Notes from the Class of 1979

In 2019, founder and CEO of Alteryx Dean Stoecker (IntBus) joined the exclusive billionaire’s club. Alteryx is a data analytics firm whose stock has risen 900 percent since going public in 2017. Dean lives in Irvine, California. 

Last January, Phil Barber (Law) a Boulder-based lawyer, was covered in the Boulder Weekly newspaper. Phil has been a lawyer for 40 years, representing communities focused on regulating oil and gas operations, including Boulder, Longmont and Broomfield’s attempts to limit fracking. Phil also has been taking on pro bono immigration cases, helping immigrants avoid deportation.

G. Brown (Jour) launched his book series On Record. Each of the three volumes includes images, interviews and insights in music for the years 1978, 1984 and 1991. The series is published by Colorado Music Experience, a nonprofit focusing on Colorado music history, of which G. is director.

After the Marshall Fire, Priscilla Dann-Courtney (Engl’79; MPsych’86; PhD’91), a writer and clinical psychologist, published an article in Boulder’s Daily Camera about how people can help their neighbors and how to cope with grief in difficult times. Priscilla has published many articles about mental health, parenting and exercise and resides in Boulder.

The Colorado Law alumni board and dean Lolita Buckner Inniss named Bill Callison (Law’82), Beth Crane (Law’79), Jennifer Evans (IntlAf, PolSci’91; Law’98), Joe Neguse (Econ, PolSci’05; Law’09), Betty Nordwind (Law’71) and Donald Quick (Econ’82; Law’86) as alumni award winners. The 42nd annual Colorado Law Alumni Awards Banquet is March 16 at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.

An in-depth profile of attorney Franklin D. Azar (PolSci’79) ran in the January 2023 issue of 5280 magazine. Frank is known to many in the state of Colorado as “The Strong Arm” because of billboards and TV commercials promoting his practice, Franklin D. Azar and Associates, Colorado’s largest personal injury law firm.