Safety Management Solutions, a Chicago-based management consulting firm.
Craig Jacobin ('87) is a management supervisor with Young & Rubicam in Irvine, Calif.
Lisa Lashkowitz Shamon ('87) lives in Denver. She has a 2-year-old daughter. She and husband Paul Shamon are expecting another child in April.
Gina Amato ('89) is hospitality director and public relations assistant for Bandimere Speedway in Morrison after spending seven years in television news in Denver.
Leanna Clark ('89), former director of public relations for Cactus Communications in Denver, has joined Schenkein/Sherman as an account group manager.
LaTanya Hall ('89) delighted the hometown crowd in November at the Buell Theatre in Denver with her lead role in the national tour of "Dreamgirls."
Andy Tarica ('89) has been named associate editor of Alaska Airlines Magazine and Midwest Express Magazine.
 An ambitious Elvis impersonator loads up on carbohydrates during the 1997 Bolder Boulder. (Photo by James Keivom) |
The '90s David Harrison ('90) is a staff photographer for The Topeka Capital-Journal. He was previously chief photographer at the Longmont Daily Times-Call. Christopher King ('90 MA) is principal of Boulder High School. He received his Ph.D. in educational leadership from CU-Denver in 1996. Denise S. Lenz Kotek ('90) is a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She completed work on a Master of Public Policy Degree in 1995. Her first child was born this year. |
Monty Miranda ('90) produced the television spots running in Colorado as part of the Lotto's new "Strange But True" campaign. The 10-second spots are re-enactments of true, but wacky, events including a man who was arrested with 21 live pigeons in his pants and a man working under the hood of a car while it traveled down a freeway. The tag line is "Stranger things have happened than you winning Lotto." The campaign was produced by a Karsh & Hagan Communication team under creative director Don Poole ('83).
Emily Narvaes ('90) covers real estate for The Denver Post business section.
Anne-Marie Steinkuller ('90) is a reporter for The Winchester Star in Winchester, Mass.
Jennifer Viers ('90) is a sixth-grade teacher in Broomfield. She received her master's degree from Marymount University in Arlington, Va.
Jonathan Wexler ('90) lives in Louisville and handles marketing and endorsement work for professional athletes.
Bente Bjornsen ('91) is studying toward a master's degree in International and Intercultural Communications at the University of Denver and is a graduate assistant for DU's Department of Athletics Media Relations Office. She returned to Colorado in 1996 after spending two years in Norway.
Andrea Brown ('91) is a graphic artist at The Denver Post.
Mark Cohen ('91) is art director for Chiat Day in Venice, Calif.
Jeanne Spence Goldberg ('91), a former assistant media buyer at Thomas and Perkins Advertising in Denver, moved to Albuquerque where she is staying at home with her two daughters, ages 6 months and 2 years.
Kelly Justice ('91) is communications manager for REI Real Estate Services in Carmel, Ind. She is serving as president of the CU Alumni Association chapter in Indianapolis.
Christine Mahoney Rubin ('91) is a reporter/anchor at KTNV-TV in Las Vegas, Nev. She got married in the summer of 1996.
Jon Weil ('91) works in Houston for the Texan Journal, a regional edition of The Wall Street Journal. He reports for the "Heard in Texas" section on publicly traded companies.
Thomas Brown ('92) received his master's from Northwestern University's Integrated Marketing Communications program. He is now an account planner at Deutsch Inc. in New York.
Alexandra DeNeve ('92) graduated magna cum laude from law school at Tulane. She is an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago.
Susan Holes ('92) is the director of the Eldora Mountain Ski Club.
Matthew Hundley ('92) has been working in promotion and marketing at WDTN-TV in Dayton, Ohio, for two years. He had been in promotions at KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids.
Cameron Morfit ('92) has joined the staff of Sports Illustrated in New York City as a reporter.
Anjali Budhiraja Olgeirson ('92) is earning a master's in business administration from Denver University's Daniels College of Business. She is also working for the college as a media relations specialist.
Ian Olgeirson ('92) was the lead writer on a special report in The Denver Business Journal on the $3 billion intelligence industry in Colorado that received the certificate of merit from the Society of American Business Editors and Reporters.
Lisa Paul ('92) is editor for Infocare, a bimonthly magazine focusing on the use of computers in managed care. She moved to Minneapolis after McGraw-Hill purchased the magazine from Englewood-based Wiesner Publishing.
John Pribble III ('92 MA) has joined Integrate Inc., a strategic marketing and brand communications company in Columbus, Ohio. He is director of strategic marketing.
Sarinastiti (Nia) Sukanto ('92 MA) is account director for Mercurindo Integrated Communication Services in Jakarta Selatan, Indonesia.
Holly Duncan ('93) is a student at Northwestern University in the master's program in Integrated Marketing Communication.
