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Author Archives: Tori Peglar
Editors note – March 2012
Every family has its histrionic stories that shape the next generation. In my family’s tales, there are nuns who fled the church chasing romantic love, traveling folk singers, hippies who defied their parents by living in caves in Jerome, Ariz., and grandfathers who invited priests over to bless the bowl of holy water in the hallway.
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December 2011 Editor’s note
I will never have the desire nor technical expertise to climb Mount Everest, but our story, “When Everest speaks” on page 6 in this issue is particularly close to my heart.
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September 2011 Editor’s note
The American West lost an important ally on July 5 when CU law professor and dean David Getches died one month after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Volume 16, Number 1 September 2011
VOLUME 16, NUMBER 1 SEPTEMBER 2011 Coloradan aims to connect, inform and engage readers in the life of the University of Colorado Boulder through regular communication with alumni, faculty and staff members and friends of the university. It is published four times per year in March, June, September and December by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. Permission to reprint articles and
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Remembering David Getches 1942-2011
Last fall Getches announced he would resign as dean in June 2011 after eight years of service. The 68-year-old had planned to return to the classroom, but it wasn’t to be.
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June 2011 Editor’s note
I am saying goodbye to an old friend this month, one who changed my life when I was 24. I left everything — my boyfriend, a job at a quirky newspaper, a quiet mountain town outside of Aspen — for the CU journalism school. And I never looked back.
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Volume 15, Number 4 – June 2011
VOLUME 15, NUMBER 4 JUNE 2011 Coloradan aims to connect, inform and engage readers in the life of the University of Colorado Boulder through regular communication with alumni, faculty and staff members and friends of the university. It is published four times per year in March, June, September and December by the CU-Boulder Alumni Association. Permission to reprint articles and
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A midnight ride: CU’s first fundraising campaign
It started with a loud knock on Frank Tyler’s door in the dead of night in January 1874, as the story goes.
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Sleepless night finally quantified
Exactly how damaging are those sleepless nights from which thousands of Americans suffer?
In the first-ever quantification of energy expended by humans during sleep, a team at CU’s Sleep and Chronobiology lab found the metabolic cost of an adult missing one night of sleep is the equivalent of walking slightly less than two miles.
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March 2011 Editor’s note
The ski season is not what it used to be for me and my husband, Tom Rutkowski (MCivEngr’03), since we had kids. We used to explore Colorado’s mountains on backcountry hut trips and ski moguls at the resorts.
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