Notes from the Class of 1975

Magdaleno “Leno” Rose-Avila (Comm) is the executive director of Witness to Innocence, an organization dedicated to empowering exonerated death row survivors. His long history of civil and human rights work includes directorial positions at Amnesty International and serving as executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in Seattle, Washington. 

In 2017, Barbara Vobejda (Jour) was named deputy managing editor of The Washington Post.

John Estabrook (Advert) lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has owned and operated the windows and doors branch of Pella Corp. since 1997. He and his two partners recently purchased Pella Mid-Atlantic, which serves Maryland, Northern Virginia, Delaware, and Washington, D.C.

Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour'75) and Phil Caragol (Comm'75) celebrated 43 years of marriage and 37 years at their PR and advertising firm Caragol Communications. After many years in New York City and San Francisco, they returned to the Front Range and continue to write and create. Look for “Buffalo Phil” at CU football games firing up the crowd.

Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour) and Phil Caragol (Comm) celebrated 43 years of marriage and 37 years at their PR and advertising firm, Caragol Communications. After many years in New York City and San Francisco, they returned to the Front Range and continue to write and create. Look for “Buffalo Phil” at CU football games firing up the crowd.

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.

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.