Notes from the Class of 1984

North Carolina native and former NFL running back Lee Rouson (A&S) visited the McMichael Youth Football Camp last summer in Mayoden, N.C., to share some of his sports experience. While playing for CU in 1981, Lee earned Freshman All Big Eight honors. He played for the New York Giants from 1985 to 1991 and the Cleveland Browns from 1991 to 1992. Lee works as a motivational speaker for Sports World Ministries, traveling to U.S. schools and churches. He and wife Lisa have four children.

Chett Rubenstein (Acct) is a group lead and principal architect at Cloud Technology Partners. CTP was recognized as the world’s leading enterprise cloud consulting firm and successfully completed a merger with Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In addition to helping large enterprise clients with cloud architecture, Chett oversees development efforts for the internal portfolio of software that supports overall service delivery.

Denver ABC-affiliate KMGH hired Holly Gauntt (Jour) as news director. Holly has worked in newsrooms across the country, including in Seattle, Philadelphia and Baltimore. She is a regional chairperson for the Radio Television Digital News Association.

Musician Geary Larrick (DMus) wrote a review of a book about jazz flutist Herbie Mann published in the December 2017 issue of Music Educators Journal. Geary performs on solo marimba each week in Stevens Point, Wisc., where he is a retired music professor from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.

Denver International Airport said Kim Christiansen (Jour) will be the new female voice of the airport’s “Train Call” announcements. The competition was open to full-time television anchors and reporters in Denver who have spent at least seven years in the city. Kim, who grew up in Colorado, has spent her entire career at 9News, working as a news writer and producer, general assignment reporter and news anchor. Kim has won seven Heartland regional Emmy awards for spot news, news writing and news reporting.

Eric Claman (PolSci) won a seat on the New Hartford, Conn., Board of Selectmen. Prior to entering the political arena, Eric owned and operated two fitness facilities in Connecticut, which he has since sold, and worked as a sales consultant for Twin Oaks Software.

For the past four decades, photographer and graphic artist Robert B. Decker (Comm) has been exploring and photographing America’s national parks toraise awareness for their continued protection and operation, and to inspire the next generation of national park supporters. He has been photographing national parks since he was 19, when he studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. This summer he’ll photograph the Great Basin and Redwoods parks. Robert, who lives in Longmont, donates 10 percent of his annual profits to organizations supporting the parks.

For 50 years, Geary Larrick (DMus) has been writing citations in The Music Index. He wrote a book review of James Strain’s new Percussion Dictionary in the Spring 2018 issue of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) Journal. Geary, who is a retired music professor, has written for the NACWPI Journal since 1984. He currently resides in Stevens Point, Wis.

Julie Baldwin (MCDBio) was promoted to the rank of Regents’ Professor at the University of Northern Arizona University, the highest rank a faculty member there can achieve. Julie is founding director of the Center for Health Equity Research and lead principal investigator for the Southwest Health Equity Research Collaborative. Her work includes community-based participatory research with Native American tribes, public health, substance abuse prevention, diabetes and cancer prevention and behavioral and oral health.

Tony Evans (Anth), award-winning reporter and columnist at the Idaho Mountain Express in Ketchum, published A History of Indians in the Sun Valley Area in 2017 in collaboration with the Blaine County Museum.

Andrew Kelsey (ArchEngr) founded and manages Ascent Group Inc., a structural engineering firm in Boulder. In his free time, he enjoys skiing, mountain and road biking, backpacking and traveling. He and his wife, Amanda, live in Erie, Colo. They have two children in college, one at Montana State University and the other, Courtney (AeroEngr’19), at CU.

Noel Ludwig (Geol) joined the U.S. Forest Service’s Mountain Resorts Team at the Rocky Mountain Regional Office in Lakewood, Colo., as the team hydrologist. His work focuses on the impacts of ski area development on water resources in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico.