The Pacific Northwest section of the Society for Range Management honored environmental scientist William H. Rickard (Btny; MS鈥53) for his dedication to the study and preservation of Washington鈥檚 shrubsteppe ecosystem. In 1967, William worked with the Department of Energy to set aside a portion of land in southeastern Washington as space for shrub-steppe vegetation research, and in 1971 he was instrumental in the designation of the 77,000-acre Arid Lands Ecology Reserve, now known as the Rattlesnake Hills Resource Natural Area. William serves as a senior research scientist with Environmental Assessment Services, a company based in Washington. He specializes in vegetation restoration. A prolific writer, he has published more than 80 scientific articles and papers.

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Nancy Garn Bachus (Edu) is a founding member of the Low Writers, a bi-monthly writing group in Boulder. She shared with the group letters she wrote to her parents in Indiana during her four years at CU, giving a glimpse of her college years. Nancy returned to CU in 1952 with husband Ralph (DistSt鈥48; MS鈥61), who was studying on the GI Bill to become a teacher

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After serving in the K-9 unit of the 38th Engineering Battalion Special, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Los Alamos, N.M., in the 1940s, Herb Bowman (Math, Phys) attended CU, then worked as the production control and planning manager of Dow Chemical鈥檚 new project at Rocky Flats. He was one of the first 10 people to work at the plant and was directly involved in the production of plutonium bomb cores. Herb told the Boulder Daily Camera he had harbored hope that Rocky Flats would 鈥渂e gone and the need for nuclear weapons would no longer be necessary.鈥

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Menu for Murder is the seventh published book by Janet Go (Geo). It explores murders that take place during one week at Paradise Palms, a retirement community in Hawaii. Janet writes the book is part mystery, part 鈥渋rreverent social commentary鈥 and 鈥渇ascinating Hawaiiana.鈥 The narrator is Grace Hill, an 84-year-old resident of the Palm, who discovers the body of a man at the bottom of the swimming pool. Janet lives in Maui.

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Yesterday鈥檚 Wind was written by Al Bartlett (PE; MS鈥64) and is based on the story of his brother, Jack, who was captured during the Battle of Corregidor during World War II. Al wrote the book to honor his older brother, who died several years after his capture. The book is available on Amazon. Al lives in Gig Harbor, Wash., with his wife Nancy.

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One-time campus cartoonist Robert Harvey (Edu), who signed his cartoons with a spectacled rabbit named 鈥淗arvey,鈥 has published his 13th book about the art and history of cartooning: Insider Histories of Cartooning: Rediscovering Forgotten Famous Comics and Their Creators. He began writing books in 1995. His website is RCHarvey.com.

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In December 2015 Carlton Stoiber (Hist; Law鈥69), an independent consultant on international and nuclear law, was named a distinguished visiting scholar by the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. He and wife Susanne (PolSci鈥65; MBA鈥67) reside in Washington, D.C., where Carlton also chairs the Nuclear Security Working Group of the International Nuclear Law Association. Read more about him in the Fall 2015 issue of Coloradan magazine.

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Artist, author and self-publisher Carol L. Young (A&S) published What Grows Here? Mountain Gardening聽in Northern California, which has sold more than 9,000 copies since appearing in 1986. Carol remembers her time at CU fondly. She says that when she first boarded a plane from California to attend CU, she stood up and asked, 鈥淚s there anyone here who is in the hiking club?鈥 Three people stood up, and she remembers becoming an active member of CU鈥檚 hiking club after that. She lives in Winchester, Ore.

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Richard W. Ball (PolSci; Law鈥69) was elected to a four-year term on the Loveland (Colo.) City Council on Nov. 4, 2015. He returned to Loveland, his hometown, in 1972 to practice law and writes that he has watched the city grow from a farm community of 10,000 to a booming arts community of nearly 75,000. His father, Conrad Ball (Law鈥30), served as Loveland鈥檚 city attorney for many years, and his sister, Mary Blue (EPOBio鈥89), served on the Longmont City Council and in the Colorado legislature. Richard continues to practice law part time.

