Notes from the Class of 1982

An immigrant from Warsaw, Poland, Joanna Regulska (PhDGeog’82) found her calling as the vice president of international and global affairs for Rutgers University. She came to Boulder in 1978 and has worked at Rutgers since she graduated from CU. Joanna has been able to keep close ties to her home country by teaching and researching in Poland.

Former CU-Boulder Alumni Association board member Jenny L. Herring (Jour) joined the Broomfield, Colo., office of investment advisory firm Wilshire Associates. She has had a career in public relations, marketing and writing for financial services companies and is now part of Wilshire Consulting’s business development team. Her 2014 article “Remembering Jamestown” was published in the Forever Buffs Insider e-newsletter.

Ever thought about dropping everything and traveling the country? When Penny Roushar Jansen (Mgmt) and her husband retired, they decided to do just that — on a bike, for a year. After eight months and more than 6,000 miles, Penny wrote about some of their adventures in the Wall Street Journal, advising other adventure-seekers to “look beyond your fears.” Penny, a mother of three, also blogged about her adventures at www.cycle4retirement.com.

Tax attorney Susan Seabrook (Hist) joined Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s Washington, D.C., office. She previously worked as a trial attorney for the IRS and as an attorney advisor in the National Office of Chief Counsel. She is a three-time recipient of the IRS’s Special Act Award, once for significant issue litigation and twice for her superior performance.

Bioinfo-rmatician David Haussler (PhDCompSci) of the University of California, Santa Cruz, led one of two teams that in 2000 first sequenced the 400,000 pieces of the human genome. At the time, President Bill Clinton called the Human Genome Project, of which David’s team was a part, a historic achievement that would revolutionize the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases. Thousands of biomedical researchers worldwide use the UCSC Genome Browser to uncover the causes of diseases and develop treatments.

In October, former Colorado Solicitor General Timothy Tymkovich (Law) became the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, which covers six states. He is the first chief judge of the circuit from Colorado in 75 years. Timothy served the past four years as chair of the committee on judicial resources for the Judicial Conference of the United States, the governing body of the judiciary. As solicitor general, he represented the State of Colorado in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. While at CU, Timothy was managing editor for the University of Colorado Law Review. He is now an adjunct professor at Colorado Law. Timothy is married with two adult children.

The Honorable Joseph Rosania (Law) was appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Colorado. Joseph has spent the past three decades in private practice, first as a solo practitioner, then as a shareholder with Connolly Rosania & Lofstedt, PC.

Scott Baines (Fin) and son Nick competed in the 2016 Oregon Golf Association Parent-Child Chapman in August and won with a score of 62. Scott, an alumnus of CU’s golf team, was in the reverse role when he won with his father, Ken Baines, in 1977. Advancing their legacy, he won the event with his oldest son, Mitch, in 2008 and has now completed the trifecta.

Tracy Hume (Psych) is a freelance writer in Greeley, Colo., who specializes in writing about the healthcare industry, particularly health information technology. She recently ghostwrote a book about how the changing health insurance landscape is impacting healthcare providers.

Marsha Piccone (Jour; Law’85) joined Rollin Braswell Fisher LLC in Greenwood Village, Colo. In 2003, Marsha was the sixth woman to be appointed as a judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals.

Susan E. Seabrook (Hist) joined the tax practice group of Eversheds Sutherland as a partner in the law firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Susan was previously a partner in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC’s D.C. tax controversy practice.

Marsha Piccone (Jour; Law’85), partner of Rollin Braswell Fisher LLC (RBF Law), was named to 5280’s Denver’s Top Lawyers list in 2018. Marsha is a trial and appellate lawyer and former Colorado Court of Appeals Judge.

Deborah L. Napier (PolSci’82) writes that in January 2019 she met her distant cousins Sadie Young (EnvDes’81) and Maree Young (Comm’87) in Durango for the first time. Sadie and Maree were born in Craig, Colo., while Deborah grew up in Fairfax County, Va. “We are related through [our] shared Luttrell ancestors: Our Virginia great, great grandparents,” writes Deborah, who recently returned to Colorado after spending four years in Washington, D.C 

Andrea Robbins (Comm’82) and her team at Studio Six Branding in Longmont, Colo., recently rebranded six Colorado transit systems in Winter Park, Boulder, Telluride and Trinidad. For the past 15 years, Andrea has coached and trained young athletes in alpine skiing in Winter Park.

Project manager and marketing strategist Andrea Robbins (Comm) and her team at Studio Six Branding in Longmont, Colo., recently rebranded several transit systems: The Lift in Winter Park, The Hop in Boulder, SMART in Telluride and the Trinidad Trolley in Trinidad. Separately, Andrea has coached and trained young athletes in alpine skiing in Winter Park for the past 15 years.

CU Boulder’s David Plati (Jour) was inducted into the Collegiate Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame. He has worked as CU Director of SportsInformation for 35 years.

Cynthia Clark (Econ; Law’85) published her first novel, Boulder Girl, Remember Me When the Moon Hangs Low. She describes it as “a story of suspense interwoven with a tender love story, enhanced by classic rock-and-roll music.” She lives in Hygiene, Colorado.

Cynthia Hafner Clark (Econ; Law’85) recently published her second novel, Dirt Road Main Street, a suspenseful romance.

Harvard history professor Philip J. Deloria (MusEdu; MJour’88) was elected to the American Philosophical Society. His research and teaching focuses on the histories of the relations among American Indian peoples and the U.S., as well as the histories of Indigenous peoples in a global context.