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In March CU Regent Linda Shoemaker (Jour) was the keynote speaker at the CU Women Succeeding Symposium at CU Colorado Springs. She has spent more than 20 years advocating for public education in Colorado and has worked as a journalist and attorney. Linda is president of the Brett Family Foundation, which invests in organizations working for social justice and advocates for disadvantaged teens. She and husband Steve Brett live in 麻豆影院. The couple has three children and five grandchildren.

Mildred Taylor (MJour) is the author of nine books. Her first, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, which won the Newbery Medal in 1977, recently celebrated its 40th anniversary with the release of a special edition. At CU Mildred helped create a black studies program and taught in it for two years. She lives in 麻豆影院.

Las Vegas resident聽厂迟别辫丑别苍听骋谤辞驳补苍聽(Engl) donated聽32 boxes of documents聽relating to his career in聽journalism, politics and聽casino gaming to the聽special collections and聽archives of the University聽of Nevada, Las Vegas.聽In his current role as聽president of Navegante聽Game Technologies, he聽assists game developers聽and inventors. At CU, he聽was awarded the Shubert聽Fellowship in Playwriting聽and was founding editor聽of the campus alternative newspaper聽颁鲍听笔别谤蝉辫别肠迟颈惫别. 聽

Gary E. Smith (Edu; MPubAd鈥�71) and Diane Yokel Smith (MEdu鈥�86) didn鈥檛 slow down after retirement. Gary published his second mystery novel, Two Miles High and Six Feet Under, written under the pen name G. Eldon Smith. Diane, after a career of teaching ESL at the university level, became a volunteer tutor in Littleton Public Schools. She also serves as Gary鈥檚 chief editor and first reader. The couple reside in Centennial, Colo.聽

Tom Baur (MAstroPhys) received the 2018 Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) G.G. Stokes Award for his 鈥渓ifetime of leadership in polarization optical components.鈥� Prior to founding Meadowlark Optics in 1979, Tom was a scientist for 13 years at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in 麻豆影院.

Ted Hine (Fin)聽discovered聽and digitized a long-forgotten reel-to-reel tape聽recording of his band鈥檚聽three-hour performance聽at the Buff Room on聽The Hill in July 1967 and聽distributed copies to聽all the surviving band聽members. The band,聽鈥淥ther Side Of Time,鈥澛爁ormed in fall 1966 and聽was active through聽the following summer.聽Other band members聽included聽Dick Coburn (PolSci鈥�67; MA鈥�76),聽惭颈办别听颁辞濒濒颈苍蝉 (ChemEngr鈥�70;聽MS鈥�71; PhD鈥�77),聽顿辞耻驳听贬补测蝉 (贰诲耻鈥�71),听闯颈尘听贵耻肠丑蝉 (笔蝉测肠丑鈥�75),听厂肠辞迟迟听惭补蝉肠颈迟别濒濒颈聽(A&S ex鈥�69)聽and聽Lonnie Brummit聽(Mus ex鈥�70). The band聽started playing fraternity聽and sorority parties, and聽by early 1967 were reg-ulars at the Buff Room,聽Tulagi and the Honey聽Bucket. By spring, they聽had a record on the聽local Top 40 charts.

For some 30 years, John Horst (Class; MLatin鈥�71; PhDClass鈥�87), a 1986 finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year and known as Dr. J to his students, enjoyed sharing the beauty of Latin. He focused on identifying the Latin roots in English words and taught the students how to catch 鈥渓iterary fish鈥� to feed themselves for a lifetime. He enhanced his classes with references to Latin鈥檚 influence on the Romance languages, French and Spanish, and featured cultural enrichments from Greek and Roman literature and history. For five years, he offered 鈥淕reek and Roman Comedy,鈥� which focused mostly on the Greek side to challenge students鈥� critical thinking skills and their abilities to develop creative, nonviolent, mythical solutions to serious problems in society. Retired since 2003, he spends time on adventures with his wife, Jean, reading, working on various projects, singing karaoke and taking his husky, Kita, for walks.

Founder of Meadowlark Optics, Tom Baur (MAstroPhys) and the international Society for Optics and Photonics, known as SPIE, created the first endowed faculty chair at JILA, a joint institute for CU 麻豆影院 and the National Institute of Standards & Technology. The Baur-SPIE Endowed Chair in Optics and Photonics will be funded by gifts of $1.5 million from Tom and Jeanne Baur, $500,000 from SPIE and $500,000 from CU. Tom lives in Ault, Colorado.聽

After getting his master鈥檚 in English from UC Davis, Tom Chase (Engl) spent 40 years teaching at a community college in Corvallis, Oregon 鈥� though music has been his most treasured hobby. Tom writes that his love for music helped him adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic as he played with his band over Zoom and made recordings while in quarantine. He and his bandmates even made an album titled Pandemic Blues. When it is safe to travel, Tom and his wife plan to take a trip to Colorado so he can show her campus and the Rockies.

