Peter Roper

Journalist Peter Roper (Jour) has been the government and politics reporter at the Pueblo Chieftain since 1992. At the Feb. 27 Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters Association annual meeting, he was awarded first place in 2014 for investigative reporting, and the Colorado Press Association gave him its “Service to the First” award for public-records reporting. In addition, his rock ’n’ roll novel, The Romeo Boys, is available as an e-book. He writes that some of his CU classmates have had fun figuring out if they are in the coming-of-age story. His son, Ray “Nick” Roper (EnvSci’16) is an environmental science major at CU who enrolled in September 2012 — exactly 100 years after his great grandmother, Margaret Warner Roper (A&S ex’16).