Alumni Association

Dear Alum,

What do you remember about your commencement? Sunny and 75 degrees? Or a foot of snow? Last Friday at the CU-Boulder graduation the weather was sunny with a temperature of just 37. A total of 5,825 degrees were conferred: 4,530 bachelor’s, 850 master’s, 175 law and 270 doctoral.

John Wood (Fin’86), founder of the international nonprofit organization Room to Read, gave a moving commencement address. Tell us about your graduation memory by going to our CU Memories commencement web page. If you have a photo, please e-mail it to Marc Killinger, editor and I’ll add it to your memory.

If you’ve moved or changed e-mail addresses, let us know.

And don’t forget, you can always find the latest alumni happenings at cualum.org. Connect with other alums and access our Ask a Buff service at the online Forever Buffs Network.

Programs

Get help to start an alumni chapter

While there are dozens of CU chapters around the country, the reach of Forever Buffs could always be bigger. If there isn’t a CU chapter in your area why not ask the Alumni Association to help you start one? Go here to find out how to start a chapter in your area.

Relax at Family Camp

Load up the gang and head into the beautiful Rocky Mountains for a week at CU Family Camp July 5-11! There are a ton of activities for kids and adults. Included are three meals a day and modern private rooms with baths. Here’s more information; contact Dawn at 303-492-2281 with questions and to make a reservation.

Attend Alumni College to analyze recession

The 5th annual Alumni College takes place June 4-5 with the theme of The Great Recession of 2007-10: Causes, Consequences and Cures. You’re invited to join CU’s foremost experts to analyze this major issue. Go here or contact Becky at 303-492-2879.

Save the weekend, CU vs. Cal

Join Buff alums and fans as we take on the Cal Bears at our big away football game of the year in beautiful Berkeley, Calif., on Saturday, Sept. 11. We’ve reserved hotel rooms for CU fans at two downtown San Francisco hotels. Pregame party and separate game tickets are available. Rooms and tickets are going quickly. Go here for links to hotels and ticket information to make your reservations soon!

Attention Directors Club members

The Annual Summer Meeting set for June 18-20 in Vail is shaping up to be another exciting event. Please go here to get the details, reserve a room and get in on the fun!

CU in Chicago

Head to a reception with CU President Bruce Benson (Geol’64, HonDocSci’04) and Marcy Benson at the University Club of Chicago on Wednesday, May 19, 5:30–7 p.m. Please R.S.V.P. by May 14 to the office of the president at 800-228-4357 or e-mail here. Learn more.

Get your beautiful CU campus wall calendar available

The spectacular wall calendar with CU-Boulder scenes that in the past was a paid membership benefit is back this year and on sale for a modest $12.49. With the launch of Forever Buffs all 260,000 alumni and students are included in Alumni Association services and it’s not economically feasible to send it to all. We’ve improved this year’s calendar by enhancing photo quality, adding lunar phases and using reader-friendly print. Check it out and order the calendar here.

Attend the Natural Resource Law Center conference

With the theme of The Past, Present, and Future of Our Public Lands, this 31st annual conference takes place Wednesday, June 2 through Friday, June 4 at the CU Law School and will examine the past, present and future of our public lands and reflect on the need for a new Public Land Law Review Commission. Find out more.

NorCal Buffs to watch baseball

The alumni chapter for the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California will visit AT&T Park Wednesday, June 2 to watch the Giants play the Rockies. A discount is available. Go here to get your tickets. Here’s the chapter website. Also, watch for the article in the June issue of the Coloradan alumni magazine about history professor Thomas Zeiler’s “History of Baseball” course.

Chinese Buffs to gather

Top Buff in China Chandler Jurinka is inviting Buffss in China to connect with others on Saturday, June 19 in Beijing. He says, “We have expanded our communications to all alumni in China, hoping to catch alumni who are outside the main cities or those whom we missed in the past. As always, we plan to get together, reminisce, trade stories, make new friends and walk away with a bit more ‘guanxi’ ['personal network'].” For more information about the China chapter, check out their Facebook page. Chandler’s phone number is +86 13910939501.

Get thee to a play

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s summer season runs July 2-Aug. 8. The plays are Shakespeare’s King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew and Measure for Measure; and non-Shakespearean classics Our Town and The Fantasticks (the world’s most popular and longest running musical.) More here.

Phoenix is ballpark bound

On Saturday, June 5 the Phoenix chapter heads to Chase Field when the Arizona Diamondbacks host the Colorado Rockies at 5:10 p.m. This is a great way to beat the heat! Please contact chapter leader Paul Fishback (Econ’06) at 323-574-8622 for more information and to sign up.

Blogs to help you navigate new media

The Alumni Association launched two blogs this year ― Geekspeak gives you the latest high-tech tips on evolving technologies, and Click & Drag is for Buffs who still feel like the Internet, e-mail and Skype are foreign.

Contribute to CU

Class gift substantial

Thank you to the class of 1960, which as a group donated over $18,000 to their class gift before and during their recent reunion. The funds will support the new Visual Arts Complex. You can still contribute to this gift.

