Gary Porter and Melissa Komisar Porter

Gary Porter (MBA’74; PhDBusAd’77) and wife Melissa Komisar Porter (Mktg) fell in love at CU in 1976. The couple, who celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last year, write that they traveled to Boulder in 2017 for their first Homecoming weekend since graduation. After leaving CU, Gary taught accounting at various universities and Melissa embarked on a 32-year career in marketing and business development at IBM. Gary is the author of several accounting textbooks, as well as the fiction book Duffy: The Tale of a Terrier and a new collection of essays, Town Kid: Reflections of a Midwestern Boyhood. Earlier this year, the couple attended Western Art Week in Great Falls, Mont., where they met up with former Buffs running back and artist Shay Davis (A&S ex’97). “It was fun to reminisce about the 1994 Fiesta Bowl that we attended and he played in,” Melissa wrote. The couple currently lives in Hudson, Wis.