Former pilot and photographer Charles Clark Jr. (A&S’55) was elected a Member National in the Explorer’s Club headquartered in New York City. As a pilot and photographer in the 1960s, Charles was one of the first foreigners to meet indigenous tribes in the Amazon River Basin. His photographic work is some of the best documentation of their traditions and cultures. He lives with his wife of 55 years, Jeanne Jones Clark (A&S’56), in Overgaard, Ariz.

Posted Mar. 1, 2012

This year Bob Jeangerard (Mgmt’55) was inducted into the CU Athletic Hall of Fame. He averaged 12.4 points and 6.1 rebounds a game during his CU career and helped take his team to the national semifinals in 1955, when the team won a record 19 games. (CU fell to eventual champion San Francisco.) Bob was the NCAA Tournament’s Regional Most Outstanding Player.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Since retiring as a director and board-designated financial expert for Whiting Petroleum Corporation and Allied Motion Technologies, Dee Hubbard (Acct) is renewing his first love, creative writing. Charlie’s Pride, his debut novel, is the story of a modern-day Last Mohican and was published last May. His first book, Slim to None, was a Denver Post bestseller and Colorado Book of the Year nominee. Nearing completion, his second novel is At the Altars of Money. In old-age denial since turning 65, he and his wife, artist Bonnie McGee, have seen Colorado from 29 of its highest places, the 14ers. He claims to have one more left in him…Longs Peak, if Wayne Hutchins will short-rope him up the Homestretch.

Posted Jun. 1, 2015

In January Elaine Mullenax Long (Edu) of Buena Vista, Colo., turned 80. After graduating from CU, she taught in Portland, Ore., Denver and on a U.S. Strategic Air Command base near Oxford, England. She then began a writing career, and several of her short stories have been published in magazines and in anthologies. Her three novels were followed by a nonfiction book, The Caregiver’s Choice, which chronicled the 14 years she spent taking care of her husband, who died of cancer in 2003, and her mother, who died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2007. She also produced three CDs of music. Her website is www.elainelong.com.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

In January Elaine Mullenax Long (Edu) of Buena Vista, Colo., turned 80. After graduating from CU, she taught in Portland, Ore., Denver and on a U.S. Strategic Air Command base near Oxford, England. She then began a writing career, and several of her short stories have been published in magazines and in anthologies. Her three novels were followed by a nonfiction book, The Caregiver’s Choice, which chronicled the 14 years she spent taking care of her husband, who died of cancer in 2003, and her mother, who died of Alzheimer’s disease in 2007. She also produced three CDs of music. Her website is www.elainelong.com.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

Eighty-four-year-old Sue Humel Viders (Art) created an alter ego of herself named Meg, a character with a strong personality and the star of a series of mystery books available at dbhumel.com and Amazon. Sue also is author of numerous nonfiction books, articles and columns for artists and writers. A book she co-authored, The Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes and Heroines, is used by writers worldwide.

Posted Dec. 1, 2015

Graydon "Dee" Hubbard's (Acct) novel At the Altars of Money was the No. 1 best seller on Amazon related to wealth management. The book captures the American ethos about money, and scripts the financial meltdown of 2008. “That’s gotta be a first for an expat 30-year Colorado CPA gone rogue and turned novelist,” he writes. Dee and wife Bonnie live in St. George, Utah.

 

Posted Sep. 1, 2018

Dee (Graydon) Hubbard’s (Acct) book about the financial meltdown of 2008, At the Altars of Money, won the 2018 Gold EVVY Award in the category of Literary and Contemporary Fiction. “Mostly because of the book’s satirical edge, I did not expect this award, and I’m thrilled with the honor,” Dee writes.

Posted Nov. 30, 2018

Ken Johnson (Mktg) worked as a journalist at the Grand Junction Daily Sentinelbefore becoming the owner in 1970. He continued to put his degree to work, as owner of the Cleveland Press and Redstone Castle, a luxury hotel west of Aspen. Ken later moved to California to raise Arabian horses. Currently in Massachusetts, Ken has begun writing a biography of Walter and Preston Walker, the father and son duo who owned the Sentinel before he did.

Posted Oct. 1, 2019