Dear Alum, We’re thrilled to welcome Deborah Fowlkes as our new executive director. She’s the first female director of the Alumni Association since its inception in 1882. She hails from Temple University in Philadelphia and before that Duke. She grew up in Boulder and went to Boulder High. “I’m delighted to be back home in Boulder as a member of
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Dear Alum, We’re thrilled to welcome Deborah Fowlkes as our new executive director. She’s the first female director of the Alumni Association since its inception in 1882. She hails from Temple University in Philadelphia and before that Duke. She grew up in Boulder and went to Boulder High! “I’m delighted to be back home in Boulder as a member of
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Our annual Aspen to Crested Butte hike was a great success this year. As for some of the summers between 1995-2008 when he was Alumni Association executive director, the hike was lead by Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) along with his wife, Christine Lanier Zimmerman (Ger’80, MEdu’90).
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Here’s a photoset from the Crested Butte Hike this year with Kent Zimmerman! See the photoset at Flickr.
Dear Alum, Continuing Education is offering full or part-day courses on Saturdays called CU on the Weekend during June and July, mostly on art and culture topics. Meanwhile, the first of four summer school terms began on June 1 and end Aug. 6. And get this: about 8,000 students are taking 500 summer courses including 10 online (which Continuing Education’s
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Dear Alum, Continuing Education is offering full or part-day courses on Saturdays called CU on the Weekend during June and July, mostly on art and culture topics. Meanwhile, the first of four summer school terms began on June 1 and end Aug. 6. And get this: about 8,000 students are taking 500 summer courses including 10 online (which Continuing Education’s
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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.
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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
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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
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Dear Alum, Nine years ago I returned from living for three years in Santiago, Chile. I still have several friends there, who needless to say I e-mailed the day of the Feb. 27 8.8 magnitude earthquake. As of this writing I have heard from three of them, and I continue to be extremely preoccupied about them and the situation in
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Dear Alum, Nine years ago I returned from living for three years in Santiago, Chile. I still have several friends there, who needless to say I e-mailed the day of the Feb. 27 8.8 magnitude earthquake. As of this writing I have heard from three of them, and I continue to be extremely preoccupied about them and the situation in
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In the middle of their continent hopping of the last year plus Christine Zimmerman (Ger’80, MEdu’90) snapped a photo of former alumni director Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) showing off the most recent Coloradan they had seen. They’re in Tangier, Morocco, which Kent describes as “One of the most different places we’ve been on this adventure.”
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Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) catches up on the Coloradan while traveling in Morocco. He and his wife Christine Lanier Zimmerman (Ger’80, MEdu’90) spent a year and a half traveling the world. Read about their adventures at www.kentsadventure.com
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By Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90) For all intents and purposes we are back to living in the dorms. We have a little studio apartment with strange turquoise outdoor furniture, a finicky on-demand water heater, a bed so hard we had to buy four-inch thick sponge rubber to make it “sleepable” and we need five keys to get through the front
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Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80,MPubAd’90) interrupted his travel itinerary to drop in at the Alumni Association on Sept. 25. While visiting he posed for a picture with a carved buffalo given by an alum. He’s standing in front of printouts of the last two editions of Buffalum Notes, which he still contributes to occasionally while on the road.
Kent Zimmerman and his wife are still on the road in Europe. You can read about their exploits on his blog at http://www.kentsadventure.com/
By Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPubAd’90)
Amazing, amazing, just amazing. Every single turn in the Dolomites prompt the same response. After weeks of relentless sun and heat in Southern Italy we swallowed hard and rented a tiny Smart car that just fit us and this bag we never really opened but kept with us for 5,000 kilometers (and which we called the albatross) and headed north.
Our last experience with a rental car in Italy had been an unmitigated disaster. Twenty years at rental car desks refusing the additional insurance had become a habit. I did it again, not considering that I was no longer employed or that my home car insurance was in sleep mode. Anyone looking at all the dented brand new cars in Italy would recognize that this is a hazardous place for smooth metal panels.
