Living an inspired life means more than exposure to great ideas. It includes exposure to great personalities. When Cliff Gauthier, BA physical education ’69, received the 2004 Thomas Ashley Graves Award for Sustained Excellence in Teaching at the College of William and Mary, he realized how many of the great […]
In January, Lina Paumgarten, MA counseling psychology ’05, embarked upon a three-month, 3,600-mile bicycle trip along the east coast of Australia. Through pledges, she hopes to raise $10,000 to help fund a community orphans home being built in Meru, Kenya, by the nonprofit Peace Initiatives International (PII). Paumgarten, who originally […]
What do South American rainforests, water quality and Denver land-use patterns have in common? They are all issues that Denver Post editorial writer Penelope Purdy, MA communication ’98, deals with on a daily basis. Purdy knew at a young age that she wanted to write, and her connection to the […]
If you were one of the skiers or snowboarders carving Colorado’s slopes this winter, you may have passed by Tamara Hoppes, BA business and marketing ’87, who is attempting to snowshoe up every one of the thousands of ski runs at Colorado’s 23 ski resorts. Hoppes has been preparing for […]
What comes to mind when you think of a music march? John Phillip Sousa’s “Stars and Stripes Forever”? Sir Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance”? How about the “Thunderbirds March” by Bynum Weathers? Weathers, PhD comparative history ’71, has been a music lover since his days as a young boy in […]
They are not your traditional college athletes. They don’t have a coach, and their uniforms, if you can call them that, are baggy winter parkas and pants. Tricks are their currency: air to fakie, alley oop, half-cab, grind, McTwist. They don’t shoot, skate, run or score goals. They ride. They […]
Lindbergh connection I read Mike Flanagan’s excellent article “Remembering Lucky Lindy” in the magazine [summer 2004]. While I was aware of Lindbergh’s national tour following his famous transatlantic flight in 1927, I did not know of DU’s connection to his visit to Denver. With this in mind, I am compelled […]
DU real estate Professor Mike Crean was a reluctant celebrity last summer when area newspapers ran articles about the anniversary of his world-record golf shot. Crean, who has been playing golf for 49 years, made the longest hole-in-one in American history on July 4, 2002. Although the 517-yard par-5 hole […]
In my neighborhood, the Blessed Virgin lives in a bathtub. I live in Sunnyside, a northwest Denver neighborhood bounded on the south and north by West 38th Avenue and I-70 and on the east and west by Inca Street and Federal Boulevard. Once, my neighborhood was home to small farms […]
An old tradition found a new DU home in December. For 74 years, the DU Women’s College (previously Colorado Women’s College) decked its halls with greenery and celebrated student accomplishments in the annual Hanging of the Greens ceremony. After the Women’s College moved from Park Hill to the University Park […]
Most of you have probably seen U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice all over the news lately. After all, she arguably is DU’s most notable alumna and is one of the world’s most recognizable public figures. Working on behalf of the United States with much less fanfare is another notable […]
Before graduation, Ally Haynes, BA theater ’96, had an interview with the DU theater faculty. They told her she was well suited to pursue a career in the business side of the theater industry, but that was not what she wanted to hear. Her response was, “That’s not really what […]
Boxes of slides, thousands of photographs, more airline miles than anyone can count and precious memories are the rewards of being a world traveler for nearly 50 years. And they all belong to retired DU staffer Rosy Griffiths, BSBA ’78 and MA ’87, who’s passing her traveling joys on to […]
DU’s Cathy Potter is investigating the best ways to treat Colorado’s youth offenders.
DU’s Class of 2008 — the first class assembled through the Hyde interview — promises to be one of the strongest ever.