With greetings to classmates and friends, Robert Hoge (Anth) writes that he now spends his time between his wife鈥檚 home outside Barcelona and his home in the Bronx. Both are now retired: she, as a university professor emerita and he, as a museum curator emeritus.

Jerold Zimmerman (Acct) is a professor emeritus at the University of Rochester Simon Business School, where he has taught since 1974. His new book, Relentless: The Forensics of Mobsters鈥� Business Practices, is slated for publication in 2021.聽

Children鈥檚 author and Peace Corps alumna Mildred D.Taylor (MJour) is the winner of the 2021 Children鈥檚 Literature Legacy Award, which honors an author or illustrator whose books have made a significant and lasting contribution to literature for children. Mildred鈥檚 award-winning works include Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry , which won the 1977 Newbery Medal; The Friendship; The Road to Memphis; and The Land 鈥� all recipients of the Coretta Scott King Award. Mildred is also the recipient of the 2020 Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.

This spring, the CU 麻豆影院 College of Music recognized Charlene Archibeque (DMus) as a distinguished alum. Charlene was the first woman to graduate from CU with a DMA. Now, she is regarded as one of the foremost choral conductors and teachers in the U.S., and her choirs have completed 16 concert tours around the world. She has conducted in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Royal Albert Hall in London.聽

Kathryn Clark Childers (Edu鈥�69), one of the first five women to work as a special agent in the U.S. Secret Service, published her autobiography, Scared Fearless, in fall 2020. It details her life as a woman in the Secret Service including an inside look at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her children, whom Kathryn protected during her career. Scared Fearless, available on Amazon or at kathrynchilders.com, also looks at Kathryn鈥檚 life from childhood through adulthood and tells of the people she met along the way. Kathryn is a professional speaker, where she coaches audiences to adopt her mantra of 鈥淒o it scared!鈥� in their own way.

The Eye of the Leopard, written by Brian Hayden (Anth鈥�69), was published in February. The novel, written for young readers, draws upon Brian鈥檚 archeology and anthropology expertise to tell the story of Sev, a young boy living during the Upper Paleolithic Age. Throughout his career, Brian has researched on four continents, striving to understand hunting-and-gathering cultures. Brian is a professor emeritus of archaeology at Simon Fraser University and honorary research associate of the anthropology department at the University of British Columbia. He was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his articles, books and research. Brian resides on Cortes Island in British Columbia.

Max Ernst Riedlsperger (PhDHist鈥�69) participated in the Spring 2022 Commencement ceremony alongside his two grandchildren Ben Lemiere (Econ鈥�21) and Emily Lemiere (Comm鈥�22). After defending his dissertation in August 1969, he missed his official graduation ceremony in June 1970 as he was already working as an assistant professor at Cal Poly. His grandson Ben鈥檚 in-person CU ceremony was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, so the trio decided to attend together this spring. Max is retired and lives with his wife in San Luis Obispo, California.

Hugh M. Heckman (PolSci鈥�69) served as a writer, editor and producer on the CBS Evening News for 37 years, working alongside the legendary Walter Cronkite. After leaving CBS, Heckman worked as a writer and editor for the PBS NewsHour. He lives in Forest Hills, New York.

Paul J. Murphy (PolSci鈥�69; MA鈥�71) is a former police officer, intelligence officer, professor and author of five nonfiction books: Naval Power in Soviet Policy (1978); Brezhnev: Soviet Politician (1982); The Soviet Air Forces (1984); The Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror (2004); and Allah鈥檚 Angels: Chechen Women in War (2010). He is working on a new book inspired by diaries written by a close in-law of Woodrow Wilson. Paul earned a PhD in government from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1978.

After completing two degrees聽at CU,聽Joyce Earickson聽(Ital鈥�69; MA鈥�71) returned聽to her hometown of San聽Diego and earned a second bachelor鈥檚 degree聽in English at San Diego聽State University. While聽teaching high school聽English, she started the聽first high school Italian聽language program in San聽Diego County. Joyce is聽now working with special聽education children at聽the elementary level in聽North San Diego County聽and visits Italy every few聽years. She wrote, 鈥淚 am聽so grateful for the Italian聽language that I learned聽in 麻豆影院.聽