Jay MacDonald (Jour) is a former award-winning United Press International wire service reporter who checked out of mainstream news and moved to Key West, Florida, with his wife, Kate, to pursue fiction. Since 2000, he has served as an online freelance feature writer and author interviewer, as well as the Sunday books editor for the Fort Myers daily newspaper News-Press. That role spawned his nonfiction debut, Crazy From the Heat: Fun in the Sun With 35 Florida Authors.
Posted Oct. 31, 2023
Steve Sander (Jour) is president of Sander Marketing, a Denver-based firm specializing in sports, tourism and health/wellness marketing. Sander Marketing recently produced the Nuggets’ championship parade, which attracted more than 750,000 fans. He started his career as an award-winning photographer at the «Ƶ Daily Camera and now serves on the boards of Visit Denver, Denver Sports Commission, Japan America Society of Colorado and Denver Fire Department Foundation.
Posted Oct. 31, 2023
Dawn Zinser (D.Z.) Church (Jour) retired from a Fortune 500 company as the director of proposals. She is the author of eight mystery thrillers, including the four-part Vietnam-era “Cooper Quartet” saga and her new “Wanee Mystery” series, beginning with Unbecoming a Lady.
Posted Oct. 31, 2023
Following graduation, Stan Nicholas (Jour) worked at CU, where he was on a team that edited and proofread all written materials, including course curriculum guides, brochures, authored books and more. Eventually, he moved on to serve as the general manager of Paddock Publishing, in «Ƶ. Later in his career, he started his own video production company, Positive Productions, winning Communicator Awards. He has written two books and self-published Never Summer: A Thousand Rainbows through A Buff and Beyond Ink, which mentions his time at CU.
Posted Oct. 30, 2023
Jack Holley (Jour) started his journalism career as a copy editor at the Omaha World-Herald and retired decades later as the managing editor at the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California. Along the way, he taught at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism, received a Ford Foundation grant to study urban problems, and earned a Knight Foundation fellowship to teach in Hungary and the Czech Republic. He lives in Riverside.
Posted Oct. 30, 2023
Melvin Mencher (Jour), author of the seminal journalism textbook News Reporting and Writing, taught at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism from 1962 to 1990. Now retired, he lives in New York near Columbia University. He recently signed a copy of his textbook with the inscription, “To CU «Ƶ, where it all began.”
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Doug Looneyserved two years on active duty in the U.S. Army. He was later on the staff of a variety of publications, including 22 years at Sports Illustrated, where he was a senior writer. He and his wife, Mary (Edu’63), have been married for 61 years and have two children.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Carol Robinson Andrews (Jour) is happily retired and enjoying life with her husband, John. They have two sons and four grandchildren. They traveled through the entire United States and many Canadian provinces in an RV between 1988 and 2021. She continues to write—blogging on their travels since 2006 and writing her life story.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Tim Findley (Jour) joined the Marine Corps after graduating, then embarked on a career as an investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. Findley was known for fiercely covering controversial issues, even at great personal risk. At the Chronicle, he covered the Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island and spent time as a prisoner for a series on Soledad State Prison in California. He discovered the identities of members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a revolutionary group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. Later he worked as a freelance television producer and a writer for Rolling Stone magazine. Findley wrote until the end, beginning a new article for Range magazine just days before his death in 2010.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Mildred Taylor (MJour) is the author of nine books. Her first, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, won the Newbery Medal in 1977 and 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 «Ƶ.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
E. Thomas McClanahan (Jour) is enjoying retirement and working on his second novel. His first novel, Pranked, is available on Amazon.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
John Leach (Jour, MA’79) was selected to serve on the CU Alumni Association’s Board of Advisors. His three-year term began June 1, 2022.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
For the past 10 football seasons, Phil Caragol (Comm), known to many Folsom Field attendees as “Buffalo Phil,” has run through the stadium on game day with a furry horned buffalo helmet adorned with a mullet and CU beer koozies. He's proud to serve as the Buffs’ positive and friendly superfan and cheerleader. His career as a copywriter and creative director spans four decades at advertising agencies in New York and San Francisco. He and his wife, Susan Blickhahn Caragol (Jour, Psych’75), live in «Ƶ.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Martin Streim (Comm, MA’79) retired in 2017 after a 35-year career in corporate human resources, during which he focused on organizational and leadership development. Before retiring, he spent several years as the director of ethics and business conduct in his employer’s office of legal counsel. He and his wife, Christie, live in «Ƶ.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Stephen Mease (Jour) wrote and edited Champlain Valley Fair in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Champlain Valley Exposition, located in Essex Junction, Vermont. Mease is a former newspaper editor, freelance writer, publicist, special events photographer and communications director. Mease is the public affairs manager for Vermont Student Assistance Corp. in Winooski, Vermont, and the owner of Stephen Mease Photography. He was also features editor for the Burlington Free Press for 13 years.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Sara Fischer (Jour, Engl) oversees worldwide production for all Shondaland TV series and manages production for development and special projects at the company. Most recently, Fischer led production on Shondaland’s groundbreaking hit, Bridgerton, the most-watched series debut in Netflix history, as well as Inventing Anna. Fischer splits her time between London and Los Angeles.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Rob Reuteman (MJour) retired in 2020 after 10 years on the journalism faculty at Colorado State University and 26 years as an editor at the Rocky Mountain News. He served as state-region editor, city editor, national editor, business editor and a columnist for 12 years before the paper closed. He also served as the 2010–11 president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Ray Ring (Jour) retired from a 35-year career in journalism to focus on writing novels. He previously wrote Arizona Kiss, a noir piece about a journalist exposing a corrupt judge. His upcoming, self published novel Montana Reckoning will explore racism in one of the least diverse states.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Well-known sports journalist Rick Reilly (Jour) recently released his 15th book, So Help Me Golf: Why We Love the Game. It includes 80 new stories, some of them about his own life growing up with an alcoholic golfing dad in «Ƶ. It comes on the heels of his New York Times bestseller, Commander In Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, which the New Yorker called "amusing and alarming." Reilly, whom USA Today called "the closest thing sportswriting ever had to a rock star," lives in Sedona, Arizona, and Hermosa Beach, California.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
Shannon Luthy Lukens (Jour) is the news director for seven radio stations in Northwest Colorado and was recently voted Best Radio Personality in Steamboat Springs. Her photos and news stories frequently end up on the Denver networks. As president of Lukens Mountain Media, she is hired to announce events, sports and any shows in the area that need an emcee, including many of the activities at Steamboat Resort. Lukens was the longtime announcer of CU men’s lacrosse games in «Ƶ.
Posted Dec. 1, 2022
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