The School's Symbolism, Media and the Lifecourse project, headed by Interim Dean Stewart Hoover, shone in the international spotlight this past summer. Dean Hoover kicked off the Third International Conference on Media, Religion and Culture in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July. He delivered the opening speech, which he titled "The Converging Worlds of Religion and the Media."

Lynn Schofield Clark, the School's first post-doctoral fellow, was interviewed by a number of Scottish national newspapers, as well as BBC radio and television. Three other project members -- doctoral students Diane Alters, Joe Champ and Lee Hood -- also presented papers. The Lifecourse project examines a number of themes relating to families and media use.

The entire team also presented papers at the International Communication Association conference in San Francisco in May.

Kay Rock retires Ardyth Sohn, left, former associate professor at the School, chats with Kay Rock during a retirement party in September honoring Rock's more than 20 years of service to the School and CU.

Photo by Larry Harwood, CU Institutional Relations

KVCU gets favorable
attention in first year

Only a year old in November, CU's new radio station has already won critical acclaim. Favorable news stories and reviews about KVCU The AM Revolution appeared in all Denver and Boulder daily newspapers and several entertainment-oriented weeklies.

Student participation continues to grow rapidly, allowing more programming opportunities, said station manager Jim Musil.

Chavez honored by
U.S. editorial writers

Ray Chavez, SJMC faculty member, has been named the 1999 recipient of the Barry Bingham Sr. Fellowship from the National Conference of Editorial Writers Foundation.
The fellowship is presented annually to a journalism educator committed to preparing minority students for successful careers in journalism.

Chavez directs the School's Office of Student Diversity. The foundation cites him for his dedication to recruiting, teaching, mentoring and retaining minority students at CU-Boulder.

Chavez is a two-time winner of the National Teaching Award for Excellence from the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.

Dellaria PSA earns
Regional Emmy

Senior Broadcast Production major Peter Dellaria was awarded a Regional Emmy in September for a public service announcement he produced that promoted female athletes. The PSA has been aired during the School's "NewsTeam Boulder" broadcasts on cable channel 55 in Boulder and during telecasts of University basketball and volleyball games.

Opportunity knocks
for broadcast students

When big news happens in Boulder, broadcast students get hired.
Some students in "NewsTeam Boulder" as well as TV Reporting and Production 2 classes were hired by ABC Wide World of Sports to work as runners during the Sept. 18 CU vs. University of Kansas football game.

Dave Briggs, Brian Wilcox and Stacy Olson were subsequently hired to work for ABC at the World Skating Championships in Colorado Springs, Oct. 26-30.

Students got more network experience for CNN, CBS and NBC in October when the Boulder County grand jury finished its investigation into the murder of JonBenet Ramsey.

Some students working for CNN drove back and forth between the Boulder County Justice Center and the CNN workspace on 30th Street with tapes and information.

Julie Hong, meanwhile, worked with the CBS movie crew shooting the film version of the story, set to run early next year.

Reaccreditation visit set
for early '00 by ASJMC

Trevor R. Brown, dean of the Indiana University School of Journalism in Bloomington, will visit the School on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1. Brown's stop follows a visit in October 1998 by a reaccreditation site team from the Association of Schools of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Brown will review the School's administration, facilities and adjunct supervision, areas the ASJMC site team found to be in need of improvement. Presently, the School is on "provisional" status on two standards pending Brown's recommendation to the ASJMC Accreditation Committee in the spring of 2000.

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Pre '50s

Goodrich Walton ('37) is a retired journalist. He lives in Lakewood with his wife, Dorothy.
John Buchanan ('40) lives in Nederland with his wife, Doris. They co-authored "Ghost Town Caribou," the history of a Colorado's silver mining camp. Buchanan is a retired columnist for The Denver Post's Sunday Empire Magazine.


The '50s

Jerry Kopel ('51) received the second-place award for public service from the Colorado Press Association for his weekly legislative column in the Colorado Statesman. Kopel, who retired from the state Legislature in 1992 after 22 years in the Colorado House of Representatives, has received three of the yearly awards from the CPA during his six years of column writing.

