In March Loy Ledbetter (MechEngr’46) and Peggy Cushman Ledbetter (DistSt’47) celebrated 66 years of marriage. They live in St. Louis, Mo.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Since founding a community service program in 2005 in Tucson, Ariz., “The Desert Readers,” Roger Allen (A&S’52) has enriched the lives of people living in assisted living residences and senior health care centers. The program entertains seniors with jokes, short stories, poetry, a sing-a-long and trivia. All of the participants are senior citizens. While at CU, Roger was the president of the Ballad Club and remembers when Burl Ives came to a club meeting after performing at Macky Auditorium. Roger still sings folk songs and ballads and takes guitar lessons. “It is never too late to enrich our lives,” he writes.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

This year Bob Jeangerard (Mgmt’55) was inducted into the CU Athletic Hall of Fame. He averaged 12.4 points and 6.1 rebounds a game during his CU career and helped take his team to the national semifinals in 1955, when the team won a record 19 games. (CU fell to eventual champion San Francisco.) Bob was the NCAA Tournament’s Regional Most Outstanding Player.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Linn Long (PE’56, MS’67), who lettered four times in college as a wrestler from 1952-55, was named into the 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame. After college, he coached wrestling at CU-Boulder, leading the Buffs to their best finish in the NCAA Championships, a tie for fourth place in 1964. Linn also won four letters in baseball.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

After reading last winter’s Coloradan,ĚýJon Larsen (ElEngr’59) was struck by the photo of the University Memorial Center. He wrote that CU was a place where he “experienced a period of important growth and where I have really fond memories.” Jon lives in Chocowinity, N.C.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Former Alumni Association board member John Herzog (Jour’61) and his wife,ĚýLeslie Keck Herzog (Engl’62), celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary last September. They met at CU. In May John was reappointed to the State Board of Dental Examiners by Gov. John Hickenlooper. He also has served on the Colorado Securities Board and the Colorado Utility Consumers’ Board.

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In 1962,ĚýDon Meyers (PE’62, MS’65) set an unofficial world indoor record with his successful 16’-1¼” attempt in the pole vault. He was just the fifth person ever to clear 16 feet in the pole vault. After college, Don coached for the Buffs for seven seasons. His accomplishments were recognized this year by his induction into the 2014 class of the CU Athletic Hall of Fame.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Pete (Mktg’64) and Mary MooreĚý(·ˇ»ĺłÜ’64)ĚýRabbitt were eagerly awaiting their 50th class reunion during Back to Boulder Homecoming Weekend. This year also marks their 50th wedding anniversary. Pete and Mary have two daughters who also graduated from CU-Boulder,ĚýKelly Rabbitt Krill (Comm’86) and Katie Rabbitt DeLine (Fin’87). A third generation of Rabbitts recently joined CU: Jeffrey DeLine is a freshman in the business school.

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Jay Jacobs (A&S’64) published The Widow Wave, a nonfiction courtroom drama. The book attempts to address many questions non-lawyers have about the justice system by telling the story of a high-profile case Jay was involved in as a young trial lawyer. He thinks of his days at CU fondly, calling them “some of the happiest of my life.” He lives in Coupeville, Wash.

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H. Robert Krear (PhDZool’65), an expert in ethology, or the behavior and ecology of animals in the field, undertook four expeditions to the far north: To central subarctic Labrador for an ecological study; and three times to Alaska, where he worked with fur seals, participated in the Murie 1956 Arctic Brooks Range Expedition (which played a major role in the creation of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) and studied sea otters in the far western Aleutian Islands. Robert wrote a book about his experiences,ĚýFour Seasons North: Exploration and Research in the Arctic and Subarctic.

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After working as a lawyer for 40 years,ĚýJohn Solheim (MechEngr’65) in 2012 accepted a position as a project manager for the demolition of 1 million square feet of buildings at the Eastman Kodak campus in Windsor, Colo. John completed the 18-month assignment and has returned to the law. He lives in Westminster and Durango, Colo., with his wife, Jeannie. John is happy to report that his two daughters and their families have moved back to Colorado.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Philip S. Hart (A&S’66) has written children’s books for more than 20 years. His next book,ĚýRamos and Randy, will tell the story of two children who are best friends, one Hispanic, the other African-American, growing up as neighbors in Denver. Philip lives in Los Angeles.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Rick Trujillo (Geol’70), an All-American cross country runner at CU, was inducted into the Colorado Running Hall of Fame this spring. Rick, of Ouray, Colo., was the first man to run from Ouray to Telluride over Imogene Pass.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

Tim Grove (Geol’71) was elected to the American National Academy of Sciences. Tim studies the processes leading to the chemical differentiation of the Earth’s crust and mantle and the causes of the formation and evolution of the interiors of other planets. Tim has been a professor at MIT since 1979.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

This year’s annual list of Washington, D.C., “Super Lawyers” included Sheila Hollis (Jour’71).  She is the chair of the Washington office of the firm Duane Morris and is a member of its executive committee. Sheila was the first woman president of the Energy Bar Association.

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Boulder resident Dick Shahan (Engl’71, MA’78, PhD’85) committed $75,000 to CU-Boulder, of which $50,000 has established the Dick Shahan CU-Boulder Undergraduate Writing Competition. Each year $2,000 will be given to an undergraduate who writes the best prose piece about Boulder. The remaining $25,000 will fund the Shahan Graduate Fellowships in the CU-Boulder English department; a $1,000 research grant will be given to a graduate student annually.

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NFL veteran Herb Orvis (A&S’72) was inducted into the CU 2014 Athletic Hall of Fame. A leader of the 1971 CU football team, Herb played a significant role in bringing the team to No. 3 in the nation, behind Nebraska and Oklahoma. He was a first-round pick of Detroit in the 1972 NFL Draft and played 10 years in the league.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

William Blackwell (Jour’73) was visited by a two-year-old brown bear at his home in South Lake Tahoe, Nev. The bear was interested in his CU rain gauge, but he says he told the bear that he was still too young to enroll in the school. Apparently this bear has good taste.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey presented Dudley Chelton (Phys’74) the 2013 William T. Pecora Award for achievement in Earth remote sensing. He has been a pioneer in the oceanographic use of satellite data to explore the role of the ocean in Earth’s climate system. Dudley is a professor of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

After working for the National Institutes of Health, Jane Peterson (PhDMCDBio’75) was appointed CEO of the Keystone Symposia. It is a nonprofit in Silverthorne, Colo., that holds life science research conferences in the Rocky Mountains and around the world.

Posted Dec. 1, 2014

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