Todd Goldstein (Comm, MBA’09) is chief revenue officer for AEG. He and his wife Kim (Erwin) (Jour’95) live in Los Angeles with their three children. Their middle child, Ben, is a junior at CMCI, majoring in communication and media studies.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Eric Rasmussen (Jour) is a partner with Aventi Group, a product marketing agency for B2B technology companies. Rasmussen lives in Denver and spends a lot of time on Hawaii’s Big Island. He recently jumped on the pickleball bandwagon.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Susan Ganter (Comm) worked in development for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association Foundation, which provides funding to support athletes’ journeys to the Olympics. Ganter was responsible for raising money through programs such as special events, hospitality programs and more. Currently, she is a co-owner of The Golden Mill Food Hall and Community Gathering Place in Golden with her spouse, Wes Ganter (EnvCon, Econ’93)

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

After volunteering as co-chair of Marshall ROC, an organization supporting Marshall Fire survivors, Jeri Curry (Advert) became its executive director. A Boulder native, Curry attended both Boulder High School and CU Boulder before completing Georgetown University’s nonprofit executive program. Curry’s career includes leading private companies and nonprofits, as well as humanitarian, media, technology and women’s empowerment projects globally.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Los Angeles-based real estate agent Brett Duffy (Comm) was recently awarded the Chairman’s Circle Gold designation for placing in the top 3% of more than 50,000 sales associates in the Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Global Network. He is most proud of having both of his children—alumnus Carly Duffy (StratComm’22) and Tyler Duffy, who is studying media production—follow in his footsteps and pursue CMCI degrees.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

While living on their 45-foot sailboat for an incredible year, Laurie (McCreary) Prestine (Jour) and her husband Scott (Psych’87) explored amazing East Coast destinations like Charleston, South Carolina; the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami; and the Bahamas. Now back on the West Coast, their experience inspired them to launch Foodie Footsteps Food Tours, a culinary journey uncovering hidden gastronomic gems in California.

Posted Nov. 2, 2023

Morgan Bays (Jour) is a research grants administrator in the aerospace department at CU Boulder. After graduation, he played guitar in rock bands in New York City and Washington, D.C., and continues to play music with fellow CU alumni Andrew Engeman (Mktg’83, Jour’84) and Dave Long (Jour’86).

Posted Oct. 31, 2023

Jay MacDonald (Jour) is a former award-winning United Press International wire service reporter who checked out of mainstream news and moved to Key West, Florida, with his wife, Kate, to pursue fiction. Since 2000, he has served as an online freelance feature writer and author interviewer, as well as the Sunday books editor for the Fort Myers daily newspaper News-Press. That role spawned his nonfiction debut, Crazy From the Heat: Fun in the Sun With 35 Florida Authors.

Posted Oct. 31, 2023

Steve Sander (Jour) is president of Sander Marketing, a Denver-based firm specializing in sports, tourism and health/wellness marketing. Sander Marketing recently produced the Nuggets’ championship parade, which attracted more than 750,000 fans. He started his career as an award-winning photographer at the Boulder Daily Camera and now serves on the boards of Visit Denver, Denver Sports Commission, Japan America Society of Colorado and Denver Fire Department Foundation.

Posted Oct. 31, 2023

Dawn Zinser (D.Z.) Church (Jour) retired from a Fortune 500 company as the director of proposals. She is the author of eight mystery thrillers, including the four-part Vietnam-era “Cooper Quartet” saga and her new “Wanee Mystery” series, beginning with Unbecoming a Lady.

Posted Oct. 31, 2023

Following graduation, Stan Nicholas (Jour) worked at CU, where he was on a team that edited and proofread all written materials, including course curriculum guides, brochures, authored books and more. Eventually, he moved on to serve as the general manager of Paddock Publishing, in Boulder. Later in his career, he started his own video production company, Positive Productions, winning Communicator Awards. He has written two books and self-published Never Summer: A Thousand Rainbows through A Buff and Beyond Ink, which mentions his time at CU.

Posted Oct. 30, 2023

Jack Holley (Jour) started his journalism career as a copy editor at the Omaha World-Herald and retired decades later as the managing editor at the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California. Along the way, he taught at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, received a Ford Foundation grant to study urban problems, and earned a Knight Foundation fellowship to teach in Hungary and the Czech Republic. He lives in Riverside.

Posted Oct. 30, 2023

Melvin Mencher (Jour), author of the seminal journalism textbook News Reporting and Writing, taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism from 1962 to 1990. Now retired, he lives in New York near Columbia University. He recently signed a copy of his textbook with the inscription, “To CU Boulder, where it all began.”

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Douglas Looney (Jour) worked as a journalism instructor for the U.S. Department of Defense Information School while serving in the military after graduation. Looney’s award-winning career spans many newspapers and radio stations, most notably Sports Illustrated, where he worked for 21 years as a senior reporter and received recognition for the best magazine sports story. Looney was named one of CU’s Notable Alumni and spent 18 years as chairman of the advisory board for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Carol Robinson Andrews (Jour) is happily retired and enjoying life with her husband, John. They have two sons and four grandchildren. They traveled through the entire United States and many Canadian provinces in an RV between 1988 and 2021. She continues to write—blogging on their travels since 2006 and writing her life story.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Tim Findley (Jour) joined the Marine Corps after graduating, then embarked on a career as an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Findley was known for fiercely covering controversial issues, even at great personal risk. At the Chronicle, he covered the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island and spent time as a prisoner for a series on Soledad State Prison in California. He discovered the identities of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a revolutionary group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Later he worked as a freelance television producer and a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. Findley wrote until the end, beginning a new article for Range magazine just days before his death in 2010.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

Mildred Taylor (MJour) is the author of nine books. Her first, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, won the Newbery Medal in 1977 and recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with the release of a special edition. At CU, Mildred helped create a Black studies program and taught in it for two years. She lives in Boulder.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

E. Thomas McClanahan (Jour) is enjoying retirement and working on his second novel. His first novel, Pranked, is available on Amazon.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

John Leach (Jour, MA’79) was selected to serve on the CU Alumni Association’s Board of Advisors. His three-year term began June 1, 2022.

Posted Dec. 1, 2022

For the past 10 football seasons, Phil Caragol (Comm), known to many Folsom Field attendees as “Buffalo Phil,” has run through the stadium on game day with a furry horned buffalo helmet adorned with a mullet and CU beer koozies. He's proud to serve as the Buffs’ positive and friendly superfan and cheerleader. His career as a copywriter and creative director spans four decades at advertising agencies in New York and San Francisco. He and his wife, Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour, Psych’75), live in Boulder.

 
Posted Dec. 1, 2022

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