Dolores Dyer Johnson ('53) is the author of a humorous mystery series about a dry cleaner/amateur sleuth in Denver. The books are, "Taken to the Cleaners," "Hung Up to Die," "A Dress to Die For" and "Wash, Fold, and Die." All have been reprinted by the Mystery Guild Book Club, through which the first book was selected by readers as a finalist in a New Discovery Award contest. She lives in Aurora.

Paul Albright ('57), a retired director of communications for the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, will return to the CU-Boulder Alumni Association Board of Directors after a 12-year hiatus. Paul also serves on the School's Advisory Board. He lives in Boulder.

The '60s

Anne Williamson Air ('66) retired in 1998 after 30 years of flying for international air carriers, mostly to Asia, Europe and the South Pacific and is now co-owner of Everett Ridge Winery. She and her husband, Jack, bought the California winery in 1996 and since then has developed a line of premium wines, designed a Web site www.everettridge.com and created promotional literature, special pours and public events to generate enthusiasm for the fledgling business. "I'm finally using my journalism degree after all these years," she writes. She lives in Healdsburg, Calif.

The '70s

Bonnie Sherman ('72) is CEO of Child Health Advocates in Glendale. She has led development of the Colorado Child Health Plan into a statewide program delivering health care to 15,000 children. She lives in Littleton. clan
miller@aol.com, Bonnie.Sherman@cchp.org

Larry D. Hall ('74) is president of JDI Consulting Group in Newport Beach, Calif. He lives in Tuscany Hills.

Frank Monatrelli ('76) was named director of public affairs for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division headquarters in Patuxent River, Md. He and his wife live in California, Md.

Susan Eastman Walton ('77) is director of Inside Communications Inc. of Boulder. She left her job as special sections editor with the birth of her third child in 1998, but is still involved with the company. ICI publishes Velo News, Inside Triathlon and Velo Business magazines and includes Velo Books, Velo Catalogue and an interactive Web site. seastman@7dogs.com

Timothy L. Alger ('79 MA) is an attorney for the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, a multinational law firm. He specializes in representing major media and entertainment companies in litigation involving defamation, privacy, contract, access and reporter subpoenas. talger@gdclaw.com

Donna Marek ('79) is the self-employed executive producer/director of "Good Sports," an extreme-sports TV series seen in Colorado. She is working to establish the program's national distribution.

The '80s

Lynn R. Bridson ('80) and her husband, Paul, are taking some time with their two daughters, Nicole, 8, and Michelle, 6, to explore New Zealand. They are considering relocating there. She writes: "We are currently in the forestry industry in the South Island. The business name is the Catlins Forestry Co."

Kaye Bache-Snyder ('81 MA) has had three of her literary works honored recently. Her poem, "River fading ever into night," won first place in the poetry competition category of the National Federation of Presswomen, both in Colorado and nationally. It was published in the March 28, 1998, issue of America. Her short story, "The Fires of Memory," was published in November 1998 by The Vincent Brothers Review and won first place in the NFOW fiction category. The awards were presented in Nashville in June. Also, her story, "Like No Other," won third place in the 1999 fiction competition sponsored by the Mobile, Ala.-based literary journal Negative Capability.

Lynn Kimbrough ('81) was recently named communications director for Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter. Previously, she was an independent consultant specializing in media training and communications projects. She was the public information officer for the Lakewood Police Department for five years and worked for more than a decade in radio news in the Denver area.

Shelley Stepanik Eater ('81) is human resources and office manager for Greenbar Corp. in Denver. She serves on the board of directors for the American Liver Foundation.

Pattie Logan ('82) is an independent producer and writer, working with Denver companies that produce programs for Home and Garden TV. She also has done work for VH1, Encore Media, the International Channel, MSNBC and Fox Sports Rocky Mountain. A film she scripted about Great Smoky Mountains National Park is to be shown in the park's visitors' center.