Enrique Garcia ('93) is an announcer for Denver radio station KMXA-1090 AM, Denver's first Spanish-language radio station. With its sister station, Radio Romantica 92.1 FM, KMXA has captured 90 percent of the Hispanic market, according to Arbitron Co. ratings
Chris Hassett ('93) earned President's Club honors for the third consecutive year for Mutual of Omaha in Englewood. He married Heidi Kovatosich in June.
Angela Johnson ('93) is a feature film and television publicist for Castle Rock Entertainment in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Kristin Yantis ('93) is communications manager at Keystone resort where she lives.
Damon Zier ('93) has been named assistant director of media relations for the Colorado Avalanche. He lives in Parker.
Jennifer Beauprez ('94) moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where she works for Crains Cleveland Business Journal. She covers technology.
Gregory K. Corns ('94) is broadcast control operator for DIRECTV Inc. of Castle Rock.
Melissa Petersen ('94) has joined the client service team at JayRay Ads & PR in Tacoma, Wash., as an account coordinator. Previously she worked in seminar planning, pubic relations for Nike and business-to-business marketing and hospitality marketing.
Dan Revitte ('94), a page designer and copy editor for The Denver Post, recently completed a seven-month trip around the world.
Heather Harrison Thorwald ('94) has returned to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival as a public relations/marketing assistant. She worked for the Festival in the summer after her graduation.
Kelly Williams ('94) is a public relations and education assistant for the American Animal Hospital Association in Lakewood.
 An employee at Nick-N-Willy's pizza flips some dough. (Photo by James Keivom) |
Jacob Benjamin ('95) is a copywriter for The
Integer Group in Denver. Jillian Cohen ('95 MA) left her job as a copy editor for the San Francisco Chronicle and is now associate editor for NewMedia Magazine in San Mateo, Calif. Stanley Gorton ('95) is a reporter for the Lafayette News-Louisville Times. Julie Luplow ('95) worked for ESPN before becoming a marketing specialist for America's Health Network of Aurora in early 1996. |
Libby McGrane ('95) moved to Ketchikan, Alaska, in November to work as an assistant to the editor of the Ketchikan Daily News. She will report and edit.
Robb Moody ('95) is executive producer of radio coverage for Ascent Sports in Denver, the parent company for the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche.
Denise Schoengold ('95) left KBVI radio station in Boulder and now works for Chameleon Creative, also in Boulder.Christopher Brion ('96) is an animator for Comedy Central's "South Park." He lives in Highlands Ranch.
Jon Davidman ('96) is national account manager for Audionet of Dallas.
Jon A. Dolezar ('96) is a package editor and associate producer for CNN/SI sports news network in Atlanta. He has been nominated for a Cable Ace Award.
Ashley Ryan Gaddis ('96 MA) is education reporter for Syracuse Newspapers in New York. She is expecting her first child in March.
Chin-Lam Goh ('96) is a graphic designer for CU Publications and Marketing.
Tena Goy ('96) is an account manager with The Integer Group in Denver.
Carol Kauder ('96 MA) is a health and fitness reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera and a writer for Satellite Publishing in Broomfield.
Michelle Moore ('96 MA) is marketing project manager for Amrion Inc. of Boulder.
Jeremy Nichols ('96) is a photographer and reporter for KHGI TV/NTV in Grand Island, Neb.
Matthew Ostrowski ('96) is marketing/operations manager for Medical Environment Inc. of Boulder.
Ozlin Ozair ('96) is assistant account executive for Bozell Worldwide in Malaysia.
Rendi Phelps ('96) is a market analyst for American Express in New York, N.Y.
Kevin Pirch ('96) worked for the Copley News Service in Washington, D.C., during the spring as his internship assignment with the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism. He is now a reporter for the Steamboat Pilot.
Juanita Robinson ('96) is assistant editor at Stitches magazine in Englewood.
Brent Schrotenboer ('96) is a sportswriter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He had worked for papers in Louisiana and Arizona.
Matt Sebastian ('96) is a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera.
Chris Terry ('96 MA) taught English in Europe for a year and now is a public relations specialist for USCAR in Southfield, Mich.
Maureen Undlin ('96) is a communications associate for Colorado Gov. Roy Romer's office.
Sara Yelton ('96) is a copy editor at the Vail Daily in Vail, Colo.
Amy Bounds ('97) is a reporter for the Longmont Daily Times-Call.
Annie Hill ('97) is a reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera.
Anthony Martini ('97) is sports reporter and weekend weather anchor at KJCT-TV in Grand Junction.
Laura Porterfield ('97) is editor at Across Media Network in Golden, a company that produces photo advertisements for cable.
Audrey Ward ('97 MA) is director of communications for the University of North Carolina Law School.
