Class Notes

In October, Tennessee governor Bill Haslam appointed Mary Wagner (PolSci) as a Circuit Court trial judge for Shelby County, Tenn. Mary is currently the youngest such judge in the state.

Former Marine Corps captain Siddhartha Rathod (Law), a defense attorney and founding partner of Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC in Denver, received the Alumni Association’s 2017 Kalpana Chawla Award over Homecoming Weekend. The award recognizes outstanding career achievement, as well as significant contributions to the community or the university within 15 years of graduation.

On Sept. 9, Kate Goltz Moulton (Psych) and Kevin Moulton (Biochem, MCDBio’08) were married at the Sunrise Amphitheater in Boulder. The couple dated for 11 years after meeting their junior year at a party on The Hill. Officiant Jared Leidich (AeroEngr’09) also graduated from CU.

Teju Ravilochan (IntlAf), a Forbes 30 Under 30 social entrepreneur and co-founder of the Unreasonable Institute, now known as Uncharted, a Denver-based incubator for entrepreneurs, received the Alumni Association’s 2017 Kalpana Chawla Award over Homecoming Weekend. The award recognizes outstanding career achievement, as well as significant contribution to the community or the university within 15 years of graduation.

After graduating, Tiffany Gambardella (MusEdu) took a job teaching music at Lompoc Valley Middle School in California, where she’s in her fifth year of teaching. She connected with Wayne Asbury (MusEdu’72), a music teacher retired from the school and fellow Buff. Tiffany enjoys that they both attended college at CU and ended up teaching at the same middle school in California.

Michael Bishof (MPhys; PhD’14) and Cynthia Pekron recently welcomed their third son, Ignatius “Indy” Charles Bishof. Indy was born in August in Elmhurst, Ill. He joins big brothers Casimir Patrick and Ronan Thomas.

In June, former Buffs track and field athlete Aric Van Halen (Film) competed in the steeplechase at the USA Track and Field Championships. Last year he made it to the Olympic trials. Aric lives in Boulder.

Filmmaker Eric Stewart (MFA) is working on Off Country, an experimental documentary film and oral history archive that examines the nuclear landscapes of three regions in the West — the former Rocky Flats Plant, the White Sands Missile Range and the Nevada Test Site.

In September, Rudy von Berg Jr. (Mktg) and his father, Rodolphe von Berg, competed in the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga, Tenn. It was the first time that a pro (Rudy) and his father competed in the same 70.3 championship. Rudy placed 13th overall; Rodophe placed 2nd in the 60-64 age category.