Shannon Luthy Lukens ('82) is a ski columnist and radio reporter for AMI News, the No. 1 snowsport Web site on the Internet (www.aminews.com) . Her column is "My Rockies." In March, she and her husband, Jeffrey, had their third child, Elizabeth. They live in Highlands Ranch. ShannonLL@earthlink.net

Sharon Smith-Mauney ('82) is self-employed and living in Alameda, Calif. ssmauney@aol.com

Claire Curry ('86) started her own business in 1997 as a marketing consultant and business writer. She writes marketing literature, press materials and magazine articles for a number of organizations in Manhattan and on Long Island. Some of her marketing and public relations clients are Adelphi University, the Girl Scouts and Distinction Magazine. Previously, she was chief marketing officer for a marketing communications firm in Manhattan and a marketing officer for Chase Manhattan Bank. clairecurry@earthlink.com

Gary Gleason ('86) owns and operates an Aspen marketing consulting business, Communique (www.communique-usa.com, www.Communique
-USA.com). The focus of his work is marketing strategy, copywriting, and editorial assignments. He is a public affairs reservist for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Since joining FEMA a little over a year ago, he has worked in South Dakota in connection with the Spencer tornado and ongoing flooding problems, Puerto Rico after it was hit by Hurricane Georges and Colorado during flooding along the Arkansas, South Platte and Big Thompson rivers. He lives in Basalt. communique@aspeninfo.com

Elizabeth Gold ('86) is a Boulder free-lance writer and publishing consultant. Her story "Finding the Cure for Famine" appeared in the October edition of The Coloradan.

Graham Hill ('86) was presented CU's Alumni Recognition Award in May. He is a former member of the CU Alumni Association's national board and of the Boulder alumni club board. He chaired the 10-year reunion of his CU class.
Lisa Hughes O'Neil ('86) is a marketing consultant in Charleston, S.C. She lives with her husband, Chris, and three children in Summerville. TheONeils@aol.com

Caroline Tu Farley ('83), (86 MA) is business manager for Alaken Publishing in Fort Collins, publisher of the Journal of Natural Toxins. Since graduating, she has worked for Westword, the Denver Broncos Football Club, J. Walter Thompson's New York City office and Integrated Medical Systems. She is married to CU Political Science alum E. Shedden Farley and has a 4-year-old daughter, Grace Mitsuye. csgfarley@aol.com

Douglas Buchanan ('87) graduated from the CU School of Medicine in May and is doing a residency in Corpus Christi, Texas. Previously, he was in Denver radio for seven years, including five years a producer of the Hal & Charley morning show on KHOW. He left radio, married Karin King and decided to pursue a medical career. They have a daughter, Karli, 1.

Bart Emery ( '87) works for Kingsbury Design on Pearl Street in Boulder.
Craig Jacobin ('87) is vice president and account director for Young & Rubicam in Irvine, Calif. His first child, Zoe, arrived on Valentine's Day.

Craig Kurtz ('87) and Karen Kurtz ('88) work at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix. Craig is a senior designer working on various projects including Web redesign, and Karen is a night city editor. Previously, they worked at the Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., where Craig was presentation editor and Karen was assistant managing editor.

Sheryl Oring ('87) designed Writer's Block, an art installation consisting of steel cages filled with World War II-period typewriters. The piece debuted on Bebelplatz Square in Berlin, where Nazi students burned thousands of books on May 10, 1933.

Camber L. Boland ('88) works for Six Lakes Directory in Lenora, Kan.
Paul Maddex ('88) is a producer for TCI Media Services in Jackson Hole, Wyo. bkmpmm@aol.com

Michael Mehle ('89) is the rock music critic for the Denver Rocky Mountain News.

Breck F. Larson ('89) is a self-employed producer and photographer. He lives in Englewood.



The '90s


1990

Cindy Matthews ('90) is community outreach director and public information officer for West Metro Fire Rescue. She lives in Lakewood.

1991

Christine Mahoney-Rubin ('91) was recently promoted to morning and midday anchor at Fox affiliate KVVU-TV in Las Vegas for startup shows that began airing in July and September. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband, Ari (A&S '91). BIGVEGAS@aol.com

Joe Nahra ('91) is staff counsel for IMG football in Kansas City. He graduated from law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1998. Previously, he covered CU women's basketball for The Buffalo Sports News and was marketing director for the Courage Classic bicycle tour to benefit Children's Hospital in Denver.