Dear Alum, We’re proud to offer you a redesigned Buffalum Notes, featuring a tighter look and section heads to help you find your way. Please send your reactions, as well as your stories and photos, to Marc Killinger. If you’ve moved or changed e-mail addresses, let us know. And don’t forget, you can always find the latest CU happenings at
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Welcome to our new Lifetime page! We hope you’ll check in often to read about news and special exclusive offers for Lifetime members who joined the Alumni Association before the move to Forever Buffs in November 2008. Our newest feature is the following Lifetime Honor Roll where you will find both Lifetime members and Directors Club members listed alphabetically. You
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Dear Alum, The campus bicycle registration and repair station has reopened on the east side of the UMC, a sure sign of spring. So are the dumps of wet, cold white stuff we’ve been getting on a regular basis recently! Below are two items about the important new Energy Initiative on campus. CU is already at the leading edge of
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Dear Alum, Hank Brown (Acct’61, Law’69) stepped down from his post as CU president on March 7. During his nearly three-year tenure he was widely credited with rebuilding the university’s image after scandals and controversy. A tenured faculty member in political science on the Boulder campus, Brown will teach a Maymester class at the law school. With Brown’s departure came
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Click on the story to get the pdf of the Coloradan pages. Please note these are large files and not recommended for dial up download. Covers (pdf, 314 K) Table of Contents / Penscripts by Pam Penfold (pdf, 114 K) Last Words by Kent Zimmerman (pdf, 878 K) Waking up to sleeplessness by Doug McPherson (pdf, 216 K) News (pdf,
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… to draw a smiley face on your burger. Of course the big icy Pepsi or better yet, the mug of beer was just waiting there on the side half empty by now because it was always delivered first thing. The juke box was never intrusive and had music you hadn’t heard in awhile, Otis Redding, James Taylor, even John
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Dear Alum, Medium-well, mayo, whole wheat, no cheese that was all you ever had to say. Minutes later the feisty waitress would slide that oval white plate across the table, fries steaming, lettuce, tomato and onion ready to go, yumm! Depending on the day, there was always a scoop of comforting macaroni or potato salad and the bun was toasted
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The University of Colorado at Boulder’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Ron Stump announced Thursday he will leave his Vice Chancellor position July 1, 2008. Stump announced his plans to members of the Student Affairs division this morning at a meeting of department heads. As vice chancellor of one of the university’s largest divisions – with more than 30 departments
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With the departure of longtime alumni association president Kent Zimmerman (Edu’80, MPA’90) set for Feb. 4, CU Chancellor Bud Peterson has appointed vice chancellor for student affairs Ron Stump as interim executive director association. “I am calling upon one of CU-Boulder’s most able and talented administrators to fill this vital post,” Peterson said. “Ron’s 12 years of experience improving student
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Peterson names CU-Boulder Vice Chancellor Ron Stump to be Interim Director of CU-Boulder Alumni Association
University of Colorado at Boulder Chancellor G.P. “Bud” Peterson today named Ron Stump, vice chancellor for student affairs at CU-Boulder, as interim executive director of the University of Colorado Alumni Association, effective Feb. 4.
…the entire Thanksgiving week off! Officially it’s the combining of Thanksgiving and fall break. The latter began a few years ago in October as a way to let students take a two-day time out and catch up — despite what we say about students “getting soft,” classes really are much more intense now. But it’s always been hard to keep
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Continued… …it was still so pertinent to her – the whole idea of every check being a contract. Howard Higman, at left, (BFA’37, MSocSci’42) (sociology professor and creator of the Conference on World Affairs) was another, along with Reuben Zubrow. And who could forget Sam Zakhem. Today, Dennis Van Gerven, Tom Zeiler, Kristi Anseth (PhDChemEngr’94). All of them make their
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Continued… “Jessica, you put a lot of this material together for us. Come up here, and explain the significance of this artist whose art was chosen to adorn the Capitol.” That’s exactly what happened to Jessica Bralish, a student chosen to accompany our Alumni College trip called “Hank Brown’s Washington: The History of the U.S. through the Art of the
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