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While at CU, Kurt Krueger (DistSt) set three school records and coached the water polo club, which went undefeated in 1968. He has also won 16 medals in four senior Olympic swim championships. In 1974, Kurt began teaching peak performance practices, which use holistic techniques to strengthen mind, body and spirit. He also founded Success Systems International, an online company. Kurt is an internationally published author, photographer, lecturer and corporate consultant, and plans to retire this June. His son, Keith, attends CU and is a member of the swim club.

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John (Mus; MA鈥72) and Lorna Mount (Mus) have found an unusual niche in Hawaii 鈥 performing traditional Japanese weddings. A professor of voice at the University of Hawaii, John officiates and Lorna sings. Their services are in demand throughout the year and they do as many as 10 weddings a day. Lorna has sung at more than 10,000 weddings over a 40-year period and John has officiated more than 4,000 weddings.

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Former Aspen mayor (1973-79) Stacy Standley (Bus; MMktg鈥71) and wife Chand export petrol chemicals to India, Sri Lanka and Nepal with their son Sanjay, who lives in New Delhi. After retiring from the World聽Wildlife Fund, Stacy and his wife moved to Las Vegas, where he is a director of the World Affairs Council of Nevada and sits on UNLV鈥檚 International Business Executive Advisory Board. They split their time between Las Vegas and New Delhi.

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Colorado Gov. Hickenlooper appointed Frances Koncilja (Law) to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission in January. Frances, a Colorado native, has been a trial lawyer in the Denver area since 1972. She has handled criminal, commercial, civil and bankruptcy disputes. 鈥淚 intend to be a strong voice for Colorado鈥檚 smaller communities,鈥 she said in a release.

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Mark Johnson (Engl) wrote the book Apprehensions & Convictions: Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop. The memoir tells the story of his experience as the oldest rookie police officer in Mobile, Ala. Mark previously spent 20 years as a public relations director and executive director for United Way.

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Mariko Tatsumoto Layton (Psych; Law鈥77) was the first Asian woman attorney admitted to the Colorado Bar. While practicing law, she dreamed of writing books. In 2015 she wrote Ayumi鈥檚 Violin, which was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Gold Award. The novel for middle schoolers is a multicultural fiction that takes place in California and Japan in 1959.

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Television producer Lee Aronsohn is the co-creator of Two and a Half Men and executive producer of The Big Bang Theory. Last November, he returned to Boulder to film a rare concert of Magic Music, Colorado鈥檚 first jam band, for a documentary on the group. The performance was the band鈥檚 first concert in 40 years.

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Best Lawyers named Stephen Lewis (Law) to the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He is a partner for Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp in San Francisco.

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Former Buffs football and basketball star David Logan (A&S ex) is one of only three athletes drafted by the NFL, NBA and MLB. He chose to play football and spent eight seasons with the Cleveland Browns before finishing his career in Colorado with the Denver Broncos. Today he coaches at Cherry Creek High School and has led the school to seven state football titles. David also is a radio talk show host for KOA radio and was named high school football coach of the year in 2014.

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The U.S. Department of State swore in ambassador Arnold Chacon (IntlAf) as director general of the Foreign Service and director of human resources. Arnold has been a career member of the Foreign Service and over 33 years has worked as ambassador to Guatemala, deputy chief of mission in Madrid, Spain, and deputy secretary in the executive secretariat. He has also worked in Honduras, Mexico, Chile, Italy, Peru and Ecuador.

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Craig Clark (CivEngr) was promoted to vice president of economic development at Alfred State College in New York. He has been associated with the college since 1979, and has served in a variety of teaching and administrative capacities, including professor and chair of the civil engineering technology department, interim vice president for academic affairs and dean of the school of applied technology on the Wellsville campus.

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