Betty James ('91) is a medical and legal consultant in Boulder. She founded the Alienated Parents Association (www.apa4kids.org). apa4kids@xpi.net

Deborah (Privatera) Lagomarsino ('91) was promoted to monetary policy and economics reporter at Bridge News in New York City. She appears about once a month on the national television news program Nightly Business Report discussing the outlook for U.S. interest rates and the economy. She lives in Weehawken, N.J.

Heather (Hill) Stull ('91) is co-owner and vice president of marketing and events for Event by Nora Inc. of Denver, a full-service planning company specializing in corporate events. She was married in 1998 to Dr. Philip Stull. heather@eventbynora.com

Carl Walston ('91 MA) is creative director for Mule Mountain Creative in Bisbee, Ariz., a former mining town and now an arts community. He spends half the year in Guatemala. He writes: "In Arizona, I'm a creative consultant to ad agencies and write for Arizona publications like Tucson Lifestyle magazine. In Guatemala, I'm working on a book titled "The Presidents and Me" with the former personal pilot to the last six presidents of the country. He tells me he can tell of his experiences now, whereas earlier it would have been dangerous."

John Weil ('91) married Jennifer Norton in June in Little Rock. He is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Texas regional edition in Dallas.

1992

Susan Schwartz ('92) covers the small industrial town of Berwick for the Bloomsburg, Pa., Press Enterprise. In May she won a Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association award for a series on corruption in a Berwick industrial development group.

Sarinastiti "Nia" Sukanto ('92 MA) left the Indonesian Forestry Community, where she worked for almost five years, and joined Anderson Consulting as a marketing and communications manager. She is pursuing a doctorate in communications science at the University of Indonesia.

Katie Trexler ('92) is an anchor and investigative reporter at WDIV-TV in Detroit.
Lisa Yost Palmer ('92) is an account supervisor for Carat North America in La Jolla, Calif.

1993

Stephanie Bourland ('93) is a reporter at WFMY in Greensboro, N.C.
Mark Deutchman ('93 MA) is a videotape supervisor and editor for CNN in Atlanta.

Julie Naasko Deutscher ('93) is a reporter at The Issaquah Press in Redmond, Wash., a weekly in suburban Seattle.

Holly Duncan ('93) received a master's degree from Northwestern University in Integrated Marketing Communications, after which she moved to Telluride for the winter. She moved back to her native San Francisco in the spring and is now an account supervisor at Ketchum Public Relations there. holly.duncan@ketchum.com

Kathleen Finn Mendola ('93 MA) moved to Portland, Ore., where she has been free-lancing for health and wellness publications. Her first child was due in September.

Marc Hertz ('93) lives in San Francisco and works at LookSmart (www.looksmart.com) where he is helping to develop a product called LookSmart Live! (www.looksmart.com/live). He is also writing movie reviews for the San Francisco Independent. He would like to hear from former classmates. mahertz@mindspring.com

Mike Hurt ('93 MA) is a brand manager for Pete's Brewing Co. in San Antonio.
Suzanne Lainson ('93 MA) is president of Sport Trust in Boulder.

Kelly McKenna ('93 MA) is senior database marketing consultant for Paragren Technologies in Reston, Va. She lives in Washington, D.C.

Leo Park ('93 MA) lives in Seoul, Korea. parkleo@hotmail.com
Jennifer Schram ('93) does the weather five days a week at WNDU-TV in South Bend, Ind.

Ingrid Shepherd ('93 MA) works for Exabyte Corp. in Boulder.
Lianne Taylor-Martin ('93 MA) works for Stratecom in Boulder. She lives in Englewood.

Greg Verspohl ('93) is working for KMGH-TV in Denver.

Aric Weiker ('93) is business development manager for Microsoft in Redmond, Wash. He lives in Seattle. His daughter was born in July. aricw@microsoft.com

Trish Wood ('93 MA) is senior database analyst for Amrion in Boulder.

1994

Tom Barth ('94 MA) is vice president for corporate development at Elcom International in Norwood, Mass. He lives in Boston.