Athletics

Get your football season tickets today

Season tickets are one of the best values around. They combine the Buff tradition with the unmatched atmosphere of Folsom Field. Purchase your football season tickets today and you’ll enjoy the Colorado State game at Invesco Field plus six exciting home games. Call 303-49-BUFFS or visit here.

Plati reports poll on Division 1 realignment

In his latest Plati-‘Tudes blog, associate athletic director David Plati (Jour’82) has his usual fun, including a poll conducted where over 400 people responded with their thoughts about Division I conference realignment.

Buffs hire new basketball coaches

Former CU star Linda Lappe (Mktg’02) was hired to take over the women’s basketball program and Tad Boyle, who led Northern Colorado to a school record 25 victories last year, is the new coach of the men’s basketball team. Go here to read about coach Lappe’s return to the Coors Events Center and here to read more about coach Boyle’s journey to Boulder.

A new kind of retirement community is coming soon to Boulder.

Buff Photos

Alum aids Haiti relief efforts

Mike Aguilar (IntlAf’06) writes, “I started a new job a couple months ago with USAID and found myself in Haiti for two weeks after the earthquake hit in January. It was an emotional but rewarding trip as I got my ‘real’ first-hand experience doing humanitarian work. These days I’m working very closely with projects in Afghanistan, but luckily I haven’t been sent there yet. I’ve got a trip planned to Rwanda later this summer which I’m looking forward to. But life is good in Washington, D.C.”

Hopefully a Buff someday!

Professor emeritus Al Bartlett’s great granddaughter Annelore Serenyi looks like she’s ready to sign-up for the CU class of 20-something! That’s her dad in the photo, Steve Serenyi (Fin’99); her mom is Christy Kimbrough Garber Serenyi (Comm’99). They live in Centennial, Colo.

Send your photos and descriptions for this section to Marc Killinger.

Photo Galleries

Visit the Alumni Association photo galleries.

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A Madagascar drilling adventure

By Tom Rutkowski (MCivEngr’03)

“Hey Tom, you’re an engineer. Come over and talk to this lady. She wants to bring clean water to a village in Madagascar,” my friend Steph Cohen Stoddard (EnvCon’96) said as I ambled down the Pearl Street Mall. She was speaking with Fanja Rakotonirina, a Malagasy woman selling gorgeous raffia hats out of a white tent. Read more.

• Webinar on Career Transitions, Tuesdays, May 25; June 1, 15 and 22; 6:30-9:30 p.m. A Webinar is a web-based training session.

• Webinar on Using Social Networking in Your Job Search, June 22, 5-6 p.m. Find out how to incorporate Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter into your job search process.

• Are you job searching? Career Services can help.

• Are you hiring? Fill your internship and full-time positions with CU-Boulder students and alumni.

For information about the above webinars go here or contact Lea at 303-492-6541.

Here are links to your CU, school and college e-mail newsletters

President Benson’s (Geol’64, HonDocSci’04) e-newsletter

Chancellor DiStefano’s e-newsletter

Colorado Arts & Sciences Magazine – to subscribe e-mail here

School of Education

Engineering Alumni News – to subscribe e-mail here

CUEngineering magazine 2010

Journalism Bylines

LawPoints – Go here and scroll to publications; subscribe or update your info here

Leeds School of Business – e-mail here to receive the e-mail newsletter. Leeds’ magazine Portfolio is here.

As a member of the CU-Boulder Alumni Association you receive special discounts and pricing at Colorado National Golf Club.

Alumni Travel

Kenya & Tanzania Classic Safari

Lions and leopards and Cape buffalo, oh my! Our original dates for this trip sold out so quickly that we’ve added a new trip, Oct. 13-29. Join us on a small-group tour of 18 as we travel from the Rift Valley and the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, home of Africa’s “Big Five” wildlife, and other sites. This will sell out again so see more information and reserve soon or contact Clark at 303-492-5640.

Aspen to Crested Butte Hike

Back by popular demand! Join former CU-Boulder Alumni Association president Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) and his wife Christine Lanier Zimmerman (Ger’80, MEdu’90) July 17-20 or July 22-25 for the Colorado hiking experience of a lifetime. Three days of hiking in the Maroon Bells Wilderness area will be capped off by a hike from Crested Butte to Aspen, wildflowers galore. Space for both dates is limited, so act now to get on the trail. Go here or contact Clark at 303-492-5640.

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Get your CU gear

What could be more perfect for the summer than this polo shirt in black and gold? It’s is on sale for $37.49. Go here for this and all the CU Book Store’s polos.

Contest Corner

The winner this month will receive a Forever Buffs t-shirt.

The ethnic studies department’s roots are in the establishment of the first so-called African American and Mexican American programs in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. In what year was ethnic studies finally established? A. 1979; B. 1984; C. 1996. Look for the answer here.

Tracie Olson Stephens (Mktg’89) of Longmont was last month’s winner. She found out there are six buildings on campus that meet the guidelines of the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification to one degree or another.