Dave Browning ('94) is working at KKTV-TV in Colorado Springs.

Mark Bubula ('94 MA) is an account supervisor at Kruskopf Olson in Minneapolis.

Laura Chan ('94 MA) works for JWT Specialized Communications in Los Angeles.

Michael Cruz ('94 MA) is brand manager for Coors Brewing Co. in Golden. He lives in Denver. michael.cruz@coors.com

Ken Giffin ('94 MA) works for BI-Performance Services in Minneapolis.

Manjot Kochar ('94 MA) is the manager of integrated marketing communications at CSAA in San Francisco.

Heather Moran ('94 MA) works in the Communications and Public Affairs Division of Marketing Communications Imitation Enterprises Corporation in Oakdale, Minn. She lives in St. Paul. hlburandt@imation.com

Shannon Mounts Peddicord ('94) is a free-lance writer for a corporate media department in San Antonio. She teaches mass media writing courses at the University of New Mexico. She lives in Rio Rancho, N.M.

Rebecca Nurse ('94 MA) is a network specialist for the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development in Juneau.

Lauren Perkins ('94) is main anchor for KAKE-TV in Wichita.

Mary Robertson Lewis ('94 MA) is project manager at Landor Associates in Seattle. mary_lewis@se.landor.com

1995

Suzanne Cohen ('95 MA) is a sales consultant for AT&T Wireless Services in Chicago.

Jim Costello ('95) is the multimedia operations manager for iAM.com in Santa Monica, Calif., in the field of digital decompression for the Internet. He is working on the second record with his band, Denny House, due out in January.
Brett Donnals ('95) is a photographer at WMC-TV in Memphis. He and WMC reporter/anchor Carrie Luebcke McClure ('97) came to Colorado to do reports on students going back to school this fall at Columbine High School.

Lauren Durchsprung ('95 MA) is a marketing communication specialist at BISYS Plan Services in Ambler, Pa. She lives in Warminster, Pa.

Kristin Greco ('95) is marketing coordinator for Woodcrest Homes in Denver. She created a marketing and advertising program for the new branch of a Washington-based homebuilder. Two years ago, she married Giovanni Greco, a CU theater major. kristingreco@hotmail.com

Joe Hanel ('95) spent the late summer and fall traveling in Germany, Russia, Mongolia and China. He's now back at the Longmont Daily Times Call as news editor.

Ollie Kirkpatrick ('95) left CU's athletic relations department and now works for Charles Schwab in Denver.

Monica Kurtz ('95 MA) is a marketing consultant in Evergreen. monicak@rmi.net

Joe Lindsey ('95), after a two and a half-year stint as an associate editor for Bicyclist magazine in Los Angeles, returned to Boulder in October 1998 to pursue a free-lance career as a journalist, photographer and Web site designer specializing in outdoor sports. He is a contributing editor for Bike magazine, and his work has been published in Gravity, InLine Retailer, Mountain Biker, Dirt Rider, GORP.com and mountainbike.com, among other publications and Web sites. He just finished building a Web site for Bike. lindseyjoe@earthlink.net

Patricia Love ('95) was recently promoted to managing director at MRA Brand in Boulder. She writes: "I am working on the final draft of my Great American Novel in my spare time." mrslove@ibm.net

Jared Roy ('95 MA) is an account supervisor at Risdall Linnihan Advertising in New Brighton, Minn. jroy@bitstream.net, jared@risdall.com

Chris (Roybal) Romero ('95) is continuing his studies at the University of New Mexico School of Law and will graduate in May. He lives in Albuquerque.
Serena Schonbrun ('95) joined Miles Advertising in Denver as a senior copywriter in 1998.

Holly Wagstaff-Bellomo ('95) recently started a new venture called the Gene Pool, a brokering service of independent free-lancers who offer expertise for short- and long-term marketing and advertising projects (www.genepoolteam.com). She formerly worked for McCann-Erickson and GBSM. Married in 1996, she lives in Denver. hollywb@genepoolteam.com

1996

Nicole Casanova ('96 MA) works at Mypoints, San Francisco, Calif.

Kristin Fanch ('96 MA) is an archaeological consultant and free-lance writer in Boulder.

Brian Friedrich ('96) is a copywriter for Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. He works with the Nike, Budweiser and E-trade accounts. brian_friedrich@gspsf.com

Bob Frier ('96) was a weekend anchor at KRDO-TV in Colorado Springs, and in July 1998 moved to Oklahoma City where he is the 5 and 6:30 p.m. weekday anchor at KFOR-TV.

Valencia C. Grinage ('96 MA) was recently promoted to the position of journal production editor at Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins in Dallas, Texas.
Richard Judd ('96) lives in Denver.

Sabine Kortals ('96 MA) was awarded a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship, allowing her to work as a journalist in Germany, including a stint with the newspaper Die Zeit in Hamburg. She expects to return to the United States by summer.

Jacqueline Schutty ('96 MA) is an account executive and team leader for Tunheim Santrizos in Minneapolis. She manages the fashion account for Target Stores. jschutty@tunheim.com

Holly Shiftlett ('96 MA) is a marketing associate for strategic planning and marketing at Centura Health in Denver. She lives in Lakewood.

Lisa Siracuse ('96 MA) is vice president at the Gronstedt Group Integrated Marketing Communication Consulting Firm in Superior. She lives in Lafayette.
David Soliday ('96 MA) is manager of database marketing and business analysis at Domino's Pizza Inc. in Ann Arbor, Mich. solidad@dominos.com

Chris Vanderveen ('96) is working for KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs.

1997

Keri Barron ('97) is assistant to the head of the TVLit Department at Creative Artists Agency in Beverly Hills, Calif. She lives in Hermosa Beach. keribarron@msn.com

Brenda Bramwell ('97) formerly worked for Goldberg Moser O'Neil and then Publicis and Hal Riney in San Francisco. After taking six months off to travel, she took a position as a junior account executive with Livengood & Company Inc. in Portland, Ore. She handles regional KFC business and other accounts.

Laila Carpenter ('97 MA) is a marketing specialist for The Radiance Group Inc. in Boulder. She lives in Lafayette. lailacarpenter@usa.net

Elizabeth Daerr ('97) in June was promoted to news editor of National Parks Magazine in Washington, D.C., after a year as an editorial assistant. She lives in Rockville, Md.

Dan Gruidel ('97 MA) is marketing director for Audio Adventures Inc. in Boulder. dgruidel@audioadventures.com

Shannon Hogan ('97 MA) is an assistant account manager for the Sterling-Rice Group in Boulder. She lives in Denver. shogan@srg.com

Carrie Luebcke McClure ('97) is anchoring the morning and noon newscast, doing general assignment reporting and anchoring the 5 p.m. "Healthcast" at her station at WMC-TV in Memphis (wmcstations.com). She and WMC photographer Brett Donnals ('95 MA) came to Colorado to do reports on students going back to school this fall at Columbine High School, her alma mater.

Anthony Martini ('97) is at KJCT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Grand Junction where he is a news reporter and an anchor for "News 8 This Morning."
Stephanie Pytlinski ('97) is working at KKTV-TV in Colorado Springs.
Adam Renfrow ('97) is an account coordinator for Catapult PR-IR, L.L.C. in Boulder. arenfrow@catapultpr-ir.com

Laura Schneider ('97 MA) is a customer marketing specialist at EchoStar Communication Corp./DISH Network in Littleton. She lives in Denver.

Audrey Ward ('97 MA) is director of communication at the School of Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. warda@e-mail.unc.edu, audrey_ward@mindspring.com

1998

Lindsay Anhold ('98 MA) is assistant director of athletic media relations at CU-Boulder. Lindsay.Anhold@colorado.edu

Brian Barker ('98) is a general assignment reporter for KOAA-TV in Colorado Springs. Previously he was a producer at KUSA-TV in Denver and a reporter at KIMA-TV in Yakima, Wash. He lives in Monument. barkernews@yahoo.com, bbarker@koaa.com

Theresa Benda ('98) is on the Congressional staff of U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard. She lives in Englewood.

Craig Berkley ('98 MA) works for WorldGate Communications Inc. in Trevose, Pa. He lives in Princeton, N.J.

Laurel Busby ('98) works at Silver Lion Films in Los Angeles.

Rexanne Call ('98 MA) is an international desk assignment editor for CNN in Atlanta.

Cori Cusack ('98) is a producer at KKTV-TV in Colorado Springs. cusack_cori@hotmail.com

Erika Davila ('98) is a reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican.

Lt. Col. Jay DeFrank ('98 Ph.D) is chief of the media operations division for the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Office of Public Affairs. Georgetown University recently appointed him to be an adjunct instructor teaching a graduate course, Managing Public Information and Mass Media Communications. Also, he was selected for a one-year National Defense Fellowship at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Patrick Fitz-Gerald ('98) is a reporter for the Canyon Courier in Evergreen. He was one of the first reporters to arrive at Columbine High School after the April 20 shootings.

Ioannis Gatsiounis ('98) lives in Baltimore.

Jan Griggs ('98 MA) is relationship marketing director at The Creative Alliance in Lafayette. She lives in Westminster. jan@thecreativealliance.com,
Griggsjan@aol.com

Meg Guenin ('98 MA) is advertising and public relations manager at Bid4Vacations.com in Westminster. She lives in Denver. egguenin@hotmail.com, megg@bid4vacations.com

Dana Haas-Rottman ('98 MA) is manager of corporate marketing and communications at Nenstiel Technologies in Highlands Ranch. adrottman@worldnet.att.net

Julie Hardin ('98) is an account executive with Refer-it.com in New York City.
Madeleine Hengge ('98 MA) is a producer at Royce Multimedia in Irvine, Calif. Mhengge@aol.com

Nicolle Ingui ('98) is weekend producer at KUSA-TV in Denver.

Justin Jaeger ('98) is working as the Internet Coordinator in the Marketing Department at Heavenly Ski Resort (www.skiheavenly.com) in Lake Tahoe, and moonlights as a deejay at radio station KRLT-FM. He lives in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. He writes: "Thanks goodness for KUCB (now KVCU) and the ecumenical University of Colorado J-School education."

Ryan Katz ('98) is involved in starting a new independent wrestling federation in the Colorado area. He has also started RingSide TeleVision, or RSTV, which is an Internet program (www.ringsideryan.com). ringsideryan@hotmail.com, ringsideryan@ringsideryan.com

Ingrid LaMonte ('98 MA) is product marketing coordinator for Onstream Inc. in Longmont. superme@teleport.com

Alain Lapter ('98) is working at Torborg Sports in New York City, an agency that represents baseball players. He will start law school in the fall of 2000. ALapter@aol.com

Dina Laur ('98) is an assistant account executive with McCann-Erickson New York City.

Carmi Lopez ('98 MA) works for Looking Glass Inc. in Denver. clopez@cohorts.com

Chris Magnine ('98) is a sports clerk at the Denver Rocky Mountain News.

Claudia Mitchell ('98) is a photographer at WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta.

Corbin Mullinix ('98) lives in Herndon, Va., where she is working as a waitress and a painter to save up for travel throughout South America in the coming year.

Preston Onstad ('98) is a client services representative for SunGard Futures System in Chicago.

Andrea Palten ('98) is a producer for KWAB radio in Boulder.

Laura Penny ('98) is a media buyer with SpotPlus in Dallas.

Nathalie Pratt ('98 MA) is manager of integrated marketing communications at StorageTek in Louisville, Colo. She lives in Boulder. natpratt@earthlink.net

Monica Pugno ('98) is a sports writer for the Summit Daily News in Frisco.

David Rittenhouse ('98 MA) is a media planner and buyer for BBFM Creative in Seattle.

Kim Rothwell ('98) is advertising and promotions coordinator for Specialty Sports Venture. SSV is the parent company for Boulder Ski Deals, GrandWest Outfitters, Colorado Ski & Golf and outdoor sporting goods stores at several Colorado ski resorts. KRothwell1@aol.com

Travis Sexton ('98) is a reporter and photographer at KMTR-TV, the NBC affiliate in Eugene, Ore.

Andrew Simons ('98) is a news equities reporter/editor at Bridge Information Systems in downtown San Francisco. He reports on equities and stocks as they relate to the technology industry and edits and does layout for the news service Web site. andrew.simons@gte.net, simonsa@hotmail.com

Kristina Sorg ('98) recently moved to Houston from El Paso, Texas. She is a service representative for Nalco/Exxon Energy Chemicals, L.P.

Mariann Starkey ('98 MA) is an editor and writer in corporate communications for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden. She prepares presentations for the laboratory's corporate executives, interviews research scientists for articles on their projects, edits material for NREL's Web pages and edits and writes descriptions of research projects.

Leigh Ann Steere ('98 MA) is owner of The Synthesis Group, LLC, an integrated marketing communications consulting firm in Boulder.
steere@ix.netcom.com

Thomas Stilwell ('98) is senior morning producer at KKTV-TV in Colorado Springs.

Alissa Walker ('98) lives in Atlanta.

1999

Kate Ackley ('99) works for Legal Times in Washington, D.C., as an editorial assistant. kackley@legaltimes.com, katherine_ackely@hotmail.com

Tina Ansah ('99 MA) is working at DDB Needham in Los Angeles.

Ali Berry ('99) is a Chiron operator at KUSA-TV in Denver.

Yolanda Chapparo ('99) is an editor at KUSA-TV in Denver.

Beth DeFalco ('99) is a reporter at The Arizona Republic in Phoenix.
bethdefalco@hotmail.com

Jessica Delich ('99) is a sports photojournalist at KRDO-TV, the ABC affiliate in Colorado Springs. dello55@aol.com

Tomas Etzler ('99 MA) works the overnight shift for CNN's International Desk in Atlanta. He was recently married. tetzler@aol.com

Katie Ford ('99) is an editorial assistant at the Denver Business Journal.
fordkl@ucsub.colorado.edu

Susanna French ('99) did an internship with the National Trust for Historic Preservation headquarters in Washington, D.C., doing desktop publishing for the downtown revitalization department writing features and press releases for the Communications Office. susannafrench@att.net

Kate Godwin ('99) is a reporter at KJCT-TV, the ABC affiliate in Grand Junction.

Andrew Goss ('99) works at KOTI-TV, the NBC affiliate in Klamath Falls, Ore., (www.localnewscomesfirst.com).

Chia-Ling (Caroline) Hsu ('99) works as a researcher at a San Francisco aviation consulting firm. She formerly worked at the Tracy Press.

Julie Jagodzinske ('99) is a reporter and editor at the Durango Herald. jagodzinske@hotmail.com

Jordan Maness ('99) is sports director at KPNY radio in Scottsbluff, Neb. maness@hotmail.com

Shannon McCotter ('99) works for Fox News in Washington, D.C.
smccotter@e-mail.com

Sheldon Noland ('99) works in Web production for APB multimedia
(APBonline.com) in New York City.

Dan Perlet ('99) is an operations assistant for CNN in Washington, D.C.
Shan Sethna ('99 MA) accepted a position working at the University of Denver in the News and Information department of the Office of Communications. He is the media relations specialist assigned to the College of Law, College of Education, Public Policy Center and a number of other "beats."

Hope Steffens-Nett ('99 MA) taught with the School's Ray Chavez in the Upward Bound program for six weeks on campus this summer.

Solange Uwimana ('99) was a summer intern at the News Journal in Delaware and this fall began an internship at the Contra Costa Times in California. bijou_rare@yahoo.com

Maria Vitale ('99) is a reporter and weekend anchor at KSTF-TV, the CBS affiliate in Scottsbluff, Neb.

Betsy Wademan ('99) is working for The Marx Group, an advertising agency in San Francisco with clients in the automotive business and vacation resorts.
Lisa Weber ('99 MA) is a reporter at KFDX-TV, the NBC affiliate in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Katie Wilson ('99 MA) is a reporter for KAPP-TV, the ABC affiliate in Yakima, Wash.